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4-piece instrumental band Yuuf release a new EP ‘Alma’s Cove’, their debut release on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint.

Elvis Presley’s 1973 Honolulu concert was broadcast by satellite around the world and the resulting live album was called Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite.

Aretha Franklin disproved the notion that once you leave the church, you can't go back. She returned in triumph on this 1972 double album, making what might be her greatest release ever in any style.

Brian's pioneering Ambient album from 1978.

Brian's ambient album from 1982. Unlike most of Brian Eno's conceptually unified ambient projects, Ambient 4: On Land is something of a patchwork.

Tokyo producer Calm supplies a steady shore's lapping of sound with his next album, Ambient Jazz, not far after his previous records Before and Quiet Music Under The Moon.

Ambiguous Desire’ is Parks at her most confident and experimental, supplanting live band sessions for modular synths, Ableton plugins and samplers that channel the renetic, vibrant spaces she was immersed in, all while spotlighting the acclaimed poetry and lyricism she’s beloved for.

By any measure, 1970 was a high-water mark for the Grateful Dead. Hot on the heels of the incredible success of Workingman’s Dead that summer, the band returned in the autumn with the equally stunning American Beauty. 

"American Dream" is the fourth studio album by LCD Soundsystem, released on September 1, 2017.

Among My Swan is the third studio album by Mazzy Star. Released in 1996, it is the follow-up to the multi-Platinum So Tonight That I Might See.

Amplified Heart was Everything But The Girl’s million-selling and critically acclaimed seventh studio album.

Following her tragic passing in, some of the producers and musicians who worked closely with Amy Winehouse, among them Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, spent time listening over the many recordings that Amy had made, before, during, and after the release of “Frank” and “Back To Black”.

Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces landmark new album An Ever Changing View, an expansive, immaculately conceived project which presents Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences. 

IF Music owner Jean-Claude turns his attention to Dutch record shop Klinkhamer Records for the latest in his “An Introduction To…” series on BBE Music, inviting owner Michel Veenstra to compile a special selection of music to represent the store.

Angels and Queens incorporates a brand new recording of the band’s seminal debut single, Love and Hate In A Different Time, and songs that have already become staples of the band’s live set; Offering, Glory, and Great Wind.

It was here that Eno first began to experiment with abstract soundscapes, to employ a greater spatial element and the ethereal synthesizer effects that presaged an entire movement of ambient music. 

An ocean of water has passed under the Zero 7 bridge since we originally issued this collection of music.

This set captures a still-growing Dylan on the edge, just before he makes the jump to rock and roll, continuing to expand the notion of folk music with openhearted, unprecedented compositions and performances.

In a world full of musical mediocrity, ANTIBALAS emerges like a funky, horn-infused phoenix, ready to shake your booty and expand your mind. This Brooklyn-based powerhouse brings the heat and the rhythm on their latest album, aptly titled "Antibalas."

Alternative rock band AFTER LONDON's debut album.

Introducing Smoove & Turrell with the debut album "Antique Soul" Raw and retro with a rich deep story-telling vein

Even the most dedicated crate-digger might go their whole life without stumbling across any of the three LPs Antoine Dougbe released in the late 1970s and early '80s. Yet he is remembered with a mixture of admiration and fear; for Antoine Dougbe was not merely one of the most inventive songwriters to emerge from the fertile music scene of Cotonou, but also a powerful Vodun initiate whose close connection to the spirit world allowed him to refer to himself as the Devil's prime minister.

Classics’ receives a long overdue vinyl re-press for 2025, with a fresh vinyl cut by acclaimed mastering engineer Beau Thomas, and a R&S Records sticker sheet inserted into the LP sleeves including cover artwork of the two singles ‘Digeridoo’ and ‘Xylem Tube’ EP which are both featured on this compilation album.

Jimi Hendrix's debut recording was an instant classic, and is as startling today as when it first hit the streets in 1967

Does what it says on the tin!

Aretha’s Franklin’s position as soul music’s premier female vocalist was consolidated by this album.

A Jazz Dance Favourite that Jazz Room Records Head Honcho Paul Murphy was hepped to by Brownswood and 6Music Jazz Supremo Gilles Peterson at the 20th Birthday Bash of London's most Underground of Clubs: Shiftless Shuffle.

Get back to the rich musical universe of Daft Punk with this album dedicated to the legendary duo.

Arthur Verocai's long-lost solo LP straddles the continents to fuse Brazilian tropicalia with American funk, yielding a shimmering, dreamlike mosaic of sound that both celebrates and advances the creative spirit.

Relocating from Australia to Zambia during the pandemic, award-winning hip-hop star Sampa The Great wrote her second studio album. ‘As Above, So Below’ thematically presents the listener with a duality within Sampa’s spirit - the outward-facing public persona and her private self - in this literate, heartfelt recounting of her experiences growing up in Africa.

As Above, So Below takes influence from past and present styles of music from Zambia, Botswana (where Sampa was raised), and South Africa, sounding organic and earthy yet thoroughly contemporary.

Originally conceived as a dual EP cycle, the project unfolds across two contrasting sonic worlds. ‘as night falls’ explores nocturnal electro-jazz, midnight funk and introspective, groove-led textures, while ‘as day breaks’ shifts toward warmth, clarity and forward motion, capturing the quiet optimism of first light.

By 1970, McCoy Tyner had begun turning more insistently toward African rhythmic and harmonic ideas, that pull already audible in his late 60s Blue Note work, though here it sits at the centre, the band assembled around him with a kind of purposeful density.

Contradictory accounts of Miles Davis’ creation of the soundtrack to Louis Malle’s film noir Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud have all become part of its legend.

The legendary soundtrack by Miles Davis for the film of the same name by Louis Malle, Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold), is a masterpiece of atmosphere and improvisation.

The legendary soundtrack by Miles Davis for the film of the same name by Louis Malle, Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold), is a masterpiece of atmosphere and improvisation.

Asha's debut self-titled album is a wonderful fusion of jazz, soul, blues, and disco. It includes an outstanding cover version of J.J. Cale's 'Right Down Here'; a track which Asha has made very much her own by flipping it into a deep-funk groove with sultry ethereal vocals and a drumbeat almost ready- made for samplers of the future.

Sababa 5 continues their musical journey following the success of their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which fused deep funk and Middle Eastern grooves.

Produced by the late Bob Thiele -- an eclectic heavyweight who worked with everyone from Coltrane, Ayler, and Charles Mingus to Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong -- Astral Traveling is among Smith's most essential and rewarding albums.

Quoted, recommended, and worshipped by the critics for decades, this underground masterpiece has now become part of the establishment. It cries to be listened to without interruption, which may explain why it failed to reach either the UK or US charts.

Recorded live in Newport in 1958 by a sextet led by Miles Davis.

At Source finds two acclaimed composer-musicians building a world together in self-contained collaboration between analogue synthesis and an extended approach to the saxophone that conjures its own universe of sound. It is at once intimate and cosmic, drawing on the challenges and possibilities of their artistic exchange, tearing down technique to access all the expansive possibilities of their sonic meeting point.

Killer Groove Records proudly presents the self-titled debut album by Italian cinematic funk trio Atabasca. A sonic journey where funk, psychedelia and desert groove merge into a timeless narrative suspended between rhythm and vision.

Much anticipated new album from Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino. This is an x11 trk double, Opaque Black LP Vinyl format, featuring collaborations with Ariana Grande, 21 Savage, Summer Walker, Young Nudy amongst others.

William Onyeabor was born outside Enugu, a small, rural town in Eastern Nigeria, he created his own genre of African electronic funk in the late 70s and early 80s, making music completely unique for his time.

Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós. As you hear on ÁTTA, there’s a new compulsion and drive to the band that comes with the new formation of the line up. Multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson is back in the fold – having left the band in 2012 – to join frontman Jónsi and bassist Georg Holm.

Another vital album from Hendrix, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made Of Sand", the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover", and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing".

Wewantsounds is delighted to release Ayam El Disco, a new selection of Egyptian 1980s disco and boogie cassette tracks curated by Egyptian DJ Disco Arabesquo, following his highly acclaimed Sharayet El Disco.

Şatellites blast back into orbit on Aylar delivering a bold evolution on the psychedelic folk-meets-groove sound they established on their acclaimed debut album.

The classic debut LP from ’79 containing all the hits you need…..

The long-awaited reissue of this rare Eastern and psychedelic Jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist, originally released in 1968. 

Second studio album by the late singer. The album was co-produced by her close friend Mark Ronson and features the singles 'Rehab', 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Back to Black', 'Tears Dry On Their Own' and 'Love Is a Losing Game'.

The official soundtrack release to the new biopic of Amy Winehouse, Back to Black, releasing Spring 2024.

The album blends R&B, hip hop, and jazz influences with Badu's introspective and socially conscious lyrics.

Originally released on Voodoo Rhythm in 2015, Rolando Bruno's Bailazo is full-blast psychedelic Latino cumbia garage.

With Ballads Coltrane looks into the warmer side of things, a path he would take with both Johnny Hartman and with Duke Ellington.

Barabajagal is the seventh studio album, eighth album overall and most fascinatingly the third of our re-issue programme from British singer-songwriter extraordinaire Donovan.

Highly-anticipated first new songs since 1994

Fat Freddy's Drop release their fourth studio album 'Bays'. Following the worldwide success of 'Blackbird' in 2013, the New Zealand based seven-piece are back with 'Bays', a 9-track LP recorded at the band's Bays Studio in Kilbirnie, Wellington a former 1950s HMV vinyl pressing plant.

Norwegian innovator, trumpeter and producer Nils Petter Molvaer presents Be Quiet - a duo collaborative album built across nine tracks with nine distinct artists including Imogen Heap and John Paul Jones, recorded in cities spanning Bangkok, Rome, Berlin and London.

The prodigious 20-year old South East Londoner Tom Misch releases Beat Tape 2 through his own label Beyond The Groove.

Much about Beat Bop is shrouded in mystery. Who really produced it? Why was Jean-Michel Basquiat relegated from rapper on the track to drawing the cover and labels? What are they actually rapping about for most of the ten-minute length?

Beautiful Rewind is the seventh studio album by electronic musician Four Tet.

Limited edition Ultra Clear Vinyl set to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the album

Completing the essential quartet of Eno's early vocal albums is 1977's Before and After Science.

The Stones forsook psychedelic experimentation to return to their blues roots on this celebrated album, which was immediately acclaimed as one of their landmark achievements.

Athens of the North is very proud to present a wonderful piece of lost Electronic music, Jeff Sova brings a softer less heard side of Detroit Techno, as soon a I heard the rare 12 a few years ago I knew i needed to find him and share his music.

Released over six years ago, NYC producer Thornato's debut album "Bennu" was a milestone here at Wonderwheel.

Tha God Fahim has earned his spot at the forefront of hip-hop’s modern underground movement, crafting immersive musical experiences rooted in raw instrumentation and elevated by razor-sharp lyricism.

Best-Of's don't come much better than this: 20 tracks from one of the superlative bands of all time.

First Word Records are very proud to bring you a new album from Don Leisure with Amanda Whiting.

The 1953 Bud Shank/Laurindo Almeida recordings are recognized as being the precursors of bossa nova-jazz fusion. However, two 1962 Stan Getz LPs, Jazz Samba and Big Band Bossa Nova (presented here), and the albums that followed them in 1963, Jazz Samba Encore and Getz-Gilberto, would start the bossa nova craze.

BIG MAMA captures Ellison in a moment of spontaneous, unbridled momentum. Densely packed with disparate sounds, rhythms, and effects, the EP delivers what he describes as “experimental, maximalist, hyperfast, electronic burst of energy”, packing seven dynamic tracks into a single continuous composition in which every bar is unique, containing no loops throughout.

The esteemed scribe, proper DJ, and discreetly deft twiddler Bill Brewster, drops the latest instalment in his ‘After Dark’ series, for Late Night Tales.

Welcome to the mind-expanding 1968 jazz recording of Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood—where Eastern and psychedelic influences meld together to produce one of the trippiest jazz albums on Impulse Records.

This 1952 collection is one of bebop’s key artefacts and also represents two jazz milestones: the only and only time that pianist Thelonious Monk recorded with the dynamic duo, and the last time Gillespie and Parker appeared together in the studio.

This may be one of the pearls in the history of jazz recordings, the John Coltrane Quartet featuring; McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones with guest Eric Dolphy.

Before her critically acclaimed album The Return (Ninja Tune), equal parts songwriter, poet, singer and lyricist Sampa The Great made her mixtape debut on Big Dada with Birds And The BEE9.

A full album of Tribe x Pharcyde mash-ups from Amerigo Gazaway! Ya'll should remember Amerigo from his last mash-up effort Fela Soul, and here on Bizarre Tribe he puts those blending skills to work on classics from two legendary rap groups.

Stro Elliot (of The Roots) put his spin on 10 James Brown classics.