The Weekly Drop (21/02/2025)
Every week behind the scenes, we're busy ordering and listening to lots of new music to bring you a carefully curated selection of new additions to the shop. The Weekly Drop is our way of bringing our new additions to the shop, to you.
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This Week's Releases
With two new release for you this week, this Friday (21/02) is all about quality.
First, we have the reissue of a bonafide Latin classic from 1979 by the Cuban-born violinist Alfredo De La Fe. Based in New York and Colombia, Alfredo worked with some of the greats in Latin music including Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon and Roberto Roena, alongside disco and soul icons like Sylvester and Aquarian Dream. His debut album, Alfredo, is sublime, filled with Latin dancefloor workouts, with innovatively incorporated violin solos.
Next, Quasimoto first came to life on Madlib's personal beat tapes in the producer’s early years. These tracks were never meant for release, but instead were made for himself and a small circle of friends and their car stereos. The ‘bad character’ MC alter ego of producer Madlib, Quasimoto released two albums on Stones Throw in the early 2000s and now Yessir Whatever collects 12 Quasimoto tracks recorded over a roughly twelve-year period, which are previously unheard.
For more information on this week's new releases, click the latest release button below!
Coming Soon
Every week behind the scenes, we're busy ordering and listening to lots of new music to bring you a carefully curated selection of new additions to the shop.
First, we have Deep Jazz Volume 4 which continues to meet the high quality bar set by the previous releases in the BBE series and the If Music presents... catalogue. Compiler Jean-Claude has an excellent track record of creating and curating compilation albums and rediscovering rare gems, which follows a philosophy of cross-genre music appreciation. Jean-Claude has been a mainstay of London's music scene for some four decades with his record shop, his shows on NTS and Soho Radio, his Djing and curation of event stages at Across the Tracks Festival and, of course, his excellent compilations. Deep Jazz Volume 4 is a brilliant addition to any serious collector and music head's record racks.
With a string of glowing reviews and handful of awards already behind it, Irish-language semi-biopic award winning film KNEECAP is one of the most-acclaimed movie releases of the year. The film was recently selected by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) to represent Ireland in the Oscar International Feature Film category, having previously scooped the Next Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in July. KNEECAP (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) features tracks from the trio themselves alongside the likes of Bicep, Fontaines D.C. and Orbital.
Want to see the other amazing albums we have in store? Head to the Coming Soon page by clicking the link.