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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Jazz Is Dead 6 Gary Bartz

Jazz Is Dead’s Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad collaborate with Gary Bartz: Pioneering Figure of Progressive Black Music, Icon to Generations o... more...

• 1 Spiritual Ideation
• 2 Visions Of Love
• 3 Black & Brown
• 4 Blue Jungles

Sexual Harrassment

I Need A Freak

Dark Entries announces a deluxe reissue of Sexual Harrassment’s 1983 opus I Need A Freak. Lynn Tolliver, DJ/Program Director at Cleveland’s WZAK, adop... more...

• 01 I Need A Freak
• 02 If I Gave You A Party
• 03 You Are My Sexual Connection
• 04 Exercise Your Ass Off

Fresh Band

Come Back Lover

A fully remastered reissue from the original tapes of The Fresh Band's highly sought-after 1984 classic 'Come Back Lover'. Produced by The Strikers' D... more...

• 01 Come Back Lover
• 02 Come Back Lover Dub Mix
• 03 Come Back Lover Remix by Tony Humphries
• 04 Come Back Lover Dub Remix by Tony Humphries

Coast To Coast

Coast To Coast

''Our second LP this month is an unreleased magical modern soul LP from the band Coast To Coast, the full story below by band leader Mark Beiner... I... more...

• 01 Love Is the Same
• 02 I Want You Dear
• 03 Paula Marie
• 04 A Woman Was Made to Be Loved

Milton Wright

Original Friends and Buddies

''Athens of the North is proud to present Milton Wright's stunning alternate version of the now Classic Miami soul LP 'Friends & Buddies'. An altogeth... more...

• 1 The Silence That You Keep (alternate first version)
• 2 Keep It Up (alternate first version)
• 3 My Ol Lady (alternate first version)
• 4 Black Man (alternate first version)

Let Your Hair Down

Waiting Room

7 piece instrumental soul group from Melbourne, Australia featuring members from Karate Boogaloo, Surprise Chef and Saskwatch. Produced by Henry Jenki... more...

• 01 BF Holiday
• 02 Pizza Pie
• 03 New Year New Me (Who Dis)
• 04 Riviera Deluxe

Jaisu

Athens of the North Beat Tape

''We are always happy to throw you a curve ball, Athens of the North have an LP of our catalog flipped by Scottish beat Maker / Hip-Hop producer extra... more...

• 01 Partay
• 02 Theme from Rockay
• 03 Why Im Thirsty
• 04 Rocks Off

Various Artists

WAMONO A to Z Vol. III - Japanese Light Mellow Funk, Disco & Boogie 1978-1988

For this third chapter of the acclaimed Wamono series, Yoshizawa and Chintam unheart some of the best and rarest light mellow funk tunes and disco boo... more...

• 1 Kimono - Tetsuo Sakurai
• 2 Friday Night (Extended Dance Mix) - Jadoes
• 3 Ame - Yumi Sato
• 4 Ojosan Ote Yawaraka Ni - Kiyohiko Ozaki

William Stuckey

The First Time

''During the production of two singles (This being the first) unfortunately William Stuckey passed away, below are some words from my partner in the p... more...

• 1 The First Time
• 2 The First Time (Instrumental)

Madteo

Str8 Crooked

Three dazzling re-routings of Detroit machine funk — Moodymann in particular — into deep mid-Atlantic co-minglings with raw, old-school hiphop and hou... more...

• 1 Str8 Crooked
• 2 Build Back Better Sweatshops
• 3 Episcopi Vagantes

Leoparden & Rezzi Razzi

Hele Natta Lang

A hero for our times ! Leoparden returns alongside Rezzi Razzi for more delightfully idiosyncratic Norse funk... Viktig !

• 1 Leoparden & Rezzi Razzi - Hele Natta Lang
• 2 Drit I Syden

Various Artists

Echo Wielkiej Plyty (Rare, unreleased and forgotten electronic music from Poland 1982-1987)

''Echo Wielkiej Plyty'' (eng. The Echoes of Plattenbau) features a number of long-forgotten or never before released recordings of electronic music cr... more...

• 01 Andrzej Mikolajczak - Ring Modulator 1
• 02 Andrzej Mikolajczak - Tori 1
• 03 Andrzej Mikolajczak - Nocna Eskapada 1
• 04 Grupa Jkot - Pamietnik Manekina (instrumental)

MMYYKK

Science

Recommended by: Felipe Gordon

New Rhythm Section EP from Minneapolis based producer MMYYKK (pronounced Mike) who works concurrently within the realms of soul, future funk, hip hop,... more...

• 1 Intro
• 3 Cold Hustle
• 4 Bout Dat
• 5 Emit

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Jazz Is Dead 9 Instrumentals

This 2LP collection presents exclusive instrumental versions of songs originally released on the Jazz Is Dead albums: Roy Ayers JID002, Marcos Valle J... more...

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• 04

Michel Legrand

La Piscine OST + Un Homme Est Mort

Michel Legrand's cult soundtrack for ''La Piscine'' (1969) including the super rare 7'' for ''Un Homme Est Mort'' (1972). more...

• 01 La Piscine (Theme Principal)
• 02 Piege A Reflets
• 03 Dans La Soiree
• 04 Une Enquete

Donna McGhee

Make It Last Forever

Donna McGhee's rare classic New York Disco LP from 1978 produced by Greg Carmichael and Patrick Adams re-issued with original artwork and remastered a... more...

• 01 Make It Last Forever
• 02 Do As I Do
• 03 It Aint No Big Thing
• 04 Mr Blindman

Various Artists

Tokyo Dreaming

A Major 2 LP exploration of Tokyo's cutting edge '80s sound through the music of Japanese cult label Nippon Columbia and its Better Days imprint, sele... more...

• 01 Ryuichi Sakamoto - The End Of Asia
• 02 Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
• 03 Chika Asamoto - Self Control
• 04 Jun Fukamachi - Treasure Hunter

Robert Cotter

Missing You

Re-issue of Robert Cotter's ultra rare 1976 album, 'Missing You' in partnership with Robert Cotter himself. Originally released on the notorious Tiger... more...

• 01 Missing You
• 02 Marys House
• 03 Disco Blues
• 04 Teddy Bear

Sylvia

Sweet Stuff

Recommended by: Charmaine

Rare soul classic by Hip Hop godmother, Sugar Hill Records' Sylvia Robinson. Released in 1975 on her Vibrations label and now re-issued on vinyl with... more...

• 01 I Cant Help It
• 02 Cowards Way Out
• 03 The Notion
• 04 Private Performance

Tullio De Piscopo

Black Star / Temptation

Following the rare groove italo 7inch serieswith two these disco tracks by the legendary italian drummer Tullio De Piscopo, taken from the 1978 soundt... more...

• 1 Black Star
• 2 Temptation

Sordid Sound System

Escape Temps Au Revoir / Beginning To See The Dub

Stuart Evans, aka Sordid Sound System is one of the founders of The Green Door Studio, a not for profit, analogue recording studio in Glasgow which em... more...

• 1 Escape Temps Au Revoir
• 2 Beginning To See The Dub

Ri-Edito Italiano

Vol 1

• 1 Tumba Catumba
• 2 Senza Umanita
• 3 Corde Tese
• 4 La Tua Citta

Various Artists

Electronic Emergencies Reconstructed By I-Robots

Some smooth remix action going on here!! Italian DJ and producer Gianluca Pandullo a.k.a. I-Robots has chosen six of his favourite Electronic Emergen... more...

• 1 Machinegewehr - Move Like Rays (I-Robots Reconstruction)
• 2 Chris Davis - Traction (I-Robots Reconstruction)
• 3 Skeleton Head - Beaten, Bloody, Bruised (I-Robots Reconstruction)
• 4 Das Ding - Want Need (I-Robots Reconstruction)

Yann Kornowicz & Dan Amozig

Videoclub

Videoclub is a concept album made of 17 original compositions that will bring back ghost memories of your VHS sessions in company of Charles Bronson,... more...

• 01 Videoclub Opening Theme (Videoclub)
• 02 The Curse of the Golden VHS
• 03 Monte Carlo Drive (The Man from Monte Carlo)
• 04 Salomon Ski Chase (Secret Agent Ski Chase)

Rivage

Strung out on Your Love

''One of my favourite 70s soul sides, it will set you back £500ish if you can find one and even then it won't sound as nice as our pressing. The track... more...

• 1 Strung out on Your Love
• 2 All My Love for You