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Son Swagga

Fires Of Quidel

Fires of Quidel is the culmination of Son Swaggas first year as a band, a year spent refining their music, building connections as bandmembers and fri... more...

• A1 Fires of Quidel
• A2 Isenman
• A3 Calling all Tribes
• B1 Galactic

Various Artists

Made In New York

The first of a series of limited edition EPs containing rare and unreleased afro soul cosmic disco songs selected from the archives of a collective of... more...

• 1 Exalted (TT Edit)
• 2 God's Spirit (TT Edit)
• 3 Stomped (C3 Edit)
• 4 Forgive Me (Editar)

Brown Sugar / Brief Encounter

Capitol Disco Sampler

Lovely re-issue by th Early Sound guys of this rare unreleased promotional sampler four tracks E.P. that was originally released in 1976 by Capitol Re... more...

• 1 The Game Is Over
• 2 I'm Going Trough Changes Now
• 3 What About Love
• 4 Get Right Down

Funkadelic vs Moodymann

Cosmic Slop (Moodymann mix) / Let’s Make It Last (Kenny Dixon Jr edit)

Reworked By Detroiters Sampler.

• 1 Cosmic Slop (Moodymann mix)
• 2 Let's Make It Last (Kenny Dixon Jr edit)

Funkadelic

Reworked By Detroiters

Recommended by: Duplex

Funkadelic have created an enduring legacy, and the power of their impact is visceral in Detroit. Their records not only played with genre, but posses... more...

• 01 Sexy Ways (Recloose Disco Flip)
• 02 You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure (Alton Miller mix)
• 03 Get Your Ass Off & Jam (Marcellus Pittman remix)
• 04 Cosmic Slop (Moodyman mix)

Ricardo Eddy Martinez

Expreso Ritmico

Reissued from the Spanish version of this awesome Cuban records with a unique picture cover. Probably one of the best 70's Areito releases, for sure a... more...

• 01 Expreso Ritmico
• 02 Tambo Iya
• 03 Mi Conga Es La Que Es
• 04 Yeya Son

Afous d'Afous

Tenere

n the past decade, there has been an explosion of ethnically Tuareg rock bands on the world music stage. Built around the electric guitar, the genre r... more...

• 1 Nak Amahah
• 2 Houlaghine Akalin
• 3 Tenere
• 4 Tarhanine Tegla

Mdou Moctar

Sousoume Tamachek

Music for desert picnics. Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar delves into his more sensitive side with a minimal studio recording of dreamy ballads. Thumping... more...

• 1 Anar
• 2 Sousoume Tamachek
• 3 Tanzaka
• 4 Illmouloud

Koharu Kisaragi

Neo-plant

Lag Records announces its debut release, a reissue of the 1986 single Neo-plant by Koharu Kisaragi, co-written and produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

• 1 Neo-Plant
• 2 Traumerei
• 3 Tail

Agrim Agadez

Musique Guitare de la Republique du Niger

Contemporary field recordings from the Sahelian empire of Niger. Focusing on guitar music throughout the country, from meditative starlight ballads, f... more...

• 1 Fatou Seidi Ghali - Migrid Noulhawan
• 10 Amaria Hamadalher - Bahouche
• 2 Etran De L'Ai?r - Iban Mano D'Ikhya
• 3 Mdou Moctar - Adounia Tiyoun

Dean Blunt

Stone Island

World Music presents the first ever vinyl edition of Dean Blunt's siren song LP Stone Island. Recorded in full in a Moscow hotel room in 2013 and only... more...

• 01 Track 1
• 02 Track 2
• 03 Track 3
• 04 Track 4

Modula

The 780's Chronicles

Recommended by: Whodamanny

Periodica Records family member Filippo Colonna Romano aka Modula (Naples, IT) drops a weirdo, tropical, G’d up Yamaha PSS 780 fonk EP. RIYL Dam Funk,... more...

• 1 Track 1
• 2 Track 2
• 3 Track 3
• 4 Track 4

NST Cophies

Bian Kou

the three choice cuts from NST Cophie's 1980 private press Ivory Coast Afro-disco album 'Mon'Da Center'. After moving to Paris in 1976 and having pla... more...

• 1 Bian Kou
• 2 E Clolo
• 3 Mioukouna

Jo Tongo

African Funk Experimentals (1968-1982 + 2017)

Our hero, Jo Tongo (born Joseph Ekambi Tongo Mpondo) was born and raised in Douala Cameroon. In 1964 he headed off to Paris to begin Pharmaceutical st... more...

• 01 Jangolo
• 02 Funky Feeling
• 03 Piani
• 04 Those Flowers

Earth, Wind & Fire

Brazilian Rhyme (Unreleased Extended Mix)

Huge, The full unreleased version of the o.g bboy classic 'Brazilian Rhyme' straight out the Sony tape vaults ( I made that sound easier than it was).... more...

• 1 Brazilian Rhyme (Unreleased Extended Mix)
• 2 My Love

Various Artists

Unlimited Love #8

Carl Marshall & The S.D's - Crazy, Freeway - Get The Feeling, Krisp - Sunlight.

• 1 Carl Marshall The S.Ds - Crazy
• 2 Freeway - Get The Feeling
• 3 Krisp - Sunlight

Tenderness

Keep On Trying

Tenderness - A short-lived Disco project helmed by James Purdie and Skip Mahoney only released one 45 and one 12'' single during their brief existence... more...

• 1 Keep On Trying
• 2 Telly Love

Nu Guinea

Amore

The Neapolitan Berlin based duo Nu Guinea inaugurates their new in-house label NG Records with a sparkling mélange of Jazz-Funk and obscure Disco. Wi... more...

• 1 Amore

Various Artists

Unlimited Love #7

Those rare disco tracks.

• 1 A1
• 2 Del Richardson - Rainbows (Jazz Mix)
• 3 Frequency - Loosen Up
• 4 Contagious - Music Freak

Andrew Weatherall

Qualia

For starters: to pin down and value Andrew Weatherall's musical deed takes more space than available in a press release text but here is some of many... more...

• 1 Evidence The Enemy
• 2 Darktown Figures
• 3 Spreads a Haze (And a Glory)
• 4 Saturday International

Minoru Hoodoo Fushimi

In Praise Of Mitochondria

Oddball Japanese electro-fueled vocoder funk with occasional raps from the 80s, including unreleased material. Japanese Electro original, Minoru Hood... more...

• 01 Nikuzukue
• 02 Thanatopsis
• 03 In Praise Of Mitochondria
• 04 Ai Wa Nohshintoh

The Colours That Rise

2020

The sound of '2020' is new jazz and old funk with an electronic city pace, brought to you by duo The Colours That Rise. Made up of multi-instrumentali... more...

• 1 Brain
• 2 Map To Cydonia
• 3 Voyager
• 4 CTR Interlude

Soulphiction Presents Sbm

Criticize

Debut of a new collabo between SoulPhiction and Blunted Monkz, recorded during one of their jam sessions. Three tracks cover the grounds between deep... more...

• 1 Gotta Have It
• 2 Tripolis Jam
• 3 Criticize

DMX Krew

Abstract Forms Synth Funk Vol.4 - Sludge

DMX Krew returns for volume 4 of the popular Synth Funk series with another bumper pack of electro funk jams. Pure fire!!!. more...

• 1 98 Groove
• 2 Sea Chase
• 3 Disk IO Error
• 4 Wrong

Raw Soul Express

Let Go

LTD 500 - My two favourite tracks from the Unreleased Raw Soul Express LP (released last month) on our format of choice, blink and they will have disa... more...

• 1 Let Go
• 2 Will You Be There