Label: Honest Jons - All
Wednesday Dec 7, 2011
Actress
Rainy Dub / Faceless
Recommended by: klen
An implacable, trash-and-ready Son Of Sleng Teng — bleeping, buzzing, knocking, dripping, reverberating, unresolved in nine minutes — and a high-press... more...
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP061 (64634) | in stock |
Thursday Dec 1, 2011
Pinch And Shackleton
Boracay Drift
In addition to their album... this 12'' release including a Morphosis remix. Deep advanced electronix!
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP064 | out of stock |
Monday Oct 31, 2011
Mancingelani / Zinja Hlungwani
Theo Parrish & Burnt Friedman Remixes
Theo Parrish and Burnt Friedman on the african funk re-edit/remix mission. Burnt Friedman Meets Zinja Hlungwani,Theo Parrish Meets Mancingelani.
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP060 | out of stock |
Friday Oct 7, 2011
Various Artists
Lagos All routes
Most of the rest of the music contained here can be categorized as percussion music from the Yoruba tradition, much of it focusing on the vocals and t... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP017 | out of stock |
Various Artists
Lagos Chop Up
Fela's success in the West has hidden from view the diversity of modern Nigerian music. Like Lagos All Routes, whilst Chop Up sets out to put things i... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP015 | in stock |
Ricardo Villalobos / Max Loderbauer
Meet Tshetsha Boys
Villalobos and Max Loderbauer aka Peverelist with some nice abstract tracks.
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP059 | out of stock |
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Anthony Shake Shakir / Oni Ayhun
Meet Shangaan Electro and BBC
Recommended by: Clone
Fiercely brilliant, slashing, whooping dance music from Oni (all-original, no samples) and a stonking Detroit thumper from the master.
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP058 | out of stock |
Mark Ernestus
Meets BBC / Version
Recommended by: klen
A metronomic, clicking beat to drive you crazy; a kind of Motorik lash — dubwise, midrange; moody strings. Wry, driving, one-of-a-kind genius from the... more...
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP057 | out of stock |
Vladislav Delay Quartet
Vladislav Delay Quartet
Recommended by: klen
The debut album of the Vladislav Delay Quartet. A quartet with Vladislav Delay (percussion), Lucio Capece (Saxophone), Derek Shirley (Double bass) and... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP 056 | out of stock |
Monday Mar 14, 2011
Moritz Von Oswald Trio
Horizontal Structures
Recommended by: Clone
The trio of Moritz von Oswald, Max Loderbauer (NSI / Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay / Luomo), with a third album, this time enriched... more...
| CD | Honest Jons: HJRCD54 | out of stock |
Friday Mar 11, 2011
Moritz Von Oswald Trio
Horizontal Structures
The trio of Moritz von Oswald, Max Loderbauer (NSI / Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay / Luomo), with a third album, this time enriched... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP054 | in stock |
Tuesday Feb 22, 2011
Shackleton
Fireworks
Recommended by: a made up sound - 2562
Two new Shackletons, with triumphant remixes by T++ and Baron Mordant! Soundsystem psychodrama in inimitable Shackleton style.
| 2x12inch | Honest Jons: HJP053 | out of stock |
Shackleton
Deadman
Sam Shackleton stalks deeper into the sub-loaded unknown, with two Valentine's Day releases for Honest Jon's, loaded with spectacular remixes by Kevin... more...
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP052 | out of stock |
Sunday Feb 20, 2011
Various Artists
Something Is Wrong - Songs From East Africa
Selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s, recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s. more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP050-2 | out of stock |
Various Artists
Bellyachers, Listen - Songs from East Africa, 1938-46
Recommended by: Clone
Selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s, recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP050-1 | out of stock |
Various Artists
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929
Recommended by: Clone
Made in London, these recordings were issued originally by the Zonophone record label over three years from late 1927. The first West African Zonopho... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP033 | out of stock |
Thursday Jan 27, 2011
Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Mala
Digital Mystikz / Restructure 2 Rebuild
Recommended by: Duplex | Clone
Musically, this new stepper appears to swell out of thin air. Immense and minimal, the propulsive groove is overlain during its twelve minutes with th... more...
| 12inch | Honest Jons: HJP054 | out of stock |
Tunde Williams Plays With Africa 70
Mr. Big Mouth
Tunde Williams blows from menthol-cool to incinerating on these wonderful vintage tracks. Afrika 70, recorded in 1975, produced by Fela Kuti.
| LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP101 | in stock |
Thursday Oct 28, 2010
Wareika Hill Sounds
Kumina Mento Rasta
Recommended by: Clone
Contemporary roots reggae w/ fierce, banked rasta drumming, sweet, jazzy trombone & bubbling bass
| 10inch | Honest Jons: HJP050 | out of stock |
Wednesday Jul 14, 2010
Various Artists
Shangaan Electro - New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
An astounding compilation of the breakneck Shangaan dance output of the Nozinja studio in Soweto, recorded between 2006 and 2009. The traditional Shan... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP052 | in stock |
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Tear-up bad-boy brass-band scorchers. Just like dad crossed Sun Ra with Kool And The Gang, this crashes funkdafied New Orleans street jazz into hip ho... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP042 | out of stock |
Moritz von Oswald Trio
Live in New York
Recommended by: Clone
Four extended excursions recorded earlier this year, with guests Carl Craig and Francois K — and the club environment itself — bringing a fresh pulsat... more...
| 2LP+CD | Honest Jons: HJRLP053 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Various Artist
To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul
Recommended by: Clone
The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating. Drawn... more...
| 4LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP048 | out of stock |
Thursday May 27, 2010
Actress
Splazsh
Recommended by: Legowelt
Darren Cunningham’s eagerly‐awaited new album is an adventurous, ultramodern, thoroughly British affair, rummaging about in the inner lives of h... more...
| CD | Honest Jons: HJRCD049 | out of stock |
Tony Allen
Lagos No Shaking
Tony Allen is the co-creator of Afrobeat, and one of the most distinctive and in-demand drummers on the planet. No one swings like this Nigerian rhyth... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP020 | out of stock |
