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Ben Tankard

All Keyed Up

4 tracks taken from his 1989 album - instrumentals blurring the lines between jazz, gospel, soul, funk and dance All Keyed Up demonstrates Tankard’... more...

• 1 Eden Celebration
• 2 Melodic Heaven
• 3 All Keyed Up
• 4 All Keyed Up (Time Capsule Seaside Mix)

Marcy Luarks & Classic Touch

Electric Murder

Released for the first time since 1983, Marcy Luarks & Classic Touch's mythical American-Nigerian Afro boogie masterpiece ''Electric Murder'', accompa... more...

• 01 Funky Boogie Woogie
• 02 I Don't Want To Share Your Love
• 03 Electric Murder
• 04 Inspiration

Leo Nocentelli

Another Side

At just sixteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As... more...

• 01 Thinking Of The Day
• 02 Riverfront
• 03 I Want To Cry
• 04 Pretty Mittie

Tru-Tones

Power Struggle

Power Struggle offers the listener an opportunity to hear the Tru-Tones in their prime. The band’s expansion into disco resulted in a couple of killer... more...

• 01 Power Struggle
• 02 Music Is Music
• 03 Song Of Love
• 04 Dancing

Wipe The Needle

Screwface & Smile EP

Fans of Bugz In The Attic and bustling West London broken beat mixed with grit, this one's is for you... Lee Gomez aka Wipe The Needle has made music... more...

• 1 Round Of Applause Feat Aleusha Lei
• 2 Would Ya
• 3 It's My World
• 4 Jack The Nitty

Leo's Sunshipp

Give Me The Sunshine / I'm Back For More

Re-press of the original 12'' with full length vocal versions of ''Give Me The Sunshine'' and ''I'm Back For More''. Funk / Soul of the highest order!

• 1 Give Me The Sunshine
• 2 I'm Back For More

Theo Parrish

DJ Kicks - Detroit Forward

Detroit legend Theo Parrish his take to compiling DJ-Kicks was very ambitious, inviting his Detroit peers to produce a collection of brand new materia... more...

• 01 De'Sean Jones & Ideeyah - Pressure
• 02 Donald Roland II - Simba's Theme
• 03 Jason Hogans - Surrounded By Trees
• 04 John C & Meftah - Full

Erykah Badu

Mama's Gun

Beautiful 180g audiophile 2LP pressing in gatefold sleeve + insert of this classic. more...

• 01 Penitentiary Philosophy
• 02 Didn't Cha Know
• 03 My Life
• 04 ... & On

Reggie B

Tinky's Jam

Reggie B returns with his much awaited NBN release ''Tinky's Jam.” This is his first full length album since “Soulofunkaquarian” released with INnates... more...

• 01 tinkys jam
• 02 in my nature
• 03 futuristic slow
• 04 p for life

Patrice Rushen

Patrice

Recommended by: Gerd

Strut revisit the early years of Patrice Rushen’s time with Elektra Records with the definitive 2LP edition of the ‘Patrice’ album from 1978. more...

• 01 Music Of The Earth
• 02 When I Found You
• 03 Changes (In Your Life)
• 04 Wishful Thinking

Al-Dos Band

Doing Our Thing With Pride

Kalita continue their tradition of unearthing holy grail records with their offering this year of the Al-Dos Band’s unreleased gospel soul/disco album... more...

• 01 Look To The Sky
• 02 Don't Come Smiling Back
• 03 Doing Our Thing With Pride
• 04 Your Prescence

Maha

Orkos

Completely unknown album by Salah Ragab's Cairo Jazz Band vocalist Maha, recorded in Cairo in 1979. Features productions by Hany Shenoda of Al Massrie... more...

• 01 Orkos
• 02 Kabl Ma Nessallem We Nemshy
• 03 We Mesheet
• 04 El Hob Matnassash

Shawn Pittman

Dreams

Dark Entries presents a reissue of Shawn Pittman’s 1989 Dreams, an obscure and highly sought-after private press gem produced and written by Art Fores... more...

• 01 Dreams
• 02 Dreams (Remix Version)
• 03 I'm Losing Control
• 04 I'm Losing Control (Extended-Bass-ment Club Mix)

Wayne Davis

Wayne Davis

Strut present the first ever reissue of an essential lost classic from the Black Fire catalogue, Wayne Davis’ powerful self titled gospel-soul album f... more...

• 01 Strive On & Be Strong
• 02 Morning
• 03 Love Is
• 04 The Garden (There Is A Garden Far Away)

Aaliyah

Ultimate Aaliyah

Ultimate Aaliyah is the second and final compilation album by R&B singer Aaliyah. Originally released by Blackground Records in only the UK, Australia... more...

• 01 One Ina Million
• 02 If Your Girl Only Knew
• 03 Hot Like Fire
• 04 The One I Gave My Heart To

Aaliyah

I Care 4 U

I Care 4 U is the first posthumous compilation album by the ''Princess of R&B,'' Aaliyah. Following her tragic and untimely passing, Blackground Recor... more...

• 01 Back & Forth
• 02 Are You That Somebody
• 03 One Ina Million
• 04 I Care 4 U

George Duke

Faces In Reflection

Great audiophile remastered studio album by American keyboardist George Duke on 180g vinyl with liner notes. more...

• 01 The Opening
• 02 Capricorn
• 03 Piano Solo no 1 + 2
• 04 Psychocomatic Dung

Eighties Ladies

Turned On To You

Recommended by: Charmaine

Eighties Ladies are Denie Corbett, Marva Hicks, Susan Beaubian, Sylvia Striplin and Vivian Prince. ''Turned On To You'' might be one of the best ''rar... more...

• 01 Turned On To You
• 02 Sing Me
• 03 I Knew That Love

Budgie

Holy Ghost Zone II

Possibly less obscure but definitely deeper. Made up of tracks that were started in Wyoming for Kanye/Sunday Service and then finished in LA and trans... more...

• 01 Keep My Promise
• 02 Blessed
• 03 Want 2 Love U 2
• 04 The Same

Azymuth

Light As A Feather

An incredibly well thought out album both in pace, song selection and musicality,'Light As A Feather' marked a maturing of the band as they began to r... more...

• 1 Partido Alto
• 2 Avenida Das Mangueiras
• 3 Light As A Feather
• 4 Fly Over The Horizon (Voo Sobre O Horizonte)

Various Artists

Black Mans Cry: The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti

An officially licensed (and Kuti Estate approved) investigation into the influence and inspiration of Afrobeat godfather Fela Kuti. more...

• 01 Dan Satch & His Atomic 8 Dance Band - Woman Pin Down
• 02 6th Infantry Brigade Of The Nigerian Army - Black & Proud
• 03 Bola Johnson - Never Trust A Woman
• 04 Bola Johnson - Hot Pants

Various Artists

Onda De Amor

Millos Kaiser (half of Selvagem) curates this treasure trove of 16 rare cuts of synthpop, samba boogie, balearic jams from 1980 & ‘90s Brazil. more...

• 01 ricardo bomba - voce vai se lembrar
• 02 vania bastos - tabu the sweetest taboo
• 03 rosana mendes amp grupo veneno - reague
• 04 grupo controle digital - a festa e nossa

June Chikuma

The Midas Touch

Another Interplanetary Star Creature team up for a Chicago / Tokyo expedition across a soundscape ranging from bossa nova lounge to pre-vaporwave exot... more...

• 1 Alpine Plant
• 2 Back In My Arms
• 3 Midas Touch
• 4 Still Life

Yazmin Lacey

When the Sun Dips 90 Degrees

This set illustrates again Yazmin's candid songwriting delivered in her uniquely laidback soulful style, whilst a glorious fusion of neo-soul and jazz... more...

• 1 90 Degrees
• 2 Something My Heart Trusts
• 3 Burn Rise
• 4 Heaven

Sylvia Striplin

Give Me Your Love

“Give Me Your Love” is an iconic album of the early 80s and was first released on Uno Melodic Records. Sylvia previously sang with Aquarian Dream as l... more...

• 1 Look Towards The Sky
• 2 Toy Box
• 3 You Can't Turn Me Away
• 4 All Alone