Label: Honest Jons - In Stock

Lamin Fofana

Works In Metal

Scintillating, alchemical kosmische; visionary, deep, and luminous; and beautifully sleeved, with gold foiling and silver ink. Works In Metal fan... more...

• 1 Arcs Blue Flame
• 2 Welding
• 3 Obscure Light (Decomposition)
• 4 Obscure Light (Recomposition)

Holy Tongue / Beatrice Dillon / Lamin Fofana / LABOUR

HJP 097

Four dazzling, extended engagements with mbalax master-drumming. The contribution from Holy Tongue is chase-the-devil steppers — thumping, clangoro... more...

• 1 Holy Tongue - Dey Sey
• 2 Holy Tongue - Dey Sey (dub)
• 3 Holy Tongue - Dey Sey (dub II)
• 4 Beatrice Dillon - 2020

Shackleton

The Majestic Yes (Mark Ernestus Version)

Recommended by: Konduku | Clone | Garcon

Twenty minutes of startlingly original music, with Shackleton the maestro at the top of his game, and a characteristically evilous dub by Mark Ernestu... more...

• 1 The Majestic Yes
• 2 The Overwhelming Yes
• 3 The Stick & Twist Mood
• 4 Overwhelming Yes Dub (Mark Ernestus version)

Madteo

Head Goes Wrong By Noise

Visceral, elemental, electronic funk, conjured from scraps of sound, breath, mutterings, dubwise remembrances, scuffling, sweat and blood, thin air —... more...

• 01 Since Man Crawled Out Of The Slime
• 02 Big Stack Attack
• 03 Know Fun
• 04 Deserts Of Social Isolation

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

DJ Sotofett & Osaruxo

Hebi

Hebi is tough, stomping, mesmerizing romany funk, riding Far East from the Baltic Sea on clopping hooves of uranium, with synths from spaceways furthe... more...

• 1 Hebi
• 2 Haru
• 3 Haru (part 2)
• 4 Hebi (Reprise)

Tribe Of Colin

Age Of Aquarius

Recommended by: Max Graef

Something special: someone we've been getting excited about, making his debut on Honest Jon's! Juddering bangers and hypnotic body-rockers, dazed s... more...

• 01 Creator God
• 02 Alan
• 03 Ogun Calling
• 04 Eye Of Ra

Dont DJ

Laniakea

Recommended by: Konduku | Batu

• 1 Eternal Return
• 2 Perpetual Flow
• 3 Circular Time
• 4 Perseus-Pisces

DJ Sotofett

Dub Off

Three murderous steppers dubs on a propulsive, rat-tat-tat rhythm, combining mystical spaciousness with detail and ferocity. Angry-lion bass and smear... more...

• 1 Dub Off
• 2 Dub On
• 3 Dub On Dub

DJ Sotofett & Maimouna Haugen

C'est l'aventure

Precious, timely, moody reflections on migrating from Côte d’Ivoire to Moss, in Norway, over ruff breakbeat funk supplied by the nimble bass-playing o... more...

• 1 Original Mix (Extract 1)
• 2 Original Mix (Extract 2 )
• 3 Dubplate Mix

Moondog

Moondog And His Friends

Recommended by: Haron

An re-issue of an old Moondog on the Honest Jon's label. more...

• 1 dragons teeth - voices of spring
• 2 oasis
• 3 tree frog - be a hobo
• 4 instrumental round

Moondog

Playing Moondogs Music

Originally relelased on the Moondog label in 1955.

• 1 rabbit hop
• 2 bumbo
• 3 dog trot
• 4 single foot

Mark Ernestus vs. Obadikah

April

A re-work by Mark Ernestus of the opener of Honest Jons' new LP by the Obadikah brass band, from Lagos. Beautifully textured, shuffling Lagos funk, o... more...

• 1 April
• 2 April Dub
• 3 April Parts

Kassem Mosse

Disclosure

ierce, subtle music, radically strange and unafraid of the deep, but with a killer understanding of rhythm. Lush drum-machine nocturnes, gnarly electr... more...

• 01 Stepping On Salt
• 02 Phoenicia Wireless
• 03 Drift Model
• 04 Galaxy Series 7

Kassem Mosse

Chilazon

Recommended by: Ovatow

Blinding jammed house trips & beyond.

• 1 Chilazon 1
• 2 Chilazon 2
• 3 Lanthanum

Wareika Hill Sounds

Mass Migration

Recommended by: Martyn | Clone

Two no-flim-flam, cross-border, dub-wise stompers — paired with masterful versions.

• 1 Mass Migration
• 2 Mass Migration (dub)
• 3 I & I Know Bunny
• 4 I & I Know Bunny (dub)

Mukunguni

New Recordings From Coast Province, Kenya

Recommended by: Clone

Field recordings of the Mijikenda tribes, made in different spots in and around Mukunguni village. The album opener is solo dena, played to sound like... more...

• 01 Ndema
• 02 Dena
• 03 Mambodze
• 04 Matatizo

Wareika Hill Sounds

No More War EP

Unique music with echoes of Roots Reggae, Jazz, tribal drumming & Dub.

• 1 No More War
• 2 Free The People
• 3 Universe In Crisis
• 4 Chant Rasta

Elmore Judd/ Bullion

Petrol Laughs

Elmore Judd links up with Bullion for this 6 tracker of live deep modern afro influenced organic and electronic mixed space music. Fresh from work wit... more...

• 1 petrol laughs
• 2 devoesk (bullion version)
• 3 golden goat
• 4 wires 2

Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Fetch

Recommended by: klen

The Moritz Von Oswald Trio operates at the bleeding edges where musical lineages collide. Feeling for the shared heartbeat that pulses through dub, te... more...

• 1 jam
• 2 dark
• 3 club
• 4 yangissa

Rocket Juice & The Moon

Rocket Juice & The Moon

From the off, the liquid pulse of Fela Kuti’s classic recordings drives the action through a suite of 18 shape-shifting compositions: the greatest dru... more...

• 01 1-2-3-4-5-6
• 02 hey shooter

Demdike Stare & Hype Williams

Meet Shangaan Electro

Superb Shangaan Electro inspired electronic Drone & DigiReggae-esque Lo-fi-Pop

• 1 demdike stare meets shangaan electro
• 2 version
• 3 hype williams shangaan electro
• 4 version

Lee Perry

The Return Of Pipecock Jackxon

Recommended by: klen | Gerd | Clone

Originally released in 1980, this album is the final work to emerge from the Black Ark studio, before its permanent destruction. It concludes a serie... more...

• 07 same have fe halla
• 1 bed jammin
• 2 untitled rhythm
• 3 give thanx to yah

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...

• 1 rainy dub
• 2 faceless

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...

• 01 chief commander ebenezer obey - eyi yato
• 02 sir victor owaifo - joromi
• 03 travellers lodge atomic 8 - ikut asana edem
• 04 sagbeni aragbada - sowambe