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  • Amanaz – Africa
    Amanaz – Africa
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “This record is amazing for many reasons but for me, the track ‘Khala My Friend’ really sets it off. I first heard this track […]

  • V/A – Pacific Breeze Volume 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR, & Boogie 1975-1987
    V/A – Pacific Breeze Volume 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR, & Boogie 1975-1987
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Light in the Attic’s Pacific Breeze series has supplied the world’s growing legions of Japanese music fans with an expertly curated selection of the most sought-after City Pop recordings—the [...]

  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

  • Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

  • Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music Of Vijaya Anand: Dance Raja Dance
    Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music Of Vijaya Anand: Dance Raja Dance
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    You won’t hear Vijaya Anand sing on this record. Nor will you hear him play any of the instruments. He is the invisible presence behind each of these songs. He’s […]

  • Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara. This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that […]

  • Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
    Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Analog Africa’s forthcoming compilation Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa No.36) is highlighting a unique style of music : Amazonian [...]

  • Soul Jazz Records presents: Studio One Space-Age Dub Special
    Soul Jazz Records presents: Studio One Space-Age Dub Special
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    More 100% essential Studio One tunes! // Studio One Space-Age Dub Special is a brand-new Studio One release on Soul Jazz Records which draws on more rare and classic dubs […]

  • The Free Music & Najib Alhoush – Free Music
    The Free Music & Najib Alhoush – Free Music
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    “Blisteringly groovy collection of completely off-the-radar songs by Libyan composer/producer Najib Alhoush’s group The Free Music, circa 1976. Releasing an astonishing ten albums, [...]

  • V/A – 200% DYNAMITE! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub in Jamaica (RSD, Red / Blue Vinyl)
    V/A – 200% DYNAMITE! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub in Jamaica (RSD, Red / Blue Vinyl)
    $39.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records’ 200% Dynamite! set the benchmark for reggae meets funk compilations that has never been bettered. Out of print for over 15 years this new 2023 edition with […]

  • V/A – Studio One Ska (RSD, Green Vinyl)
    V/A – Studio One Ska (RSD, Green Vinyl)
    $39.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records’ 20th anniversary limited-edition heavyweight green vinyl pressing of Studio One Ska comes for Record Store Day 2023, complete with a download code. A blistering collection of [...]

  • The Selecter – Live at the NEC 1980 (RSD)
    The Selecter – Live at the NEC 1980 (RSD)
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    Making its vinyl debut and taken from the recently released CD deluxe edition of the band’s second album Celebrate The Bullet.The 2 Tone band captured here supporting Elvis Costello & […]

  • The Specials – Work In Progress (RSD)
    The Specials – Work In Progress (RSD)
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    Continuing rarities/unreleased of The Specials and Jerry Dammers on 10″ singles for RSD. This new release contains two previously unreleased Work In Progress Demos tracks from 1980/81. The [...]

  • Mikey Dread & Edi Fitzroy – Original General / Queen Of Harlesden (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    Mikey Dread & Edi Fitzroy – Original General / Queen Of Harlesden (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Mikey Dread was a Jamaican singer who played an important role in the popularization of the reggae during the 1970s. He began recording in the early ’70s and worked together […]

  • Dandy – Dandy Returns (Orange Vinyl)
    Dandy – Dandy Returns (Orange Vinyl)
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    Dandy is Robert Livingstone Thompson a.k.a. Dandy Livingstone, the Jamaican British songwriter performer producer responsible for the hits Suzanne, Beware of the Devil, Rudy, A Message to You [...]

  • VA: Soul Jazz Records Presents – Disco Reggae Rockers 2LP
    VA: Soul Jazz Records Presents – Disco Reggae Rockers 2LP
    $36.00 | Add to cart

    Disco Reggae Rockers features wicked reggae disco versions of funk, soul and disco classics! This new album follows on from Soul Jazz Records’ earlier highly successful ‘Hustle: Disco [...]

  • Augustus Pablo – Thriller (RSD
    Augustus Pablo – Thriller (RSD
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    Thriller is the 1975 album from Augustus Pablo, the reggae visionary who popularized the use of the melodica in the genre. As the founder of multiple labels, he was a […]

  • V/A – 90° Degrees Of Shade (Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean) (Volume Two)
    V/A – 90° Degrees Of Shade (Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean) (Volume Two)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records – SJR LP290-VOL.2 Media Condition –  VG+, few marks on records. Nice copy Sleeve Condition – VG+, very light wear.

  • V/A – London Is the Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London
    V/A – London Is the Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released in 2005. Another installment of amazing music from the first wave of modern black settlement in England. The focus remains on the ’50s, with classic calypsos running [...]

  • The Frightnrs – Always
    The Frightnrs – Always
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    Before Dan Klein’s unfortunate passing, The Frightnrs agreed to keep a promise he asked of them – continue making music together. Part of that promise has been made manifest [...]

  • Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
    Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
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    Baad John Cross’s New Revolution is a Afro-electro-funk-boogie-disco banger that could only come from 1980s Nigeria. Bright, optimistic, with an unrelenting eye on the dance floor, it is regarded [...]

  • Felix Lebarty – Girls For Sale (sealed)
    Felix Lebarty – Girls For Sale (sealed)
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    PMG – PMG061LP Austrian Reissue SEALED

  • V/A – Studio One Classics (Purple Vinyl) (RSD)
    V/A – Studio One Classics (Purple Vinyl) (RSD)
    $39.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records’ new 20th anniversary one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition purple coloured double vinyl pressing + download code and striking ‘Wailers’ alternative gatefold [...]

  • Ranking Slackness ‎– Slackest LP (’79 Jamaican Pressing)
    Ranking Slackness ‎– Slackest LP (’79 Jamaican Pressing)
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Techniques 1979 Jamaican Pressing Media Condition – VG+, very light wear. Sleeve Condition – VG, has some fading and ring wear.

  • V/A – Ebirac All-Stars (Boricua Blue Vinyl)
    V/A – Ebirac All-Stars (Boricua Blue Vinyl)
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    Holed up in the bustling Puerto Rican community centers of Chicago’s west side, the salseros featured on Ebiriac All-Stars make up the best of Carlos Ruiz’ Ebirac label, which ran […]

  • Andre & Josi – Amandla
    Andre & Josi – Amandla
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Having shown talent for playing guitar at a young age, Josi Ndlovu (Zimbabwe) started his first rock band “The Movers” (who were very popular within the local scene) in 1968. […]

  • Black Children Sledge Funk Group – Love Is Fair (RSD Italy)
    Black Children Sledge Funk Group – Love Is Fair (RSD Italy)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    INDIE EXCLUSIVE, RSD ITALY APRIL RELEASE. Nigerian classic, Black Children Sledge Funk Group’s 1976 debut album is full of positive vibrations and feel-good grooves. A sunny blend of Reggae [...]

  • V/A – Jazz in Jamaica: The Coolest Cats From The Alpha Boys School
    V/A – Jazz in Jamaica: The Coolest Cats From The Alpha Boys School
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    Repressed. Talking about the foundation of Jamaican music, the Alpha Boys School in Kingston can be considered as one of the places where it all began. Back in the day, […]

  • Penny Penny – Yogo Yogo
    Penny Penny – Yogo Yogo
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny’s life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable […]

  • V/A – Nouakchott Wedding Songs
    V/A – Nouakchott Wedding Songs
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    Raucous and electrified wedding songs from the desert kingdom of Mauritania. Luxurious overload of microtonal scales, phaser pedals, and unpredictable polyrhythms. Documentation of a little known [...]

  • Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
    Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
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    Avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal, Wau Wau Collectif’s “Yaral Sa Doom” is a groundbreaking album spanning borders and musical scenes. Inspired from West African tradition, [...]

  • V/A – Best Of Instrumental Reggae, Vol. 1
    V/A – Best Of Instrumental Reggae, Vol. 1
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    This album contains 12 of the most sought after instrumental sides to see issue in Jamaica during the late 60’s and early 70’s; Features the Dynamites, the Supersoncis, The Upsetters, [...]

  • V/A – Best Of Lovers Rock Vol. 1
    V/A – Best Of Lovers Rock Vol. 1
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    Part of a series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the re-launch of Trojan Records. In the mid-1970 s, many British Reggae fans found fulfilment in the first home-produced [...]

  • Omar Souleyman – To Syria With Love (Orange Vinyl)
    Omar Souleyman – To Syria With Love (Orange Vinyl)
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    Omar Souleyman returns with a new album, To Syria, With Love. The album is a “personal ode” to Souleyman’s native country that eschews politics entirely. The record features keys by […]

  • Tim Maia – S/T
    Tim Maia – S/T
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    2022 repress. Vinilisssimo present the first vinyl reissue of Tim Maia’s 1977 self-titled album. Tim Maia was born in 1942 in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro and started his […]

  • V/A – Golden Rockers
    V/A – Golden Rockers
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    Clocktower presents Golden Rockers, a compilation of roots reggae and rocksteady featuring Delroy Wilson, The Uniques, and more. Also features Val Bennett, Lloyd & Devon, Horace Andy, Dennis [...]

  • V/A – Step Forward Youth: Roots Masters from the “Punky Reggae Party”
    V/A – Step Forward Youth: Roots Masters from the “Punky Reggae Party”
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    2018 release. “1976 saw the explosion of punk rock and it’s unlikely championing of reggae in the UK and beyond. Through a 12-track LP compilation of essential recordings, Step [...]

  • V/A – Somewhere Between – Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980-1988
    V/A – Somewhere Between – Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980-1988
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    Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988 hovers vibe–wise between two distinct poles within Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Japan Archival [...]

  • V/A ‎– Trojan Records Tighten Up Reggae Volume 1
    V/A ‎– Trojan Records Tighten Up Reggae Volume 1
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    Part of series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the re-launch of Trojan Records. When Reggae burst onto the Jamaican music scene late in 1968, the style was anything […]

  • Vis-A-Vis ‎– The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style
    Vis-A-Vis ‎– The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style
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    A remastered reissue of The Best of Vis- A-Vis in Congo Style – the album finds the the young band in great form, with six new songs. The album was […]

  • The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
    The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
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    Anadolu Psych tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to a sudden end by a repressive right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered […]

  • Ofege ‎– How Do You Feel
    Ofege ‎– How Do You Feel
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    Ofege was formed in the early 1970s by a bunch of teenagers at the St. Gregory’s College in Lagos Nigeria. They were largely influenced by the guitar solos of Carlos […]

  • The Invincible Beany Man ‎– The 10 Year Old D.J. Wonder
    The Invincible Beany Man ‎– The 10 Year Old D.J. Wonder
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    Radiation Roots present a reissue of Beany Man‘s The Invincible Beany Man (The 10 Year Old D.J. Wonder), originally released in 1987. Dancehall superstar Beenie Man has enjoyed a career [...]

  • U Roy – The Originator
    U Roy – The Originator
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    Radiation Roots present a reissue of U Roy‘s The Originator, originally released in 1990. Ewart Beckford, aka Daddy U Roy, changed the focus of Jamaican popular music by turning the […]

  • Sly And Robbie – Master Of Ceremony “Dub”
    Sly And Robbie – Master Of Ceremony “Dub”
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    Radiation Roots present a reissue of Sly & Robbie‘s Master Of Ceremony Dub. Master rhythm duo Sly and Robbie first met on the Jamaican club scene of the early 1970s, […]

  • Mutantes – Ao Vivo
    Mutantes – Ao Vivo
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    Vinilisssimo present a reissue of Mutantes’ Ao Vivo, originally released in 1976. Those who fell in love with Os Mutantes after listening to their Tropicália work in the late ’60s, [...]

  • The Master Musicians of Joujouka – Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka
    The Master Musicians of Joujouka – Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka
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    Recordings of the Rites Of Pan Festival, performed by The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Berber Sufi trance musicians from northern Morocco. Rolling Stones Records – COC49100 1971 US Media [...]

  • U-Brown – You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down
    U-Brown – You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down
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    Also released as Weather Baloon, awesome roots reggae from DJ U-Brown. Front Line – FL 1030 1979 UK Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – G+, number written on cover […]

  • Brentford All Stars – Greedy G
    Brentford All Stars – Greedy G
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    Next KILLER tune in the Brand New series of Limited Edition 12”s of all-time CLASSIC Studio One party bombs available on super loud 12”. Brentford Road All Stars’ ‘Greedy G’ […]

  • João De Bruçó, R.H. Jackson – Caracol
    João De Bruçó, R.H. Jackson – Caracol
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    First time reissue of Caracol. Brazilian underground music in the 1980s produced fascinating and mysterious records, where organic and regional percussion finally gained electronic and synthetic [...]

  • Mikey Dread – At The Control, Dubwise
    Mikey Dread – At The Control, Dubwise
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Excellent album featuring different mixes of ‘African Anthem’ and a wicked front cover of Mikey Dread doing his famous radio shows at JBC Kingston Jamaica. Recorded and mixed at [...]

  • Cinema – S/T
    Cinema – S/T
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    First time vinyl reissue. 1985 was one of the most important years in Brazil’s recent history, when the country was freed from more than 20 years of military dictatorship. The […]

  • Jacks ‎– Legend
    Jacks ‎– Legend
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    Eastworld ‎– WTP-80181   Comes with insert   Media Condition – VG+   Sleeve Condition – VG+ faint ringwear, mild edge wear

  • Savila – Mayahuel
    Savila – Mayahuel
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Sávila is a medicinal plant that grows wild in tropical climates all over the world as well as the name of cumbia/latin/world/r&b inspired music and visual art project by guitarist […]

  • VA – Ethiopian Wedding Songs
    VA – Ethiopian Wedding Songs
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    With a mix of modern and traditional instruments these fourteen songs go through the progression of an Ethiopian Amhara wedding sung in Amharic. With the trio of singers, Lemma G. […]

  • Tapper Zukie – X Is Wrong
    Tapper Zukie – X Is Wrong
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    Tapper Zukie still asks the questions and stating the facts that few artists of his caliber would attain to. His classic Dee-Jay style has been copied by many but bettered […]

  • Delroy Wilson – Worth Your Weight In Gold
    Delroy Wilson – Worth Your Weight In Gold
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    Radiation Roots present a reissue of Delroy Wilson‘s Worth Your Weight In Gold, originally released in 1984. Delroy Wilson, one of Jamaica’s best loved vocalists, got his start with [...]

  • Ayinla, Kollington and His Fuji ’78 Organisation – Blessing
    Ayinla, Kollington and His Fuji ’78 Organisation – Blessing
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    This is the first in Soul Jazz Records’ new series of one-off pressings of limited-edition 1000 copies vinyl-only releases of Afro-funk/Afro-beat exact-replica, super-rare albums that were [...]

  • Count Ossie & The Rasta Family – Man From Higher Heights (2016 Soul Jazz Reissue)
    Count Ossie & The Rasta Family – Man From Higher Heights (2016 Soul Jazz Reissue)
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    Soul Jazz Records are releasing Count Ossie & The Rasta Family’s long lost reggae album ‘Man From Higher Heights’ (originally released in 1983), digitally remastered and [...]

  • Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
    Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
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    Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from [...]