Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Converge Collide
2. Bakelite Dashboard
3. Montage Homage
4. Express Train To Jupiter 
5. Vanishing Exits 
6. Tumultuous Clouds 
7. Flawed Optimist 
8. Hats Off To Pojama 
9. Chemical Miscalculation

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Honorable Discharge
2. Parallels 
3. Finite Universe 
4. Mutations 
5. Suite: East Meets West 
6. Can Eater
7. First Sign Of Light

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lysergic Library
2. Kaiser-Panorama
3. Flying And Falling 
4. That River Ain't For Swimming 
5. Xan With Red 
6. Back To Atoms 
7. Another Vintage Phase 
8. Precursor 
9. Optokinetic Response

Sixteen killer 70s reggae funk and soul cuts from the likes of John Holt, Lee Perry, Cornel Campbell, The Cimarons, The Chosen Few and more featuring superb reggae takes on songs by artists including The Jackson 5, William DeVaughn, Diana Ross and The Supremes, War, The Temptations, Roberta Flack, The Stylistics and others!

Well-documented is the influence of American black music on Jamaican styles of the 1960s – from the birth of ska music, when The Skatalites ska-ified the jump-up southern USA rhythm and blues music of Rosco Gordon, Louis Jordan and Fats Domino, through to the creation of rocksteady when Jamaican artists like The Techniques, The Paragons, Alton Ellis and The Melodians turned to the slower rhythms and soulful harmonies of groups such as The Impressions and The Drifters for inspiration.

Less-well established is that in the 1970s Jamaicans didn’t (shock!) stop listening to American black music styles, with many 70s reggae artists as invested in soul, funk and the proto-disco sounds of Philadelphia, as was the case with rhythm and blues in the previous decade. In the 1970s, while Jamaica promoted its own roots reggae styles around the world, powerhouse USA soul labels such as Motown, Philadelphia International and Stax Records were at the same time all popular on the island.

This interaction between American and Jamaican music was not limited to Jamaica. In Britain, first-generation Caribbean-émigré children in the 1960s and early 70s grew up with an equal love of both soul and reggae, which manifested itself in the home-grown arrival of lovers rock in the mid-1970s.

Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Reggae Island Soul’ tells this story of how soul and funk-infused reggae in the 1970s united the sounds of Jamaica, USA and the UK into a highly-addictive cultural hybrid of styles.

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Exclusive limited edition one-off pressing on heavyweight single red vinyl + download code. Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Power Pop! American Power Pop for the Now Generation 1977-1981’ brings together a wealth of punk/power pop/new wave tunes from American bands that were all originally released in the USA on small and independent labels in the late-70s/early-80s.

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Studio One Sound is the classic Studio One collection from Soul Jazz Records. Described as ‘The University of Reggae’ by Chris Blackwell, Studio One, and founder Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd are by far the most-important names in the history of reggae music.
Originally released in 2012 this album has been out of print for many years making it one of the most-collectible of Soul Jazz Records’ Studio One Series. This is the first ever colour vinyl edition of this classic album.
This album is newly fully remastered for vinyl by Jason Goz at Transition.

This album brings together key tracks from Doug Carn recorded for Black Jazz Records in the 1970s.

Doug Carn is one of the most-important (and least-recognised) forces in the creation of the canon of 'deep and spiritual jazz music' - full of powerfully emotive intensity, consciously-uplifting lyricism and addictively beautiful melodies.

All of his LPs during this period have since achieved cult classic status including 'Infant Eyes', 'Adam's Apple', 'Spirit of the New Land' and 'Revelation'.

Aside from his songwriting and keyboard skills, many of the tracks here feature the stunning and powerful 5-octave range vocals of Jean Carn (later Carne), his wife at the time.

Musicians featured on this album include Alphonse Mouzon, Charles Tolliver, Henry Franklin, Michael Carvin, Walter Booker, Ronnie Laws and others. Aside from Carn’s compositions there are also striking interpretations of music by Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson and Wayne Shorter.

Black Jazz became one of the defining labels of independent and conscious jazz music in the 1970s alongside other important labels such as Strata-East and Tribe Records. As well as this Best of Doug Carn release, Soul Jazz Records are also releasing a Best of Black Jazz Records collection at the same time.

This album brings together some of the finest music ever released on Black Jazz Records which in its short four-year history between 1971 and 1975, released over 20 superlative albums which all successfully blending spiritual jazz, funk and soul jazz of the highest calibre.

Similar to other independent jazz labels at the time including Strata-East Records and Tribe Records, Black Jazz focussed on a number of key artists, most of whom first established their career during this period, and all of whom are featured here.

Featuring The Awakening, Doug Carn, Walter Bishop, Chester Thompson, Kellee Patterson and more.

Black Jazz Records was founded in Oakland, California, by pianist Gene Russell and percussionist Dick Schory. The label released twenty albums between 1971 and 1975.

Artists who recorded for Black Jazz Records included Cleveland Eaton (bassist for Ramsey Lewis), keyboardists Doug Carn and Chester Thompson, vocalist Kellee Patterson, saxophonist Rudolph Johnson, bassist Henry Franklin, and spiritual fusion group The Awakening.

The label was distributed and financed by Ovation Records, based in Chicago. Schory founded Ovation in 1969, shortly after leaving RCA. Schory was a Grammy-nominated percussionist who was also known for his development of the stereo recording techniques including Dynagroove, and RCA Victor’s Stereo Action. Schory also pioneered quadrophonic sound, and a number of Black Jazz Records were in quadrophonic and other formats such as ¼” tape and 8-track.

Black Jazz launched in 1971 with Gene Russell’s ‘New Direction’. Russell was the creative force behind the label, acting as producer, engineer and A&R and focussed on developing new solo artists. The most successful of these was Doug Carn, who released four albums featuring his wife, Jean Carn, as vocalist. She later changed her name to Jean Carne and became a successful soul singer signed to Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International empire.

Singer Kellee Patterson gained notice as the first black Miss Indiana in 1971, before recording ‘Maiden Voyage’, her debut album for the label. Keyboardist Chester Thompson would go on to join Tower of Power and later Santana. The Awakening featured top veteran musicians from Chicago - the only Chicago group signed to the label. Drummer and percussionist Arlington Davis Jr, bassist Reggie Willis, flautist and tenor saxophonist Richard (Ari) Brown and trumpeter Frank Gordon were all members of the Association for The Advancement of Creative Musicians. Trombonist Steve Galloway and Ken Chaney were part of Philip Cohran and The Artistic Ensemble.

Black Jazz Records released 20 or so superlative albums in a four-year period, all successfully blending spiritual jazz, funk and soul jazz. This album brings together some of the finest music released by the label in its short four-year history, closing its doors finally in 1975.

TRACK LISTING

1.The Awakening - Mode For D.D.
2. Doug Carn - Higher Ground
3. Calvin Keys - Aunt Lovely
4. Roland Haynes – Eglise
5. The Awakening – Slinky
6. Walter Bishop, Jr. – Coral Keys
7. Rudolph Johnson – Diswa
8. Henry Franklin – Blue Lights
9. Kellee Patterson – Maiden Voyage
10. Chester Thompson – Powerhouse
11. The Awakening – March On
12. Walter Bishop, Jr. – Soul Village
13. Rudolph Johnson – The Highest Pleasure

New 2026 Edition of 600% Dynamite, part of Soul Jazz Records classic compilation series of Jamaican music, featuring killer reggae in all styles - ska, soul, rocksteady, dancehall, funk and dub.

Originally released in 2003 this album has been out of print for nearly 20 years making it one of the most-collectible of Soul Jazz Records’ Dynamite! Series.

Newly remastered and relicensed for 2026, the album is packed with dancefloor classics and non-stop reggae anthems such as Tenor Saw’s ‘Golden Hen’, Johnny Osbourne’s ‘Buddy Bye’, Dennis Brown’s ‘Wolf & Shepard’ and Sister Nancy’s ’Transport Connection' alongside hard-to-find cuts by Tall T and the Touchers, The Interns, Tetrack and others, making the album a superlative mix of well-known classics and rarities.

New tracks on this edition includes the super heavyweight Interns ‘ Nothing is Impossible’, wicked rocksteady with the Bleechers ‘Come Into My Parlour' and tough roots from Junior Byles ‘Long Way’ and more.

From the funky rocksteady of Dennis Brown to the lovers rock of Sandra Reid, and from the sublime digital roots of Tetrack to the dancehall styles of Johnny Osbourne and Papa San - it’s all here, reggae in all styles! 600% Dynamite is the next instalment in a series that became a who’s who of Reggae music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cynty And The Monkees - Lady Lady 
2. Johnny Osbourne - Buddy Bye 
3. Dennis Brown - West Bound Train 
4. Tenor Saw - Golden Hen 
5. The Interns - Nothing Is Impossible 
6. Tall T & The Touchers - Touching The President 
7. Papa San – Give Her Credit 
8. Dennis Brown - Wolf & Leopard
9. Sister Nancy - Transport Connection 
10. Tetrack - You're Gonna Lose 
11. The Bleechers - Come Into My Parlour 
12. Sandra Reid - Ooh Boy 
13. Dave And Ansel Collins - Doing Your Own Thing 
14. Prince Mohammed - Come Mek We Rub A Dub 
15. Junior Byles - Long Way 
16. Xterminator - Love Line Version 
17. The Uniques – Queen Majesty 

Two killer tunes from The Soul Vendors. Absolutely seminal foundation groundbreaking late 1960s reggae cuts from Studio One.

The Soul Vendors (and their other incarnations as The Sound Dimension and Soul Bros) established the sound of reggae, their tracks replayed and sampled many times over throughout the 1970s, 80s, 90s and beyond.

‘Swing Easy’ and ‘Ringo Rock’ are two of The Soul Vendors’ toughest cuts, freshly pressed on this new 45.

TRACK LISTING

1. Swing Easy
2. Ringo Rock

Exact replica picture sleeve seven-inch reissue of this hidden super-catchy punk/power pop 45 from the very short-lived punk group Trash. The music is raw, naive three-chord genius.

Trash were from Weybridge, Surrey, and they found little success at the time. They released just two singles to absolutely no fanfare at all in 1977 and 1978, despite being signed to Polydor Records.

Trash’s ‘Priorities’, the group’s debut single, is now available to independent retailers once again for the first time in nearly 50 years, on Soul Jazz Records in a very special edition one-off pressing.

TRACK LISTING

Priorities
Look

Exact replica reissue of the much sought-after £100+ garage band DIY/Punk 45 rarity from The Reducers. Sounds like a lo-fi version of other early DIY punk groups like TV Personalities, O-Levels and Desperate Bicycles.

Originally self-released in four different colour sleeve variants on Vibes Records in 1978 and now available to independent retailers on Soul Jazz Records in a very special one-off edition.

The Reducers were from Bury, Greater Manchester, in existence 1978-1980. They released two singles on the independent Vibes label, followed by one more single after briefly signing to EMI.

TRACK LISTING

Things Go Wrong
We Are Normal

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Never a group to wait around Trees Speak drop a brand new track 'Wave Healer' on this new hyper-limited unique individually hand-stamped white label - released just 8 weeks after their last album! Referencing as ever the group's fascination with late-60s exotic and twisted sci-fi sounds and German experimentalism - John Barry meets Cluster - complete with moogs, synths, vibes and featuring vocalist Ashley Edwards, 'Wave Healer' is a hypnotic, head-nodding sonic dreamlike thing of beauty.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wave Healer
2. Psychic State

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Soul Jazz Records are issuing Tribe ‘Dedication’, a superb rare 1970s funk/soul/jazz album, as a one-off pressing special limited-edition orange coloured vinyl edition, fully remastered with exact reproduction artwork especially for Black Friday 2024.

In similar vein to groups such as Mandrill, Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Blackbyrds, Pleasure and Kool and the Gang, Tribe blend together elements of funk, jazz, rock, latin and soul music into a unique sound (their first album was aptly named ‘Ethnic Stew’). 

‘Dedication’ is a fantastic long-lost album of deep funk, soul and jazz from the group, originally released independently in 1977 and out-of-print for over 45 years.

Tribe was the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Earl J Foster, who put together the band along with producer Big Dee Ervin in 1974. Aside from Earl Foster the band features Clyde Jardine Powell on bass, Billy Soto on guitar, Jimmie A. Clapper on sax, Benjamin Taylor and Harold Clayton on vocals and Harold Davis on drums.

The group made three albums, but ‘Dedication’ remains their tour de force, a fantastic slice of spaced-out funk, jazz and soul.

TRACK LISTING

A
1. Share It (4.22)
2. Firesign (3.26)
3. Vulcan Voyage (4.01)
4. Love You Like A Brother (4.13)
B
1. Ain't Nothing But A Party (4.22)
2. Got To Be Something More (3.17)
3. Baby Feet (3.48)
4. Funky Reggae (3.21)
5. Celebrate Your Love (5.29)

Trees Speak return with 'TimeFold', their sixth release on Soul Jazz Records, further expanding their ever-evolving sonic universe. This new album builds on their signature blend of hypnotic krautrock rhythms, post-punk angularity, and experimental soundscapes while venturing into new terrain by blending influences from avant-garde electronics to ceremonial sound forms.

On 'TimeFold', Trees Speak (comprised of the Tucson-based duo Damian Diaz and Daniel Martin Diaz) push their musical boundaries from expansive, intergalactic landscapes to eerie, imagined 1970s Italian and French sci-fi horror film scores. The album seamlessly weaves John Carpenter-esque synthesizer motifs with ambient sound sculptures, conjuring immersive worlds that are both cinematic and otherworldly.

The album also incorporates the duo’s deep-rooted influences, which span across electronic pioneers like Jean-Michel Jarre (Oxygene), Tangerine Dream, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Drawing on the revolutionary techniques of Musique Concrète, 'TimeFold' features experimental track splicing, looping, and collage work that harkens back to the golden age of avant-garde music. At times, the album channels the ceremonial tones and hypnotic rhythms reminiscent of early 1970s krautrock, fusing these sounds with organic instrumentation like dulcimers, adding an earthy, drone-like ritual quality to the experimental electronic framework.

A new element in this release is the inclusion of spoken word by Ashley Christine Edwards, which lends the album a haunting, apocalyptic edge. Her contributions evoke a tone reminiscent of the 1970s avant-garde scene, recalling literary and conceptual artists like Ruth White. The spoken words create a sensory experience akin to ceremonial chants, adding to the atmospheric intensity of the album. These vocal elements tie into the overall theme of 'TimeFold', which continues Trees Speak’s exploration of futuristic technologies and the communication of nature, with the evocative concept of trees and plants acting as organic hard drives storing data and knowledge.

Drawing further influence from Italian and French horror cinema, Trees Speak explore cinematic tension throughout 'TimeFold', creating a layered listening experience. The record transports the listener from the haunting, desolate beauty of Southwestern desert vast landscapes to an auditory space that melds early electronic experimentation with the contemporary urgency of conceptual art.

Since their debut 'Ohms' in 2020, Trees Speak’s prolific output on Soul Jazz Records has continually redefined genre boundaries. TimeFold solidifies their position as visionaries in experimental music, offering an album that is as much a meditation on future technologies as it is a tribute to the avant-garde traditions that have come before.

TRACK LISTING

1. TimeFold
2. Prodrome
3. Digital Oracle
4. Emotion Engine
5. Phenomena
6. Psychic State
7. Xenoworld
8. Post Truth
9. Chronosphere
10. Among Us
11. Entity System
12. Cybernetics
13. They Know
14. Synchrotron
15. Dreamless
16. Silicon Visions
17. Forever Chemicals

Out of print for 15 years, Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Do It Yourself’ features a host of post punk, punk, punk funk / dance and electronic experimentation from UK bands in the late 1970s and 80s that all arrived in the aftermath of punk. As well as loads of great music, the album also charts the rise of the independent music industry in Britain that similarly thrived during this time.

Featuring classic groups such as The Buzzcocks, A Certain Ratio, The Fire Engines, Glaxo Babies and a host of lesser known, rare and obscure tracks and artists, this new 2024 edition comes as a special coloured double vinyl pressing, complete with deluxe gatefold sleeve with two unique inner sleeves.

This fully remastered album comes with extensive sleeve notes and photography as well as interviews with key behind-thescene players - including studios, cutting rooms, print works - that together bring a fantastic insight into the DIY music and culture of this period and the explosion in the independent music industry after punk.

TRACK LISTING

Buzzcocks - Boredom
Fire Engines - Everything's Roses
Glaxo Babies - Shake (The Foundations)
Patrick Fitzgerald - Babysitter
Russ McDonald - Looking From The Cooking Pot
Artery - The Slide
A Certain Ratio - Si Fermir O Grido
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna
APB - All Your Life With Me
Blurt - The Fish Needs A Bike
Icon A.D. - Fight For Peace
Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams (Part Two)
Krypton Tunes - Coming To See You
Windows - Creation Rebel
The Last Gang - Spirit Of Youth
Thomas Leer - Tight As A Drum
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon
Biting Tongues - You Can Choke Like That
Tom Lucy - Paris, France

Soul Jazz Records’ new collection, ‘Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89’, is a journey into the outer reaches of electro, a galactic roller-coaster ride of turbo-charged sci-fi grooveology.

The album is comprised of mainly private-press and independent label electro jams of the highest calibre (with some as rare as spaceships landing on Mars) all created in the 1980s, at a time when a vocoder, a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a groove was all that was needed to get the party started.

With a few notable exceptions (Michael Jonzun’s Jonzun Crew and The Packman) the album features mainly under-the-radar killer tracks from a host of one-off artists and back-room electronic pioneers – including Pretty Tony, Planet Detroit (James McCauley, aka Maggotron) and Rich Cason – who together helped shape the sound of electro across the USA from Miami to New York, Los Angeles and beyond during the 1980s. 

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rickie Clark Company - Time To Throw Down (6.32)
2. The Troids - Boogie Troids (5.49)
3. The Packman - I'm The Packman (6.37)
4. Pretty Tony - Fix It In The Mix (5.57)
5. Jazaq - All Systems Go (5.26)
6. Rich Cason - Killer Groove (4.07)
7. The Jonzun Crew - We Are The Jonzun Crew (6.24)
8. Ozone Layer - Planetary Deterioration (Electro Mix) (4.53)
9. Bill Williams And Bileo - Robot People (3.31)
10. Extra T's - E.T. Boogie (5.28)
11. Planet Detroit - Invasion From The Planet Detroit (4.21)
12. Professor X - Professor X (Saga) (4.24)
13. Mo-Jo - Jump, Stomp And Twist (Instrumental) (6.07)

Unavailable for over 20 years, ‘In The Beginning There Was Rhythm’ was Soul Jazz Records’ first foray into post-punk and punk-funk in the UK, capturing the groundbreaking, seminal groups that crossed the divide of punk and dance music for the first time.

First released in 2001, this album is fully remastered, remade and presented once more in its entirety and features A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, The Human League, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, The Slits, 23 Skidoo and This Heat.

This album comes as a CD and as a double black vinyl edition with download code complete with two bespoke inner bags containing extensive sleevenotes and original photography.

As Muzik magazine noted on its initial release, ‘In The Beginning There Was Rhythm’ is a choice selection from the fertile post-punk period when bands thought nothing of combining politics and philosophy with imported dance rhythms and edgy industrial angst.

Most of the bands featured come from the then bleak postindustrial North of England - Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds as well as Bristol and London - and yet all show a fascination with Black American rhythms and an experimentation in sound that was completely unique at the time.

TRACK LISTING

1. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up
2. 23 Skidoo - Coup
3. Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty
4. The Human League - Being Boiled
5. The Slits - In The Beginning There Was Rhythm (Early Version)
6. This Heat - 24 Track Loop
7. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
8. The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil
9. Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' Fer Jesus
10. 23 Skidoo - Vegas El Bandito
11. A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water

A superb 12” slab of rare South London British Jazz Funk, originally released in the UK in 1984 by Jamaican-born producer Tony Williams, the man behind the seminal Funk Masters’ jazz-funk masterpiece, ‘Love Money’.

Scratch’s ‘Keep On Searching For Love’ features the uplifting vocals of Linda Taylor (who had a successful solo career on Prelude Records) and was produced by Tony Williams for his Master- Funk label. Sounding like a mixture of rare groove anthems like Gwen McCrae’s ‘All This Love I’m Giving’, Linda Williams’ ‘Elevate Your Mind’ and The Emotions’ ‘Best of Your Love’, once again with a distinct South London 80s dancefloor attitude, making ‘Keep On Searching For Love’ a modern day soulful bullet.

The flipside instrumental, ‘Eastern Lady’, comes complete with hypnotic bassline, drum machines, synths and stabbing horn lines.

An absolutely essential 1980s Brit-Funk 12” tune, fully remastered from tapes, bespoke exact reprolabels, pressed on pristine vinyl and all housed in groovy Soul Jazz / Funk Masters house bag.

TRACK LISTING

1. Keep On Searching For Love
2. Eastern Lady

“I think if a nuclear family could have a soundtrack, ours would be the Soul Jazz comp ‘Studio One Scorcher’. I wouldn’t say it’s the best record ever made, but if I heard it every single day for the rest of my life, I’d be 100% cool with it.” - DJ

New one-off press transparent orange coloured triple vinyl edition (with download code) of Soul Jazz Records’ long unavailable ‘Studio One Scorcher’, featuring a blistering collection of rare and classic cuts recorded at Studio One.

‘Studio One Scorcher’ is one of the most important collections in Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Studio One’ series, bringing together an unmissable collection of stand-out cuts from many of the finest players ever in Jamaica and in reggae music.

Featuring The Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo, Tommy McCook, Cedric Brooks, Tommy McCook, The Sound Dimension, Don Drummond, Brentford Road All Stars and more. Heavy, heavy tunes from start to finish! All killer no filler! 

These tunes encompass ska, rocksteady, roots, dub and more. Studio One instrumentals are the foundation of reggae. They literally define reggae music. Many of these classic recordings became the basis for everything that followed in reggae music, replayed and versioned thousands of times. 

Here you will find Jackie Mittoo’s seminal ‘Sidewalk Doctor’, Don Drummond Jnr’s classic ‘Heavenless’, The Soul Vendors’ ‘Ringo Rock’ and the Sound Dimension’s ‘Heavy Rock’. All original artists and original classic tunes, all on one album. Not to mention a host of utterly superb rarities from the mighty vaults of Studio One.

TRACK LISTING

The Skatalites – Coconut Rock
Cedric Im Brooks & The Sound
Dimension – Mun-Dun-Go
Tommy Mccook, Richard Ace,
The Skatalites & Disco Height – Shockers Rock
Soul Vendors – Ringo Rock
Jackie Mittoo & Ernest Ranglin – Jericho Skank
New Establishment – The People Skanking
Karl Bryan & The Afrokats – Money Generator
Lester Sterling – Afrikaan Beat
Sound Dimension – Heavy Rock
Sugar Belly – In Cold Blood
Don Drummond & The Skatalites — Heavenless
Soul Bros. – Bugaloo
Vin Gordon – Red Blood
Pablove Black – Push Pull
Jackie Mittoo & Brentford Rockers – Sidewalk Doctor
Liberation Group – Namibia
Brentford Road All Stars – Last Call
Soul Defenders – Still Calling
Karl Bryan & Count Ossie – Black Up

Superb slice of super-rare electro funk grooviness originally released as a one-off small-run private press 12” single out of Ohio, USA in 1985.

Complete with vocoders, slap bass, drum machine, hand claps and space vocals, this electro boogie funk rarity is the jam.

This is a one-off pressing, exact reproduction single, remastered and restored by Soul Jazz Records, and is taken from Soul Jazz Records’ recent ‘Space Funk 2 - Afro-Futurist Electro Funk In Space 1976-84’ compilation.

This 12” comes in four-colour black and white original sleeve design and features both an extended and short version of ‘Music-A-Lizer’ plus two extra tracks, ‘World Of Ecstasy’ and ‘Computer’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Music-A-Lizer (Short Version)
2. World Of Ecstasy
3. Music-A-Lizer (Long Verson)
4. Computer

“Jackie Mittoo was one of the great names in Jamaican music, manning the keyboards for the Skatalites, the Soul Vendors, and Sound Dimension - three of the greatest house bands of the 60s (and I mean anywhere, not just in Jamaica).” - Pitchfork

New one-off press transparent green double vinyl edition of Soul Jazz Records’ classic Jackie Mittoo and The Soul Brothers ‘Last Train To Skaville’, featuring classic tracks recorded at Studio One.

Jackie Mittoo is one of the most important artists in the history of Jamaican music. As founding member of the legendary Skatalites, as in-house arranger / producer at Studio One and as a solo artist in his own right, leading groups such as The Soul Brothers, Sound Dimension and Soul Vendors.

These classic and rare recordings were made in the mid-1960s at Studio One. The Soul Brothers bridged the gap between Ska and the arrival of Rocksteady mixing it all up with Funk, Jazz and Latin styles.

The Soul Brothers recorded at Studio One between 1965-1967, the transitionary period between Ska and Rocksteady where the music was a mixture of Funk, Latin and Jazz sometimes with a reminder of Ska and the hint of Rocksteady.

The Soul Brothers were born in 1965 out of the ashes of the great Skatalites. The new group featured ex-Skatalites members Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso, Johnny Moore and Lloyd Brevitt. By the end of the year the group were up and running, releasing countless addictively catchy singles and two albums, as well as becoming the new house band at Studio One, following the demise of The Skatalites.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jackie Mittoo & The Soul Brothers – Train To Skaville
2. Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers – James Bond
3. The Soul Brothers – Voodoo Moon
4. The Soul Brothers – Ska Shuffle
5. Jackie Mittoo & The Soul Brothers – Take Ten
6. The Soul Brothers – Chicken And Booze
7. The Soul Brothers – Honey Pot
8. The Soul Brothers – Mr Flint
9. Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites – Dr Ring Ding
10. The Soul Brothers – Got My Boogaloo
11. Roland Alphonso & The Studio One Orchestra – From Russia With Love
12. Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers – Ska-Culation
13. Jackie Mittoo & The Soul Brothers – Home Made
14. Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers – Sufferer's Choice
15. The Soul Brothers – One Stop
16. The Soul Brothers – Hot And Cold

Soul Jazz Records’ seminal double LP release, Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King at Studio On’, now available on black vinyl.

From forming The Skatalites at age 15, alongside Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook and others, to his work as writer, arranger, producer at Studio One records during the Sixties, writing and playing for artists such as Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths and The Heptones (to name a few), to his career as a solo artist as well as leader of bands such as The Soul Brothers, Soul Vendors and The Sound Dimension, Jackie Mittoo is at the heart of reggae music. He was one of the instigators of Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. In the Seventies, DJ music and Dancehall were based upon classic rhythms of the sixties, many using the instrumental tracks that Jackie Mittoo created at Studio One at this time.

This compilation features the work of Jackie Mittoo at Studio One. It features music recorded as a solo artist (as opposed to the numerous singers that he accompanied). Most of these are taken from his recordings in the mid- Sixties where he was recording on an almost daily basis at Studio One’s Brentford Road studios, developing the funky reggae sound that was his trademark.

Jackie Mittoo is as much an icon of Reggae as he is to fans of Funk music. He is without doubt the funkiest keyboard player ever to come out of Jamaica.

TRACK LISTING

1. Get It Up And Get It
2. Black Organ
3. Stereo Freeze
4. Totally Together
5. Hot Tamale
6. Reggae Rock
7. Oboe
8. Juice Box
9. Summer Breeze
10. P. Cafe
11. Henry The Great
12. Killer Diller
13. Wall Street
14. Darker Shade Of Black

Delta Swamp Rock is an interstate southern road-trip through the United States of America where country, rock and soul met at the crossroads - an exploration of the musical and cultural links between the cities of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Nashville in the 1960s and 70s.

At the start of the 1970s, a new type of music emerged out of the southern states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida. Southern rock, the creation of young blue-collar white Americans, blended rock, soul, country and blues music together to present a new vision of the south – a post-civil rights southern identity complete with a celebration of the regions natural landscape and its way of life.

The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd epitomised the definitive southern rock groups – a mixture of blues-rock and country with a southern rebelliousness and attitude. Unfortunately both The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd were to be struck by tragedy, which would affect the movement’s rise and fall.

The backstory to southern rock is the fact that a number of the people involved in its creation had been central to the production of southern soul music in the 1960s mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, and the small town of Muscle Shoals (population around 10,000) deep within the bible-belt, liquor-free, deeply segregated state of Alabama, creating 100s of R&B hits on an almost daily basis.

Here in Muscle Shoals, with its proximity to Memphis and Nashville, an all-white group of in-house musicians, (famously referred to by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ as the ‘Swampers’), created countless classic soul records for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Clarence Carter and more during the 1960s.

This album charts the rise and fall of southern rock from its funky swamp roots in southern soul to its phenomenal success in the first-half of the 1970s, including its influence on Nashville’s ‘outlaw’ country and tracing it right back to the arrival of rock and roll in the 1950s - the first meeting of black and white American music at the crossroads.

TRACK LISTING

A
1. Lynyrd Skynyrd – The Seasons (4.09)
2. Barefoot Jerry – Smokies (2.14)
3. Joe South – Hush (3.47)
4. Bobbie Gentry – Papa, Won’t You Let Me Go To Town With You (2.34)
5. Area Code 615 – Stone Fox Chase (3.17)
6. Cher – I Walk On Guilded Splinters (2.32)
B
1. Cowboy – Please Be With Me (3.48)
2. The Allman Brothers – Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More (3.40)
3. Link Wray – Be What You Want To (4.29)
4. Boz Scaggs – I’ll Be Long Gone (4.08)
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Comin’ Home (5.29)

C
1. Bobbie Gentry – Seasons Come, Seasons Go (2.52)
2. Leon Russell – Out In The Woods (3.37)
3. Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie (3.42)
4. Barefoot Jerry – Come To Me Tonight (4.43)
5. Dan Penn – If Love Was Money (3.29)
6. Linda Ronstadt – I Won’t Be Hangin’ ‘Round (2.59)

D
1. Waylon Jennings – Big D (2.30)
2. Big Star – Thirteen (2.37)
3. Bobbie Gentry – Mississippi Delta (3.06)
4. Travis Wammack – I Forgot To Remember To Forget (2.54)
5. Johnny Cash & June Carter – If I Were A Carpenter (3.01)
6. Billy Vera – I’m Leavin’ Here Tomorrow, Mama (

All time party Studio One dancehall tune from the legendary Lone Ranger, guaranteed to make people dance. Monster, monster tune! 100% essential!

Yo! Boombox is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ Boombox series on the early days of hip-hop on vinyl and features some of the many innovative underground first-wave of early rap and disco rap records made in the USA in the period 1979-83.

The album includes the first releases of seminal groups such as Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and The Funky Four Plus One More through to a host of rarities and little-known obscurities such as the Carver Area High School band’s ‘Get Live 83’, an awesome record made at a Chicago high school.

The album is released as a deluxe triple LP complete with 3x full inner sleeves of extensive sleeve notes, exclusive photography and original label artwork. There is also a very-limited one-pressing only special deluxe version that comes with an extra bonus super-rare 7” single of ‘Magic’s Rap’ by Magic’s Trick, aka ex-marine Magic Fraga, a record that was only ever available on US military bases! The album also comes as a deluxe double CD pack with 30-page booklet and slipcase.

Yo! Boombox also features the stunning photography of Sophie Bramly, one of a very select group of photographers (alongside Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, and Joe Conzo) who were allowed full access to document the exciting early days of hip-hop in New York.

These first exuberant wave of innocent, upbeat, party-on-the-block rap records were the first to try and create the sounds heard in community centres, block parties and street jams that first took place in the Bronx in the mid-1970s. Where the first DJs – Flash, Kool Herc and Bambaataa – were back-spinning, mixing and scratching together now classic breakbeat records like The Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache or Babe Ruth’s The Mexican, these first pre-sampling rap records were all made using live bands, often replaying then current disco tunes. As Chic’s ‘Good Times’ was to ‘Rappers’ Delight’, the songs here feature then-current dancefloor hits such as the Tom Tom Club’s ‘Genius of Love’, Cheryl Lynn’s ‘To Be Real’, MFSB’s ‘Love Is the Message’ while MCs rapped over the top, creating a unique new sound. In fact, the links between disco and rap date back earlier to the ‘party style’ MCing of figures such as the legendary DJ Hollywood or radio DJs like Frankie Crocker.

This new Soul Jazz Records collection celebrates these first old-school rap records, bringing together rare, classic and obscure tracks released in the early days of rap.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. The Carver Area High School Seniors - Get Live '83 (7.43)
2. Mike T - Do It Any Way You Wanna (6.53)
Side B:
1. Chapter III - Real Rocking Groove (Rap & Breaks) (6.34)
2. Sinister Two - Rock It, Don't Stop It (7.59)
Side C:
1. Sangria - To The Beat Y'all (5.18)
2. Funky Four Plus One More - Rappin' And Rocking The House (6.54)
3. The Just Four - Girls Of The World (Genius Rap & Breaks) (7.07)
Side D:
1. Eye Beta Rock - Super Rock Body Shock (8.42)
2. Funky Constellation - Street Talk (Madam Rapper) (9.49)
Side E:
1. Kool Kyle The Starchild - Do You Like That Funky Beat (Ahh Beat, Beat) (8.38)
2. The Just Four - Jam To Remember (6.56)
Side F:
1. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Super Rappin' No. 2 (7.18)
2. Silver Star - Eei Eei O (7.16)

7" Single (comes With LP Format SJRLP530-7 Only)
A. Magic's Trick - Magic's Rap (4.19) MONO VERSION
AA. Magic's Trick - Magic's Rap (4.19) STEREO VERSION

CD Tracklisting:
CD1
1. The Carver Area High School Seniors - Get Live '83 (The Senior Rap) (7.43)
2. Mike T - Do It Any Way You Wanna (6.53) Click At 0.43
3. Chapter III - Real Rocking Groove (Rap & Breaks) (6.34)
4. Sinister Two - Rock It, Don't Stop It (7.59)
5. Sangria - To The Beat Y'all (5.18)
6. Funky Four Plus One More - Rappin' And Rocking The House (6.54)
7. The Just Four - Girls Of The World (Genius Rap & Breaks) (7.07)
CD2
1. Eye Beta Rock - Super Rock Body Shock (8.42)
2. Funky Constellation - Street Talk (Madam Rapper) (9.49)
3. Kool Kyle The Starchild - Do You Like That Funky Beat (Ahh Beat, Beat) (8.38)
4. The Just Four - Jam To Remember (6.56)
5. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Super Rappin' No. 2 (7.18)
6. Silver Star - Eei Eei O (7.16)
7. Magic's Trick - Magic's Rap (4.19)

Unbelievably killer and super, super heavy brand new Psychedelic Rock/Krautrock album coming out of nowhere from the group Brown Spirits, new on Soul Jazz Records!

Brown Spirits are from Melbourne, Australia. Their stripped down and tight musical unit is a trio (think Cream or Hendrix!) of raw bass, drums and shared guitar/keyboards meets the D-I-Y attitude and punk/post-punk intensity giving them a unique hi-octane sound.

With a range of influences that range from Neu! to Soft Machine, Gang of Four, Miles Davis, Hendrix, Argent, Lonnie Liston Smith, King Crimson and beyond, their powerfully progressive hard and hypnotic sound is truly unforgettable.

After two exclusive 100-pressing white label 45s sold out in less 30-mins, Soul Jazz Records are now releasing this their first album for the label.

Like their labelmates Trees Speak, Brown Spirits have a love all things Krautrock - mixed with an overwhelmingly powerful lo-fi psych and punk attitude. The album features super heavy and raw drums, tough basslines, heavy fuzzed-out wah and psyche guitar and analog moog synthesizers, all recorded on analogue ¼ inch tape.

In short – they rock!

TRACK LISTING

1. Repeat Transmission
2. Space Race
3. Dead End Exits
4. Ode To Dorothy
5. Seven 8ths Of Madness
6. Solar Kollektiv
7. Who’s At The Door

Michigan and Smiley’s all-time Studio One anthem,the latest in the series of all-time classic Studio One party bombs available on super loud 12”. Michigan and Smiley’s ‘Nice Up the Dance’ issimply one of the biggest, wickedest dancehalltunes ever made.

Originally released in 1979, Michigan and Smiley’sclassic rhyming over the seminal ‘Real Rock’ has proved one of the most enduring tunes in reggaeever. 100% essential monster tunes that rock anydancefloor.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Soul Jazz return to their loud-cut 12" classics series, giving another run to the dancehall staple, "Nice Up The Dance". You know the riddim - but doubt you'll have heard it this crisp n bassy! Update your scratchy 7" with this full fidelity 12" version! Niiiice up!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Nice Up The Dance
B1. Michigan & Smiley & Sound Dimension - Nice Up The Dance (version)

Hieroglyphic Being’s third solo album on Soul Jazz Records, a resolute and powerful statement of Jamal Moss’s raw, vital, pioneering, Afro-Futurist electronic (dance) music.

On his new album, Moss once again draws upon the vast scope of experimentation that has defined Chicago’s musical universe over the last half a century - from the birth of house music with the pioneers Ron Hardy, Marshall Jefferson, Lil Louis and others to the radical avant-garde jazz legacy of the city, The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra.

Chicago’s musical universe continues to push-further forward today with artists such as Hieroglyphic Being, Angel Bat Dawid, Makaya McCraven, and labels such as International Anthem and Hieroglyphic Being’s own Mathematics, all continuing to explore radical new music while drawing upon the city’s decidedly Afro-futurist lineage.

Jamal Moss remains at all-times a radical one-off musical explorer, a resolute pioneer of an avant-garde dance music aesthetic taking lineage from the founding fathers of acid house such as Ron Hardy and Adonis, and pushing the musical form to its own limits, adding his own harder almost industrial edge to this unique sound, which Moss sometimes describes as ‘Outsider House’ or, referencing the earlier avant-garde musical resident and pioneer, Sun Ra, ‘Rhythmic Cubism’ and ‘Cosmic Be-Bop’.

Hieroglyphic Being’s music crosses many boundaries and has led to remixes of a wide and diverse list of artists, from St Vincent to Hans-Joachim Roedelius (the pioneering German electronic composer and member of Cluster), King Gizzard and the Lizard Gizzard to Adonis and many more. In similar fashion, his music has appeared on Ghostly / Spectral, Warp, Ninja, Axis and his own Mathematics Recordings.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Our favourite sonic shaman returns! For new devotees expect - emotive acid, pointillist drum workouts, fried electrics, warped atmospheres and a total merger of machine and mind - taking cues from jazz, industrial and house music along the way. There's no-one else like him, yet he somehow manages to reflect 30+ years of dance music experimentation back at us through his own interplanetary lens. A feast for the ears, one of his best for a while - both a wonderful entry point for newcomers and a completely essential purchase for his existing cult fanbase.

TRACK LISTING

1.  Communion Of The Highest Order
2.  We Are The Light Vessels
3.  When Situations Get 2 Deep
4.  Look Over There 9 O'Clock
5.  Beyond The Outrage
6.  Frantic Moments
7.  Mephisto's Pulpit Of Stank
8.  Deconstructing The Path
9.  Nights Under The Nubian Sky
10.  Dark Acidic Organs From The Void
11.  Private Runner
12.  Let Me Know How U Really Feel
13.  There Is No Acid In This House (Just Emotions Remix)
14.  Dogs Don't Wear Pants

This new release is a vast leap into an ocean of space and sound, a quantum leap into cybernetics, biology, anti-gravity, time travel, dream speech and transfiguration. A seriously next step release! Showing no signs of slowing down their rapid creative pace – incredibly this is their fourth album in the space of just over one year – ‘Vertigo of Flaws’ is a mighty 29 tracks, one and a half hours of music across one double album that is surely going to be a defining point in their musical career, a giant leap into the sonic unknown, an epic exploration of intensity and sound.

Alongside their now trademark German krautrock motoric-beat rhythms, angular New York post-punk attitude, trippedout 60s spy soundtrack, psyche-rock, and 70s synthesizers and vocoders, here you will also hear a new cosmic spacial awareness (both personal inner space and galactic outer space) and a truly wilful pushing of sonic boundaries - as police sirens, static noise, alarms, radio signals, avant-garde voices, and orchestral string quartets, all collide to add beautiful dissonance to uber-powerful, intense, addictive and propulsive rhythms - in the process creating a truly unique soundscape that Trees Speak have made wholly their own.

If you ever wanted to hear Can, Hawkwind, Destroy All Monsters, Pere Ubu, electric eels, John Cage, Liquid Liquid, Tangerine Dream, Suicide, Neu!, Laurie Spiegel, Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Barry, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company, Sun Ra, Stockhausen, John Carpenter, Electro-Acoustic and Musique Concrete and Mars in one band - then this is it! Trees Speak are Daniel Martin Diaz and Damian Diaz from Tucson, Arizona and their music often draws on the cosmic night-time magic of Arizona’s natural desert landscapes.

‘Trees Speak’ relates to the idea of future technologies storing information and data in trees and plants - using them as hard drives - and the idea that Trees communicate collectively. Special guests from the hyper-creative hub of the Tucson music scene on this release are Gabriel Sullivan, Ben Nisbet, Saul Millan, Stephani Guilmette, and Davis Jones. The album Vertigo of Flaws was recorded in Brooklyn, New York, and Tucson, Arizona during the plague of 2021.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Ridiculously prolific Arizona natives Trees Speak come out with their 4th album in just over a year, and it has all of the cosmic heft and swooning arpeggiated bliss of the previous (very well regarded) LP's. This time though, we get a little more grit, turning otherwise upbeat pieces into slightly more avant-ambient-jazz territory. A sound all of their own, but one they do perfectly.

TRACK LISTING

1. Seventh Mirror (3.23)
2. Cybernetic Dreams (4.07)
3. Interference (3.40)
4. Computer Garden (0.46)
5. Pyramid (2.34)
6. Halide Crystals (2.08)
7. Integratron (4.20)
8. Imaginary Forces (3.26)
9. Phantom LFO (3.13)
10. Opticks (2.56)
11. Mannequin (2.17)
12. Mind In Light (3.10)
13. Palantír (1.28)
14. Vertigo Of Flaws (3.15)
15. Exit Syndrome (1.11)
16. Stasi (5.35)
17. Atomic Voyage (3.11)
18. Ultraviolet (2.51)
19. Violence Cascades (3.27)
20. Traumsprache (3.51)
21. Zeitgeber (2.04)
22. Prism (3.03)
23. Threnody (2.56)
24. Mind Oscillation (3.19)
25. Hidden Machine (3.00)
26. Transhuman (1.01)
27. Ionization (3.12)
28. Cloud Chamber (3.16)
29. Harmonic Oscillator (1.19)

Limited Bonus 7” (LP Format Only)

A. Transfiguration (3.34)
B. Urzeit (2.37)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2021 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY JULY 17TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 6PM ON THE SAME DAY (SATURDAY JULY 17TH).

This album is released as a special one-off exclusive blue double vinyl edition for Record Store Day 2021. Out of print for nearly 15 years, this album was recorded at the start of the long-relationship between Kieran Hebden and drummer extraordinaire Steve Reid. Soul Jazz Records had begun to release Reidís music in 2000, reissuing much of his early catalogue of radical, deep and spiritual jazz music from the 1970s when an encounter between electronic music pioneer Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid effectively launched a new career for jazz drummer Reid - a man steeped in history having played with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Motown and much more.

Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid released a set of ground-breaking albums together in London, New York and Africa (including four on Domino Records) and continued to work together up until Steve Reid died in 2010. This album launched the start of this new connection between the two very different and yet connected artists  a mixture of electronic and jazz sensibilities like no other. The album Spirit Walk contains an updated version of Reidís seminal Lions of Judah (originally released on Reidís classic Nova in 1976), For Coltrane, and the stunning and epic 15-min Drum Song. The album comes with complete original artwork, including innersleeves (featuring an interview with Steve Reid by Gilles Peterson).

TRACK LISTING

A 1. Lugano (7.02) 2. Bridget (5.49) 3. For Coltrane (8.03)
B 1. Blind Tom (1.23) 2. Which One? (6:43) 3. Lions Of Juda (8.26)
C 1. It Cannot Be True (6.04) 2. Unity (9:10)
D 1. Drum Story (14.29)

Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Cold Wave’ is a collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s.

This is the first release of Soul Jazz Records’ new Cold Wave overview and a second volume will follow.

These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn DIY aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.

Aside from the first electronic, no wave and post-punk artists cited as influences – Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image – this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to new beat and more besides.

Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor, Dissemblance and VQOA from France, De Ambassade from the Netherlands, Moisture from Sweden, Kreidler from Germany, Céline Gillian and Carcass Identity from Belgium. One exception is FIT Siegel out of Detroit, connecting the electronic pathways of Europe to the Motor City.

All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.

This first edition of ‘Cold Wave’ comes in two vinyl editions – a one-off pressing orange coloured vinyl edition and a black vinyl edition. Both come as heavyweight double vinyl housed in bespoke individual inner sleeves and the first pressing of this album comes with its own free pullout fanzine on the groups featured. The CD edition comes with artist booklet / fanzine and slipcase. All editions are printed in special dayglo colour finish.

STAFF COMMENTS

Patrick says: Not content with rocking our Piccadilly socks with the angular energy of their contemporary post punk round up, Soul Jazz now take a tour through the modern age of Cold Wave, picking out former Piccadilly records of the week from Krikor, Wang Inc., De Ambassade, Celine Gillain and Krikor. As a result, this whole comp comes most highly recommended from your favourite vinyl hustlers.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dissemblance – Capture
2. Carcass Identity – Reflexion Ocean
3. FIT Siegel – Wayne County Stomp
4. De Ambassade – Standhouden
5. Wang Inc. – Approdo
6. Krikor Kouchian – Niños Matadores
7. Céline Gillain – Fight Or Flight
8. Kreidler – Kannibal
9. Moisture – Gammut
10. Violent Quand On Aime – Of Course I’m A Liar

This is incredibly Trees Speak’s third album on Soul Jazz Records released in the space of one year – and it’s amazing! Trees Speak’s new album Post-Human once again blends 1970s German electronic and ‘motorik’ Krautrock instrumentals (think Harmonia, Can, Cluster, Popul Vuh, Neu!), haunting and powerful 1960s and 1970s soundtracks (think Italian prog-rock Goblin and John Carpenter horror movies, Morricone and existential John Barry spy movies), together with a New York No Wave electronic synth and guitar analogue DIY-ness (think Suicide, anything on Soul Jazz’s New York Noise series or Eno's New York No Wave)!

The new album Post-Human draws further upon German krautrock high-concept albums from the likes of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze from the 1970s, as Trees Speak create their own powerful new landscapes of sound that manage to be at once contemporary as well as both timeless and with a sense of science-fiction futurism. Trees Speak’ seamlessly segue together all these musical elements into Post-Human, a conceptually expansive album which follows on from their critically-acclaimed debut LP Ohms, and the follow-up Shadow Forms released on Soul Jazz Records less than six months ago. This powerful new album is a high-concept collage of retro-futurist science-fiction music, which is fantastically illustrated by a specially commissioned cover design by the artist Eric Lee, a dramatic vision of life after humanity. Trees Speak are Daniel Martin Diaz and Damian Diaz from Tucson, Arizona and their music often draws on the cosmic night-time magic of Arizona’s natural desert landscapes. ‘Trees Speak’ relates to the idea of future technologies storing information and data in trees and plants - using them as hard drives – and the idea that Trees communicate collectively.

With Post-Human, Trees Speak take the listener deep into their unique musical world of unknown visions of the past and the future.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Trees Speak manage to forge the most intricate, spacey German inspired electronica I've heard in a long time. With echoes of Neu and Harmonia, but with a more languid, dusty folk influence. It's a heady and intoxicating combination and PostHuman is a great development of their tried and tested formula. Really lovely stuff.

TRACK LISTING

1. Double Slit
2. Glass
3. Chamber Of Frequencies
4. Divided Light
5. Elements Of Matter
6. Magic Transistor
7. Scheinwelt
8. PostHuman
9. Synthesis
10. X Zeit
11. Incandescent Sun
12. Healing Rods
13. Steckdose
14. Amnesia Transmitter
15. Quantize Humanize
16. Gläserner Mensch

First in a brand-new series of all-time Studio One party bombs which is now available for the first time ever on loud 12”. Marcia Griffiths’ "Feel Like Jumping" is a stone cold classic, one of the best reggae songs ever made.100% essential monster tune that rocks any dancefloor!

TRACK LISTING

1. Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping
2. Dub Specialist - Feel Like Jumping Part 2

Love Record Stores Edition available from 9am on Saturday June 20th.
Limited to one per person.

Here is our 2nd Killer New Orleans Funk £200+ Bomb!

Featuring Inell Young's searing vocal performance

+ James Black's seriously awesome drumming

+ Eddie Bo arrangement and production!

100% Essential!