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Dedication - Black Friday 2024 Edition

    THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29TH 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 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30TH).

    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

    TimeFold

      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

      Various Artists

      D-I-Y: Do-It-Yourself - Punk, Post Punk, Punk Funk & Beyond - 2024 Reissue

        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

        Various Artists

        Soul Jazz Records Presents: STUDIO ONE POWER MIX!

          Brand new collection of Studio One killer tunes, focussing on the late 70s, 80s and beyond.

          Since the early 1960s Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had established Studio One as the unparalleled leader in reggae music in the world. In the years that followed he established the careers of countless reggae legends – Bob Marley & The Wailers, Marcia Griffiths, The Skatalites, Horace Andy, Dennis Brown, Burning Spear and many more.

          From its inception Studio One had been at the forefront of every major development in reggae music – ska, rocksteady, roots, DJ, dub and, starting in the second half of the 1970s, dancehall.

          Having attained such great success, by the late 1970s Clement Dodd was free to enjoy Studio One’s now firmly established supremacy in reggae music. He released a series of stunning new albums at the end of the decade by Sugar Minott, Johnny Osbourne, Freddie McGregor, and others that rode the wave of dancehall and set the path of Studio One’s output for the following 25 years.

          During this period, long-established artists such as Alton Ellis, Jackie Mittoo and others returned to the label, recording some of their most creatively satisfying albums with new music that both celebrated the classic sound of Studio One while continuing to experiment, push boundaries and look forward to the future.

          This release celebrates this sometimes-overlooked golden era at Studio One in the 1970s,1980s and beyond.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Otis Gayle - What You Won’t Do For Love
          2. Earl Sixteen - Love Is A Feeling
          3. Alton Ellis - Back To Africa
          4. Prince Jazzbo - Apollo 16
          5. Johnny Osbourne - Eternal Peace
          6. Errol Dunkley - Don’t Do It
          7. Omega - Bounty Hunter
          8. Noel Bailey And Sound Dimension - Wiggles Diggles
          9. Freddie McGregor - I Am Ready
          10. Prince Jazzbo - Imperial I
          11. Jackie Mittoo - Lovers Rock
          12. Devon Russell - Swing And Dine
          13. Sugar Minott - Guidance
          14. Dolly Man - Trigger Happy
          15. Nana McLean - A Little Love
          16. Tyrone Taylor - Rightful Rebel
          17. Wailing Souls - All Alone
          18. Sugar Minott - Revelation

          Various Artists

          Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack On Planet Earth 1982-89

            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)

            Various Artists

            Miami Sound 2 - More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-74

              Soul Jazz Records’ new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in Miami, Florida.

              Throughout the 1970s founder Henry Stone’s TK Records rose up to be one of the most important forces in black music, successfully pioneering the evolution in musical fashions from the early gritty funk and soul at the start of the decade to the arrival of disco in the mid-70s.

              This album is a rollercoaster journey across soul, funk, disco and boogie, a party-rocking dancefloor-filling collection of monster tracks that includes million-selling hits such as Betty Wright’s classic ‘Clean Up Woman’, Timmy Thomas’s ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’, T-Connection’s ‘Do What You Wanna Do’, anthemic rare groove club hits including Gwen McCrae’s massive ‘All This Love I’m Giving’ and Milton Wright’s ‘Keep It Up’, plus a host of hard-to-find gems and rarities from the likes of Raw Soul Express, Chocolate Clay, Beginning of the End, Robert Moore, Clarence Reid, Little Beaver, Paulette Reeves and many more.

              TK Records functioned more like a close-knit family than a typical record company. Based in the industrial Hialeah district of Miami, music man Henry Stone surrounded himself with a host of creative artists, musicians, songwriters and producers who created an immediately identifiable TK sound as well as making musical stars out of many of its artists.

              Miami Sound 2 comes with extensive sleevenotes as well as an exclusive interview with Steve Alaimo, co-founder with Henry Stone of this musical empire. The album also features the photography of TK in-house photographer Larry Warmoth, whose rarely seen striking and unique images of Gwen McRae, Betty Wright, Clarence Reid and others offer a fascinating window into the pioneering record company. 

              TRACK LISTING

              Side A
              1. Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman (2.45)
              2. Miami - Party Freaks (5.18)
              3. Gwen McCrae - All This Love That I'm Giving (3.55)
              4. Beginning Of The End - Monkey Tamarind (3.35)
              5. Latimore - I Get Lifted (4.43)

              Side B
              1. Raw Soul Express - Burn The Candle (2.36)
              2. Chocolateclay - Free (I'll Always Be) (4.38)
              3. Betty Wright - I Love The Way You Love (3.03)
              4. Little Beaver - Concrete Jungle (4.53)
              5. Jimmy 'Bo' Horne - Clean Up Man (2.34)

              Side C
              1. Timmy Thomas - Africano (4.33)
              2. Charles Allen - Winterman (3.16)
              3. T-Connection - Do What Ya Wanna Do (7.03)
              4. Robert Moore - Jimmie Bo Charlie (2.14)
              5. Milton Wright - Keep It Up (4.11)

              Side D
              1. Clarence Reid - Ten Tons Of Dynamite (2.33)
              2. Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together (4.37)
              3. Little Beaver - We Three (4.07)
              4. Paulette Reaves - Do It Again (5.33)
              5. Lynn Williams - Kisses, Kisses, Kisses (2.22) 

              Various Artists

              Delta Swamp Rock - Sounds From The South: At The Crossroads Of Rock, Country And Soul - 2024 Reissue

                Soul Jazz Records’ classic, ‘Delta Swamp Rock’, features a killer all-star line-up of seminal artists who first blended rock, soul and country together to create a stunning new sound of southern American music in the 1970s.

                Featuring the Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Link Wray, Area Code 615 and loads more.

                This album comes as a classic black vinyl edition complete with extensive original sleevenotes, interviews and exclusive photography, all spread over a 12-page fullsize magazine and two bespoke inner sleeves.

                ‘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

                1. Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Seasons
                2. Barefoot Jerry - Smokies
                3. Joe South - Hush
                4. Bobbie Gentry - Papa, Won’t You Let Me Go To Town With You
                5. Area Code 615 - Stone Fox Chase
                6. Cher - I Walk On Guilded Splinters
                7. Cowboy - Please Be With Me
                8. The Allman Brothers - Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More
                9. Link Wray - Be What You Want To
                10. Boz Scaggs - I’ll Be Long Gone
                11. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Comin’ Home
                12. Bobbie Gentry - Seasons Come, Seasons Go
                13. Leon Russell - Out In The Woods
                14. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
                15. Barefoot Jerry - Come To Me Tonight
                16. Dan Penn - If Love Was Money
                17. Linda Ronstadt - I Won’t Be Hangin’ ‘Round
                18. Waylon Jennings - Big D
                19. Big Star - Thirteen
                20. Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi Delta
                21. Travis Wammack - I Forgot To Remember To Forget
                22. Johnny Cash & June Carter - If I Were A Carpenter
                23. Billy Vera - I’m Leavin’ Here Tomorrow, Mama

                Various Artists

                Soul Jazz Records Presents: In The Beginning There Was Rhythm - 2024 Reissue

                  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

                  Various Artists

                  Soul Jazz Records Presents PUNK 45: Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! - The American Nation Destroys Its Young: Underground Punk In The United States Of America, 1973-1980 (RSD24 EDITION)

                    THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH 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 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.


                    Soul Jazz Records’ new 10th anniversary one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition orange coloured vinyl pressing (+ download code) exclusively for Record Store Day 2024 of their long out of print ‘Punk 45: Kill the Hippies! Kill Yourself!’

                    Soul Jazz Records’ debut ‘Punk 45’ album charts the rise of underground punk across the United States of America in the years 1973-1980.

                    This album is fully remastered, relicensed with new tracks exclusively for RSD 24 and includes new tracks from Iggy & The Stooges, Nervous Eaters, Angry Samoans and more.

                    The ‘Punk 45’ album features a collection of seminal, classic, obscure and rare punk and proto-punk 45 singles from the likes of Electric Eels, The Pagans, The Deadbeats, The Randoms, The Lewd and many more – a lightning-rod journey across the states of America: Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Akron, New Orleans, Philadelphia – tracing the rise of punk music in these various towns and cities.

                    The album comes complete with extensive text, biographies on each of the bands, exclusive photos and original record artwork.

                    Various Artists

                    Soul Jazz Records Presents STUDIO ONE RUDE BOY (RSD24 EDITION)

                      THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH 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 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.

                      Soul Jazz Records’ new 18th anniversary one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition red and cyan coloured vinyl pressing (+ download code) exclusively for Record Store Day 2024 of their long out of print classic release ‘Studio One Rude Boy’. This album is fully remastered and relicensed for RSD 24.

                      From the early days of Bob Marley and The Wailers (whose striking sharp-suited Rude Boy style appears on the front cover) through to the classic 1970s Jamaican films ‘The Harder They Come’ and ‘Rockers’, Rude Boys have been synonymous with Jamaican Reggae culture.

                      This Jamaican Rude Boy anti-establishment attitude and stylish attire was later adopted by bands such as The Clash (in the film Rude Boy) as well as The Specials, Madness, Selector and others in the Two-Tone era that swept across the UK at the end of the 1970s.

                      The album features classic tracks from Studio One featuring Jamaica’s finest singers and groups such as The Wailers, John Holt, the Wailing Souls and Dennis Brown alongside super-rare hard-to-find tracks from artists such as Mr Foundation, Dudley Sibley and Jim Brown.

                      Driving Ska and Rocksteady rhythms, classic singers, killer horn lines, great Rude Boy themed-songs, all recorded under Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s supervision at the legendary Studio One.

                      With musical backing comes from the legendary in-house bands – The Skatalites, The Sound Dimension, Soul Vendors and Soul Defenders – this is rightly one of the most in-demand Studio One releases that Soul Jazz Records have ever released.

                      Various Artists

                      Soul Jazz Records Presents 300% DYNAMITE! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk And Dub In Jamaica (RSD24 EDITION)

                        THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH 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 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.

                        Special new 25th anniversary edition of this most popular and highly-acclaimed of all Soul Jazz Records' Dynamite! series - 300% Dynamite is jam-packed with reggae tunes that crossedover to become dancefloor hits and are 100% guaranteed to rock any party.

                        Out of print for the last 15 years, this new edition is being released in a one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition yellow coloured vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Record Store Day 2024.

                        This album is fully remastered, relicensed and with new tracks exclusively for RSD 24.

                        Wayne Smith's booming anthem ‘Sleng Teng’, Althea & Donna's worldwide hit 'Uptown Top Ranking', Sister Nancy's classic ‘Bam Bam’, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry - it's all here as ‘300% Dynamite’ joins the dots between reggae, jazz, funk, dub and soul.

                        Nat King Cool & The Cool Runners

                        Checking Out - 2024 Reissue

                          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’.

                          Nat King Cool’s stunning in-demand one-off single release ‘Checking Out’ sounds like a blend of MFSB’s ‘Mysteries of the World’ meets UK Brit- Funk, complete with very cool flip-side instrumental. Originally released on the tiny Tai Wan label, this track sounds fresh.

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

                          TRACK LISTING

                          1. Checking Out
                          2. Checking Out (Instrumental)

                          Various Artists

                          Soul Jazz Records Presents PUNK 45: There’s No Such Thing As Society - 10th Anniversary Edition

                            Soul Jazz Records’ new 10th anniversary edition of their long-out-of-print Punk 45: No Such Thing As Society. This is a one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition coloured vinyl pressing and download code.

                            The album charts the rise of underground punk and post-punk in the UK from 1977-81.

                            This new edition is fully remastered, repackaged and includes five new tracks from 23 Skidoo, Notsensibles, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Astronauts and The Impossible Dreamers.

                            The album is a collection of seminal, classic, obscure and rare punk and post-punk singles from the likes of The Mekons, Johnny Moped, The Killjoys, The Rings and many more which all chart the rise of independent music and Do It Yourself culture that exploded in the wake of punk and during the years of Britain under Margaret Thatcher.

                            The album comes complete with text, biographies on each of the bands, exclusive photos and original record artwork. Limited-edition super-loud, super-heavy double gatefold-sleeve vinyl edition complete with full sleeve-notes plus download.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            1. The Users - Sick Of You
                            2. Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
                            3. The Astronauts - Everything Stops For Baby
                            4. Pretty Boy Floyd And The Gems -
                            5. Rough, Tough, Pretty Too
                            6. 23 Skidoo - Last Words
                            7. Notsensibles - I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher
                            8. The Rings - I Wanna Be Free
                            9. The Now - Development Corporations
                            10. The Killjoys - Johnny Won't Get To Heaven
                            11. The Impossible Dreamers - Spin
                            12. The Lines - White Night
                            13. 'O' Level - East Sheen
                            14. The Jermz - Power Cut
                            15. Roses Are Red - Can't Understand
                            16. Eric Random - 23 Skidoo
                            17. The Nerves - TV Adverts
                            18. The Mekons - 32 Weeks
                            19. The Freeze - For J.P.S. (With Love And Loathing)
                            20. The Scabs - Leave Me Alone
                            21. The Cravats - You're Driving Me
                            22. The Shapes - Wot's For Lunch Mum?
                            23. The Cigarettes - They're Back Again, Here They Come
                            24. Disturbed - I Don't Believe
                            25. Puncture - Mucky Pup
                            26. Josef K - Radio Drill Time

                            Ripple

                            Ripple (Black Friday 23 Edition)

                              THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH 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 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).


                              Seminal rare groove funk and deep soul album originally released in 1973 on GRC Records now released 50 years later on Soul Jazz Records in this fully remastered edition of this CLASSIC album especially for RSD/Black Friday.

                              The album ‘Ripple’ contains the all-time classic ‘I Don’t know What It Is, But It Sure Is Funky’, one of the most memorable funk tunes of all time and sampled many times over.

                              Ripple’s unique blend of funk, soul, rock, proto-disco and more stood them alongside groups like Funkadelic, Brass Construction, Mandrill, Pleasure, Kool and the Gang and The Blackbyrds, who were all blending these styles while remaining firmly focused on the dancefloor. Like the group Funkadelic, Ripple hailed from Michigan and in 1976 opened for the group on their Parliament/Funkadelic Mothership Connection tour.

                              This classic album has been out of print for nearly 30 years on vinyl and is now fully remastered and presented here in its original artwork

                              Limited to 500 copies for the UK & Ireland.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1. You Were Right On Time
                              2. Be My Friend
                              3. I Don't Know What It Is,
                              4. But It Sure Is Funky
                              5. I'll Be Right There Trying
                              6. Get Off
                              7. See The Light In The
                              8. Window
                              9. A Funky Song
                              10. Willie, Pass The Water
                              11. Dance, Lady Dance
                              12. Ripplin'

                              Various Artists

                              Soul Jazz Records Presents - Studio One Kings (Black Friday 23 Edition)

                                THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH 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 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).


                                Soul Jazz Records’ new one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition coloured vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Black Friday 2023 of Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print classic ‘Studio One Kings’.

                                Featuring a new striking alternative sleeve design (featuring the singer Freddie McKay) as well as a special yellow coloured vinyl pressing, ‘Studio One Kings’ is a 'who's who' of the world's greatest reggae artists.

                                Studio One’s list of singers launched at the famous label reads like a roll call of Jamaican music. Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne and more.

                                This album features classic and rare tracks that span the breadth of the legendary Studio One catalogue: Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Lovers and more from the 1960s and 70s.

                                The album comes with sleeve-notes by the celebrated writer Chris Salewicz, author of Reggae Explosion, Rude Boy as well as notable books on Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Joe Strummer and more.

                                Limited to 1000 copies for the UK & Ireland.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1. Larry Marshall - I've Got To Make It
                                2. Horace Andy - Every Tongue Shall Tell
                                3. Alton Ellis - The Well Run Dry
                                4. Johnny Osbourne - Water More Than Flour
                                5. Anthony Rocky Ellis - I'm The Ruler
                                6. Cornell Campbell - Pretty Looks Isn't All
                                7. Alexander Henry - Please Be True
                                8. Burning Spear - Them A Come
                                9. Joe Higgs - Change Of Plan
                                10. Devon Russell - Roots Natty
                                11. Ken Boothe - Be Yourself
                                12. Freddie Mcgregor - I Shall Be Released
                                13. Freddie Mckay - Father Will Cut You Off
                                14. The Ethiopian - Locust
                                15. George Philip - One One
                                16. John Holt - I Don't Want To See You Cry
                                17. Delroy Wilson - Won't You Come Home

                                Sound Dimension

                                Jamaica Soul Shake Vol. 1 - 2023 Reissue

                                  “The word timeless is applied way too often in music, but here it is entirely justified.” - Fact 

                                  New one-off press silver coloured double vinyl edition of Soul Jazz Records’ long unavailable ‘Jamaica Soul Shake’ collection of tracks from The Sound Dimension, probably the funkiest reggae group to ever to exist on the planet. Features classic tracks recorded at Studio One.

                                  This is the first ever collection of the music of The Sound Dimension - a mixture of classic tracks alongside super-rare singles only ever released in Jamaica.

                                  Alongside The Skatalites, The Sound Dimension were perhaps the most important group in the history of reggae music. That they remain relatively unknown is explained by the fact that they mostly functioned as the in-house studio group at Studio One Records performing anonymously behind the stars of the day - the reggae equivalent of Motown’s Funk Brothers. In their relatively short-lived career, the group’s unique sound came to define reggae music.

                                  During this period the group played on literally hundreds of hits with Jamaica’s finest vocalists - Alton Ellis, John Holt, Cornell Campbell, Dennis Brown, Horace Andy, The Heptones, Bob Andy, Marcia Griffiths, Freddie McGregor and many more.

                                  Even more importantly, their countless addictive, super-tight, classic tracks at Studio One became the foundation rhythms of all reggae music, countlessly replayed in new forms by an endless list of Dancehall artists from the 1970s onwards, as producers such as Joe Gibbs, Sly & Robbie, Steely & Clevie re-interpreted these seminal tunes.

                                  The group’s fluid line-up itself features a roll call of reggae legends - Jackie Mittoo, Leroy Sibbles, Cedric Brooks, Vin Gordon, Ernest Ranglin, Leroy Horsemouth Wallace and others.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  Heavy Beat
                                  Federated Backdrop
                                  Baby Face
                                  Rathid
                                  Bitter Blood
                                  Love Land
                                  Full Up
                                  Upsetters Dream
                                  Soul Shake
                                  The Thing
                                  My Heart In Rhythm
                                  Man Pon Spot
                                  Holy Moses
                                  Doctor Sappa Too
                                  Hail Don D
                                  Solas

                                  Various Artists

                                  Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Scorcher - 2023 Reissue

                                    “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

                                    Alien Starr

                                    World Of Ecstasy

                                      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 And The Soul Brothers

                                      Last Train To Skaville - 2023 Edition

                                        “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

                                        Various Artists

                                        Soul Jazz Records Presents - Studio One Roots 2 - 2023 Reissue

                                          “Vol 1 was mighty fine, presenting rare and deep recordings from Studio One’s mid-70s heyday. Hard to believe the Vol 2 is even better… As with all Soul Jazz material, the vinyl is heavyweight, with fine packaging and good liner notes. Reggae music doesn’t get much better than this: buy immediately and play loud” - David Katz, FACT

                                          New one-off press transparent green double vinyl edition of Soul Jazz Records’ long unavailable ‘Studio One Roots 2’, which features classic tracks recorded at Studio One.

                                          ‘Studio One Roots 2’ delves deep into the vaults of the legendary Jamaican Reggae label and features rare and classic roots as well as an unprecedented seven unreleased tracks that up till now had never seen the light of day.

                                          Roots and Rastafarian music was being recorded at Studio One by Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd from the early 1960s onwards to the 1990s and this album reflects the depth and diversity of roots music at the label.

                                          From the slow-ska of Dudley Sibbley, to the deep instrumental jazz cuts of Cedric Im Brooks over classic roots rhythms such as Satta Massagana to Winston Mathews stunning eerie version of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ ‘Sun Is Shining’. The Zion All Stars features the Burro Rastafarian drumming of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari.

                                          This album features many of the classic Studio One artists - Willie Williams, Tommy McCook, Cedric Brooks, The Gladiators, Vin Gordon - as well as many less well known artists - all who produced classic roots music under the guidance of producer Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd and recorded at the legendary Studio One Records.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          Willie Williams & The Sound Dimension – Jah Righteous Plan
                                          Al Campbell – Take A Ride
                                          Cedric 'Im' Brooks – Satta
                                          Ken Boothe & Joe Higgs – A Message Of Old
                                          Jackie Bernard – Jah Jah Way
                                          Devon Russell – Jah Hold The Key
                                          Zoot Sims – Small Garden
                                          The Saints – Sleeping Trees
                                          Larry Marshall – Run Babylon
                                          Vin Gorden – Babylon Rock
                                          The Gladiators – Talawah
                                          Prince Francis – African Skank
                                          Cedric 'Im' Brooks – Full Time
                                          Prince Lincoln – True Experience
                                          Joseph Hill – Behold The Land
                                          Winston Matthews – Sun Is Shining
                                          Karl Bryan – LK Strut Count Ossie & The Zion All
                                          Stars – Holy Mount Zion Tommy McCook & The
                                          Discosonics – Tenor On The Call

                                          Various Artists

                                          Soul Jazz Records Presents - Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King At Studio One - 2023 Reissue

                                            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

                                            Various Artists

                                            Yo! Boombox - Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83

                                              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)

                                              Brown Spirits

                                              Solitary Transmissions

                                                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

                                                Various Artists

                                                Soul Jazz Records Presents Holy Church Of The Ecstatic Soul: A Higher Power: Gospel, Soul And Funk At The Crossroads 1971-83 (RSD23 EDITION)

                                                  THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE.


                                                  Soul Jazz Records’ new Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk and Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 is a one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition coloured vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Record Store Day 2023.

                                                  The album draws upon the extensive links between black American gospel music and soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caesar, Dorothy Norwood, Andraé Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.

                                                  Many of the most successful soul artists – from Aretha Franklin to Al Green, The Staple Singers to Sam Cooke – all drew upon their upbringing in the church for their musical inspiration. This album discusses how important the links between the black church and soul music were in creating soul music and spotlights some of the many important (and also little-known) gospel artists who walked this line between sacred music and soul, funk and disco in the 1970s and early 1980s.

                                                  Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul shows how sacred gospel music was at home with Stevie Wonder, Blaxploitation-style funk and produced music celebrated both in New York’s underground discos (The Paradise Garage, Studio 54, etc) and later sampled by the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Blige.

                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  A
                                                  1. Andraé Crouch & The Disciples - Satisfied (3.07)
                                                  2. Shirley Caesar - Jesus Children Of America (4.19)
                                                  3. The Meditation Singers - Trouble's Brewin' (5.01)
                                                  B
                                                  1. The Clark Sisters - You Brought The Sunshine (5.49)
                                                  2. Dorothy Norwood - Let Your Feet Down Easy (2.42)
                                                  3. Shirley Caesar - Jesus Is Coming (3.50)
                                                  4. Swan Silvertones - If You Believe Your God Is Dead (3.11)
                                                  C
                                                  1. The Alvin Darling Ensemble - Is There Anybody Here? (3.24)
                                                  2. Roscoe Robinson - There's A Creator (3.10)
                                                  3. Destiny - Nothing Can Stop Me Now (2.57)
                                                  4. The Meditation Singers - Good Old Gospel Music (4.32)
                                                  5. Keith Barrow - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (3.07)
                                                  D
                                                  1. Roscoe Robinson - Elijah (2.33)
                                                  2. Dyson's Faces - Till I've Got This Feelin' Of Love (3.45)
                                                  3. The Violinaires - The Upper Way (3.24)
                                                  4. Leomia Boyd And The Gospel Music Makers - Higher In Jesus' Love (2.53)
                                                  5. Keith Barrow - The Right Road Now (3.06)

                                                  Various Artists

                                                  Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Space-Age Dub Special

                                                    ‘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 taken from the mighty vaults of Studio One Records.

                                                    Most of these tracks are taken from Studio One’s superb long out-of-print series of dub albums released between 1974 and 1980, such as ‘Zodiac Sounds’, ‘Ital Sounds and System’, ‘Roots Dub’, ‘Dub Store Special’, ‘Juks Incorporation’ and others. Many of these classic dub albums were originally released only in Jamaica in shortrun pressings with special silk-screen printed sleeves, all with striking minimal designs, and which now fetch many, many hundreds of pounds.

                                                    These tracks, credited to the Dub Specialist, use the original music tracks to seminal Studio One rhythms, which are broken down, reconstructed, and manipulated using the studio mixing desk as an instrument. With these albums, producer Clement Dodd and engineer Sylvan Morris helped create some of the finest dubs ever known.

                                                    The cover shows Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd in orbit, an image inspired by DJ Lone Ranger‘s 1982 ‘Badda Dan Dem’ album for Studio One, the cover of which portrays Sir Coxsone at the controls of a spaceship with the DJ in space.

                                                    The tracks on ‘Studio One Space-Age Dub Special’ are mainly instrumental cuts with occasional snippets of original vocals brought into the mix. Lone Ranger’s complete vocals feature on ‘A Lie Gal A Tell’, a superb six minutes plus dubbed out piece of musical madness. Also included are a selection of rare dub versions that only ever appeared on rare singles.

                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                    Martin says: Intriguing release (all new releases), credited to Dub Specialist yet mining the wealth of Studio One-released source material to create shimmering new dubscapes that refract the past through a space echo and a reverb. Dub heads will need no convincing on this one!

                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    1. Dub Specialist - Red Neck
                                                    2. Dub Specialist - Marcus Dub
                                                    3. Dub Specialist - Accra
                                                    4. Dub Specialist - A Lie Gal A Tell
                                                    5. Dub Specialist - Squash Dub
                                                    6. Dub Specialist - Pick Up The Version
                                                    7. Dub Specialist - Saucy Perila
                                                    8. Dub Specialist - RoaringReggae
                                                    9. Dub Specialist - Still Water Version
                                                    10. Dub Specialist - My Man (Part 2)
                                                    11. Dub Specialist - Disco Dub
                                                    12. Dub Specialist - Tricky
                                                    13. Dub Specialist - Illiteracy Version
                                                    14. Dub Specialist - Wailing Sounds
                                                    15. Dub Specialist - Juk’s Inc.
                                                    16. Dub Specialist - Barb Wire Version
                                                    17. Dub Specialist - Queen Of The Rub
                                                    18. Dub Specialist - I A See I

                                                    Brown Sugar

                                                    I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks

                                                      A stone-cold classic conscious Lovers Rock tune from the seminal British reggae group Brown Sugar. ‘I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks’ was originally released in 1977, and is now pressed loud for the first ever time on this new one-off press edition 12” on Soul Jazz Records.

                                                      Brown Sugar formed in London in 1976, made up of teenagers Pauline Catlin, Caron Wheeler and Carol Simms. After Brown Sugar, Caron Wheeler became known worldwide as the vocalist in Soul II Soul. Carol Simms launched a successful solo career under the name Kofi.

                                                      I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks’ was originally released on the Lovers Rock label, a fledgling reggae label formed by Dennis Bovell, John Kpiaye and producer Dennis Harris.

                                                      Brown Sugar were unique - not only were they one of the most important of the first wave of lovers rock groups, they were the only group who managed to successfully blend together a reggae roots consciousness with a lovers rock sensibility.

                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                      Matt says: One of two loud-cut Soul Jazz reggae twelves this week. The lover's rock classic by Brown Sugar has become of the most enduring tracks of this homegrown sub-genre. Complete with dub version there's simply no better pressing of this currently available!

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      1. I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks
                                                      2. I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks (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

                                                      Michigan & Smiley

                                                      Nice Up The Dance

                                                        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)

                                                        Trees Speak

                                                        Vertigo Of Flaws: Emancipation Of The Dissonance And Temperaments In Irrational Waveforms

                                                          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)

                                                          Add N To X

                                                          On The Wires Of Our Nerves (RSD21 EDITION)

                                                            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).


                                                            In the space of five short years (and as many albums) at the end of the 20th century, Add N To X caused havoc with their unique retro-futurist electronic music. Add N To Xís musical intensity proved too much for the group who split up in 2002. Their album On The Wires of Our Nerves, complete with its classic cover image, recorded on Soul Jazz Recordsí then new offshoot label Satellite Records, launched them into the spotlight and included two NME Singles of the Week ëBlack Regentí and ëKing Waspí. Over twenty years since it was first released and long out of print the album 'On The Wires of Our Nervesí stands up one of the most forward-looking electronic albums of then and now. This classic album is released in a very limited one-off pressing silver coloured vinyl edition as a Record Store Day exclusive title. A 1. The Black Regent 2. Planet Munich 3. Nevermind B 1. We Are Add N To X 2. Murmur One 3. Sound Of Accelerating Concrete 4. Gentle Germans C 1. King Wasp 2. Orgy Of Bubastus 3. Grey Body, Green Gun D 1. On The Wires Of Our Nerves 2. Hit Me 3. Sir Ape

                                                            Trees Speak

                                                            PostHuman

                                                              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

                                                              Various Artists

                                                              Soul Jazz Records Presents Cold Wave #1

                                                                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

                                                                Marcia Griffiths

                                                                Feel Like Jumping

                                                                  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

                                                                  Various Artists

                                                                  Soul Jazz Records Presents: Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1971-83

                                                                    This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking ‘Deutsche Elektronische Musik’ series, “a near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music” - The Guardian.

                                                                    This new Soul Jazz release features many of the classic German electronic and Krautrock groups from the 1970s and 1980s, including Can, Amon Düül II, Harmonia, Conrad Schnitzler, Agitation Free and Roedelius, as well as a host of lesser known artists such as Dzyan, Klaus Weiss, Gruppe Between and many more.

                                                                    Deutsche Elektronische rarities unearthed on the album include Kalacakra (whose fanbase included the great Moondog) and their superb ‘Nearby Shiras’, taken from their super-rare spiritual / psychedelic private press concept album ‘Crawling to Lhasa’ from 1972. 

                                                                    ‘Deutsche Elektronische 4’ includes a wealth of German electronic experimental artists - the seminal pioneering group Harmonia (Roedelius, Moebius and Michael Rother) and avant-garde guru Conrad Schnitzler, as well as lesser known synthetic artists such as Klaus Weiss, Deutsche Wertarbeit, E.M.A.K. (Elektronische Musik Aus Köln), Günter Schickert and others.

                                                                    Finally, the album also features an array of heavy and progressive German cosmic rock groups - Dzyan, Virus and the amazing Turkish/German tripped out sound of Alex’s ‘Patella Black’, recorded at Can’s Inner Space in 1973, produced by Holger Czukay and Jackie Liebezeit.

                                                                    ‘Deutsche Elektronische 4’ comes with extensive newly commissioned sleevenotes by David Stubbs, author of the seminal books ‘Future Days: Krautrock and the building of Modern Germany’, ‘Mars By 1980: The story of Electronic Music’ and ‘Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy’.

                                                                    This album comes as a deluxe double CD edition with outsize booklet and slipcase, as well as a heavyweight triple vinyl edition with full colour inner sleeves. Both formats include full liner notes and extensive rare photography.

                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                    Barry says: I really can't get enough of these compilations. Superb, unheard of gems mixed in with some undeniable classics, and presented beautifully in true Soul Jazz style. Unsurprisingly brilliant.

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    1. Alex – Patella Black
                                                                    2. Klaus Weiss – Driving Sequences
                                                                    3. Can – I'm So Green
                                                                    4. Agitation Free – Laila, Part II
                                                                    5. Deutsche Wertarbeit – Guten Abend, Leute
                                                                    6. Amon Düül II – Wolf City
                                                                    7. Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen
                                                                    8. Klaus Weiss – Pink Sails
                                                                    9. Virus – My Strand-Eyed Girl
                                                                    10. Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique
                                                                    11. Kalacakra – Nearby Shiras
                                                                    12. EMAK – Tanz In Den Himmel
                                                                    13. Et Cetera – Mellodrama 2a
                                                                    14. Between – Triumphzug Kaiser Maximilian I
                                                                    15. Roedelius – Halmharfe
                                                                    16. Dzyan – Dragonsong
                                                                    17. Harmonia – Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
                                                                    18. Günter Schickert – Suleika
                                                                    19. Witthüser & Westrupp – Schöpfung (1. Mose 1)

                                                                    Inell Young

                                                                    The Next Ball Game (Love Record Stores Edition)

                                                                      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!

                                                                      Lloyd McNeill

                                                                      Elegia

                                                                        Soul Jazz Records release flautist Lloyd McNeill’s album ‘Elegia’ (1980). Originally released on the artists’ own private press Baobab label in New York, the album is a serious collector’s piece, a heavyweight and fascinating fusion of deep spiritual jazz with Brazilian and rhythms and melodies. The album has been out of print for nearly 40 years.

                                                                        This groundbreaking album is the culmination of Lloyd McNeill’s many years involved with Brazilian musicians and features the great percussionist Nana Vasconcelos alongside fellow Brazilian’s Portinho and Dom Salvador alongside US jazz musicians including bassist Cecil McBee.

                                                                        In a 50-year musical career, McNeill has worked with many artists including Nina Simone, Eric Dolphy, Mulatu Asatke and Sabu Martinez.

                                                                        McNeill grew up during the era of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and his life and work is a reflection of those ideals. All of his music was only ever released on his own private-press record label, echoing the Civil Rights and African-American themes of the era - black economic empowerment and self-sufficiency - and there is a beautiful spirituality in all his music.

                                                                        In the late 1960s McNeill became a teacher of both jazz and painting at the New Thing Art and Architecture Center in Washington and in 1969 was the first African-American professor hired to teach African-American Music History, at Rutgers University.

                                                                        This is the fifth Lloyd McNeill album that Soul Jazz Records have released and follows on from the recent release of ‘Treasures’ (1976) and the earlier albums ‘Asha’ (1969), ‘Tanner Suite’ (1969) and ‘Washington Suite’ (1970), all of which are being re-pressed to coincide with this new release.

                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        Samba For The Animals
                                                                        Behind The Wind (Flute Solo)
                                                                        Asha II
                                                                        Elegiac Suite For Elizabeth
                                                                        A) Time
                                                                        B) The Mighty River
                                                                        C) The Wind
                                                                        Striped Pants (With Cadenza)
                                                                        Memory Cycle


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