Harlem’s Capo, Jim Jones, brings 'At the Church Steps' to vinyl for the very first time — and it’s more than just a reissue. A founding member of The Diplomats, platinum-selling artist, and a pioneer of NYC street rap, Jones has long been a voice of the hustle, style, and raw authenticity that define East Coast hip-hop. With over 2 million records sold and a deep-rooted influence on music and culture, 'At the Church Steps' is now set to become a collector’s essential — reimagined for vinyl in a way no fan has ever experienced.

This limited-edition, audiophile-grade 2LP set is crafted for true connoisseurs. Pressed on premium Neotech 100% virgin vinyl, the release uses exclusive mastering technology that employs predictive analysis to correct groove deformation — delivering unmatched clarity, fidelity, and warmth. Every detail, from the sonic depth to the physical finish, speaks to the cult following Jones commands. Tailored for both the streets and the crates, this vinyl is a tribute to legacy and craftsmanship. Store it upright, keep it out of direct sunlight — and know you’re holding a piece of hip-hop history made to last.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jomo
2. Genesis
3. Seen It All (feat. Big Cruz)
4. Make It Out (feat. Ron E)
5. Walking On Business (feat. Keen Streetz & Conway The Machine)
6. White Lines (feat. Dyce Payso)
7. Call On Me (feat. Dyce Payso)
8. Opp Thot (feat. Fabolous & Dramab2r)
9. That Sh!T Still In Harlem (feat. Suzi)
10. Dope Boy (feat. Keen Streetz)
11. Cinema (feat. Fivio Foreign, Dyce Payso & Keen Streetz)
12. Ray Ray Skit
13. Back In My Bag

SIDE D
D1. What's Going On (feat. Dave East)
D2. Back In The Day (feat. Maino & Riot Angel)
D3. End Of Summer (feat. ALLSUMMERLONG)
D4. Church Steps (feat. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Denise Weeks & RELL)

Given that Mr K (that's NYC disco and house legend Danny Krivit to you and me) has been re-editing tracks since the late 1970s, it's perhaps unsurprising that his well of killer re-cuts never seems to run dry. On his latest two-track missive, he abandons the sprawling epics he's renowned for and instead offers up two on-point, radio-ready workouts. On 'Church Girl Church', he gives his take on a lightly wonky, new wave-era synth pop number, emphasising the slightly sleazy and futurist synth melodies, the just off metronomic machine drums and wild-eyed female lead vocals. 'Rise & Shine', meanwhile, is a tight, joyous and mood enhancing take on a piano-powered slab of righteous gospel-soul perfection.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Main room disco grooves from Mr. Krivit, here with 'Rise & Shine' featuring a bright piano progression and syrupy smooth vocals, while 'Church Girl Church' brings the gospel power, with a soulful vocal sitting atop synth stabs and echoing kick drums.

TRACK LISTING

Rise & Shine
Church Girl Church

Following on the theme from last year’s critically acclaimed The Hypnogogue. 15 new songs take the story further.

TRACK LISTING

1. Realm Of Minor Angels
2. Pleasure
3. Amanita
4. 2054
5. Manifesto
6. The Immediate Future
7. Sublimated In Song
8. Song 18
9. The Weather
10. Korea
11. Song From The Machine Age
12. Sleeping For Miles
13. Last Melody
14. A Strange Past
15. Music From The Ghost Hotel

10 Year Anniversary editions of Chvrches debut album The Bones Of What You Believe remastered for 2023 by Gavin Lurrsen – expanded formats featuring previously unreleased studio & live tracks.

A 10-year anniversary product suite of Chvrche’s 2013 debut album including 2LP edition with bespoke die-cut sleeve, 1LP on crystal clear vinyl & 2CD inc. booklet. The album originally charted at number 9 in the UK & is now gold status with over 170K UK sales – All formats feature 10th anniversary artwork & the album has been newly remastered by Gavin Lurrsen in LA. The band have just come off tour with Coldplay & are playing the Other Stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival.

TRACK LISTING

2LP Deluxe Edition
Side A
The Mother We Share (remastered)
We Sink (remastered)
Gun (remastered)
Tether (remastered)
Lies (remastered)
Under The Tide (remastered)
Side B
Recover (remastered)
Night Sky (remastered)
Science/Visions (remastered)
Lungs (remastered)
By The Throat (remastered)
You Caught The Light (remastered)
Side C
Manhattan
White Summer
Talking In My Sleep
City On Fire
Side D
We Sink (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Now Is Not The Time (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Lies (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Strong Hand (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
By The Throat (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)

1LP Coloured
Side A
The Mother We Share (remastered)
We Sink (remastered)
Gun (remastered)
Tether (remastered)
Lies (remastered)
Under The Tide (remastered)
Side B
Recover (remastered)
Night Sky (remastered)
Science/Visions (remastered)
Lungs (remastered)
By The Throat (remastered)
You Caught The Light (remastered)

2CD
CD 1
The Mother We Share (remastered)
We Sink (remastered)
Gun (remastered)
Tether (remastered)
Lies (remastered)
Under The Tide (remastered)
Recover (remastered)
Night Sky (remastered)
Science/Visions (remastered)
Lungs (remastered)
By The Throat (remastered)
You Caught The Light (remastered)
CD 2
Manhattan
White Summer
Talking In My Sleep
City On Fire
We Sink (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Now Is Not The Time (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Lies (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Strong Hand (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
By The Throat (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)

Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul - A Higher Power - Gospel, Funk & Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83’ draws upon the extensive links between black American gospel music and soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caeser, Dorothy Norwood, Andrae Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.

The album was first available as a long-sold out coloured vinyl edition for RSD 2023 and is now available on black double vinyl and for the first time on CD.

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.

“Curated with an obvious passion and sense of history, ‘Holy Church Of The Ecstatic Soul’ serves as the perfect intro to the funky spirituals that once served as the foundation for various schools of sound (Philly R&B, disco, soul) over the last 50 years.” - The Wire

TRACK LISTING

Andraé Crouch & The Disciples - Satisfied
Shirley Caesar - Jesus Children Of America
The Meditation Singers - Trouble's Brewin'
The Clark Sisters - You Brought The Sunshine
Dorothy Norwood - Let Your Feet Down Easy
Shirley Caesar - Jesus Is Coming
Swan Silvertones - If You Believe Your God Is Dead
The Alvin Darling Ensemble - Is There Anybody Here?
Roscoe Robinson - There's A Creator
Destiny - Nothing Can Stop Me Now
The Meditation Singers - Good Old Gospel Music
Keith Barrow - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
Roscoe Robinson - Elijah
Dyson's Faces - Till I've Got This Feelin' Of Love
The Violinaires - The Upper Way
Leomia Boyd And The Gospel Music Makers - Higher In Jesus' Love
Keith Barrow - The Right Road Now

Chris Imler likes to play drums standing up. He‘s the dandy with the killer offbeat, or, as one major German newspaper once put it, the "Grand Seigneur of the Berlin Underground". He has been making his mark on countless Berlin musical affairs since long before the fall of the Wall, with The Golden Showers, Peaches, Oum Shatt, Driver &Driver, Die Türen, Jens Friebe, to name but a few. He has also been perfoming across Europe as a solo artist for the past decade.

In "Operation Schönheit" (German for "Operation Beauty"), he has recorded his most, well, beautiful album to date. But Benedikt Frey's warm production subverts its own beauty with a multitude of clanking and ingling synth sounds, making the work very much about the cosmetic surgery it performs on itself. It's all in the tradition of the more experimental and electronic side of post-punk in which Imler and his unique groove are rooted. It doesn't take insider knowledge of Berlin's post-punk underground to realise that that Imler groove consists of rhythm that sings, vocals that dance and a look that fits, as illustrated by "Disappoint Me".

Elsewhere - such as in "Movies" - the rhythm sings, less electronically reduced, into the acoustics of an old, high-ceilinged Berlin apartment; metal clatters, a zither trembles and Imler plays with the metronome. Sometimes he moves ahead of time, sometimes trails behind it. He always manages to be in his very own groove, which carries everything along. And this is precisely the essence of the Imler rhythm, which lends itself to being applied to the very rhythm of life: Stretch and compress your time and loop it according to your own groove! Optimise nothing but feel everything! And dance to it! Even when contemplating everyday information overload, as Imler's high-speed mumbling suggests in the hectic yet smooth opening track "Temperature".

But being the ultimate night owl he is, Imler manages to make even the odd bout of paranoia seem like a good thing: like some kind of krauty, groovy B-horror-soundtrackinflected high-pressure environment, "Whip Me" is a cross between Conrad Schnitzler and Bauhaus. In the title track, whose lyrics were written together with Jens Friebe, he intones: "You want to be something greater / You break your leg / When it heals again / You break it again" and sounds like the most gleeful fatalist you can imagine. Because in his city, one can still lose oneself better than anywhere else - a night easily becomes a whole universe that can be traversed, marvelled at and played with, and one might find one's old self again only when hearing "church bells" and "small birds singing". At least that's how Imler illustrates it in "Emptiness full of stars", and it seems likely that those "stars" are the human companions of the Berlin night in question.

And so once again Imler becomes Berlin's most important cultural ambassador: that scene of the eternally, and somehow successfully, failing creatures of the night, once the envy of the international postmodern bohème, has, despite many claims to the contrary, not been completely "optimised away", and its attitude to life is perfectly summed up in Imler's groove. And, of course, his look. "Schau Hin" (German for "Look!"), he sings in the track of the same name, masterfully dubbed out with the help of Melbourne's Leo James.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Temperature
A2 Disappoint Me
A3 Movies
A4 Schau Hin
A5 Emptiness Full Of Stars
B1 Operation Schönheit
B2 Shining
B3 Whip Me
B4 Spooky Action At A Distance
B5 Chimären Embryo

Initially sparked by a disappointing experience in Los Angeles, Europop is Carl Schilde’s first solo album. Feeling out of place and out of time in the music world, he started to embrace his own limitations, subverting themes like “making it” and preinternet nostalgia with a Jim O’Rourke inspired wink in his eye. While holed up in his Toronto basement, a lifelong obsession with outdated pop trickery and yesteryear’s preset sounds launched him into an alternate sonic universe—one where The Beach Boys’ late70s albums were big hits, and long-forgotten Italian soft rock is the style du jour. The resulting ten songs were given their final sheen by mastering impresario Dave Cooley (Tame Impala, Blood Orange, J Dilla).

Born and raised in West Berlin sometime in the 80s, Carl has already had several musical incarnations. From a Berlin Art Prize nomination for his single-note vinyl record (“The whole concept makes me upset” — VICE), to glimpsing the album charts by cowriting an aging crooner’s magnum opus (“Glamorous” — NY Times), he has always been more interested in exploring different angles than building a career. Since a transcontinental move to Canada, his focus has shifted from the conceptual to the immediate music-making process, with all its imperfections. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Top 40
2. John Stamos
3. Roadworn
4. Soft Dads
5. Landline Pt. I
6. Landline Pr. II
7. Phase
8. The Master Tape
9. Blue Rinse
10. Credits

“Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands —the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and The Saints.” - (Bob Geldof)

THE AINTS! THE CHURCH OF SIMULTANEOUS EXISTENCE

Forty years after the release of one of the great Australian debut albums of all time Ed Kuepper returns with a brand-new band and a brand new contender for the title.

When the heavily lauded, heavily influential first incarnation of The Saints split in 1978, Ed Kuepper, the sonic architect and primary songwriter of the original band and their three albums: the proto-punk classic (I’m) Stranded (1977), the r’n'b infused Eternally Yours (1978) and the brass-laden genre-defying Prehistoric Sounds (1978) left behind a plethora of unreleased material, however, rather than attempt to salvage what could have been Kuepper chose to move on forming the legendary Laughing Clowns performing and recording in Australia and the U.K. from 1979 through 1984 before embarking on an ARIA award winning solo career that has kept him touring and recording steadily since 1985.

Come 2017 though, and the 40th anniversary of The Saints seminal debut Kuepper was persuaded it was time to revisit and celebrate the music of his youth. Recruiting like-minded souls in Sunnyboys bassist Peter Oxley, drummer Paul Larsen Loughhead (The Celibate Rifles / The New Christs), jazz pianist Alister Spence and trumpeter and brass arranger Eamon Dilworth the band performed as The Aints! Play The Saints (’73 - ’78) covering Kuepper’s tenure with the band and all the classics including This Perfect Day, Know Your Product, Swing For The Crime and (I’m) Stranded to large crowds and a hugely appreciative response. But rather than purely recycle those formative songs Kuepper began to introduce the new-old material to an audience eager to hear what else Kuepper had been sitting on since 1978. A further positive response from the music department of the ABC saw these two iconic Australians join forces and bring to light what is in essence, the long lost fourth album by The (original) Saints. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Red Aces
2. The Church Of Simultaneous Existence
3. You'll Always Walk Alone
4. You Got The Answer
5. Country Song In G
6. Elevator (A Song For Barking Lord Jeff)
7. This Is Our Summer
8. Winter's Way
9. S-O-S '75
10. Demo Girl Part 2
11. Good Night Ladies (I Hear A Sound Without)
12. The Rise And Falls Of James Hoopnoch Eefil 

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2014 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

Finally! The horn-wailing, mic-swinging, percussion-overloaded, call-and-response explosiveness of the Melt Yourself Down experience is captured on plastic in all its sweat-drenched fury
This Record Store Day exclusive LP was recorded at MYD’s sold out show at The New Empowering Church in east London late last year: “the house band from hell” in the house of GodA raw and ragged document of sweet sonic violence in a small room, it’s a strobelit snapshot, warts and all, captured for you

MYD twist jazz, punk, funk and afro-beat into strange and brilliant new shapes
They’ve kept raising their game since the release of their self-titled debut album in June 2013 (appearing on Later… and hitting the album of the year charts in Rough Trade, Time Out and more), and will appear on festival stages throughout the land this summer. The campaign begins with shows at SXSW and in New York in March, and club nights with MYDJs will follow ahead of the festivals - all confirmed dates below. Strictly limited edition Record Store Day vinyl LP (900 copies for the world) also includes a download of the live album. The LP is packaged in a new, dayglo variant on the already iconic album artwork. MYD have already started work on their second album. Don’t take your eyes off them

Pop music, by its very nature has inbuilt disposability, a fleeting chance to shine in the here and now before everyone wants the next New Thing. Electro-pop feels all the more welded to a time and place, with the preset 'sounds' within synths dating quicker than the leg circumference of a pair of jeans. Scottish outfit Chvrches (pronounced as "churches" and sometimes stylized as CHVRCHES or CHVRCHΞS) get round the former by adding a darker edge to their well-crafted, hook-heavy songs, giving them a less robotic, more human feel. On the technology front, they combine a classic 1980s synthpop sound with current EDM touches, making this a winner for the over 40s and the under 20s alike.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Mother We Share 3:11
2. We Sink 3:34
3. Gun 3:53
4. Tether 4:46
5. Lies 3:41
6. Under The Tide 4:32
7. Recover 3:45
8. Night Sky 3:51
9. Science/Visions 3:58
10. Lungs 3:02
11. By The Throat 4:09
12. You Caught The Light 5:40