Fantastic Negrito/Please Don’t Be Dead

Vinyl LP pressing. There is desperation and urgency in Fantastic Negrito’s new album Please Don’t Be Dead. The record sees the Devil around the corner, and each song is a plea to make you aware of what’s waiting for you. The artist is screaming at you because he knows what comes next. The album art features a real life photograph of Fantastic Negrito waking up from a three week coma. His body is shattered, his eyes are staring past you. They’re staring at the darkness that awaits. But with his new album we hear the voice of an artist who put that darkness in the rearview. Now he’s asking America to do the same.

Madlib/Untinted: Sources For Madlib’s Shades Of Blue

As one of the most prolific hip hop producers of all time Madlib collaborated with different artists and recorded own songs under different pseudonyms. During his outstanding year 2003 he released the crown on his work, the remix album Shades of Blue. 180 gram audiophile vinyl
Original songs by Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, Donald Byrd’s “Distant Land” (previously unreleased track, now available on vinyl), Bobbi Humphrey, Wayne Shorter and more tracks by jazz icons
Tracks were the foundations of Madlib’s jazz-hip/hop album Shades Of Blue.

Nick Cave/Kings OST

Vinyl LP pressing. Kings is a 2018 crime drama film directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang). Set in 1992, it follows Millie (Halle Berry), a woman living in South Central Los Angeles who takes in at-risk youths to live in her home. When the infamous Rodney King riots grip the city, Millie and her cavalcade of adoptees are thrust into the mounting chaos sprouting all around them. In time, they are forced into unlikely alliances in order to stay alive. Scoring duties for Kings fall to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds fame. In recent years, they have become a force to be reckoned with in the world of soundtracks, thanks to their impressive work on films like Hell or High Water, Wind River, and the National Geographic series Mars. Cave and Ellis, the later a repeat Ergüven collaborator, pull from their rich history in the music world to deliver an unexpected score that immediately transports the listener to a specific place in time – the hot, angry streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 1992.

Joey Bada$$/1999

Seminal project from Joey Bada$$, never before available for retail sale, being released on vinyl and digital retailers for the first time.

Melody’s Echo Chamber/Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage is a collaborative record between Prochet and Dungen’s Reine Fiske and The Amazing’s Fredrik Swahn with Melody sculpting and producing the sessions as well as encouraging the players around her to experiment, often with instruments that might be less familiar to them. It also features special guests Gustav Esjtes and Johan Holmegaard (both from Dungen) and Nicholas Allbrook (Pond).

Sylvers/Sylvers 2

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. This is masterpiece. And we mean it. Beautiful golden-era soul written by Leon Sylvers III produced by Jerry Butler and Keg Johnson. The Sylvers were a family from Los Angeles who were very successful during the ’70s and into the early ’80s with chart hits – deep into pop-disco territory by then! – including ‘Boogie Fever’ ‘Hot Line’ and ‘High School Dance’. This is the groups second album from 1973 and is one of their strongest. Opening with the awesome mid-tempo ‘We Can Make It If We Try’ the record moves through funk boogie and deep soul moods finishing on a hazy acapella version of The Beatles ‘Yesterday’. The Sylvers always provide a goldmine of samples. This album has been flipped by Madlib (for MF DOOM) Homeboy Sandman 50 Cent Ghostface Killah Black Milk Roc Marciano David Banner & 9th Wonder and more.

Shina Williams & His African Percussionists/African Dances

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. First official reissue of the extremely rare full-length album by Lagos-based bandleader Shina Williams. Clean copies of the original currently sell for up to £500. The record was born in 1979 when Shina put Biddy Wright, Fred Fisher, Saliu Alabi, Prince Bola, Tutu Shoronmu, and several other decorated Nigerian musicians – who played with the likes of Fela Kuti, SJOB Movement, Sonny Okoson, King Bucknor amongst others – together to record. The result is African Dances, a timeless fusion of afrobeat, electronics, boogie and disco. Includes his most well-known song, ‘Agboju Logun’ that Williams knew was ground breaking – “I want to show the whole wide world that Africa is alive with modern musicians to reckon with anywhere

African Scream Contest 2

Vinyl LP. A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for all to hear, gut-busting yelps, lethally welldrilled horn sections and irresistibly insistent rhythms added up to a record that took you into it’s own space with the same electrifying sureness as any favourite blues or soul or funk or punk sampler you might care to mention.

Aquabats/The Fury Of The Aquabats

Limited red vinyl colored vinyl LP pressing. 1997 was a glorious time for many reasons. One of those reasons is most definitely the release of the Aquabats opus, The Fury Of the Aquabats. The Aquabats were trailblazers on a path of world domination that no one has since dared to follow, and they remain at the peak of their creative mountain today which is one part punk, one part ska, one part Devo, and unparalleled in this universe in the genre of “family friendly monster destruction.”

Bad Religion/No Substance

Vinyl LP pressing. Bad Religion has become synonymous with intelligent and provocative West Coast punk rock and are considered one of the most influential and important bands in the genre. Over the past four decades the band has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars, charging drumbeats, thoughtful lyrics and an undying will to inspire and provoke anyone who will listen. Originally issued on Epitaph Records in 1998, No Substance was the band’s tenth studio effort overall and second release following guitarist Brett Gurewitz’s departure from the band (he would rejoin in 2001). Seen as a return to form for the band after the transitional The Gray Race, No Substance offers up tight and heady punk which touches on societal ills and world politics and still remains catchy as hell. Remastered from the original studio masters, bringing out a louder, more clear sound!

Charles Mingus/Candid Recordings Part One

Chebran Vol. 2 French Boogie

Def Leppard/Vault Greatest Hits 1980-1995

Double vinyl LP pressing. Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980-1995) is the first greatest hits album and the second compilation album by English hard rock band Def Leppard. The album was originally released in 1995 by Mercury Records. Vault went on to be certified gold in four countries, platinum in three and multi-platinum in two. The album is currently certified 4× platinum in the US by the RIAA. The album featured one newly recorded song, “When Love & Hate Collide”, which was released as a single. Def Leppard formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. The band’s strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s.

Alice Cooper/Trash

Limited 180gm red colored vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve. Known as the architect of shock-rock, Alice Cooper (in both the original Alice Cooper band and as a solo artist) has rattled the cages and undermined the authority of generations of guardians of the status quo, continuing to surprise fans and exude danger at every turn. After a parade of groundbreaking, hit filled albums throughout the ’70s Cooper explored different sounds in the ensuing decade ending the ’80s on a high note with the Desmond Child-produced pop-metal effort Trash (1989). His first hit album in years, the platinum certified collection yielded the signature singles “Poison” and “Bed of Nails,” and includes guest performances from Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Steve Lukather.