OK, it’s taken us to get to our 11th release for some filthy organ funk to grace the label, and who better than The King Rooster.
Hailing from London, The King Rooster are a heavy funk quartet consisting of Ian Stevens on bass, Mark Claydon on drums (both
from another heavy funk band - The Getup), Sam Montero on keys and James Forster on guitar.
Collectively the band have played, recorded and shared stages with the likes of Sir Joe Quaterman, JTQ, Gizelle Smith, Reuben
Wilson, Speedometer Pee Wee Ellis and many more.
The band have released a clutch of heavy duty organ funk 45s on various labels over the last few years (Our Label, FNR, Dinked,
Burning Soul) and a spectacular LP, also on Dinked. But it was when we heard ‘Snitchin’, Stitchin’ & Bitchin’ on Funk Night Records
that we decided 45 Live needed some Rooster funk on the label!
It is entirely evident that the guys all have a deep love for raw funk, that gritty, slightly shambolic garage sound, punchy instrumentals
designed to hit you in the gut, pure soul from the pure funk perspective. It’s all about the ‘nasty face’!
Here we have 2 hard hitting organ screamers kicking off with ‘Snake Bait’ on the A side, a raucous 144bpm dancefloor burner.
Scratchy guitar, thumping bass and manic drums underpin a swirling and ever building Hammond Organ into a firey crescendo.
Whilst over on the B ‘Stickin’ it’ takes some cues from The Meters sound with its trance like organ riffs and bluesy flavour. It’s a raw
mid-tempo head nodder which, like the A side, keeps building and building into such a cookin’ groove.
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- A1: 2002 (Title)
- A2: 2002
- A3: How To Play (Operation Explanation)
- A4: Select (Player Select)
- A5: J (Japan Stage)
- A6: Tears (Kyo Kusanagi)
- A7: Stormy Saxophone 2(Iori Yagami)
- A8: Tacos Dance (Mexico Stage)
- A9: Kd-0079 (Kof '99 Team)
- B1: Let's Go To Seoul (Kim)
- B2: Deserted Town (Cambodia Stage)
- B3: Diet (Women Fighters Team)
- B4: Winner (Victory Demo)
- B5: Red Wind (China Stage)
- B6: Bloody (Kof '98 Team)
- B7: Kurikinton (Fatal Fury Team)
- B8: The Netherlands (Holland Stage)
- C1: Kd-0084 (Kof2000 Team)
- C2: Jungle Bouncer (Ikari Team)
- C3: Progress (Korea Stage)
- C4: Psycho Soldier (Psycho Soldier Team)
- C5: Beauty & The Beast (Art Of Fighting Team)
- C6: Moment Of Temptation (Kof '97 Team)
- D1: Medley-The Earth Of Raging Flames (Orochi Team)
- D4: Napolitan Trance (Italy Stage)
- D5: Revival (Rugal Entry Demo)
- D6: Last Dance (Boss Stage)
- D7: At Last (Rugal Vanishing Demo ~ Ending)
- D8: Festiveval Mood (Staff Roll)
- D9: Continue (Continue ~ Game Over)
- D2: Esaka? (Kusanagi)
- D3: Challenger (Intrusion)
SNK, Brave Wave Productions and Limited Run Games are proud to announce that THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 - The Definitive Soundtrack is coming to CD and Vinyl this year.
KOF 2002 was composed by Masahiko Hataya and Yasuo Yamate as part of the SNK SOUND TEAM. As a Generation Series release, the KOF 2002 soundtrack will feature newly remastered analog and digital tracks, as well as a booklet containing archival artwork and liner notes by former development team members.
b A2 | 2002 30 sec (30 Seconds Title)
b A2 | 2002 30 sec (30 Seconds Title)
- A1: K.o.f '95 (Title)
- A2: Devil's Selection
- A3: Selection Of The Raging Billows
- A4: Funky Esaka (Japan Stage)
- A5: Kono Yo No Haru(Victory Demo)
- A6: Ryo (Korea Stage)
- A7: Desert Requiem (Middle East Stage)
- A8: Senritsu No Dora (Chine Stage)
- A9: Club-M -Flute In The Blue Sky- (Mediterranean Sea Stage)
- A10: (Ryuko & Ken, Swinging Boys' Hearts (American Fighting Stage)
- B1: Bass Crawling On The Grounds (England Stage)
- B2: Stormy Saxophone (American Factory Stage)
- B3: Weeping R - Sorrowful D (Rugal Demo 1, 2, 3)
- B4: Hal,Bass And Melody (Final Boss Stage 1)
- B5: Rugal Hymn (Rugal Appearance Demo)
- B6: Guitar, Omega And Rugal (Final Boss Stage 2)
- B7: Rugal Vanishing (Rugal Vanishing Demo)
- B8: Kid (Ending 1)
- B9: Namidasan Sayonara (Ending 2)
- B10: Saraba! Seisyun (Ending 3)
- B11: The Sunset Sky Part 6 - Liebe (Staff Roll)
- B12: Yokubou No Uzu(Game Over)
SNK composer Masahiko Hataya reprises his role in KOF '95 while being joined by composers Akihiro Uchida and Pearl Sibakiti.
As a Generation Series releases, the KOF95 soundtrack will feature newly remastered analog and digital tracks, as well as a booklet containing archival artwork and liner notes by former development team members.
- A1: Natty Dub
- A2: Lee's Dub
- A3: Wonder Why Dub
- A4: I'm Gone Dub
- A5: Country Boy Dub
- A6: True Believer Dub
- A7: Care Free Dub
- A8: Rasta Train Dub
- B1: Move Out Of Babylon Dub
- B2: Give A Little Man A Great Big Hand Dub
- B3: Feel So Good
- B4: For The Rest Of My Life Dub
- B5: When You Will I Find My Way Dub
- B6: I'm Leaving Dub
- B7: Feel Lost Dub
- B8: Dawn Dub
King Tubby and Producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of Dub Music. After discovering a mistake that made a ‘serious joke’ they went on to release the first pressings of this new musical genre namely ‘Dub Music’. Tubby’s vast knowledge of electronics and Bunny’s vast catalogue of rhythms would lay the foundations of what today is taken as a standard...the Remix / Version cuts to an existing vocal tune. Sit back and enjoy this historic set of sounds. These releases were the first to carry the name of King Tubby and the first to credit the great musicians that contributed so much to the rhythms that made these albums possible.
- A1: Unity
- B1: Comme Des Garcons
- B2: Wither
EXPERIENCE FRANK OCEAN THROUGH THE EARS AND SOUNDS OF HIGH PULP, AS THE MUTUAL ATTRACTION SAGA CONTINUES, WITH THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THE PROJECT.
While the first 2 volumes in the series pay homage to free and experimental jazz legends that have informed the lens of the Seattle, Washington-based band. Volume 3 steps into the R&B/Hip Hop world, as the band performs their fresh takes on 3 Frank Ocean tracks, from the ‘Endless’ album.
A Frank Ocean record that flew under the radar for some but didn’t miss with the High Pulp crew. The 3 arrangements are a homage and a thank you to Frank, who has had such a heavy impact on the band and the way they think about writing music. Mutual Attraction 3 challenged the band to think critically about these compositions and how they could deliver a similar sentiment that they were born out of, but also put it through the High Pulp lens.
Along with digging into a different genre of music and focusing on just one artist to pay tribute to for this volume in the series. MA 3 also has the band performing as their largest ensemble yet. A 15-piece band, including a 5-piece string section. Giving no limits to these reimagined versions of Frank Ocean tunes.
Butterbandz returns with another absolute BANGER of an EP ‘King Heroin’. This is his second EP on the 7 Days Entertainment imprint and he is serving up some DOPE tracks. From start to finish you’ll be sure to find a groove you’ll enjoy. ‘Prometheus’ starts off the EP with an energetic techno track. It’s got a punchy synth over a sub bass with dreamy synth chords and some rockin’ drum programming. The second track ‘Get Down’ is simple yet effective. It’s got that Detroit feel that we all love and enjoy. Not really structured, kind of just flowing. The drums are knocking and the hi- hats are keeping up that energy. It’s a got a rough rugged bass paired with a synth that carries feelings of deep rage and clarity. Tying it all together is the vocal sample. For the title track ‘King Heroin’ Butterbandz teams with his older brother Generation Next to create this gem. It’s got some deep emotion but it will make you move nonetheless. Excellent high energy drum programming, distance reverbed synth pad, catchy piano pattern, in your face lead synth, and a off putting sub bass. These two artists make a dynamic duo. Lastly is ‘OD Soundtrack’ tying together a hard hitting EP with a little laid back tune to take you to a higher more peaceful place. The synth pad carries that smooth calm sound and then the kick is in your face out the gate. It’s got some airy flutes and grooving lead synth. This EP is going to be a staple in the growing legend of Butterbandz.
The seven-headed Aussie rock beast King Gizzard & The Lizard
Wizard return with a new vinyl edition of ‘Fishing For Fishies’,
perhaps their most perfectly-realised album to date.
The Eco Edition has been pressed on Eco-Mix vinyl and is housed
in a brown paper bag after previous pressings quickly sold out.
Released on the band’s own Flightless Records, here is a world
where the organic meets the automated; where the rustic meets
the robotic. Where the past and future collide in the beautiful
present.
‘Fishing For Fishies’ is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that
struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains. From the
soft shuffle Outback country of the opening title track through the
sunny easy listening of ‘The Bird Song’ (think a lysergically-soaked
Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of
‘Plastic Boogie’ (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie
Wonder’s ‘Innervisions’) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway
rock of ‘The Cruel Millennial’ and ‘Real’s Not Real’ - what
Carpenters might have sounded like had they existed entirely on
vegemite and weed - it’s a dizzying, dazzling display which
addresses a number of pertinent environmental issues along the
way.
“We tried to make a blues record,” says frontman Stu Mackenzie.
“A blues-boogie-shuffle-kinda-thing, but the songs kept fighting it -
or maybe it was us fighting them. Ultimately though we let the
songs guide us this time; we let them have their own personalities
and forge their own path. Paths of light, paths of darkness. This is
a collection of songs that went on wild journeys of transformation.”
Quiet though it was on the record front, 2018 was hardly a year of
rest for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. In almost perpetual
motion, the band continued their unstoppable rise as their
juggernaut of a live show grew and grew and grew, with a mindblowing headline slot at Green Man Festival, a massive sold-out
US tour in the summer which saw them play their biggest venues
to date, a brain-frying sold out Brixton Academy show, two gigs in
Russia and Istanbul where they played in front of over 15,000
people and putting on the fourth edition of their annual Gizzfest in
Melbourne amongst the highlights.
Weeks before the world went into lockdown, King
Krule had performed a handful of European shows
which featured tracks from his critically acclaimed
third album ‘Man Alive!’.
Performed with a ferocious intensity, these
recordings offer fans a glimpse into a live tour that
never was, while also reminding them of the artist’s
unique stage presence and incredible
performances delivered across his entire
catalogue.
Available on CD and double LP, ‘You Heat Me Up,
You Cool Me Down’ features a setlist of 17 songs
that span the acclaimed artist’s entire discography,
including fan favourites ‘Easy Easy’, ‘Baby Blue’,
‘Out Getting Ribs’ and more.
Reissue of Augustus Pablo's Augustus Pablo At King Tubbys, originally released in 2005. The visionary musician and record producer Augustus Pablo made some of the most unique and individual recordings in the history of reggae. As with his friend and mentor, Jackie Mittoo, the man born Horace Swaby was of mixed Indian and African heritage, and although his middle-class background might have pointed him in a very different direction, the lure of Jamaica's sound system culture captured him at a young age, particularly after debilitating health problems saw him drop out of school.
Right from the start, it was not meant to be a one-off side project but the beginning of something truly unique and exciting. Their first live album “Gizmodrome Live”, to be released on November 19th, 2021, builds on the foundation laid by the band’s debut album and allows for even more unpredictable outbursts of creative energy. It perfectly captures their commitment to this band and the pioneering collaboration. The fervent genius of Stewart Copeland on drums, guitars and vocals, the incredible bass and vocals of Mark King as well as the incisive guitar work and vocal parts by Adrian Belew, brilliantly rounded off by Vittorio Cosma on keys – it all comes together in a one-of-a-kind high voltage combination on “Gizmodrome Live”. In many ways the live show even manages to surpass the recorded versions of their songs, with Stewart Copeland sharing lead vocal duties with the unmistakable voices of Adrian Belew and Mark King. Powering through a setlist comprised of their debut album as well as a fantastic selection of songs from The Police and King Crimson, Copeland, King, Cosma & Belew truly delivered a live show to be remembered.
- A1: Set Me Free
- A2: It Grieve My Heart
- A3: Jah Is The One
- A4: Leaders Of Babylon
- A5: Do Right
- A6: Liberation
- B1: I Love My Life
- B2: Soddom & Gomorrah
- B3: I've Been Around
- B4: Pure Rankin
- B5: Natural Mystic
- B6: Totally Free
- C1: Set Me Dub
- C2: It Grieve My Dub
- C3: Dub Is The One
- C4: Leader Of Dub
- C5: Dub Right
- C6: Liberation Dub
- D1: I Love My Dub
- D2: Dub Gomorrah
- D3: Dubbing Around
- D4: Pure Dubbing
- D5: Natural Mystic Dub
- D6: Totally Dub
• Horace Andy is a legendary Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, known for his
distinctive vocal style, hit songs such as ‘Skylarking’, and his acclaimed collaborations with
Massive Attack.
• ‘The King Tubby Tapes’ was first issued on Jet Star Records’ ‘Charm’ imprint. The album
contains selections from Horace Andy’s 1979 album ‘Pure Ranking’ and a second LP of dub
remixes. Includes performances by legendary reggae session musicians such as Robbie
Shakespeare, Carlton “Santa” Davis, Tony Chin and Bernard “Touter” Harvey.
• Demon Records is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of ‘The King Tubby Tapes’, pressed
on 140g black vinyl.
- A1: King Of The Dancefloor (Feat More Blonde)
- A2: The Journey Of Your Life (Feat Groovy Sistas)
- A3: Don't You Ever Lose It (Feat Frankie Lovecchio)
- B1: Dancing (Feat Groovy Sistas)
- B2: A Dream In Your Heart (Feat Dario Daneluz)
- B3: The Game (Feat Anna Fondi)
- B4: Fire (Feat Frankie Lovecchio)
- C1: Shiver (Feat Frankie Pearl)
- C2: We Used To Live Together (Feat Adika Pongo)
- C3: Boogie Oogie Oogie (Feat Frankie Pearl)
- C4: No More Missing You (Feat Groovy Sistas)
- D1: 84 King Street (Feat Groovy Sistas)
- D2: My Final Fantasy (Feat Dario Daneluz)
- D3: The Look In Your Eyes (Feat Frankie Lovecchio & Letizia Liberati)
- A1: The Sunset
- A2: There I Am
- A3: Everything I Like
- A4: Maria
- A5: Alas My Love
- B1: Taxidream
- B2: Favourite
- B3: Losing Gravity
- B4: Visitor
- B5: Adrift
- B6: My Invasions
- C1: Losing Slow (Demo)
- C2: Valley On A Planet (Demo)
- C3: The Sunset (Demo)
- C4: Favourite (Demo)
- C5: Maria (Demo)
- C6: Losing Gravity (Live)
- D1: Alas My Love (Demo)
- D2: Taxidream (Demo)
- D3: The Land Of The Bony King Of Nowhere (Demo)
- D4: Visitor (Demo)
- D5: There I Am (Demo)
- D6: My Invasions (Demo)
- D7: Losing Backwards (Demo)
King Earthquake 12" - Barry Isaac - Earthquake / Money
- A1: Red Hot (Vocal)
- A2: Red Hot (Instrumental)
- A3: Red Hot (Acapella)
- B1: Originate (Vocal)
- B2: Originate (Instrumental)
- B3: Done Deal (Exclusive 12" Track)
- B4: The Man (Bonus Beat)
- A1: Seasons Change (Vocal)
- A2: Seasons Change (Instrumental)
- A3: Seasons Change (Acapella)
- B1: Relax (Vocal)
- B2: Relax (Instrumental)
- B3: Relax (Acapella)
- A1: All I Got
- A2: All I Got (Instrumental)
- A3: All I Got (Acapella)
- B1: Thug Livin' Featuring – Planet Asia
- B2: Thug Livin' (Instrumental)
- B3: Thug Livin' (Acapella)



















