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A fine vocal Rocksteady, 'All Night' is also known as a killer dubplate owned by Duke Vin, who is regarded as a pioneer of the sound system culture in UK. On the flip ''The Tickler' was more popular than the A-side, and in UK, allegedly no one else besides Duke Vin owned the vinyl until the 90's. This song was surely a very special one in his Dub Plate box!

Taken from the epic 'Rock Steady Party' album, this Derrick Harriott's praise of the Rocksteady dancehall is for the first time ever released as a 7" single. The B-side, 'Now We Know', is an original single version of the song and is a great example of how good The Crystalites played the rhythms.

Fogh Depot are weaving a cozy melancholic cocoon in the midst of a looming, cold, unwelcoming metropolis of Moscow. The simplest way to define Fogh Depot's music would be to call it seductive brooding jazz with an electronic twist. Fogh Depot conjoin the unconjoinable, combining distorted low resolution samples with pure, atmospheric piano chords, multilayered drones with bebop changes, four-to-the-floor beat with polyrhythm, simple, easy-to-remember tunes with sophisticated effects for woodwinds, springy bass grooves with timeless ambient soundscapes

The contemporary reggae world was rocked and happily shocked when Freestyle Records unleashed Kalbata & Mixmonster's Congo Beat The Drum album in 2014. The wholly analogue, old school production combined with the classic Jamaican vocalists featured such as Little John, Major Mackerel, Echo Minott had everyone from Toddla T to Robert Elms absolutely raving about the albums genuine roots and culture feel.

And now Freestyle presents another single, Inna Skateland, that features legend Puddy Roots on vocals, whose voice is brilliantly well suited to the dub heavy, reverb laden music. The flip side, Skateland Dub, is a brand new track, not featured on the album and is 100% exclusive to this brand new release!

Originally released on 'cult' Pegaso promotional label, "THE MAN WITH ICY EYES" soundtrack was pressed on very few copies like all Pegaso editions 'out of commerce', becoming a truly sought-after gem among Record Collectors of the genre. Trombonist and arranger Giuseppe De Luca, who died shortly after, wrote this magnificent score in 1971, ripping off the main theme from "Lady In Cement" by Hugo Montenegro from the same year. The high music in here is played by the MARC 4 (Maurizio Majorana on bass, Carlo Pes on guitar, Antonello Vannucchi organ) feat. Giuseppe De Luca at trumpet and Vincenzo Restuccia at drums. Magnificent vocals by the best scatting queen Edda Dell'Orso and chorus by I Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni. KILLER!

"Jam Down Posse" by Red Dragon was recorded on the classic Studio One "Far East" rhythm, so people might feel there is something similar to the hit song 'Tune In' by Cocoa Tea. King Jammy released two one-way albums on this rhythm and featured many singers and deejays on them. This song by Red Dragon is from one of those albums and one of the best ever on this rhythm.

It is well-known that Wayne Smith, who was deeply associated with Jammys in the production of the 'Sleng Teng' rhythm, was an essential individual in embracing the digital revolution of the Reggae and Jamaican musical history. The tough bassline, symbolizing Jammys' real sound, perfectly fuses with the young Wayne Smith's high key voice to create another killer tune.

Wayne Smith scored numerous hits at Jammys including his famous 'Under Mi Sleng Teng'. He also released the album of the same name where he showcased the wavy and choppy 'E20' tune and the crisp and clear 'In Thing' song on the computerized "Come" rhythm.

STRUT in partnership with Tiger's Milk present Quema Quema Quema the first international record from famed Peruvian Band Kanaku Y El Tigre.

'The only people for me are the mad ones, mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved and desirous of everything' Jack Kerouac, 'On The Road' (1957) I f 'On The Road' lead characters Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty were modern day beatniks, they would find spirited company in Kanaku y El Tigre, a Peruvian collective who
release their sophomore album (and first internationally), 'Quema, Quema, Quema', on Strut / Tiger's Milk in May 2015.
'Quema Quema Quema' ('Burn Burn Burn' in Spanish) is the product of two years honing the Kanaku sound at the band's Lima studio. The result is a record feverish in its intensity which screams with joy and cries for help in the same breath.
Back in 2010, their debut album 'Caracoles' (2010) brought Kanaku's creative duo Nico Saba and Bruno Bellatin considerable success in Peru with a set of quirky songs inspired by American folk. Five years on, 'Quema Quema Quema' has a whole different atmosphere - euphoric, unapologetically feel-good hooks littered with electronic jitters, ghostly delays, serene Hawaiian slide guitars and a chorus of other-wordly vocal harmonies.
Featuring ten songs including two sung in English, 'Quema Quema Quema' is led by the tortured, Impassioned vocals of lead singer Nico Saba and the musical relationship between he and Bruno is key. 'With the new album, we have focused consistently on the melody and the song despite a multiinstrumental approach,' explains Bruno. 'We have always shared this process of dreaming up ideas - we both bring light and darkness into the room and use each other as creative mirrors.'
'Quema Quema Quema' features some illustrious guest vocalists adding to the Kanaku palette: Almodovar actress Leonor Watling (star of 'Talk To Her'), Peruvian singer-songwriter Pamela Rodriguez and Cecimonster frontman Sergio Saba.
Their strong musical partnership stems from the '90s, when, in their early teens, they were kicking the dust together in a punk band in downtown Lima. Now in their late twenties and both now bilingual having lived for periods in the UK and the States, their sound owes much to western music forms. Despite being very different characters with near opposite tastes in music, as life-long friends, they see the fruits of their creative partnership as a mutual appreciation living life charged, intense and always ready to 'Burn, Burn, Burn'. The lyrics of lead single, 'Si Te Mueres Manana' encapsulate the Kanaku philosophy: 'if you die tomorrow, make sure you you've done everything you ever wanted'.
To complement the fluid production and sonic oddities peppering 'Quema Quema Quema', Argentinian graphic artist and cartoonist Ricardo Liniers brings his unique childlike surrealism to the album artwork.

Ali Farke Toure and Ry Cooder have long treasured each other's recordings. They frst met in London in 1992 while both were touring Europe. It was agreed that they should 'try something together'. This 'something' became 'Talking Timbuktu', a Grammy award-winning classic album.In September '93 Toure was set to play a string of dates in the States and a week was set aside for recording his new album. Cooder was to play on a couple of tracks. A few hours' rehearsal at Cooder's Santa Monica home hinted at inspiring possibilites. The Malian guitarist's next three Californian dates all featured Cooder as special guest. The recording followed a week later by which tme Cooder had
agreed to produce the entre album and play on every track. The whole album, recorded in three days,is now available on vinyl with an additonal previously unreleased track.

An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 - 1979) compiles unreleased recordings from the archives of multiversal artist Ariel Kalma. Concerned as much with musicality as spiritual facility, Kalma's work vibrates aside fellow travelers along the great rainbow in curved air of the 1970s avant-garde. Ariel Kalma's boundary-blurring electronic music is heard here in radiant detail across a selection of work spanning his early free-jazz and spoken word trips to his infinite modular synthesizer and analogue drum machine meditations. Kalma's story is one of world travel, musical discovery and ego-abandonment. Yet for an artist who often discarded public recognition in favor of the ascetic truths in music making, An Evolutionary Music offers the imprint of an outright auteur. Born in France, but rarely in one place for long, Ariel Kalma's 1970s migrations took flight through the decade's furthest spaces of musical and spiritual invention. As a hired horn for well-known French groups, the young musician toured as far as India in 1972, a place where Kalma would learn circular breathing techniques enabling him to sustain notes without pause against tape-looping harmonies configured through his homemade effects units. Those effects evolved from Kalma's loyalty to a beloved dual ReVox set-up— two tape machines 'chained' together to form a primitive delay unit. Over looped saxophone melodies, Kalma would mix in all shades of polyphonic color,
synthesizing fragments of poetry with ambient space or setting modal flute melodies to rippling drum machine patterns and starlit field recordings. In France during the mid-1970s, Kalma was staffed as a technician at Pierre Henry's legendary Institut National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA GRM) studios - the same music concréte laboratory that spawned masterpieces by members Luc Ferrari, Iannis Xenakis, and Bernard Parmegiani. Like his predecessors and colleagues at INA GRM, Kalma's relationship to sound was both formal and non-hierarchical. To Kalma, all music existed as related universal patterns, in perfect harmony with the people, places and environments it was created. Kalma's recorded output of the 1970s culminated in the now scarcelyavailable Les Temps des Moissons (trans. The Time of Harvest) in 1975 and Osmose in 1978, a masterpiece of birdsong exploration. Osmose is double album featuring sculptor Richard Tinti, who had supplied Kalma with hours of field recordings from the rainforests of Borneo. An Evolutionary Music harvests uncatalogued music made between Kalma's private press records and onward through the many small-batch cassette releases Kalma would tender. With this collection of musical hybridity and distinct genre-corrosion, Ariel Kalma's righteous bucking of both popular music trends and the academic tenets of the avant-garde falls squarely in the spirit of other renegades of sacred new-music such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and Charlemagne Palestine.

Quadriga Recordings celebrates its 1st anniversary and invites Berlin based Djane Ela H. and Hamburg Villanova Club resident Christopher Lawrenz (Own, Body Parts) to deliver two massive remixes for Alpamayo by Retrosynco, releasing them not only digital but this time also on limited Vinyl format. Don't miss it!

Ata Kak's cassette Obaa Sima fell on deaf ears when it was self-released in Ghana and Canada in 1994. The music on the recording - an amalgam of highlife, Twi-language rap, funk and disco - is presented with the passion of a Prince record and the DIY-bedroom-recording lo-fi charm of early Chicago house music. The astute self-taught song craft and visionary blend of sounds and rhythms has made the album a left-field cult favorite among adventurous listeners worldwide. Awesome Tapes From Africa founder Brian Shimkovitz found the tape in 2002 in Cape Coast, Ghana - one of only a few ever pressed - and later made it the inaugural post on the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog. Hundreds of thousands of downloads, YouTube views, music video tributes and remixes, as well as years of mystery regarding Ata Kak's whereabouts, culminate in this remastered release featuring rare photos and the full back story of one of the internet age's most enigmatic musicians

In August of 2014 a request was sent out by Gilles Peterson for someone to issue the incredibly rare Brazilian LP Tam...Tam...Tam...!
This is because it's an extraordinary album, only issued once in 1958 as part of Mieco Askanasy's 1950s touring 'Braziliana' show. It's so rare not even Gilles Peterson has a copy.

The original music was written and produced with José Prates and as an album it stands out as a keystone in the development of the Brazilian sound that was to explode around the world in the decade to follow. This is the first time this landmark LP has been issued since 1958. An original, if you ever found one, would cost you in excess of £1000.

THE MUSIC:
The reason Gilles Peterson wanted this album reissued is because it is so extraordinary. Musically it works on a number of levels - firstly that the solid blueprint of 1960s Brazilian music runs throughout it. For example, if you listen to Track Three Side One 'Nana Imborô' you will hear 'Mas-Que-Nada'.

Secondly, the infectious rhythms, melodies and exotic sounds that emanate from this album are deep, raw and totally engaging. And the more you listen to Tam...Tam...Tam...! the more you hear its importance and influence.

This rare reissue comes at a crucial time, when in our connected and information saturated world few important things have escaped attention and reappraisal. Finding anything new and genuinely incredible is a rare feat.

Recorded to the same rhythm track as 'New Tactics' by Admiral Tibet. Horace Martin, who is known for his major works during the late 70's to the early 80's, has released the 'Mix Up' LP on the Redman label. His deep sounding vocal and Redman's synthesizer works result in this essential "Geow Now" tune.

One of the Redman's earliest works is this song called 'When I Release' by Puddy Roots, who was a very active artist during the 80's. King Tubby was part of the production and you can really hear it when the tune's heaviness gets melted with Puddy's impressive singing style.

Redman has versioned one of the most popular dancehall rhythm of the 80's, the 'Stalag', to create another unique sound. This track allowed Wayne Palmer to pass to the listeners his tender lyricism with his melancholic melodies.

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt afrikanischer Popmusik! Zwei CDs mit insgesamt 22 Titeln, die sie
verzaubern werden!

01. ABDUL RAHEEM - GEORGI
02. BIN-KALAMA - AHADI YA DAMA
03. THEM MUSHROOMS - JAMBO BWANA
04. KAWESA - SEMUSAJJA
05. LESASA AVEC BILENGE MUSICA - VAMBOLO
06. NII MANTSE - OLAKAMI
07. BILENGE MUSICA DU ZAIRE - WAZAZI WANGU
08. THE MAGAZINES BAND - DODODO
09. TSHISUNGU KALOMBA & KASSALA - WANGAY
10. WAVES BAND - ANBA LANGAR
11. WAVES BAND - DAN LAKUOR

01. ACHIENG ABURA - SPIRIT OF A WARRIOR
02. ALBERT SHEHI - AMBA LET´S GO
03. ALI COM - MOYO
04. ALI MWALIGULU - KHANIFA
05. ANGELA CHIBALONZA - JUBILEE
06. DIAMOND STARS - KUBO
07. GIDI GIDI MAJIMAJI - MIELA MIELA
08. JACKEY MALLE - NJOO
09. JAY DEE - FARAJA
10. JEMMIMAH THIONGO - MWENYE BARAKA
11. JOMENES - AFRICAN WOMAN

A 25 year old radio reporter's personal journey in the final, most repressive moments of a hated regime. The last years of apartheid were the most brutal as a low-level civil war was battled out on the dusty streets of South Africa's black townships. Released on the 25th anniversary of the day Nelson Mandela walked to freedom, ZA86 is edited from nine tapes in the unique cassette archive of Turnstyle News, unlocked for the first time from a Cape Town cellar. It takes the listener to a violent world with moments of great beauty. The reporter, far from being edited out, is very much present, as are the thumps and bumps he hears in his headphones. From a May Day call to arms by Winnie Mandela to the extreme views of white right wingers; from 19 year old platoon leaders to the aftermath of an attack by police and soldiers in Soweto; from the words of envoy Terry Waite to the funeral of a television cameraman and the Band Aid-like pop song released by the apartheid regime, ZA86 unflinchingly documents the disturbing reality of 1986 in South Africa. A journey into the heart of apartheid.

"Don't let the title fool you; this is not a record of electronic music, but of twelve tunes performed by a small instrumental combo: three guitars, drums, piano and a double bass. There is a sixth instrument: the sound recording machine, which functions electronically. By amplifying, superimposing, drawing out and reducing the sounds created by the instrumental combo, the electronic recorder imbues each piece of music, be it already well-known or an "original", with a brand-new, highly unusual and extremely attractive flavor." (from the original Lp liner notes.

Don't let the band name fool you: this is Luis Enriquez BACALOV that plays an exciting mix of instrumental beat-surf-rock'n'roll with the help of Enrico Ciacci, Alessandroni and Tosoni on guitar, the Munaro brothers on drums and Simeone on double bass. Enriquez himself plays organ, harpsichord and electric piano. In some pieces he also uses the "Onde Martenot", an electronic instrument named after his inventor. The track list mixes originals composed by Bacalov and a few covers, including an awesome version of Morricone's Ninna Nanna.



Track list: Side A: Incontro a Roma (Enriquez); Spanish Drag (Enriquez); Walk Don't Run '64 (John Smith); Il Guardiano (Tosoni); Ninna Nanna '65 (Morricone); Lady Guitar (De Mutiis). Side B: Fender with Anger (Enriquez); Foglie Gialle (Enriquez); Tequila (Chuck Rio); Montemario by Night (Enriquez); Guitar Spyder (De Mutiis); Rigel 1 (Enriquez).

Originally released by RCA in 1965. Original artwork. Sound restoring and master done by Roberto Zamori at Film Music Art Studio.

Ok I know you weren't expecting more great Onyeabor remixes, we weren't, but here they are.

The legendary John Talabot from Spain remixes the Hot Chip cover of Onyeabor's 'Atomic Bomb.' Love Fingers and Secret Circuit from L.A., get together as Secret Fingers and mix 'Let's Fall In Love.' The amazing Japanese artist Oorutaichi remixes the apt 'Atomic Bomb' in his own very unique free style, and from Nigeria Ikon remixes this African Hip Hop reinterpretation of Onyeabor's 'Smooth and Good' done by Show Dem Camp & Funbi. Nuff said

Berlin-based quintet Onom Agemo & the Disco Jumpers follow up their 7" single - 2 Feet / Kibili - with an album of poly-rhythmic afro grooves, sax and psyched-out synths. The group has developed a unique groove and style of playing, constructing a collection of eight songs, that throws together tight and funky influences from
Morocco and Ethiopia with crunchy analogue synths, spacey organs and effects, and fluid sax and flute lines for a sound that's all their own. The LP is a collection of compositions by traveling sax man JohannesSchleiermacher, inspired by his journeys through the world. The band even travelled to Morocco for playing and recording with a quartet of percussionists/ singers in the Issawa tradition, a Sufi Trance Brotherhood in central Morocco. Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers have been playing together for years, and it shows. Taking Schleiermacher's compositions, the group ehearse the songs andplay them live to finalize the arrangement before recording the tracks to different 4-track tape machines, mostly at drummer Bernd Oezsevim's rehearsal space. Take the track - Cool Runnings' for example: locked in the groove, the intertwined saxand synth melody moves up and down the Anichihoye scale. Not to be confusedwith the comedy of the same title, the track is named after a bar in Berlin Friedrichshain, where friends of the band put on their night Tropical Timewarp. This interlocking of groove and melody is a signature element, and also inspired the title of the album. Cranes and Carpets alludes to changing patterns, and howthe parts of a wider whole can work together in synchronicity. Combine an almost telepathic group intuition with the fact that Schleiermacher also engineered and produced the record, and the pieces start to add up to why the Disco Jumpers sound like they do.It's an authentic mix of North African rhythms and modes, live jazz musicianship and analogue synths that's reminiscent of electronic African pioneers like William Onyeabor and Manu Dibango as much as modern ensembles like The Heliocentrics. While the album sounds like it could have been discovered on a dusty old tape down a Marrakesh marketplace, it has a modern twist in the neat craftsmanship and tight arrangements that ensures a blend of styles that couldn't be anyone else.

It's been a long time between drinks for Melbourne's mighty Afrobeat juggernaut The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (The POAO). To get everyone warmed up for next year's much anticipated LP release, two of the group's vocalists, rapper 1/6 and singer / percussionist Lamine Sonko are fronting alternate sides of a split 7" out on HopeStreet Recordings. A highly nutritious Afro freaky snack to keep enthusiasts of all things raw and righteous satisfied till the main course arrives.

The A Side, "Cosmetic Love," is a rumination on the nature of relationships by one of Australia's leading rap lyricists 1/6. The track's life began as a jam session that went to tape in the early days of the Hope Street studio, based on an idea by PutBacks guitarist Tom Martin. The session lay unused for years till 1/6 came across it and threw down these inspired rap verses. Public Opinion producer and musical director Tristan Ludowyk laid in some organ, additional percussion and brass and suddenly "Cosmetic Love" wasn't just a song, it was an A-side. An A-side born of happy accident.

On the B side: The Public Opinion Six, formerly The Afrobiotics. The rhythm section behind the POAO, start with the same idea and re-imagine it, creating a whole new song.With lyrics wfritten and performed by Lamine Sonko, "Jappo," in the Senegalese language of Wolof means "unite". Behind Lamine's straight-out-of-Dakar vocal stylings, The Public Opinion Six bring a heavy 1970s Lagos influenced groove, creating a pumping Pan African melange - sure to get motors running everywhere, from West Africa to worldwide.

Between them, Namibian Australian 1/6 (aka Aaron Stephanus) and Senegal born and raised Lamine represent the cream of African Australian vocalists and songwriters. 1/6 has won numerous plaudits in his decade long rap career, from the Hilltop Hoods award in 2010 to a critically acclaimed solo album Electronic Mail released by Pang Productions in 2012. Lamine grew up in Dakar in a lauded family of the griot tradition and is has followed been training in traditional Sabar music and dance forms since childhood. Now the unofficial Southern hemisphere ambassador of the Sonko clan, he brings a fresh angle on Afrobeat direct from Dakar to Melbourne. Both 1/6 and Lamine are at the vanguard of the new generation of African music makers and makers of African music in Australia.


"'The percussive, horn laden funk monster unleashed by Nigerian afro-beat inventor Fela Kuti in the 1960's is in good hands with this formidable Melbourne ensemble'" - Michael Dwyer (The Age)

"'Complementing their authentic Afro-beat groove with upfront rapping MCs...the Public Opinion conglomerate creates an irresistible mix'¦an enticing & proudly funky affair.'" - Seth Jordan (ABC Limelight)

"1/6 is an African-Australian who is emerging as one of Aussie hip hops freshest talents." - Jim Steps (All Aussie Hip Hop)

"Melbourne's best kept secret" - Soul Clap Records

Copenhagen's Music For Dreams are on a roll right now with a wave of top-quality new vinyl releases and this latest EP is no exception. Bar owner, producer, Balearic DJ and sublime record collector Peter Visti returns to the label with his vision for the open-minded dance floor - 'Wanna Dance'. The Dane is pushing all the right buttons here and this is possibly his best offering so far - drumming balearic madness, funky keys and the relentless 'Wanna Dance' hook make it a peak time killer of a track. The Kenneth Bager Experience's 'Creative Impulse' (recorded in Ibiza) delivers a Mr Fingers-inspired Calypso groove full of summer feel, beautiful strings,  prominent hats, warm lush keys and cosmic almost psychedelic moogs - essential sunset material!
'Cotton Club' (edited by KBE) is flute player, programmer, producer,  local Ibicenco and all round Mr Nice Guy Ingo Zen's debut on Music For Dreams - twittering percussion, rolling baseline, swirling synths, haunting keys, a live recorded flute solo - you can smell the sunshine. Danish guitar virtuoso Jacob Gurevitsch has a love for Buenos Aires, Ennio Morricone and Italian soundtracks and has Grace Jones on his resume. His gorgeous 'Lovers In Paris'(The Tonovi Remix) combines smooth bass and sensitive guitar playing with electronics over a sharp house groove.

Far Out Recordings re-release the seminal debut album from Azymuth.

In conjunction with compiler and highlife researcher Dr. Markus Coester, Soundway Records present a very special release. A triple 180g gatefold vinyl (with a bonus 7 inch). This 45 includes the two first ever recordings by a certain Fela Ransome Kuti with his band The Highlife Rakers. Recorded by Melodisc in London in 1960 both tracks have been unearthed after more than fifty years in hiding.
In many ways this compilation is a prequel of sorts to Soundway's groundbreaking Nigeria & Ghana Special compilations, telling the early story of modern highlife's foundation & formulation. It traces the music from West Africa to London, adding elements of jazz, mambo and calypso along the way and paving the way for the afro sounds of the 1970s. Accompanied by 12 page vinyl booklet, the notes by Dr. Coester include rare photographs, labels and advert reproductions alongside some stunning and very rare recordings

The art of Kammerflimmer Kollektief is deception. It is a persuasive and seductive art, resulting in incorrect assessments and doubtful perceptions. It is an art of disorientation and misdirection. In the Kollektief's current production Désarroi (disorientation), their 10th and wildest album, they do it again: Welcome to the Kammerflimmery!

Editions Mego presents the first recordings by Edvard Graham Lewis released this century. Having made his name in legendary punk/experimental outfits Wire, Dome and He Said Lewis has developed an exceptional voice with ceaseless exploration of a wide variety of musical forms.

There are lots of producers out there who try really hard to do "something else". Then, there are these chosen few artists that effortlessly are "something else" in their own right. Durian Brothers and their magical array of modified turntables, sequencers and machines belong in this selected circle. So this mini album is a quite special and unconventional release, but that doesn't mean it's not dance music - quite the opposite! It just means it's perfect for Kontra-Musik. Labeled DAS MACHT MODERN, one would perhaps expect cold, intellectual sounds reminiscent of steel, glass and silicon, but on the contrary, the soundscape rather lends itself to feverish fantasies about the explorations of ancient cultures and malaria-stricken jungle expeditions. Listen to Oni Baba, for example: You can actually see the shadows from franticly dancing bodies flickering across the torch-lit walls of Angkor Wat. Or take the slow but decidedly sweaty Weggeputscht, in which you can clearly sense this pervading play between sounds and rhythms that stem from crumbling temples, huts and bonfires and the modern, yet analog sounds from altered machines. In fact, this mini album is so soaked in organic movement and compulsive rhythms that it should probably be tried out as a experimental treatment for coma patients. We dare you not to dance!

Sublime Frequencies presents Music of Tanzania, the latest volume of field recordings from Laurent Jeanneau's extensive archive.

- Stunning recordings made on location between December 1999 and March 2000, compiling sacred and profane songs and dances of the Hadza, Datoga, and Makonde people.

- Highlights include stoned ecstatic dancing in a Hadza encampment; a drunken celebration of preteen sexual initiation from a Makonde fishing village; baboon imitations performed on the malimba; electrified Islamic trance percussion; and useful tips for amateur hyrax hunters.

- Limited edition double LP tip-on gatefold package.

- Includes striking photographs by James Stephenson and detailed liner notes by Jeanneau.

The awesome full length sophomore album release by Contact Field Orchestra - simply titled "Vol. 2" - limited edition of 400 copies not to be repressed !

- First time vinyl reissue of this tremendous 1976 guitar/percussion album.

- From the original multi-track master tapes

- Four panel insert has info on the making of the album as told by Jorge Trasante, lyrics in English and Spanish + amazing session photos by Enrique Abal Oliú.

Under the dark cloud of an early 1970's dictatorship, most musicians fled Uruguay. Not the nation's best, iconoclast Eduardo Mateo. It was during this dark period that Mateo reached his zenith as a composer and arranger, with a help from famous Afro-folk percussionist Jorge Trasante. On this album, Mateo goes deep into sonic explorations of percussion variations and guitar techniques. Mateo's voice also underwent a mutation for the album, which many people thought the result of a deep mental illness, Trasante explains that Mateo used modulations drawn from Arabic music to get into different characters with his voice.' This record is now considered indisputable evidence of Mateo's genius. If Eduardo Mateo was a genius, and that fact no one who has heard his music doubts, then 'Mateo y Trasante' is his masterpiece. There were some who said that Mateo and Trasante were both crazy, that Mateo could not sing. Mateo and Trasante resisted the vile and ruthless criticism of those skeptics: those who resisted the quality and depth of this record. Mateo and Trasante resisted, immovable, as are those who know that history will have its day of judgment. To paraphrase someone who knew music and much more, for the truth and Mateo, I sign my name here. - Daniel Figares.

Our sincere thanks to Enrique Abal Oliú for allowing us to use his amazing photos, and to Daniel Figares for allowing us to translate text from his book Mateo y Trasante: Treinta Años, 1976-2006, which is the source for all of Jorge Trasante's musings on this epochal album, which are included in this reissue.

Brand new album 34 OTO SANAYI' from Turkish psychedelic band based in Istanbul, offers you a unique and fabulous sound you've never heard before! The music will strike a blow to your head and your body then you will immediately find yourself surrounded by the rhythm. You'll feel the true passion even if you don't speak Turkish as there is no fake posing...

BaBa Zula is the face of modern Turkish Music, blending the sound of electric saz, dub and traditional shamanistic rituals into a hypnotic urban psychedelia. Poetry and theatrical aspects are also a plus... After several changes in the line-up since their formation in 1996, they recorded their 8th album. Studio album 34 OTO SANAYI' is recorded in 2014 in Istanbul with the current members Murat Ertel, Levent Akman, Can Aydemir, Özgür Cakirlar and Melike Sahin. The album also features Eren Devran Ertel, Elena Hristova and Periklis Tsoukalas as special guests.

180gr. Heavy Black Vinyl in gatefold sleeve, contains 50x70cm two sided poster, an insert with lyrics and postcard signed by the band members

As soon as Stampede hit the shelves back in April 2003, the album was greeted by a wealth of fervent accolades from the music press, club and radio DJs alike. You can finally get this classic Quantic Soul Orchestra record back where it belongs, on heavyweight 180g wax.
Joined by an 11-strong band of supremely talented musicians, Will & Co belt out their very own electrifying brand of funk, soul, jazz and afro-beat.
Three of the albums ten tracks are voiced by Alice Russell, who first appeared alongside Will on his second Quantic LP. Of these, a breathtaking cover of 4Heros Hold It Down remains a highlight in the QSOs repertoire to this day.

Wonderful remastered reissue of the impossible to find Afro Disco bomb 'Sex Revoluton' by Max B, originally released back in 1978 on the tiny Spanish label Movieplay and now changing hands for big bucks with collectors. All tracks are great but the real standouts here are the super funky percussion-heavy title track 'Sex Revolution' plus the full-length nine and a half minute LP version of the killer flute-driven Afro groover 'Super Bwana' as well as the incredible and highly sought after Serge Gainsbourg inspired 'Possesion', a sleazy slow burner with sultry French spoken word vocals. Essential.