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Classics Volume 6 - The MK Mixes

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (4 To The Floor)

10,99 €*

Skratch Practice Vol. 2 Neon Magenta Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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4 To The Floor continues to champion heritage tracks with Volume 6 of the Classics 12” series, ‘The MK Mixes’. As one of the most in demand producers of the halcyon period of house in the early 90s, this special delivery features three gems from MK’s impressive catalogue of remixes. Kicking off the A-Side MK remixes 4th Measure Men’s ‘4 You’, as his signature 90s-era bumping bassline, sax accents and vocal chop come into play, features typical of all his very best work. Up next the trademark MK sounds continue, as his deep and grooving mix of ‘Free Your Mind’ by Geoffrey Williams powers through the speakers. On the flip MK’s Club Mix of ‘I Never Knew Love’ by house legend Chez Damier rounds off the release, as this 12” package offers a masterclass in remixing from one of dance music’s most loved artists.

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DJ T-Kut

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Play With)

10,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BMG)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Dj T-Kut presents Volume 2 of SKRATCH PRACTICE, a
very complete vinyl for scratch practices, two vinyl will
come out one of 12 "and another of 7", in the 12" you can
find several Skip Proofs at 133 BPM to be able to play
with the ultrapich of the plate, very used right now in
scratch practices, 2 beats perfect for practicing scratch,
drum kits and bass line and on the B side you will find
several skip proof at 100 BPM, 1 beat for practice scratch
and 2 powerful basses perfect for playing with them.

Also from this version will be a 7" vinyl for portables in
which you can find 6 skip proof of 133 BPM for Side A and
6 skip proof of 100 BPM for Face B.
These vinyls are designed so that you can flow as soon as
you put them on the plate!

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Seeed

BAM BAM

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Geography Black Vinyl Edition

Tom Misch

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Beyond The Groove)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Olsen)

Todd Terje

It's The Arps EP

Soopastole Edits Volume 4

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The modern classic is back!!! Oslo’s magic music maker Todd Terje has already gained a wunderkind like reputation for his gentle yet potent productions (we won’t mention the “E” word here) on labels like Full Pupp, Permanent Vacation and Running Back on top of being one of the best remixers money can buy (Shit Robot, Bryan Ferry, Dølle Jllle etc etc). What is there left for him to do? Establish a label of his own! “It’s The Arps” is the starting signal for Olsen. And what a splendid one it is. Created from scratch and solely on the mythical synthesizer ARP 2600 (check www.letsnerd.com for help), it features four tracks (reads instant classics) that couldn’t be a better followup to his 2011 super hit EP “Ragysh”. Towering over the assortment is the laser crime scene called “Inspector Norse”. Defying genres and blinkers, this is finest goose bumps dance music that makes you whistle along, laughing and crying all at the same time – but the rest isn’t half bad either. The short, but sweet “Myggsommer” gives away Terje’s secret love for quirky exotika, whereas “Swing Star Pt 1” and its brother have a (balearic) brilliance and witchery to them that is rarely found nowadays. Released on Olsen Records and housed in a beautiful sleeve courtesy of Bendik Kaltenborn (www.benkalt.no). 100% Arp 2600 and 200% Todd Terje.

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DJ Soopasoul

7" | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Soopastole)

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Etage Noir)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soopastole is back with anaother pair of amazing jazz-funk-reworks!

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Parov Stelar

The Princess

20,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mood Mosaic 15 - Supercool

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Mood Mosaic)

29,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Street Worms Clear Vinyl Edition

Viagra Boys

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Year001)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Break New Soil)

Gregor Tresher

Athousand Nights

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2017 | UK | Reissue (Text)

Four Tet

New Energy 2024 Repress

37,99 €*

LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (XL)

Release: 2017 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With his single SW 9 9SL / Planet in August Four Tet gave us a hint he has New Energy for a new album which will be released in October.

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Adele

Jordi Limited Violet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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produced by Rick Rubin & Paul Epworth

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Maroon 5

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Interscope)

12,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Another Side Black Vinyl Edition

Leo Nocentelli

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

12,99 €*

Kid A Mnesia Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Things happen for a reason, man.” - Leo Nocentelli

At just fourteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As an original member of The Meters, Leo wrote instant classics “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky A–Way,” but his greatest moment on record may be totally unknown, until now…

Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ‘70s and then lost to the ages, Another Side is one of Leo Nocentelli’s most personal and definitive moments ever cut to tape. A mixture of funky folk and rootsy, raw emotion (think Bill Withers and James Taylor meeting Allen Toussaint at Link Wray’s Three Track Shack), this previously unheard album shines like the sun on a spring day on the New Orleans fairgrounds. Backing Nocentelli is an all-star line-up of New Orleans royalty, including Allen Toussaint (piano), James Black (drums), and both George Porter Jr. (bass) and Zigaboo Modeliste (drums) of The Meters. Deeply introspective, the album features nine original songs by Nocentelli, plus a soulful rendition of Elton John’s “Your Song.” Half a century later, these recordings sound just as fresh and engaging as the day they were recorded.

What makes Another Side even more extraordinary, however, is the fact that the album—which could have easily become a classic in the ‘70s singer-songwriter canon—sat untouched for decades; miraculously surviving the devastating blow of Hurricane Katrina, only to be found 2,000 miles away at a Southern California swap meet in 2018 by record collector Mike Nishita. The album’s incredible journey is documented in the liner notes by Sam Sweet (New York Times, Los Angeles Times), who spoke with Nocentelli and Nishita about the recording process and re-discovery of the tapes. Sweet’s full notes appear in the release’s accompanying booklet alongside hand-written lyrics by Leo Nocentelli. The first pressing of the vinyl edition will feature gold-foil treatment on cover and spine. Rounding out the package are original designs and layout by the multi GRAMMY®–winning designer Masaki Koike.

While Nocentelli was embedded in New Orleans’ R&B scene, he was also deeply inspired by the late 1960’s and early 1970’s rising singer-songwriters, and soon found himself exploring sounds that were miles away from his band’s hard-edged funk riffs. Whenever he had downtime from session work and shows, Nocentelli spent much of 1971 recording his newly-found, reflective, diaristic songs at Matassa’s Jazz City studio. Backed by longtime Meters bandmate George Porter Jr. on bass, Nocentelli crafted the lineups for his sessions to match the tone of the material. When he needed a pianist, he’d call Toussaint. For percussion on the slower songs, he used drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, but many of the tracks featured James Black—a frequent collaborator of Toussaint’s and a member of Ellis Marsalis’ jazz group, whom Nocentelli recalls as an “unbelievable” musician. The recording, which Nocentelli fondly refers to as his “country-and-western-album,” paints a picture of a young man yearning to find a sense of purpose. “I was going through some changes which were reflected in the songs that I wrote during that time,” he tells Sweet. Among them is the mid-tempo “Getting Nowhere,” in which he expresses a sense of frustration, as he watches others find success around him. Similarly, “Till I Get There” details a man who is struggling to persevere in his goals. In the soaring “Tell Me Why,” meanwhile, the singer contemplates the existence of God. Other songs center around fictional characters. “Pretty Mittie,” for instance, is sung from the perspective of a farmer who longs to give up his arduous life for the city. “You’ve Become a Habit” is about a man who falls for a sex worker named Fancy. “Riverfront” is based on stories that singer Aaron Neville shared, about his days working on the New Orleans waterfront. Nocentelli also chose to perform one cover: Elton John’s breakthrough hit, “Your Song.” The guitarist made the recently-released ballad his own—infusing it with a loping, head-nodding cadence, ever so tastefully “funkdafied” in true New Orleans fashion. By the time that the album was finished, The Meters were busier than ever. They had just signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and were now the official house band at Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint. There, they not only backed artists on Toussaint’s Sehorn label but had also become the go-to session musicians for every major artist that recorded in New Orleans. Rather than focus on a solo career, Nocentelli poured his energies into The Meters’ next album. Eventually, time moved on, as did Nocentelli, and he decided to store his unreleased solo album at Sea-Saint for safekeeping. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Sea-Saint was among its victims. While Toussaint (who passed away in 2015) had sold the hallowed studio in the mid-90s, hundreds of his archived recordings remained in the building. The new owner salvaged what he could from the flooded building, shipping everything to a storage facility in Southern California. Boxes of tapes sat there for more than a decade before moving to another unit, which foreclosed a year later. The contents were purchased in a blind auction and, days later, sold at a swap meet. The fact that record collector Mike Nishita just happened to be there was pure kismet. Nishita, a DJ and brother to “Money Mark” Nishita (of Beastie Boys fame), recognized the Sea-Saint label on the boxes and purchased all 673 master tapes at the swap meet. He inspected the contents with his friend Mario Caldato Jr., the longtime audio engineer for the Beastie Boys. In addition to masters from Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey, and Toussaint, there was a quarter-inch reel with Nocentelli’s name on it. As Caldato and Nishita played it back, they knew they had something special. “There was nothing else like it,” writes Sweet. “An acoustic album by the greatest funk guitarist who ever lived. It was the tape Mike would play for people to show them how special the collection was. The best album in the vault was something nobody knew existed.” Eventually, Nishita and Nocentelli connected, “He was so grateful, so sincere,” recalls Nishita. “I just kept thinking about how this music needs to be heard...Especially when you look at all the things that had to fall into place for these tapes to survive and be discovered this way.” As Nocentelli simply puts it, “Things happen for a reason, man.” And now, Light in the Attic is thrilled to give this remarkable record the spotlight it so rightly deserves. 50 years later, all is not lost.

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Radiohead

3LP | 2021 | UK | Original (XL)

43,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Modern)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Radiohead announces KID A Mnesia, a multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of Kid A and Amnesiac, out November 5th via XL Recordings. KID A Mnesia collects Radiohead’s fourth and fifth albums alongside the debut of a newly compiled third disc titled Kid Amnesiae. Exclusive to this release, Kid Amnesiae is comprised of unearthed material culled from the Kid A / Amnesiac sessions. Along with alternate versions and elements of Kid A and Amnesiac album tracks and B-Sides, Kid Amnesiae features the never-before-heard "If You Say the Word” (available now as a digital single) and a previously unreleased studio recording of "Follow Me Around.”

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Nils Petter Molvaer

Stitches

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don't Laugh Richie Hawtin Remix Yellow Vinyl Edition

Winx

12" | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Sorted)

Orderly Chaos Gold Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A heavyweight classic! 'Don't Laugh' is one of those records, you know you've heard it, you may not who, what or where, but you know it!
The original Winx mix is a classic, often imitated, never bettered, but the real gem here is Richie Hawtin's manic, almost borderline sinister 15+ minute reworking.
Monster doesn't do it justice, tweaked out, narcotic, minimalist jacking gear. A dope combination of severe LOW end and some bracing sine waves that cut straight through. This one will surely test any club sound-system, if the venue is built for it you will know! This is one for the real heads, pure late night business oft overlooked for the more famous A-side, but trust us - Hawtin's mix will smash any dance! Oh, and there's an insane laughing acappella for those who want to mix and blend! Reissued, remastered and re-sorted for 2017 by Above Board Records with the full involvement of Nervous Records NYC.

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Alignment

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Voxnox)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We know it. You know it. Alignment is here to stay. Delivering the next round of high quality tracks on vinyl for Vn043, his "Orderly Chaos" EP mirrors our suspicious times like nothing else but techno can.

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Wamono A To Z Volume II - Japanese Funk 1970-1977 Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (180g)

God Sound Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the highly acclaimed Volume I, dig further into the Wamono sound - the cream of the Japanese jazz, funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan!

Fully licensed Nippon Columbia and Victor Japan masters available for the first time outside of Japan, featuring rarities from Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media, Hiroshi Sato, Bread & Butter, Hatsumi Shibata, Fujio Tokita and more!
Tracks selection by Japanese super diggers and Wamono specialists DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite and Chintam
Mastered and cut at Timmion Cutting Lab
Artwork by Yoxxx (Tokyo)
180g heavy vinyl pressing, reverse board jacket

Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in 2015 which instantly sold-out. The book unveiled a myriad of beautiful and rare records from a highly prolific, but still then unknown, Japanese groove scene. After many years working as a record buyer for several stores, DJ Chintam opened his own Blow Up shop in 2018 in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. A member of the Dayjam Crew and a specialist of soul, funk, rare groove and disco music, Chintam is also an expert of the home-brewed Wamono grooves.
He supervised and wrote the Wamono A to Z records guide book together with Yoshizawa
In this second volume of the acclaimed Wamono series, Yoshizawa and Chintam dig into some of the best and rarest funky tunes produced in Japan during the seventies. Put the needle on the record, turn up the volume and dig right now into the Wamono sound - the cream of the Japanese jazz, funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan!

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Boogiemonsters

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Stand High)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 500 copies on clear vinyl in gatefold outfit.

"God Sound" was the sophomore album of the Boogiemonsters from 1997, being a duo then consisting of Vex Da Vortex and Mondo McCann after their debut "Riders Of The Storm: The Underwater Album" from 1994 as a four-men crew. The album production was mostly handled by themselves, additional beats were provided by Domingo, John Doe and Caspa. Features included Philly poetress Bahamadia as well as Tysha.

"God Sound" is not the cliched distillation of sophomore album angst that has become the norm in modern day artistry. Unlike many musicians who feel pressed to release a second album, Mondo & Vex took their time, honed their production skills and solidified their personal situations. Like God's true sound - that tree growing in the midst of urban decay; the sunflower making its way through a crack in concrete, a sunshower dissipating the dirt, grime and heat of a hot summer day - "God Sound" flourished around advents of human civilization.

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Stand High Patrol

Midnight Walkers

Baby Baby Please / True Destiny

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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New repress of the first album "Midnight Walkers". We have used the same vinyl metal works as the first 2012 pressing.

After several releases on 7 and 12inch, Stand High Patrol, the french crew of Pupajim, Rootystep and the legendary Mac gyva is back with a long awaited LP. With strictly brand new killer dubadub, digital and hip hop tracks including crazy echos, “Midnight Walkers” is totally unique! It contains all elements of a Stand High live session and offers an evolving dubadub. With the crazy voice of Pupajim and totally timeless dubs, the first album of the three “dubadub musketeerz” deals with the particular originality that made of Stand High Patrol one of the toughest dub sound system of France. Every bass addict and every dub fan should enter the Stand High experience. If you are ready, fasten your seat belt and run the track! We hope that you will enjoy the flight!

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The Unknown Artist

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Gallery)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Be With)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Gallery launch is upon us, and what Art Masterpieces they are!
Causing shock waves across Trafalgar Square at the recent People’s Vote March this ludicrously large, galactic gem finally sees the light of day on 12”, backed with a rapturous disco roof raiser.
The crescendo to a protest and a track that many have been scouring the internet for ever since, ‘Baby Baby Please’ couples a huge ‘70s vocal with a perfectly accompanied stomping ‘80s arp-laden beat to create a record that will light the fire of revolution in even the most indifferent of souls.
Flip it over for a cosmic-tinged, disco powerhouse in the form of ‘True Destiny’. Think glitz, glam and downright unadulterated ecstasy, channelled from disco’s glory days to the modern dancefloor at the drop of a needle.
Like the track, support the movement - donations will be made to the cause.
Early support from… one or two of the best DJs in the world as no other **** has it.
Buy now... be the 3rd person to play it...

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Marcia Griffiths

Sweet And Nice

34,99 €*

Bandana Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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140g vinyl, remastered, double LP with the original LP along with a second record of 14 rare tracks Sweet And Nice is the vital debut album from Jamaica’s undisputed first lady of song Marica Griffiths. It’s reggae at its most soulful. Slinking through a tight ten tracks of R&B and pop-sourced material, it became an instant best seller. 45 years after its initial release the LP is available again on vinyl, now as a double LP, with an extra record collecting 14 rare tracks.

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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Keep Cool)

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Madlib, the prolific producer and adept sampler with a record collection spanning all genres and eras and Freddie Gibbs, the gravel-voiced braggadocios rapper, a vocal athlete. As a pair, they exude a natural chemistry and craft an alchemical music. Reunited after their widely celebrated 2014 album Piñata, Gibbs and Madlib are back with Bandana, a brand new collaboration for 2019. Bandana includes first single, “Flat Tummy Tea,” which received critical praise upon release from the likes of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Vulture, Pitchfork, FADER, GQ, and more. The album will also include features from Pusha T, Killer Mike, Yasiin Bey, and Black Thought and more.

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Lou Donaldson

Alligator Bogaloo

18,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Rough Trade)

Amyl And The Sniffers

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Skint)

Fatboy Slim

The Best Of

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Animal63)

The Blaze

Territory EP

23,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (AD93)

Moin

Moot!

Baltimore Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Moin is a three-piece group consisting of Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead of Raime alongside longtime collaborator Valentina Magaletti of Tomaga, Shit & Shine & CZN. Released on AD93, Moot (2021) marks a creative left turn for the label and a pared-down studio approach for the artists involved.

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Nina Simone

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

35,99 €*

Celebration Rock Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Baltimore, an album originally made for the jazz label CTI, is a deep cut in Nina Simone's catalog. It's truly a lost sound found and we're proud to feature it here in celebration of her 90th birthday.

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Nina Simone's Baltimore is pressed on (AAA) 180g Red Marble vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a gatefold, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. The (AAA) lacquers were cut from tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Japandroids

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

33,99 €*

The Notorious J.B.'s (The Notorious B.I.G. Vs. James Brown)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why you'll love it...
The second VMP Essentials release went out to something like 20 people; we’ve obviously pressed many more than that for this release of Japandroids’ breakout LP, one of the 2012’s best albums for remembering your friends and the nights you can’t remember. On exclusive “Fire’s Highway” colored vinyl with a 20-page lyric and photo booklet, our edition goes well with a pint.

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The B.I.G. Payback

LP | 2019 | US

Faith Of The Misbelievers EP 2024 Repress

Release: 2019 / US

Genre: Hip Hop

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Listening to these new mixes including Biggie spitting makes you wonder how he was able to create lyrics that are so timeless they sound still so fresh 22 years after his stupid death. One of the if not the greatest ever.

The latest mash up masterpiece from AMERIGO GAZAWAY unites the NOTORIOUS B.I.G. and the Godfather of Soul JAMES BROWN for 10 crucial cuts cleverly titled "B.I.G. POPPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG", "THE B.I.G. PAYBACK", "SEX MACHINE GUN FUNK", "TEN CRACK COMMANDMENTS" and more.

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Innershades

12" | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Altered Circuits)

17,99 €*

LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (30th Century)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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New label by Innershades, presenting banging house tracks with a raw edge!

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Karen O & Danger Mouse

Lux Prima

34,99 €*

Siegas Las Cadenas EP 2024 Repress

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First re-press since the initial 2019 release of critically acclaimed album featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' lead vocalist Karen O, and Danger Mouse, one of the most influential artist/producers of the 21st Century.

Debuting in March 2019, Lux Prima was hailed by Pitchfork as a “dreamy and poignant collaboration.” It featured the single “Woman,” which was accompanied by a memorable Spike Jonze-directed live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The single was also nominated for the Best Rock Performance Grammy.

The new package includes the original artwork plus a 16 page booklet highlighting their interactive exhibition “An Encounter with Lux Prima”, held at Los Angeles’ Marciano Arts Foundation featuring a 360 degree soundscape of the album mixed at famed Skywalker Ranch.

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Dark Vektor

12" | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Industrias Mekanikas)

18,99 €*

Voices From The Lake 2023 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dark Vektor is the new signing for the Madrid label Industrias Mekanikas, a very consolidated artist within the Spanish Electro scene and very well known internationally. Siega LAS Cadenas, is the name with which the Catalan artist, presents this new work, a title that undoubtedly carries a very direct message about the times of repression and bias of freedoms that we came today. This new work presents 6 tracks, three original tracks of Dark Vektor, along with three remixes, of the hand of some of giants of the international Electro scene. Assembler Code, Cosmic Force and Cestrian, are in charge of finishing off this incredible reference, full of pure power in each beat, demolishing bass, and hypnotic sequences and above all a message of vindication that is the common thread of the whole EP.

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Voices From The Lake

4LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Spazio Disponibile)

50,99 €*

Fresh Bread Opaque Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Voices From the Lake (consisting of Donato Dozzy and Neel) mark the 10th anniversary of their influential self-titled album with a fully remastered reissue on Spazio Disponibile. It arrives in full on vinyl for the first time, as well as on digital formats, first quarter of 2023 as the pair continues to play select live shows around the world. The release will see the light of day as a 4-set vinyl LP release, including download. Italians Dozzy and Neel have been friends united by a shared vision of music since their teenage years. They are immaculate sculptors of sound who fuse evocative ambient and leftfield techno into multi-layered soundscapes. For many years they worked as established solo artists but came together in 2011 to craft what is now regarded as one of techno's most pure and absorbing listening experiences. It's often said that the best music comes about as a happy accident, and that is certainly true of Voices From the Lake. The career-defining album first arose in the thoughts of Dozzy and Neel when the latter was preparing a mix for the former's wedding and named it Voices From The Lake. It was a pertinent title that stuck in the mind: both grew up by waters around the coast of Italy, and in their early days the pair even held private parties on the shores of a lake. Fittingly, Japan's celebrated Labyrinth festival at that time was also held by a river and a lake in the middle of a forest on a serene mountainside. It was that exact setting the pair envisaged when making music to play live on stage. During preparations, they "accidentally" wrote an entire album. It has only ever been performed live a few times - once at Japan's Labyrinth festival in 2011, at London's Barbican, Barcelona's Mira Festival, Paris' Marathon Festival and once during 2022's Amsterdam Dance Event. Those shows saw the pair using banks of analogue and digital equipment to improvise in the moment and essentially remix the album live on stage. That spontaneity is captured in the original Voices From the Lake recordings and on later LPs such as Live at Maxxi in 2015, and the most recent EP Quarto Freddo from 2020. But the debut album remains a standout achievement. A decade on, it's quiet intensity, musical storytelling and slowly unfolding tension remain in a class of one. Each sound is meticulously designed and placed, and the spaces left behind are just as important in conveying such a captivating mood and emotion. Rather than traditional kick drums, hi-hats or snares, this is music crafted from layers of real-world sound - dripping water, chirping birds, rustling leaves or a distant breeze - and it's that which defines the album's organic allure. From deeply contemplative to cautiously optimistic, pastoral organic scenes to more underwater worlds, Voices From the Lake is a cohesive collection of tracks that add up to one inseparable whole.

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Sam Gendel

2LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Leaving)

21,59 €* 35,99 € -40%

LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (Gondwana)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Initially quietly published then deleted via the 2020 pandemic-obscured Fresh Bread website - this 52-track all genre Sam Gendel anthology showcases unreleased tracks collected from Gendel’s personal archive of home recordings and public performances spanning the years 2012-2020. Comprising predominantly solo works, contributing players on select tracks include Carlos Niño, Jamire Williams, Daniel Aged, Gabe Noel, and Philippe Melanson.

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Hania Rani

Esja

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group teskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

LP comes with heavy weight reverse board sleeve including a double sided printed insert plus digital download code.

Esja is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Expect support from accross the media spectrum from Mojo to Uncut and Gilles Peterson and Mary Ann Hobbs on 6 Music to Radio 3 and beyond. Full servicing to the Gondwana Records datebase.

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Promises Marbled Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Luaka Bop)

32,99 €*

Ants From Up There Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Promises is an extraordinary, collaborative album by the electronic giant Floating Points and saxophone titan Pharoah Sanders. The album features the London Symphony Orchestra and cover art by the acclaimed American artist, Julie Mehretu. Five years in the making, it will be released on Luaka Bop, March 26, 2021. The album is composed and engineered by Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points, who's second album Crush earned Best New Music from Pitchfork and a major feature in the New York Times, and placed him on several 2019 critics lists. His debut album Elaenia, released by Luaka Bop, was another Best New Music pick and hailed as one of the best debuts of the decade. It is also the release that made Pharoah Sanders want to work with him in the first place. A restless, ever- evolving producer and composer, Shepherd has toured with the xx, and also holds a doctorate in neuroscience. For Pharoah Sanders, who recently turned 80, this is a rare outing and his first album in fifteen years. One of the last icons of his generation, Pharoah performed with John Coltrane on his late-career free jazz masterpieces, and released a string of expansive recordings under his own name for the Impulse! label which have been cited as a pivotal influence by everyone from The Stooges to Marvin Gaye. Most recently, he was featured in a 2020 Supreme campaign. The music unfurls, patiently, over nine movements, and 46 ever-undulating minutes. It's a work of pure feeling, like no other record you'll hear this or any other year.

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Black Country, New Road

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Ninja Tune)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston

2LP | 2021 | EU (Sony Music Catalog)

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Parlophone)

Coldplay

Music Of The Spheres

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Coldplay release their ninth studio album on October 15th.

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Joe Henderson

Page One

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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45 Adapter

Single Mittelsterne

6,99 €*

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Web Max Black Vinyl Edition

Web Web X Max Herre

LP | 2021 | Original (Compost)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Underground Resistance

Logo Hoodie

49,99 €*

Kind Of Blue UHQR Edition

Available Sizes: S, M, XL

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Underground Resistance official merchandize!

The Underground Resistance Logo Hoodie´s features include:

• drawstring-adjustable two-layer hood
• tonal Underground Resistance branding printed on front
• kangaroo pocket
• stretch rib cuffs and bottom band
• relaxed fit
• 50% cotton, 50% polyester brush-back fleece

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Miles Davis

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

140,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Legends have a way of sticking around. If there was ever an album awaiting a high-fidelity, custom-pressed vinyl treatment of the level you now hold in your hands, it is Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue". The top-selling jazz album of all time, it has been lauded, entered into "Best Of" lists and Halls of Fame, and universally acknowledged as a landmark recording — a five-track masterpiece of melancholy mood and melody. Now Analogue Productions, the audiophile in-house reissue label of Acoustic Sounds, Inc., together with Quality Record Pressings, is putting "Kind Of Blue" where it belongs: the Ultra High Quality Record (uhqr) pressed on Clarity Vinyl on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. The 200-gram records will feature the same flat profile that helped to make the original Uhqr so desirable. From the lead-in groove to the run-out groove, there is no pitch to the profile, allowing the customer's stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center. Clarity Vinyl allows for the purest possible pressing and the most visually stunning presentation. Every Uhqr will be hand inspected upon pressing completion, and only the truly flawless will be allowed to go to market. Each Uhqr will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a Uhqr along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible product. A minor audio complication with "Kind Of Blue" has been addressed with this Uhqr edition. The motor on the studio's 3-track master recorder was running slowly the day of the album's first session. This speed issue affected the album's first three tracks, "So What", "Freddie Freeloader" and "Blue In Green", making them a barely perceptible quarter-tone sharp.This issue was finally addressed with the Classic Records reissue in 1995. This Uhqr was pressed from the same parts that Bernie Grundman cut directly from the original 3-track masters for Classic in '95. Sixty years have passed; this LP bridges that time span in the best way possible, struck from the master reel of "Kind Of Blue", free of speed issues and replete with all the instrumental detail, sonic environment and minimal noise. As we set out to make our Uhqr series the world's best-sounding vinyl records, we have also used Clarity Vinyl, which is free of any carbon black pigment which might introduce surface noise. All-in-all this edition of "Kind Of Blue" meets the highest audiophile standards and offers the truest sound for the most enjoyment.

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Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection Part 2

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

32,99 €*

Digipak CD | 2021 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Second compilation by Habibi Funk, following the success of the first part, featuring a wide range of music from North Africa and the Middle East.

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Kurious

A Constipated Monkey

Loving In Stereo Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 300 copies on CD of Kurious' debut album "A Constipated Monkey".

"A Constipated Monkey" is one of our favorite albums from 1994 and we are very excited to finally share the release with you. Most of the production has been handled by The Beatnuts as well as the SD50's and the guest list includes iconic MC's such as Casual of the Hieroglyphics, MF Grimm, Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Psycho Les of The Beatnuts and others.

Available in a limited run on 2LP+7", CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Jungle

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Caiola)

23,99 €*

Malibu Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Jungle returns in 2021 with his new album "Loving In Stereo", which should become the soundtrack of a summer like no other. The British producer duo spent last year locked in a studio and came away with a huge disco record for the era of social distancing, with a celebration of life, the dance floor and the sun of all the things that make music irresistibly joyful. With big hooks, huge synths and the push of BPM to the ceiling, 'Loving In Stereo' is a record that coincides with the release of the British lockdown, offering the listener a long dose of pure euphoria.

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Anderson .Paak

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Steel Wool)

32,99 €*

II: The True Sequel Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2nd full album by Anderson .Paak with features by Schoolboy Q, Talib Kweli, The Game, BJ The Chicago Kid and more.

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PENPALS

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (HHV Records)

17,99 €*

Evermore Deluxe Dark Green Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies on colored vinyl.

NYC's PENPALS are back on the block with a heavy line-up of guests on "II: The True Sequel". Some of Hip Hop underground's finest MC's like Quelle Chris, billy woods, ANKHLEJOHN or Thonio join the pals on their new album. Enjoy!

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Taylor Swift

2LP | 2021 | FR | Original (Republic)

38,99 €*

Release: 2021 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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Digipak CD | 2021 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

The Nonce

World Ultimate

OST Poké & Chill White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 300 copies.

We couldn't resist to drop two of our favorite projects from the 90's by legendary Westcoast crew The Nonce, "World Ultimate" (1995) and "The Sight Of Things" (1998). Yusef Afloat and Nouka Basetype (later known as Sach) delivered an unique sound and released instant classics like "Mix Tapes", "Bus Stops", "The Sight Of Things" or "Who Falls Apart?". Both projects are available in limited quantities on vinyl, CD, cassette as well as digitally.

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Mikel

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Gamechops)

The Postman Always Rings Twice Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Soundtracks

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Poké & Chill is a 16 track Pokémon remix album, with faithful lofi hip hop renditions of music from Nintendo's beloved Pokemon video game series. From the original Pokemon Red & Blue games, composed by Jun'ichi Masuda, to later installments like Pokemon Sun & Moon, Poké & Chill features a diverse collection of nostalgic and expressive game music.

Mikel is best known as the producer from Zelda & Chill, an album that may go down in history as the most popular game music record of all time. In less than a year from it's release, it's received over 20 million plays and sold thousands of copies. That's power of chill vibes and great game music!

Poké & Chill features compositions by Jun’ichi Masuda, Gō Ichinose, Minako Adachi, and Shota Kageyama. It features music from Pokémon Red & Blue, Gold & Silver, Sun & Moon, X & Y, Black & White, and Ruby & Sapphire.

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PENPALS & Lars Viola

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (HHV Records)

17,99 €*

Big Love David Penn & The Dronez Remixes

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 300 copies on colored vinyl of the collaborative effort between PENPALS and talented producer Lars Viola. 13 tracks that will make your head nod. Tip!

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Pete Heller's Big Love

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Defected)

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Leaving)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It’s almost hard to believe that a record with anthem status like Pete Heller’s ‘Big Love’ was created out of a happy accident, but that is exactly how it happened. Left to his own devices as his studio partner Terry Farley went to watch a Chelsea game, Pete Heller was playing around with his Akai sampler when he produced what is arguably one of the most recognisable pieces of dance music of the 1990’s. Earlier this summer Urbana Records boss and Spanish powerhouse David Penn took to remixing this enduring classic. Winning over dancefloors in Ibiza and beyond with his signature rolling bassline and infectious groove, the record soaring to both Beatport and Traxsource #1. Now Defected present a special 12” package that features David’s remix, joined on the A-Side by The Dronez Remix, where house masters Erick Morillo, Harry Romero and Jose Nunez lend their classic house capabilities to the track. On the B-Side is Pete Heller’s original, sounding as incredible as ever over twenty years after its original release, once again proving the timelessness of ‘Big Love’.

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Ana Roxanne

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21,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

The Comet Is Coming

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Impulse)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wu-Tang Clan Vs. Jimi Hendrix

Black Gold Black & Gold Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2019 | EU

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Dark Entries)

Release: 2019 / EU

Genre: Hip Hop, Rock & Indie

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Mixed by the man who brought you Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles, Tom Caruana.

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Solid Space

Space Museum

Waltz For Debby Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Dark Entries is honored to finally present the first ever official vinyl reissue of Space Museum by Solid Space. Solid Space was the British duo of Dan Goldstein (keyboards, vocals) and Matthew "MAF" Vosburgh (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) formed in 1980. Dan and Matthew met at the age of 11 while attending school in north London. In late 1978 at at the age of 14, they formed EXHIBIT 'A' with Paul “Platypus” and Andrew “Lunchbox” Bynghall. They recorded two EPs in 1979 and 1980, self-released on Irrelevant Wombat Records and appeared on The Thing From The Crypt compilation. After the dissolution of the group, Mathew started taking his guitar over to Dan’s house where he’d play his Casio MT-30 and they would record songs. Eventually a second hand drum machine and Wasp synthesizer were acquired from classified ads in Melody Maker and the Solid Space sound was born. By this time they were just turning 18 and finally found the freedom to make the music they’d had in their heads. Over the course of the next two years the band assembled eleven bedroom recordings that would become one of the most cherished DIY obscurities of its kind. Their debut album Space Museum was released in 1982 on cassette by In Phaze Records. The band's music and lyrics were heavily indebted to science fiction, in particular the 1960s television series Doctor Who. Space Museum is an unveiling of atmospheric, minimalist post punk supported by bright melodies. The music combines drum machines and synths with acoustic guitar and toy drums whilst also experimenting with samples between tracks. Representing a bubbling spirit within the underground, they foreshadowed an entire world of independent music which would emerge across the '80s and well into the '90s. For this reissue we’ve included two bonus tracks from the band’s archive, “Platform 6” originally released on the B-side of the second single by Exhibit ‘A’, this song features only Dan and Matthew and is the first Solid Space track ever recorded. “Tutti Lo Sanno” is a cover of In Phaze label mates Marine Girls, though the lyrics have been changed to suit the gender of the new singer.

Each song has been carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The record is sleeved in a replica of the cassette artwork featuring the Cybermen and Jamie from the Doctor Who episode "The Wheel in Space". Every copy includes a double sided 11x11 insert with lyrics, notes and never before seen photographs of the band taken by Maf as well as a postcard featuring an original advert for the cassette.

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The Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

Risin' To The Top / Hang Tight

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Keni Burke

7" | 2017 | UK | Original (Expansion)

12,99 €*

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

29,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Late Night Tales)

BBNG (BadBadNotGood)

Late Night Tales

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Sony)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Canadian quartet BadBadNotGood take on creating the ultimate “late night” selection of tracks from their record collections, set for release on 28th July 2017. The original trio of Matthew Tavares, Alex Sowinski and Chester Hansen formed while studying music at Toronto’s Humber College (they’ve recently added Leland Whitty to the line-up). A shared appreciation of hip hop and instrumental covers of Gucci Mane and Earl Sweatshirt suggested a worldly outlook and reciprocated love from Tyler The Creator and Ghostface Killah, which whom they made 2015’s Sour Soul.

This is an international effort: Velly Joonas’ Estonian version of ‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’, Kiki Gyan, Admas and Francis Bebey representing Africa (Ghana, Ethiopia and Cameroon respectively), Les Prospection from France, Scots’ Boards Of Canada and fellow Canucks River Tiber and Charlotte Day Wilson.

Finally, there’s the no-small-matter of the Late Night Tales cover version, in which BADBADNOTGOOD take on Andy Shauf’s ‘To You’ is turned into a mournful delight. while the Queen Of Siam herself, Lydia Lunch, delivers a sexual sermon involving only you, her and Jim Beam.

“We were really excited to have the chance to put together a Late Night Tales compilation, it’s a great organisation. We decided to use it as a vehicle to show everyone all the amazing music we have gotten to experience by touring and meeting new people. Every track on this comp was either shown to us by an incredible person or made by one of our friends. We also included a little cover of a song by one of our favourite current musicians, Andy Shauf.

These artists, as well as many, many others, have influenced us to create and kept our deep love of music alive. This mix will keep you company on a quiet night by yourself or with friends. You can check it out on the plane, the bus, a long walk, or any situation where you want a soundtrack for reflection and meditation.” - BadBadNotGood May 2017

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Scorpions

Acoustica

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Grüner Samt Black Vinyl Edition

Marsimoto

2LP+CD | 2011 | DE | Reissue (Four Music)

21,99 €*

Release: 2011 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2012 | MX | Original (Epic)

Death Grips

Money Store

35,99 €*

LP+DVD | 2012 | EU | Original (Parlophone)

Release: 2012 / MX – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Death Grips' 2nd Album ... now on Epic!

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Talk Talk

Spirit Of Eden

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Nonato & Seu Conjunto / José Roberto

Cafua / Crioula Multicolorida

7" | 2019 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

11,99 €*

Grandeza Pink & Purple Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We’ve taken a selection of the most in-demand and asked-for titles in our Brazil 45’s catalogue and given them a loving remaster and repress. The late composer, arranger, musician and record producer Nonato Buzar is a lesser-known great outside of Brazil. His legacy leaves behind a rich body of recordings, working with some of the cream of the Brazilian ‘60s and ‘70s music scene, including Evinha, Elis Regina, Wilson Das Neves as well as reggae legend Jimmy Cliff. The awesome organ driven dancer ‘Cafuá’, with its zesty horns and sun-soaked vocal tones, is taken from Nonato & Seu Conjunto’s 1975 'O Som E O Balanço De Nonato’ album on Som records.

Most famed for his ultra rare 1973 track 'Lotus 72 D’, which Mr Bongo reissued in 2019, José Roberto aka Zé Roberto’s other 7 inch from the following year, also held a gem within its B side grooves. 'Crioula Multicolorida’, though not as scarce as ‘Lotus 72 D', is still a super hard record to track down and is equally as great. This anthemic ‘samba rock’ pearler, with its amazing breakdown and strutting groove, has long been a favourite amongst Brazilian DJs and collectors. The track also featured on the influential ‘Via Brazil’ compilation series and 'Brazilian Beats Brooklyn' collection on Mr Bongo.

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Sessa

LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Mexican Summer)

33,99 €*

The Whole Love (Expanded) Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An album about his "love for Brazilian music and its many shapes and colors," Sao Paulo-born Sessa's debut Grandeza sets the scene for who The New Yorker called a "songwriter cut from Veloso's mold and blessed with a flair for the intimate, the enigmatic, and the licentious.' Long out-of-print, Mexican Summer continues its exploration of Sessa's musical vision with this special Fifth Anniversary Edition on Pink + Purple Splatter Vinyl (limited to 1000 copies). Sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sensual lyrics in the vein of Caetano Veloso and the lush melodies of Tom Jobim, Sessa’s sound, by contrast, has a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen. Sessa propels Grandeza’s devotional sounds towards decisively modern territory.

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Wilco

3LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

62,89 €* 73,99 € -15%

Escape From New York Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Translucent Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Quantity: 4500
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release

Wilco’s legendary 2011 album now on three LP’s. Expanded to include all related single, EP and bonus tracks - plus A selection from The Loft's archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. Includes Wilco classics "Art of Almost", "Dawned on Me”, "Sunloathe” . 3LP Box

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Beast Coast

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Sony)

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%

Heart Sphere (Tornado Wallace & Jamie Tiller)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Quantity: 2000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release

The collective has completed many tours together, and its debut album Escape From New York comes across as a collection of high level cyphers from Joey Bada$$, Nyck Caution, Kirk Knight, CJ Fly, Flatbush Zombies & more. Not surprising as the Brooklyn natives, a lot of them friends since childhood, have never shied away from the lyrics-centered tradition of New York hip-hop.

Their distinctive voices and skills on the mic, as well as NY-centric storytelling drive the album, and the chemistry is undeniable. The production is tight, but this is also where the supergroup shifts away from musically, perhaps what the title of the project is alluding to. Erick Arc Elliott, Power Pleasant, Sam Wish, and Tyler Dopps lay down slick, bouncy instrumentals as opposed to boom bap, and it's refreshing and fun to hear the group expand its sound. Check out "Distance," "Left Hand," "Snow In The Stadium," "Far Away," and "Coast/Clear."

The RSD Black Friday edition features 2LPs on translucent orange color and a Beast Coast Sticker.

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E.R. (Emergency Relief) 2024 Repress

12" | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Basic Spirit)

20,99 €*

Disintegration In Leipzig August 4th 1990

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited 2024 Repress

Tornado Wallace and Jamie Tiller present Heart Sphere, on their new imprint Basic Spirit. The first release "E.R. (Emergency Relief)", is a mid-tempo, cosmic trance manifestation with three revisions; Guitar Mix, Piano MIx, and the vinyl only Children Mix. For disciples of Big Room Balearic ™️, new-normal-beat, classic-trance, and George Clooney.

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The Cure

LP | 2021 | EU (Planet Claire)

Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds (5 Year Anniversary Repress)

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Cure put on quite the formidable live show back in 1990—and following their massive “Prayer Tour” the year prior, Robert Smith and Co took a visit over to East Germany, to play a legendary and televised performance in Leipzig (Future home to the world’s largest Goth Festival, Wave Gotik Treffen). Speaking of Goth, Robert actually states, while segueing into the encore of Faith and Seventeen Seconds material that “this is the goth bit of the set”.

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Vegyn

2LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (PLZ Make It Ruins)

31,99 €*

Operation: Doomsday Silver Cover Edition

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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London-based producer and musician Vegyn announces the long-awaited repress of his debut album, "Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds," in celebration of its five-year anniversary since its initial release in November 2019. Following the success of his recent sophomore album, "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions," Vegyn's groundbreaking debut will once again be available for fans to purchase on 12" vinyl, offering a renewed opportunity to experience his innovative blend of electronic music. The repress is set to hit shelves in line with the original release date of November of this year.

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MF DOOM

2LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Rhymesayers)

35,99 €*

Shackitistan 20 Years HHV Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachetunderground legends are made of. After his first group KMD's sophomorealbum Black Bastards was shelved by Elektra in 1994, and his bloodbrother Subroc _ one half of the sibling rap duo _ passed away,surviving frontman Zev Love X slowly mutated into the supervillain MCknown as MF DOOM, and the rap world is better for it.The 1999 release of Operation: Doomsday marked MF DOOM's officialdebut, reintroducing a mysterious figure who would soon become one ofunderground rap's greatest voices. Within its 19 tracks, Operation:Doomsday reveals the confluence of DOOM's tragic past, personalinterests and daring creativity. His clever rhymes and remarkableschemes stood out against the landscape, and every sound he touched _from cartoon theme songs, to `80s soul, to rap classics and more _ gotreinterpreted into something brand new and surreal.Decades later, MF DOOM is still celebrated for all facets of his work andinfluence. In the face of tragedy, DOOM re-infiltrated the rap game on hisown terms, and crafted an instant cult classic. Operation: Doomsdaystands as a testament to the power of betting on yourself against all odds.

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Shacke One

LP | 2019 | DE | Reissue (Nordachse Cashgroup)

MA DOOM (Masta Ace & MF Doom)

Release: 2019 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 300 copies on blue vinyl, only available at HHV! Only 2 copies per customer!

20 years HHV: our team has selected an album from each of these years that is particularly relevant and precious to us. On a monthly basis we release exclusive and limited pressings of these records in collaboration with some of our favorite labels.

Shacke One has been a rotation favorite at HHV since 2014. His third solo album Shackitistan is not an exception. 10 underground hits, produced by the usual suspects Klaus Layer and Achim Funk.

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MA_DOOM: Son Of Yvonne HHV Exclusive Orchid & Ruby Color-In-Color Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Fat Beats)

31,99 €*

CD | 2021 | CA | Original (Dust & Dope)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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HHV Exclusive, limited to 500 copies.

Masta Ace joins forces with the metal faced MF Doom for Son of Yvonne, a highly personal concept album that celebrates the life and legacy of Ace’s recently departed Mother. Like his 2004 landmark Disposable Arts, Son of Yvonne is meticulously constructed with stories, settings, and characters that resonate with flesh and bone humanity. Interstitial vignettes provide a thematic backbone to the experience, and each track complements and completes the previous to form a narrative whole: a sometimes visceral, sometimes nostalgic slice of Ace’s young life in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Entirely underscored by MF Doom’s iconic Special Herbs instrumentals, Son of Yvonne features the Juice Crew general Big Daddy Kane, newcomers Pav Bundy (The Bundies), Reggie B and even MF Doom on the mic. It’s Masta Ace’s no frills flow, however, that looms largest above the dusty samples and digger loops that define Doom’s production. Ace’s photo-realistic rhymes about stick-up kids, spraycan artists and wack emcees add extra gravity to his already celebrated reputation as “truly an under-appreciated rap veteran and underground luminary” (Allmusic Guide). Like Eminem recalls in his 2008 autobiography The Way I Am, “Masta Ace had amazing storytelling skills. His thoughts were so vivid.”

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Mytee G. Poetic

Hard Rock Hip-Hop

19,99 €*

Rolacks / Instrumental / Over Gold / Free Ike, Free Kiki

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Straight outta New Jerusalem, Mytee G. Poetic is back... Comn Wit More Ruffness! Dust & Dope Recordings proudly presents Hard Rock Hip Hop, a collective of mid to late 90's unreleased recordings by Mytee G. Poetic/ Straight G'n Records. As a bonus we have also included three of his earlier demos, including his very first ever, titled "Wise Poet" recorded in 1991. None of this material has ever been leaked/ heard before, and they're all sourced from the Poetic's personal stash of original master tapes and remastered by Adam Boose for this very limited edition CD release.

- Limited edition run of 350 professionally pressed CDs in jewel case packaging

- 20-page booklet containing full album lyrics transcribed by Mytee G. Poetic himself + extensive interview by Werner Von Wallen

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Westside Gunn

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Hoffstein)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Instrumental on Flipside.

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Oasis

Decca Logo T-Shirt

19,99 €*

El Camino 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Available Sizes: M, XL, 2XL

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The Oasis Decca Logo Tee is equipped with the following features:
• rib crew neck with interior tape
• Oasis Decca Logo artwork printed on chest
• regular fit
• 100% cotton single jersey

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The Black Keys

3LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Nonesuch)

41,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Uncle Howie)

Non Phixion

The Green LP

33,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Gatefold double vinyl. Picture sleeve inserts. First time pressed on vinyl. Follow up release to NP’s debut album “The Future Is Now” consisting of demos, unreleased songs and freestyles.

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Kenny Burrell

Midnight Blue

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Alter K)

French 79

Joshua

20,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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1 Piece | 2021 | Original

Cassette

Gold Magic Audio Tape 90

9,99 €*

Release: 2021 / Original

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The Bottle / Love Is The Respect

The Unknown Artist

12" | 2021 | EU | Original

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Two stone cold, all time classics, from two undisputed legends, re-edited, extended and repurposed for the modern dancefloor.

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John Carroll Kirby

Septet

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Delta Kream Black Vinyl Edition

The Black Keys

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Das Ist Alles Von Der Kunstfreiheit Gedeckt Limited Vinyl Edition

Danger Dan

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Antilopen Geldwäsche)

21,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Pop

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Dusty Donuts)

Weapons Of Choice 2

Raheem Devaughn & Apollo Brown

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Announced 2021, now it is finally coming.

Dusty Donuts strikes back with the second part of their Weapons of Choice series. Put together by DJ Robert Smith, Marc Hype, Naughty NMX and DJ Goce it features classic 90s golden age intoxi-cated beats, a long intro selection and five skipless scratch effect tracks made for phrase cutting, all produced to fit together perfectly. This battle tool was created to cater for the portablist and 45 club DJ alike. It’s one of those records, that just stays in the crate of every dedicated Hip Hop 45 DJ!

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Lovesick HHV Exclusive Teal Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

MTV Unplugged, March 16, 1992

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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HHV Records Exclusive colored edition limited to 300 copies.

Soul is more than a sound. It is a timeless idea and an immortal condition. It can’t be borrowed or traded, bequeathed or imitated (no matter how much they try). Soul isn’t the blues, but the best blues has soul. Hip-Hop isn’t soul, but it’s the most fundamental component of its DNA. R&B is the genre, but soul is the yearning, the lust, the regret. Without soul, love is merely sex. With it, you get something like Lovesick. Lovesick is a collaboration between the 3x Grammy-nominated singer Raheem DeVaughn and the legendary hip-hop producer, Apollo Brown, best known for making hip-hop so grimy that it permanently lodges in your lungs and underneath your fingernails. It is a work of startling beauty, a blend of modern R&B, classic soul, and guttural funk that recalls Smokey Robinson, Al Green, and Marvin Gaye. Yet it doesn’t sound out of step alongside DeVaughn’s peers The-Dream, Anderson.Paak, and Miguel. It is an album that bears the echoes of Jodeci and James Brown, but it is ultimately the clarion vision of two masters of their respective forms.
Released on Mello Music, Lovesick is a stylistic departure from Apollo Brown’s coldblooded 21st century boom-bap, but it shouldn’t come as a shock considering his historical skill at soulful sample chopping. Still, it’s testament to the Michigan native’s versatility and emotional depth; he has turned a sonic left turn into an eternal groove -- an expansion that feels reminiscent of DJ Premier producing for D’Angelo, Salaam Remi collaborating with Amy Winehouse, J Dilla’s bible material with Erykah Badu, or more recently, Knxlwdge’s NxWorries project with .Paak.
Credit DeVaughn for making the extraordinary feel effortless. In Lovesick, the Love King has built a vessel to transport you to a different, better time. It is a tribute to the artists who came before him: all those aforementioned names, plus Parliament and Prince. Listening to the lead single, “When a Man,” you intuit the sweat and soulful anguish of the hardest working man in show business, but also float from Apollo’s head nod to A Tribe Called Quest’s “Luck of Lucien.” The post-modern commentary seductively fused into a warm-hearted nostalgia. “If I Made Love to You” finds DeVaughn telling his lover that he’ll play all the slow jams and quiet storm ballads for them, before unleashing a falsetto that can stop space and time. If you play this at the proper volume on the right system, the aromatic candles and incense will light themselves, and the sheets will turn to 10,000 thread count silk. A form of bedroom gospel. On “Just Fall in Love,” DeVaughn grapples with the carnal double standards that apply to men and women. For the third act, Compton’s Westside Boogie, unleashes a hyper-melodic rap lamentation, in search of loyalty, healing, and love. Elsewhere, on the album, Skyzoo and 3D Na’Tee contribute impressive lyrical 16s that are seamlessly interwoven into its satin tapestry.

For the legendary DeVaughn, it further cements his stature as one of the finest crooners of his generation. The DMV raised singer has sold hundreds of thousands of records, won BET Awards and been nominated for three Grammys, but this stands among his finest work. He has conjured the perfect record for the Sunday backyard BBQ and for riding in the car with the object of your affections, the ideal nocturnal soundtrack for when it’s time to lower the lights. For Brown, this is a panoramic expansion that shows the full range of his gifts. It is the home cooked meal, the perfectly rolled joint, soft lighting, a pledge to love and fidelity, and all the struggles with temptation. It is soul, as smooth and supernatural as it gets.

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Pearl Jam

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Epic)

30,99 €*

2LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Panache)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Three days after completing their first American tour, Pearl Jam headed to New York to strip back songs from their debut album Ten, well on its way to becoming one of 1992’s top rock albums. For the first time on vinyl, relive all seven songs featured in the MTV Unplugged broadcast, including “Jeremy,” “Even Flow,” “Alive,” “Black” and “State Of Love and Trust.”

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Peter Cat Recording Co.

Bismillah

30,99 €*

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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New Delhi-based Peter Cat Recording Co. will release their debut album, ‘Bismillah’ on June 14, 2019 via French independent label Panache Records. Debut UK live shows are soon also to be announced by the band.

Peter Cat Recording Co. could almost have a question mark on the end of its name. Not least as founder & frontman Suryakant Sawhney refuses to explain where that name really comes from or what it means (perhaps a reference to the Tokyo jazz club owned by Haruki Murakami), but also since the very existence of the band itself raises a raft of questions. When was the last time we fell for an indie rock band for the right reasons? Not because the band in question nostalgically imitate a perceived ‘golden age’ but because they innately embody the fundamentals of such music: fantasy, sincerity and the freedom to make music without rules or career aspi- rations. And when was the last time this kind of band sounded like Sinatra, Barry White, the sweetest doo-wop, humid fanfares and a psychedelic wedding band, all at once? And all of this coming from India? In truth, the story of Peter Cat Recording Co. was written within the triangle of San Francisco, Delhi and Paris. In the first of these cities, Sawhney (a native of Delhi) pitched up to study film-making. More distracted by the city’s peaking live scene of the early noughties, this is where he started to make music and to sketch out an idea for the band.“ The people I lived with supported my idea of writing music, they introduced me to great mu- sic. There used to be a great garage scene in San Francisco, like The Oh Sees [also Ty Seagall, Mikal Conin], all those bands. This is a world I had never seen in my entire life. A big inspiration from San Francisco was that you could record yourself. You don’t need to be in a studio and spend a lot of money to make an album. You can do it”.

At the end of the 2000s, Suryakant returned home to New Delhi, and started his band for real, more or less the same band that plays today. “I wasn’t so concerned about will we be performing, will we be the greatest band, will we be trendy. I just wanted to make something that was consequential and important for us, I think. Something which would last, something people could listen to and be like « this is life changing ». It was for the sake of beauty”.

For the first few years and in India alone, this is exactly what Peter Cat Recording Co. did, in total indifference to the rest of the world. This was until young Parisian label Panache stumbled across the band online via Vice’s Thump subsidiary, stupefied by the band’s cosmic video for seven-minutes-and-counting track, ‘Love De- mons’. And so in spring of 2018, ‘Portrait Of A Time: 2010-2016’ was released on Panache - making the first international release from Peter Cat Recording Co., bizarrely enough, an anthology of re-mastered, hidden gems from the band’s ramshackle back catalogue, previously recorded in Suryakant’s own living room. With Peter Cat’s off-kilter charm hitherto unheard of beyond the fringes of India, the release provided a gateway op- Whilst the title track found its way onto Tracks Of The Year lists at the Guardian & NME, it was tricky for new Pcrc enthusiasts to get a firm grip on the startling push/pull between the immediate, uncanny music this release gathered, and the cultural backdrop of New Delhi at which it was so startlingly at odds.

Opportunity for a wider fanbase to fall in love with their cloud-like, drunken songs for the first time. If discovering your favourite new band via a ‘Best Of’ feels a curious premise, then ‘Bismillah’ does more than hint towards the promise of Peter Cat Recording Co’s future. Blending gypsy jazz, psychedelic cabaret, space disco, bossa supernova, Bollywood and uneasy listening with kaleidoscopic ease, in many senses, the band’s knack hasn’t altered. Always different, paradoxical, unpredictable yet somehow familiar. The new album opens to the strains of bird chatter, the whisper of a city’s soundscape and the first few notes from an instrument which seem to be calling us to the departure lounge, a fore-shadow of the flight ‘Bismillah’ launches its listener on. Suryakant sings with the detached, rueful elegance of Sinatra marooned on a desert island, whilst his band create small space-time capsules which navigate their way through genres and eras – including the future – and between nostalgia and eccentricity.

Peter Cat recently trailed ‘Bismillah’ with the release of ‘Floated By’, an appositely titled musing on failure & missed opportunities, punctuated by the fulsome brass section which weaves through so much of the album.

The languid, blue quality to the track is offset by the attendant music video, created with footage shot, implau- sibly enough, at Suryakant’s own marriage ceremony (needless to say, the wedding band hired for the day was of course, Peter Cat Recording Co.) Sawhney dryly notes; “Hopefully it’s not a many-a-times-in-a-lifetime event. You can’t fake that set, those people actually having a good time, being really emotional and intense.” ‘Bismillah’’s colour-drenched album cover also captures Suryakant’s father-in-law making his wedding toast on that same day - a nod back towards the cover of ‘Portrait Of A Time’, itself a black & white image taken at the wedding ceremony of Suryakant’s own father.

A stumbling but gracious collection of songs rooted in a kind of drunken soul music, the melancholy nature of some of the songs on ‘Bismillah’ renders them almost liquid, before they develop into more dance-like shapes. Suryakant’s rangy voice swoops from the falsetto glide of ‘I’m This’ to the beat-up baritone blown along by the warm breeze of ‘Soulless Friends’. The elliptical structure of album opener ‘Where The Money Flows’ also al- lows for the use of brief bursts of autotune effect on his vocal without feeling incongruous, whilst the desultory lyrics of ‘Heera’ (a Hindi word for diamond) - sharing something with the Morricone school of grand storytelling - have an emotional weight that would impress even coming from a native English speaker. Perhaps the most gleefully unpredictable moment on ‘Bismillah’ comes with the illusory, vocal loops on the intro to ‘Memory Box’, errupting into 8 exhilarating minutes worth of unbridled, string-backed disco joy. A cat might have nine lives, but on ‘Bismillah’ and beyond, Peter Cat Recording Co. are hinting towards an un- knowable multitude of dimensions. Throw them all together, and it equates less to a listening experience and more to an out-of-body experience.

Peter Cat Recording Co. are: Suryakant Sawhney (vocals/guitar/organ), Dhruv Bhola (bass), Kartik S Pillai (organ/guitar/electronics), Rohit Gupta (horns), Karan Singh (drums)

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Promises Indie Exclusive 180g Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

30,99 €*