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Bonjintan (Sakata / O'rourke / Di Domenico/ Yamamoto)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When most people think of the musical legacy of San Francisco, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the Summer of Love. Much less likely are you to hear about the City by the Bay’s rich heritage of gospel music. Cultures Of Soul is proud to revisit this chapter in the city’s history with the reissue of The Sound Of The San Francisco Christian Center. The San Francisco Christian Center was one of the first churches to open its doors to disaffected hippies searching for a deeper spiritual substance. This era saw new, youth-driven forms of “Jesus music” that fused gospel messages with rock aesthetics. Chief amongst these new-style gospel artists was the San Francisco-based Andraé Crouch, who was one of the influences behind this recording. As a historical document, it provides a breathtaking view into the roots of contemporary gospel music, but as just pure music, it is a transcendent listening experience.

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Dental Kafka

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

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CD | 2020 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jim O'Rourke (of Gastr del Sol and Sonic Youth fame) plays a lot with Japanese Free jazz legend Akira Sakata in various formations. Together with Italian composer and pianist di Domenico and the drummer Yamamoto they form this powerful band.Their second release combines contemporary Avantgarde and Free Jazz in a beautiful way. Akira Sakata - sax, clarinet, voiceJim O'Rourke - double bassGiovanni Di Domenico - piano, hohner pianetTatsuhisa Yamamoto - drumsRecorded at Hoshi to Niji studio 30th June 2018Recorded by Jim O'RourkeTracklistingA-1. Ape Huci Kamuy (12:15)B-2. Dental Kafka (16:53)C-3. Koro Koro Donguri 2 (15:58)D-4. Bonjin (10:45)

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Khruangbin

Mordechai

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Kent Soul)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it's finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band. It's a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin's transportive sound toward a new sense of emotional directness, without losing the spirit of nomadic wandering that's always defined it. And it all started with them coming home. By the summer of 2019, the Houston group_bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, guitarist Mark Speer, drummer DJ Johnson_had been on tour for nearly three-and-ahalf years, playing to audiences across North and South America, Europe, and southeast Asia behind its acclaimed albums The Universe Smiles Upon You and Con Todo El Mundo. They returned to their farmhouse studio in Burton, Texas, ready to begin work on their third album. But they were also determined to slow down, to take their time and luxuriate in building something together. Musically, the band's ever-restless ear saw it pulling reference points from Pakistan, Korea, and West Africa, incorporating strains of Indian chanting boxes and Congolese syncopated guitar. But more than anything, the album became a celebration of Houston, the eclectic city that had nurtured them, and a cultural nexus where you can check out country and zydeco, trap rap, or avant-garde opera on any given night. In those years away from home, Khruangbin's members often felt like they were swimming underwater, unsure of where they were going, or why they were going there. But Mordechai leads them gently back to the surface, allowing them to take a breath, look around, and find itself again. It is a snapshot taken along a larger journey_a moment all the more beautiful for its impermanence. And it's a memory to revisit again and again, speaking to us now more clearly than ever.

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Darrow Fletcher

My Young Misery

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Blue To Red Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We have released two Darrow Fletcher CD on Kent but he has never had a vinyl LP of his own - of any description.

This compilation concentrates on his Chicago years, though it adds a rare demo, ‘Hope For Love’, only previously available on a “Masterpieces” Kent CD. Also, we have included his one-off late-70s version of fellow Chicago-born writers Grey & Hanks’ ‘No Limit’, also originally a “Masterpieces” track and a now-deleted Kent Select 45; these fetch £100+ on some sales lists.

The mid-60s sides speak for themselves. He began his career with the acclaimed soul blast of ‘The Pain Gets A Little Deeper’ (an Elton John favourite of the time!) and followed up with dancefloor classics ‘My Young Misery’, ‘What Good Am I Without You’, ‘Infatuation’ and ‘Gotta Draw The Line’.

As was common in those days, the hip dance sides were coupled with tender ballads such as ‘Sitting There That Night’, ‘Little Girl’ and ‘My Judgement Day’. Those were particularly well received in his Chicago homebase and have been admired by slow-groove scenes like Lowriders in Los Angeles ever since.

Darrow’s late 60s recordings, though recorded in Chicago, were issued on Los Angeles labels controlled by Universal. By 1971 his producer - stepfather Johnnie Haygood - had reverted to using his own Chicago imprint Genna for the last recording.

Compiled by Ady Croasdell.

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Chip Wickham

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Lovemonk)

Martin Freeman & Eddie Piller

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chip Wickham made a splash in the UK scene with 2016's La Sombra and 2018's Shamal Wind, garnering attention from all the right people in the jazz scene. Chip's back for more, partnering with Lovemonk once again to enchant and heal with his cosmic, spiritual jazz.

Riyl: Alice Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Sons of Kemet Genre: Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Rare Groove, Soul

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Pres. Jazz On The Corner Two

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Nootkatone)

Nootkatone

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nootkatone, the slightly acid groove. A diva on the wire, a brass ensemble out of control and a surgical rhythm section. This team of young musicians hits the Parisian stage with this first EP completely self-produced. Recorded in the rules at Midilive Studio in Paris, the musicians put forward a new jazz-funk that they call “the Katone”. Their music moves by its sincerity and subtlety. Doubtless, one of the brightest groups of the capital city of love.

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Maston

Tulips

27,99 €*

Simurg Feat. Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Can be played at 33rpm or 45rpm. Frank Maston’s Tulips is a sample-ready film score to the best 70s movie never made. Originally a super-limited self-release on his Phonoscope label in late 2017, Tulips has already become incredibly sought-after. Be With were introduced to Maston by mutual friends Aquarium Drunkard and it didn’t take long before we decided this modern classic deserved a reissue. Inspired by the deep-grooving soundtracks of Italian cinema - think Morricone, Umiliani and Alessandroni - Maston conceived the entire Tulips project as a continuation of these revered works. Frank designed the artwork and made two 16mm films to accompany the music: “It wasn’t just the LP… it was kind of a whole vibe I was trying to create. Not really trying to emulate the things that influenced me but more trying to make something that could sit alongside those records on a shelf. I’m still very proud of the project.” There’s a distinct library music feel too, with wiry organ, spacey keyboards and loping 60s guitar hinting at KPM and DeWolfe.

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Compro Oro

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Leaf)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP in printed innersleeve. Belgian psychedelic jazz collective Compro Oro are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Murat Ertel, co-founder and frontman of Istanbul's cult psychedelic folk band BaBa ZuLa and his singer partner Esma Ertel. Entitled 'Simurg', the album follows Compro Oro's critically acclaimed sophomore album 'Suburban Exotica', released last year.

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Nightports / Betamax

Nightports W/ Betamax

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Of Anxiety X Discernment Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation.Nightports is about amplifying the characteristics of the musician - celebrating what's particular about them, finding sounds that nobody else can make, constructing a complex sonic weave that, however radical the transformations, still bears the watermarks of its origin.Nightports w/ Betamax is the second in a series of albums from musician-producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater to be released on The Leaf Label. It follows 2018's Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne, which drew its source material from a series of sessions by maverick composer Matthew Bourne, on a range of different pianos.

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Philipp Rumsch Ensemble

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Denovali)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Ladies Of Too Slow To Disco Volume 2 Dark Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (City Slang)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Piano Piano)

Sven Wunder

Wabi Sabi

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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By welcoming the beauty of imperfection and simplicity, Sven Wunder applies the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi on this musical journey. What you can hear is filtered through Ukiyo-e (which translates as pictures of the floating world), which illustrates everyday life, as well as through Japonism, the study of Japanese art, and more specifically its influence on European works. The result is a surface that creates an illusion by sound. The infusion of Miny? with jazz rock, this hazy scene evokes the landscape of Monets The Water Lily Pond, which depicts the painters Giverny garden, with a Japanese bridge, bamboo, ginkgo trees and the reflection of the sky in the pond. This illusion constructs both time and space.

The surface of the music, like the canvas of the painting, invents a journey between now and then by interpreting the idiom of folkloric and western art instruments. In this composition, the sound of the Western concert flute, which stretches back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, evokes the sound of the bamboo-flute (shakuchachi), which reached its peak during the Edo period. The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, with a more than 2,500 year history, joins traditional Japanese folk melodies with modern pop percussion and 20th century electronic instruments such as the Moog synthesizer, Wurlitzer electric piano and electric bass.

This is the illusion that celebrates the fleeting nature of all things. A journey. A deep inhale and a slow exhale. It has a mix of jazz (both funky and progressive), East Asian and South Asian sounds. The idea of fusing these styles and reframing them with the aesthetic of wabi sabi is to reconnect with nature and concentrate on asymmetries and emphasize ornamentation to generate new ways of looking at the world, here and now.

This record is produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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Melt Yourself Down

100 & Yes

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Piccolo - Tender Plays Tubby

Tenderlonious

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Jazz Detective)

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The Dancing Devils Of Djibouti

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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22a founder, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Tenderlonious, head's up this incredibly special release for Jazz Detective Records, paying homage to the British jazz legend Tubby Hayes. A chance sequence of events lead to Tenderlonious, getting his hands on Tubby Hayes' Piccolo, resulting in this outstanding re-interpretation of four classic Tubby Hayes tracks. Features some of London's finest jazz musicians, with the hope; to introduce a whole new generation of jazz fans to a true great of British jazz.

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Groupe RTD

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Ostinato)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Outernational)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first ever international album from Djibouti and Ostinato's first studio recorded album. This ain't a compilation or reissue!

A stunning collision of Indian Bollywood, Jamaican dub and reggae, sleek horns inspired by Harlem’s jazz era, Somali funk, and the haunting and joyous synthesizer melodies of the Red Sea by Groupe RTD, one of East Africa’s best kept secrets.

Recorded in three days -- as per the strict limit set by Djibouti's national radio authorities -- with a state-of-the-art mobile recording studio replete with the very best audio interfaces and carefully positioned microphones around a less than soundproof room to achieve a vibrant, professional sound while maintaining the analog warmth of decades prior.

A portion of Bandcamp sales will be donated in equal parts to:

• The Djiboutian Embassy in Germany to purchase masks and other essential supplies for Djibouti.

• Amref Health Africa Covid-19 Fund (amref.org/donations/covid19/)

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More than one news report refers to Djibouti as “a place where nothing ever happened” that “would not register significantly in the global consciousness except for its strategic location in East Africa."

These deeply ill-informed observations could not be further from the truth.

While the music of Somalia is widely celebrated, its neighbor, the Republic of Djibouti, formerly known as French Somaliland, is home to an equally deep reservoir of its own unique Somali music.

The small but culturally grand country on the mouth of Red Sea remains one of the few places in the world where music is still entirely the domain of the state. Since independence in 1977, one-party rule brought most music under its wing, with almost every band a national enterprise.

No foreign entities have been permitted to work with Djibouti’s rich roster of music — until now.

In 2016, Ostinato Records met with senior officials of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Djibouti (rtd), a.k.a. the national radio, to discuss a vision for lifting the shroud on Djiboutian music as the young country of less than a million people increasingly opens up to the world. Three years later, in 2019, Ostinato became the first label granted full authorization to access the national radio’s archives, one of the largest and best preserved in Africa, home to thousands of reels of Somali and Afar music.

But just next door, in RTD’s recording studio, a world class band entirely unknown outside the country, whose songs are a living embodiment of the archives, lay in waiting. Composed of sensational new, young talent backed by old masters, the band — Groupe RTD — is the national ceremony outfit. By day, they perform for presidential and national events and welcome foreign dignitaries.

By night, when no longer on official duty, Groupe RTD is clearly one of East Africa’s best kept secrets.

Helmed by Mohamed Abdi Alto, possibly the most unheralded saxophone virtuoso in all of Africa, a Djiboutian national treasure, and the horn maestro on track 8 of our Grammy-nominated Sweet As Broken Dates compilation, and mentored by Abdirazak Hagi Sufi, originally from Mogadishu and composer of track 9 on the same compilation, Groupe RTD is the finest expression of Djibouti’s cosmopolitan music style.

Situated on the Bab El Mandeb (Gate of Tears) strait, a historic corridor of global trade connecting the Suez Canal and the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean, Djibouti is blessed with influences from East Asia, the Arabian peninsula, India, and even more distant sounds.

Djiboutian music, particularly the addictive brand wielded by Groupe RTD, is, by their own admission, the juncture where Indian Bollywood vocal styles, offbeat licks of Jamaican dub and reggae, sleek horns inspired by Harlem’s jazz era, Somali funk and the haunting and joyous synthesizer melodies of the Red Sea collide.

Sax player Mohamed Abdi Alto — so talented that they added “Alto” to his legal name — honed his trade from a steady diet of John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Abdirazak’s guitar style draws heavily from his love affair with Jamaican music. Young singers Asma Omar, who won a youth talent contest to join the band, and Hassan Omar Houssein are fluent in the classic hits of Bollywood and Indian music. Synth player Moussa Aden Ainan brings a distinctly dexterous Somali touch, reminiscent of the exceptional keys work of Somalia’s Iftin and Waaberi Band. Their sound is kept afloat by measured Tadjouran rhythms, courtesy of drummer Omar Farah Houssein and dumbek player Salem Mohamed Ahmed’s perfect interplay.

But recording this album was Ostinato’s biggest challenge yet. A web of bureaucracy and strict rules had to be navigated. Djibouti’s authorities gave us only three days to record the entire set, with no extension. Up for the task and eager to deliver, the musicians promptly tore down the “no smoking or chewing khat” sign in RTD’s recording studio and began a heated, three-day, khat-fueled devilish feast of music amid a smokey haze, unleashing the very reason the band was founded: to strut Djibouti’s majestic music on the world stage when the opportunity arrived.

The recording equipment in the radio had not been upgraded in decades and technical neglect meant we had to devise a novel approach to ensure the highest quality recording possible. With the help of Djibouti’s head of customs, we flew in a state-of-the-art mobile recording studio replete with the very best audio interfaces and carefully positioned microphones around a less than soundproof room to achieve a vibrant, professional sound while maintaining the analog warmth of decades prior.

This game-changing setup, a far cry from the old days of field recordings, is Ostinato’s vision for the future: to capture the contemporary sounds of Africa and the world flawlessly, in any environment or circumstance.

We proudly present Ostinato’s premier studio recorded album and the first ever international album to emerge from Djibouti — Groupe RTD: The Dancing Devils of Djibouti.

This album, if listened to at an inappropriate volume, should firmly register Djibouti in the global consciousness, shifting its image from a strategic outpost of geopolitical games to cultural powerhouse.

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Jaman

Sweet Heritage

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Is My Salvation Chapter 5

Tone B. Nimble

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Rain&Shine)

Summer Body / Breakfast In Space

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Soul is My Salvation is a collection of dance friendly gospel songs. The mission is to simply uplift your spirit through music and word. Dance floor’s around the world mirror the reactions of Churches from the 70’s and 80’s when experiencing these recordings.” - Tone B. Nimble.
Released as a series of eight limited vinyl-only 45, when assembled together the covers reveal a beautiful design courtesy of designer Charlotte McCrae. A true collectors item.
Chapter 5 includes an essential cut from Fay Hill’s tough to find ‘This Is A Blessing’ LP, officially licensed from the WFL record label’s family trust. Backed with Peaches Mann (RIP)’s under the radar ‘Get In Rhythm With God’s Love’. Groovy.

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Aldorande

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Favorite)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Aldorande is back! The French Jazz-Funk quartet returns with a strong new EP “Summer Body / Breakfast in Space” widening its musical universe to join the Favorite Recordings’ 2020 Disco Jazz-Funk series.
After their first eponymous LP released in June 2019, our explorers strike again with two club-friendly compositions joining the dots between Jazz-Funk and Disco/Boogie. Recorded with great care, reflecting Favorite Recordings’ journey towards the authentic analogue sound, both tracks coming with a Charles Maurice dub versions. With this new musical space trip, Aldorande confirmed – if needed – their solid position at the heart of the French jazz scene: a great appetizer before their upcoming 2nd album to be released later this year.
A-side opens with “Summer Body”, a boogie banger driven by a magnetic bassline, surrounded by lush synthesizers and catchy backing vocals arranged in the tradition of the best Brazilian songs. On the B-side comes “Breakfast in Space”, a sort of cosmic opera. The slap bass and drums set up a P-Funk foundation. On the top, Aldorande put psychedelic vocal lines making the whole journey a definitive trip into funkiness.
Behind Aldorande, you will find a team of great musicians including bandleader and founder Virgile Raffaëlli on bass (Setenta, Camarão Orkestra), Florian Pellissier on keys (Iggy Pop, Guts, Setenta, Cotonete,…), Mathieu Edward on drums (Chassol, De La Soul) and Erwan Loeffel on percussion (10LEC6, Camarão Orkestra). For this new EP, always looking for more funk into their groove, they’ve been joined by French guitarist Farid Baha (Cotonete, Camarão Orkestra).

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L'Eclair

Noshtta

24,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Norah Jones

Pick Me Up Off The Floor

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Norah Jones’ seventh solo studio album grew out of her acclaimed singles series, as the unreleased songs unexpectedly congealed into an album of tremendous depth and beauty. Featuring a range of collaborators from Brian Blade to Jeff Tweedy, Pick Me Up Off The Floor is connected by the sly groove of her piano trios, lyrics that confront loss and portend hope, and a mood that leans into darkness before ultimately finding the light.

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7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Action Women)

Action Women Volume 2

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vincent Chancey / Wilber Morris / Warren Smith

The Spell. The Vincent Chancey Trio Live, 1987

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Conny Bauer / Matthias Bauer / Dag Magnus Narvesen

The Gift

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dux Orchestra - Dave Sewelson / Mats Gustafsson / Susie Ibarra / Will Connell Jr. / Dave Hofstra / Walter "Sweet" Perkins / Jc Morrison

Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Keys & Screws (Thomas Borgmann / Jan Roder / Willi Kellers)

Some More Jazz

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Agusti Fernandez / Liudas Mockunas

Improdimensions

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Action Women)

Action Women Volume 3

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Action Women)

Action Women Volume 1

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lucifer Is A Flower Limited Red Vinyl Edition

Black Devil

LP+7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Lo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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"Black Devil Disco Club's story is as deep and strange as the music itself. His first album ‘Black Devil Disco Club’ is one of the most enigmatic electronic masterpieces ever made. So ahead of it’s time that no one could believe it was made in 1977 (released 1n 1978). Many thought it was a hoax and that the music was made by Aphex Twin or Luke Vibert but when Lo Recordings released the ‘28 After’ album in 2006, the truth was finally revealed.

Black Devil is the alter ego of Bernard Fevre, a French composer of electronic library music including the magnificent ‘Strange World Of Bernard Fevre’.

Bernard grew up and worked in Paris, and it was the African clubs and rhythms that inspired him to make the ‘Disco Club’ album. With only a small arsenal of electronic keyboards, a vocoder and looped conga drums he made music that transcends time.

Fast forward to 2020 and ‘Lucifer Is A Flower’ is every bit as enigmatic, inventive and inspiring as it’s title suggests. A kaleidoscopic ride into the mind of a musical master. Beautifully packaged with design by Non Format that includes pictures of the devil as a young man, it’s a fitting tribute to a career that has spanned over 40 years of divine and diabolical genius"

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ZYX Italo Disco New Generation

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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The Golden Hits Of Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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70s Disco Hits

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Spectacular)

Anton Stephans

Back To The Basics

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Boardwalk)

Four Vandals

Ending Up On A High

14,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Boardwalk)

Tammi Lavette

Seven Days

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (United States Of Soul)

Sensationelles

Crystal Clear To Me

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Beatsqueeze)

Mustang Force

Hollywood Hustlers

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (678)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If you’re into funky sixties or seventies B-movies soundtracks, Mustang Force is what you need! Composed of 14 tracks recorded live and composed by Sébastien Blanchon (drums, rhodes, organ, clavinet, synthesizers) and Emmanuel Marée (drums, guitar, bass, percussion), Hollywood Hustlers is an imaginary soundtrack inspired by all these movies. 14 songs recorded live, illustratring scenes of pursuits, deals, investigations. An album which will undoubtedly delight fans of funk and rare groove.

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Ian Carr's Nucleus

Exit 1971

31,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Aleksi Heinola Quintet, Antti Lötjönen & Oaagaada

Lonna

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Tommy McGee

I'm A Stranger

27,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nice 'N' Easy 60th Anniversary Edition

Frank Sinatra

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Capitol)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Scofield / Bill Stewart / Steve Swallow

Swallow Tales

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ECM)

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Ateneum 2019

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helsinki's We Jazz Records presents "Ateneum 2019", part 2 of their ongoing "We Jazz Live Plates" series documenting the label's live activity. Recorded at the historic Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki during spring 2019, the intense live compilation brings together three acts on the label's roster: Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen, OK:KO and Alder Ego, each performing two tracks here.

OK:KO opens proceedings with their sound electrified by Toomas Keski-Säntti changing from piano to Fender rhodes, a little touch that opens up new avenues in their sound. The band who made a big splash with their 2019 debut album "Syrtti", present energetic new versions of the title track and the looping "Piik". Alder Ego, led by drummer Joonas Leppänen, shifts gears with a new deep version of their 2018 album track "Cubism", and add a new track "Mystery Room Nr. 6" into the mix. Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen strecth out their compact tracks "Fallow" and "Goldenrod", which grow into new lenght and depth in the live setting.

"Ateneum 2019" released together with "Lonna 2019", We Jazz Live Plates vol. 3, is an inspiring example of the active and high quality jazz scene in Helsinki.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Lonna 2019

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Eskapaden Musik)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Jazz Records presents "Lonna 2019", a nautical live album bringing together recordings captured at the successful concert series at the island of Lonna just outside Helsinki in July 2019. Part 3 of their ongoing "We Jazz Live Plates" series documenting the label's live activity, "Lonna 2019" features inspired performances by Aleksi Heinola Quintet, Antti Lötjönen Quintet East and Oaagaada. Drummer Heinola's quintet and the Hämeenlinna-based quartet Oaagaada make their We Jazz Records debut with this release, while Lötjönen is releasing his debut as a leader on the label in April.

"Lonna 2019" captures the easy-going feeling at the island series fittingly. Aleksi Heinola Quintet swings with their natural ability of making no-nonsense hard bop sound fresh in the contemporary setting. Antti Lötjönen leads his star-studded Quintet East through a high-spirited rendition of Don Cherry's "Art Deco". Oaagaada charm with their deep DIY spiritual jazz. And somewhere just above the music, a seagull screeches, echoing a perfect sunny day at Lonna.

"Lonna 2019" released together with "Ateneum 2019", We Jazz Live Plates vol. 2, is an inspiring example of the active and high quality jazz scene in Helsinki.

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Sepalot Quartet

NOWNEXT

19,99 €*

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second offering by SEPALOT QUARTET presents itself as a loosely layered fusion album incorporating the best of jazz, indie and electronics - constantly infused by SEPALOT's HipHop roots. On A NEW CYCLE, the quartets first release, they had to limit themselves to delivering versions of SEPALOTS already released discography, a trial run they stated then. But the concept blossomed and with this album it came to fruition. The work on NOWNEXT provided a solid foundation for self-discovery on a grand scale. NOWNEXT is an unambiguous, contemporary album with international format, that draws its rich repertoire from the musical background of its diverse members (Sepalot, Angela Aux, Fabian Füss, Matthias Lindermayr). Memories, associations and visions are awakened and poured into a musical form.

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The Brand New Heavies

Beautiful / Getaway

13,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Record Kicks)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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May 1990 The Brand New Heavies released ‘that blue album’ and with it came a winning formula which would go on to earn them 16 top 40 hits and three million worldwide album sales not to mention two UK Platinum albums. Emerging at the heart of the Acid Jazz scene, their self-titled 1990 debut made an instant impact with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and over the last three decades the band have not let up releasing enduring classics such as You Are The Universe, Midnight At The Oasis & Dream Come True to name but a few. To celebrate these thirty years we’re releasing a limited edition 7-inch vinyl, the first 7-inch release since Stay This Way came out in 1992. The 7-inch will contain the vocal performances of both Beverley Knight and N’Dea Davenport on Beautiful and Getaway respectively.

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The Devonns

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Record Kicks)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release date moved due to Corona.

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The Devonns

Tell Me / Instrumental

10,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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10" | 2020 | EU | Original (Stag-O-Lee)

Gunsmoke 05

Reasons Feat. Bobby Oroza

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fünftes Volumen der beliebten Serie auf Stag-O-Lee. Erstmals ist ein Gast-Compilant am Start - niemand anderes als Hank Ray, Kennern des Genres bekannt als Leader der Raymen, Solo-Künstler und aktuell mit Lucifer's Sideburn unterwegs.Limitiert auf 666 Exemplare, kommt das Werk feinstverpackt im 10" Cover mit Mittelloch.Gunsmoke ist eine Sammlung von Country- und Cowboy Tränenziehern mit oder ohne leichter Schräglage, melancholischem Rockabilly und Popcorn Noir aus den späten 50ern und frühen 60ern. So könnte eine alte Jukebox in einer verlassenen Stadt im alten Westen klingen.... Fifth volume in a limited edition series on Stag-O-Lee. This time compiled by the one and only Hank Ray - a fixture of the German Cramps/Rockabilly/Country-scene, having fronted the legendary Raymen, being a respected solo artist and currently in Lucifer's Sideburns. Limited to 666 copies and packaged in a nice 10" sleeve with center hole. This is a collection of oddball country weepers, moody rockabilly, widescreen country & western and popcorn noir from the 1950's and early 60's.So turn out the lights, sit back and relax to the soundtrack from a jukebox in a ghost town...For best results: listen to after dark!

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El Michels Affair

7" | 2020 | US | Original (Big Crown)

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Must have two-sider from El Michels Affair. The A side "Reasons" is a collaboration that is sure to get all the Soul collectors very, very excited. Last time Bobby Oroza was in New York El Michels invited him to the studio to cut a tune together. Bobby took this opportunity to take us all on a journey to the existential side of his mind on this gorgeous and ethereal ballad covered in lush guitar notes. Oroza's voice finds it's place perfectly over the track, talking us through the human struggle and still creating that energy that is uniquely his and has become his signature sound. The B side "Hipps" is pulled from El Michels Affair's recently released modern masterpiece Adult Themes. In a day and age when the album format is being taken over by singles and playlists Adult Themes is a record that truly has to be listened to in the context of the whole album to be understood. This made it hard for us to pick a tune from it for this 7". "Hipps" cuts in with a crushing drum beat and is quickly joined by the unmistakable horn arrangements that Leon has become famous for. In true EMA fashion the arrangement on this piece can't be touched, closing one's eyes and listening will induce anyone to a vivid visual fantasy. It turns out to be something of a chapter from a book, and we recommend you treat yourself to the front to back experience of Adult Themes.

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Motohiko Hamase

Anecdote

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is proud to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s extremely rare live album Anecdote (recorded in 1987). The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl (double LP) for the first time ever as well as on CD. It comes with liner notes from the artist. This marks the sixth release from the ESPLANADE SERIES which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano. Anecdote was recorded live June 12th 1987 at Spiral Garden (Wacoal Art Center) in Aoyama (Tokyo) as part of the Eat Newsic Concert No.3. Motohiko Hamase on electric fretless bass, synthesizers and computer programming, is accompanied by frequent collaborators Toshio Kaji on acoustic piano and synthesizers, and Yasunori Yamaguchi (of #Notes of Forestry fame) on acoustic percussions. The three-man band improvises around Hamase’s unique repertoire of ambient and electronic music, reinterpreting pieces from his albums Reminiscence, Intaglio, and #Notes of Forestry.

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Motohiko Hamase

#Notes Of Forestry

I Called You Back Baby Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is excited to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s remarkable ambient/environmental/minimalism project #Notes of Forestry, available for the first time since 1988. The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl and CD with liner notes from the artist. This marks the third release from the ESPLANADE SERIES which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano. One of the most fascinating and peculiar works from the golden era of Japanese ambient, #Notes of Forestry was initially released in 1988 by Newsic, the cult label started by Tokyo’s Wacoal Art Center (also known as Spiral), home, notably, of Yoshio Ojima who co-produced the album. Conceived by Jazz bassist turned experimentalist Motohiko Hamase, the magnum opus offers an enchanting mix of free-form pastoral electronics, otherworldly percussions by Yasunori Yamaguchi, and delightfully allusive piano played by none other than Satsuki Shibano (Sound Process’ Wave Notation 3).

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Kelly Finnigan

7" | 2020 | US | Original (Colemine)

10,99 €*

Adult Themes Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On the heels of a successful European tour and new album from his band Monophonics, Kelly Finnigan is happy to present to you this twosided banger sure to satisfy the funk and soul needs of every DJ. The A-side, "I Called You Back Baby", an answer song to the deep Gloria Barnes soul cut is THE uptempo number from Kelly's album The Tales People Tell. Super funky drums from Monophonics' Austin Bohlman and percussion from Jungle Fire's Steve Haney make the breakbeat on this tune super tough. And after you're done sweating, you're gonna need time to cool off with the one you love. So flip the record over to burn one down with "Impressions Of You", a cut that's already been embraced by the lowrider sweet soul scene. This is a doublebarreled sure shot! FOR FANS OF: Durand Jones & The Indications, Lee Fields, Lee Moses.

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El Michels Affair

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Big Crown)

24,99 €*

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Izipho Soul)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Crown Records is proud to present Adult Themes, the latest full length offering from El Michels Affair. This album takes the band's "Cinematic Soul" aesthetic literally and sends the listener on a journey through a whirlwind of moods and energies. With their 2005 debut album Sounding Out The City, EMA spearheaded an instrumental funk / soul movement that inspired a slew of bands and even lead to the creation of a few independent record labels. El Michels has since lent his signature sound to artists from Adele to Dr John, Lana Del Rey to Aloe Blacc, and a who's who list of others. In 2016 he co-founded Big Crown Records and has since produced the lion's share of its output. A short stint as the touring band for Wu Tang Clan in 2007 led to the cult classics Enter The 37th Chamber (2009) and Return To The 37th Chamber (2017). Adult Themes marks the long awaited, highly anticipated return to an album of original compositions from El Michels Affair. In 2017 in between producing, playing, and recording on other artists' records Leon Michels began creating compilations of short interludes intended to be sampled by hip hop producers. Some of these wound up becoming songs by Jay Z & Beyonce, Travis Scott, and Don Toliver. These minute-long snippets were inspired by the dense moody work of `60s composers like David Axelrod, and Francois de Roubaix, as well as Moondog's brand of classical jazz. Michels was having so much fun creating these instrumental / orchestral nuggets that he decided to expand on some of the ideas and create what would become the soundtrack for a movie that has yet to be made, an imaginary film entitled "Adult Themes." The album plays like the colors on an artists pallet. Songs like "Rubix" and "Villa" are densely orchestrated with the hard-hitting drums that El Michels Affair is known for. On "Life of Pablo", Leon's son makes his first appearance on record and intros a song with an epic arrangement and a moving mood. "Hipps" is a drum heavy ballad that could've easily fit on EMA's debut record, Sounding Out the City. Other compositions like "The Difference" and "Kill The Lights" are bare, melodic mood pieces with sparse drums and sophisticated chord movement. All of these tunes come together to make perfect backgrounds for dialogue and action. One of the beautiful things about instrumental music is that the listener can decide what the narrative is. With Adult Themes El Michels Affair has created a "choose your own adventure" in musical form.

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Mark Johnson

Daydream

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Ramrock Red)

Pauline Taylor

Siren EP

One Nite Alone...Solo Piano And Voice By Prince

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ramrock Red Records are proud to present acclaimed singer/songwriter, Pauline Taylor and her hauntingly powerful four track ‘Siren’ EP. Showcasing her soaring, stripped back, grassroots, earthy vocals, the EP is reminiscent of a long lost Alan Lomax recording with rhythmic arrangements which only serve to highlight Pauline’s unshakeable, pitch perfect harmonies. This is a truly remarkable release that will shake you to your core with its honesty, purity and authenticity – Ms. Taylor is at the very top of her game.

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Prince

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Legacy)

26,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (HHV Records)

Kiydrah

Simulation

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sonar Kollektiv)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies on black vinyl including all instrumentals on the B.

Kiydrah is a singer-songwriter from Killeen, TX. Being an outcast could have its negative impacts, however, Kiydrah has embraced this trait as it has become part of her identity and uniqueness as an artist. Melting her melodies to compliment her lyrics, she drifts you to her sound providing you with comfort. Kiydrah's vocals have a smooth/raspy PBR&B, Neo-Soul, & Jazzy sound. „Simulation“ is the collaborative effort with French producer Breiss including a remix by Dusty of the well-known Jazz Liberatorz. Tip!

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Key Elements

20,99 €*

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Berlin based label Sonar Kollektiv has been waiting for it anxiously: Key Elements‘ debut album leads Jazz music into the new decade down-the-line. The music Key Elements create is fresh, merciless and ruthless and has always the finger on the pulse of the time. The album‘s eight tracks are all far away from Broken Beat nostalgia or Beatmaking nedism, they breathe inspiration from the young, thriving British jazz scene.
Key Element‘s initiator, DJ and producer Marian Tone, built up a reputation in the Berlin hiphop, soul and jazz scene over the years (also as a co-founder of Beatkollektiv). With all of his compositions you always feel this heritage and his love and passion for hiphop. But the other two allys within «Key Elements», drummer Waldi and the keyboard or bass player Jim Dunloop made their contribution with compositions and ideas as well. An album which was initially designed to be a mere solo project became an effort of a trio over the years being inherently consistent. Already the opening track «Mike Needs Sugar» shows the direction this album will take us: To the land of the good groove. It‘s here where the three thoroughbred musicians feel on top of the world obviously and deliver one luscious track after the other. From the cheerful «Morning Boom» to the kinda furtively laid back «Impossible» and the final «Funky Dave», which could be on an Italian soundtrack from the 70‘s every single tone and note from «Key Elements» is great fun.
Especially because even when you listen to it a second, third or fourth time you will discover new nuances and niceties again and again. As is right and proper for really good jazz album.

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Jorge Ben

Waimea 55.000

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Delreys Incorporated & Oscar Wright

Destination Unknown / Fell In Love

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Deptford Northern Soul Club)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Now You've Got The Upper Hand / You're Acting Kind Of Strange

Candi Staton & Chappells

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Deptford Northern Soul Club)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rhythm & Blues House Party Volume 1

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Koko Mojo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lou Courtney & Lee Dorsey

Trying To Find My Woman / Give It Up

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Deptford Northern Soul Club)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Lamont Butler

It's Time For A Change

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes

What Kinda Music

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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We are excited to present Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes’ “What Kinda Music” – an astonishing collaboration between two artists of very different disciplines, and one of the most unique and seamlessly original projects of its ilk to date.

Moving fluidly through sleek electronica, avant-garde jazz, vintage hip hop and so much more, Misch and Dayes take you on a journey that is by turns surprising and spontaneous, heady and head spinning, and nothing less than compelling – a singular vision which fuses the DNA of both musicians with spectacular results, as can be seen in the title track, which comes backed by a gorgeously atmospheric video by XX.

Even though the fundamental bones of this project came together very quickly, its actual provenance stretches back much, much farther back, with the pair not only growing up in the same area of South East London, but Misch actually seeing Dayes play on drums in the school talent show for the first time when he was roughly 8 or 9. They both kept tabs on each other – Misch becoming a fan of Dayes’ act Yussef Kamaal, Dayes clocking his videos in 2014 – but it was only when they met at a launch party for Misch’s debut LP “Geography” in 2018 that the proverbial creative sparks began to fly. “As a musician you’re always looking for contemporaries who can push you and challenge you and make you better”, says Dayes. “I instantly felt that with Tom – he was such a gifted musician, and so prolific”. That summer they decided to go into the studio together, jam a little, and see what happens, with no other expectation placed upon it.

As it turns out, the music came fast and furiously. Two initial tracks were suddenly followed by a handful of others, and the pair found themselves contemplating what to do next. “Pretty soon, we knew that something was gelling”, Dayes says. “It didn’t feel like a one-off collaboration, it felt like a body of work”. What made the pair click, according to Misch and Dayes, were the exact same factors that meant it shouldn’t, by all rights, work. Misch says, “Yussef comes from a more experimental background, and he has a lot of loose, crazy ideas. I know how to write a catchy melody, but with interesting chords and have a good understanding of popular song forms, so I think I streamlined those ideas and made them accessible”. And certainly, in “What Kinda Music” you can sense the DNA of both musicians, but fusing so effortlessly and beautifully that it creates something else entirely, the appropriately named “Lift Off” sending goosebumps with its jazz flecked crescendo, and “Night Rider” hynotising with its deeply mesmeric grooves. “I have a love for harmony and chords”, Misch adds. “Working with someone like Yussef, who has such a gifted sense of rhythm allowed a perfect balance”.

Throughout the record, there is an utterly joyful feel of two musicians at the top of their game sparking off one another, picking up ideas and running with them – zigging where the other zags, ebbing where the other flows, with Misch producing the majority of the record and both having a hand in the overall sound and feel of the record.

“Working with Yussef has actually changed the way I work as a musician”, Misch muses. “He’s pushed me and unlocked a more experimental part of me that I hadn’t really allowed myself to explore before. I think we really did impact each other in a fundamental way”. Dayes is similarly effusive in his praise for Misch. “A musician like him, who’s at the top of his game, he doesn’t need to do this”, he raves. “He can just keep doing the same thing and why not? He’s killing it. The fact that he’s so humble, that he’s so curious about everything and open to collaboration, speaks a lot to him as an artist, because it’s not easy finding musicians who want to collaborate. Something always gets in the way, whether it’s ego or their team or whatever. But with Tom it felt like the intention was purely creative, and that’s what made it exciting”. In fact, Dayes says that the intentions of the record go even deeper than just music. “Both our parents who’d never met each other before, are now best friends as a result of this, they now see each other more than we do! I’d like to think, in some small way, that this album has a similar impact for people too – everything feels so divided these days, it would be nice for people to hear the record and hear two very different musicians coming together and realise it doesn’t have to be that way”.

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Alessandro Alessandroni

Forever

13,99 €*

Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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"Forever” is a special album that celebrates Alessandroni’s genius and represent his musical testament. Composed and arranged in Namibia during the last months of his life, the album is a stunning collection of orchestral tracks that reveal Alessandroni’s many virtues and abilities as a composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, fusing pop, jazz and classical music with his unique (Italian) touch.

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To Catch A Bird In The Net Of Wind

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (The Sleepers Recordz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums/percussion) have developed a musical language that is not only shaped by original forms as free jazz, metal, rock and Buddhist monastic music. Their sound merges passion and emotions of literature, art, cultural movements, politics - flashes of ecstatic intensity, blurred timbral lines, fractal repetition, noir-ish, cinematic mystery and inclinations toward free play hint that the two are pleased to follow a winding path to destinations yet unknown.Recorded by Dave Zuchowski, March 25th, 2018, as part of Elastic Arts' 2018, Chicago.Mixed by John Dawson, Mastered by Martin Siewert Artwork by Aaron TurnerIn 2017 the duo released an album for Trost with danish saxophon player Mette Rasmussen."Together, the combination of Dorji's high-end metallic power-tool skree and Damon's manic-but-earthy hippie clomping are a perfect pairing. Each has a musical spoon in the other guy's soup to begin with, resulting in a collaboration that seems almost brotherly. [_] I'd say expect great things, but they're already happening." - The Free Jazz CollectiveTracklisting A. To Catch A Bird In A Net Of Wind (20:31)B. Upon The Rim Of The Well (18:39)

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Paradise Phantoms

Mirage

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Teranga Beat)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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When one thinks about a "Mirage," the first thought that likely comes to mind is the illusion of a well-hydrated paradise in the middle of a hot, arid desert. If you could spin that illusion into a full-on fantasy, a 32-bit utopia with a neon soundtrack, you would have the Mirage presented to you by Marcos Miranda & Ivan Redondo, collectively known as Paradise Phantoms.
In musical form, Mirage is deceptively eclectic - A collection of pulsating dance cuts with a pastel glow, rooted in retro funk, but cleverly spiked with rock and streamlined with pop. The result is a project with equal appeal for classic boogie funk fiends and contemporary dance music enthusiasts alike - Mirage could hit hard in Ibiza, yet sounds like it was purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Indeed, one of the album's standout cuts declares with no uncertainty that "Prince Was Right." Uptempo drum machine hits collide with icy FM synths and slick bass grooves as if the year was 1988. Yet, the dynamic arrangements and modern production values remind us that this is brand new music - The type that sounds as if its creators never forgot a childhood spent playing Sega Genesis in a room lined with NPG & Max Headroom posters.
Mirage is also available in a vinyl LP package perfectly suited to the aural treats within - A limited edition picture disc.

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Evritiki Zygia

Ormenion

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Polysom)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Teranga Beat proudly presents Ormenion, a record by the group Evritiki Zygia. Ormenion is a historical region that dates back to the Byzantine Empire. It is the northernmost inhabited region of Greece, where the last railway station of the country is located. During the 1920's it was inhabited by refugees coming from the North and Eastern Thrace. Immigration is central to the history of the region of Thrace, where many songs refer to refugees and moving populations. The name of this particular place
was selected as the album title due to its delicate cultural and geographic status: Ormenion coincides with the borders of three different countries (Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey) and its history counts several waves of immigration that gave way to cultural and even linguistic exchange -elements that obviously left their mark on the group.
The group Evritiki Zygia was founded in 2007 by five musicians who played mostly in local festivals, their main concern being the preservation and evolution of the Thracian musical tradition. The collaboration with Teranga Beat helped this project evolve even further. Forms of arrangement different than the ones used in local feasts and festivals, were introduced giving more space to the dynamics of the instruments and allowing musicians to show both their improvisational and compositional skills. The distinctively psychedelic element of Thracian music was enhanced with the introduction of the CRB-Diamond 800 organ and the Moog, giving the whole project a hybrid sound with a unique identity. The album contains both covers of traditional songs and original
compositions.
The band's highest point was their appearance at the Womex Festival in 2018, where their music was presented for the first time in front of an international audience. This was an extremely important achievement for us, given that up until then this type of music
remained unknown even to Greek audiences. But it was also a great and very creative experience for the band, as it broadened up its musical horizons.The album was recorded on an analog 24-track tape Otari MX 80 in two sessions that took place on May 18 and 19 2019. It is a live recording that captures the energy of the group’s live performances. The LP version of the album is a Deluxe Edition and comes with a high gloss laminated gatefold cover, a printed insert and a digital download code. The CD packaging is Digipak with Slipcase, including a booklet with photos and liner notes outlining the story of the band.

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Marcos Valle

Cinzento

37,99 €* 39,99 € -5%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal

Bossa Got The Blues

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Polysom)

37,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Agogo)

Wanubalé

Nadra / Loose Focus

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Odd Funk / HHV Records)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Young Berlin/Potsdam-based nine-piece WANUBALÉ follow up their debut album "Phosphenes" with two brandnew songs on this 12".

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Broaks

Soul Is My Salvation Chapter 4

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies.

A creative union of 90s hiphop production techniques, live instrumentation, turntablism and spoken word poetry. Performed by Dan Broak, Herbal Bert and Lion El Hämpton at Odd Funk Records studio under the dope quality control surveillance of the notorious production-duo The Blassics.

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Tone B. Nimble

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Rain&Shine)

Helen Merrill Mono Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Soul is My Salvation is a collection of dance friendly gospel songs. The mission is to simply uplift your spirit through music and word. Dance floor’s around the world mirror the reactions of Churches from the 70’s and 80’s when experiencing these recordings.” - Tone B. Nimble.
Released as a series of eight limited vinyl-only 45, when assembled together the covers reveal a beautiful design courtesy of designer Charlotte McCrae. See the full eight record assembled design here.
A true collectors item.

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Helen Merrill

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Acoustic Sounds)

46,99 €*

Tape | 2020 | CA | Original (Inner Ocean)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helen Merrill attributed her childhood musical influence to her mother's singing. Truth is, she didn't wait long herself to make a mark as a teenage jazz ingénue, following-up with the notable self-titled LP you have in your hands, newly remastered, and reissued by Analogue Productions.
Helen Merrill arrives, remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio, and plated and pressed to 200-gram vinyl by the dedicated crew at Quality Record Pressings, supervised by plating expert and general manager Gary Salstrom. No less than an old-style, tip-on Stoughton Printing gatefold jacket would suffice for such a phenomenal-sounding reissue. Rare photographs inside the gatefold originally appeared as sleeve art for the 7-inch singles recorded and released in conjunction with the original 1955 album release.
Helen Merrill was born in New York City on July 21, 1930. Her professional career began at the age of 15 when, after singing at theatres and winning amateur contests, she landed a job as vocalist with Reggie Charles' Band. Merrill was later signed by Mercury Records to their EmArcy label. "Helen Merrill" is her debut studio album, backed by among others, trumpeter Clifford Brown and bassist/cellist Oscar Pettiford. The legendary Quincy Jones produced and arranged the album when he was just 21-years-old!
The success of Helen Merrill prompted Mercury to sign her for an additional four-album contract. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow gave Helen Merrill 4 1/2 stars. »The music is essentially straight-ahead bop, yet the seven standards ... are uplifted by the presence of Merrill (in top form) and Brown.« Her success associated Merrill with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians.
Merrill's career continued with recordings and concerts throughout six decades, until the early 2000s. Her emotional, sensual vocal performances, particularly this engaging debut, stand as testament to her immense talent.
This is a high-quality reissue of a rare and valuable record. Original copies have sold for more than $1,000!

Recording: in mono

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David Lavoie Quartet

Juno

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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David Lavoie quartet plays thoughtfully composed jazz tunes which showcase Lavoie’s writing while studying jazz at Capilano University in North Vancouver. Featuring Brad Turner on keys, Miles Wong on drums, and Stephen Edwards on bass, the quartet swings and grooves like a machine. Taking cues from post bop and contemporary jazz, this quartet is bound in tradition while still remaining fresh and modern.

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Dexter Gordon

Swingin Affair

37,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Légère)

Jay W. McGee

Smooth Cruising

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Is The Andrews Sisters

Andrews Sisters

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Koko Mojo)

Jackie Wilson

The New Breed EP

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Koko Mojo)

Rudy Ray Moore

The Dynamic EP

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Klaus Doldinger's Passport / Udo Lindenberg / Max Mutzke / Moses

Motherhood

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Warner)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ECM)

Avishai Cohen

Big Vicious

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Izipho Soul)

Dutch Robinson

Can't Say Goodbye / Ego

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We are elated to collaborate with cult soul man Dutch Robinson, one of the original lead singers of The Ohio Players, and known for the modern soul anthem ‘Can’t Get Along Without You’.
For this 7” single we present two scintillating songs from 2013: ‘Can’t Say Goodbye’ and ‘Ego’.
Dutch is blessed with an incredible five octave vocal range, and along with his songwriter/producer partner Aaron Hamblin, they create magical music overflowing with thought provoking lyrics and real instruments! Limited edition of 300

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Lido Pimienta

Miss Colombia

24,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (La Sape)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LIDO PIMIENTA is a Toronto-based, Colombian-born interdisciplinary musician and artist-curator. She has performed, exhibited, and curated around the world since 2002, exploring the politics of gender, race, motherhood, identity and the construct of the Canadian landscape in the Latin American diaspora and vernacular. Her new album Miss Colombia takes her ecstatic hybridity to a new level, building on the "nu" intersection of electronica and cumbia established by her 2016 Polaris Prize-winning La Papessa as Canadian album of the year. Produced with Matt Smith, a/k/a Prince Nifty, Miss Colombia overflows with the kind of understated genius that promises yet another breakthrough.

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Jk Group

The Young Ones

22,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Monte Cristo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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JK Group are a powerhouse nu-jazz band fronted by Melbourne saxophonist Josh Kelly, best known for his work with future soul-jazz collective, 30/70, and being the 2019 PBS Young Elder of Jazz. They sit in the crossover of raw, live jazz and electronic/dance production. At times synth-heavy, effected and soundscapey, while at other times hard hitting groove laden with spiritual jazz overtones and no-holds-barred improvising. Their sound nods respectfully to classic jazz traditions, whilst carving a path that unashamedly looks towards the future, embracing modern influences and production techniques. The album received a 5* review from Melbourne's own Mike Gurrieri, and has garnered radio play on PBS, RRR, Worldwide FM, NTS and more. The debut LP 'The Young Ones' is due out on La Sape March 27th.

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Chuks Ejelonu

Inner Vision

Stretch & Bobbito + The M19s Band

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If you were around some 36 years ago, and you are still around today, then you will again enjoy three of the six hit songs that ruled the music airwaves in Nigeria's 80's, filling you with nostalgia. If you are of today's people, then you will be fortunate enough to enjoy three evergreen songs that will take you to cloud nine. Chuks Ejelonu, undoubtedly, Africa's answer to America's Stevie Wonder, at the age of 18, released an album on vinyl titled "Let's Make A Memory" in the mid 80's. It contained six hit songs that made great impact on the music scene. Selling thousands of copies in the West-African sub region it would go overseas months later, were copies of the album would hit the streets of London and New York. Despite being widespread in some regions, only a hand full of copies are located to this day.

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No Requests

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Uprising Music)

13,99 €*

Soul Is My Salvation Chapter 3

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Stretch and Bobbito’s debut album No Requests explores the legendary club DJs’ vast musical knowledge with covers of songs directly from their record crates! Featuring the M19s Band, a live band of elite hand-picked musicians, the gatekeepers of ‘90s Hip Hop step outside their foundational genre base to produce Latin, Afro-beat, Samba, Jazz, Reggae, and Soul reinterpretations of dance floor bangers—ranging from popular to rare and obscure—which loosely depart expected structure and create new nuances to familiar tunes. The group also offers original compositions along the sonic journey. All tracks have one goal in mind: GROOVE!

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Tone B. Nimble

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Rain&Shine)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Légère)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Soul is My Salvation is a collection of dance friendly gospel songs. The mission is to simply uplift your spirit through music and word. Dance floor’s around the world mirror the reactions of Churches from the 70’s and 80’s when experiencing these recordings.” - Tone B. Nimble.
Released as a series of eight limited vinyl-only 45, when assembled together the covers reveal a beautiful design courtesy of designer Charlotte McCrae. A true collectors item.
Chapter 3 features The Gospel Truth - He Can Do It, a rare cut that barely has a trace online, on the flip you’ll find the instrumental version of McKinley Sandifer’s I Am The Vine, another tough and under the radar tune.

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Joel Sarakula

Companionship

19,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (NNA Tapes)

Grid

Decomposing Force

20,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sorry If I Hurt You / Nothing Ever Changes

Aladean Kheroufi

7" | 2020 | US | Original (Kimberlite)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Unmask Whoever Translucent Glacial Blue Vinyl Edition

Activity

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Western Vinyl)

16,19 €* 26,99 € -40%