Reggae & Dancehall Vinyl 1081 Items

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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The Golden Rule Multi-Colored Vinyl Edition

Bassnectar

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Amorphous)

69,99 €*

Live At Cotati Cabaret 1984

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Bassnectar is back with a new 17 track album, packed to the max with a diverse array of freestyle electronic music. The long wait for new music is (finally) over. Limited edition gatefold sleeve pressing on 180 gram multi-colored vinyl (blue, orange, yellow).

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Junior Wells & Buddy Guy

2LP | 2024 | Original (Cleopatra)

58,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2003 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Akina Nakamori

Utahime 3 - Shuumaku

58,99 €*

Release: 2003 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2024 | CA | Original (17 North Parade)

Delroy Wilson

Cool Operator

57,94 €* 60,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / CA – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (BMG)

Pitura Freska

Yeah

56,99 €*

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Imaginaria Black Vinyl Edition

Almamegretta

2LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (The Saifam Group)

54,99 €*

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Handsworth Revolution Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Steel Pulse

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Island)

53,19 €* 55,99 € -5%

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Bob Marley

The Reggae Legend

51,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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I Just Can't Stop It Expanded Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Clear Vinyl Edition

The Beat

2LP | 2023 (Rhino)

50,99 €*

Solomonic Singles, Pt. 2: Rise & Shine 1977-1986

Release: 2023

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Original album + live. 2 x 140g Crystal Clear / 2 x Printed Inner Sleeves / Gatefold LP Jacket / RSD Sticker

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Bunny Wailer

2LP | 2016 | JP | Reissue (Dub Store)

49,99 €*

Release: 2016 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Forces Of Victory Black History Month Vinyl Edition

Linton Kwesi Johnson

2LP | 1979 | PL | Reissue (UMR)

48,99 €*

Release: 1979 / PL – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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If I Had A Pair Of Wings: Jamaican Doo Wop, Vol. I - Iii

3LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

47,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Death Is Not The End together all three LP volumes of the critically acclaimed If I Had a Pair of Wings LP compilation series for a bundled edition.
"...all of the music on this compilation is the result of the forward-thinking artists and producers that realised the worth of local Jamaican artistry during a time when the island's leading political figures had not yet managed to throw off the colonial yolk. These are sounds with a certain innocence and the optimistic promise of better to come, with the influence of American pop ballads and doo-wop looming large, yet already pointing to the innovations of the future. Listen keenly and take in the sounds of the Jamaican music industry at its very beginnings, its singers and players drawing from the popular styles of the island's larger neighbour and already changing those styles into something their own." - David Katz
Lauren Laverne's comp of the week on BBC Radio 6 Music w/c 11th Jan.
Guardian feature: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/12/a-thousand-teardrops-how-doo-wop-kickstarted-jamaica-pop-revolution-reggae-rocksteady

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Merritone Rock Steady 2: This Music Got Soul 1966

2LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Dub Store)

47,49 €* 49,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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From Within Colored Vinyl Edition

Mortimer

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Easy Star)

46,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Viva Bertaga 1983 2023 Edition Limited Edition

Berurier Noir

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Archives De La Zone Mondiale)

45,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Natsu Summer & Dub Sensation

Natsu Summer

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

45,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall, Pop

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Natsu Summer, whose name is becoming known not only in Japan but also in other Asian countries as a rare city-pop reggae singer, recorded her 2018 album with her steelpan-fuelled band Dub Sensation, which is being recorded for the first time. Kunimond Takiguchi (Streamline), who has produced almost all of her work in her career, is also involved in the production of this album. The song 'Japanese Reggae Woman', a tribute to the steelpan disco classic 'Reggae Is Here Once Again' by Steel An' Skin, and the songs by Kunimond Takiguchi, who has been responsible for producing the album since its debut, all The singer's personality is perfectly utilised and e-mura (bim ONE, Rub-a-dub Market), who mixed the album, has done an excellent job.

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The Bristol Roots Explosion Record Store Day 2024 Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bristol Archives)

45,59 €* 56,99 € -20%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Roaring Twenties Orange Vinyl Edition

Rizzle Kicks

2LP | 2024 | UK | Reissue (Universal)

43,99 €*

Soul Pirate Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Roaring 20s is the second and final studio album by the iconic Black British duo Rizzle Kicks. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 2nd September 2013. With Black Story honouring it’s 11th anniversary (and Black History Month), we are pressing this rare album onto Colored Vinyl that features collaborators Ant Whiting and Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim and Jamie Cullum.

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Alborosie

LP | 2008 | WW | Reissue (Evo Sound)

43,99 €*

Release: 2008 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | HK | Original (Evosound)

Alborosie

Dub Pirate

43,99 €*

Release: 2024 / HK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2018 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Minyo Crusaders

Echoes Of Japan

42,99 €*

LP | 2024 | Original (Cleopatra)

Release: 2018 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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The Minyo Crusaders' 2017 debut album “Echoes of Japan” LP will be back in stock on vinyl! Purists beware, as these ten Japanese musicians have decided to give a cumbia, reggae, salsa, ethiopian groove and afro-funk twist to min'yo, an ancestral Japanese folk song genre of which they were all fans before they met. Their debut album, the eminently exotic (even zany) Echoes Of Japan, features ten tracks from the min'yo repertoire sung in the grand tradition of the style, to the sound of Afro-Latino brass and percussion. A delightful example of successful fusion, however unlikely it may seem.

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Third World

Under The Magic Sun

42,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Dubwiser)

Dreadzone

Nine Cream Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Amore Mandarino Clear Green Vinyl Edition

I Tirelli

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (The Saifam Group)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall, Pop

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Live At Soledad Prison 1982

Black Uhuru

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Tabou1)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | Original (Cleopatra)

Judge Dread

Rude Boy

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Kalonji Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Sizzla

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Diggers Factory / Xterminator)

41,79 €* 43,99 € -5%

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Dubwiser)

Dreadzone

Nine Black Vinyl Edition

40,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Catch A Fire Tuff Gong Jamaican Version

Bob Marley & The Wailers

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

40,99 €*

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Gardenia Garden)

Asuka Ando

Double Happiness

40,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Gasolina)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Asuka Ando, Japan's leading Lovers Rock diva, has finally completed her highly anticipated 3rd album! Wearing a gradation of pink and violet tinged with mature colors, the song sings about "the joy that comes from layering" (double Happiness), and a new masterpiece of Japanese Lovers Rock is born!

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Daddy Yankee

Barrio Fino

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Gasolina)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Gatefold LP jacket + limited edition white vinyl. A landmark release, Barrio Fino catapulted Daddy Yankee to international fame. Known for it's breakout hit "Gasolina," the album features a mix of energetic reggaeton tracks and smooth melodies, exploring themes of urban life and celebration. It played a key role in bringing reggaeton to a global audience.

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Daddy Yankee

Los Homerun-Es

Cry Tuff Chants On U Gatefold Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Limited edition clear vinyl. This album solidified Daddy Yankee's status as a reggaeton powerhouse. "Los Homerun-es" includes tracks like "Pose" and "Shaky Shaky," known for their infectious beats and dynamic energy. It reflects his ability to maintain relevance and innovate within the reggaeton genre.

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Prince Far I

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (On-U Sound)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2014 | WW | Reissue (Trad Vibe)

Imhotep

Kheper Wax

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Lovedub Limited)

Release: 2014 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Kheper Wax is the second solo album of Imhotep, artist known for have being the sound architecht of IAM, a very popular hip hop group from Marseille (South of France) in the 90’s and the early 00’s.

The 100% instrumental album is a blend of Dub and Trip-Hop, infused with oriental music samples.

It was self-released by the artist in 2013 and since, the album price has increased a lot on Internet.

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Prince Fatty

Artikal Intelligence

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Lee Scratch Perry & Youth

Spaceship To Mars

2LP | 2024 | Reissue (Creation Youth)

Release: 2024 / Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Red Rose Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Reedy Winston

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Room In The Sky)

39,89 €* 56,99 € -30%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Not 1 Style Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Deemas J

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Room In The Sky)

39,89 €* 56,99 € -30%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2024 | Original (Island)

Burning Spear

Social Living

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Dubbing At King Tubby's Volume 1 Record Store Day 2024 Red Vinyl Edition

Aggrovators

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Gorgon)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Dubbing At King Tubby's Volume 2 Record Store Day 2024 Blue Vinyl Ediiton

Aggrovators

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Gorgon)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1965 | JP | Reissue (Think!)

Mighty Sparrow

Tattoo Woman

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Hopeless)

Release: 1965 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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"Tattoo Woman" was originally released in 1965 and includes "Under My Skin", a favorite not only among calypso fans but also Ska and Reggae lovers! This is a calypso arrangement of Cole Porter's original song "I've Got You Under My Skin" and is truly a masterpiece! The album as a whole contains many wonderful pieces that convey the breath of calypso in its heyday! Please enjoy these two historical masterpieces by the god of calypso, Mighty Sparrow, together with "The Outcast", which will be released at the same time on analog LP!!

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Mustard Plug

Yellow #5

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Peter Tosh

Best Of 1978-1987

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Stephen Marley

Old Soul

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1963 | JP | Reissue (Think!)

Mighty Sparrow

The Outcast

Euskal Herria Jamaika Clash

Release: 1963 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Originally released in 1963, "The Outcast" is a masterpiece that includes "Tour of Jamaica", the strongest jazzy calypso song that continues to captivate many DJs and music lovers!! No other song makes the listener dance with such happiness! The quality of the album as a whole is excellent, and this is truly one of Mighty Sparrow's masterpieces! Please enjoy these two historical masterpieces by the god of calypso, Mighty Sparrow, together with "Tattoo Woman", which will be released at the same time on analog LP!!

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Fermin Muguruza

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Elkar)

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2002 | Reissue (Young Tree / Baco)

Groundation

Hebron Gate

Release: 2002 / Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Playing It Cool & Playing It Right

Keith Hudson

LP | 2024 | Original (Week-End)

One Day 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Europe Exclusive

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Keith Hudson, who temporarily worked as a dentist in the ghettos of Kingston, emigrated to New York City in 1976 and died there prematurely in 1984. He is best known for his work as a producer for artists such as U-Roy, Big Youth, Ken Boothe and Horace Andy and within short order Hudson brought his all-round talent to full fruition.

In 1974, he produced two ground-breaking albums. “Pick A Dub” was one of the first official dub albums ever, and is still considered to be one of the greatest moments of Jamaican music. In addition, the unique “Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood” became the first concept album in reggae history. Thematically dedicated entirely to black history, this masterpiece captivates with an atmosphere that is as dark as it is deeply spiritual, charged by Hudson’s eccentric vocals.

In 1981, he created the dub masterpiece “Playing It Cool, Playing It Right” which he produced with the help of Wackie’s founder and mastermind Lloyd ‘Bullywackie’ Barnes. It remained the only collaboration between the two producers. Hudson decided to release it on his own label Joint International as he has done on his previous releases.

The album continues Hudson’s psycho-acoustic journey into the abyss of existence and has the power to overwhelm the listener with the beauty of artistic self-empowerment. “Too Much Formula” sings Hudson, whose voice occasionally recalls Sly Stone, “Darkest Night” answers an echoing background chorus found elsewhere on the track “California”. Hudson’s production techniques are fascinating on this album. We often hear a kind of flashing-whip sound on the snare, which adds dynamics to the whole album. Rarely has a dub record sounded so electrifying, with radical spatial sound spreading out in all directions and rarely has it been as crystal clear, with warm bass and echophonic treatments as contained within these 30 minutes of music.

43 years after its first release and 20 years after its last re-release on the German-British label Basic Replay (Basic Channel/Honest Jon’s), “Playing It Cool, Playing It Right” is now finally available again via Week-End Records, with a newly revised master and a rare interview with Lloyd ‘Bullywackie’ Barnes, talking on the making of this amazing album.

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Bambu Station

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Soulbeats)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | Original (Smudge All Stars)

Smudge All Stars

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Baby Feat. Hakim / Party In The U.S.A.

Tajh / Sophie

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Smart Move)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Baby I Love You / Kaze No Tani No Naushika

Irie Love

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Smart Move)

Koi Ni Ochitara / Sakurazaka

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae covers of Che'Nelle's "Baby I Love You" and Narumi Yasuda's "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind"!

7" cut from the compilation "J-Pop Covers in Reggae Lovers" produced by Smart Move Records/Lee Francis!

This is a 7" cut from the compilation "J-Pop Covers in Reggae Lovers" produced by UK reggae label Smart Move Records/Lee Francis, featuring a cover by Irie Love, an island reggae songstress from Hawaii. Side A features Che'Nelle's "Baby I Love You" and Side B features Narumi Yasuda's "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

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Mynx / Adele Harley

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Smart Move)

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Soulbeats)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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English Reggae covers of Crystal Kay's "Koi ni Ochitara" and Masaharu Fukuyama's "Sakurazaka"!

7" cut from the compilation "J-Pop Covers in Reggae Lovers" produced by Smart Move Records/Lee Francis!

This is a 7" cut from the compilation "J-Pop Covers in Reggae Lovers" produced by UK reggae label Smart Move Records/Lee Francis, featuring Mynx singing Crystal Kay's "Koi ni ochiraraita" and Adele Harley singing Masaharu Fukuyama's "Sakurazaka". This is a coupling of English cover of "Sakurazaka" by Masaharu Fukuyama sung by Adele Harley.

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Rising Tide

Pixel Prison

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Legend Limited Jamaican Reissue Limited Numbered Vinyl Edition

Bob Marley

LP | 2023 | Original (Island)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2x12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mysticisms)

Trance Vision Steppers

Dubplate #8: Timeless

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Mysticism's Dubplate series has got a couple of great drops lined up at the moment and this is one of them - a boule pack from German digidub pioneers TVS aka Trance Vision Steppers. This was a project that never made it out of the studio but still cooked up some brilliant sounds, which in the case of this collection come from their earlier period between 1995 - 1999, all of which land on vinyl for the first time here. Fans of Adrian Sherwood, Dennis Bovell and Mad Professor will be head over heels of these dub delights - they are deep and atmospheric, with lush ambient pads, downtempo vocals and stoner synths next to more twisted rhythms.

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2x12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Above Board Projects)

Optimo 25 (Part 2)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Optimo (Espacio) started life as a weekly club night. It was born at The Sub Club in Glasgow on a wet, windy, wintry November Sunday night in 1997. Run by JD Twitch and partner in crime Jonnie Wilkes. Optimo was a reaction against what felt like an increasingly conservative musical soundtrack in clubs here at that time. Clubland felt as if it had become very bland and a bit too serious; it was the era of the dawn of the Superstar DJ. Clubs often felt like bastions of male energy. It seemed dance music and culture was going somewhere far, far away from where it was meant to be. The notion of fun had got lost.

It was no longer the world they had devoted ten years of their lives to already, and lots of their friends felt the same. When the opportunity came up to do a Sunday night at The Sub Club it felt like the perfect opportunity to rip it all up and start again. So they did. There was nothing in the city (or possibly anywhere) like it. As the club believed wholeheartedly in what they were doing, there was no pressure from The Sub Club to fill the club. So, they embraced the freedom. Groups of people who had never been in the same room at the same time before came together. A community of kindred spirits started to emerge.

Word spread, slowly. Lots of people checked it out. Many loved it, some hated it. The core of the Optimo idea was to embrace music they loved that might work on the dancefloor from whatever era or genre they thought felt right. It might not seem very radical now but at that time it was revolutionary.

After about a year and a half, the club went from having 100 people attending most nights to suddenly one week having 500 people turn up. It was very weird. It was as if a collective light bulb went off in people’s heads in Glasgow. From that week on, until the very last weekly Sunday night at the Sub Club, in 2010, over a decade later, it was packed.

There were 550 Sunday Optimo nights. A LOT of music was played. So, what was the music? People often find it hard to pin down exactly what Optimo is. This has been a positive but also a negative as we live in a world where people want easily defined “brand identities”. The simplest definition of the music played is “music for dancing”, which of course is a very broad definition. Even better than trying to define it in words, we have these 2 volumes of music that give a hint of what that might be.

This is not a “Best of Optimo” or a “Greatest Hits of Optimo” compilation. For people who come to, or used to come to the nights there are of course “Greatest Hits”. But, over such a long timespan they are “hits” belonging to a certain moment in time and space. Someone who came to Optimo in 1997 would have a completely different notion of the big tracks at the club to someone coming in 2003, or 2010, or today. This compilation is just a snap shot missing several genres that might make up the DNA of Optimo. There is though a broad sweep through lots of music Optimo loves, that they believe is amazing. Music that they know will rock a dancefloor, that they have played between 1997 and 2023. Of course Optimo nights were not all about rocking the dancefloor. The first hour was always a time for them to play music they loved that often was far removed from the dance. Side 1, Volume 1 of this compilation is the kind of music one might hear at the very start of an Optimo night.

Optimo have always loved a good slogan. The most long lived, and fitting Optimo slogan is "We Love Your Ears", which is in essence what it is all about to them.

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2x12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Above Board Projects)

Optimo 25 (Part 1)

Signing Off Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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UB40

2LP | 1980 | UK | Reissue (Virgin)

Release: 1980 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One Soul 2 Yellow Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Ancient Archive Of Sound)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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18th anniversary edition of the long-out-of-print Studio One Soul 2, the long-awaited second volume of one of the largest selling Soul Jazz Records" Studio One collections.Studio One Soul 2 takes us deep into Jamaica"s long-standing fascination with American Soul and Funk music.This selection features a mixture of classics, super-rare and unreleased tracks from Studio One all lovingly digitally re-mastered for this release.

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Nat Birchall

Dimensions Of The Drums

LP | 2024 | UK | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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This album was inspired by the music coming out of Jamaica in the mid 1970s, in particular the use of drum machines by Lee Perry and Aston Family Man Barrett (and Sly Stone in the USA) but also the instrumentals and dubs by Keith Hudson and Im & Count Ossie etc. Searching out, buying and listening to those records had a deep and profound effect on me and became a big influence on me as a musician, which continues to this day.
All instruments, recording and mixing by Nat Birchall

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Big Youth

Dread Locks Dread

LP | 2024 | Original (Sofia Thea / Baco)

Release: 2024 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Originally released on Klik Records, in 1975, Dread Locks Dread became one of the new Front Line label’s first key releases when reissued in 1978.

One of reggae’s best and most recognizable ‘toasters’, Big Youth broke new ground as a DJ in the early ’70s with a flowing, chant-like cadence that was equal parts melodic and invigorating, applying his infectious vocal approach to heavy social and political lyrics.

A huge favourite of the punk and new wave artists at the time of release, Big Youth was embraced by The Clash, via Don Letts, and PiL, amongst others. John Lydon was part of Richard Branson’s A&R envoy to Jamaica, helping sign credible artists to his new Front Line reggae label.

Featuring the legendary Skin, Flesh & Bones band, formed around Lloyd Parks (bass), drummer Sly Dunbar (before he started working with Robbie Shakespeare), Ansel Collins on keyboards, and trombonist Vin Gordon. The album was produced by Tony Robinson and Errol Thompson and mixed at the famous Joe Gibb’s studio.

Dread Locks Dread skanks from punchy, rhythm-heavy reggae to the deepest, dubbiest roots. The hypnotic Some Like It Dread reworks Dennis Brown’s “Some Like It Hot”, where the DJ’s toast is entwined with a bluesy harmonica (the dub version re-titled (Black Man Message). Also features a fiery version of Burning Spear’s “Marcus Garvey” (Marcus Garvey Dread), a tasty take on the John Holt classic “Keep on Moving” – Moving On and a scintillating dub of the Techniques’ rocksteady masterpiece You Don’t Care.

Not your typical DJ album by any means, the music equals the toasts and vice versa – an essential release for a dub fan or a Big Youth supporter.

Re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London.

Out of print for over 20 years!

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Mo'kalamity

Shine

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One Kings Yellow Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Soul Jazz)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (East Skankin)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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This is a very special one-off new special edition of one of the most popular of all the Soul Jazz Records" collections that has been out of print for many years! Featuring great new sleeve design as well as a special Colored Vinyl pressing, Studio One Kings is a "who"s who" of the world"s greatest reggae artists. Studio One"s list of singers launched at the famous label reads like a roll call of Jamaican music. Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne and more. This album features classic and rare tracks that span the breadth of the legendary Studio One catalogue: Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Lovers and more from the 1960s and 70s. The album also comes with sleeve-notes by the great writer Chris Salewicz, author of books on Reggae Explosion, Rude Boy as well as books on Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Joe Strummer and more.

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Upper Cut Band

Painting On Silence

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rastafari:The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83 Blue Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The New International Sound Of Hedonism

Jaya The Cat

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Bomber Music (Code 7))

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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300% Dynamite! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub In Jam Record Store Day 2024 Edition

2LP | 1999 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Release: 1999 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Azzurro / Una Carezza In Un Pugno

Adriano Celentano

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Clan Celentano)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Repatriation Record Store Day 2024 Edition

King Kong

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Diggers Factory/Irie Ites)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Alf And Teep

Freedom Equility Justice

I Just Can't Stop It Magenta Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One was founded by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd in 1954, and the first recordings were cut in 1963 on Brentford Road in Kingston. Amongst its earliest records were "Easy Snappin" byTheophilus Beckford, backed by Clue J & His Blues Blasters, and "This Man is Back" by trombonist Don Drummond. Dodd had previously issued music on a series of other labels, including World Disc, and had run Sir Coxsone the Downbeat, one of the largest and most reputable sound systems in the Kingston ghettos. The label and studio were closed when Dodd relocated to New York City in the 1980s

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The Beat

LP | 2024 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Last Spa On Earth Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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1 LP reissue of The Beat's debut album, including the hits "Mirror in the Bathroom" and "Tears of a Clown" in Magenta vinyl. Breakout of original album. This Syeor release is Side A/B from the English Beat 2LP Expanded RSD format

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Divino Nino

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Silver Bullets Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Why you'll love it...
The multi-national, Chicago-based band Divino Niño make their return to music with their first album in three years, Last Spa on Earth. The album marks a new era for their music, where the band explores sounds across reggaeton, electropop and trap.

While on tour with Crumb, Divino Niño's Pierce Codina shared about their newfound perspective that helped mold the album, ‘’When you're in front of big audiences, you see what works and what hits people rhythmically. We started pushing the tempo live, having more energy and getting into a more dancey arena. Seeing people dance shifted our mindset – we became a little bit bored with playing mid-tempo indie songs.''

Limited to 600 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Divino Niño's Last Spa on Earth is pressed on 1LP Hellfire Swirl vinyl at Gotta Groove Records. The record will arrive in a gatefold direct-to-board, foil stamped and hand numbered jacket along with a download code, and includes 22.75''x33'' foldout newsprint poster designed by band member Camilo Medina. The album is mastered by Chris Gehringer of Sterling Sound.

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The Silvertones

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Rewind Dubs)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Why you'll love it...
Silver Bullets is the debut LP from Trojan Records reggae group the Silvertones. Reissued for the first time since its 1973 release, our edition was remastered from the original tapes by Andy Pearce, comes on vanilla sky vinyl in a heavyweight tip-on jacket, complete with a custom lyric sheet.

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Bush Of Ghosts

Buddhists Tracks

33,99 €* 39,99 € -15%

LP+7" | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Hfmn Crew)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The first album by Bush of Ghosts, an Osaka-based band from the early 2000s, is being reissued on LP! This is the second in a series of Japanese dub reissues on the Rewind Dubs label. This is the first album by Bush of Ghost, a band based in Osaka in the early 2000s. The sound, which combines elements of Jamaican music such as roots reggae and dancehall with flavors of Latin American music such as cumbia and Afro-Cuban, is undoubtedly a unique work that leads you into a psychedelic world filled with humor and pleasant grooves. This special edition includes liner notes (in Japanese and English) with a rare interview with the band!

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Buster Shuffle

Go Steady

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Lets Stay Together / Im Still In Love

Peter Hunnigale

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Phoenix Music International)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Let's Do Rock Steadythe Soul Of Jamaica

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Trojan)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One Rude Boy Record Store Day 2024 Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2006 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Release: 2006 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (BYM)

The & Nairobi Ganjas

The Ganjas Meets Nairobi

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Ken Boothe

Lonely Teardrops

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Baco)

Real Step

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Ethiopians / Soul Brothers

Freeman / Shanty Town

Double Dekker Gold Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Beautiful Song from the Studio One Archives (First Release 1966)

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Desmond Dekker

2LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Yasashisa De Dekita Himitsukessha

Lantern Parade

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Lantern Parade)

LP | 2023 | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The latest EP, which was released digitally in 2023, is now available on 7" vinyl!

Lantern Parade, a solo project by Tamihiro Shimizu, who has been interpreting dance music in his own unique style since his debut, has released four songs from his latest EP "Yasashi-Sa-dekkakuho" in analog format!

Released two years after his last album "love is the mystery" ('21) on Rose Records, this sampling-driven work is a return to his roots, incorporating the fragile and sweet essence of hip-hop and psychedelic rock, which he admires and respects, with a light and sweet touch. It is a piece with beautiful swinging melodies and a smoky, lyrical sound. The lyricism of the lyrics, the fragile, sometimes spitting, sharp words, and the quietly burning passion of the soul make this urban new soul music a joy to listen to.

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Lise Davidsen

Christmas From Norway

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall, Christmas

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Praises Remastered Black Vinyl Editoin

Israel Vibration

LP | 1990 | EU | Reissue (RAS)

Release: 1990 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (RAS)

Culture

Good Things

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Best Of 30 Years On The Road

Shandon

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Get Up)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Reggae & Dancehall

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Showcase Volume 1 Red Vinyl Edition

Justin Hinds

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Peckings)

Progressive Youth Remastered Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A selection of Justin Hinds finest cuts with horn dubs.

Limited to 100 copies on red vinyl in picture sleeve.

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Peter Broggs

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (RAS)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Return Of The Raggamuffin

Skarra Mucci

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (X-Ray Production)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Blue Beat)

George Dekker

Right To Be Here

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Larry Marshall

Lonely Room

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

New Fashion Way Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Beautiful Song from the Studio One Archives (First Release 1969

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Joseph Cotton

LP | 2024 | EU (Room In The Sky)

32,19 €* 45,99 € -30%

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Studio One Power Mix!

31,99 €*