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Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP+CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Inside Outmusic)

Sons Of Apollo

MMXX

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Century Media)

Spirit Adrift

Divided By Darkness

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Century Media)

Unanimated

In The Light Of Darkness

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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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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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Bokhari)

Caldera

Leafs

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Caldera brings a classic, yet off-kilter and eminently playable selection for Bokhari. Deep 21st century Techno at its finest !

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Most Ralf N' Lark

EPS & MPC Facts

20,99 €*

The Most Beautifullest Thing In The World Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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HHE is back with some crazy dope, raw Colombian flavor! Most Ralf N' Lark are an underground duo out of Bogota, Colombia that brings nothing but raw 90's influenced boom bap. Bogota has one of biggest and most relevant 90's influenced hip-hop scenes in the world and has produced a slew of relevant artists the last couple of years.

Last year the HHE / Da Steez Brothaz collabo surprised many cats and the response was great. You better be ready now for the next surprise in the form of Most Ralf N' Lark cause it's their time now! EPS & MPC Facts was produced entirely by Most Ralf N' Lark themselves which shows how talented and versatile they really are. The A-Side has 6 killer vocal joints while the B-Side has 5 sick instrumentals. As an extra you will get the superb "No Es Para Mi" as a bonus track on the B-Side, which was produced by Shar the Analog Bastard. The entire album was mastered by M Padrum so you know already the quality will be top notch!

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Keith Murray

2LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (90's Tapes)

Enigma Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies on yellow colored Vinyl with poly-lined black innersleeves.

Keith Murray's debut album from 1994 was mostly produced by Erick Sermon and features guest spots by Jamal, Redman, Hurricane G, 50 Grand and others. This one should not be missed in any 90's classics collection!

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Keith Murray

2LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (90's Tapes)

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (R=A)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies on red colored vinyl with printed innersleeves.

The sophomore album from Keith Murray from 1996 was mostly produced by Erick Sermon and features guest spots by Redman, Busta Rhymes, 50 Grand, Jamal, and others. This one should not be missed in any 90's classics collection!

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TBZ

Clocked / Rude Beat

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Arkityp)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Currently kicking around in NYC like he's in a never ending Group Home video, b-boy minded basshead, TBZ, cranks out the beats with so much class. Having put out a couple of tearing LPs on the mighty BREW, here he lays out two contrasting slices of blasted science. BIG TIP!

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Arkityp

Pyramids Of Geezer EP

9,59 €* 11,99 € -20%

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Khoi Khoi)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Arkityp. Less is more. Where have we been? Over the last year, Archie has released his debut album, Archive Fiction and Rossko has been busy preparing the launch of his new label Late Night Skanking. The Pyramids of Geezer EP picks up where the guys left off. 3 huge cuts all prepared for the dance floor be it peak time, sunset or those special after hours moments.

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Portable

The Transit Of Mercury

OST Dolemite Is My Name Music From The Netflix Film Opaque Purple Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‘Mercury in Transit’ is a rare astronomical event when the closest planet to the Sun passes directly between the star and a superior planet. It’s also the title of Portable’s new album, which sees its release on KhoiKhoi,Here in a selection of the dance floor orientated tracks from the album is the shimmering product of arguably one of the most favoured multi- talented underground electronic acts unleashing yet another other-worldly wealth of solitary craftmanship. A diverse range of sounds all in the South African’s signature style firmly affix Portable, real name Alan Abrahams, in the realms of the future, converging through driving and bubbling melody-fuelled dancefloor journeys ‘Climb’ builds as a percussion- laden crescendo. This truly is a special selection of treats from the Parisian-based producer, with Laurent Garnier hailing 'Ohh whaouuu... Excellent album', Honey Dijon describes it as "So Good" and Motor City Drum Ensemble says "Love your harmonies and rhythm programming “. Side B of the package is a selecttion of remixes vby the South African’s Bodycode alias, duo Bergemeann & Legget as well as a version from Johannesburg producer Sound of Xee. While the original is a whirlwind of poignant vocals, floating melodies entwined in a tight leftfield house groove, Bergemann & Legget’s cleverly strips back, delving in the intensity of the single. It really is a testament to Portable’s ability to build an unsettling sense of beauty. Sound of Xee makes his mark with a slow-building, progressive, rolling take, slipping into its own frenzy of percussion – a Khoikhoi mainstay at the forefront of South African electronic music in full force right here. And finally, Portable’s own Bodycode moniker leads ‘This Horizon’ further into club territory with the seriously good ‘Bellycloud’ remix – jutting keys and 4x4 energy ending things in a place of all-out party.

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Scott Bomar

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Mondo)

35,99 €*

10" | 2020 | EU | Original (All City Dublin)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Dolemite is his name and rappin’ & tappin’ is his game! Eddie Murphy’s 15-year-old pet project about Rudy Ray Moore is absolutely one of the best feel good films in recent memory. Featuring music by Scott Bomar. The soundtrack is a loving homage to 1970’s funk and Blaxploitation scores that sounds contemporary and fresh rather than just leaning on the past. It’s fun, reverential and funky as all hell. Bomar has an incredible feel for funk and soul and it absolutely shines here. This vinyl edition features the full score plus tracks sung by Eddie Murphy, Craig Robinson & Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

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Kutmah

New Appliance

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kutmah closes off a series of 10 inches started back in 2010 from the cream opf L.A. Beatmakers. ... He was supposed to be on that batch of releases but for reasons well documented he had other priorities during that year.
We're delighted to finally welcome the esoteric beat wizard on board with "New Appliance" - as expected from such a singular talent this is a super strong ep, a diverse fusion of his classic beat styles and a signpost to a new departure using all his wave, noise & punk influences.

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Ramson Badbonez

Death Mask

12" | 2020 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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There are very few Mc’s in the UK rap game as engrained into the culture as Ramson Badbonez. Rising through the ranks as one of the most cut throat MC’s London had ever seen at 14, it wasn’t long before people started to take notice of the young talent, gathering London wide respect as well as getting recognition from UK Hip Hop godfathers Task Force. The rhyming machine has been a living and breathing embodiment of the culture ever since. By far one of the most prolific creators in the scene, Ramson Badbonez employs one of the strictest work ethics ever seen with over 12 full length albums to his name and showing no signs of slowing down.

On the 28th February, Badbonez will present his latest work, a brand new album, with producer & long time collaborator Mark Fear, entitled ‘Death Mask’.

Following his previous ‘Jason Bonez’ & ‘Mic Day The 13th’ releases, Badbonez has removed the hockey mask to don the Egyptian Death Mask, as he leaves the Jason Bonez moniker behind to focus on a much broader palette of concepts and inspiration.

With topics ranging from the mysteries of the afterlife, the energy crisis to the lasting effects of colonialism to the failings of modern language - Badbonez has left no stone unturned. Fearlessly launching himself into the deep end, covering new ground and constructing incredibly dense prose perfectly matched by Mark Fear’s diverse yet crisp sound.

Perhaps Ramson Badbonez’ most solid release to date, we expect ‘Death Mask’ to make a serious impact in 2020.

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Truemendous

Huh? EP

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Delsin)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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A download code is included. High Focus Records is proud to present TrueMendous’ first official release on the label, the highly anticipated ‘HUH?’ EP. This 7 track EP is the perfect introduction to TrueMendous - One of the most talented MCs from these shores whether it be her storytelling expertise, varied range or unrivalled flow. Taking reign as the first female rapper to sign to High Focus Records she is definitely one to look out for. With production from Chemo, Pitch 92, Illinformed, Winchester and Marcus Jakes this EP is going to make a serious dent in the scene. Featuring singles ‘That Don’t Mean’ and ‘O.T.Y.L Part 2’, the ‘HUH?’ EP sets the tone for TrueMendous’ future with unparalleled confidence.

The EP comes on single black vinyl, shrinkwrapped for extra freshness.

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Florence

Analogue Expressions

MTV Unplugged: Live At Hull City Hall

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Delsin turns its attention to the archives of one of the great early pioneers of Dutch techno - Eevo Lute Muzique. The label was founded in 1991 by Wladimir Manshanden and Stefan Robbers (who was already recording seminal early techno records as Terrace for Djax-Up-Beats). Channeling the inspiration of the Detroit originators and mixing it up with their own synth pop and new wave influences, Manshanden and Robbers (adopting the Florence alias) forged a bold aesthetic with Eevo Lute, both musically and visually. This was an early iteration of techno as listening music, with an emphasis on expression and narrative over dancefloor functionality, helped in no small part by Manshanden's striking poetry. This double set of remastered, reissued tracks gathers together the earliest Florence and Wladimir M. material, largely recorded between 1991 and 1994, across five discs - the definitive document of a treasured piece of Dutch techno history. Comes with inlay and liner notes by Oliver Warwick.

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Liam Gallagher

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Warner)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mascot Label Group)

Vandenberg

2020 Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lucifer Is A Flower Limited Red Vinyl Edition

Black Devil

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

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Northern Spy)

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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Beauty Pill

Please Advise

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Action Women Volume 3

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rheji Burrell Presents: The Utopia Project

The "V" EP

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Running Back)

10,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (That's A Steal)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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You cannot say Nu Groove without saying Burrell. The seminal New York House label that existed from 1988 until 1992 was at the helm of a sound that was as much traditional as it was transitional. Since the closure of the Paradise Garage in 1987 and before the „NYC House sound“ was well-defined and fenced, Nu Groove was a kaleidoscope and an amalgamation of everything that informed it until then: uptempo r&b, reggae, dub, disco, freestyle, techno, jazz, and the sound that was embossed by Larry Heard in Chicago that was so well picked up in the Big Apple, you name it. Ronald and Rheji Burrell provided its basis, first floor and roof. But that story has already been told by our dear friends from Rush Hour, including its most important chapters. But we are going to tell a new one. Rheji Burrell presents N.Y. House’N Authority & The Utopia Project. Twelve tracks split over two EPs on Running Back. Named „Out of Body Experience“ and „The ’V’EP“, it features all new music that feels like modern garments cut out of a classic cloth. Almost as if the Nu Groove would have never stopped. And that it is - at the risk of self-praise - all that old or new fans and also we could hope for. Two EPs full of deep-that-doesn’t rhyme-with-sleep house music, has simple, yet clever arrangements, features jazzy sounds, but snappy drums, merry melodies and glossy grooves. An overall joy to listen or dance to. The difference in both EPs is for the Burrell-die-hards and Nu-Groove-scientists to decide.

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Friends Jacuzzi & Holkin

That's A Steal # 4

9,74 €* 12,99 € -25%

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Edizioni Mondo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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That's A Steal quite rightly enjoy cult status amongst the diggers and seekers of the lost classic. The fourth outing from this mysterious label continues their established themes: Crossover sounds from all over the world united by an open-minded approach to the dancefloor.

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Polysick

Flora E Fauna

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Naissance Musik)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Rome’s Egisto Sopor has been making little waves with his releases for quite a while now. As Polysik, he’s put out music on Legowelt’s Strange Life Records, on 100% Silk label, and on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu. As ‘TheAwayTeam’ he’s released a DVD ‘Relax & Sleep’ and a cd ‘Star Kinship’ on Japanese label Moamoo, and he’s also one half of the low key video unit Aavv (whose work has graced many of the important releases of new lofi electronic movement). This time around he delivers another fine instalment to the Edizioni Mondo’s kaleidoscopic catalogue.

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Hear & San Proper

Elephantoms EP Remixes

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Fuse)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Naissance Musik returns with their fourth release Nm-04, a remix package of the released Hear & San Proper ´- Elephantoms EP . The label welcomes an array of talented producers who are acclaimed DJ's featuring interpretations from Andrea Ferlin, Julie Marghilano, Ohm Hourani & Hear, 3lias & Raphael Merheb. We aim to bring a more dancefloor oriented feel to the package in contrast to the more abstract, ethereal feel of the original release.

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Rich Nxt

Swish Cheese EP

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Planet Trip)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A quintessential member of the Fuse family since its formation, longstanding resident label favourite Rich NxT may well currently be in one of his finest periods of musical output to date. With recent releases and remixes via the likes of Moxy Muzik, S .A.S.H. and his own NxT Records, and fresh from his stand out remix of Planetary Notions head honcho Joe Rolét on Infuse, the London-based DJ, producer and label boss now returns to his home imprint of Fuse in emphatic fashion to deliver three fresh original productions in the form of his ‘The Swish Cheese’ EP.

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Borrowed CS

Balance / Ascend EP

Agusti Fernandez / Liudas Mockunas

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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PT 003 –Borrowed CS –Balance|AscendEP Pt003 sees Planet Trip take a Trans -Tasman journey to Wellington, NZ for a new EP from the prolific Borrowed CS, alter ego of Lord Echo Drummer, Cory Champion. All four cuts on the EP see his deft drum programming laying a foundation for a tough and diverse record. The A-side holds thepercolating jack track‘Balance’ and the bleepy cinematic synthwork trip “Ururangi”. Flip it over and you’ll find the infectious outsider boogie jam“ Mystic Shuffle” sitting comfortably next to the hazy and dubbed out club construction Ascend (Model 101). Club and or lounge room ready. Limited to strictly 300 copies. No repress.

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Improdimensions

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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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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Conny Bauer / Matthias Bauer / Dag Magnus Narvesen

The Gift

Release: 2020 / EU – 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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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Century Media)

Demons & Wizards

III

17,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Triptykon With The Metropole Orkest

Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019)

2LP+DVD | 2020 | EU | Original (Century Media)

17,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

Friends Of Gas

Kein Wetter

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Summer Body / Breakfast In Space

Aldorande

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Favorite)

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (The Howl & The Hum Llp)

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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The Howl & The Hum

Human Contact

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

Knowledge The Pirate

Family Jewels

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Michigander)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Knowledge The Pirate is back! Roc Marci’s righthand man has been quietly building another masterpiece and as usual he’s kept his circle small. The album is fully produced by Pirate’s regular collaborator E.L.E.M.N.T. and noted Italian producer and Tuff Kong Records cofounder Cuns. There is no features on this project because Knowledge The Pirate felt the need to keep the spotlight firmly focused on himself this time around. The new full-length is titled “Family Jewels” and is based on the Black Madonna and Jesus’ bloodline. Of course, the record is still that hardcore Street Hop fans have come to expect from Pirate, but it’s also a little deeper than that. The first leak from the album, “Oni Experience,” finds Knowledge utilizing a conversational flow to drop mad jewels about street life, while the second leak, “Red Beam,” is some genuine weightmoving music. Vinyl is available as a limited edition of 500 numbered copies, with 2 different covers both provided by Le Daltonien as well as digipack and available on all digital streaming platforms from May 8th.

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Brian Kage

Reality Ahead EP

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Caroline)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For Michigander’s fifth release, Brian Kage delivers four solid dance-floor fillers, each infused with a unique blend of melodic Detroit soul, intelligent acid and perfectly mixed percussion. Each offering teleports the listener into a future where social distancing has finally abated and celebration can commence. Lockdown starts the record off with undulating 303 bass notes that groove around in a circular arpeggiated formation until hypnotic 909 percussion breaks through with echoing claps and weaves together a tale of futuristic tension building. Hold On Pain Ends features a stabbing analog synth-line that repeats a half-beat phrasing contrasted with slamming technical percussion, a heavy kick and a lush pad that is perfect for late nights in a warehouse. That Woman from Michigan contains gentle swinging upbeat percussion and deep soothing chords with samples of Governor Whitmer asking all Michiganders to do their part and join together in solidarity. A subtly modulating acid line builds tension into a perfectly resonating crescendo. F.U Covid19 - An ominous swelling pad rips across the dystopian horizon as swinging rimshots build around a deep pulsing kick and a dirty mono synth swirl. Echoing vocal samples punctuate this acidic frenzy until the tension falls away giving dancers an opportunity to catch their breath before the next round of infectious rhythmic groove forces the hypnotic spell to intensify.

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Jehnny Beth

To Love Is To Live

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Interscope)

Lady Gaga

Chromatica

35,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Norah Jones

Pick Me Up Off The Floor

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (One Last Fruit)

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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Badly Drawn Boy

Banana Skin Shoes

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

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded in September 2019, this album was written before the world fell into a period of self-isolation, which hopefully goes to show the importance of human contact in a digital age. 'Human Contact' is about a very modern kind of loneliness, one which doesn't allow us to forget. This album was inspired by focusing on the minutiae of relationships: all the strange objects, conversations, teenage bitterness, distance, and silences that permeate young love and loneliness.

Hopefully this resonates a little more at the moment: all we have now is our memories, and that is all we are made of, so this album is a necessary exploration of trying to overcome our past, only to realise that in doing so we are losing what it is to be human." - Sam, The Howl & The Hum

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L'Eclair

Noshtta

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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OST Calm With Horses (Original Score)

Blanck Mass

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Invada)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Jamwax)

Robert Ffrench

I Am Wondering

13,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Les Disques Magnétiques)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Interstellar digital dancehall with stunning synth, superb vocal by Robert Ffrench in extended mix & ad style by obscure DJ Shortie Ranks. Recorded at Creative Sound Studio (Kingston, JA) in 1985. "On “I Am Wondering” – a lovers of sorts – Ffrench is Dennis Brown in the high notes, and Gregory Isaacs in the song`s playboy sentiments. A guitar gently wah-wahs, while the synths do a giddy glissando. Midway through this discomix the bass becomes boss – throwing everything else – chopped piano chords and all – into echo. Then it`s rewind for the DJ cut – a brag and boast toast from Shortie Ranks – recounting his triumphs at legendary Kingston reggae venue, Skateland”. (Ban Ban Ton Ton - April, 21 of 2020) Robert French grew up in central Kingston and attended Kingston College. He recorded his first singles in 1979, at the age of 17. He achieved success in 1984 with his performances at the Festival Song Contest and the Reggae Sunsplash festival. He had a combination hit with deejay Clement Irie with "Bun & Cheese", and his first two albums were released in 1985. He had another hit in 1989 with "Modern Girl", a collaboration with Courtney Melody. In the mid-1990s he relocated to New York City, where he teamed up with rapper Heavy D, with whom he had a hit with "More Love", with an album following on Ras Records, featuring collaboration with several artists including Lady G and General Degree. He has since returned to Jamaica, where he runs the Ffrench record label and distribution company. He released the album Yesterday and today in 2001, collecting many of his earlier singles. After a period of inactivity as a recording artist, he returned in 2009 with the single "I Do". As a producer he has worked with artists such as Dennis Brown, Buju Banton (he produced Buju's first single "Ruler" on Stamina riddim), Beres Hammond, George Nooks, Luciano, Jah Cure, Yami Bolo and Sizzla to name a few. Robert French was the cosin of the late great Pat Kelly. As a french label, big fan from Ffrench productions, i'm very proud and happy to start a collaboration with Robert Ffrench, the most french jamaican. Stay tuned for many many more.

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Viscardi & Alano Santo

Il Sogno Di Carmen

Happiness, We're All In This Together

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Recorded mostly as a live-jam, august 2019, Il Sogno di Carmen is the result of a solitary producer meeting a nomad musician, Viscardi & Alano Santo. A brand new friendship. From there, the duo leads us to a spontaneous and fragile vacation story that yet manages to frame, with a sometimes mischievous accuracy, the current Genevan musical spirit: experimental, sincere, hybrid and hot. “I have no idea where this will lead us. But I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange. Deep into summer, most definitely. The season of torrid bodies, of slowed down movements ; where melancholy creeps in the form of light and inconstant paragraphs, italian-style. Dragged around in hedonistic reunions, spiritual vagrancies and the soothing coolness of the Rhone river, Carmen is smooth and frivolous. She loosens up. Nothing is important. It can wait. Him too, you mainly. Geneva in the tropics, Bongo Joe on the terrace, stolen emerald glances & air-conditioned airports. That's it. A wonderful and insignifiant story”.

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Group Bracil

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Group Bracil)

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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In uncertain times, hope and unity are important when moving through the unknown, so it feels like our latest release arrives at the perfect time. The title of the project is a handy mantra for these strange days, with the content serving as a reminder of what has come before, as well as a portent for what lies ahead.

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Skyzoo & Dumbo Station

The Bluest Note

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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With Retropolitan, Skyzoo’s most recent collaborative project with Pete Rock, he got to live out a dream, as two generations of legendary native New Yorkers aligned to create an album that was both a love letter and a wakeup call to the city they love. Now, with The Bluest Note, Skyzoo is checking another box on his bucket list. “Since my debut album, I’ve never released a project that didn’t include a moment of jazz influence; with some sort of live instrumentation, something that connected my lyricism with the truest definition of musical lyricism; jazz” Skyzoo commented. “As much as I’ve incorporated my favorite genre of music with my other favorite genre of music, this is the first time I’ve been able to craft an entire project based on jazz production from top to bottom” Skyzoo quipped. “The Bluest Note is a testament to something I’d been longing to do for as far back as I can remember.” In 2017, Sky was touring in Italy and met the Tuff Kong Records team, who recruited Dumbo Station to bring Skyzoo’s vision to life and in June 2019 Skyzoo was in Rome writing, composing and recording music with the talented musicians. “Collaborating with Italy’s renowned jazz band Dumbo Station was an absolute honor. From writing musical arrangements with them and having them bring them to life in the studio in Rome, Italy; it was a perfect union and execution of what I foresaw when I began to sketch out the project. Six songs, as an homage to the classic jazz albums of the genre’s heyday (when LPs were around six tracks total). The Bluest Note is the storytelling and inner-city expressions you’ve come to know and love from me, attached to the jazz orchestration I’m dying to introduce to some and re-introduce to others. Ladies and gentlemen, this is, The Bluest Note…”

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Skyzoo & Dumbo Station

The Bluest Note

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Knowledge The Pirate

Family Jewels

33,99 €*

12" | 2020 | US | Original (Detroit Underground)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Rebecca Goldberg

Synthetic World

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Soul Is My Salvation Chapter 5

Tone B. Nimble

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

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (ATO)

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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Nick Hakim

Will This Make Me Good

35,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Outernational)

Jaman

Sweet Heritage

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Anette)

Prison Kit

Uhrwerk

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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2LP | 2020 | US | Original (RCA)

Kaytranada

Bubba

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Lovely EP White Vinyl Edition

The Unknown Artist

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Fokuz)

13,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Fate Had Planned It So/ Just Tell Me

Piero Umiliani

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Earth Trax / Newborn Jr / Private Press

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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To complete the the Orgasmo/Paranoia soundtrack set, Four Flies adds two songs to the cake (both not included in the LP version released today). An alternate take of Lydia MacDonald's “Fate Had Planned So”, more rhythmical and dynamic than the one used for the titles sequence, and the soul hit “Just Tell Me”, sung by Wess, and performed by his Airdales. A Fantastic funk-soul stomper, perfect to dance.

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Ziemia 002

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Ziemia)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The label ZIEMIA (Polish for EARTH) is centred around a growing group of friends from Poland. Administered by Bartosz Kruczyñski (Earth Trax), Adam Brocki and Jan Wójcicki (Private Press), it is a natural extension of a studio in the heart of Warsaw, where the majority of their music is being created. Ambient sounds and club vibes make the foundation layers of this collaboration, and you can see this theme evolving in some of their first releases on labels such as Growing Bin, Into The Light, Shall Not Fade, Indigo Aera, Phonica Records and Dopeness Galore. ZIEMIA's focus positions itself between club music and ethereal with an Eastern European background.
The second release captures different shades of club environment, from the straight-forward, rough DJ tool by Earth Trax and Newborn Jr. (A1) to deeper and more ethereal dub oriented grooves of Private Press (A2, B1). The last cut on the EP is an after hour downtempo anthem (Earth Trax and Newborn Jr. again), with uplifting pads and chilling leads layered over deep TR-808 drums.

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Those Who Dare EP Volume 2

12" | 2020 | EU | Original ([R]3volution)

The Path To The Deathless

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Michele Mausi presents the second various artist from the triology called "Those Who Dare" on his label [R]3volution Records. This time in one 12" you can find new exclusive tracks from Norbak, Magna Pia, Eric Fetcher, Vil and of course Michele Mausi.

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Red Mesa

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Desert)

32,99 €*

Muzak Pour Ascenceurs En Panne

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Red Mesa is a psychedelic, bluesy desert rock trio from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who churn out hook-laden jams and blistering live performances as only a band from the actual desert can. Red Mesa will release their third full-length album The Path to the Deathless in May 2020. This album is a concept record about following you passions, hopes, and dreams through eternity.

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Brigitte Barbu

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Circus Company)

As Your Greens Turn Brown

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A download code is included. Uniting cosmic tones and lovely notes, unique sound collages and electronic noises, Muzak pour ascenseurs en panne ("Muzak for Broken Lifts"), Brigitte Barbu’s first album, explores a dreamy universe, at the crossroads of electronica and the 70s’ post-tune-in/drop-out, echoing shadows of the peculiar doppelgänger; Pépé Bradock.

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Diamond Dogs

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wild Kingdom)

20,29 €* 28,99 € -30%

Rheji Burrell Presents: New York House'n Authority

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Diamond Dogs - The first 10 years reissued! Record label Wild Kingdom is re-releasing Diamond Dogs first 5 classic Long-Players (1993 - 2003). Produced by Tomas Skogsberg and Diamond Dogs. Including the singles and EPs from the same period. Diamond Dogs, Swedish rock group, formed in 1991 in Katrineholm, Södermanland. From the very beginning hugely influenced by British Early 1970s R&B rock like Rod Stewart and The Faces, Frankie Miller, Dr Feelgood etc. After making highly acclaimed demo tapes with producer Max Martin the band took its time carefully considering various offers of contracts, and ultimately a record deal was signed with Avance Records. All members moved to Stockholm upon finding fame in 1992 and debut album Honked was recorded in Sunlight Studio with inimitable producer Tomas Skogsberg. The first single "Blue Eyes Shouldn’t Be Cryin’" came out in 1993 and made its way to rotation on MTV's Headbangers Ball etc.

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Out Of Body Experience

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Running Back)

10,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Avoidant)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kronos Device

The Infinite Ones EP

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert

Moon II

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Frank Music)

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Knekelhuis)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A download code is included. Long-time collaborators, longer-time best friends, lifelong analog appreciators; the German duo Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert join cosmic forces once again for another LP mission ‘Moon II’, a heartfelt voyage through the sounds, movements, styles and machines that created this music in the first place. Think late 80s New York, early 90s Sheffield and the perennial sounds of Italo and Detroit, ‘Moon II’ is a lunar safari that celebrates the deepest foundations of house, techno and electronic soul while resolutely refusing to get nostalgic. Written and recorded during an intense two-and-a-half month session in Berlin last autumn, there’s a consistency and tangible narrative running throughout as the pair play inspiration ping-pong over the course of 10 tracks.

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Zaliva-D

Immorality

13,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Vary)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Beijing-based duo Zaliva-D returns with a second installment on Knekelhuis. After last year’s great EP, released on Shanghai label Svbkvlt, Zaliva-D unleashes a new record in these unreal pandemic times. At its core is a concept of data’s capacity to overcome any boundary, whether that’s physical, digital or mental. The material at hand, created after the second European tour, pushes heavily through walls, with bombastically accentuated kicks. Blended with joyous, psychedelic songwriting, it is a testament to the power of music to unite despite involuntary confinement. Artwork by Fenna Fiction. Mastering by Brandenburg.

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Schmeichel

Hiconcentrated Music

9,79 €* 13,99 € -30%

Fairmont, Javi Redondo, Naduve & The Juan Maclean

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After a two year hiatus Vary imprint is back with their third installment called “HiConcentrated Music“ which is a 5 track strong trip through Footwork, Beats, Ambient & R’n’B Bits, produced by Schmeichel in his basement studio underneath the store. Fans of DJ Rashad, RP Boo, post Dilla beat scene to Jordan Rakei should dig this. Comes with another homemade graphic design by Julian Kramer.

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Motordisc 3

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Motordiscs)

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Pingipung)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This 3rd of the Motordiscs opens with a slow and delighted beat by The JuanMacLean, which turns into an electro mesmerizing track. Is it slow trance or is it some kind of house ? Are we early in the night or late in the after party ? Are we still dreaming ? A2 « Mark 211 » by Javi Redondo takes the energy level up with some acidy synth and punchy snares, proving that the power of a track does not necessarily lies in its speed. It is now time to flip the disc, Naduve takes us later in the night, bringing a murky vibe, thanks to haunting pads and low frequency instruments, picturing a proper underground club. The sun now starts to rise on the Seine river, the last track sounds like an ode to the dawn, where voices and shiny synths will emerge and open the crowd’s eyes. It was « Peppi » by Fairmont. This was a night at Garage.

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Mameen 3

Collapse EP

OST Morte Sospetta Di Una Minoenne (Suspicious Death Of A Minor)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mameen 3 are soFa and Cheb Runner from Brussels. Both versatile players in the rather niche scene of oriental electronic music in the European capital, they only ran into each other at the Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda two years ago. They clicked and after a first jam session they immediately launched Mameen 3.

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Luciano Michelimi

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Philippos Sipano & The MPC Orchestra

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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First time on vinyl for this utterly top level score composed by Luciano Michelini for the slasher/crime flick directed by Sergio Margino, "The Suspicious Death of a Minor" (Morte sospetta di una minorenne), and recorded in 1975 at Ortophonic Studio in Rome. The main theme echoes certain passages from Goblin’s “Deep Red” - recognizable by the use of the same church organ played a few months earlier by Claudio Simonetti’s hands for Dario Argento’s masterpiece, whilst the entire soundtrack sounds somehow “Goblinesque”, thanks to the prog-rock & funk action themes used for chases, murders, and suspense scenes. Remastered from the original reels preserved in the C.A.M. archives, this vinyl edition features new LP editing, and is housed in a hard tip-on sleeve with a stunning artwork designed by Luke Insect.

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The Spirit Of Dilovan

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Kalakuta Soul)

The Dancing Devils Of Djibouti

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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We gladly present the long awaited debut album by kurdish multi-instrumentalist Philippos Sîpano and Frankfurt am Main’s mighty duo Dan Bay & Le Rubrique aka The MPC Orchestra. “The Spirit of Dilovan” pays tribute to Philippos Sîpano and Dan Bayat’s youth band “Spirit Of Dilovan”, sketches the different musical paths the two took over the years and finds its final form in their new collaboration with Dilovan Le Rubrique, a master in the studio and a true patchbay wizzard. With multilayered arrangements based on different kurdish music traditions and inspired by their indivudual experiences of Pop- and Clubculture, Philippos Sîpano & The MPC Orchestra’s new album can be both perceived as diasporic Popmusic or epic dancefloor monster for experienced music lovers. All songs were produced at Offenbach’s Upper Citycenter Studio and dedicated to all DIlovans* out there, hoping they will one day constitute the majority of all people and we will all find peace, love and habibtiness on planet earth.

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Groupe RTD

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Ostinato)

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Wanda)

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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Gulag Beach

Sarrazin Diät

9,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Punisher Black Vinyl Edition

Phoebe Bridgers

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ocean Alley)

Ocean Alley

Lonely Diamond

36,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Rap Français

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Every Bad Black Vinyl Edition

Porridge Radio

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Post Present Medium)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Porridge Radio grew out of Dana Margolin's bedroom, where she started making music in private. Living in the seaside town of Brighton, she recorded songs and slowly started playing them at open mic nights to rooms of old men who stared at her quietly as she screamed in their faces. Though she eventually grew out of them, for Margolin these open mic nights unlocked a love of performing and songwriting, as well as a new way to express herself. She decided to form a band through which to channel it all, and be noisier while she was at it - so Porridge Radio was born. Inspired by interpersonal relationships, her environment - in particular the sea - and her growing friendships with her new bandmates (bassist Maddie Ryall, keyboardist Georgie Stott, and drummer Sam Yardley) Margolin's distinctive, indie-pop-butmake-it-existentialist style soon started to crystallise. Quickly, the band self-released a load of demos and a garden-shed-recorded collection on Memorials of Distinction, while tireless touring cemented their firm reputation as one of UK DIY's most beloved and compelling live bands. The band's sound - bright pop-rock instrumentation blended with Margolin's tender, open-ended lyrics - has developed and refined. Now, they are taking that development a step further, as they put out their label debut, Every Bad.

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P22

Human Snake

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ketchup)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I. P22 is a Los Angeles band formed in 2015 by Sofia Arreguin, Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Justin Tenney, and Taylor Thompson. II. P22 borrows their name from the famed Los Angeles mountain lion who crossed both the 405 and 101 freeways to disperse in Griffith Park. Puma concolor number twenty-two.III. A band is always a utopian proposition. P22 is a prudent exercise in the collective rearing of offbeat protest tunes in punk's tomb.IV. P22 has released three tapes, two self-released, and onereleased as part of Mike Kriebel's Beat Sessions.V. Human Snake, P22's first EP, is a compilation of sanguine materials written between 2017 and 2019. Human Snake was recorded and mastered during the summer of 2019 by Mike Kriebel, after the group's brief hiatus.VI. "The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death."

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Pabst

Deuce Ex Machina

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Piccolo - Tender Plays Tubby

Tenderlonious

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Jazz Detective)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (This Is Meru)

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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Emily Wells

In The Dark Moving

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Caroline)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180g Vinyl.Continuing the work begun on her acclaimed 2019 albumThis World is Too _____ For You, Emily Wells' newest releaseIn The Dark Moving reimagines the original tracks hailed byNPR as "visionary" and "mind-blowing." Initiallycommissioned by Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's LiquidMusic Series and Metropolis Ensemble, this latest recordingoffers a thoughtful, minimal companion piece to theoriginal music in the form of Wells, her guitars, and nothingelse. Recorded solely by Wells in her Harlem studio duringthe summer of 2019, she reflects, "I'm interested in gettinganother look at a song, both in performance and recording.It keeps the song a living thing. I began working on theserecordings out of curiosity. I wanted them to be the sort ofthing a person could put on quietly at the end of the day ona little speaker and watch the light drain."

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Parcels

Live Volume 1

16,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Spirit Of 90's

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Heavy Is The Head Black Vinyl Edition

Stormzy

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Warner)

31,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Reprise)

Neil Young

Homegrown (1975)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Neil Young finally releases his 1975 album "Homegrown" which was shelved back then due to him feeling uncomfortable with it being to personal.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Dub

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Vintage sounds collection is well known for all the albums gathering the best of a musical style in a beautiful vinyl ! Theses two albums introduce two important trend part of huge Music Family - Reggae Dub and French Rap by introducing the best of the artists that create or influence each style.

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Melt Yourself Down

100 & Yes

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Ship To Shore)

Marshall Art

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marshall Art is here to papercut your mind into little pieces. Armed with a modified NES console and an electric guitar, the international duo of Jeffrey Roberts and Mikhail Ivanov explore sonic worlds of chiptune-infused progressive and post rock music on their self-titled debut album.

This limited edition 2xLP vinyl offers a unique listening experience exclusive to the vinyl format: the conclusion of the Marshall Art suite which closes the record will vary depending on which of the two identically labeled Side Cs the listener drops their needle. The good ending, with a triumphant choral celebration, or the bad ending, with a menacing funeral dirge. The music has been remastered specifically for this vinyl release. The red and yellow vinyl is packaged in a reversible jacket with new artwork by Andrei Karlin, depicting a refreshed take on the albums imagery, and an alternate cover showing the decayed scenery, affected by the passage of time.

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Love Songs

Nicht Nicht

27,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Piano Piano)

Sven Wunder

Wabi Sabi

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Pan)

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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Amnesia Scanner

Tearless

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Warp)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amnesia Scanner announces Tearless, the Berlin-based duo's second LP. As Amnesia Scanner founders, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala watch their icy home country of Finland thaw, the staggering scale of political recalibration and the worldwide climate crisis to come blows open old norms. This album reflects what it feels to experience Earth at a time when collapse is emerging as the prevailing narrative.The musical scope of the record is expansive, with guest vocalists - the Peruvian artist Lalita and the Brazillian DJ/producer LYZZA - descending into a vast uncanny valley of sound. Tearless follows the 2014 `AS Live [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]' mixtape, 2015 audio play Angels Rig Hook, two EP's for Young Turks, and their 2018 debut album, Another Life (PAN)."There's a looming sense of radical change," they note, connecting the present to a fin de siecle horror and curiosity regarding what new world is being ushered in. Someone called Tearless a "breakup album with the planet." To which Amnesia Scanner responds, on the LP's closing track: "You will be fine, if we can help you lose your mind."With the crossfader on Tearless sitting closer to pop than abstraction, so too does the audience for this record widen in scope. Listening through: Opener "AS Enter" sets a sombre tone until the fucking riffs of the second track (the titular, Lalita-helmed "Tearless") make clear there's plenty of roaring to come. A feature from metalcore band Code Orange on "AS Flat" follows, along with "AS Trouble" (feat. Oracle, the third, machinic ghost-member of Amnesia Scanner) and together they hit as blackmetal-gaze dirges. At the album's midpoint, Lalita returns for the beautiful, operatic breakdown of "AS Ac" (released as a single in 2019), before "Center of the Labyrinth" guides listeners through three club ready tracks - the grain-processed dembow of "AS Too Late" and "AS Going" with LYZZA, and then the ambient headbanger "AS Labyrinth." Closing 'Tearless' is the sadboy grunge of "AS U Will Be Fine" with a clear statement o...

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Darkstar

Civic Jams

25,99 €*