$70.00
Recorded and released in 1969, Herbie Hancock’s last Blue Note album The Prisoner is a powerful but overlooked masterpiece. A moving tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, this nonet session features some of the most exceptional instrumentalists in jazz including Joe Henderson, Johnny Coles, Hubert Laws, Garnett Brown, Buster Williams, and Albert “Tootie” Heath. Hancock said of The Prisoner: “I've been able to get closer to the real me with this album than on any other previous one.”
Tracklist:
A1. I Have A Dream
A2. The Prisoner
B1. Firewater
B2. He Who Lives In Fear
B3. Promise Of The Sun
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Label: Blue Note – B0031460-01, Blue Note – B0031300-01, Blue Note – BST 84321 |
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Series: Blue Note Tone Poet Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180g |
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Country: US |
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Released: 27 Mar 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Post Bop |
$45.00
Rare Brazilian album of the obscure film "Xavana, Uma Ilha do Amor" mixture of Psych, Jazz and Bossa Nova.-Hareton Salvanini creates a record full of groovy guitars, refine strings and delicate orchestral Sounds.
Polish film maker Zygmunt Sulistrowski pioneered the format of shooting low-budget soft porn on exotic locations. Brazilian arranger and writer Hareton Salvanini was commissioned to deliver this soundtrack. No wonder many consider him a lesser-known Arthur Verocai. Salvanini creates a record full of groovy guitars and percussions that could rival with the best of KPM or Chappell library LPs – Bandcamp
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Label: Fermata – FIF-0010, Mad About Records – MAR 016 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue |
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Country: Portugal |
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Released: 26 Nov 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Bossa Nova, Swing |
$48.00
Yusuf Lateef was a leading representative of world music, long before world music was known as such in the jazz, pop and rock community. He integrated all kinds of oriental instruments in his jazz music, such as the koto, bamboo flute and tambura and also – as in this case – in his blues compositions. His saxophone playing is also flawless too and full of wonderful textures, hard and impulsive at one moment, cool and exotic at the next.
On this album Lateef explores, in a painterly way, the border areas of the blues, in all their various guises and addresses both eastern and western cultures. "Juba Juba" begins with a drumbeat on a slave ship, the tempo builds up slowly and agonizingly, and is only penetrated by Lateef’s plaintive flute and background voices singing »freedom, freedom, freedom«. After such a gloomy beginning the classical blues number "Like It Is" comes over like a breath of fresh air, with its superb string quartet as the foundation. The R&B contributions on the other tracks testify to Lateef’s skilled excursions into the realm of the blues, while the truly adventurous tracks such as "Back Home" and the mystic, Chinese odyssey "Moon Cup" weave a magical net of sheer pleasure. "The Blue Yusef Lateef" is in every possible way absolutely breathtaking. It is a milestone as a jazz album. As a blues album it is quite unique. But as a musical work of art it is a glorious and genial masterpiece.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. – Speakers Corner
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Label: Atlantic – SD 1508, Speakers Corner Records – SD 1508
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180g
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Country: Germany
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Released: 2019
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Genre: Jazz
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Style: Hard Bop, Free Jazz
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$45.00
Tony Allen has lived many lives as a drummer in the decades since he first got behind a trap kit. His various collaborations and genre shifts are numerous and well documented, evidence of a lifetime of curiosity. But Allen will forever be known as the virtuosic drummer in Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 band—the man whose genre-defining rhythms drove the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer’s renowned sound. He quite literally put the beat in Afrobeat.
The legacy of the late Hugh Masekela, who died in 2018, is no less majestic. As a trumpeter he made his mark on every band he played with. Exiled from South Africa during apartheid, he spent much of the 1960s in London and New York, scoring a No.1 hit with “Grazing in the Grass” and making a name for himself on the Manhattan jazz scene. By 1984 he was in West Africa, where, through Fela, his friend and contemporary, he met Allen.
Almost as soon as they connected, the two decided they should try to make music together, but it would be more than 25 years before they finally met up in London’s Livingston Studios. Those 2010 sessions flowed like a conversation, with Allen laying down a drum track, Tom Herbert or Mutale Chashi adding bass, and Masekela answering with melodies on his flugelhorn. The result is Rejoice, a collaborative record that Allen calls “a kind of South African-Nigerian swing-jazz stew,” a skeletal Afrobeat infused with the spirit of bebop, with lyrics in English, Yoruba, and Zulu reflective of the transatlantic exchange that has defined the African diaspora for centuries. – Pitchfork
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Label: World Circuit – WCV094 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 20 Mar 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
$45.00
Maeng Won-sik is a musician who began his professional career as a saxophonist and arranger. He is a major figure in the history of Korean gayo, having conducted and arranged music for large-scale shows of various popular singers (Hye-euni, Hah Chun-hwa, the Hee Sisters) from the 1970s to the 1980s. Additionally, he delved deeply into the project of modernizing / jazz-ifying traditional Korean songs (gagok) and folk tunes, producing a plentiful works as a result. This is a Beatball Pops Koreana reissue of one of the ulminations of Maeng’s musical efforts, as originally released by Daesung Records. The tracks here include tunes that were arranged by Maeng during the late 1960s and recorded / released during the mid-early 1970s, meticulously remastered using the original master tapes from Daesung Records. The record showcases Maeng’s ingenious interpretations of gagok and folk songs into the big band / boogaloo style, and represents a restoration of a once-forgotten page in Korean jazz history. This work is an important testament to the history of big band jazz during the 1970s in Korea. – Bandcamp
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Label: Cobrarose Records – CR69039 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: South Korea |
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Released: 10 Apr 2018 |
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Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Big Band, Swing |
$39.00
Wun Two at his best! Refined, realized, and rebooted.
German Hip-Hop producer Wun Two has been making a name for himself in the past handful of years. From an underappreciated producer for labels such as Radio Juicy to garnering over a million monthly listeners on Spotify, Wun Two is taking advantage of the spotlight he’s been under. His ambient style, which adds a languid layer to hip-hop, is typically cherished near the warm fire during the winter season or in the warm breezes of the summer night.
Besides last year’s Pirata, O Cavalo Vermelho is his longest album to date. The album contains twenty-four tracks of sultry and radiating beats patterned with relaxed drums and snares. Each track has some sample of chirping grasshoppers or shaking maracas to add to that nocturnal summer feeling.
With his previous projects, Wun Two crafted his beats with bebop jazz tonalities and heavy 1990’s hip-hop samples. This time, he took the approach to incorporate the sounds of humid South America, enmeshing his tracks with low fidelity chords and samba-like percussion. The result is a tranquil collage of warm and airless snippets. Each track doesn’t over welcome its stay, with each one only lasting around two minutes or less.
The album could calm the nerves of the most hurried and worried, which happened to be released during times of chaos and tumult. Wun Two, yet again, serves his purpose well. – medium.com
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Label: Sichtexot – SE084 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Red |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 13 Mar 2020 |
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Genre: Hip Hop |
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Style: Instrumental |
$36.00
This 30 minute beat tape started it all for the lofi beatsmith Wun Two, cementing his sound in the scene. Mellow, low beats, cloudy samples and a vibe that immediately puts you at ease. Originally released in 2013 and reissued in 2017. Limited to 500 copies on white vinyl.
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Label: Radio Juicy – none, HHV.DE – HHV603 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 15 Feb 2017 |
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Genre: Hip Hop |
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Style: Instrumental |
$36.00
Here's the follow-up to wun two's "Ships" LP called "Rio", a dedication to the rich musical history that Brazil provides using a bunch of Jazz and Bossa Nova samples to create a wun two'esque flavored soundtrack for the summer of 2014. - Radio Juicy on Bandcamp
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Label: HHV.DE – HHV604 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Repress, Light Blue |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 2017 |
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Genre: Hip Hop |
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Style: Instrumental |
$36.00
Mellow, understated, jazzy hip hop drenched with the SP-404 treatment. Choice, classy samples are used throughout, backed with simple but effective drum sounds and an extremely laid back swing. This is Lo-fi Hip Hop at its finest, it’s none other than Wun Two with a great collaborator this time in Hubert Daviz.
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Label: HHV.DE – HHV624, Backstein Ru'let – none |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 12 May 2017 |
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Genre: Hip Hop |
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Style: Instrumental, Jazzy Hip-Hop |
$45.00
A Warp Records reissue - robot music for organic robots.
Time Tourist is stylistically very similar to many of the early Warp artists who went on to have greater success within this new style of electronic music. Most of the rhythmic sections are still mostly hi-hat 808 and 909 beats but this time with a much more intricately programmed and structured with more emphasis on rhythms that incorporate the whole spectrum of sound rather than just percussion ssections. Time Tourist is thematically grounded in an atmosphere of retro-futurism, with soundscapes that are very similar to science fiction literature like the Omni magazine and late 1970's and early 1980's science fiction. As a result, much of Time Tourist involves ambient synth pads and leads that often resemble the ambient and progressive electronic that came from Germany in the late 70's and early 80's. - Sputnik Music
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Label: Warp Records – WARP LP37R |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Remastered, Repress |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 16 Nov 2018 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Abstract, Techno, Downtempo |
$39.00
Tasty, fluid future jazz with a heavy hip hop and breakbeat backbone!
Following up their 2019 release, Jazzbois Goes Blunt is their self-titled EP here in 2020. A promising trio of jazz and hip hop heads, their studied approach can also be seen as the foundation for improv. Definitely one to check out for fans of artists such as Karriem Riggins, Madlib, Kiefer, Kaidi Tatham, Henry Wu, Mansur Brown, Floating Points, and BBNG.
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Label: HHV – HHV829, Cosmic Compositions – CC025 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 24 Jan 2020 |
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Genre: Hip Hop, Jazz |
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Style: Instrumental, Jazzy Hip-Hop |
$65.00
The follow up to everyone's favourite city pop compilation!
Light In The Attic’s Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972 – 1986 spotlights the sonic development and diversity of a style that often feels reduced to an aesthetic or algorithmically-assisted curiosity. It follows last year’s Pacific Breeze, a release that made songs from artists helping define what city pop would become-and among the nation's most celebrated acts, including Haruomi Hosono and Taeko Ohnuki - available outside Japan for the first time ever. That mission is continued here. - Bandcamp Daily
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Label: Light In The Attic – LITA 179 |
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Series: Japan Archival Series – , Pacific Breeze – 2 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered, Stereo |
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Country: US |
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Released: 15 May 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop |
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Style: AOR, Fusion, Boogie, City Pop |
$45.00
1988 is the follow up to Knxwledge’s official debut album Hud Dreems (Stones Throw, 2015). The same year Hud Dreems was released Knx worked with Kendrick Lamar on To Pimp a Butterfly, earning the producer his first Grammy. A duo with Anderson .Paak called NxWorries was formed around the same time. Their single “Suede” became a viral hit, vaulting the singer to R&B stardom, and their album Yes Lawd! followed through on that song’s immense promise. Knx and Paak have quietly continued collaborating, and some of the new work is heard on 1988. A prolific artist in the extreme sense of the word, Knxwledge continues to redefine instrumental hip-hop almost in real-time with a stream of beat tapes numbering in the hundreds on Bandcamp, and video remixes on Instagram.
This prolific output began early. 1988 takes its name from the fact that much of the new record was created that very year, when Knx was an infant. As the story is told, little baby Knx was left alone by his mother for just a few moments and crawled to a family member’s vintage SP–12 sampler. When his mother returned he had already produced his first beats and nearly mastered the machine. These tracks, all produced before nap time while rocking a Nike diaper, were stored over the years on floppy discs, then brought to his studio in recent months where they were finished up, mixed, and mastered. – Stones Throw
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Label: Stones Throw Records – STH 2409LP6 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Purple |
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Country: US |
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Released: 27 Mar 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop |
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Style: Instrumental, Leftfield |
$39.00
In the last 10 years, Calibro 35 have released 12 albums inspired by the 1970s ‘Poliziotteschi’ Italian crime film genre. This year the cinematic funk cult combo release their highly anticipated 7th album Momentum. Dr Dre and Jay-Z have both sampled Calibro 35 and the band have shared the stage with Robert Glasper, Muse, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Headhunters and many more.
“Italian cult combo CALIBRO 35 release their highly anticipated 7th studio album “MOMENTUM” on January 24th 2020. “Momentum” follows “DECADE” their previous studio album released in 2018 that has marked 10 years of Calibro 35 and it stands out as a new starting point for the project. In the last 10 years Calibro 35 have dug the golden age of soundtracks and they’ve been to the future with “S.P.A.C.E.”, “Momentum”, as the band stated: "represents a look at nowadays and a reflection about making music right in the time that we’re living” - Calibro 35 on Bandcamp
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Label: Record Kicks – RKX074 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Italy |
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Released: 24 Jan 2020 |
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Genre: Funk / Soul |
$45.00
Energy Control Center, Thomas's third LP with his Lightmen band is his masterpiece: Deep-set, Maverick Jazz that smolders in the embers of a cultural revolution. This is a highpoint amongst the best of the 1970s and this version of the album contains second with bonus tracks: unreleased alternate takes, including two versions of the Spiritual Jazz classic " All Praises to Allah" and the two singles Thomas produced for poet and activist Thomas Meloncon
$39.00
Charismatic trumpeter Avishai Cohen launched his exuberant, home-grown band Big Vicious six years ago, after relocating from the US to his native Israel, rounding up players to shape the music from the ground up, and co-authoring much of its newest material together with them. The group is an association of old friends. “We’re all coming from jazz, but some of us left it earlier”, Avishai says, summing up the stylistic reach of his cohorts. “Everyone’s bringing in their backgrounds, and that becomes part of the sound of the band.” Textures from electronica, ambient music and psychedelia are part of the blend, so too grooves and beats from rock, pop, trip-hop and more. A wide-open approach to cover versions – from Massive Attack to Beethoven - is also integral to the Vicious vision. Recorded in Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in August 2019 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Big Vicious’s debut album is issued as the band gears up for extensive international touring. – ECM
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Label: ECM Records – ECM 2680
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: Germany
Released: 27 Mar 2020
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz
$45.00
Originally released in 1981 as a limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies on Agi Yuzuru’s fabled experimental label Vanity Records (R.N.A. Organism, Dada, Sympathy Nervous, Tolerance…), Lady Maid is a testament to the creativity of the early 80s’ Japanese electronic and experimental scene, encapsulating a prolific era when audio gear became affordable for musicians to explore sounds in the comfort of their home, free from studio time pressure and major label rules.
Entirely imagined and brought to life by an inspired Yukio Fujimoto, the 6-track opus was conceived with a Korg MS-20, a Korg SQ-10, a Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-55, and…a Texas Instruments Speak & Spell! It’s elegantly minimalist, honest and witty, very playful, cleverly pop, and downright fascinating. The a-side captures the fun side of avant-garde electronica, lo-fi wave, proto-glitch, and IDM, a joyful ride beautifully interrupted by the cinematic mood switch of the b-side - a 20 minute ambient piece flirting with sci-fi, melancholy, and hints of metallic darkness. Unclassifiable and marvelous! – Bandcamp
More from the label We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records
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Label: We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records – WRWTFWW029 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: Switzerland |
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Released: 08 Mar 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic, Rock |
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Style: Minimal, Experimental, Ambient, Avantgarde |
$45.00
Founded in 1972, SteepleChase Records is one of the most significant and prolific European jazz record labels. With a catalogue running to well over 200 titles, the Copenhagen-based imprint has recorded and released music from some of the greatest names in jazz, including Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, Jackie McLean, Horace Parlan, Chet Baker and Stan Getz.
Starting out by recording visiting Americans when they performed at the legendary Café Montmartre, founder Nils Winther was encouraged to start the label by none other than the great Jackie McLean, who was the first artist to release a record on the new imprint.
From there, Steeplechase rapidly grew into one of the foremost labels to document European jazz with all its distinctive originality and style. With a particular emphasis on recording front rank American artists who had chosen the expatriate life in Europe, Steeplechase was first in line to document the sounds of the greats as they developed in exile.
Featuring in-demand tracks from the likes of Billy Gault, Johnny Dyani and Khan Jamal, and unearthing deep cuts from greats like Jackie McLean and Mary Lou Williams, our Spiritual Jazz 11: Steeplechase pays tribute to one of Europe's most important jazz labels. – Bandcamp
View other Spiritual Jazz Compilations down here
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Label: Jazzman – JMANLP120 |
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Series: Spiritual Jazz – volume 11 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 10 Apr 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz |
$65.00
For the fifth entry in our Collector’s Series we enlist the skills of Japan-based musical connoisseurs, Ken Hidaka, Max Essa, and Dr. Rob. Their compilation Oto No Wa sets out to map the evolution of chilled Japanese sounds across 3 decades. Collecting 14 tracks, produced by a wide range of artists. From ambient pioneers to dance-floor veterans …
… All of these selections are the result of some serious digging but more importantly they represent physical connections made during Ken’s 20-plus-year career in the Biz and Max’ decade of DJing all over Japan. Music made by folks interviewed by Rob at the websites, Test Pressing and Ban Ban Ton Ton. Friendships forged at Lone Star - the trio’s long-running party, which takes place every month at Bar Bonobo in Harajuku. - Bandcamp
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Label: Music For Dreams – ZZZV19007 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation |
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Country: Denmark |
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Released: 27 Mar 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz |
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Style: Ambient, Downtempo, Dub |
$39.00
Re:verse is the instrumental album of the two remix EP's by FloFilz released years ago by Newtold - Keineideeistneu and Some More Remixes. In true Flofilz style, this is perfect for all beatheadz out there, looking to find that smooth touch to sample-based hip hop.
View Flofilz – Transit
View Flofilz - Metronom
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Label: Newtold – NEWTOLD02
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
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Country: Europe
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Released: 08 Dec 2017
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Genre: Hip Hop
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Style: Jazzy Hip-Hop, Instrumental, Boom Bap
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In this edition of our Selects' series, Robin (aka KiDG) picks out 5 titles from our online catalog that certainly gave us a big ol' uplift - something truly needed in these times! His picks span the styles of Hip Hop, Funk/Soul, Jazz, Brazilian and Downtempo this time, but they all share that positive energy that represent what KiDG's about. Put some pep in your step today and check it out!
There are many different motivations for Vinyl collectors out there from the purist who believes vinyl LPs reign above all, the librarian who loves archiving and finding the rarest, the casual who collects records every now and then or the musical conductor, aka the DJ who finds joy in presenting their valuable finds. Everything comes from the sheer love of music, and Ichiro (aka Itch) is all of the above in our opinion.
We've got something here at the vault for everyone, but sometimes it's hard to find something that truly resonates with you amongst everything else on display! In this series, we ask some of our friends from our local music community to pick out titles from our catalogue that speak to them.
Organizing one's record collection is a very personal experience, which helps give the collector a sense of solace, making the whole listening experience a much more enjoyable one. It almost feels like you’re arranging your musical memories into nursing homes, each LP waiting to be discharged at ease. Now is a perfect time to arrange your collection so let us dig into the mind of a long time collector CK on how he arranges them.
