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CD | 2018 | US | Original (Slice Of Spice)

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Originally released in 2007, Phat Kat’s 2nd studio album “Carte Blanche” is getting a re-release on July 27th via Below System Records. The deluxe edition will includes 2 new bonus tracks both produced by J Dilla. “Carte Blanche” includes production by J Dilla, Black Milk, Young RJ, Nick Speed and features by Elzhi, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, T3 and more. The 2 Dilla produced bonus tracks “World Premier” and “It Don’t Get No Liver Than This” with a featuring by La Peace, were recorded in 1996 and 1997. Often referred as the fifth member of Slum Village, Phat Kat aka Ronnie Euro was the "proof of concept" for J Dilla's beats. When Dilla was looking for that grimy voice, that hard-core street sound that Dilla was obsessed with, he went to Kat. Kat and Dilla’s friendship was deep. They formed a group called 1st Down and were signed to Payday Records, a subsidiary of renowned London Records. Kat and Dilla were label mates and peers to a young Jay-Z, underground favorites Showbiz & A.G., Jeru The Damaja and many more. Since the release of his record “Carte Blanche” on Look Records, Phat Kat has been steadily touring Europe year after year building his audience gradually by staying consistent and giving fans that raw hardcore rap music without needing to compromise his aesthetics.

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Marco Polo

Port Authority 2

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2018 | US | Original (Slice Of Spice)

Marco Polo

Port Authority

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Retrogott & Kutmasta Kurt

Vintage Fresh EP

CD | 2018 | US | Original (Threshold)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2006 | US | Original (Fith)

B Real

The Gunslinger Volume 2

CD | 2018 | US | Original (Brick)

Release: 2006 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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17 tracks feat. Son Doobie, Proof of. D12, Everlast, Defari ...

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Planet Asia

The Golden Buddha

CD | 2017 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Planet Asia helped jump-start the West Coast independent hip-hop movement, and has solidified himself as one of the most consistent and respected MCs in the game over his 20+ year career. He dropped his debut EP with producer Fanatik in 1998, and followed up quickly with the singles "Definition of Ill" (Stones Throw) and "Place of Birth" (ABB Records). In 2001, The Source Magazine gave him the ‘First Round Draft Pick’ and ‘Independent Album of the Year’ awards for ‘How the West Was One’, which was recorded with fellow CA rapper Rasco under the group name Cali Agents. This landed him a deal with Interscope Records, where he was signed until 2003 without releasing an album.
Planet Asia was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002 for his feature on the song "W" by Mystic, and was later signed to Avatar Records, which released his official debut album, ‘The Grand Opening,’ in 2004. It earned him another ‘Independent Album of the Year’ award from The Source. Later, he started his own imprint Gold Chain Music, on which he has churned out multiple projects. He has also collaborated on albums with the likes of DJ Muggs (‘Pain Language’), Evidence (‘The Medicine’) and Madlib (‘Cracks In The Vinyl’), among others, and released songs with artists such as Linkin Park, Bun B, Talib Kweli and Ghostface Killah.
The Fresno MC is fresh off of a strong 2017 which featured well-received collaborative albums with producers DirtyDiggs (‘Dirty Planet’) and Apollo Brown (‘Anchovies’). For 2018, Asia teamed up with Bay Area producer izznyce for this true solo project, sure to be considered the next classic in his vast catalog.
‘The Golden Buddha’ was produced entirely by izznyce (producer for Superstar Quamallah and more) and features AZ, Hus Kingpin, Turbin, Marvelous Mag, Killa Kali, TriState, Xiomara and The Architect. Speaking on the project, Planet Asia says: “This album represents the foundation of what Planet Asia is about and that is ‘balance’. Me and izznyce also took our time with the record, and had a chance to really vibe out and make the type of music we personally like that will stand the test of time!”

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5 Elementz

The Album Time Forgot EP

CD | 1996 | US | Original (American)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition CD!
Produced by J Dilla aka Jay Dee!!
5-Elementz formed in Detroit in 1992. The group met while attending Osborn High School on 7 Mile. The original members consisted of Thyme, Proof, Mudd, Jay Dee & DJ Head.
These great tracks produced by Jay Dee only released on cassette later in 1998. Chopped Herring had access to the original studio DATs and presents to you this great EP. Ya better don’t sleep!

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Chino XL

Here to save you all

3CD | 2017 | DE | Original (Normale Musik)

Release: 1996 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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feat. Kool Keith, Ras Kass, ...

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Audio88 & Yassin

Die Herrengedecke

29,99 €*

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 1995 | US | Original (Cold Chillin)

Kool G Rap

4,5,6

Release: 1995 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2017 | EU | Original (eOne)

Wu-Tang Clan

The Saga Continues

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2017 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Tyler The Creator

Flower Boy

CD | 2017 | DE | Original (Bozz Music)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The album featuring A$AP Rocky, Frank Ocean, Lil Wayne, Estelle, Kevin Abstract & Rex Orange County.

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Azad

NXTLVL

8,99 €* 9,99 € -10%

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Sex Style 20th Anniversary Edition

Kool Keith

2CD | 2017 | US | Original (Threshold)

24,99 €*

CD | 2006 | US | Original (Cha-Ching)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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This limited 20th anniversary edition of Kool Keith's impossibly raunchy, "porno-core" 1997 classic, “Sex Style”. Includes instrumentals, limited to 500 copies worldwide.

He comes in many forms and many incarnations, but his style is distinctly his own. Just as there's no mistaking his smooth lyrical delivery and searing hip-hop prose with its underlying edgy beats, there's no denying the incredible force that is Kool Keith. Whether as a founding member of the legendary Ultramagnetic MCs, or in the guises of his renegade rap personas Dr. Octagon and Dr. Dooom, Keith has established himself as an innovative lyricist whose erudite raps push the envelope to the limit. When Keith Teams up with KutMasta Kurt on the production - they arguably create the best albums in his catalog.

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Poor Righteous Teachers

Rare And Unreleased

Release: 2006 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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To Thine Own Self Be True

La Coka Nostra

CD | 2016 | US | Original (Fat Beats)

CD | 2016 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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It’s been four years since La Coka Nostra released their sophomore album, “Masters Of The Dark Arts”, (the group's first project without Everlast was also their most critically acclaimed project featured collaborations with Vinnie Paz, Sean Price & production from DJ Premier and Statik Selektah) and the music industry has changed considerably in that time. Always known for tackling controversial topic matter, the group’s new album, “To Thine Own Self Be True”, finds them once again in torch bearing mode, addressing subjects that most artists shy away from. “This album was created during a time of unique and individual transformation for each member of the group” Ill Bill stated. “Speaking for myself, it’s been a heavy last couple of years. It’s definitely the most personal record we’ve made under the La Coka banner and while we’re still making music that’s hard as fuck, there’s a maturity to this latest batch of songs that makes it different from a lot of the older stuff. I notice the biggest reactions come from the songs our listeners can personally relate to and we needed to make a record like this right now, not only for the fans, but for ourselves. I got a lot off my chest on this one. Making music can be extremely therapeutic and making “To Thine Own Self Be True” was a rebirth and a re-ignition for me.”
While DJ Lethal continues to oversee the production end of “To Thine Own Self Be True”, the group also enlisted Statik Selektah, Marco Polo, Salam Wreck (D-12, Obie Trice, Proof, B-Real, Tha Dogg Pound) & ChumZilla (from the Demigodz) and get vocal contributions from extended family members such as Vinnie Paz, Apathy, Q-Unique, Sick Jacken, SKAM2 & Rite Hook.

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Arthur Verocai

Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For a very long time, we have been trying to re-issue this record; a true and complete album masterpiece in every sense of the word, considered by many people to be one of the greatest ever made, regardless of genre. Recorded at Studio Somil, Rio De Janeiro in 1972, the album was produced, arranged, directed by the self-taught, Arthur Verocai. Previously he had worked on many records in various capacities, with artists including Jorge Ben, Ivan Lins and Celia, but this album gave him the chance to do his thing in it’s most pure form. The 29 minute masterpiece, perfect in it’s arrangement and fusion of sonics, epitomises the sound of Brazil at the time; strings, guitars, pianos, break beats, bass lines, synthesizers, vocals from the wonderful Célia, Carlos Dafe and Oberdan (Banda Black Rio), plus percussion from Pedro Santos and Paulo Moura on sax. Bossa nova, samba, jazz, MPB, psychedelics and funk sit side by side effortlessly. The album transcends the genre of Brazilian music, and infact all genres. Highlighted in part by the number of artists that have sampled from it; MF Doom, Ludacris & Common, Little Brother, Jneiro Jarel aka Dr Who Dat?, Dibiase and Action Bronson amongst others. The original Continental version of the album now fetch around $2000. Our definitive re-issue is an exact replica of the gatefold original LP and the source master is taken from the Continental tapes, re-mastered in 2012 under Arthur’s supervision.

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Volbeat

LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Vertigo)

40,99 €*

From Ashes To Kingdom Come

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is their sixth album.

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Truth

CD | 2016 | US | Original (Ill Adrenaline)

A Curious Tale Of Trials & Persons

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The emergence of hip-hop out of Queens, NY has proven to be timeless. From Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Kool G Rap to A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor, Organized Konfusion, and Mobb Deep there's never been a shortage of dynamic music from the borough. Longtime observer and emcee of the culture Truth is set to release his debut album "From Ashes To Kingdome Come" on Ill Adrenaline Records. A few years back Truth formed an alliance with PF Cuttin (of Blahzay Blahzay) and together the Queens emcee and the Brooklyn producer/DJ/engineer are ready to release a typical 90's throwback sounding full-length that carries PF's thumbprint throughout. On the 18-track strong heater Truth picks up various topics, ranging from life experiences to repping hip-hop culture - always showcasing his passionate and sharp lyrical rhyme skills. Entirely recorded and mixed by PF Cuttin, the album's raw and dusty sound stays true to the streets, including features from heavyweights such as the late Sean Price, O.C., and AG (of D.I.T.C.). Newcomer JK1 The Supernova handles the majority of production along with veteran producers PF Cuttin, Psycho Les (of The Beatnuts), Da Beatminerz, and DJ Doom. Containing plenty of dope scratches mainly executed by PF Cuttin and Rock Steady's own DJ JS-1, the album's uniqueness remains on one accord with the boom bap sound and origin which is a rarity in today's music.

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Little Simz

CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Age 101)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2015 | US | Original (Interscope)

Dr. Dre

Compton

CD | 2015 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Here it is, Dre's third one! Feature guests are almighty Kendrick Lamar, Anderson.Paak, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, BJ The Chicago Kid, Eminem, Xzibit, The Game and many more.

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Apollo Brown

Grandeur

CD | 2015 | US | Original (Battle Axe)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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19 Tracks feat. The Barrell Brothers, Oddisee, M.O.P., Chino XL, Finale, Evidence, Rasheed Chappell, Saga, Ty Farris, Rapper Big Pooh, Dynasty, Ras Kass, Vinnie Paz, Blacastan, Your Old Droog, Masta Ace, Wordsworth, Maffew Ragazino, Freddie Gibbs, OC, Westside Gunn, Planet Asia, Eternia, Sean Price, Reks & Ugly Heroes. Whoa!

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Madchild

Silver Tongue Devil

14 Forms: The Book of Estee Nack

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Swollen Member Madchild drops another full length in 2015!

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Estee Nack & Purpose

CD | 2015 | US | Original (Ill Adrenaline)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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2CD | 2014 | US | Original (Sound Signature)

Theo Parrish

American Intelligence

CD | 2014 | DE | Original (Urban)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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New album by the maestro! Parrish's electronics getting blended with a good dose of Jazz & Soul influence - here the past collides with the future.

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Haftbefehl

Russisch Roulette

Release: 2014 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2014 | US | Original (Ill Adrenaline)

The Legion

The Lost Tapes

14,24 €* 14,99 € -5%

Ugly Heroes (Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent & Red Pill)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Ain’t only a simple compilation of rare and unreleased tracks, it’s rather a musical documentation of a group that has been staying in its lane creating raw, uncut, and uncompromising Bronx flavor for more than two decades now. So this 20-track strong album includes the rare 12" single only "Freestyle Demolition" from 1994, rare old and unavailable on CD tracks, unreleased joints and instrumentals plus 3 brand new bangers ("For You", "Stereo", "Stereo [Remix]"), produced by The Legion, Buckwild, and Confidence.

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Ugly Heroes

CD | 2013 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

CD | 2005 | US | Original (Fith)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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All tracks produced and arranged by Apollo Brown!

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B Real

The Gunslinger Volume 1

CD | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Geffen)

Release: 2005 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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feat. Mellow Man Ace!, Son Doobie, Eminem, Bizarre and more!

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Nirvana

Unplugged in New York

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sound Sculptures Volume 1

Theo Parrish

2CD | 2007 | US | Reissue (Sound Signature)

CD | 2005 | US | Original (Strange Music)

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Theo's classic 2007 album back again! Loads of soulful samples, vocal house + soul tracks, some beautiful electronic instrumentals and some incredible dancefloor moving techno. Released on 3 x 12" in gatefold sleeve and 2x CD with 10 extra tracks not on vinyl.

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Tech N9ne

Vintage Tech

The Prince Of Dance Music: The True Story Of House Music

Release: 2005 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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greatest hits plus unreleased stuff ... 18 tracks

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Elbee Bad

CD | 2012 | EU | Original (Rush Hour)

CD | 1995 | US | Original (Jive)

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Elbee Bad is another great underground house pioneer from the formative days of NYC house in the late eighties. The True Story Of House Music finally gets told!

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Too Short

Cocktails

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Fat Possum)

Release: 1995 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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feat. 2Pac, Mc Breed, Illegal, ...

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Al Green

Gets Next To You

27,99 €*

CD | 1995 | US | Reissue (LaFace)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Classic soul LP back in print!

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Goodie Mob

Soul Food

CD | 2003 | EU | Original (Priority)

Release: 1995 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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classic ... incl. cell therapy, dirty south ...

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Eazy-E

Eternal E: The Best of

CD | 2011 | DE | Original (Spoken View)

Release: 2003 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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includes 2 bonus tracks

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Sir Serch

Antigroove 2

4,99 €* 9,99 € -50%

Release: 2011 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2017 | DE | Original (360 Grad)

Torch

Blauer Samt Re-Edition

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2003 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Massive Attack

100th Window

Release: 2003 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

CD | 1991 | EU | Reissue (Jive)

Release: 1991 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 1994 | EU | Original (Circa)

Massive Attack

Protection

Release: 1994 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2CD | 2000 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Cypress Hill

Skull & Bones

9,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

CD | 1993 | EU | Original (Loud)

CD | 1999 | US | Original (Rawkus)

Release: 1993 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The album that started the whole Wu-dynasty. The clan is in effect any everybody can sing along!

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Mos Def

Black On Both Sides

19,99 €*

CD | 2010 | US | Original (Lench Mob)

Release: 1999 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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feat. Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, ...

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Ice Cube

I Am The West

24,99 €*

CD | 2009 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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New Album from the west coast legend!

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Massive Attack

Heligoland

Release: 2009 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Artifacts

CD | 1994 | US | Reissue (Big Beat)

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2CD | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

Beastie Boys

Hello Nasty

CD | 2009 | US | Original (Mind Power)

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Digitally remastered for the 1st time!

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Krumb Snatcha

Hidden Scriptures

7,99 €*

Die John Bello Story Premium Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Krumb himself states: This album was not to offend anybody, its sole purpose is to inspire. I believe with this contribution fans can see more to the artist than just skills, we are human too ... word up! produced by Beatminerz, Statik Selektah, Pete Rock and others!

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Kool Savas

CD | 2008 | DE | Original (Optik)

CD | 2008 | US | Original (Brick)

Release: 2008 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Das Über-Mixtape vom King of Rap der 00er Jahre, auf dem neben vielen Rappern aus seinem Umfeld u.a. sein Bruder Sinan viele weitere MCs am Start sind, auch aus den USA. Mit dabei Ercandize, Caput, Amar, Kaas, Illmatic, Samy Deluxe, Killa Cam a.k.a Cam'Ron, Juelz Santana, Jae-Son, DJ Suave, Mr.Man (Bush Babees) plus video!

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Reks

Grey Hairs

NY's Finest Instrumentals

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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19 tracks with appearences by DJ Premier, Large Professor, Statik Selektah, Consequence, Termanology and many more!

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Pete Rock

CD | 2008 | US | Original (Nature Sounds)

CD | 2008 | US | Original (Nature Sounds)

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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instrumental version to Pete Rock’s 3rd solo vocal album ... comes with two bonus tracks, “When I Need It” and “It’s So G”!

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Pete Rock

NY's Finest

CD | 2008 | EU | Original (XL)

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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the chocolate boy wonder Pete Rock returns feat. Jim Jones, Max B, Royal Flush, Raekwon, Masta Killa, Redman, Styles P, Sheek Louch, Rell, Little Brother, Chip Fu, Rene (Zhane), Doo Wop, Papoose & Lords Of The Underground ...

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Adele

Release: 2008 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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CD | 2007 | EU | Original (XL)

Radiohead

In Rainbows

Release: 2007 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2024 | Original (Hamburg Crhyme)

Jaill

Tinte & Tragik

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Umoja Joaquin Joe Claussell Sacred Rhythm Music & Cosmic Arts Remixes

Nicola Conte

CD | 2024 | EU | Original

CD | 2024 | WW | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Renowned New York City house music icon Joaquin Joe Claussell has embarked on an electrifying project of ecstatic, spiritual club music with his latest endeavor: a double album worth of reinterpretations of the music from Italian jazz master Nicola Conte's 2023 album Umoja.

Claussell's collaboration with Nicola Conte and Far Out Recordings helps mark the label’s 30th anniversary, as Claussell joins fellow producers such as Theo Parrish, Ron Trent, Kenny Dope and 4hero in remixing music from the label’s catalogue.

Extending the tracks from Umoja for full length, dance-floor focused mixes, Claussell has accentuated the original music’s global, afro-futurist vision with comprehensive rearrangements - featuring additional percussion, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers and drum programming - excavating the source music and re-recording many of its parts under the auspices of his Sacred Music & Cosmic Arts banner.

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Kehlani

Crash

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP+CD | EU | Reissue (Munster)

Marc Jonson

12 In A Room

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Noton)

Release: EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"How does one create three minutes of music that somehow tweaks the soul and seems mysteriously in sync with the most private dreams and longings? On "12 In A Room", Marc Jonson offers an able demonstration of how it's done." Kristine McKenna Self-recorded and produced, Marc Jonson's second album came out in 1992, two decades after his debut, the psych folk/baroque pop masterpiece "Years". "12 In A Room" was another brilliant display of his gift for beautiful pop music, now available on vinyl for the first time. Presented in updated artwork and pressed on 180g vinyl. Includes CD.

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Alva Noto

Hybr:Id III

Wind Ep Limited Box Gr. S

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For an aesthetic of (dis)obedience. The impressions Richard Siegal and his company Ballet of Difference gathered on a trip to Japan in September 2022 now find their way into a full-length dance evening. Siegal and his team had set off for Tokyo to learn the practice of Shuudan Koudou, also known as "Japanese Precision Walking". The strictly synchronised group choreographies are astonishing in their radical stringency and have become a secret YouTube hit, not least because of their peculiar subtle humour. Siegal recognises in the extreme disciplining of the bodies an analogy to the training practice of classical ballet. In the mutual exchange of these movement cultures, questions are raised about individual and collective thinking, about personal decision-making power and social responsibility. For this extraordinary project, Richard Siegal has invited a special guest: Nazareth Panadero, long-time companion of Pina Bausch, who has long since become an icon of Wuppertal dance theatre and will be on stage with the BoD ensemble.

The production BALLET OF (DIS)OBEDIENCE is sponsored by Goethe Institut, with the kind support of Sissel GmbH.
CHOREOGRAPHY & STAGE: RICHARD SIEGAL
COSTUME: FLORA MIRANDA
LIGHT & VIDEO: MATTHIAS SINGER
MUSIC: ALVA NOTO
DRAMATURGY: TOBIAS STAAB

more info to: Shuudan koudou

'Shuudan koudou' Shuudan Koudou Is the Japanese #art of Synchronized Precision ...YouTube · Boson TV: Tech Marvels & Cool Discoveries22 Dec 2022

Kottke.org https://kottke.org › shuudan-koud...Shuudan Koudou Is the Japanese Art of Synchronized Precision Walking

On the other hand, hybrid 3 is inspired by Noh Play - Japanese performances and deals with the refusal of rules musically, hybrid three continues the two previous albums and weaves both rhythmic and beatless musical pieces into a holistic work.
The idea for me has always been that these albums are not only perceived as individual tracks, but as a whole piece, which is why I find the possibility of experiencing and listening to these albums in the right order and as a whole particularly important. For me, the pieces are not only closely related to the ballet that was created for them, but also function as individual pieces as pure, musical pieces and mark a new quality for me, which is very strongly focussed on producing electronic sounds and structures in such a way that they can develop a sculptural quality.

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Cr7z

CD | 2024 | DE | Original (Arjuna)

47,99 €*

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini

Lucifer

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Kompakt)

Sao Paulo - Brazil Broadcast 1977

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

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Genesis

2CD | 2023 | EU | Original (X-Ray)

No Games Strictly Bisnis Jewel Case Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wind & Wuthering, Genesis’ eighth studio album, was released in December 1976 and reached No. 6 in the UK and No. 26 in the US. Mike Rutherford's track, ‘Your Own Special Way’, became its sole single and went to No. 43 in the UK. Genesis toured Wind & Wuthering from January to July 1977 across Europe, North America, and for the first time, Brazil. The stage show cost £400,000 and featured a new PA system, lasers and smoke, and lighting supplied from two rows of Boeing 747 aircraft landing lights. Touring began on 1 January with three sold-out shows at the Rainbow Theatre in London, where 80,000 applications were made for the 8,000 available tickets. They returned to London for three nights at Earls Court, then the largest arena in Britain, supported by Richie Havens. The band's growing popularity in North America led to television appearances and concerts organised in larger venues than previous tours, including Madison Square Garden in New York City. Their Brazilian dates were attended by over 150,000 people while a proposed 100,000-person gig was cancelled over rioting fears.

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Recognize Ali

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Greenfield)

29,99 €*

CD | 2024 | US | Original (Interscope)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Jewel case

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Mozzy

Children Of The Slums

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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My Mother Was A Friend Of An Enemy Of The People

Blurt

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (All City Dublin)

CD | 2024 | US | Original (Mad Men Entertainment)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A sparsely documented yet iconic era for Ted Milton's psycho-funk afro punk fake no-wave pogo jazz group Blurt has been brought to life with an expansive collection of restored versions of live performances. Captured on early camcorders during the frenzy of counter-cultural activity that characterised Europe around the fall of the Iron Curtain, these recordings of Blurt, recently posted by fans on YouTube, are a visceral reminder of a scene whose influence is writ large on today's alternative music culture.

Ted Milton's trio have produced an impressive string of albums, not to mention his numerous solo recordings. Featuring 15 tracks spanning their extensive discography from their 1980 debut single – also the title of this collection – “My Mother Was A Friend Of An Enemy Of The People” to 1999’s “Eat Up Your House”, this live collection of performances have been digitised by whatever means available. The original sound captured by the inbuilt microphones of these camcorders and the videos concerned are in many cases the only documentation of an iconic era whose zeitgeist was so masterfully epitomised for many by Blurt.

Refurbished / restored/ repurposed using new AI tools there is a spectral roughness to them but surfing on these reconstructed waveforms, the inimitable machinations of Blurt ride out once again, emerging from a pixilated oblivion to put into perspective the peculiar absurdity of our human condition.

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Comet

Cataclysm

CD | 2024 | US | Original (Mad Men Entertainment)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The 5 year anniversary reissue, cardboard sleeve edition.

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Blaq Poet & Comet

Mad Screwz

CD | 2023 | US | Original

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Production by Domingo, Marco Polo, B Dvine , Nickel Plated, SupaDave and more. Back in print 8 years after date, cardboard sleeve edition.

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Dk & Ghettosocks

Listen To The Masters

Vic Spencer & Jamal Gasol

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Professionally manufactured CDr in full color jewel case and plastic wrap.

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The Right Way For Dummies

CD | 2023 | US | Original

CD | 2024 | US | Original

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Professionally manufactured CDr in jewel case with full color artwork and sealed in plastic wrap.

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Awol One X Kool Keith

Aponia

CD | 2024 | US | Original (Nature Sounds)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Professionally manufactured, full color CDr in jewel case & plastic wrap.

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Blu & Shafiq Husayn

Out Of The Blue

Cowboy Carter Backcover Variant 1 Beads

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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From weaving thought-provoking poetics to channeling the spirit of vintage West Coast gangsta rap, acclaimed Los Angeles emcee Blu is a dynamic musical presence, forever evolving and defying expectations. Supremely talented producer and musician Shafiq Husayn has a similarly diverse skill set, with a storied history as a member of Sa-Ra Creative Partners and solo production credits for top artists across the musical spectrum, from Erykah Badu to Ice-T to Anderson .Paak to Jurassic 5 and many more. After linking up for the mixtape The Blueprint back in 2018, Blu and Shafiq Husayn are reuniting for the new album Out Of The Blue, elevating their collaboration to a new level. “The Blueprint was just me rhyming over some of Shafiq's beats that I found online,” Blu explains. “This time we were actually in the studio together. We’ve been working together since 2008, but this is our first official album.” Awash in Shafiq’s dense sonic architecture, Out Of The Blue showcases the intricacy of Blu’s spiritual street talk while simultaneously delivering a series of bass-heavy L.A. anthems. Entirely produced by Shafiq Husayn, the collection features guest appearances by MED, Exile, Chuuwee, Thurz, Speed Walton, Jimetta Rose, and Freestyle Fellowship members Myka 9 and Self Jupiter. “Out Of The Blue is my G-Funk album,” Blu explains. “Big brother Shafiq gave us a master class in production. We just in here being funky and having fun.”

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Beyonce

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Sony)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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CD | 2007 | US | Original (Cor Adiar)

Roc Raida

Beats, Cuts & Skits

9,99 €*

2CD | 2024 | Original (EMI UK)

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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feat. Black Thought, Smif N Wessun, Dilated Peoples, Saigon, AG and more!

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Queen

Queen Rock Montreal

23,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Roche Musique)

Dabeull

Analog Love

CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Rap And Revenge)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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First Dabeull's proper album of his career after several key releases - Intimate Fonk, Fonk Delight or the sought-after compilation InDaStudio.

For Dabeull, analog production is his favorite playground as showing his upcoming 9-track album, "Analog Love" (out on April 12th 2024) was recorded using Michael Jackson's Thriller console - 100% analog.

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Beyond The Grave

Visions Of Mithra

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Far Out)

Bruno Berle

No Reino Dos Afetos 2

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bruno Berle, the young songwriter and poet originally hailing from Maceió, the capital of Brazil’s Alagoas state, crafts songs that are simple, direct, and full of tender nuance. With his first album No Reino Dos Afetos (which translates to "In the Realm of Affections” and was released in 2022), Berle firmly established himself as a unique and important voice in the burgeoning scene of new Brazilian artists making a global impact, including peers like Ana Frango Elétrico, Tim Bernardes, Bala Desejo, Sessa and more. Now back with his second album, No Reino Dos Afetos 2, he stretches that further.

Bruno Berle’s music lives between two worlds – a traditional Brazilian folk talent steeped in history, and a contemporary, dreamy electronic pop; the result is songwriting that’s genre-bending, intentional, iconoclastic and consuming, spacious and sinewy and singular, a striking reflection of its composer while leaving space for the listener to settle in. The album follows Bruno’s relocation to São Paulo, and the songs are a reflection of his past and present. A rebuke of former categorizations of his work in Brazilian music scenes, and an idea of where his music can move, unfettered.

Berle’s music is purposeful in being a true portrait of himself, and a reflection of the music, art, and fashion scenes he personally moves through. Berle aims to provide an entrypoint for Black queer joy in his music, in his storytelling, in his presence and vision as a creative. For him, it feels subversive to be playing MPB laced with dubstep and lo-fi, a sort of intentional sacrilege, capturing a dialogue of modernity in traditional music.

Berle wrote most of the arrangements and co-produced his new album, Reino Dos Afetos 2 with longtime friend and musical partner Batata Boy, who is also from Maceió; the album was recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Maceió, and São Paulo, his new home, and picks up the conversation begun in 2022 on Berle’s debut album No Reino dos Afetos. Both records are the result of a nonlinear but coherent seven-year music creation process culminating in these albums, holding hands across space and time.

“Tirolirole,” the first single from the record, was released at the end of 2023; sun-soaked rhythms and soft voice coat the song, the lilting refrain of “Tirolirole” throughout – hushed, gentle, but somehow almost tactile, a golden-hour moment unlocked in the mind. “Tirolirole” is a triumphant future classic about the temporality of a blossoming love, with Bruno’s stunning vocal soaring over melodies which ebb and flow like the waters on the Atlantic shore. Of the track, Berle explains: “Despite ‘Tirolirole’ being an expression that evokes my childhood, just like the light words about nature, the harmony, and the poetry are epic, carrying a great hope for love.”

In fact, the guiding theme of No Reino dos Afetos 2 is a relationship, unfolding in the arc of a weekend. It traverses the innocence of an early young love, how that can be formative, can stretch on to take new shapes, or shape you. The album happens at the genesis of meeting someone and falling for them, before the relationship is thrown into overdrive – set in a big city, against a backdrop of major life changes, rising energy, the sound of São Paulo.

Something transcendental emerges in “Dizer Adeus,” with an arrangement that echoes a gospel atmosphere (evangelical and Catholic environments were pivotal to Berle’s upbringing). On “É Só Você Chegar,” piano and flute gracefully intertwine, a dance, while “Quando Penso” skews sparser, the voice-and-guitar minimalism somehow cultivating an entirely different shape – somehow both cozy and melancholy, with the background sound of a rainy day. Coupled with the lo-fi aspects that shape much of the album’s personality in the vocals and the production, No Reino Dos Afetos 2 is meticulously elaborated by Berle’s sonic alchemy, like on the mid-album instrumental “Sonho,” which feels like floating. “It’s the apex. It’s when lovers are sleeping together,” Berle explains of the feeling he wanted to encapsulate in the song.

On “Love Comes Back” Berle interprets Arthur Russell, the late Iowa musician who only reached greater visibility after he died in 1992. “His way of making music is similar to mine,” Berle explains. “He sings in a more fragile way, has more of an experimental way of recording, letting ‘chance’ appear in the final work.”

Even so, Berle doesn’t want his music to be buried in sentimentality – and the purposefulness of his craft serves as a sort of north star. The production, the arrangements, his restraint and intentionality in crafting his songs feel just as vital as their emotional cores. His songwriting is amorphous, fluid, an encompassing genre-bending movement in-and-of-itself, quietly daring. The songs are often in conversation with other works – drinking in fountains as diverse as the filmmaking of Ingmar Bergman, the poetry of Walt Whitman, the rhythm of Djavan, and the painting of Maxwell Alexandre. Musically he weaves together a rich tapestry of Brazilian folk, UK 2-step garage/dub, trip hop and sun soaked west coast songwriters; something akin to the worlds of Milton Nascimento, Arthur Russell, James Blake, Feist, and Sade colliding into one. But even then No Reino Dos Afetos 2 floats separately, a romanticism driven by a simplicity and intimacy, an open-ended possibility, Berle’s singularity as an artist at the helm of the ship.

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Renelle 893

Art Thief

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (XL)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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“Talk about a misfit, living in his own world…”

High Focus Records is delighted to announce ‘Art Thief’, the debut album from Renelle 893.

Citing Steve Jobs’ famous use of Picasso’s "Good artists copy, great artists steal” quote as central to the concept, ‘Art Thief’ is the culmination of Renelle’s wide-eyed appreciation of the river of influences that feed into the music he makes. From the trials and tribulations of life in the big smoke, to the grandiose cultural references that contribute to his style, the album is a triple distilled example of taking cues from the world and making them your own.

‘Art Thief’ is also a transformative listen, Renelle embarking on a profoundly personal journey across 14-tracks; addressing love, family, addiction, loyalty, pleasure and pain, each chapter expertly soundtracked by long-time collaborator Bay29. His expert production serving as the glue that binds the deeply personal with the wider narratives amidst a flurry of samples and signature breaks.

With guest appearances from Clbrks, Illiterate and HF’s own Nelson Dialect, ‘Art Thief’ is Renelle’s best attempt (to date) of transcending the rap game; this notion best represented in the album artwork which pays homage to Caravaggio's 'St. Jerome Writing', casting Renelle as both creator and masterpiece.

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Kamasi Washington

Fearless Movement

Moon Safari 25th Anniversary Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago. “Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality—realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.” The album features Washington’s daughter—who wrote the melody to “Asha The First” during some of her first experimentations on the piano—as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more. The album also features “The Garden Path,” a song Washington performed for the first time ever, making his late-night television debut, on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

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AIR

2CD+Blu-Ray | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (We Release Jazz)

Mo Kolours

Original Flow

Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm, 1968 Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Release JAZZ is very happy to announce an exciting new body of work by Joseph Deenmamode aka Mo Kolours. The singular musical spirit’s new 21-track album Original Flow is available as a double LP housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve with original artwork by Mo Kolours himself and the classic WRJ obi strip, as well as in digipack CD and digital formats.

A catalog of critically acclaimed records, including his self-titled debut (2014), ‘Texture Like Like Sun’ (2015), 2018 album ‘Inner Symbols’ and three companion EPs, established Deenmamode as a prodigious musician and vocalist. Pitchfork extolled his “hypnotic, tribal-infused dance grooves”, DJ Mag appreciated the “colourful celebration of soundsystem culture”, and Resident Advisor advocated that “no one sounds quite like Mo Kolours”. Musical analogies were drawn by The Guardian as “The best album Curtis Mayfield never made with A Tribe Called Quest and Lee Perry” and Mojo as “like Marvin Gaye produced by J Dilla”.

Five years ago, Deenmamode moved to the Japanese countryside. Far away from familiarity, he contemplated his place and further questioned his identity. “I had none of my ‘own’ people around. I had time to really find what makes me tick musically. Japan has helped me go back to those subconscious leanings, really go deep, and reflect the aspects that make up my story”.

The tracks on ‘Original Flow’ have been constructed from sessions, improvisations and soundbites captured around the world during this time; collecting contributions from musicians including Deenamode’s brothers Reginald Omas Mamode and Jeen Bassa plus Andrew Ashong, Charles Bullen, Dwaye Kilvington, Eddie Hick, Stefan Asanovic, Myele Manzanza, Ross Hughes, and Tom Dreissler. Deenamode says “I’m proud of this album’s creative process. Coming from a tradition of scouring through hours of records, I wanted to create my own samples, to find that perfect loop that no other producer could put their hands on. I decided to invite a group of friends and acquaintances, who also happen to be incredible musicians, to a studio in Crystal Palace to improvise based on some loose ideas I had. We spent all day, and recorded everything”.

‘Original Flow’ is an album of UK street-soul nouveau, future indigenous jazz fusion, Rasta Segga, Nyahbinghi jazz, Malagasy Hebrew hip hop. While retaining a spirit of exploration and improvisation, it sees Deenmamode grow and flex beyond beat tape brevity, expanding composition and stretching his musical muscle to play live with other musicians. Themes of empowerment, overcoming adversity, and mental liberation coexist with notes from ancient history, futurism, and science, as well as musings on family and togetherness.

‘Magik Momentum’ springs from a discussion that features at the start of the song, an inspiring mentor answering a question from Deenmamode about improvisation and what role it plays in life when planning and manifesting the future. ‘Rockets to Mars’ questions the lack of care for the billions of people with nothing, while governments plan to explore space. “This sparked a comparison in my mind to a Sonny Okuson song that I would reference when performing. Okuson’s song talked of the lack of resources in many communities in the world, while governments go to the moon”.

He says the music behind ‘The News These Days’ is “possibly my favourite on the album”. Looped like he would a late sixty jazz-fusion sample, there was nothing added and the track was complete within a matter of minutes. “It was the first and best moment from the entire Crystal Palace session”, he adds. The album’s contrasting title track with minimal instrumentation played solo by Deenamode. While frustratingly searching for gems in past recordings, he thought in a burst of ego, “I don’t need no-one else to make a dope beat!” picked up his ravanne, (the traditional frame drum of his fathers home-land of Mauritius), pressed record, and started to play. He says, “In my thoughts were the rhythms of the Nubians in Upper-Egypt and Sudan, the swing of the huge drums played by Mauritanian women, of-course the Sega beat of Mauritius, and the ever inspiring beat of James Yancey”.

Driven by UK broken beat, Cuban congas, Nigerian and Mauritian inflections, ‘Love Vibration’ follows the concept that all emotions carry a vibratory frequency and pays homage to the frequency of creation and the power of love. The two part ‘Tatamaka’ tells of the history of Deenmamode’s ancestors, the maroons of Mauritius. “We are people who managed to run from our oppressors and find refuge in a corner of the island called ‘Le Morne’ where they could not reach us. One bloody day they came in numbers to re-capture, to revenge. Many of us chose to jump to our deaths, rather than be taken back into subjugation. The poem by Creole Richard Sedley Assonne says; “there were hundreds of them, but my people, the maroons chose the kiss of death over the chains of slavery”. Tatamaka was the name of a famed maroon leader who was murdered for claiming his, and our people’s freedom. The song is the imagined journey of escape and freedom by an ancestor of the maroons of Le Morne”.

Born in the west midlands and raised on the traditional sega music of his father’s Indian Ocean homeland of Mauritius alongside records by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Santana and Michael Jackson; his influences expanded with late 90s jungle and drum and bass nights in Bristol, experiments at art college in Camberwell, and the rich culture of Peckham, “at the time we called it the Afro Quarters of London” says Deenmamode, adding hip hop, dub, soul and soundsystem styles to his individual sound.

He explains, “I love drum music, from hand-drums to 808s. I love music from the ancient past, heritage music, indigenous music, traditional music passed down from the beginning of time. Music from the body, hand claps, grunts and foot stomps. Music with audible depth, busy, bustling, highly charged. Music from the soul, the music from beyond. I love music from the islands and the mountains. The music of the streets, hustle music, alleyway beats. Club music”.

He describes the creative process as thinking in images. “The visual world and the world of sound seem to intermingle in my thought process. When I play the drum with my eyes closed, a world of imagery dances and moves with beat. Improvised drumming feels like I am listening to what I want to hear, rather than trying to play what I want to hear. Following the rhythm and finding new pathways to walk within the patterns is what I experience. In this way I often feel I am just a listener, instead of the player”.
Original Flow is pressed on biovinyl, a sustainable alternative to traditional vinyl. Biovinyl replaces petroleum in S-PVC by recycling used cooking oil or industrial waste gases, resulting in 100% CO2 savings in bio-based S-PVC production. Furthermore, it is 100% recyclable and reusable, embracing the circular economy ideology.

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The Doors

CD | 2024 | Original (Rhino (Pure))

24,99 €*

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (É Soul Cultura)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Pop

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Previously unissued live radio broadcast from September 20, 1968. Including rare performances of “Mack The Knife,” “Love Street,” and “You’re Lost Little Girl.” It’s a great sounding recording of a great performance of The Doors at their peak

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Transmission Towers

Transmission One

Chuck D & The Spitslam Record Label Group

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Aerials live, dials tuned, Transmission Towers broadcasting. On either side of the river Mersey, transcendental communications are traded back and forth. Two late-night revellers, one firing messages filled with music, the other returning them laced with lyrics. The result, a dopamine hit of oddball machine soul, melded with a highlife, Afrofuturist touch. Wonky and murky yet deeply emotional, Transmission One, is a debut album that also marks the first release on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label, encompassing expertly the off-kilter atmosphere the label sets to orbit.

A synthesised landscape with a Northern charm, Transmission Towers marry the musical worlds of two artists that last collaborated over a decade ago. 10 years have passed, lives have been led, but a gravitational pull has placed Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante back in each other’s spheres on opposite sides of the city of Liverpool. Energised with a newfound desire to strip it all back to the sounds that influenced their formative years in the late ‘80s and ‘90s - astral travelling, intoxicated on Motor City techno, Black Dog IDM and mystical Sun Ra. Mark half Irish, half Greek Cypriot, Eleanor half Nigerian, half Ghanian, the music contained within is an alchemy of those roots and the pivotal acts that buried deep into their minds. A cosmic contrast, part machine-made, part distinctly human. Take the opener ‘up’, an ESG-channelling, sci-fi punk beatdown or the polychromatic hyperspace anthem ‘Roller Skater 23’. Transportive throughout, you ride the solar waves, pace and emotion ebbing and flowing. Tracks like ‘Go Slow Heart’ and ‘Cosmic Trigger’ step to a slower beat but hit with a punch. The former, a slo-mo blast of celestial tenderness, the latter an otherworldly, chugged-out lunar excursion, micro-dosing on whacked-out Wah Wah and Eleanor’s ethereal vocals. Beaming love letters to space and back, ‘Sparse’ marries the organic with the artificial, pianos and percussion circling around synth pads and broadcasting bleeps. Elsewhere, vibrations move faster. ‘Mega’ strikes, fusing sonic tribalism with psychedelic swirls, as ‘Everything’ sweeps you up in its extra-terrestrial new wave grip. Synth stabs and basslines fizzing from every angle. Demos of Transmission Towers music surfaced on Luke Una’s radar, making him stop in his tracks. Something magical was emerging, perfectly aligned with the E Soul guardian’s tastes. Guidance followed, quickly turning into conversations about Transmission One becoming the first release on Luke’s own label. Escapist and futurist yet grounded and relatable. Transmission One is synthesis meets sentiment with a deep, spine-tingling soul at its core.

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Summer Of Hamn (The Official Booktrack)

CD | 2023 | US | Original (The Spitslam)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Prodigal Sunn (Sunz Of Man)

The Spark

CD | 2017 | EU | Original

37,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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I'm Counting On Them Record Store Day 2024 CD Edition

Elvis Presley

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Culture Factory)

28,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live At Tramps Nyc 1996 Record Store Day 2024 Cd Edition

De La Soul

CD | 2004 | US | Reissue (Chrysalis)

21,84 €* 22,99 € -5%

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Text)

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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De La Soul’s Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996 is a time machine for fans old and new. Recorded on May 16, 1996 at New York’s famous Tramps nightclub, the core trio are joined by several guests, including Mos Def, then an unknown property but just about to make his De La debut on Stakes Is High. Common stops by for a pair of tracks, and the Jungle Brothers take the stage for one of the highlights, a reprise of the 1989 single "Buddy." This collection of songs is classic De La Soul: a mixture of thought-provoking lyrics and teenage high jinks. In addition to “Buddy,” it features live performances of “Breakadawn,” “Potholes In My Lawn,” “Me Myself And I” and more.

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Four Tet

Three

CD | 2018 | EU | Original (JWS)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Written and produced by Kieran Hebden. Photography by Jason Evans. Design by Jason Evans and Matthew Cooper.

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Ty Dolla $Ign& DJ Smoke

Dolla Bill

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Efficient Space)

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Someone Like Me