Rolling Reissues 2021

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Live in Brighton 1975 is the second installment of the CAN Live album series. On this particular release, which unfolds over seven sections, listeners are invited to join an interstellar journey: from a rare and evocative Michael Karoli vocal on “Brighton 75 Drei,” to Jaki Liebezeit’s incredible drum lead emerging through a fog of audience noise to take centre stage on “Brighton 75 Vier,” before the final track lands us in an incredible “Vitamin C” jam for “Brighton 75 Sieben.
CD, LP, Digital---more info:
https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-brighton-1975-2

Orders ship from US
digital album releases December 3, 2021
item ships out on or around December 2, 2021

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Telex – This Is Telex
(released April 30)

Telex formed at a time when electronic pop was regarded as novelty, with suspicion, as a harbinger for future dystopia and alienation. This is Telex features singles from across the Belgian synthpop pioneers' career. The collection of newly mixed and remastered tracks includes their best-known work, “Moskow Diskow,” alongside unreleased covers of The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” and Sonny & Cher’s “The Beat Goes On.”

"Delightful...a fine introduction to Telex’s quirky spirit and breezy sound." – PITCHFORK
Stream it here:
https://thisistelex.bandcamp.com/

May have to get this, on CD prob--- all formats"expected 03 Dec.":

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Soul Jazz Records’ classic ‘Studio One Groups’ collection is being re-released in three new one-off limited-edition coloured pressing 15th anniversary format editions!

Firstly a heavyweight special limited edition one-pressing only red 2xLP vinyl + download.

Secondly, there is also a new special limited-edition one-off pressing edition red-pressed CD enclosed in jewel case and slipcase.

And thirdly there is a very limited unique new one-off pressing unique super high-quality RTM tape red cassette format (200 copies only)!
(Fourthly: MP3.)

15 years on from its original release, Studio One Groups remains one of the toughest of all Soul Jazz/Studio One releases and features some of the biggest groups in the history of Reggae music including Bob Marley and The Wailers, Toots and the Maytals and The Heptones who all began their careers at 13 Brentford Road, under the guidance of the great producer and label owner Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd.

Featuring many, many classic and killer tunes from The Wailing Souls, Carlton and His Shoes, The Gladiators, The Ethiopians, The Mad Lads and more. Studio One Groups brings together numerous classic artists alongside a number of rarities and delves into Studio One’s musical output in its prime in the 1960s and 70s featuring Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Dub and more. Clement Dodd’s role in launching and nurturing Reggae groups and singers is unsurpassed and Studio One’s success was due to Dodd’s ability to see talent, surround himself with it and nurture artists.

Launching Bob Marley and The Wailers career at Studio One also meant housing Marley in a flat in the studio compound, as well as employing Marley in an A&R role, checking out the latest American soul and jazz 45s that came out for Studio One artists to cover. In similar fashion Leroy Sibbles, lead vocalist with the Heptones, became the key in-house bass player after being taught from scratch by Jackie Mittoo.

Studio One Groups were at the heart of the label’s success. The sweet three-part harmonies, so close to the heart of Jamaican music, can be heard throughout every stylistic change of Reggae music – Ska, Rocksteady, Roots and beyond - all of which are featured here in all their vocalised glory.

The album comes with excellent informative sleevenotes by the author and Studio One discographer Rob Chapman, and exclusive photography including the stunning colour picture of Bob Marley and the Wailers on the front of the release.

REVIEWS:

‘The Soul Jazz label once again proves how smart they are with excellent Studio One Groups, an almost overwhelming set of killer cuts from bands and singing groups affiliated with Clement Coxsone Dodd’s ‘University of Reggae.’ There’s an amazing, deep history to be explored and even when you focus on just the groups, one disc isn’t enough to tell the whole story, but this collection functions as both a killer mixtape and exciting introduction for novices.’ All Music

‘Featuring Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, the Heptones - just three of reggae’s greatest groups who all started at Clement Dodd’s Studio One records’ Rough Trade
More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/studio-one-groups

^^ Indespensible for lots of reasons but most of all the 12" version of the Silvertones' Cheating and Lying.

was hoping this would get a reissue!

(link appears broken, FYI - likely temporary)

That link is still broken, but this one works:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/studio-one-gro

Well, now it doesn't! Seems like the best way is to the site search Studio One Groups.

Here's some more:

Essiebons Special 1973 – 1984: Ghana Music Power House
Various Artists
ANALOG AFRICA

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2×LP£29.00
In stock
CD + Book (200g)£20.00
In stock

1. Kofi Psych - Ernest Honny
2. Dee Mmaa Pe - Joe Meah
3. Yeaba - CK Mann & His Carousel 7
4. Shakabula - Santrofi-Ansa
5. Tinitini - Seaboy & Nyame Bekyere
6. Ahwene Pa Nkasa - Joe Meah
7. Ernest Special - Ernest Honny
8. Africa - Seaboy
9. Medley - Nyame Bekyere
10. Say The Truth - Ernest Honny
11. Wonnin a Bisa - Black Masters Band
12. Egye Tu Gbe - Sawaaba Soundz
13. Fa W‘akoma Ma Me - CK Mann Big Band
14. Odo Mframa - Ernest Honny

For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie's Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a who's-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Papa Yankson, Ernest Honny, Rob 'Roy' Raindorf and Ebo Taylor all released some of their greatest music under the Essiebons banner.

Essiebons Special features a selection of obscure workouts from some of the label's heaviest hitters. But in the course of digitising his vast archive of master tapes, Essilfie-Bondzie found a number of Afrobeat and Instrumental masterpieces tracks from the label's mid-70s golden age that, for one reason or another, had never been released. Those songs are included here for the first time.

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/essiebons-special-197

Wow, that one's messed up too! I swear the page exists. Maybe this computer? Not having trouble with links to other sites, though.

Meanwhile

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Life Between Islands
Soundsystem Culture : Black Musical Expression In The UK 1973 - 2006
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
3×LP£28.00
Expected 28 JanPREORDER
2×CD£13.00
Expected 28 JanPREORDER
1. Black Slate – Sticks Man
2. Dee Sharp – Rising To The Top
3. Asher Senator – One Bible
4. Cymande – Fug
5. Digital Mystikz – Misty Winter
6. Winston Curtis – Be Thankful For What You've Got
7. Trevor Hartley – It Must Be Love
8. Shut Up and Dance featuring The Ragga Twins – Java Bass
9. Brown Sugar – Black Pride
10. The Terrorist – RK1
11. Black Harmony – Don't Let It Go To Your Head
12. Pebbles – Positive Vibrations
13. The Ragga Twins – Ragga Trip
14. Janet Kay and Alton Ellis – Still In Love
15. Funk Masters – Love Money
16. Cosmic Idren – Compelled
17. Harry Beckett – No Time For Hello
18. Sandra Reid – Ooh Boy
19. Tabby Cat Kelly – Don't Call Us Immigrants
20. Brown Sugar – I'm In Love With A Dreadlocks

Soul Jazz Records new ‘Life Between Islands’ collection coincides with the launch of Tate Britain’s exhibition of the same name. This landmark exhibition explores the links between Caribbean and British art and culture from the 1950s to now.

Soul Jazz Records album, sub-titled “Soundsystem Culture – Black Musical Expression 1973-2006,” focuses on the most important Black British musical styles to emerge out of the distinctly Caribbean world of sound systems. The album features an all-star line-up including Dennis Bovell, Shut Up and Dance, Cymande, Digital Mystikz, Brown Sugar, Funk Masters, Janet Kay, Ragga Twins and more.

The album is a lightning-rod journey across Roots Reggae, Jungle/Drum & Bass, Jazz-Funk, Lovers Rock, Jazz, Dubstep and more. Much of Soul Jazz Records’ catalogue comes out of these genres and this album is partly an overview of some of Soul Jazz’s earlier releases (including Digital Mystikz’ long-deleted groundbreaking and now highly-collectible single, ‘Misty Winter’) alongside some choice rare and classic tunes that span over 30 years of sound system culture.

Many of the tracks represent how Black British artists defined their own identity with songs such as Brown Sugar’s righteous ‘Black Pride’, ‘I’m In Love with A Dreadlocks’ and Tabby Cat Kelly’s powerful ‘Don’t Call Us Immigrants’. Aside from being musically rooted in the distinctly Jamaican-born phenomenon of the sound system, much of this identity is also shaped by the triangular relationship of being British-born, of Caribbean heritage, and with an equal love of African-American Jazz, Funk and Soul, as evidenced with many Lovers Rock tunes reggae covers of American soul tunes (such as those of Jean Carn, William de Vaughan and Rose Royce featured here). This stateside influence can also be heard in groups such as the Funk Masters, a group formed by reggae radio DJ Tony Williams, whose jazz-funk music successfully crossed over into New York’s clubland, as well as the great Cymande, whose unique street-funk became staple material for numerous US hip-hop artists in the years that followed.

In the early 1990s, jungle and drum and bass artists took the essence of reggae’s soundsystem culture – MCs, dubplates, crews – and applied them to their own music, applying heavy reggae bass lines to intense double-speed drum breakbeats. At the forefront of this new movement were the duo Shut Up and Dance, working closely with The Ragga Twins, aka Deman Rocker and Flinty Badman, both MCs for North London’s infamous Unity reggae soundsytem. In the early 2000s, dubstep, spearheaded by Digital Mystikz, became the latest instalment in this ever-evolving soundsystem culture.

Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Life Between Islands’ shows how these many styles are interconnected. The album comes as a heavyweight triple vinyl (+ download), deluxe double CD with slipcase and digital release. Lloyd Bradley (author of the classic book on reggae ‘Bass Culture’, and ‘Sounds Like London’), provides the excellent sleevenotes, which are also accompanied with exclusive and striking photography.

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"There is probably no better or more appropriate way to celebrate the Tate Britain’s exhibition, Between the Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, than with an accompanying compilation album. As with the art itself, music has all the possibilities to reflect its surroundings through an array of lenses limited only by the creator’s imagination. Hence this astutely conceived and compiled soundtrack is as beautiful and as varied as the art itself, offering stories of immigration and settlement that can exist without filters or outside interference, providing a vivid snapshot of one of the cornerstones of black British culture.” Lloyd Bradley

Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now is at Tate Britain 1 Dec 2021 until 3 April 2022.

Basil Kirchin
Abstractions Of The Industrial North
TRUNK RECORDS

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10"£20.00
In stock
1. Prelude & Dawn
2. Heart Of The North
3. The Observer
4. Conclusion
5. Neutral Background
6. Reflection
7. Packing Printing & Light Assembley
8. Research Laborator
9. Communication
10. Lunch Hour Pops
11. Heavy Machinery
12. Mind On The Run
13. Where To Go
14. Paranoia
15. Two And Two Are One (part 1)
16. Viva Tamlin Motown
17. The Lonely Ones
18. Pageing Sullivan
19. Interaction
20. Four Against Seven
**Repressed in replica 10" De Wolfe sleeve!**

Haunting melancholic, deep, avant garde British jazz from 1966 by the legend of British library music, Basil Kirchin!

Smog Veil Going Out of Business sale update:
To check links for these, view this as Webpage:
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Smog Veil Clearing The Air #180
December 2021

FINAL SALE! NEW WAREHOUSE FINDS!
continues until 12/31 only
55% off ALL releases on our site!
FREE U.S. SHIPPING

Thank you fans for the amazing response to our closing shop 55% OFF FINAL SALE!

We couldn't have made it this far if it wasn't for the fans, our team, and the amazing musicians that you've listened to on record and on stage. We hope over the years we kept your toes tapping!

While supplies last, everything on the Smog Veil web site is now 55% off! PLUS: free shipping in the USA!

Act quick, sales limited to supplies on hand and prior sales excluded! SALE STARTS NOW AND ENDS on December 31, 2021.

Please note that all of the Peter Laughner box sets are sold out. You may still find them in the wild at your favorite record shop, online retailer, or by download and stream.

NO CODES NEEDED! DISCOUNT TAKEN AT CHECKOUT: 55% OFF THESE TITLES as well as ALL in-stock Smog Veil titles, HERE's LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE HAVE REMAINING IN STOCK:

WAREHOUSE FINDS--VERY FEW OF THESE REMAIN:

Easter Monkeys "Splendor of Sorrow" CD/DVD

Pagans "Blue Album" CD **NEW FIND!**

Guns double LP retrospective **NEW FIND!**

x_x "Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto" LP

REGULAR STOCK, ACT QUICK FIRST COME FIRST SERVED ON THESE TITLES:

ADELE BERTEI'S PETER and the WOLVES book

CLEVELAND STEAMERS:
"Best Record Ever" LP
"Who's Next" CD
"Terminal" LP or CD
"Mega MAGA Moron" 7"

Chris Butler "Got It Togehter" CD

Ralph Carney & Chris Butler "Songs for Unsung Holidays" LP

Lair Matic Assembly 7"

Pink Holes 7" (pink vinyl, note that orange vinyl copies are sold out)

Mr Stress Blues Band "Live at the Brick Cottage 1972-1973" LP

Obnox "Bang Messiah" CD

Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival" LP

If a link doesn't work, that means the release is sold out.

Thanks everyone, enjoy the holiday weekend!

Pretty sure it's their third album, not their second, but anyway, rejoice:

Australian trio Dirty Three began astounding / confounding listeners in 1992 and have not let up since. Violinist Warren Ellis (who is also a member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds), guitarist Mick Turner and drummer's drummer Jim White make wholly unique post-rock that is as beautiful as it is unsettling.

Originally released in 1996, Horse Stories is Dirty Three's second album and arguably their best. Like the soundtrack to a postmodern Western, these wistful and feedback-ridden instrumentals are simply gripping.

Touch & Go's limited 25th Anniversary Edition surely won't last long. Don't sleep.

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/touch-go/products/dirty-three-horse-stories-2xlp?mc_cid=a00eca4a6f&mc_eid=0f24ac7b12

xp Reading Peter and the Wolves right now (and listening to the Laughner box) and I'd highly recommend, she's a great writer. Look forward to reading Why Labelle Matters, her other book.

Fuck yes, Dead Magick is shipping!