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A1 Bakked - Deal1
B1 Cristian Sarde - Down On Beat

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A collection of early beat creations from DETROIT'S J DILLA aka JAY DEE (circa 95-98). Originally recorded to cassette now remastered for a special vinyl release. The 928 LP includes 14 raw tracks in a magnificent jacket of artwork perfect for any collection. More copies now back in stock.

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Another collection of early cassette recordings from J DILLA feat. more raw unreleased DILLA originals. "GENIUS" includes 13 remastered tracks showcasing DILLA's sonic growth in the late 90s--including some with him rhyming (not just beats). Full picture sleeve.

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"Dark moody vocals meet super disco beats: This is what it sounds like when pioneering DJ and producer Jens Mahlstedt invites Saâda Bonaire over to his studio.

Stephanie Lange and Claudia Hossfeld, the original singers of legendary Eighties band Saâda Bonaire, plus founding member Ralph “von” Richthoven are teaming up four decades later for two very special takes on “You Could Be More As You Are”. Out now, exclusively on twelve inch vinyl."



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The late great Cosmic AC's vast catalogue again yields some posthumous treasure with part two of the For Now album. It's another record that is as sophisticated as it is adventures with plenty of painstakingly crafted but effortless smooth breakbeats on 'Larvy' topped with pensive synths. Elsewhere there are logic-defying rhythm structures on 'Snood', hooky synth shimmers and more raw textures on 'Wisconsin Desert' and jazzy, cosmic motifs on the wonderful 'Setting Sun'. This is a high-class mini-album full of next-level sound designs and turbo-brain drum patterns. It makes for a compelling listen wherever you may be.

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Now and again, an album project with no home comes along out of the blue, demanding to be licensed and shared with the world.

It was unearthed on one of Paper's digging trips. BOM's album sounded like nothing else out there, only the future. Shrouded in mystery and country-of-origin unknown, Africa runs through its DNA, but sometimes mysteries are best left...

Ase - a Yoruba philosophy signifying the power that makes things happen and produces change; given to Gods, ancestors, spirits, humans, animals, plants, rocks, rivers, songs and prayers.
BOM takes influence from all corners of Africa and its diaspora, blending them with 25 years of Western electronic music into a melange of forward facing, leftfield afro futurism.
The album features one of Africa's brightest rising stars, Luka Productions (from Mali), cosmic poet Sirius Rush (UK) and master drummer & vocalist Felix Ngindu (DRC/Liverpool) for a journey into kaleidoscopic Afro-tech funk. Gqom, Shangaan electro and township funk rub shoulders with hip-hop, bass, deep house and dub for a psychedelic celebration of collaboration and possibility.

As geographical and musical barriers are broken down, BOM's 'Ase' album is leading the charge; London to Lagos, Lisbon to Sao Paulo, Bamako to Berlin, BOM captures the sound of the underground.

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6 track EP from the great TBZ on his own private imprint. Bringing the computer syntheses un-realness on this one - still allowing the record to hum with the fresh low slung flavors we love him for..

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A1 Cristian Sarde - Love Tea
B1 Bakked - Effect171

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Noise, art, experimental music band Gray, founded by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1979, has released their 2nd album titled, “Last of the Beats,” a reference to the lyrical poetry featured on the album, inspired by the likes of Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs (Gray's first album was “Shades Of…,” released in 2010, a true collector's item today). Original Gray members Nick Taylor and Michael Holman conceived of this sonic and verbal work of conceptual and intellectual beauty, knowing they would be collaborating with a variety of celebrated musicians and lyricists, including: James Lavelle of U.N.K.L.E. (and Mo'Wax Records); writer and Downtown New York editor Glenn O’Brien of GQ and Interview magazines; Spike Lee actor and spoken word artist Roger Guenveur Smith; music producer and Digable Planets' DJ King Britt; John Cale Band and Andre 3000 drummer Deantoni Parks; legendary Hip Hop music producer Arthur Baker; “The Widow Basquiat” Suzanne Mallouk; 1970s New York scenester and poet Victoria Galves; with liner notes written by famed American art critic Carlo McCormick

Carlo McCormick Liner Notes:

These grooves are the product of stealth engineering, improvised like an assassination five years in the planning, a conspiracy of creativity meant to slip in the truth while savoring the fiction. It's impossible to fathom just how hard it is to make something so easy, to instill endless complication within eloquent simplicity, to tear the whole damn thing down so that the jagged broken parts actually fit back together, but the slack laidback beauty of Gray is that they are not in any rush, like the slo-mo suspension of time in our hyperaware perceptions before sudden and inevitable impact, this is the sound of deceleration, an unwinding that takes your breath away.

To the last of the beats, here's the last of the at last, the song of the swan to the unborn, the clinging desire of the last dance, the just deserts of a last meal, what adheres grasping and gasping at the edge of forgetting like the muscle memory of a dream. Track by track, Gray excavate the senses and sensibilities of forlorn fables, the heroic slipping off crumbling pedestals, a city of need revamped as a city of greed, the light flickering, overcome by shadows, places and times conjured like a sonic psychogeography of passing and absence.

Their music has traveled a very long way to reach our ears, rewritten, rerecorded, recollected, remastered and renegotiated over and again by two artists, in constant dialog, spaced out in deep focus, a four-legged split personality in dogged single pursuit to somehow get it right. You can hear that distance in these songs, the harmonics of process like a reverberant echo, the undertow of an undertone, the taste of ripening.

Only the truly young can hear the ghosts singing, but it takes an old kind of wisdom to make out their words. That's the post-modern contradiction of this band; where novelty sounds classic and stories unfold as allegories of metaphors, landing from far away with undiminished urgency. Two guys, Michael Holman and Nick Taylor, stubborn enough to forge their own musical tempest apart from the meddling, marketing and machinations of any music industry, yet slick enough to enlist an unimaginably brilliant cast of collaborators, Gray is the carefully curated composition of a community, the common sound of disparate voices, the mix of the melting pot, the noise of incompatible agreements. Pastiche and pluralism, it's a collage cut up and still bleeding, the angry graffiti on a wall of sound, the melodies that linger like a sweet aftertaste of lazy pleasures, the battle cry of the vanquished sounded in the survivors' silence, the dance of the reckless to the tempo of an impending disaster, the tone of resistance in a note of rebellion, the voices of visionaries talking over, and under, the din of time's cruel march, correspondences rich and textured in a lost chord yet to be fully decoded. The references are dizzying, disorienting and defiant to the reductions of genre, chaotic and unruly dissonance given rhyme and reason, blues with a beat, art with a purpose, lyrics that bruise, the sound of repercussion struck with a vengeance. This music is so stone cold cool it's hot to the touch;deep downtown and dirty like a lethal seduction, a collective memory that needs no introduction.

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A Powerful Dancefloor Anthem Unleashed.
For Promotion Lemon Use Only. Only Vinyl.

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Revised 8 track version of Maria Somerville's much lorded debut album. Features and additonal cut 'Lakes' - a 5+ minute blown out instrumental record live on tour in 2019.

" Stirring and beautiful songs, with a consistent optimism underlying even the murkiest of moments."

Recorded in Connemara and Dublin. Mixed by Brendan Jenkinson. Mastered by The Bastard.

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Javi, a Spanish producer based in London, has predominantly kept his work under wraps bar a digital self-release and a few dub plates sporadically hand-distributed to a select few friends. His first physical release takes the form of a biopic in sound, encapsulating the past decade he spent in London across four distinct tracks.Side A opens with Medway to Old Ford, inspired by early 2000s tech-house; the rhythm and bass set the mood for a solid warm-up. Followed up with Eyelash (Electro Mix), a versatile DJ tool combining breakbeat and electro with a cheeky twist. On the flip side, Future Drive is a bouncy number with swirling arpeggiated melodies and a deep, pulsating bass. The EP closes with Shifting Reality, an Italo-disco tune with melancholic harmonies that pays homage to the early electronic scene of Valencia, Spain.

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The follow up to Deep Heavy Fear's Saâda Bonaire-produced single Dark Days, Doorway sees the group continue its hand-played versus programmed journey into the realms of dance pop. The title track takes a non-linear venture into 9/8 to the floor vocal Balearic/dub territory, via impressions, illusions and misrepresentations, to the reverse - Cherries delivers a simpler, but no less appealing cut, down a classic pop path with tolling guitars and striking percussion. Once again self-pressed & presented in a hand-printed & numbered multi-colour sleeve, designed by vocalist Chloe Grove.

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On the find list of many vinyl aficionados, this VITAMIN D produced funk jam, initially on the CHERRIES label is back after 13 years. Remastered with instrumental and acapella versions. On the B-side is another funk ditty titled "I LIKE," alongside "MAKE IT BETTER" feat. DAHLIAM. 7 tracks in all. Fans of his releases on STAR CREATURE & ALL NATURAL should dig this. Full pic sleeve.

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A modern day mashup classic from AMERIGO GAZAWAY that takes the Afrobeat rhythms and music of FELA KUTI and mixes it with the rap stylings of DE LA SOUL. Awesome.

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Tracklisting
A1 Wagon Christ - Planet Roll
A2 Wagon Christ - Snatch
A3 Wagon Christ - Get It?
A4 Wagon Christ - Boy Zero
B1 Wagon Christ - Bitch (Original Ruler)
B2 Wagon Christ - I'm Sorry
B3 Wagon Christ - Can't Stop (Don't Stop)
B4 Wagon Christ - Supagroovy
C1 Wagon Christ - THIS
C2 Wagon Christ - Boom Bip
C3 Wagon Christ - Acid
C4 Wagon Christ - Housin'
D1 Wagon Christ - Sidney Groovey
D2 Wagon Christ - Unsure
D3 Wagon Christ - Style
D4 Wagon Christ - Wake Up

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Welcome aboard captain, long-serving funkadelic maestro Luke Vibert returns to De:tuned with his first new Wagon Christ album in 5 years entitled 'Planet Roll'. Genre-bending as ever, this 16 track collection of electronic lushness sees Luke creating his own innovative take on a multi-diverse sonic world interspersed with rare breakbeats and groovy melodies. Expertly executed by a true pioneer of electronic music. Lay back and see you in an hour!

Animation Director and Illustrator Celyn Brazier created all the graphic work. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis. A separate digital release will also be available at the usual digital shops. Stay tuned!

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Mysticisms’ Dubplate series returns by bringing Nick Barber aka 90s Trance icon Doof, to the label, releasing a selection of previous digital only dub recordings for the first time on to vinyl.

Recorded straight to tape and remixed and live dubbed on the desk, the tracks have been remastered from the original tapes by Nick, bringing the recordings back to life. Best known as Doof, Nick was a pioneer of the early Trance explosion, his debut EP on Mute Record subsidiary, Novamute, placed him at the forefront on the burgeoning scene. Further EPs followed, including on Youth’s seminal Dragonfly label and the infamous TIP Records.

After his 1996 debut album became of the defining albums of the early Psy-Trance sound, Doof toured extensively across the globe from Brazil to Japan. During this time, he began experimenting with his love of dub. “Chill Out” or downtempo had long been part of the Acid-House and later Trance experience, with the merging of Dub influences with Ambient and Psychedelic elements propagating the evolving Digi Dub sound .

It is here, that Love Dub So emerges. Recorded as much for personal pleasure, with some appearing on compilation CDs of the time, a "Best Of" album was eventually released on Dubmission in 2010. By now, becoming disillusioned with the electronic scene, Nick explored his acoustic recordings inspired by his experiences in medicine ceremonies, however his Dub recordings were not lost. Working with Mysticisms to create the next Dubplate, four of his experiments are presented.

Featuring his classic Baba, Love Dub So, here he has crafted a new live dub mix especially for this vinyl cut. Based on the infamous Baby I Love You So riddim from Augustus Pablo’s 1974 production for Jacob Miller – itself utilising Herman Chin-Loy's "Jah Jah Dub” from the previous year – the song went on to become a classic, famously covered Dennis Brown and inspirationally, Colourbox, Doof’s version brings it all up to date with a wonderful extended Ambient to 4/4 Dub remake.

Accompanying is the Trip-Hop Dub of Mantra. A time-capsule of that late 90s “Dopes on Plastic”” remembrance. Bringing the 4/4 kick back on the flip is Skunked On Planet Dub, a smoke-infused, hot London Summers days, the real Digi Dub groove laying a laid back bounce that twists and turns the roach.

Sticks And Stones completes the Dubplate vinyl, a Dub House "drum and bass" overlaid with Psychedelic oscillations and Acid wiggle that never fails. Doof by name, Dubplate by nature.

Love The Mystery.

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kuniyuki takahashi—one of japan’s leading, if not the world’s most remarkable producers—originally released his debut album we are together on cd in 2006. nearly two decades later, the album is finally seeing a vinyl release to commemorate the 300th title from mule musiq. “kuni is a true artist an artist that i love and respect. his music displays true emotion and life and when i listen to his music i can feel his soul but most importantly it’s his own music. kuni thank you for giving our planet your music,spirit and heart peace, love and respect” joaquin joe claussell

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Celebrated DJ, producer, and sonic explorer Auntie Flo (aka Brian d’Souza) — described by The Guardian as “one of global club culture’s most vital voices” — returns this autumn with ‘Birds of Paradise’: a rhythmically rich, emotionally resonant, and ecologically grounded new album, out 23 October via his A State of Flo imprint. The album will be launched with a special live show at London’s Jazz Caféon the same day. ‘Birds of Paradise’ draws on d’Souza’s global club experience while deepening his connection with the natural world. Built around classic Roland drum machines and iconic vintage synths, the record is a joyful, body-driven celebration of rhythm and movement, but one grounded in ecology and place. The album’s spiritual centre lies in Saligao, Goa, near d’Souza’s maternal homeland where his Auntie Florie (where the name is derived from) is buried. Where he found his ‘paradise’ nearby, staying in a converted fisherman’s hut and recorded dawn choruses from a riverside studio overlooking mangrove-lined waters. Environmental textures from Japan also make their way into the music, creating a sonic map rooted in lived experience. “Birds of Paradise is about finding beauty and rhythm in a chaotic world. It’s about listening, to nature, to our bodies, to what’s real. It’s a reminder that dance music can be both joyful and grounded.” The album blends Afro-Latin polyrhythms with Western 4/4 patterns, fusing instinctive, dancefloor energy with field recordings that anchor the music in the earth. Described by d’Souza as “tropical with a few deeper edges, a balance of light and dark.”

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From the vaults of Strickly Rhythm.

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