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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 13th December

This week for new releases we have a great new album from London soul singer Lynda Dawn called 11th hour, a fantastic album with a brilliant retro soul feel that is in very high demand and very low in supply so make sure you act quick! There is a wicked 7 inch from Eugene Smiley, courtesy of Miles Away Records, a very rare in demand 45 in the collectors scene with a big dancer on the A side and nice stepper on the B. There is also a lovely Christmas album from jazz harpist Amanda Whiting and finally a new...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 6th December

There are some great albums, reissues and restocks this week. Emilia Sisco has released a few 45s previously but now releases her debut album 'Introducing Emilia Sisco' featuring Cold Diamond and Mink and it's a very good retro soul set and on a similar tip to the Penrose Showcase vol 2, which gets a release on black vinyl and a full sleeve. Marion Meadows returns with another smooth jazz album and Ruby Rushton has a 10" EP. There are three Sergio Mendes reissues, Johnny Hammond 'Gears' 180gm on Jazz Dispensary (very limited), Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson on Acoustic Sounds...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 29th November

There are some great releases, reissues and restocks this week. Today as you are probably aware is Black Friday RSD and we have 40+ exclusive vinyl editions for the day available in store and online from 8am tomorrow. You can see the list of titles that we have here. There are some great soul reissues including Gil Scott Heron, Gloria Scott, Rhyze, The O'Jays, WAR,  Larry Saunders ,Isaac Hayes , Bill Withers and more, Jazz titles from Bill Evans, Monica Linges, Sun Ra , Chales Tolliver, Joe Bataan , Herbie Hancock and more, plus hip hop from NAS, Dead Prez...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 22nd November

Some good new releases, reissues and restocks this week. We have a new 45 from Elijah Baker plus the new album from Michael Kiwanuka 'Small Changes'. There is a great batch of new reissues in too this week on both the jazz and soul front. There is 'Goldenwings' the 2014 album from Brazillian jazz group Opa, plus McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson's live album 'Force Of Nature' (LP has arrived, CD due in next week). Other great reissues with the likes of Nina Simone's 'Baltimore', Freddie Roach, 'Brown Sugar', Black Nasty, and Isaac Hayes, all getting 180g analogue reissues. There...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 15 November

There are some interesting new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Roy Ayers Ubiquity first album gets a 180gm reissue on Elemental who also have reissued two classic Wes Mongomery albums . The Chi-Lites 'A Lonely Man' which includes their versions of 'Inner City Blues' and 'Living In The Footsteps' has a welcome re-issue on Brunswick/ORG. There are some classic Blue Note reissues from Duke Pearson, Dexter Gordon plus Blue vinyl Herbie Hancock and Grant Green. There are quite a few nice Soul 45s , three good titles on Numero and two on Ace's new Soul Harmony subsidiary. Pre-order for 30th...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 8th November

There are some interesting new releases, reissues and restocks this week. The Diplomats of Soul cover Weldon Irvine/Don Blackman 'I Love You' on a limited edition 45 available as regular dinked or full centre DJ copy.  Thee Sacred Souls also have a new 45. Gary Bartz has an unreleased live album from '75 and Roland Haynes jr an unreleased jazz-funk album (sounds a little like James Mason in places). There are good reissues from Antonia Carlos Jobim, Pharoah Sanders ,Cannonball Adderley/Sergio Mendes , Four Mints plus restocks of many great titles on LP and CD including a couple from Quincy Jones who...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 1st November

There are some nice reissues and restocks this week. There are two good compilations on BGP 'This is Retro Soul 1969-79' and 'This is the Breaks 1965-1975' which contain many in demand and classic tracks. There is also a nice comp of Isaac Hayes singles from 69-72, and the latest two Blue Note tone poet albums from Bobby Hutcherson and Cliff Jordan. Ace have some nice 45 reissues, two on the City label, one deep soul and a couple of classic Mirwood northern soul sides back to back. Preorder for a new limited edition Diplomats of Soul 45 cover of...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 25th October

There are some great new releases and reissues this week. Angela Johnson teams up with Opolopo for the 'Best of Both Worlds' on Reel People music. Marvin Gaye's Mizell brothers-produced 'Where Are We Going' and 'Woman Of The World' make their 7" debut on Expansion available as a regular dinked or full centre DJ Copy 45. Don Blackman's classic early 80's rare groove and boogie album is reissued on coloured vinyl as are Benny Golson's 'I'm Always Dancing To The Music' and Ray Barretto's 'La Cuna'. James Brown's Funky People Volume 1 and 2 are reissued as double LPs, and...