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Regarded as one of hip-hop’s most introspective and insightful artists, Mos Def has shaped a career that transcends music genres and artistic medium. With the release of 1998 single, "Universal Magnetic," Mos became an underground favorite in the hip-hop

Rainbow Connection is the 49th studio album, released in 2001, by American country music singer Willie Nelson. It contains tracks such as “Rainbow Connection” and “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover.” Available on 180g black vinyl.

Back home where it belongs, the music of Frank Zappa is now back in the hands of the Zappa Family Trust. To celebrate this, the estate has signed a global license and distribution deal with Universal Music Enterprises to release 60 of the iconic composer'

In 1969, after The Mothers of Invention disbanded, Frank Zappa released his groundbreaking solo debut, Hot Rats. Fusing jazz and rock, the innovative album became one of the artist's bestselling releases, thanks to classic tracks like "Peaches En Regalia"

The Tragically Hip's best-selling greatest hits compilation, Yer Favourites, will be available on vinyl for the first time ever in June 2023. Originally released digitally and as a two-CD set in November 2005, Yer Favourites, for which tracks were selecte

Makoto Kubota’s first solo album while he was with Hadaka No Rarīzu. Co-produced with Masataka Matsutoya. Performed by Katsuo Ohno, Hiroki Komazawa, Yoma Fujita, Tsugutoshi Goto, and others, in addition to Matsutoya and Hiroshi Segawa in the chorus.

Drummer Akira Ishikawa played an immense role in the development of jazz rock in Japan. He created many works, but among them, his record “Bakimba-His African Memories”, recorded in 1970, has a special presence due to its content and rarity.

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Arguably Jay-Z's finest piece of recorded work, 2001's The Blueprint is officially where the Brooklyn-born rapper became the heavyweight champ of the hip hop game. Produced primarily by Kanye West and Just Blaze and featuring only one guest appearance by

Yokobue player Michiko Akao’s 1983 publication “Yokobue: Michiko Akao’s World”, which was also published in the “New Age Music Disc Guide” (published by DU BOOKS), is reproduced for the first time! A new age work that greatly transcends the realm of pure

Almost 20 years into his distinguished solo career, which started with 1984's gold-selling, widely lauded Brilliant Trees, David Sylvian released Blemish as his first solo album to appear on his Samadhisound label. The album first appeared digitally in 20

Manafon, released in 2009, was David Sylvian's second solo album for his own Samadhisound label, described by the artist as "a modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical." It was recorded during sessions in London, Vi

Released in 1965, Rubber Soul signified a sea change for the Beatles. The record marked the emergence of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s distinctive identities as songwriters. It featured an original (“Nowhere Man”) that went beyond the band’s commonplac

The Tragically Hip release a standalone vinyl 2LP edition of Live At The Roxy which was previously only included in the Road Apples 30th Anniversary Deluxe package. Originally recorded on May 3, 1991, at the iconic Los Angeles venue for a Westwood One rad

The iconic 1971 release gets expanded for its 50th Anniversary! Featuring the original single LP newly remastered with two additional vinyl discs of period-perfect vintage mixes from the Vault. Includes the John Lennon and Yoko Ono encore and the original

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‘Saskadelphia’ was the working title for an intended Tragically Hip double album release of Road Apples. It spoke the amount of live shows the band were doing at the time - they never knew if they were going to be in Saskatchewan or Phi

Just a year after the acclaimed release of her debut album Dry (1992), PJ Harvey returned with the art-punk classic Rid Of Me which pushed the genre and listener to extremes and yielded the singles "50ft Queenie" and "Man-Size." Alternating between searin

Compare Spirit of Eden with any other previous release in the Talk Talk catalog, and it's almost impossible to believe it's the work of the same band -- exchanging electronics for live, organic sounds and rejecting structure in favor of mood and atmospher

Back in 1971, Coming From Reality was Rodriguez's last gasp, the follow-up to Cold Fact and the final album he was allowed to record for the Sussex label. Designed at the time as Rodriguez's vision of a perfect pop album, Coming From Reality found the mys

It's one of the lost classics of the ‘60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in color and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what's more intriguing is that its maker, a shadowy figure known as Rodriguez, was for many

remastered from the original analogue master tapes by original sound engineer john wood at abbey road studios! pink moon, nick drake’s third and final album, was originally released on island records in 1972 and is the record that made him the cult figure