9 afrobeat gems on 180 gram vinyl.

the greatest hits from australian band mental as anything on red and white double vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.

repress :) sakanat studio crew from egypt presents their brand new label sakanat records.

reissue of the 1976 album from paul mccartney’s band wings. remastered at abbey road studios, pressed on audiophile 180 gram triple vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with souvenir tour poster included.

the mabon dawud republic, hungary s first all-star progressive afrobeat ensemble started as the fela kuti tribute band for the very first felabration event in budapest, organised by the band itself and joined by fela s original egypt 80 band member, keyboard player and singer dele sosimi. given the member s love for afrobeat, the jamming soon evolved into a project of their own songs. their republic is a place filled with the soul-warming vibes of a 15 piece orchestra, a place for dancers, a place to escape from the outside world and enjoy the magic that is unfolding on stage. the mabon dawud feeling is delivered to you by professional musicians who are also members of other well known hungarian underground acts, such as: the qualitons, soulclap budapest, sena live band, etc. budabeats records is proud to release their first ever record on 7- vinyl single with two heavy afrobeat cuts.

sami baha is a turkish producer based in south east london. his music was introduced to the world via his 2016 ep “mavericks” (planet mu), recorded while he was moving from istanbul to london where he’s now been living the last 3 years. sami got into producing through being a rapper himself, working with local rappers in turkey and producing beats for them, before setting his sights outside the country.
while his first record was focused around a more familiar trap based hiphop sound, “free for all” expands its range into more unfamiliar territory and also brings his production into focus by featuring a number of mcs from all corners of the globe: uk drill squad 67’s dimzy, stockholm’s yung lean and chicago rapper and singer dj nate (aka flexxbabii) who’s previously recorded on planet mu as a footwork producer. the record also features the rowdy sing-song of egyptian mcs dawsha and abanob from cairo whom sami met while on tour in egypt.

first album of modogsta, the alliance of three producers, dj mofak, dogg master & busta brown.

known for his work under many mysterious aliases (donnie tempo for larry heard’s alleviated records among the most noted), deep sided’s blank transit ep originally appeared on now-defunct chicago deep in 1999. black orpheus brings you an amended reissue, freshly remastered by beau at ten eight seven.

emotional response starts 2017 with a mini-album of ambient-equatorial enlightenment by australia s mysterious tropical hi-fi. the final record from an artist appearing on the label s first schleiben series, this also points to the future. based somewhere in the far flung northern territories, the music of hi-fi s pre-incarnation electric egypt was first discovered via the note-worthy airwaves of l.a s outstanding dublab radio station.

second installment of spanish imprint de profundiis, this time signed by madrid s duo uanamani in which they tell us a musical story about the mysterious underground labyrinth of hawara. a gigantic ancient construction underneath a necropolis in the region of el fayum, egypt. quoted by many chroniclers of antiquity, is believed to be a monument of colossal dimensions, and probably the key that would prove the existence of an unknown precedent civilization with a few vestiges around the area.
the record is focused around 4 subterranean tracks which alternate between intense moments of epic mythology and more ambiental and introspective passages, with sound artifacts found in the various secret chambers and pharaonic tombs. a journey with analogic vs digital rhythms, dreamy pads, minimalistic and ritual details, enigmatic drones, mummified keys and synths submerged in millennial history and archaic poetry. an experience for the intrepid travelers of the past and future times.
hand-stamped white label release.

not much is known about blufrank other than that he hails from egypt, home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations with a sacred affinity for astronomy. two sides of twisted electronica and neo-psychedelia for the midnight hour.

al massrieen: disco, funk and modernized arabic pop from egypt. the vinyl release includes a download code.

fine announce their second release from tilman with warm, subtle and swinging house for your pleasure.

another pair of underground disco dance classics get treated to the mm reworking magic! both these edits are exclusive to this 12inch and have never before been released in any format!!

in a world without hope, a world with no appetite for sonic adventures, there s only one man who can save us all. he is... the sample jesus! from behind the enchanted pyramids of egypt comes a man that has nothing to prove but a lot to give. taught by a legendary pharaoh, he has lived the life of an eremite for decades. exhausted after years of asceticism there was only one goal on his mind: to blow all the misery out of our heads. on the constant search for the perfect sample he listened to the finest mongolian folk to experimental tuvan throat singings. it was only recently that he was returning from his self-imposed exile to come up with a record that hits deep in everybody s soul. hallelujah, house-heads and hip-hop-kids, be prepared. listen to the word of the sample jesus!

la femme reveals hallucinatory video for brand new futuristic-psycho single *sphynk* released on disque pointu. sphynx is neither a japanese influenced fairytale happening in egypt in 3087 before j.c, nor a chemical introspection questioned by sphynx. sphynx may not be what sphynx is meant to be, but sphynx is sphynx. sphynx is big, sphynx is deep. sphynx does not exist but sphynx is always there la femme la femme is back with a spectacular electro-pyscho new single and an accompanying hallucinatory video, taken from their forthcoming second album to be released in september. the french band follow up to 2013s award winning and chart topping debut *psycho tropical berlin*

fela kuti, afrobeat und schwarze diaspora: die kompilation zur legendären partyreihe. die doppel-lp erscheint auf 180 gramm vinyl im klappcover inklusive bonus 7 inch.

the maghreban has been making dusty house music for a couple of years now and has put a few records out on his own imprint zoot and also on versatile records. some people have liked this. the maghreban found a bunch of old cassette tapes at his dads house. one said ‘alex july 84&#8242,,, on it. this tape was from alexandria, egypt in the summer of 1984. it had some interesting music recorded on it. the maghreban sampled a few of the tracks to make this one.

manchester s rainy city music returns with its first vinyl release after seven years! this brand new 12- single by dele sosimi, the ex-keyboard player and arranger of egypt 80, the band of african music legend fela kuti. the dele sosimi afrobeat orchestra and their song too much information get the remix treatment by berlin based afro electronic artist raoul k and new york s haitian artist jephte guillaume. both remix artists are hugely respected in their underground scenes. their unique music styles are championed by leading djs dixon and joe claussell respectively. the raoul k transformation mix is a simply stunning, afro-electronic groove and is destined to gain crossover success and appeal. jephte provides the calm yet subtle new york warmth. think of body & soul on a sunday afternoon and a spiritual experience.

revisiting the artists that started it all, the odd boys return to sol asylum for another full length ep on the label. bringing their known flavor of funk and all things odd, we are happy to present the seventh release on sol asylum filled with >cosmic energy<. vortex shows the boys fine tuned producing skills and showcases their well-developed expertise with analog production techniques to create futuristic sounds. the elegant track takes us to a far off place with traveling basslines and glimmering synths with just enough dirt recorded from their analog tape to get that distinctive odd sound. taking us back to ancient egypt with pyramid we are taken into a thought forming incubator of divine cosmic landscapes with swinging razor blade hats, pulsating synth lines, rolling techno grooves and their signature tweaked percussion. finishing off this planetary trip through the odd galaxy with sphere, we are orbited into an emotional realm with alluring pads that are accompanied by arpeggiated synth lines that levitate you to a state of bliss.

straight out of egypt via berlin comes this excellent two-tracker from the little-known son of sun. according to the press release accompanying the whispers ep, both tracks were inspired by a week sailing a yacht around the black sea. true or not (we have our doubts), there s certainly a sun-kissed laziness - despite weighty kick-drums and hissing, detroit techno style cymbals - about the woozy, dubtribe soundsystem style deep house of a-side -moonchild-. while impressive, the real killer is -whispers-, which peppers a swinging, dance mania style hip-house groove with snaking saxophones and atmospheric, spoken word vocals. it feels like a late night adriatic anthem in the making.

wolfram says: i started to record the track cant remember when i was in africa and some riots happened in egypt in 2013. it was a weird time so it turned out to be a dark tune with robotic vocals. i recorded the vocals for the track talking to you when i was on tour with andy butler in the hotel room on my macbook air. basically its him saying this beat is talking to you and i recorded some burp sounds on the flight and train home. i invited him to my home studio to change the demo vocals, but he felt asleep on the chair next to me. so, i thought maybe i should just the use the demo macbook vocals.

after many things, released in 2008, and from africa with fury: rise in 2011, a long way to the beginning is the third album by seun anikulapo kuti with egypt 80, the 14 musicians big band hes been leading since the death of his father fela kuti in 1997.

cologne vinyl only operation rough house rosie return with a fourth release and a full label debut from russian producer shine grooves (also known to make techno as quadrat) whose track *pure reason* featured on the silent movie sounds i split release issued by rhr earlier this year. the cairo ep sees the yekaterinburg-based producer drop five cuts that slip between various moods of house and techno.

the 1976 album by the wings as 3 disc audiophile edition. newly remastered at abbey road studios. includes downloadable audio for all 28 tracks.

doldrums ist das psych-pop-projekt des 22 jaehrigen airick woodhead aus toronto. ein sound der zwischen zerhackten samples, geisterhaften vocals und percussions zu schweben scheint, alles zusammengehalten durch airicks stimme, der wohl androgynsten im alternative-electro universum.
pressung auf schwarzem vinyl, inklusive mp3-downloadcode.

for all egypt and acid lovers here is the release: walk on acid dunes, follow the arabian moon. the combination of acid, vocoder, electro, deep chords and oriental melodies.

who said that pyramids are the only good things in egypt?! lets not forget the zahrans brothers teaming up for the first time on brown eyed boyz for an ep. alexander maier (compost / buzzin fly) & kashawar on remix duties....

here is a new release from space breaks records, 4 raw tracks by adham zahran, the new talent from egypt, usually it appears on moodmusic & acryl music, he is delivering here a lovely deep house ep called >paddington< with quality & solid tracks.
available only on limited vinyl - no digital.

following on from the massively popular philadelphia international: the re-edits package, here is the 2nd release in our special philly 40 campaign which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of philadelphia international records. welcome to the hugely anticipated >philadelphia international classics: the tom moulton remixes<. tom moultons involvement with philadelphia international spans the entire 40 years of their existence with many of his early mixes unaccredited in the era before the 12 inch disco disc. in 1977 pir released the ground-breaking historic original double lp philadelphia classics which featured 8 of tom moultons greatest pir mixes. the album has subsequently been reissued several times and is rightly hailed as a must have classic for any serious music lovers collection.

unreleased egyptian jazz: 2x45s set in a unique hand-printed fold-open pyramid! four sides of previously-unreleased ethnic mythic mystic jazz from the legendary egyptian drummer! before the re-release of his album with the cairo jazz band recently, the name salah ragab was best known to jazz fans and record collectors by way of another lp that was recorded with sun ra in the early 70s. his album >prism music unit< with the cairo jazz band was released in egypt with another by the cairo free jazz ensemble, but perhaps only salah himself knew of the other songs he had recorded at the time, but didnt make it onto these lps. the tapes lurking for decades in an old trunk, its taken until now for them to see the light of day, and we present them here as four amazing pieces of egyptian jazz on 2 seven inch singles. entombed within a hand-printed, hand-made pyramid shaped box, this is the first time in 40 years that these recordings will have come to light. ladies and gentlemen, behold the splendor that is salah ragab and the cairo jazz band!

the third release on the world unknown label is a very meaty affair that coincides with the second birthday of the club night in brixton. on side w timothy j. fairplay fuses ancient egypt with late 80s belgium and drops it slap bang into the near future with the monolithic techno beast that is >cleopatra loves the acid<. its already been played in discos and on the bbc by andrew weatherall, for whom tim handles engineering and co-production duties in his day job, and is set to become a pounding anthem on the more adventurous dancefloors over the coming months. side u is a more throbbing psychedelic affair. kalidasa is the production alter-ego of tim rivers who runs the always excellent theacidhouse.com website. it<s exactly the kind of heavyweight midtempo tune that causes sweaty pandemonium at world unknown. if the word balearic still meant now what it did to from 87-92 then thats precisely what youd call this, most likely with the prefix >heavy<. but it doesnt so you cant, or can you?

cleo & patra are proud to sacrifice a 12inch to the egyptian queen and goddess of the nile. an ode to ancient egypt, youll hear it all. downtempo boogie magnitude and affection with pharaoh love, the full bloom disco-house adventure of marcus antonius on the run who should have better taken cleo & patras advise and finally the pyramid-high-killer-party-time a-side that even teaches the bangles a thing or two. oh, what a nose!

just huge dubby killer tunes, incl biodub remix!
on january 1st 2010, the first single released by a new vinyl label kanu kanu will appear in the shops worldwide. the aim of the label, run by a producer hatti vatti (mindset recordings), is to promote interesting and original artists from the world of dub-tech, minimal dubstep / ukg. the material for the single catalogued as number 001 was created by the musicians from three countries: echo_tm from poland, echo ranks from great britain and biodub from germany. the person responsible for the overall conception is hatti vatti from poland, currently living in cairo, egypt. the result of this collaboration is a fusion of meditative bass, dub, dub-tech, minimal and one of the most interesting voices of contemporary reggae. the record is released in a very limited edition (300 copies) and it is pressed on a beautiful blue vinyl!

a tribute to sun ra & >latino in cairo<. this record represents the cairo jazz band responding to the american jazz scene of the 60s & 70s with influences from mongo santamaria to randy weston and sun ra. these tracks were first presented by the ministry of culture in cairo as a prism music production and released with an additional disk by the composer soliman gamil musical images. this release marks the first time salah ragab and the cairo jazz bands definitive works are presented to the west. salah rageb r.i.p
now available on limited edition with 180grams vinyl and a heavy cardboard sleeve!

beasts of no nation feat egypt 80!!!

another perfect electro affair from the stilleben camp. faceless mind aka luke eargoggle & johan inkinen known for their releases on breakinÆ, creme, strange life imprints and their collaboration with the legendary egyptian lover for the egypt ear werk project. here is a limited two tracks loud 45 rpm ep on french label copilote records in a pure old school electro tradition. think about these old classics, x2 by electric soul, clear by cybotron or dmx krew s best work!

solid rockin tech mover !! giza visa, the 2nd release of the swiss-argentinean label, dilek records is produced by shadi megallaa, born in cairo, egypt and raised in abu dhabi, on the shores of the persian gulf. the artists who offer us their remixes are one of the main figure of the swedish electronic music scene, mikael stavöstrand and the z@pmuten (zapmuten) duo coming straight from uruguay, to show us their latin american roots and sunny grooves. for the digital release, we have the pleasure to introduce to you the swiss michal ho, with a special bonus track made together with shadi megallaa. this is again a very international and hot release to bounce the dance floors and take your mind to a higher degree of activity.

classic electro cut series !! part 5 incl arthur baker, aleem, fantasy three, dr jeckyll & mr. hyde and many more

soulful & jazzy house classic ep with 4 tracks for infinity

30 years of rock and metal

2cd with 32 funk /disco clasasics

al massrieen: disco, funk and modernized arabic pop from egypt

3 cds with the finest and rarest master! incl. the jacksons, harvey mason, marvin gaye, michael wycoff, gladys knight and the pipes, george duke, the isley brothers. includes unreleased edited versions by dj reverend p and a rare mix by tom moulton

there are few names in dance music today which need less of an introduction than masters at work. the duo of louie vega and kenny dope gonzalez have forged a reputation for genre-eschewing dj sets and flawless house production during careers which have spanned decades and seen hundreds of releases and remixes. their influence and reach changed house forever. taking the song-writing ability of vega and fusing it with gonzalez s encyclopaedic knowledge of breaks and hip-hop, the pair created a smooth-yet-underground sound that is still being copied and referenced by producers today...

sie wildern im progressive rock der endsechziger / anfangsiebziger, im achtziger-pop und in zeitgenoessischem elektro.

theres rarely music coming out so intimate and life-affirming at the same time. all the more its recommended to enter the world of fetsum and to draw hope from his beautiful songs. this voice will find its audience. theres no hope for that - but certainty.

soundway return once more to the caribbean and are proud to present ifetaya by black truth rhythm band, originally released in 1976. led by the charismatic oluko imo, ifetaya was the only release from the afro-centric trinidadian band and is re-issued here for the first time on cd. whereas most of their peers at the time were looking to the funk of the usa & james brown for inspiration,black truth rhythm band looked to africa, fusing rhythms from africa & the west indies with elements of jazz, funk, calypsoand soul. ifetayo was to be the only release from black truth rhythm band but imo continued his music and love of african rhythms, going onto record with fela kuti in 1988 and later on perform with members of felas egypt 80 band.