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"Slight Freedom, Jeff Parker's first ever solo record, presents the first opportunity to hear the guitarist in fully self-revealed circumstances. r...

London-via-Singapore artist and producer Nat Ćmiel spent her high school years consuming Mazzy Star, Massive Attack and My Bloody Valentine, simult...

"DIGGERS DOZEN presents its first compilation on BBE Music selected by Japan’s DJ MURO - King Of Diggin'. This exciting new release offers 12 stunn...

"Since 2010's King Felix and into last year's highly lauded Hour Logic, Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic music, collap...

"Joe Pass plays funk? Check out the master of mellow guitar, Joe Pass, as he takes on the only thing scarier than a broken string – jazz funk! Orig...

"Midsommar is the sophomore film written and directed by Ari Aster (Hereditary). Starring Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor, the film follows a struggl...

Third album as a leader from saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. Karma was originally recorded in 1969 and is perhaps one of the most famous of the spirit...

"The follow up to Pieces, Matt the Cat (1978) and Matthew Larkin Cassell’s last released single, 'Love to Love / When I go Down' (1980) are being c...

"Play that funky music white boy! In 1977, San Francisco singer-songwriter Matthew Larkin Cassell privately pressed and distributed his debut LP Pi...

"A true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. This seminal, eponymous post-punk album by Japanese group Aunt Sally, fron...

"With some of the best DJs and selectors there is a certain mysterious sound or underlying feeling which unites the music they play, regardless of ...

”Philip Glass is an American composer. His music is considered to be minimal music, although he himself uses the term theater music. Glassworks was...

"Highly Rare is a new mixtape produced & arranged by Makaya McCraven. It’s titled Highly Rare not only for the format of its initial release (a...

"Kalita Records unveil the first ever compilation focusing on the phenomenon of 'Burger Highlife', a crossover of West African melodies with synthe...

Gospel grail reissued! Like A Ship is one of those mega-rare albums that tops many digger's wishlists (and is seldom found) making this Numero repr...

Highly sought after '82 Indian disco/fusion on 45 for the 1st time! The fiendishly elusive and addicting Disco Jazz LP has been harder and harder t...

If the album title, typeface choice, burned-out cover image and inside gatefold depicting industrial urban landscapes give you the impression that ...

"Todos os Olhos is one of the most emblematic and essential records of the confrontational music of Brazil. By denouncing, criticizing, and mocking...

One of the rarest private press jazz LPs of the 70s finally gets a definitive vinyl pressing by the music lovers at Aguirre, under license from Ere...

"Plucked from the outer limits of the Spanish underground comes Ritmo Fantasía. The 21 track selection curated by Trujillo, a Venezuelan producer, ...

Following last year’s laser-focused In Grief full-length, Shinra Knives aka producer Ian Jones’ You Will Never See Heaven is more exploratory in ex...

"Growing up in Chicago, later Detroit-based music producer, Theo Parrish is internationally well known for his own inimitable downtempo house music...

"Alfa Mist is considered a frontrunner in the new London jazz movement. Created around a conversation with his brothers, Alfa blends melancholy Jaz...

"Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a transcendent masterpiece of s...

"Limited edition reissue of this legendary, rare and unusually dreamy electronic ambient new age album. Originally created and released in a small ...

"MURDERED BY THE MUSIC is Yukihiro Takahashi's 2nd solo album released by King Records in 1980 during the YMO era. Based on the new wave sound that...

"Neuromantic is Takahashi’s first solo release for ALFA and his third solo album overall. In addition to Japanese musicians Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi...

If Mutantes' first album sounded like a bunch of Brazilian teenagers mashing up the Beatles and Marcos Valle while tripping on acid, their second L...

"Killer JPN New Age/Walearic! Debuted as a guitarist for Happy End, produced many popular songs, and supported the Showa music history and new musi...

"The solo album by 'Jimmy' Satoshi Murakawa, the vocalist of the band Mariah, which has been re-evaluated internationally for its advanced musicali...

"I have no egoism." Easily one of Haruomi Hosono's most experimental and mind-expanding releases. Originally released in 1978 (just two months befo...

"Crate digging DJs Mr Thing and Chris Read return to BBE Music with a second volume of their compilation series The Library Archive, presenting mor...

"Melanchole is a collection of ambitious lo-fi pop songs recorded by Daniel Johann in the winter of 2012. These are songs that deal with the awkwar...

"Classic jazz-funk fusion from the late, great Japanese guitarist Ryo Kawasaki. Recorded in New York, and originally released in 1976, 'Juice' pres...

"Official production through Mantra records / FGL production, of Dashiell Hedayat’s mythical album, Obsolete. Psychic and surreal, the album was re...

"A gift to the overthinkers and overworked. Those who are over-concerned and always preoccupied. This is an invitation to hang up the bootstraps, t...

"Karen Dalton’s 1971 album, In My Own Time, stands as a true masterpiece by one of music’s most mysterious, enigmatic, and enduringly influential a...

Contort yourself! James Chance, aka James White, was among the more colorful figures of New York's CBGBs scene. A sharp-dressed saxophonist, he's c...

"Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan's recent re-emergence as an artist after an exile of over 30 years, comes the release of Some...

"An absolutely legendary album from Lebanon by Issam Hajali’s group Ferkat Al Ard, Oghneya stands out as one of the great musical gems of the Arab ...

"Originally released on EMI Sweden in 1970, this was Doris' lone solo album. A Swedish funk / psych / jazz rarity, it attracted little attention up...

"Ichiko Aoba's albums have only been available as expensive Japanese imports, until now. After creating her label, Hermine, last year to celebrate ...

If you don’t know the name Charles Stepney, you’d surely be familiar with his work and probably even own a whole stack of records he’s worked on, h...

"DENGUE FEVER’s debut album was all covers of the cute, romantic Cambodian pop of the 1960s. Having gotten that out of their systems, they’ve follo...

"Originally released in 2007, Fear Of A Blank Planet was Porcupine Tree's ninth studio album. It was the band's biggest selling album at the time, ...

Italo synth-pop classic repressed! This is Alexander Robotnick's most famous album containing his biggest hit "Problems D'Amour" which has been mov...

"Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, Senufo pastoral dances, Fula and Mandingo repertoire alongside Western psychedelia, blues and afro-...

"The legendary unit 'swing slow' between Haruomi Hosono and Miharu Koshi. New Mix & Mastering by Hosono himself! In addition, 3 extra tracks th...

"From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world’s rhythms to the streets of their native...

"Legendary Sun Ra bassist Ronnie Boykins stepped out on his own for his first and only release as a leader on The Will Come, Is Now. He was invited...

"There's a mystery to Vanishing Twin – from their name to the multitude of sounds that inhabit their music. They don't sound like many but they hin...

"Mildlife's 2020 sophomore album, Automatic, saw the band elevate with more disciplined, directional and arguably more danceable synergy. With tigh...

"Selected by British DJ and vinyl hunter Paul Hillery, new BBE Music compilation We Are The Children Of The Sun showcases a shimmering collection o...