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Double vinyl LP pressing. Named by Q Magazine as one of the "5 Best Compilations of 2000," Romeo Must Die: The Album is the soundtrack to the Andrzej Bartkowiak 2000 film, Romeo Must Die. With executive produced by Timbaland, Barry Hankerson, Jomo Hankerson and Aaliyah, the film's star. The album features production from Irv Gotti, Rapture Stewart, Ant Banks, Eric Seats, Mannie Fresh and J Dub. Appearances include B.G., Chanté Moore, Dave Hollister, Destiny's Child, Ginuwine, Joe, Lil' Mo, Mack 10, Playa, Stanley Clarke, and Aaliyah, who appears on four songs. The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum shortly after it's release.

• 1 Try Again By Aaliyah
• 2 Come Back in One Piece By Aaliyah (Feat. DMX)
• 3 Rose in a Concrete World (J Dub Remix) By Joe
• 4 Rollin' Raw By BG
• 5 We at It Again By Timbaland & Magoo
• 6 Are You Feelin' Me? By Aaliyah
• 7 Perfect Man By Destiny's Child
• 8 Simply Irresistible By Ginuwine
• 9 It Really Don't Matter By Confidential
• 10 Thugz By Mack 10 (Feat. the Comrades)
• 11 I Don't Wanna By Aaliyah
• 12 Somebody's Gonna Die Tonight By Dave Bing (Feat. Lil' Mo)
• 13 Woozy By Playa
• 14 Pump the Brakes By Dave Hollister
• 15 This Is a Test By Chante Moore
• 16 Revival By Non-A-Miss
• 17 Come on By Blade
• 18 Swung on By Stanley Clarke (Feat. Politix)

Born out of a series of studio sessions, LP.8 was created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious. After releasing her sophomore album Inner Song in the midst of the pandemic, Kelly Lee Owens was faced with the sudden realization that her world tour could no longer go ahead. Keen to make use of this untapped creative energy, she made the spontaneous decision to go to Oslo instead. There was no overarching plan, it was simply a change of scenery and a chance for some undisturbed studio time.

It just so happened that her flight from London was the last before borders were closed once again. The blank page project was underway. Arriving to snowglobe conditions and sub-zero temperatures, she began spending time in the studio with esteemed avant-noise artist Lasse Marhaug. Together, they envisioned making music somewhere in between Throbbing Gristle and Enya, artists who have had an enduring impact on Kelly's creative being. In doing so, they paired tough, industrial sounds with ethereal Celtic mysticism, creating music that ebbs and flows between tension and release.

One month later, Kelly called her label to tell them she had created something of an outlier, her ‘eighth album'.

1. Release
2. Voice
3. Anadlu
4. S.O (2)
5. Olga
6. Nana
7. Quickening
8. One 
9. Sonic 8

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Organist "Brother" Jack McDuff came to Blue Note and made one of the most ambitious albums of his career with Moon Rappin'. Released in 1970, it features five funky, spaced-out originals including "Oblighetto," which would later be sampled by A Tribe Called Quest as the foundation of their classic tracks "Scenario," and "Check the Rhime." Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.

Quasimoto The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas on 2LP

Madlib resurrected his sticky-green obsessed, helium-huffing alter-ego, Quasimoto in 2005 for the release of The Further Adventures of Lord Quas. While Madlib has always been one of the most experimentally savvy beatmakers in the underground, his creation of the electronically altered narrator Quasimoto, has become one of his biggest selling points for alternatively minded fans. The second full-length under the moniker plays something like a smoked-out comedy/crime Blaxploitation flick, with Madlib and Quas in a more chaotic state then on The Unseen. Further Adventures thrills some, confuses and frustrates others, and in the end, cemented Madlib's reputation as one of the most creative and fearlessly skewed creators in hip-hop. The album includes 26 tracks, with only two guest shots: one from Doom (for the return of Madvillain) and another from Medaphoar.

LP1
1. Bullyshit
2. Greenery
3. Crime
4. Hydrant Game
5. Don't Blink
6. Players of the Game
7. Bus Ride
8. Closer
9. Maingirl
10. Civilization Day
11. Bartender Say
12. 1994
13. Another Demo Tape

LP2
1. Raw Deal
2. Mr. Two-Faced
3. The Exclusive
4. Fatbacks
5. J.A.N. (Jive Ass Niggaz)
6. Shroom Music
7. Rappcats, Part 3
8. Strange Piano
9. Life Is...
10. The Clown (Episode C)
11. Raw Addict, Part 2)
12. Tomorrow Never Knows
13. Privacy

Judging from their name, Suicidal Tendencies were never afraid of a little controversy. Formed in Venice, CA, during the early '80s, the group's leader from the beginning was outspoken vocalist Mike Muir. The outfit specialized in vicious hardcore early on - building a huge following among skateboarders, lending a major hand in the creation of skatepunk - before turning their focus eventually to thrash metal. Early on, the group found it increasingly difficult to book shows, due to rumors of its members' affiliation with local gangs and consistent violence at their performances.

The underground buzz regarding Suicidal Tendencies grew too loud for labels to ignore though, as the quartet signed on with the indie label Frontier; issuing Muir and company's classic self-titled debut in 1983. The album quickly became the best-selling hardcore album up to that point; its best-known track, "Institutionalized," was one of the first hardcore punk videos to receive substantial airplay on MTV. 1987 saw the release of Suicidal's sophomore release, Join the Army, which spawned another popular skatepunk anthem, "Possessed to Skate." 

Soon after, Suicidal was finally offered a major-label contract with Epic. Third album 1988's How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, showed that their transformation from hardcore to heavy metal was now complete, as did a compilation of two earlier EPs, 1989's Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit Déjà Vu which marked Robert Trujillo's debut with Suicidal Tendencies and was their first of three albums to go gold. 

A must have for any Suicidal Tendencies fan, Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit Deja Vu has been out of press since its original release in 1989. Now it's back on vinyl with this limited edition colored 180-gram pressing from ORG.

1. Master Of No Mercy
2. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
3. Just Another Love Song
4. Waking The Dead
5. Controlled By Hatred
6. Choosing My Own Way Of Life
7. Feel Like Shit...Deja-Vu
8. It's Not Easy
9. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow (Heavy Emotion Version)

'Everything has to be said.' This is the conviction guiding Indigo De Souza's sophomore album, Any Shape You Take. This dynamic record successfully creates a container for the full spectrum'pushing through and against every emotion: 'I wanted this album to give a feeling of shifting with and embracing change. These songs came from a turbulent time when I was coming to self-love through many existential crises and shifts in perspective.'

Faithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. 'The album title is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. I don't feel that I fully embody any particular genre'all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world,' says Indigo. This sonic range is unified by Indigo's strikingly confessional and effortless approach to songwriting, a signature first introduced in her debut, self-released LP, I Love My Mom. Written in quick succession, Indigo sees these two records as companion pieces, both distinct but in communion with each other: 'Many of the songs on these two records came from the same season in my life and a certain version of myself which I feel much further from now.

'I feel very much like a shape-shifter with my music, I'm always trying to embody a balance between the existential weight and the overflowing sense of love I feel in the world.' It is exactly this balance that Indigo strikes in her Saddle Creek debut, Any Shape You Take. A listening experience that gives back, as you shed and shape-shift along with her.

Tracks

1. 17
2. Darker Than Death
3. Die/Cry
4. Pretty Pictures
5. Real Pain
6. Bad Dream
7. Late Night Crawler
8. Hold U
9. Way Out
10. Kill Me

The Marfa Tapes is a collection of beautifully intimate and raw songs written and recorded by Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall in the tiny, middle-of-nowhere town of Marfa, TX. Barely a dot on the map, Marfa is an eccentric outpost in the midst of a vast expanse of nothingness, the perfect place to lose – or find – yourself. For Lambert, Randall, and Ingram, it's both. Over the past several years, the desolate location has become a songwriting haven for the trio, yielding both massive hits and profound personal growth. When they returned for five days in November 2020 though, they came not to write, but to record, capturing a captivating new album inspired by the stark beauty of west Texas and the deep, lasting bonds the three have forged there. Recorded raw and loose with just a pair of microphones and an acoustic guitar, The Marfa Tapes is a stunning work of audio verité; an intimate, unadorned snapshot of a moment in time fueled by love, trust, and friendship.

"I'll never forget pulling into Marfa that first night at 4am," said Lambert. "The stars were like nothing I'd ever seen before, just this endless blanket hanging so low you could reach up and touch them. I immediately understood why this place was so special." "There's no TV, no radio, nothing to do out there but pour a cocktail, sit around the campfire, and talk," continued Randall. "Eventually, that just inevitably leads to songs. There's no pressure to write, but most of the time, the three of us can't seem to help ourselves." "There's something singular that happens in that moment of collaboration and creation, something you can never really recreate in the studio," notes Ingram. "Our hope with this album was to share a little bit of that magic with people."

The trio recorded much of the album outdoors, inviting the ambient sounds of the desert to seep into their live, bare bones performances, and the atmosphere is utterly transportive. While a couple of the tracks may already be familiar to listeners – ACM Song of the Year "Tin Man" as well as fan favorite "Tequila Does" – the vast majority of these songs have never been heard outside of Marfa. The result is a rare glimpse inside the creative process of three of the genre's most accomplished writers and performers; a candid, unvarnished look at Lambert, Randall, and Ingram's undeniable chemistry in its purest, most honest form.

LP1

1. In His Arms
2. I Don't Like It
3. The Wind's Just Gonna Blow
4. Am I Right Or Amarillo
5. Waxahachie
6. Homegrown Tomatoes
7. Breaking A Heart
8. Ghost

LP2

1. Geraldene
2. We'll Always Have The Blues
3. Tin Man
4. Two-Step Down To Texas
5. Anchor
6. Tequila Does
7. Amazing Grace (West Texas)

All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Grant Green's The Latin Bit Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters' Joe Harley

Grant Green had already recorded a prolific 10 sessions of classic hard bop and soul jazz for Blue Note over a 2-year span by the time he arrived at Van Gelder Studio in 1962 to record his album The Latin Bit. The concept of the album was a departure for Green with the guitarist exploring Latin and Brazilian influences with a band featuring Johnny Acea on piano, Wendell Marshall on bass, Willie Bobo on drums, Carlos "Patato" Valdes on conga, and Garvin Masseaux on chekere. As Nat Hentoff wrote in the album's liner notes: "It is because of Green's remarkably consistent ease in many varieties of material, that this album of jazz with a Latin tinge becomes so seamless a blending of Latin idioms and blues-laced, modern mainstream swinging." The highly enjoyable set includes joyful takes of "Mambo Inn" and "My Little Suede Shoes," as well as a lyrical and beguiling version of "Besame Mucho."

Blue Note Records' acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series continues in 2022. Launched in 2019 in honor of the label's 80th Anniversary, the Tone Poet series is produced by Joe Harley (from Music Matters) and features all-analog, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues that are mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Tone Poet vinyl is manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA, and packaged in deluxe Stoughton Printing "Old Style" gatefold Tip-On jackets. The titles were once again handpicked by Harley and cover the crème de la crème of the Blue Note catalog along with underrated classics, modern era standouts, and albums from other labels under the Blue Note umbrella including Pacific Jazz and United Artists Records. Every aspect of these Blue Note/Tone Poet releases is done to the highest-possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version.

"The LPs are mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin at his incredible facility called Cohearent Mastering. We go about it in the exact same way that we did for so many years for the Music Matters Blue Note reissues. We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded! Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session."
- Joe Harley

Musicians:
Grant Green, guitar
Johnny Acea, piano
Wendell Marshall, bass
Willie Bobo, drums
Potato Valdez, congas
Garvin Masseaux, chekere

Features:
• Blue Note Tone Poet Series
• Curated by Music Matters co-founder Joe Harley
• Audiophile-quality 180g vinyl LP
• All-analog mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray
• Manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated
• Deluxe gatefold jacket packaging

1. Mambo Inn
2. Besame Mucho
3. Mama Inez
4. Brazil
5. Tico Tico
6. My Little Suede Shoes

Lady Blackbird didn't mean to soundtrack a revolution. But last spring, that's exactly what she did. On May 27, 2020 Los Angeles-based singer Marley Munroe released her debut single. Now, "the Grace Jones of Jazz, " as dubbed by BBC's Gilles Peterson, presents her debut album, Black Acid Soul. Minimal yet rich, classic yet timely, the album connects backwards to Miles Davis (his pianist, Deron Johnson, plays Steinway Baby Grand, Mellotron and Casio Synth throughout) and forwards to Pete Tong (he made the Bruise mix of 'Collage' his Number Two Essential Selection tune of 2020) and, yes, Victoria Beckham - Matthew Herbert's remix of second single "Beware The Stranger" soundtracked the designer's Spring/Summer 2020 Fashion show. It's 11 tracks have a sound, feeling and attitude that speak of Lady Blackbird's deep experiences in music, stretching all the way back to infancy. This is Black Acid Soul, and this is the first crucial album of 2021. Are you ready to fly with Lady Blackbird?

Tracks

1. Blackbird
2. It's Not That Easy
3. Fix It
4. Ruler Of My Heart
5. Nobody's Sweetheart
6. Collage
7. Five Feet Tall
8. Lost And Looking
9. It'll Never Happen Again
10. Beware the Stranger
11. Black Acid Soul

Limited 180gm orange colored vinyl LP pressing. Funkadelic's first album, eponymously released in 1970, gets the HIQLP treatment to celebrate it's 50th anniversary. In a thick card sleeve.

Tracks

• 1 Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?
• 2 I'll Bet You
• 3 Music for My Mother
• 4 I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
• 5 Good Old Music
• 6 Qualify and Satisfy
• 7 What Is Soul

Formed in 1981, Slayer assaulted the world with a new hybrid of metal and punk – heavier, faster and darker than the rest – and set a new standard, defining not only a genre, but an attitude. Throughout Slayer's history, the band never faltered in unleashing their extreme and focused aural assault, and repudiating temptations, always choosing to remain crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the mainstream. In October 2021 the five-time nominated, two-time Grammy winners deliver a suite of vinyl reissues of their classic records Show No Mercy (1983), Haunting the Chapel (1984), Live Undead (1984), and Hell Awaits (1985) via Metal Blade Records. Live Undead features five tracks from Slayer's debut, Show No Mercy which was issued a year prior, one cut from the three-song Haunting The Chapel EP and the non-album track "Aggressive Perfector." The songs fundamentally follow the heavy handed arrangements of their studio counterparts, but are enhanced with an added energy and menace that was vital to Slayer's exciting early period.

Tracks

1. Black Magic (live)
2. Die by the Sword (live)
3. Captor of Sin (live)
4. The Antichrist (live)
5. Evil Has No Boundaries (live)
6. Show No Mercy (live)
7. Aggressive Perfector (live)

UK only vinyl pressing! Recorded at United Sound Studios, Audio Graphic Services, and G-M Recording Studios, Detroit, Michigan. Funkadelic's self-titled debut may have touched upon drug-induced acid rock, but on their 1970 follow-up, Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow, the band blows the door off it's hinges. Look no further than the album-opening ten-minute title track-perhaps the most spaced out composition witnessed by rock & roll since the Rolling Stones' late-'60s psychedelic-phase. Westbound. 2006.

 

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. That's How Rumors Get Started sees Nashville icon and 2019 Best New Artist Grammy nominee Margo Price commit her genre-bending rock-and-roll show to record for the first time, stretching out her emotive twang over sky-high soft-rock, burning psychedelic rock ballads, stomping road songs, and sprinkles of pop. With production from her friend and longtime collaborator Sturgill Simpson, it shows both of them pushing into unexpected directions.

Tracks

1. That's How Rumors Get Started
2. Letting Me Down
3. Twinkle Twinkle
4. Stone Me
5. Hey Child
6. Heartless Mind
7. What Happened To Our Love
8. Gone To Stay
9. Prisoner Of The Highway
10. I'd Die For You

Indie Exclusive Yellow Vinyl. All Day Gentle Hold ! is the fifth album from Aaron Maine and a celebratory collection of songs. Harder, faster, shorter and louder than any other Porches record, it’s direct and pointed, charged up and chaotic, described by Maine as “the most energetic, off-the-cuff moments, collaged together into the most captivating songs [he] could make.”

Tracks

1. Lately
2. I Miss That
3. Okay
4. Swimming Big
5. Back3School
6. Swarovski
7. Watergetsinside
8. In A Fashion
9. Inasint
10. Grab The Phone
11. Comedown Song (Gunk)

The Monkees are an American rock band that released music in their original incarnation between 1965 and 1971, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968. Side A 01 Salesman 02 She Hangs Out (Single Version) 03 The Door into Summer 04 Love Is Only Sleeping 05 Cuddly Toy 06 Words Side B 01 Hard to Believe 02 What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? 03 Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky 04 Pleasant Valley Sunday 05 Daily Nightly 06 Don't Call on Me 07 Star Collector

A vault’s worth of solid gold treasures! Nearly all the cuts included here are legendary, high-dollar 45s, presented in their original—and danceable!—mono mixes. The sound of thousands of dollars’ worth of revered R&B, from Sundazed! The legendary Florence Greenberg was one of very few women who envisioned, launched and ran a hugely-successful record company. She liked to say that she was “a white woman in a black business who couldn’t carry a tune!” But, she sure knew talent: talented artists, songwriters, producers, sales and promo people. For many amazing years, Mrs. Greenberg helmed a label comparable in size to Motown: not quite a major, but much more substantial than most indies. Scepter Records grew and flourished by cultivating an amazing network of independent writers and producers: Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Luther Dixon, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Van McCoy, and many, many others. And now, compiled here are 15 exhilarating Scepter recordings - all incredible dance-floor sides (nearly $3k of original wax!), lovingly pressed onto one glorious album. Viva, Florence! Viva, Scepter Records! Dim the lights, turn this soulful platter up and get ready to move!!! On red vinyl!!!"

About the album
“Webster explores themes of different relationships through her
broody tunes, tackling the notion of writing only sad songs by writing
her “saddest song” yet. In a way, the record feels like a comingof-
age for the singer-songwriter into her own perfectly curated
moment, which surely will lead to bigger and better things.” (NYLON)
“Faye Webster is filled with lush bluegrass sounds, featuring plenty
of slide guitar and the occasional trill of a fiddle, which Webster’s
fragile voice flits through like that of a younger Natalie Prass.” (W
Magazine)
“…a soulful offering heavily inspired by the country and western
music she grew up listening to.” (Pitchfork)
“Her self-titled record will win fans across the musical spectrum for
its left-of-center approach to folk. Webster is a lifelong student of
country-western songwriting and Americana sound (her mom plays
fiddle; her grandfather is a bluegrass guitarist). But she punctuates
her own tunes with subtle flourishes of funk. Her voice hits a sweet
spot somewhere between bluegrass powerhouse Alison Krauss,
Natalie Prass, and Tennis’s Alaina Moore, whose light vocals glide
across any melody.” (VICE)

Coldplay celebrate the holiday season with the re-release of 'Christmas Lights' as a recycled black vinyl 7-inch single, backed by Coldplay's take on the perennial Christmas classic 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' which was recorded for a Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 1 live session, at the tail end of 2000.

• 1 Christmas Lights
• 2 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

credits

Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group was also famous for their captivating stage show which featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors. This 1974 Greatest Hits package compiles the band's hit singles from their 1971-1973 heyday and includes such smashes as "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "School's Out," and "Billion Dollar Babies." Gatefold 180g vinyl LP from Friday Music.

Tracks

1. I’m Eighteen
2. Is It My Body
3. Desperado
4. Under My Wheels
5. Be My Lover
6. School’s Out
7. Hello Hooray
8. Elected
9. No More Mr. Nice Guy
10. Billion Dollar Babies
11. Teenage Lament ‘74
12. Muscle Of Love