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15-03-2021 Gil Evans to Miles Davis…. Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can….Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on Histoire de Melody Nelson. That’s the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib’s collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib’s classics like Quasimoto’s The Unseen, Madvillainy and his Pinata and Bandana albums with Freddie Gibbs. “A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision.” - Kieren Hebden AKA Four Tet

Disponibile reissue dal 18/12/20

In uscita 10/4/21

In arrivo una copia 9/3/21 Tracklist A1 The Phunky Feel One A2 How I Could Just Kill A Man A3 Hand On The Pump A4 Real Estate A5 Pigs A6 We Ain't Goin' Out Like That B1 I Wanna Get High B2 Lick A Shot B3 Throw Your Set In The Air (Album Version) B4 Throw Your Set In The Air (Club Version) B5 Killa Hill B6 Illusions (Lp Version) C1 Insane In The Brain C2 When The Ship Goes Down C3 Illusions (Muggs Version) C4 Boom Biddy Bye Bye (Lp Version) C5 Boom Biddy Bye Bye (Fugees mix version) D1 Tequila Sunrise D2 Dr Greenthumb D3 Audio X D4 Latin Thugs D5 Rap Superstar D6 Lowrider

Disponibile in 3gg

Gatefold Reissue

3Lp BBE Music announces the first repress of the classic Roy Ayers albums ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ 1 and 2 since 2006, on luxurious 180g vinyl with brand new sleeve notes written by Sean P. The music on 'Virgin Ubiquity' was selected and mixed down from previously unreleased multi-tracks recorded between 1976 & 1981, which Roy had in storage. It's all unmistakably Ayers, but is diverse and fresh enough to be more than a mere adjunct to one of his most productive and popular periods - testament to his and his musicians' creative abilities, as much of most revered Ayers output stems from this time. These discoveries take their place beside some illustrious company in a timeline bookended by 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' and 'Africa, Center Of The World', several solo and Ubiquity albums, collaborations with Wayne Henderson & Fela Kuti, as well as guesting on LPs by Buster Williams and Herbie Mann. Out of print on vinyl and CD for over a decade now, BBE is delighted to re- present these groundbreaking Roy Ayers titles, neatly coinciding with the 45th anniversary of his classic album ‘Mystic Voyage’ and a UK tour to commemorate it during April 2020

Release Date: 10/23/2020 Format: 2 x LP Label: Legacy Quantity: 6000 Release type: RSD Exclusive Release MORE INFO Half a century on from its release, shockwaves from Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew continue to reverberate throughout the universe. Leading more than a dozen all-stars in the studio (including Wayne Shorter on soprano sax, John McLaughlin on electric guitar and a triple-threat electric piano section featuring Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea and Larry Young), Miles defied all conventional styles, joining the loose ends of jazz, rock and funk into a groundbreaking new sound that would eventually become known quite plainly as fusion. This double album, featuring ten embryonic recordings which paved the way for the final album, is issued for the first time as a standalone release on opaque red vinyl for Record Store Day 2020. LP 1 / Side A “1. Yaphet” 2. “Corrado” LP 1 / Side B “1. The Little Blue Frog (master)” 2. “The Big Green Serpent” 3. “Trevere” 4. “The Little Blue Frog (alternate take)” LP 2 / Side A “1. Double Image (first version)” 2. “Feio” LP 2 / Side B “1. Recollection” 2. “Take It Or Leave It”

2lp ristampa Di nuovo disponibile 21-4-21

2lp Di nuovo disponibile dal 15-03-2021

180 gram audiophile vinyl Insert Limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on silver coloured vinyl

Black Friday Record Store Day 2020 Release. RSD First. Limitation: 6500 copies. Rare instrumental version of ODB’s iconic debut album. Previously a highly collectible promo-only release, these instrumental mixes are reissued on LP for the first time since 1994. The 2 X LP set includes a bonus 7” single featuring the new stripped versions of “Brooklyn Zoo” and “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” from the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition for the first time on vinyl.

With Retropolitan, Skyzoo’s most recent collaborative project with Pete Rock, he got to live out a dream, as two generations of legendary native New Yorkers aligned to create an album that was both a love letter and a wakeup call to the city they love. Now, with The Bluest Note, Skyzoo is checking another box on his bucket list. “Since my debut album, I’ve never released a project that didn’t include a moment of jazz influence; with some sort of live instrumentation, something that connected my lyricism with the truest definition of musical lyricism; jazz” Skyzoo commented. “As much as I’ve incorporated my favorite genre of music with my other favorite genre of music, this is the first time I’ve been able to craft an entire project based on jazz production from top to bottom” Skyzoo quipped. “The Bluest Note is a testament to something I’d been longing to do for as far back as I can remember.” In 2017, Sky was touring in Italy and while there attended a show from a local nu-jazz band, Dumbo Station, and was immediately impressed. Shortly thereafter, those seeds blossomed into conversations and in June 2019 Skyzoo was in Rome writing, composing and recording music with the talented musicians. “Collaborating with Italy’s renowned jazz band Dumbo Station was an absolute honor. From writing musical arrangements with them and having them bring them to life in the studio in Rome, Italy; it was a perfect union and execution of what I foresaw when I began to sketch out the project. Six songs, as an homage to the classic jazz albums of the genre’s heyday (when LPs were around six tracks total). The Bluest Note is the storytelling and inner-city expressions you’ve come to know and love from me, attached to the jazz orchestration I’m dying to introduce to some and re-introduce to others. Ladies and gentlemen, this is, The Bluest Note...”

I Rap and Go Home is the result of smart choices, experience and a willingness to stick to what you're good at! We live in a confusing, terrifying world of Donald Trump and Brexit. Maybe, under the current circumstances, a little throwback to the '80s isn't such a bad thing. Craig might not have been as steady or reliable as his Juice Crew buddy Masta Ace, but it's surprising just how solid I Rap and Go Home is. It's compact, straightforward and a lot of fun, the kind of album you can happily put on in the background when you don't want to think too hard or pay too much attention. The songs themselves still knock. The album has a single producer, VaporWorldz, a choice that gives it a coherence and clarity that other records don't have. Plus, there are some nice guest surprises: Craig tag-teams with Ras Kass, Buckshot and Rock on "365," and trades barbs with Jarobi on the grimy "N.I.O.M.M." There's even a surprise appearance from Canibus — surprising, that is, because he doesn't screw it up. The guests never overwhelm, never outstay their welcome.

Limited edition 1000 copie Rsd2020 Disponibile in 4/5 gg lav.

To Know Without Knowing’, Mulatu Astatke and Black Jesus Experience’s 2019 album is their second together. A grooving transcontinental gem, recorded in Melbourne, Australia and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Filled with the warmth of the mentorship and friendship of their creative partnership honed over a decade of performing together in Africa, Australia and UK/Europe. Mulatu Astatke is the Father of Ethio-Jazz and one of Africa's most influential and enduring musical figures. Black Jesus Experience is a community of artists, centred around a twelve piece global-funk-machine born of Australia's vibrant multiculturalism. Mulatu and Black Jesus Experience met in Addis Ababa in 2009, embarking on both a musical relationship and a friendship that has led Mulatu Astake to describe Black Jesus Experience as, "My favourite backing band" and, “...they’re family.” Mulatu's great contribution to music has been to to combine Jazz and funk grooves with Ethiopia's distinctive pentatonic scales. His musical genius is the sensuality and sophistication with which Mulatu contrasts these minimalist scales with richly chromatic harmony. But Mulatu’s equally great contribution has been to share both his enduringly unique modernity and Ethiopia’s timelessly spiritual music with the world. Black Jesus Experience treasure the special relationship of generosity, mentorship and collaboration they have been privileged to share with this master musician. ‘To Know Without Knowing’ is the product of this gift.

Feat: freddie Gibbs

Reissue Sampled by Rakim - when I B on tha mic

Tracklist A1 –Antonio Sorrentino Luna Lù A2 –Tonica & Dominante Babilonia A3 –Gibo & Pummarola Band Sexy Pummarola A4 –Ara Macao Reflection A5 –Tony Verde Calypso B1 –Maria Kelly Dimme B2 –Bernardino (2) Sciummo (Unreleased Mix) B3 –Armando Cusopoli Non C'è Sole B4 –Tony Iglio* Luci A New York

Ristampa disponibile entro il 5/2/20

Disponibile 2Lp dal 26/3/21

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