RAS ALLAH<br>“HEAVEN IS MY ROOF”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT APRIL 2024! Reissued for the very first time on vinyl here’s Prince Alla’s (aka Keith Blake) debut album, under Ras Allah pseudonym, originally released on Tappa Zukie’s Stars Records in 1978. Featuring a who’s who of the roots reggae community with top notch contributions from the likes […]
MAXIMUM JOY<br>“Why Cant we Live Together (previously unreleased version featuring Janine Rainforth) plus exclusive bonus live tracks”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW! Reissued for the first time Maximum Joy fourth 12″, led by their amazing Timmy Thomas rendition and originally released on Garage Records in 1983. Includes an unreleased and restored version of the title track plus three extra live tracks recorded in Germany in 1982.
SUNS OF ARQA<br>“WADADA MAGIC”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW! Reissued for the very first time on vinyl “Wadada Magic”, Suns Of Arqa’s majestic second album. The wicked world of Michael Wadada is well represented here: an ever-changing kaleidoscope of tribal dub, early electronics , proto-wave and global beat. Special guests on vocals Prince Far I […]
CLEMENT BUSHAY AND CARL BERT<br>“REGGAE FOR LOVERS”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW! Reissued for the first time this ultra-rare reggae album originally released in 1974. Considered by many to be the first reggae “lovers” album ever, signed by the producer and Singer Clement Bushay and the reggae singer Carl Bert. As guests The Cimarons, Jackie Parris, Junior English, […]
FESO TROMBONE<br>“FREEDOM TRAIN”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW 2024! A necessary groundbreaking album, originally released on Belgian label Antler in 1984. Fesobi Olawaiye debut is finally been re-issued, showcasing the incredible talent of the African musician, a longtime Fela Kuti associate in the legendary Afrika 70. Ander the moniker Feso Trombone he just prove […]
OUTSIDERS<br>“CALLING ON YOUTH/ONE TO INFINITY DEMOS & EARLY SONGS”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW! For the first time on vinyl the Outsiders demos from the “Calling on Youth” debut album and “One To Infinity” Ep, both released in 1977. Here’s Adrian Borland first band, before he went to form obscure synth-wave project Second Layer and then joining iconic new wave […]
V/A (Blaine L. Reininger, Durutti Column, Stockholm Monster)<br>“GREETINGS FROM S.G.V. – THE GREETINGS LP”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW 2024! Overdue re-issue of the first three 12” in the record series dedicated to musicians who took part to the Greetings festival. It happened in 1987, it was time for Materiali Sonori 10th anniversary, an historic goal for the label/collective born in the small Tuscany village […]
ELAINE BROWN<br>“SEIZE THE TIME”
RDS 2024 EU/UK EXCLUSIVE LIMITED VINYL – OUT NOW! Reissued on vinyl for the first time! A milestone of the Black music movement, originally released on Vault in 1969. The debut album of Elaine Brown was arranged by piano player amd composer Horace Tapscott, conducting the Californian Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. A true political manifesto, the […]
ECLIPSE <br>ECLIPSED – EXPANDED EDITION
Limited Vinyl – OUT IN MAY ON LANTERN REC! Reissued here for the first time, in an extended version, the UK reggae band’s only album, originally released on Ball Record in 1978. One of the best-kept secrets of the late 70’s/mid 80’s British reggae scene who, with Steel Pulse, competed for the title of best […]
ROLAND BURRELL<br>“THE BEST OF”
Limited Vinyl – OUT NOW ON LANTERN REC The Best Of the Jamaican reggae singer, also known as Johnny Dollar, recorded at Channel One Studio with Sly &Robbie, The Tamlins, Don Drummond Jr., Dean Fraser, Ansel Collins, Winston Wright… Engineers Soldiie, Barnabas