BIS => 2025 06 13
1LP - VAMPISOUL
1970 => 2022

BIS => 2025 06 13
7 INCH - CLOSED SESSIONS
2024

BIS => 2025 07 04
COLOR = BURGUNDY VINYL
1LP - NEXT RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2025 06 13
1LP - VAMPISOUL
1965 => 2022

BIS => 2025 05 30
2LP - BGP
2005

BIS => 2025 05 30
1LP - BIG BEAT
1969 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 30
2LP - ACE RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2025 06 13
1LP - VAMPISOUL
RSD 2022

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
2017

BIS => 2025 05 30
1LP - BIG BEAT
2014

BIS => 2025 05 30
2LP - BGP
2009

SOLD OUT
1LP - ACID JAZZ
?? => 2020

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - GET ON DOWN
COLOR = MARBLED COPPER VINYL
2001 => 2022

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - CLOSED SESSIONS
2024

BIS => 2025 06 06
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1975 => 2016

BIS => 2025 07 11
1LP - SOMEOTHASHIP
1996 => 2023

BIS => 2025 06 13
7 INCH - WAR MEDIA
2019

BIS => 2025 05 30
2LP - MARCI ENTERPRISES
2020

BIS => 2025 05 02
PRESSED ON APPLE RED AND BLACK SWIRL DISCS
1LP - COALMINE RECORDS
1997 => 2024

BIS => 2025 05 30
1LP - KENT
2024

BIS => 2025 07 04
1LP - NATURE SOUNDS
2004 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NATURE SOUNDS
2020

BIS => 2025 05 02
RSD 2020
1LP - NATURE SOUNDS
1974 => 2020

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - GREEN STREETS
2009

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NATURE SOUNDS
2020

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NATURE SOUNDS
2019

BIS => 2025 07 04
2LP - CINEMATIC MUSIC GROUP
2014

BIS => 2025 06 27
1LP - KENT
2016 => 2022

BIS => 2025 05 16
2LP - BBE
1975 => 2017

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NOW AGAIN
1968 => 2019

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - SMOKERS CLUB RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NEXT RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2025 05 30
2LP - ACE
2023

BIS => 2025 07 04
3LP - GET ON DOWN
CLEAR VINYL
2007 => 2023

PRE ORDER => 2025 05 16
2LP - BBE
2003

BIS => 2025 06 06
BLACK FRIDAY 2021
2LP - MADLIB INVAZION
2008 => 2021

PRE ORDER => 2025 05 16
2LP - OVO SOUND
2020 => 2021

BIS => 2025 06 06
1LP - OVO SOUND
2021

BIS => 2025 05 02
COLOR = NEON GREEN AND NEON CORAL VINYL DISCS
2LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2014 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 16
1LP - BBE
1977 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 16
2LP - BBE
2023

PRE ORDER => 2025 05 16
2LP - BBE
1983 => 2019

BIS => 2025 06 13
1LP - DISCOS FANTASTICO
1974 => 2023

BIS => 2025 06 13
1LP - ELLAS RUGEN RECORDS
1963 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 16
1LP - BBE
2023

BIS => 2025 05 16
1LP - BBE
2022

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - RRC MUSIC
2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - SURF SCHOOL
2023

BIS => 2025 06 27
1LP - BGP
1973 => 2011

BIS => 2025 06 27
1LP - BGP
1974 => 1999

BIS => 2025 05 02
12 INCH / EP - MONGOLOID BANKS
2022

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NOW-AGAIN
2023

BIS => 2025 06 06
2LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1970 => 2022

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NOW AGAIN
2021

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1971 => 2018

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1970 => 2017

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW-AGAIN RESERVE
2023

BIS => 2025 06 06
RED OPAQUE
1LP - NOW AGAIN
1972 => 2021

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW AGAIN
2009

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - SELECT RECORDS
OPAQUE WHITE PRESSING
1988 => 2022

BIS => 2025 07 04
OPAQUE GREEN
1LP - NOW-AGAIN
1974 => 2021

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NOW AGAIN RECORDS
1976 => 2021

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW-AGAIN RESERVE SERIES
1969 => 2021

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW AGAIN
2020

PRE ORDER => 2025 05 16
1LP - BBE
1970 => 2017

BIS => 2025 05 16
3LP - BBE RECORDS
2021

PRE ORDER => 2025 05 16
3LP - BBE
2005

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - TUFF KONG RECORDS
2019 => 2022

BIS => 2025 06 06
1LP - LEWIS RECORDS
2005

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - CRATE DIGGAS PALACE
2004 => 2022

BIS => 2025 05 16
2LP - BBE
1977 => 2019

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
2021

BIS => 2025 07 04
1LP - NATURE SOUNDS
2023

BIS => 2025 06 06
RSD 2023
12 INCH - NATURE SOUNDS
PICTURE DISC
2023

BIS => 2025 05 30
1LP - ACID JAZZ
2021

PRE ORDER => 2025 05 16
2LP - BBE
2006

BIS => 2025 07 04
2LP - NOW-AGAIN
2014

TRACKLIST
A1 Introduction
A2 Push Na Ya
A3 El Gusto
A4 Transition >S<
A5 Karadeniz
A6 The Spirit Of Gine
B1 Transition >T<
B2 Girma's Lament
B3 Sharpville Massacre
B4 Samai Thaqil
C1 Jo Nibunga
C2 Omebele (Makossa)
C3 M'Hammad
C4 Transition >A<
C5 Who's Foolin' Who?
C6 Transition >C<
D1 Hymnin S
D2 Bring It On Down
D3 Mission Control
D4 Kaifa Part 1+2

DESCRIPTION
Karl Hector aka the German producer and guitarist JJ Whitefield, Whitefield is the visionary behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, the ensembles whose rough analog sound and return to the funk archetypes of the late 60s to early 70s paved the way for labels like Daptone, Truth & Soul, Timmion. Whitefield, along with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founded Karl Hector and The Malcouns in the early 2000s. Their debut, Sahara Swing, saw release on Now-Again in 2008. The album swung with influences from across the African diaspora and set the stage for a cult, but influential following. Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks from Ghana's Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia's Zamrock scene brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans. A grueling tour schedule made recording a follow up album to Sahara Swing quite the challenge, and as a result, the band opted to release limited edition, hand-silkscreened EP's, which continued to show their deft handling of musics from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk. Whitefield gave himself 2013 to finish the album that would become Unstraight Ahead, which will see release on Now-Again this summer. Unstraight Ahead finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke's Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of The Malcouns' 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss and Tomorrow's Gift. We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing, Whitefield states. We're trying to combine the global experimentalism of Krautrock with the backbeat of funk. This explains how songs in uneven meters 5/4, 7/8 always sound so accessible and natural on Unstraight Ahead. It's mainly an instrumental affair, but guest artists appear throughout, from across the African diaspora to those from the worldly Krautrock forebears of their German fatherland: it's Marja, daughter of Embryo founder Christian Burchard, whose vocals open the album. It's an album out of time, one that couldn't have been made in the era its aural aesthetics reference, as its scope is so broad. But it's an album focused by funk and an ambition to expand funk's reaches. The Malcouns including Poets of Rhythm songwriter and vocalist Bo Baral - created their own instruments to fashion an album that stands alongside the great albums of its progenitors but charges Unstraight Ahead into a curious musical future.

BIS => 2025 05 16
3LP - BBE
BLUE VINYL
2022 => 2023

BIS => 2025 06 06
RED VINYL
1LP - OVO SOUND
2016 => 2021

BIS => 2025 07 04
CLEAR W/ RED SPLATTER
2LP - VMP / NATURE SOUNDS
2004 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
ORANGE + BLUE GALAXY
2LP - VMP / RCA
2017 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
TIP-ON
1LP - VMP / CONCORD
1978 => 2022

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - VMP / LEGACY RECORDINGS
1988 => 2023

TRACKLIST
Side A
1 Run's House
2 Mary‚ Mary
3 They Call us Run-D.M.C.
4 Beats To The Rhyme
5 Radio Station
6 Papa Crazy
Side B
1 Tougher Than Leather
2 I'm Not Going Out Like That
3 How'd Ya Do It Dee
4 Miss Elaine
5 Soul To Rock And Roll
6 Ragtime

DESCRIPTION
The success that Run-D.M.C. enjoyed through its first three albums is impossible to overstate — before the trio from Hollis, Queens, stomped its shell-toe Adidas through the music industry, hip-hop was completely unproven as a commercial force. Just about every ‘’first'' in the genre’s history was accomplished by Run-D.M.C.: It was the first hip-hop act to earn Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum album certifications, the first to have a music video play on MTV, the first to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, the first to nab a Grammy nomination, the first to sign a major endorsement deal.
In a previous edition of liner notes for Tougher Than Leather, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D gave the album its props and shared memories of going on the road with the group after it dropped. He geeks out over the funk and rock samples for the title track as well as the way they cut up their older songs into ‘’Soul To Rock And Roll,'' and claimed ‘’Run’s House'' was ‘’the written theme for all of hip-hop'' in 1988.

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2009 => 2024

Collector’s edition 2XLP presented in a modified cover with an updated rear jacket and center labels. Pressed on classic black vinyl, with two bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased “S.O.F.”

TRACKLIST

Side A:
A1. Intro
A2. Freedom
A3. Hey Young World (feat. Aloe Blacc, Devoya)
A4. Stars
A5. Life As A Shorty (feat. J. Mitchell)

Side B:
B1. The Ecology
B2. Our Way (feat. Evidence)
B3. Why
B4. Samsonite Man (feat. Blu)
B5. The Score (feat. Planet Asia)

Side C:
C1. Breathe (feat. Bravo)
C2. Father
C3. Sunny Ca. (feat. Co$$, Mistah Fab)
C4. Bo Jackson (feat. Exile)
C5. Lupita

Side D:
D1. When She Calls
D2. Boy Meets World
D3. The Outer City
D5. S.O.F.


DESCRIPTION
Hip-hop has long had an obsession with the debut album as it marks an artist’s introduction to the world and often lives on as their definitive piece of work. Nas had Illmatic.

Jay had Reasonable Doubt. Snoop had Doggystyle. Biggie had Ready to Die. On October 20th, 2009, the day came for Fashawn to make his own mark with, Boy Meets World.

The result was an honest, heartfelt and witty album, the likes of which had seldom been heard from someone his age. Abound with captivating storytelling and magnificent production, the album would quickly receive critical praise.

XXL gave it an ‘XL’ rating and called it an album that “resonates a lot more than the work of some rappers decades his senior.” HipHopDX called it “perhaps the most heir apparent to Nas’ ’94 classic.”

Meshing beautifully and exclusively over the soulful loops of producer Exile — who wowed listeners and critics with Below The Heavens, his 2007 collaboration with Blu — Fashawn's audio biography touches on his series of stepfathers ("I called them all daddy/even though they didn't have me") and even a friend's suicide. Yet he still finds time to play, swapping boasts with hisproducer on "Bo Jackson" and plotting his way out of the friend zone with "Lupita." On “The Ecology,” Fashawn articulates the inner struggles of a good kid from a bad place, over Exile’s dramatic string sample.

Fashawn may only have been 20 years old at the time of the album’s release, but he’s possessed the wisdom of a man well beyond his years.

Abound with a nostalgic potency that makes the record just as relatable and fresh today as it was when it was first released, Dirty Science Records in partnership with Coalmine Reissues are honored to release this special edition reissue of this classic LP, just in time for the album’s 15th anniversary!

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - 600 BLOCK
2024

Chicago native and donning the moniker C3zr, Cesar Pino’s projects combine his background as a classically trained and jazz pianist with the electronic funk or soul of his favorite artists like Kaytranada, Daft Punk, and Robert Glasper.


TRACKLIST

SIDE A:

1. Kingsbury
2. Gold Cymbal (ft. Sarita Songbird)
3. Not Over U (ft. Travis Percy)
4. He Can’t See (ft. Ifeanyi Elswith)
5. Meadows (ft. Wei)
6. 11pm (ft. Jamal Damien)
7. Agua Viva
8. Star Dazed

SIDE B:

9. B.B.B (ft. Ifeanyi Elswith)
10. Together (ft. Paolo Apuli)
11. Hold On (ft. Travis Percy)
12. Odyssey
13. Aqua Viva (Pugs Atomz Remix)
14. B.B.B (Inkswel remix)

DESCRIPTION

Round Voyage by C3zr is an experimental album that blends R&B/Soul, electronic keyboards, and avant- garde sounds into a captivating sonic journey.
It features a list of superb guest artists including Ifeanyi Elswith, Jamal Damien, Wei, Travis Percy, Paolo Apui, and Sarita Songbird.

The LP includes two remixes by MCee Pugs Atomz and producer Inkswel. Round Voyage explores themes of cyclical time, personal evolution

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - PM RECORDS
1980

Stone Alliances full length from 1980 with a sweet soul jazz feel

TRACKLIST
A1 Georgia O'
A2 Pedra Da Lua
A3 Aunt Remus
A4 Tribute To Afreeka
B1 Uncle Jemima
B2 Kimmy And Donnie
B3 Trampoline
B4 Para Los Papinos


DESCRIPTION

RECORDED IN NEW YORK

More jazz to dazzle the ears! If you're not familiar with this group, take a listen and join their already solid following in not only the U.S., but also South America. These 4 guys, Don Alias, Gene Perla, Bob Mintzer and Kenny Kirkland don't only possess all this musical wealth just to squander though! They love to perform, and spread their music. And they often will hold clinics which are not only listening but also learning experiences... DOWNBEAT has received them quite well, and one glance at each member's discography puts them right up in the "heavy" league!
Richman Bros. Records, Inc.


Most adventuresome release from the Alliance to date. Everything is well thought out and conceived at a high level of artistic achievement. Jazz programmers will find this of special interest, and jazz buyers will find this something worth having.
Midwest Record Recap


With their musically diverse fourth album, Stone Alliance proves that they deserve the respect and praise of the jazz and contemporary music community.

Highly recommended addition to any playlist!
Eric Gribin, The Jazz Line


Stone Alliance: Heads Up (PM) is an exciting set featuring some top contemporary jazzmen. Led by bassist Gene Perla and drummer Don Alias, the group fuses jazz, Latin, and funk idioms into a cohesive music which is both rhythmically and melodically appealing. The mostly original compositions give Kenny Kirkland, Bob Mintzer, Robert Piltch, Jan Hammer, and a number of other players room to stretch out, and there's some inspired soloing throughout. Stone Alliance represents "fusion" at its best, and the group is deserving of much wider exposure. Alias' "Uncle Jemima" and Orlando Lopez' "Para Los Papinos" are knockouts.
"Gem" Lieberson


What makes this group stand out among others is the natural feeling they have for playing with and among a complicated melange of rhythms.
Bob Rosenblum


Stone Alliance has succeeded in creating a complex sound easy to listen to.
M.P., Erie Times


A really tasty fusion set, with the keyboards covered by Kenny Kirkland and Jan Hammer. No commercial compromises, just honest music, with lots of synthesizer leads and background keyboards.
Jim Aikin, Contemporary Keyboard


"Just love 'Heads Up.' I will give it maximum exposure."
Ian Drever, CFUV, University of Victoria

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - PM RECORDS
1979

Greenwich’s 1979 release featuring Perla on bass and behind the boards

TRACKLIST
A1 Time-Space
A2 Prelune
A3 Emily
B1 Nica's Dream
B2 Day Is Night To Some
B3 Evol-ution, Love's Reverse

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - PM RECORDS
1977

Stone Alliance’s 1977 release with a Latin flair – and jazz through and through

TRACKLIST
A1 I'll Tell You Tomorrow
A2 Mujeres Sud Americanas (The Women Of South America)
A3 Miss T.
B1 Graciela
B2 Amigos
B3 Taking A Good Long Look

DESCRIPTION
They were, or rather are, the first representatives of the latest musical evolution that has mastered the world. We were, and still are, a dominated, wondrous audience quite fascinated by a different way of life through music. It seems that what Stone Alliance was saying -- about telling a story each time one plays -- is true. We listen to the story woven by the music of Stone Alliance and we identify with it; in the long run we become enriched. And who else but AMIGOS would enrich us? Thank you, Stone Alliance!
Club de Arte


While most of the jazz world is heading toward either commercialism or the avant-garde, it's a pleasure to find a group such as Stone Alliance filling in this ever widening gap.
CBF


This album was recorded after the American trio had stayed a year in Buenos Aires, playing with and absorbing the talents of the Argentinian musicians who accompany here. The result is a dazzling blend of styles, and Stone Alliance's best effort to date. There is some fierce playing, notably from saxophonist Steve Grossman, but the overall feeling is Latin American melancholy and rhythm.

Percussionist Don Alias seems most adept at this synthesis; his African jungle percussion is delightful when positioned against the throb of congas, whistles and other South American instruments.
T.E.


What seven musicians can do with the aid of double and triple tracking, overdubbing, mixing and editing is not only astounding -- but an absolute delight.

Highly recommended to the intelligent jazz-lover.
Mark Allen, Record Review


This gem of a recording, done in Buenos Aires, features the trio known as Stone Alliance -- Steve Grossman, tenor sax, Gene Perla, bass, keyboards and guitar, and Don Alias, percussion and guitar -- augmented by local musicians. The music, as expected, is highly rhythmic, but also unexpectedly eletronic in spots. The traditional -- abandon on the bright "I'll Tell You Tomorrow" -- is contrasted with synthesizer overdub on the languid bolero, "Mujeres Sud Americanas." "Amigos," a surprise favorite, is a brief three-part exposition of what Latin percussion should sound like.
Jazz Album Picks, Cash Box


"...one of my all-time favorites...truly awe-inspiring...why can't they make albums like this anymore...."
A.S., London

BIS => 2025 05 02
NEON GREEN
180 GRAM
1LP - VMP / SONY
1986 => 2022

BIS => 2025 07 04
CLOUDY GREEN
RAINBOW FOIL BOARD; DOUBLE GATEFOLD
2000 COPIES
2LP - VMP / PURPLE RIBBON
2021 => 2023

BIS => 2025 05 02
PURPLE PRISM
2LP - VMP / ATLANTIC
2006 => 2023

BIS => 2025 07 04
PURPLE AND SILVER GALAXY
2LP - VMP / DEF JAM
2010 => 2020

BIS => 2025 05 02
PURPLE & WHITE GALAXY
TIP ON CASEWRAPPED
180 GRAM
1LP - VMP / ATLANTIC
1967 => 2022

BIS => 2025 07 04
TIP-ON; GATEFOLD
180 GRAM
1LP - VMP / STAX
1974 => 2021

SOLD OUT
1LP - GET ON DOWN
1971 => 2025

PRESSED ON SMOKE COLORED VINYL

“New York’s Harlem River Drive is a dividing line, a highway where the rich zip past the poor,” says singer Jimmy Norman. Eddie Palmieri’s Latin-funk band of the same name tackled these hard truths, playing prisons and speak- ing to the common man. Ultimately, Norman and Palmieri made a powerful socio-political statement
that continues to resonate to this day."

- Pablo Yglesias/Wax Poetics


TRACKLIST
A1. Harlem River Drive (Theme Song)
A2. If (We Had Peace Today)
A3. Idle Hands B1. Broken Home
B2. Seeds Of Life


DESCRIPTION
When initially released in 1971, many critics panned Eddie Palmieri’s album Harlem River Drive. Those critics were wrong. Regardless of critical opinion, the release was not the crossover success Palmieri and Roulette Records had hoped for, at least in the immediate. Over the years the release has developed a following among listeners, DJs, and aficionados of rare-grooves.
The record may have been recorded towards the end of the Latin soul era, yet it features that genre's wonderful mix of Puerto Rican soul, Spanish Harlem Latin, and New York funk. Palmieri worked with an incredibly talented crew of Latin and R&B session musicians to create this quintessential New York vibe, a synthesis of funk and Afro-Cuban sounds. Contributors include Victor Venegas from Mongo Santamaria’s band, Palmieri’s brother Charlie, an accomplished musician in his own right, Bruce Fowler who went on to join Frank Zappa’s band, Dick Meza who went on to great things with Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Celia Cruz, as well as Andy Gonzalez who’s pedigree includes recordings with Barretto, Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colon
and even Chico O’Farrill. Also appearing Randy Brecker and one of the all-time
greatest of the greats Bernard Purdy.
An over-arching theme of Harlem River Drive is the thought that, as Palmieri puts it “The U.S. is richest country, all this immense wealth, side by side with the most intense poverty, racial prejudice; how is that possible?” A question that’s perhaps more even more relevant today than it was in 1971. A question that can be further explored with Get On Down’s reissue of this seminal recording.

BIS => 2025 07 04
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1970 => 2025

TRACKLIST
A1. It's Your Thing
A2. Lost Times
A3. Can't Get Next To You
A4. The House That Jack Built
A5. Look A Py Py
B1. Bossa Blue
B2. Spacing Out
B3. Where Are We
B4. Latin Lips

DESCRIPTION
Spacing Out is an instrumental masterpiece only ever issued in Bermuda at the turn of 1970. A mix of the band's out-there original compositions and extravagant covers of The Meters, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin and The Isley Brothers, it established this band as one of the greatest instrumental bands of any genre, and helped kickstart the retro-soul/funk scenes that birthed the likes of Daptone and Big Crown Records. It's certainly a lodestar for Now-Again Records.
This reissue was done with the license and participation of the entire Invaders band, with their story told in great detail in an oversized booklet penned by Jefferson "Chairman" Mao, complete with rare photos of this rarely seen ensemble. From the proverbial stank face-inducing opening bars of reverb-drenched drums and congas that announce Spacing Out, you're thrust into something visceral and fleeting: a pocket universe in which technical excess, chemistry between players, and the uninhibited energy of youth align in a kind of glorious imperfection. Spacing Out is one of the greatest instrumental albums of its or any period in that unmistakably raw - as in honest - way only a crew of largely self-taught young uns could catch a groove.

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - FLY CASUAL CREATIVE
2009 => 2025

PRESSED ON RED & BLACK SPLATTER DOUBLE VINYL

TRACKLIST
A1. Studio Time
A2. Goodbye
A3. The Darkest Park
A4. Punks Shoot And Steal A5. Plotting My Revenge
A6. Mass General / Mackos Angle (feat Main Flow & Blacastan)
A7. I Need A Dope Beat
B1. Bar Chief
B2. I Rap Too Much
B3. Modern Love (In Boston) (feat K. Flay)
B4. Aces Take (feat Masta Ace)
B5. No Features
C1. Hold On (feat QWill)
C2. Selling Spidey
C3. Take Him To The Bridge
C4. A Gift From Indie Solo
C5. The King Is The Dog
C6. Chocolate Popcorn
D1. The Wrong Attitude
D2. My Audition
D3. Lab Work
D4. The Good Fight
D5. Back To The Lab

DESCRIPTION
Czarface and Stress Eater MC Esoteric followed up his proper debut solo album (2007’s Egoclapper) with this conceptual masterpiece, now available for the first time on vinyl!
This full-length is an audio drama based on a bizarre dream that Esoteric had sometime around 2006. As he describes it, “It was a crazy period in my life: I was engaged, in the process of finding a new home; I was starting my own label on a totally independent, self-financed level...I had a lot of stress and reserva- tions in my life. Celph Titled and I had just built my Pterolab studio, I had started to really produce and was really getting into it, making a ton of beats and had a ton of ideas. I guess all that stress and those feelings just manifested.” The results were what became Saving Seamus Ryan.
The album is broken into chapters rather than individual tracks and includes vocal contributions from the legendary and consummate Hip Hop theme-writer Masta Ace, K.Flay, Blacastan, Main Flow, and Qwill. Colorful characters from Eso’s childhood and subconscious also help along the journey (including a cameo by DJ Premier). Esoteric handles most of the production duties himself, but is also backed by career-long partner 7L.

BIS => 2025 06 06
1LP - DIRTY LOOKS
2024 => 2025

AVAILABLE IN OPAQUE EVERGREEN 140-GRAM VINYL AND HOUSED IN A REVERSE BOARD JACKET

TRACKLIST
1. Don’t Even Think About It 2. People
3. Every Day
4. Need a Woman
5. Mayor Koch
6. Leave Me Alone
7. Win Win
8. Summertime
9. Thank You
10. The Place I Want to Be 11. Dream Come True 12. Thank You (Remix)

DESCRIPTION
Homeboy Sandman returns with Rich II, a vibrant exploration of life’s complexities, set to the masterful production of Mono En Stereo. This album captures the essence of authenticity, weaving introspective lyrics with innovative beats to transcend
the boundaries of conventional Hip-Hop.
“God. Love. Freedom. Talent. Magic. Health. Truth. Walking with God, being free, finding oneself and finding love is what real richness is.” Homeboy Sandman defined the true meaning of being rich with the release of his first Rich LP. “Rich II” takes a different tone than its predecessor exploring themes of resilience, determination, patience, gratitude, and growth. The track “Leave Me Alone” addresses the struggle against external pressures and the quest for personal autonomy, inspired by individuals encroaching on his peace of mind. Conversely, “The Place
I Want to Be” and “Need A Woman” reflect on past mindsets that eventually led to finding love, with the latter serving as a poignant commentary on the importance of substance over superficiality in relationships. “Every Day” serves as a guiding framework for Homeboy Sandman's life, akin to foundational texts like the 10 commandments or the constitution, offering insight into his values and principles. “Mayor Koch” showcases Homeboy Sandman's unique ability to craft rap anthems with a distinct flair. This special vinyl edition includes a bonus track “Thank You (Remix)”--a heartfelt, boom-bap-infused outro where Homeboy Sandman conveys his gratitude to supporters with sincerity and style.

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - 1332 RECORDS
2024

TRACKLIST
A1 Hip-Hop Tournament
A2 Bring Ya Best Army
A3 Lost Souls
A4 From Dusk 'Til Dawn
A5 Pay Attention!
B6 Hallucinogenz
B7 Story Of A Scumbag
B8 Eyes Closed
B9 Breakadawn
B10 Run 4 Ya Life

DESCRIPTION
James"A-F-R-O" Gutierez is an actor, rapper, and writer.
Gutierez landed his first acting role on TheBreaks; a VH1 television drama film about 90's hip-hop.
James joins up with Producer, Beatmaker Extraordinaire, StuBangas.
The Bad & TheUgly hits the ground running with “Hip-Hop Tournament” and doesn’t stop its impeccable penmanship until it reaches its last track“ Run 4 Ya Life”.

BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - GET ON DOWN / COTIQUE
1967 => 2018

TRACKLIST
A1 Let's Ball
A2 Bien Dulce
A3 Lagrimas Negras
A4 Mani Picante
A5 Jammin' With Joey
B1 My Shingaling
B2 Rumbon Melon
B3 Flamenco Olé
B4 En Nada Estas

DESCRIPTION
Joey Pastrana had a special gift for singing songs in both English and Spanish. Along with other boogaloo luminaries like Pete Rodriguez and Joe Cuba; Joey Pastrana was responsible for introducing Latin music to many English speakers across America. With a wonderful and talented orchestra, Joey Pastrana paved the way for the new Latin music fusions that have come to be known as the Latin boogaloo. A master of the timbales, Pastrana was also a brilliant singer known internationally for his energizing live performances. Honing his musical skills in his beloved New York City, Joey was enamored at an early age by the sights and sounds coming out of Spanish Harlem during the early sixties. Taking his cue from the R&B and Jazz that was popular at that time, Pastrana became a master of rolling rhythms that shook up hips in dance floors throughout the world. One of the top artists of the boogaloo/Latin soul era, Joey Pastrana s music is regarded as one the most wonderful and exquisite examples of the world-famous New York Latin sound.