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Sounds of the Universe

Sounds of the Universe is our sister shop where we sell everything we like that is not on our labels. Reggae, Dubstep, Funk, Latin and Brazilian, Disco, Post-Punk, Jazz - it's all here! The shopping cart between the two sites are the same. So after browsing the Soul Jazz Records site take a look at 1000s more related releases. You can swap between the sites at ease. Just press on the "Sounds of the Universe" link here.

You can also come and visit the store in person at:

Sounds of the Universe

7 Broadwick Street

Soho

London W1F 0DA

England.

Harmony, Melody and Sound - Lovers rock in the UK 1975-92

Out now!

Ltd. offer 2CD £9.99, 2xLP £11.99, Digital download £8.99

Featuring Louisa Mark, Janet Kay, Carroll Thompson, Dennis Bovell, Caron Wheeler, Kofi, Sandra Reid, Paulette Tajah, Candy McKenzie and more!

Comes with stunning 80 page booklet(2CD)/20 page magazine(2LP) telling the story of Lovers Rock. Includes interviews and features on Dennis Bovell, Carroll Thompson, Louisa Mark and many more.

The booklet also includes an incredible collection of photographs bringing together the history of the Caribbean community in Britain from the arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948 to present day.

Available now at special price here.

Read large Pitchfork review here.

Latest Albums
Eddie Russ — Fresh Out
AVAILABLE NOW
	Eddie Russ’s debut album Fresh Out was recorded in Detroit in 1974. The album featured the group The Mixed Bag, which Russ put together in 1972 from members of the local Detroit jazz commu... More Info & Audio

Roy Brooks & The Artistic Truth — Black Survival
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	Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth’s Black Survival album is a true holy-grail for deep and spritual jazz collectors around the world. Black Survival is reissued here... More Info & Audio

Tamba Trio — Avanco
AVAILABLE NOW
	This is the second in our series of classic and groundbreaking Brazilian albums from the early 1960s. This is a bespoke digitally remastered, high quality box-edition CD o... More Info & Audio

Edu Lobo — A Musica De Edu Lobo Por Edu Lobo
AVAILABLE NOW
	Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound are issuing ‘Edu Lobo por Edu Lobo’, the legendary Brazilian vocalist/composer’s stunning debut album originally released in Brazil in 1965.More Info & Audio

Lijadu Sisters — Afro-Beat Soul Sisters: The Lijadu Sisters at Afrodisia, Nigeria, 1976-79.
AVAILABLE NOW
	Killer new female Afro-Beat Funk from Nigeria in the 1970s. The Lijadu Sisters released a series of albums in the 1970s in Nigeria that blended heavyweight Afro-Beat with ... More Info & Audio

Jende Ri Palenge CD/DVD/LP Box Set — People of Palenque - Afro Colombia
AVAILABLE NOW
	Soul Jazz Records presents this amazing 3 disc/5LP + dvd Box set Afro-Colombian music and film project made in Colombia. Film-makers/music producers Santiago Posada and Si... More Info & Audio

Voguing — Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1976 - 1996
AVAILABLE NOW
	Limited edition 3CD box set comes with exclusive bonus JUNIOR VASQUEZ voguing mix CD as well as set of unique collectible postcards by photographer Chantal Regnault. Also comes in limited ed... More Info & Audio


Latest Singles
Tevo Howard /Kutmah, Art+Sound 12" — Summer Romance
AVAILABLE NOW
	Extremely limited 12” (300 copies worldwide) and ONLY AVAILABLE exclusively from Sounds of the Universe record store and Soul Jazz Records. ... More Info & Audio

Hieroglyphic Being/2Yang, Art+Sound 12" — Shikaakwa
AVAILABLE NOW
	LAST COPIES - HURRY! Unique Art + Sound hand-etched 300 copies 180gm vinyl limited 12” art-piece/music single from Hieroglyphic Being/2Yang. More Info & Audio

Barry Stoller / Barbara Moore — Condition Red / Steam Heat
AVAILABLE NOW
	EXCLUSIVE 7" 45! EXCLUSIVE 7" 45! EXCLUSIVE 7" 45! 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE! Check out this killer, killer, killer new electronic/funk/jazz 45 on Soul Jazz R... More Info & Audio

Rocketnumbernine — Lone Raver / Black and Blue / Steel Drummer
AVAILABLE NOW
	SOUL JAZZ RECORDS are releasing the second single by Rocketnumbernine, an intense electronic progressive experimental monster! Their first single was released on Kieran He... More Info & Audio

Lijadu Sisters — Danger /Orere-Elejigbo
AVAILABLE NOW
	EXCLUSIVE! -IN STOCK NOW! THIS 12" is exclusive. You can only buy it here! Superb bomb 12", super loud, super heavyweight female Afro-Beat funk. ... More Info & Audio


Latest Books
Voguing: Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92 — Photographs by Chantal Regnault, Introduction by Tim Lawrence
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	OUT NOW! Available for £17.99 (RRP £25) Our new deluxe 200 page deluxe 24x30cm flexibound book, Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92, ... More Info & Audio

Cover Art of Studio One Records — Deluxe Hardback 12x12" 200 page Book
AVAILABLE NOW
	Available for limited period at special discount price! (£20 instead of RRP £30) 100% Absolutely essential! Super-deluxe 12x12" hardback 200 page plus, hundred... More Info & Audio

Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s — BOOK Edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker
AVAILABLE NOW
	This is the first ever collection of bossa nova record cover artwork, featuring stunning modernist and revolutionary designs that reflect the radical and exciting idealism of Brazil at the start... More Info & Audio

Kanaval — Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti by Leah Gordon
AVAILABLE NOW
	“This book contains the most disturbing but exhilarating photographs you are ever likely to see" Bill Drummond Soul Jazz Records' new photo... More Info & Audio

Latest News / Forthcoming Releases
Independent Record Label Market Soul Jazz Records in attendence this Saturday 19th May at Spitalfieds Market, London. 11-5pm. See you there - come and say hello! XL, Domino, R and S, Fat Cat, Soundway, Brownswood and loads more too!

Tevo Howard/Kutmah: Exclusive Sounds of the Universe 12" Image 1/2 ← → Extremely limited Art+Sound 12” (300 copies worldwide) and ONLY AVAILABLE exclusively from Sounds of the Universe record store and Soul Jazz Records. Buy/listen here. Check out video here. Listen to Tevo Howard's 50 minute exclusive mix for us here.

Jende Ri Palenge 2CD/DVD/5LP Box Set Order this amazing new DVD/2CD and DVD/5LP Box Set now here! Watch Trailer, see gallery, more about the project here. A new massive 2CD/DVD/5LP album and film about the people of Palenque, an important site of Afro-Colombian culture plus,an album of original Afro-Colombian music and a mindblowing album of remxes from Mattias Aguayo, Osunlade and more. This is a seriously deuxe item housed in either 2CD plus DVD hard case edition and very limited 1000-pressing 5LP (yes that's 5!) plus DVD hardbox vinyl edition. More info here. Buy here.

Voguing - Exclusive JUNIOR VASQUEZ mix CD on Soul Jazz! Junior Vasquez has given us a truly wicked exclusive MIX CD that will come in the first copies of our new triple CD Voguing album. This MIX CD also comes free in the first copies of the vinyl edition (in Vol.1 of vinyl). Order your copy of the album Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York 1976-92 now to be sure of getting this killer voguing old school disco and house mix from a legend! Order here

Voguing book new on Soul Jazz Books Image 1/7 ← → Our new deluxe 200 page deluxe 24x30cm flexibound book, Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92, features hundreds of stunning photographs from Chantal Regnault on the hidden world of New York’s underground house ballroom scene. Introductory essay is by Tim Lawrence, author of two seminal music books: ‘Love Saves the Day’ and ‘Hold on to your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92’. CD Out now! To coincide with the book, there is a 3CD/2x2LP album available right now ,featuring Masters at Work, MFSB, Junior Vasquez, Diana Ross, Armand Van Helden, Loose Joints, First Choice, and a super-exclusive free Junior Vasquez old school vogue mix! More info and listen to audio here. Buy 3CD/2x2LP here. Read interview with photographer Chantal Regnault in the Guardian here and Fader here. Listen to interview with Chantal Regnault on the BBC World Service here. New Quietus feature here. Order book now here.

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Afro-Beat Soul Sisters: The Lijadu Sisters at Afrodisia, Nigeria, 1976-79.

Monster new Afro-Beat retrospective on Soul Jazz Records available here.

Read Guardian newspaper feature here.

Exclusive 45! British TV, Film and Library Composers

EXCLUSIVE 7" 45!

500 COPIES WORLDWIDE!

Check out this killer, killer, killer new electronic/funk/jazz 45 on Soul Jazz Records. These two tracks (one rare library cut and one side taken from the original music of The Sweeney) are a taster for our forthcoming album of British TV,film and library composers that will be released at the start of 2012.

This 45 is going to go fast so if you want one, get in there quick!

Buy here.

Audio here.