Wind your way down the stairs at The Book Club in Hoxton and the first thing you see is a pool table and the queue to the cloakroom. Beyond that a crowd has formed and the party is off and going. You have entered the world of Andy Smith’s Jam Up Twist. Instead of the area’s blend of the latest dance music trends, Andy is expertly weaving a mix of great music from the distant past. A blend of rockabilly, jump blues, 60s soul and ska is pulling a crowd, and from the moment I heard it I knew that Andy was once more creating a club night that we at BGP would like to celebrate on CD.

Eight tracks new to CD. First anthology of the group’s earliest singles. Includes numerous mammoth Jamaican hits. After crashing onto the reggae music scene in 1977 with their debut single ‘Two Sevens Clash’, Culture demonstrated the depth of their talent with further powerful and inspirational 7” and 12” singles for leading Jamaican producer, Joe Gibbs.
Formed the previous year by Joseph Hill, his cousin Albert Walker and friend Roy Dayes, the trio first assumed the title of The African Disciples before adopting their more familiar moniker just prior to joining Gibbs’s impressive artist roster.

Import remastered reissue of 1983 album. 15 tracks including six bonus tracks, 'Savage Breast', 'Pawsher', 'Permission', 'Midnight Summer Dream/European Female' (Live), 'Vladimir & Olga' & 'Aural Sculpture Manifesto'.

Numered edition Hybrid SACD. Strictly limited to 3,000 copies. The 1968 album that made Johnny Cash a music legend! Johnny Cash already knew his way around Folsom Prison when he and his band stepped inside the institution's forbidding walls on the morning of January 13, 1968 to record At Folsom Prison. He'd played there two years prior. But this time was different.

Numered edition Hybrid SACD. Strictly limited to 3,000 copies. The 1968 album that made Johnny Cash a music legend! Johnny Cash already knew his way around Folsom Prison when he and his band stepped inside the institution's forbidding walls on the morning of January 13, 1968 to record At Folsom Prison. He'd played there two years prior. But this time was different.

Thomas Jerome Moulton (/ˈmoʊltən/, MOHL-tən; born November 29, 1940) is an American record producer. He experimented with remix in disco music and this led to its wide adoption as a standard practice in the industry. He also invented the breakdown section, and the 12-inch single vinyl format in the process.

For Earth Below, the third studio album by British guitar legend Robin Trower was released in 1975 and is considered one of his most prominent works from his time as a solo artist after leaving Procol Harum. For Earth Below continued to build on the success of his previous album Bridge of Sighs, solidifying him as an arena touring artist in the States, reaching number 5 on the Billboard chart. Following the exit of Reg Isadore, the exciting Bill Lordan (Sly & The Family Stone) joined the band shortly before the recording of this album, giving a new driving force to the outfit.To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this classic, Chrysalis Records are proud to present the most expanded edition of the album to date featuring the original album remastered at AIR mastering, a newly unearthed extended stereo mix of the entire record, a disc of outtakes, rarities and BBC sessions with the majority previously unreleased and a newly mixed concert taped live in Los Angeles from the For Earth Below tour, never available in it's entirety before.At the centre of the package is a booklet featuring newly written liner notes by acclaimed journalist David Sinclair and interviews with Robin Trower and Bill Lordan. For Earth Below [50th Anniversary Edition]: 4-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition: Original 1975 Mix (2025 Remaster), 2025 Extended Stereo Mix, Outtakes & Rarities, Live in Los Angeles, 1975.

"Music for the holiday – sung with taste and authority!" That's how RCA Victor described the 1962 release Christmas with Eddy Arnold, the superstar entertainer's first holiday album. Whether the style was country or pop, Eddy Arnold always sang with taste and authority – as well as tremendous warmth and a big heart. Between 1945 and 2008, "The Tennessee Plowboy" notched 147 U.S. chart hits, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry. The music of Christmas was near and dear to Arnold's heart, and between 1949 and 1967, he recorded two dozen holiday favorites for the RCA Victor label. Now, every one of those seasonal sides has been collected by Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records on The Complete RCA Victor Christmas Recordings, including the complete Christmas with Eddy Arnold album produced by Chet Atkins and featuring Nashville's finest musicians. This first-ever compendium of Eddy Arnold's yuletide music boasts his own "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" and "Will Santy Come to Shanty Town," along with Boudleaux Bryant's "Christmas Can't Be Far Away" and family favorites such as "Up on the Housetop," "Winter Wonderland," "White Christmas" and "Jingle Bell Rock" – all rendered in the timeless, smooth Arnold style.

In the '90s, Blue Note assembled numerous compilations – everything from Brazilian jazz to an album of jazz artists interpreting Beatles gems. Many of those compilations tended to favor Blue Note's classic '50s and '60s output, but the focus of this 1994 release is Blue Note in the '80s and '90s. And all of the material is solid; that is true of performances by Young Lions like pianist Benny Green (Freddie Hubbard's "One of Another Kind") and tenor saxman Javon Jackson ("I Waited for You"), and it is true of the contributions of established veterans such as saxman Sonny Fortune (who performs an alto/piano duet with Kirk Lightsey on Thelonious Monk's "Reflections") and pianist McCoy Tyner (who teams up with vibist Bobby Hutcherson on Monk's "Blue Monk"). Most of the tracks are acoustic hard bop or post-bop, but Blue Note Now! enters the fusion realm with John Scofield's funky "Do Like Eddie" (which features the late Eddie Harris on tenor sax). Naturally, there is a selection by Joe Lovano, who was among Blue Note's most celebrated artists in the '90s. The very flexible Lovano has never had a problem excelling in a modal post-bop environment, but his version of Booker Little's "Rounders Mood" is pure bop and finds the saxman forming a two-tenor front line with Joshua Redman.

The man behind some of the most urgent, delirious and seductive house music ever made. As everyone learns, history can be cruel. Back at the dawn of the 1990s, the embryonic French dance scene (sometimes known as "French Touch") was built by a bizarrely sparse tangle of hands: Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Air, Phillipe Zdar aka Cassius, Bob Sinclair. Yet there’s one producer who’s been pitilessly overlooked. Étienne Bernard Marie de Crécy was a draughtsman whose foundations still prop up the likes of Justice and the Ed Banger label with frictional aplomb. De Crécy has been behind some of the most urgent, delirious and downright seductive house music ever to escape from across the channel. Readers of a certain vintage might, when reading or hearing the name Superdiscount, experience spontaneous pupil dilation. And so they should, at the thought of his lurid, filtered and thematic compositions scattered across this tasty five-disc set, collecting material from de Crécy’s 20 years of work.

The Wall: The High Resolution Remasters. Limited Edition of 300 numbered copies.

Soul Jazz Records are proud to present this new collection of music from the great Fashion Records, one of the most important and iconic independent reggae labels to come out of the UK, running from 1980 for nearly 20 years. In that time Fashion released hundreds of records that successfully reflected - and indeed set - the changing styles and perspectives of reggae music in the UK, from UK dancehall and lovers rock in the 1980s through to the mighty rise of jungle in the second half of the 1990s.

Best of Bill Evans 1977–1980 is a well-curated portrait of the pianist’s final creative phase, with standout live performances and carefully chosen studio pieces. It’s a compelling gateway into Evans’ later years, showcasing complex textures and heartfelt expression beyond his iconic '60s trio legacy.

Cerrone has been a musical icon beyond Disco for five decades. He keeps inspiring the greatest names of electronic music and improving his way of playing and creating music. With 'Disco Symphony' Cerrone revisits in a symphonic way 21 of his greatest hits performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes, directed by the legendary Randy Kerber. Also featuring Cerrone himself on the drums and an additional bass-guitars-keyboards band playing with the orchestra. Merging the power of electronic music, the groove of Disco and the lyrism and unique touch of a symphony orchestra, in respect of the club Culture Cerrone was born in and with.

A founder member of SOFT MACHINE, Kevin embarked on a solo career in 1969, signing to EMI’s Harvest label and recording the album ‘JOY OF A TOY’ the same year. It is a mark of Kevin’s stature that his recordings during this period would feature contributions from notable musicians such as arranger and keyboard player DAVID BEDFORD, ROBERT WYATT, SYD BARRETT, MIKE OLDFIELD, LOL COXHILL, STEVE HILLAGE, ARCHIE LEGGET and more. This boxed set includes all of the surviving BBC sessions and In Concert appearances recorded by Kevin during this period, including a previously unreleased John Peel concert from 1970 and other tracks featuring Soft Machine, Bridget St. John and Gong. Other highlights include the inclusion of a complete set recorded at a Hyde Park Free concert in 1970, newly mixed and restored by Stephen W Tayler, previously unreleased session out-takes and a segment from a 1972 concert and a performance at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1973. Rounding off the set is a region free Blu-ray video disc which includes a series of live performances recorded for French television, along with two sessions for The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972 and 1973 (with three previous unseen alternate performances from 1972) and the ‘Caribbean Moon’ promotional film.