Reissues
Their Greatest Hits
Super Mazembe's "Greatest Hits," serves as a definitive collection celebrating the band's remarkable contributions to East African music. Released in 1986, this compilation features a carefully curated selection of the band's most iconic tracks, encapsulating their vibrant sound and the infectious energy that made them a household name. Highlights include fan favorites like "Shauri Yako" and "Kasongo" each track showcasing the band's skillful musicianship and unique ability to blend traditional…
A Bossa Negra
Released in 1960, this album stands as one of the most powerful stories in Brazilian music. Born into deep poverty in a Rio favela, Elza Soares faced a life marked by unimaginable hardship, forced into marriage at 13, surviving abuse, and enduring the heartbreak of losing three children. Yet she refused to be defined by tragedy. Through sheer strength and talent, she rose to the top of Brazil’s music scene, her voice becoming a symbol of resilience and fire. A Bossa Negra is often hailed as her …
Tiger Rock
Tiger Rock, the electrifying 1972 debut from German power trio Tiger B. Smith, is back on vinyl, ready to captivate a new wave of heavy rock enthusiasts. This record channels the untamed spirit of Hendrix while diving deep into raw, fuzz-drenched kraut-psych soundscapes. At the heart of the album is the nine-minute epic “To Hell,” a relentless storm of driving riffs and pulsing rhythm that boldly captures the band’s wild, fearless edge. Blending swagger with bold experimentation, Tiger Rock offe…
Docteur Nico Presents African Fiesta Sukisa 1966-1974
Planet Ilunga presents, in collaboration with the children of Nico Kasanda alias Docteur Nico, an anthology dedicated to African Fiesta Sukisa, available as a 3LP and a digital release (with bonus songs). This release is the fruit of many years of preparations and was realized in close partnership with Liliane Kasanda, Nico’s eldest daughter. Marking forty years since his passing, we felt that the year 2025 was the right time to honor Docteur Nico’s legacy with this original collection.
Almost a…
Angkhanang Khunchai & The Ubon Phatthana Band
Born in the province of Ubon Ratchathani in Isan (the northeastern region of Thailand), Angkhanang Khunchai was a young female prodigy who emerged on the molam scene, and became one of the first generation of molam performers who were able to "sing" popular music. From an early age she was mentored by renowned national molam artist Chawiwan Damnoen, and in her mid-teens joined the legendary musical troupe the Ubon Phatthana Band as the lead vocalist.
In 1971 at the age of 16 she released a singl…
The Essential Doi Inthanon : Classic Isan Pops From The 70s - 80s
A revered figure in his native Isan region, and indeed throughout Thailand, Doi Inthanon is a legendary composer, producer, visionary and talent-spotter, a man who combines business acumen with an unerring ability to both predict and engender new directions in Thai popular music. Fittingly naming himself after the tallest mountain in the nation, he has towered over Thai music since the early 70s, and is still active today. This compilation, the first "various artists" collection in the EM Record…
Man on a Water Buffalo
For reasons unknowable, certain places in certain eras become hotbeds of music, fertile in their growth and flowering of musical talent. Thailand in the 1970s was such a place, and Dao Bandon is one of the enduring greats of that era. Born in the farm country of the Isan region, Bandon came from a poor family and was a monk during his teens, two great influences which shaped him, with his farm roots grounding the earthy heart of his lyrics, and his years of monastic chanting lending a unique res…
Endometrio
Originally issued as a private LP edition of 400 copies in 1983. De-composition for synthetic sounds and electronically generated noises. Here M.B. distanced himself from the movement of the industrial Bruitists, introducing his "bionic music." Notwithstanding the difficulty of listening, especially upon initial impact, you are facing treated and filtered synthetic sounds that become new organisms -- sound cells analyzed under the microscope. This CD also includes excerpts from private tape edit…
DeLuxe
Deluxe (50th Anniversary Edition) Orange vinyl, gatefold sleeve with unreleased archival photographs Fifty years ago, three musicians gathered in a German village and created something that would reshape electronic music's possibilities. Harmonia - Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius - weren't trying to make a statement. They were following a vision, one that understood structure and spontaneity as complementary forces rather than opposites. Deluxe, released in 1975, marke…
Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel II
*2025 stock* 36 and Zake follow up the epic work of Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel Part 1 with another eighteen chapters "of aural anesthetics" which "continue their journey through the outer reaches of space in hypersleep." The album comes in different coloured versions and this yellow copy boasts the sort of grainy and immersive ambient that immediately takes you out into the farthest reaches of space. It's widescreen and cinematic and makes for the sort of journeying album that …
Peace Chant Vol. 8 (More Private Jazz From Germany 1974-1986)
The term “private” is used quite liberally in the promotion of rare groove compilations these days. The team at Tramp Records tends to be rather defensive when it comes to such terms. Although, and this should not be misunderstood as arrogance, label boss Tobias Kirmayer & his crew have been doing nothing else for 22 years, strictly speaking. Every compilation series from the Upper Bavarian label, be it the “Movements,” “Feeling Nice,” “Praise Poems,” or “Can You Feel It” series, specializes in …
Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 4
"When I came to New York City in 1975, after my second period in Paris, I felt as if I was starting again. I didn’t have a band at that time. The Black Artists Group had broken up, or separated—well, it wasn’t much of a “break-up,” but we had come to our musical end, even though one of the last groups I had before returning to New York was with BAG member Baikida Carroll playing trumpet, Peter Warren on bass, and Oliver Johnson on drums. I was basically by myself. I felt eager and anxious to see…
Lite Hits
In the early 90s there were a few like minded friends making a unique style of lo-fi pop music. At the core of this non-scene were Sukpatch, Land of the Loops and The Ah Club, who all tended to play on each other's recordings. As the decade went on each of them learned how to use their instruments better, smoothing over the edges, but in typical fashion, the early home recordings had a special feeling that couldn’t be replicated with cleaner fidelity and nicer equipment. Sukpatch especially were…
The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Remastered from the original Mono master tapes at Abbey Road by Geoff Pesche. The fourth Donovan LP in our re-issue series is The Hurdy Gurdy Man, the sixth studio album (seventh overall) by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. Released in 1968, his songwriting here centered on drones such as on the songs 'Peregrine', 'The River Song' and 'Tangier', pop on most of the other tracks and jazz on 'As I Recall It'.
Vandreudstilling Hara Ghash
*2025 stock* Green Grass, the Danish psychedelic folk pioneers, unveil Vandreudstilling Hara Ghash, a hypnotic exploration of traditionals and originals that captures a quintessential era of 1970s European underground music. This release reintroduces a record long cherished by collectors for its adventurous spirit, intricate textures, and unguarded emotional resonance.
Vandreudstilling Hara Ghash draws listeners into a landscape where folk melodies braid with early psych experimentation, creatin…
Eg Meini Teð
*2025 stock* Feo, the blind-polkied ensemble born in the Danish scene of the early 1970s, re-emerges with Eg Meini Teð, their pioneering progressive folk LP originally released in 1971. This reissue, presented by Orpheus Records, revisits a landmark work that captures the group’s stark, acoustic sensibilities and intricate interweavings of traditional motifs with forward-thinking arrangements.
A historically significant release, Eg Meini Teð stands as Feo’s emblematic exploration of mood-driven …
Our Thing
From the halls of Kashmere High School to the discographies of funk aficionados worldwide, the Kashmere Stage Band’s debut album Our Thing, self-released in 1969, stands as a defining artifact of American funk. Born from a Texas student ensemble under the exacting direction of musical director Conrad O. Johnson, the band forged a sound steeped in raw, unfiltered groove and high-velocity horn work that would resonate for decades.
Our Thing captures the Kashmere Stage Band at a pivotal moment: a r…
Shoulda Killed Me When You Had The Chance......
*50 copies limited edition. 8xtapes, book, thumb drive, hand printed postcard, hand-printed cassette artwork, two short essays* Eric Lunde’s recorded output began in the late 1980s, and many of his early releases are long out of print. Joe Colley did the world a favor in 1997 when he when he released when you wish upon a scar, a compilation of Lunde’s early work. However, there is something to be said for being able to both hear the entirety of a release as well as the chronological evolution of…
Another Thought
Another Thought was the first collection of Arthur Russell’s music to be released after his death in 1992. Released on CD by Point Music in 1993 it marked the beginning of nearly 30 years of work to let the world hear the enormous archive of unreleased recordings Arthur left behind. Be With revisits this first compilation for a new gatefold double vinyl version and a triple-fold digipak CD re-issue.
This is the only place where you can hear some of Arthur’s most recognisable music, like the titl…
Kwashiorkor Presents...
*41 copies limited edition* Emerging from the dense web of the 1980s mail-art underground, 'Kwashiorkor Presents…' gathers two rare cassettes from the elusive American collective known as Kwashiorkor (or K+), whose radical DIY ethos blurred the borders between music, collage, and correspondence. 'Kwashiorkor Presents…' collects 'We Are Numberless' (1988) and 'Reliving The Past' (1986) in a deluxe double-cassette edition that maps the outer edges of the 1980s home-taping underground. Kwashiorkor …