WEEK 1

We wish all our customers a happy new year.

It was great seeing so many of our friends and customers at the Luxury Soul Weekender in Blackpool last weekend, it really is a great event and the Valentine Brothers blew us all away, fantastic old school soul.

The Luxury Soul 2012 triple CD is now in stock and is essential and includes Eric Benet’s version of ‘Wake Up Everybody’ which somehow didn’t make the Physical edition of his ‘Lost in Time’ set.

Also there is a good 5CD set of the Best Of Al Kent’s Disco Demands featuring 45 obscure underground disco tracks and re-edits, also available as two double LP sets.

Later this week we will receive the first of many compilations that will be released this year celebrating the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia International. ‘The Re-Edits’ contains 21 recent re-edits of Philly classics and lesser known gems on a double CD.

There is also a nice retrospective of UK funk band Push and a couple of good 45’s from Soul Junction.

Soul Brother new year sale is on until 31st Jan 2012. We are offering selected Soul Brother and Expansion CD titles at £9.99 each or 5 for £40.
There is also a wide range of classic albums that are available in this deal.

Also for fans of the radio show be sure to tune in as we will be playing a selection of the best from 2011 plus a few new tracks. You can listen to past shows here

Soulfully yours

Laurence.

ALBUMS OF THE WEEK

VARIOUS ARTISTS - LUXURY SOUL 2012 - CD - EXPANSION (3CD) - NEW - £12.99 Luxury Soul 2012 is a great value triple CD set which includes many exclusive tracks. Eric Benet 'Wake Up Everybody' and Cool Million 'Love The Beat (JD73 remix), Real 'Satisfaction' and Victor Haynes ' Music and Love' appear on CD for the first time. June Yamagisihi with Bobby Womack 'I'll Come Running Back To You'is a hugely in demand track from his long deleted jap album. There are also recent tracks from Live Tropical Fish, Sunburst band, Reel People, Soul Talk, Anthony David and Sheree Brown'. Good set.
read full review and hear clips for LUXURY SOUL 2012 CD

VARIOUS ARTISTS - BEST OF DISCO DEMANDS - CD - BBE (5CD) - NEW - £24.99 45 Obscure and underground 70’s Disco tracks, including many re-edits spread across 5 CD’s. Includes Jimmy Sabatar ‘To Be with You’, Silver Platinum and Gold ‘Just Friends’, Executive Suite ‘Why In The World Do They keep On’,  Curtis ‘How Can I Tell Her’, Crosstown Traffic ‘Party People’, Arts and Craft ‘I’ve Been Searchin’, Sizzle ‘Love Is All Around’, Cheryl Berdell ‘Giving It All To You’ and Al Tanner ‘Doing our Own Thang’. Vinyl features 8 tracks on each double pack.
Read full review and hear clips for VARIOUS ARTISTS - BEST OF DISCO DEMANDS - CD
NEW, RECOMMENDED AND HOT SELLERS w/e 13th January 2012
COALITIONS - ON THE BLOCK/THE MEMORY OF YOU - SOUL JUNCTION - 7" - - £10 HARVEY SCALES - GIVING U WHAT U WANT/I'D BE A FOOL - SOUL JUNCTION - 7" - - £10 EARTH WIND AND FIRE - ALL N ALL - COLUMBIA - CD - NEW - £9.99 PUSH - RETROSPECTIVE 1987-2004 RETURN OF THE RARE GROOVE - PUSH RECORDS - CD - NEW - £13.99
MILES DAVIS - SO WHAT - METRO (2CD) - CD - NEW - £9.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - SKA - MOONSTOMPERS SHUFFLERS AND SKANKERS - METRO (2CD) - CD - NEW - £9.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - LUXURY SOUL 2012 - EXPANSION (3CD) - CD - NEW - £12.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - BEST OF DISCO DEMANDS - BBE (5CD) - CD - NEW - £24.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS - BEST OF DISCO DEMANDS PT 1 - BBE (2LP) - LP - NEW - £21.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - BEST OF DISCO DEMANDS PT 2 - BBE (2LP) - LP - NEW - £21.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL THE RE-EDITS - HARMLESS (2CD) - CD - NEW - £12.99
NEW, RECOMMENDED AND HOT SELLERS w/e 30th December 2011
CELESTIAL - CELESTIAL - PARRISSCOPE - CD - NEW - £14.99 KENNY WELLINGTON - IN RETROSPECT - MBJ - CD - NEW - £12.99 CURTIS AMY/DUPREE BOLTON - KATANGA - PASSION JAZZ - CD - NEW - £12.99 MASCARA - SEE YOU IN L.A. - EXPANSION - CD - NEW - £12.99
ENCHANTMENT - SOFT LIGHTS SWEET MUSIC - FTG - CD - NEW - £13.99 ENCHANTMENT - ENCHANTED LADY - FTG - CD - NEW - £13.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - SOUL A LA MODE - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - WHATS THE WORD - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS - SMOOTH GROOVES - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - PHILLY BUSTERS - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - BUSTING OUT - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 2 STEPS TO SOUL HEAVEN - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS - THEY CALL IT CROSSOVER - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - MOD LIFE CRISIS - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - LOST IN TIME - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - PAIN GOES DEEPER - BACKBEATS - CD - NEW - £6.99
COLONEL RED - KEEP WALKING - TOKYO DAWN - CD - NEW - £12.99 OPOLOPO - MUTANTS - TOKYO DAWN - CD - NEW - £12.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - BOOGIE 2 - TOKYO DAWN - CD - NEW - £12.99 SOULPARLOUR - EVOLUZION - TOKYO DAWN - CD - NEW - £12.99
CTI REMASTERED SPECIAL
AIRTO - FINGERS - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 GEORGE BENSON - WHITE RABBIT - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 KENNY BURRELL - GOD BLESS THE CHILD - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99
RON CARTER - ALL BLUES - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 HANK CRAWFORD - DON'T WORRY BOUT A THING - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 PAUL DESMOND - PURE DESMOND - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99
MILT JACKSON - SUNFLOWER - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM - STONE FLOWER - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 LONNIE SMITH - MAMA WAILER - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99
RANDY WESTON - BLUE MOSES - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 ESTHER PHILLIPS - PERFORMANCE - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99 JOHNNY HAMMOND - WILD HORSES ROCK STEADY - CTI MASTERWORKS - CD - NEW - £13.99

TOP BAKERS DOZEN SOUL
Anthony Hamilton – Back To Love
Betty Wright –Betty Wright The Movie
Alicia Myers – Peace Of Mind
L J Reynolds - Get To this
Josh Milan – Honeycomb music
Revelations ft Tre Williams – Concrete blues
Electric Empire – Electric Empire
Soul Togetherness 2011
Marc Staggers – Key To my heart
Jill Scott – from the vault
Deborah Bond – Madam Palindrome
Sharon Jones –Soul time
Soul Persona –Lap Dancer

TOP TEN JAZZ
Richard Elliot – In The Zone
Dave Mc Murray – I Know About Love
Zara McFarlane - Until Tommorow
Jessy J – Hot Sauce
Sabrina Malheiros - Dreamin
George Benson – Guitar man
Nat Birchall - Sacred Dimension
Nicolas Payton - Bitches
Dwight Trible – Cosmic
Gregory Porter - Water

BEST ALBUMS OF 2011 REVIEW The best albums of this year show the diversity of styles of Soul and Jazz music, from the smoothness and sheer quality of Eric Benet, energy of Deborah Bond and Josh Milan to the gritty soul of The Revelations and Tad Robinson. On the jazz side Nicole Conte delivered as always, and M Swift/24 Karat, Native and Colman Brothers made great jazz dance albums, Down To The Bone and Richard Elliot made their best for a while, and Matthew Halsall’s modal album shines the light for British Jazz. This year will also be remembered for the scale and quality of reissues. From the classic 70’s Soul of Willie Hutch, O’Jays, Johnnie Taylor, Candi Staton and Skullsnaps to the unearthing of lost gems from Willie Tee and Janice and one of the best 80’s boogie albums Khemistry. Bennie Maupin, Harvey Mason and Jon Lucien classic jazz fusion albums, and strong compilations Skip Scarborough Songbook, Ralph tee’s luxury Soul and Spirit of Philadelphia 3 rounded off the classics. Click here or click the image above to view

Our Christmas catalogue colour pages are available to download as a PDF...click here to download (right click - 'save as' to save to your computer)


We have a great range of Box Sets,T-shirts, Record Bag, 45 metal centres, and our ever popular Gift Vouchers that make excellent presents to give or receive. Click here to view.

NEW RANGES
See out new wider selection of Blues, reggae and Vocal Jazz CD’s. Click here