New Releases

Kudos New Releases 04.11.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Over Tage is Svaneborg Kardyb's third album, following Knob (2019) and Haven (2020) and marks their debut for Gondwana Records. Jazmine Myra's Horizons gets a much-needed repress. Jazz'n'Beats is a new mini-compilation selected by Oonops and it's named as the eponymous …

Kudos New Releases 28.10.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Soul, R&B The Amsterdam-based producer, keyboardist, and music-lover Soul Supreme, known for his covers of classic cuts by the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def or MF DOOM steps away from the cover format for …

Kudos New Releases 07.10.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic The Maghreban's latest acclaimed album Connection is finally available on vinyl. Jennifer Loveless' debut EP on Butter Sessions has been getting plays all around the world this summer, and it's now on 12". Force Placement's Aerobicide …

Kudos New Releases 30.09.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk, Disco I Need Your Love dates from a lost heyday. From some time in the '80s or early '90s, when Lee Tracy and his music partner/producer/manager Isaac Manning committed hours upon hours of their sonic and …

Kudos New Releases 23.09.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk, Soul Hypnotise is the spellbinding new single from sampler slayers, The Allergies. Who, once again, build funky new worlds out of dope beats and loops from their wild and wonderful record collections. Rocafort Records and Say It …

Kudos New Releases 16.09.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz, Fusion The classic Greg Foat Group line-up returns with Blue Lotus featuring special guests Art Themen on soprano saxophone and Morgan Simpson (Black Midi) on drums. The Shaolin Afronauts are back with The Fundamental Nature of …

Kudos New Releases 09.09.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Saxophonist and flautist Chip Wickham takes us to Cloud 10 with his most soulful and lyrical album to date. Matasuna Records got their hands on a special gem - two obscure Latin/Jazz Funk tunes by a …

Kudos New Releases 26.08.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Matthew Halsall announces The Temple Within – a four track mini-album on 12", CD and digital. Karlrecords present the overdue double vinyl reissue of the Turkish free-formers' studio meeting with the German Free Jazz titan Peter …

Kudos New Releases 19.08.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Bassist and composer Milo Fitzpatrick (Portico Quartet) launches the new collaborative project Vega Trails with saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands) on Gondwana! Following in the footsteps of UK jazz heavyweights, Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry & Kaidi Tatham, London-based, Berklee-trained …

Kudos New Releases 12.08.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz We Jazz present the fourth issue of their super popular magazine, a must have for any Jazz fan. Elton Dean's Quartet's fabulous live performance from Teatro Cristallo in Milan, recorded in 1979 is available on CD …

Kudos New Releases 05.08.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Broken Beat Kaidi Tatham is back with his fourth solo album Don't Rush The Process. Electronic Gunai/Kunai & Yorta Yorta artist dj pgz makes his Butter Sessions debut with a killer 2-track EP The Dance / Hypnotic Suburbs. Vaporwave …

Kudos New Releases 29.07.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk, Soul, Jazz This is the second 7" single of The Pro-Teens' MF DOOM tribute material, following 2021's Peachfuzz b/w One Beer, taken from forthcoming full-length album tribute to MF DOOM. There is never any doubt that …

Kudos New Releases 22.07.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Wah Wah 45s are proud to present the return of a unique collaboration between the U.K. 's very own Afrobeat Ambassador, Dele Sosimi, and a producer who's been at the forefront of the South London electronic …

Kudos New Releases 15.07.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz, Fusion Leeds-based saxophonist Jasmine Myra presents her debut album on Gondwana Records. Produced by label founder Matthew Halsall, Horizons is a soulful and up-lifting journey through Jazz and Electronica. We also have a new double LP from Greg Foat on Blue Crystal Records. Psychosynthesis is a dreamy journey …

Kudos New Releases 08.07.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz, Bossa Summer 2022 marks the release of Here And There, the new album by the critically acclaimed Ethiopian jazz musician Kibrom Birhane. The Wayne Powell Octet delivers two mod-jazz tunes of the highest order. Petter Eldh's explosive ensemble …

Kudos New Releases 01.07.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Soul, Disco, Funk PTR deliver with two dynamite sides of northern soul. Also on 7" Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators get a repress on Timmion. Past Due Records and Jerome Derradji are at it again, this time with the …

Kudos New Releases 24.06.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk, Soul Ostinato Records bring us Beja sound from Noori and his Dorpa Band -an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, the heart of Beja culture. Carlton Jumel Smith is back on Timmion Records, doing what he does best: grooving, testifying and …

Kudos New Releases 17.06.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Kaidi Tatham returns to 2000BLACK with Galaxy, an R&B and boogie offerings in his own distinct style. After travelling the world for the decade with RSS B0YS, RSS B0Y 1 goes solo on his debut LP MYTHOLOGY. …

Kudos New Releases 10.06.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Ambient Next Time Could Be Your Last Time – the debut album by Forgiveness, AKA Jack Wyllie, JQ and Richard Pike. Described as "not really jazz, not really new age, not really ambient or electronica", instead they welcome you into a synaesthesia-inducing technicolour fantasy, full …

Kudos New Releases 27.05.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Gondwana Records sign LA bassist and composer Seth Ford-Young's Phi-Psonics project and announce a remastered deluxe-edition of The Cradle featuring bonus material. Following support from the likes of Jamie Cullum (BBCR2), Jazz FM & more, Manchester …

Kudos New Releases 20.05.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Dirty machine gun funk, dripping in fudgy acidic grooves on this twisted heater from native London badass Shy One. Techno collides with Jazz Fusion across three jams recorded straight out the box and cut exclusively onto …

Kudos New Releases 13.05.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Leftfield, Ambient 99CHANTS presents chant#9: Equations Collective x Lena Platonos x Rabih Beaini, a brace of remixes that rework chant#8's original sessions. Vanishing Lands is the most complex and dramatic work created to date by the artist …

Kudos New Releases 06.05.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Lord & Dego return to 2000Black with another self-titled album of broken boogie heaters. LNDFK (aka Linda Feki) presents her ground-breaking debut album, Kuni on Brooklyn-based Bastard Jazz Recordings. Having previously released records on Detroit Underground and fellow Utrecht …

Kudos New Releases 29.04.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk Freestyle digs deep to reissue this rare UK boogie 12" by Take Three, originally released back in 1983. Forming the first drop in a new reissue directive from the label, focused primarily on unearthing rare and …

Kudos New Releases 22.04.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz, Fusion, Disco The Psychedelic Freaks is a new alias of Horatio Luna's. The aptly titled debut LP Passing Through The Doorways Of Your Mind is an introspective 70s fusion space odyssey. Founded in 2019, Astral Flex …

Kudos New Releases 15.04.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Algebra Records head and multidisciplinary artist Casually Here (Nic Nell) self-releases his second solo album Possible Worlds which also comes in a clear limited edition vinyl. Belgian Kristof "(DJ) 4T4" Michiels has been around for a while, but Union Escapade is …

Kudos New Releases 08.04.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Out on Editions Mego, Nik Colk Void presents her debut solo album Bucked Up Space, following releases as one half of Factory Floor and one third of Carter Tutti Void (alongside Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni …

Kudos New Releases 01.04.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Hybrid Man returns after releasing four spacious cuts of downtempo breaks and house in 2019. This time debuting on Butter Sessions, the tracks on Shapeshifting feel like a natural progression, equally well-crafted with the DJ in …

Kudos New Releases 25.03.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk Dr. Dre and Jay-Z sampled, legendary cinematic funk combo CALIBRO 35 announces the reissue of their fifth album S.P.A.C.E. on ltd edition Crystal Orange vinyl and digital deluxe edition with bonus tracks. Radio Trip's Music Heads is released for …

Kudos New Releases 18.03.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Brazil Multi-talented musician and Moons' singer-songwriter Jennifer Souza presents her second solo album. With a sound palette that moves from Brazilian song to jazz, from melancholic folk to indie rock with multiple and unexpected instrumentation, Pacífica Pedra …

Kudos New Releases 11.03.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Middle Eastern Pop Habibi Funk returns with a curated selection of music made in the 80s by Egyptian artist Hamid El Shaeri, including the iconic track 'Ayonha'. Latin On Rocafort, Papa Orbe's debut album under his own name goes back to …

Kudos New Releases 04.03.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk  This latest 7" release from Kraak & Smaak showcases a couple of gems from the era that started it all. Calibro 35, the legendary crime funk combo sampled by Dr.Dre and Jay-Z, announce the reissue of Traitors, their …

Kudos New Releases 25.02.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Bastard Jazz a DJ friendly 4xLP to celebrate their 20th anniversary with brand new cuts from its current roster, plus a selection of catalogue material, some of it classic, some of it overlooked, and some of …

Kudos New Releases 18.02.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jungle Banoffee Pies' first edition of their white label series with Tim Reaper and Comfort Zone has been repressed for anyone who missed out the first time round. Soul Lovemonk brings us Burundian soul singer JP Bimeni's first album after his BBC 6 Music …

Kudos New Releases 11.02.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Reggae A huge drop this week from Reggae On Top and its sublabel King Earthquake. Jazz, Funk Beat-maker and bass player Moonbrew and organist and keyboardist Paolo Apollo Negri collaborate to create a sonic universe where hip hop meets funk …

Kudos New Releases 04.02.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Breaks, Techno On 7’’ this week, First Word comes with more music from Werkha! One track featured by Portuguese vocals of Moreiya and a second 4/4 and half time from Le Motel. DBA enlist four techno powerhouses for the latest in the 0.5 series …

Kudos New Releases 28.01.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Ambient, Field Recordings Hania Rani returns with a 12’’ EP including some of her favourite performed pieces re-arranged for Gondwana Records, on limited edition clear vinyl. Regno Maggiore is the debut album of Davide Meucci, Turin based artist, who …

Kudos New Releases 14.01.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk The Pro-Teens pay tribute to the late great MF DOOM, reimagining two iconic cuts from the deep catalogue of the infamous Metal Fingered Villain, ahead of a full-length LP of MF DOOM covers, coming later this …

Kudos New Releases 21.01.2022

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic Iconic Norwegian producer and composer Biosphere follows up his evocative Angel's Flight release with a new album Shortwave Memories, an album inspired by the post-punk electronic music of the late 70's and early 80's, especially the …

Kudos New Releases 17.12.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz First up we have represses of Mathew Halsall’s Oneness and Colour Yes (Special Edition) on Gondwana Records. The sophomore album of the Hamburg Spinners, a contemporary soul, mod-jazz and R&B outfit based in Hamburg. Drummer/producer Teppo "Teddy Rok" Mäkynen shares two unreleased …

Kudos New Releases 10.12.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz First up this week, Gogo Penguin's stunning Fanfares receives an eagerly anticipated repress. Brooklyn based drummer/producer Jason Nazary (of Anteloper) makes his We Jazz Records debut with Spring Collection. Also on We Jazz, Timo Lassy's LP …

Kudos New Releases 03.12.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz, Fusion Taking a look at this week’s LPs we have Gondwana label boss Matthew Halsall’s hotly anticipated album Salute to the Sun Live at Hallé St. Peter’s. This will fly so act quick. The Roundtable return with a second offering of …

Kudos New Releases 26.11.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Disco, Funk, Soul Three stunning 7"s this week! Athens of the North bring us one of the finest gospel tracks ever cut to vinyl from vocalist Earl Young. Record Kicks present Gurami the first single from the …

Kudos New Releases 12.11.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Big one this week from Gondwana Records with Portico Quartet's new album Monument, the electronic driven follow-up to Terrain is available on double black vinyl, double clear vinyl and CD. Rosie Turton's Expansions and Transformations: Part …

Kudos New Releases 05.11.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk  An explosive debut from the US based funk outfit The Grease Traps that's sure to win fans all over. 7"s this week come from some of our most reliable 45 labels, Bombstrikes drop a double header from Ali B …

Kudos New Releases 29.10.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Gondwana press a clear version of Portico Quartet's Terrain LP from earlier this year - your chance to grab this one after the previous versions sold out almost immediately. They've also repressed Portico Quartet & Hania Rani's split 12". Linda Fredriksson shares …

Kudos New Releases 22.10.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Athens Of The North Kicking off, Athens of the North drop by with two new albums, the Coast to Coast album is an unreleased slice of magical modern soul from 1976, and we've also got a second volume of their essential For …

Kudos New Releases 15.10.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Electronic, Techno, Dance Kit Grill drops by with a new cassette on his Primary Colours imprint. Musically, Fragile is a more dance-centric record than 2020's Ride with eleven blistering tracks aimed straight for the dancefloor. Hysteria Temple Foundation step up …

Kudos New Releases 08.10.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Jazz Dan Berkson, former member of dance music duo Berkson & What, turns his hand to jazz with his debut album Dialogues on Freestyle Records -  an accomplished and rewarding body of work pulled together during his final days in …

Kudos New Releases 01.10.2021

Welcome to this week's run down of physical releases shipping from the Kudos warehouse. Funk, Disco There's a whole host of great albums going this week, including a new one from feel-good funk & hip-hop duo The Allergies on Jalapeno and a third volume of Japanese funk, disco & boogie from the Wamono vaults on 180G. On the …