TRACKLIST: A1. Beautiful Baby A2. Better Change Your Mind B1. Atomic Bomb B2. Shame B3. I Need You All Life William Onyeabor in color!! 10th anniversary!! William Onyeabor was born outside Enugu, a small, rural town in Eastern Nigeria, he created his own genre of African electronic funk in the late 70s and early 80s, […]
2 LP Inspired by the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid, his home since August 2022, Milo Fitzpatrick presents Sierra Tracks the new album from his expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project Vega Trails. Having cut 2022’s beautifully resonant debut album ‘Tremors in the Static’ as a duo, alongside saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal […]
2 LP Originally released in 2014, Strut re-introduces Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997, the highly sought-after definitive retrospective of one of Chicago’s most important and innovative house music labels. Emerging as a raw alternative to the powerhouses of Trax and DJ International during the mid- ‘80s, Dance Mania continued to represent street-level Chicago club […]
Hard Times Furious Dancing is the fourth studio album by secretive forest dwellers Snapped Ankles – it follows 2021’s Forest Of Your Problems (Rough Trade Shops Album of the Month). Forest Of Your Problems peaked at a tantalising #41 in the official UK album chart (#2 in the indie chart and #5 in the physical […]
Rob Mazurek’s Alternate Moon Cycles was our first release. The incredibly spare single-note-centered cornet, bass, and organ chant was recorded to tape at pint-sized Chicago bar Curio as part of a performance series that predates any notion of our label’s existence. Documenting this performance—highly unique even within the depths of Mazurek’s vast catalog—stirred those notions, […]
It is a case of pop cultural archaeology. A search for traces in electronic music. After more than 30 years, lost tapes by Holger Czukay that he once recorded “for free disposal” have resurfaced. A sound meditation from 1997, now available for the first time remastered in the original and in a “version” by die […]
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You’ve got to try this product: The Substance. It changed my life. Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head […]
2 CD The acknowledged Queen Of Country Music, Kitty Wells was the frst solo female singer to top the US Country charts, in 1952, with It Wasnt God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels She went on to establish herself as Countrys frst female superstar, and in doing so she took down the barriers on behalf […]
Oriki is an album blending jazz, Fuji and Afrobeat in a powerful tribute to Yoruba heritage. Featuring Mercury Prize-shortlisted Moses Boyd, Afronaut Zu (Steam Down, Rudimental) and spoken word artist Adesayo, Oriki merges ancestral praise with contemporary expression. Six years in the making, the album draws inspiration from NIJIs great-grandmother, Matilda Taiwo (Mata), and serves […]
Julian Schnabel’s tribute to his friend and fellow painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is less a conventional biopic than an impressionistic, sensory immersion into the much-mythologized downtown-Manhattan art world of the 1980s. Jeffrey Wright, in his first lead film role, stars as the visionary artist whose rise from graffiti tagger to art star forces him to confront […]
