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Landscape of Love

Highly awaited repress of the long sold-out compilation Hearsay I-Land, which encompasses Roland P. Young's 80s foray into synth-pop, dance, funk, soul, and new wave, including the downtempo classic, Ballo-Balla. Includes the I-Land 12" in its entirety, as well as most of the Hearsay Evidence lp. Copies shipping in March.

The charismatic Molina (Geena / Antinote) hits again on his well named Worldwide Zen label with a eight tracks album ! It has this exotic lover vibe, with delay, eighties synths and drums.

Whoaah!!The nastiest MC in the game is back with the appropriately named album Ankh Nasty, coming out on nude edition vinyl, with three bonus tracks. Featuring appearances from Vic Spencer, Estee Nack and Rahiem Supreme. Produced by The Historian, Sadhugold, Hooligan, HNIC and Vinyl Villain to name a few.

For the first in a new series of albums covering the Sudanese soul and jazz scenes, Habibi Funk serves up an album of previously unreleased material by veteran performer Kamal Keila. The music contained on the album comes from two reel-to-reel tapes of session recordings made by Keila and his band for Sudanese radio in 1992, though many of the songs and arrangements date back to the 1970s. During his '70s peak, Keila was often described locally as "Sudan's answer to James Brown or Fela Kuti". Although the influence of both is present on both tracks, you'll also hear Sudanese blues, fifties-style R&B, hazy funk influenced by the Ethiopian music scene and sweet, horn-heavy, breakbeat-powered sing-alongs. Superb stuff, all told.