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Sample Classics and Rarities from the Seminal Jazz and Soul Label Black Fire

Sample Music From Memory

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Sample the Legendary Latin and Afro-Caribbean Label Ansonia Records

Sample Philly Groove Records

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Jakarta Records - The Sweet Spot for Sampling Organic Grooves

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Sample Amazing Cuts from Fabled French Library Label Tele Music

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Sample the Sound of Tomorrow from Kingsway Records

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Labels

9498 Library is a boutique sample library from Toronto, Canada that was founded by Adrian Bellaire & Thabo Publicover. We offer some of the most high quality RnB, Soul and Hiphop original compositions.

9498 Library

AAM Music is the label that releases CDs produced by Antonio Adolfo, internationally. It is the US branch of Brazilian Artezanal label, which was created in 1977, by Antonio Adolfo.

AAM Music

ALIBI Music is the leading provider of licensed music & SFX for trailers, promos, network programming, advertising, branded content, video games and all forms of multimedia. Pretty much everything we do is in support of your creative expression. We obsess over the details of audio quality, emotion, structure, and precision. Our ever-growing catalogs are curated by career professionals. And all of our files are beautifully organized for search and functionality.

ALIBI Music

Aloha Got Soul is a blog-turned-record label founded by Roger Bong focused on rare and relatively unknown music of Hawaii. Its mission is to contribute to the diversity of Hawaii’s music scene and strengthen the reputation of the Hawaiian Islands in the global music community.

Aloha Got Soul

One of the oldest independent record labels in the United States. Formed in the late 1950's by Leonard Silver, Amherst Records has issued releases by a variety of artists such as Spyro Gyra, Glenn Medeiros, Doc Severinsen, and The Tonight Show Band, Jackie DeShannon, David LaFlamme, and Solomon Burke. In 1984, Amherst Records acquired all the master recordings of the AVCO Embassy and H & L Records labels, which included those of The Stylistics, Van McCoy, The Chambers Brothers, and The Softones.

Amherst Records

"The future of music happened decades ago” 

An iconic record label needs a signature sound, a unifying element that makes all its releases stand out as its own. Analog Africa undoubtedly has that. Its records are unmistakable, whether they’re from Benin, Somalia, Cameroon or Cape Verde. They all have that distinctive blend of funk, soul and local traditions with a gloriously chaotic analogue charm – Analog Africa’s records always represent the epitome of African groove.

Created by Tunisian/German compiler and writer Samy Ben Redjeb in 2005 the label founder has since travelled to 29 African countries and releases 50 projects obtaining several awards and nominations, including winning the German Record Critics Award at the 2011. 

Each project explores a scene or artist from anywhere across Africa and Afro-Latin America, building a snapshot of all things funky in that golden period. By dusting off rare finds, locating those responsible, and in many cases interviewing the principle artists behind these recordings, the all encompassing journey from transforming the source material into a sumptuous (and on occasion award-winning) objet d’art is documented for posterity.  In the process the world is introduced to obscure rhythms like Sato, Sakpata, Siria, Edo Funk, Dhanto, Sar, Bariba, Dendi, Gandjal, Kazukuta, sounds which are mixed in with all things disco during Analog Africa´s DJ Sets.

Analog Africa

In the 1940s, Rafael ‘Ralph’ Pérez was an A&R rep for the Latin American division of Decca Records in New York. As a proud Puerto Rican, he wanted to champion the authentic Latin music that mainstream American labels largely ignored. He saw the need to address this lack of music in a market he felt was underserved, so he founded Ansonia Records in 1949, naming it after a popular hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where the company often housed visiting recording artists.
 
Some of the first Ansonia sides were Dominican merengues. Pérez put together what became the most popular group in that genre outside of the Dominican Republic in the 1950s: Ángel Viloria y su Conjunto Típico Cibaeño. From this initial success, Pérez and Ansonia would continue to release music made for Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican immigrants in the Spanish-speaking New York communities of El Barrio (Spanish Harlem), The Bronx and Brooklyn, as well as for listeners in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America. During the 1950s and 60s, the Ansonia catalog grew to contain a long list of artists from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and other countries including Haiti and Spain.

Ansonia Records

Ayla (Ayla Adams), born 1989, is a Swedish artist and music producer, in hip hop, soul and reggae. She grew up in Malmö and started playing instruments early, but also producing during her teens. Ayla started performing with the Malmö groups Faela and Chalao in 2008, but from 2011 she started investing in solo projects. In 2013, she completed a hip-hop-oriented education at Spinneriet in Malmö, where, among others, the artists Cleo and Promoe taught. During her education, she helped form the rap group Från Vettet and released the single Trippelsingeln where she produced two songs. Ayla has also joined the Femtastic network to promote female artists. In 2020, she won the award for Rhythm of the Year at the Manifestgalan for the reggae album Klarspråk

Ayla Som Ljud

Bandai Namco Music Live Inc., formerly Bandai Namco Arts, is a Japanese company formed by the merger of Bandai Visual and its subsidiary Lantis by its owner Bandai Namco Holdings in February 2018. The company is responsible for the same area of its predecessors, which those being anime production and distribution and music production and distribution.

BANDAI MUSIC

Big Deal Records

The official archive of Jimmy Gray's seminal independent label & collective, based in Richmond, VA between 1975 and 1993. Formed by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray in Richmond, Virginia, and following in the footsteps of other influential black-owned independent labels like Strata-East and Tribe, the foundation of Black Fire coincided with saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch returning to Richmond from New York to form Oneness Of Juju. The band’s ‘African Rhythms’ album in 1975 was the perfect fusion of jazz, deep African polyrhythms and empowering lyrics. Bassist Muzi Branch, a trained artist, created the first of many Black Fire hand-illustrated sleeves for this release.

The album set the tone for a series of landmark releases on the label, including Oneness Of Juju’s ‘Space Jungle Luv’ (1976) and debuts from soulman Wayne Davis (1976), and early go-go pioneers Experience Unlimited (1977). Gray continued to use his influence and strong A&R instincts to bring in more key artists – great jazz players like Byard Lancaster and Hamiet Bluiett, Ghanaian master percussionist Okyerema Asante and talented collectives including Southern Energy Ensemble and music/drama troupe Theatre West. Due to personal and cashflow issues, many releases had to be canned and only surfaced subsequently on CD releases during the early ‘90s. Strut Records is working in collaboration with Plunky Branch to make the sounds of Black Fire available once more. Reissues and previously unreleased sessions are taken from the original master tapes.

Black Fire

BMM Records is a French indie label and recording studio created in 2012 by Louis Treffel and Joseph Petitpain in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. With over 70 releases, BMM's catalog shines a light on innovative grooves from the local and international scenes, while cultivating eclecticism and a sense of thoroughness in production.

BMM Records

French Label  founded in 2003, with artists such as Janko Nilovic, The Soul Surfers, Louis Fontaine, Theodor and Skatta.

Broc Recordz

Eclectic sounds and vibes from the Persian world.

Caltex Music

Independent 80s Dance, Disco and Boogie label based in South Carolina, active during the 1980s. Named after the region's Catawba River and its cultural heritage, the label sought to uplift local talent, focusing on soul and R&B music and played a pivotal role in preserving the musical traditions of the South.

Catawba Records

Cavendish Music was launched in the late 60s as a series of Boosey & Hawkes production music LPs, Cavendish became a fully fledged library label when Boosey switched to CDs in 1987. It later became an imprint of Imagem Production Music (BooseyPM's new name as of September 2010), alongside Abaco Music Library, Strip Sounds, PPM and the Boosey & Hawkes Classical Library.
In 2016 the company behind the imprint was acquired by the "OLE Music Network"

Cavendish Archive

Cinedelic Records is an Italian independent label founded in the 2001 by Marco D'Ubaldo mostly specialized in unconventional music: soundtracks, library music, jazz, bossa, electro.

Cinedelic Records

Comet Records is a Paris based label founded in 1998. The label starts working with Tony Allen and the release of Black Voices album at the cutting edge of Afrobeat and Afro Future sounds, considered since then as of one the epicentres of the afrobeat revival movement, collaborating closely with the afrobeat legend since his passing in April 2020.

Over the years, Comet has continued its hypnotic elliptical orbit through radical groove realms and dance floor wormholes, connecting 5 decades of music from four continents, across genres, and still heading into the future, a pure and positive light to guide our way.

Comet Records is the home for Tony Allen,  Edoardo Florio di Grazia, Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Doctor L, Afrobeat Makers Series, Afro Disco & Jazz  Reissues series, Mind..

Comet Records

The Swedish label Country & Eastern was started in 2005 by musicians for lovers of the international music equivalent of slow food - al dente music.

Country & Eastern produces live music and a magnificent little catalogue of great music on our label: old recordings from India and Ghana, contemporary music from Sweden, Turkey and elsewhere as well as Chinese crickets recorded live.

Country & Eastern

Crabtree Music Library is a collection of original compositions from Grammy & Juno nominated producer Matthew Crabtree, aka MTK. These compositions draw inspiration from soul music made in the 70s and 80s, and are brought to life through vintage keys, guitar, bass, brass, full string sections, and the trademark Crabtree vocal harmonies.

Crabtree Music Library has been used by Logic, Trippie Redd, Nipsey Hussle, Timbaland, Royce Da 5'9", Conway and more.

Crabtree Music Library

US label founded by Aldo Marin and Amado Marin.
Cutting Records has successfully maintained itself as one of the long standing and leading Dance and Latino Urbano independent labels in the US. The music catalog features song selections that cross multicultural boundaries ranging from Electro, Hip Hop, Freestyle, House, Latin Urban to Rock and Tropical.

Cutting Records

Daptone releases hard funk, soul, and afrobeat by current artists. Made up of musicians and producers from the now defunct 1990s funk revival pioneer label Desco Records. Label is run by Gabriel Roth (with his alter-ego "Bosco Mann" doing most of the studio mix work) & Neal Sugarman. It is home to artists such as Sharon Jones, The Dap-Kings, Lee Fields, Sugarman 3, Antibalas, The Mighty Imperials, and others.

Daptone Records

Swedish independent record label founded in 1998 by the members of Looptroop Rockers.
Mainly releasing Hip Hop, Beats, Alternative R&B, Jazz, Soul and Electronic music.
Heavy focus on vinyl and cassette tapes. The imprint 93 Feet Beats releases instrumental beat albums.

David vs Goliath

It all started with a curation Youtube channel where the team has been showcasing the music they love for 10 years now. Délicieuse never really knew how to deal with boundaries between genres. It has led to release music from various types of producers and artists on Délicieuse Records. Maintaining the digging spirit alive, Délicieuse Records keeps on pushing a journey of sonic explorations.

Délicieuse Records

Don Grusin Music

Double Life Records

Dressel Studio

Edition was founded in 2008 by the pianist and composer Dave Stapleton on two principles: to share music with a clear message and to do so in a bold way.

Today, Edition is a record label sitting at the centre of the global music scene, working with the same values it set out with, almost 15 years ago.

Having evolved from a cottage industry and self-releasing artist based label, Edition has built a deep authenticity and bold identity to its work with empathy and passion at its core.

Principally, Edition exists to amplify its artists’ vision under two distinct labels;

Edition Records – a leading, forward thinking and boundary pushing Jazz label.
E2 Music – a category defying, alternative label unified by mood and emotion.
 
We understand no one artist or album release is the same. Each has their own story and we exist to tell those stories.

Our own story is bound by the relationship between the label and the Artist.

Edition Records

Established in 1982, eelmanrecords.com website is the official online archive of the music recordings and video that were developed in the period 1980 -1989 for bands, The Rodents, The Hulamen, Tombolas, The Holidaymakers, The Economic Wizards, The Ranchsliders, The Spines, The Preservatives and Solo Artist Recordings by Andrew Clouston, John Niland, Bill Lake & The Living Daylights, Bill Lake & Rick Bryant.

Eelman Records

Philadelphia based Soul / R&B / Jazz music publishing company started by Chester, PA writer/producer Emanuel M. Campbell that has been releasing music for over 50 years. Artist include: The Nu'rons, Tearra, The Rotations, Alice Taylor, The New Establishment, Tony Troutman, Tomorrow's Wish, The Delights, Ebony Evans and more!

Emandolynn Music

Eraserhood Sound is Philly’s only Synth & Soul record label and production company.
 
EHS was founded by longtime collaborators Maxwell Perla and Vincent John. After working for years in both New York City and Philadelphia as writers and performers with acts like Lee Fields & the Expressions, Lady, El Michels Affair, Aaradhna, and more, the two shared an interest in cultivating a unique style of music which they dubbed “Synth & Soul”. The sound is a blend of soulful rhythms, featuring Perla on drums & John rounding out the rhythm section, with layers of silky synthesizers setting the mood, all captured on vintage analog recording equipment. The label is named after the 1977 David Lynch classic Eraserhead, and borrows many of the eerie textures featured in this iconic Philly film.
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The label launched in the fall of 2019, producing and releasing 7” singles from a wide range of artists who each inhabit the spirit of Synth & Soul in their own unique way. Whether it be the intergalactic synth funk of house band Fantasy 15, the dusky desert soul of La Dante, the electro-infused R&B of Vincent John, or any other number of standalone releases, everything that comes out of Eraserhood Sound is imbued with a unique cosmic aura.

Eraserhood Sound

Falk & Klou thrives in the glorious nostalgia of the golden age of grooving jazz, jazzy libraries and pfunky stuff, reimagined in the year of the Corona. The Swedish duo consisting of multi instrumentalists Carl Johan Fogelklou and Fredrik Segerfalk who haphazardly met over a pile of vintage synthesizers that required immediate attention, only to realize that they had a common goal in this life - to pretend that they were recording producers and artist in the seventies. The urge led to actual sessions, first only the two, later to be followed by horn players, drummers and other desperate pandemic struck musicians. In the end ten prominent tracks emerged, with the common denominator being the love of great music. The library of Falk & Klou. Carl Johan Fogelklou usually plays bass in Swedish band Mando Diao and teaches Yoga. He has also met the king of Sweden. Fredrik Segerfalk runs Analog Sweden, a synthesizer venture, and also owns a harpsichord. Carl Johan helped him carry it. It's a beast.

FK Library

Four Flies is a Rome-based record label and music publisher specializing in Italian film and library music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. The Four Flies team is committed to digging up underrated scores and sounds – often ones that were never circulated outside the Italian film, radio or TV industry – and to unearthing master tapes tucked away and long forgotten in attics or basements.  Like archaeologists of Italian library music, we go to great lengths to rescue from oblivion previously unreleased or lesser-known pieces by great composers, making them available to listeners everywhere.

Four Flies Records

Frollen Music Library creates unique and organic compositions grounded in an appreciation for music of the 60s and 70s.

Frollen Music Library

A new vibe, a sound that will make you dream again. It's the music of tomorrow created in a retro manner.

Future 80's Records

Started by Nick DeVan and Dave Singleton in the geographical center
of Tennessee, USA, G.E.D. Soul has been producing and recording
original soul and funk music in their very own "Poor Man Studios" since
2007, using a similar technical and aesthetic approach that celebrates the very best
qualities of what made soul music great all those years ago.

G.E.D. Soul Records

Good Time Records, based in Nashville, Tennessee, is an independent label group, publisher, and distributor. Managing a catalog of over 60,000 vintage sound recordings and compositions from the 1920s to the late 1980s, it specializes in authentic pop, rock, blues, and jazz, along with modern remixes and reissues in soul, disco, and R&B gems.

Good Time Records

Swedish independent label and home for the hip hop and electro group Blänk.

Grind Records

Guerssen is a record label group, distribution and mail-order company from Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
They're covering a wide spectre of sounds – from 60’s to 80’s psychedelic, progressive, folk, garage and pop, to funk-folk-psych Middle East sounds, to experimental music, Latin American, disco-funk or new heavy-psychedelic acts

Guerssen Records

Label based in Berlin providing you eclectic sounds and vibes from the Arab world.

Habibi Funk Records

Heart Dance Records is a woman-owned and operated instrumental label with a mission to, through their collective artists, create peaceful music for well-being to help listeners relax, reduce stress, focus, inspire, grieve, heal, meditate and calm.

Heart Dance Records

Independent record label based in Woking, UK, releasing music from grammy nominated artists, songwriters and hit record producers including David Baron (modular synth collector who's worked with Lenny Kravitz for over 20 years, also The Lumineers and Lana Del Rey) and Ambient Jazz Ensemble (frequently compared to David Axelrod and Bob James and previously recorded/produced for iconic labels including Motown)

Here & Now Recordings

HOOB is a Swedish independent record label owned and operated by the artists themselves. HOOB was established in Göteborg, Sweden in 2004.

HOOB Records

Hopestreet Recordings is an artist-run record label based in Brunswick, Australia since 2009. From the humblest of DIY beginnings, this community of musicians, producers and writers has carved out a global niche for their old-school inspired crusty analog creations. HopeStreet represents the diversity, quality of musicianship and originality of Melbourne’s inner Northern music community, and keeps developing their distinct sound, production approach year to year, and audiences all over are responding.

Hopestreet Recordings

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music.

The label is home to artists such as London Elektricity, Flava D, Metrik, Degs, Nu:Tone, DRS & Dynamite, Fred V, Grafix and Mitekiss but also releases tracks from a whole host of other artists across the drum & bass genre. From its HQ in Herne Hill, South London, Hospital also runs the publishing company “Songs In The Key Of Knife”​ and their worldwide events brand “Hospitality”​.

Hospital Records

Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes' boutique label while he was signed to ABC Records. Hayes came to ABC after the 1975 bankruptcy of Stax. The record label was named after Hayes' first hit album, 1969's Hot Buttered Soul. His first album on HBS was Chocolate Chip, a best selling R&B album chart hit. His later releases fared with less success, and in late 1977 Hayes left ABC for Polydor.

In addition to Isaac Hayes' own recordings (solo, leading the Isaac Hayes Movement and a duet album with Dionne Warwick), the only other artists to have released albums on HBS were The Masqueraders, a five-man group from Texas.

Just prior to his death, Concord Music Group reissued Hayes' HBS recordings on the revived Stax label.

Hot Buttered Soul Recordings

HOUSE OF WAVES Music Library is a diverse sample library created and curated by Brian “Deep” Watters. Featuring producers and musicians from around the world, its GRAMMY Award-winning roster has collaborated with artists such as Kodak Black, Brent Faiyaz, Ari Lennox, Mac Dre, Kingsway Music Library, and more.

HOUSE OF WAVES Music Library

I.O.T. (In Out Thru) is an electronic music label founded by IOT, based in Marseille, France.

I.O.T Records

Jakarta Records is a record label from Berlin/Cologne, Germany releasing music with a passion since 2005.

Jakarta Records

Janko Nilovic Projects was founded in 2017 to represent and preserve the catalog of Maestro's oeuvre that stretches from classical, jazz, and funk to pop, psyche and easy listening.

Janko Nilovic Projects

Kakafon Records was established in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2010 but has its home today is the small village Siljansnäs, Dalecarlia.

Reflecting innovation as well as traditions the label releases words and sounds deriving from folk music. Sounds that have taken winding roads all around the world. Born, raised, visiting or at last settled down in the Swedish soil. Instrumental music, songs and poetry. Original, traditional, experimental.

Kakafon Records

Historical independent label & record company from Dominican Republic. Artists such as Juan Luis Guerra 4.40, Wilfrido Vargas, The New York Band, Los Hermanos Rosario and Las Chicas Del Can; just to name a few. 

Throughout the seventies, eighties and well into the nineties and with copyright notes still in effect into the new millennium; this label holds a strong place in the Latin Music community.

Karen Records

Légère Recordings is the home of authentic, modern funk and jazz. Starting in 2006, the label released albums by Young Gun Silver Fox, Myles Sanko, Jay W. McGee, Boca 45, The New Mastersounds, Eddie Roberts, The Mighty Mocambos, The Pepper Pots, The Impellers, Hot Border Special, Nick Pride & The Pimptones, JetTricks, Caroline Lacaze and the renowned “Come On Soul” compilations. The sound of Légère Recordings is organic, original and full of soul.

Legere Recordings

Bongo Joe explores contemporary undergrounds to dig out extraordinary sounds and plows the furrows of time to unearth rare nuggets from here, there and everywhere.

Les Disques Bongo Joe

Lo-Flo Records was initially conceived as an archiving project – an ongoing document of Jane McNealy’s rich musical history with respect to songs written and relationships forged. A discouraging cancer diagnosis in 2017 only added fuel to the creative fire behind this mission, acting as a driving factor towards the goal of documenting the results of her extensive career, as well as chronicling the accumulated successes of many creative partnerships. The trajectory of Lo-Flo’s current and future releases combine the free and exploratory sound McNealy helped to develop on the West Coast with the tighter, structured orchestrations highlighted in her experience composing films and musicals. The label also plans to serve as the platform for McNealy’s contemporary work, beginning with the release of a poignant video for the first single from Running Around, titled “Turn Away From Darkness.” 

A major portion of the earnings from this inspired output will be given to the American Cancer Society and the ACLU, in the spirit of leaving concurrent legacies of musical achievement and social justice. In McNealy’s own words, “Nothing worth doing well happens in a day. It takes a lifetime of hard work and perseverance. And even then, the most that is certain is artistic fulfillment.

Lo-Flo Records

Lovemonk is a small but very sunny and eclectic label from Madrid. Everything fits under the motto, “Discos Buenos."

Lovemonk Records

Independent record label, founded by David Byrne in 1989.

Luaka Bop

Record label from Pittsburg, CA. • “Get It Together!” Est. 2011

Lugnut Brand Records

Lyrichord is an American independent label featuring traditional and contemporary world music, dance music, early and classical music since 1950.

Lyrichord World

Naxos Records is the world’s leading classical music label as measured by the number of new recordings it releases and the depth and breadth of its catalogue. Naxos was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born entrepreneur based in Hong Kong.

Naxos

Mad About Records

American library music label, linked to Chesky Records.

Manhattan Production Music

Matthew Hayes

The boutique original library of LA-based, Billboard-charting producer duo - max & kyle. In the past, their works has been exclusively available for select industry producers, but as of summer 2022 their compositions are being released to the public via Tracklib. Max Levin and Kyle Scherrer have production credits including Travis Scott, Tinashe, 88rising & more.

max & kyle

Administering the catalog of the late Norman Feels (aka Norman Solomon). Norman Feels was an underground soul sensation in the early 1970's and his songs have been sampled by multiple rappers over the years including Schoolboy Q, French Montana, Ghostface Killah, and more.

Milk Chocolate Music

Established in 2016 as sort of the eccentric kid brother to Sundazed Music, they have an ear for the esoteric and oddities abound.

Modern Harmonic

Mood Sound Collection

MSXII, as a company & sound design collective, boasts 4 Grammy nominations, 2 Billboard #1s (H.E.R. “Back of My Mind”, Migos, Culture II, “Made Men”), 5 platinum plaques, 5 gold plaques, Super Bowl ad placements, and countless more. We specialize in hiphop, urban creative sound design solutions for music producers & companies.

MSXII Sound Design

Amsterdam based record label releasing visionary electronic music from both past and present. Founded by Jamie Tiller & Tako Reyenga.

Music From Memory

Musilogue is a Japanese label and a music project started by Ryota Nozaki (Jazztronik).

Musilogue

Network Records, originally called Kool Kat Records, was an independent record label founded in Birmingham, England, in 1988 by Neil Rushton and Dave Barker. It was instrumental in first introducing Detroit techno to British and European audiences.

Network Records

Founded in early 70s by historical Rai TV trumpeter and composer Cicci Santucci (Looking Around, On The Underground Road etc.), New Tape grown up during the golden period of Italian music production and was dedicated to experimentation of new forms of sound, always hailing from the solid Jazz basis of the musicians and theme music inspiration. Andrea Galtieri aka Cavalier Piscopo sequenced the very best shots from the whole label production including exclusive liner notes, with an explosive mix of Jazz-Rock, Bossa, spellbinding groove and raw experimental stuff.

With a ridiculously small pressing of only 100 copies per title, NEW TAPE is among the most interesting discoveries to date in terms of original production library music, and as a result, a very respectable journey begins inside the creative underground jazz of 1970s.

New Tape

Sonor Music Editions born in 2013 from an idea of Lorenzo Fabrizi, owner and founder of the label, that was one year later joined by his friend Andrea Galtieri. The label's name actually derives from the Italian term used to describe Library music, which is what the label focused on during its entire activity, which is "Sonorizzazioni". From rare and obscure Pop, Jazz, Cinematic Lounge, Funk, Easy Listening to underground Psychedelic, Sonor Music Editions dug into the deepest sounds of Italian Library and Soundtrack golden age, releasing and reissuing some of the most rare and beautiful recordings of this prolific music scene from 1970s/80s. In 2016 the label started to invest in the acquisition of original archival music, developing its own production library series with a nod to new, emerging and talented artists.

Sonor Music Editions

NIPPONOPHONE, established in 1910 as Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. is one of the world’s oldest record labels and features a diverse roster of established and new artists across many genres, including enka, kayōkyoku, jazz, classical, rock, pop, and children’s songs. In 2020, NIPPONOPHONE launched J-DIGS ─ a project aimed at introducing the world the high-quality music lying dormant in Japan, focusing on the label’s 100+ year history of archived music, especially from ’70s and ’80s, which has recently been attracting Japanese music diggers from all over the world.

NIPPONOPHONE

Nublu Records is an independent recording company founded by Swedish–Turkish musician, composer, cultural activist and entrepreneur, Ilhan Ersahin, in 2005. It was a natural extension of the "Nublu sound" that developed at the club, Nublu, on New York's Lower East Side, founded by Ersahin in 2002. Capturing the cross-cultural fusion of the times, and embracing the beatnik jazz tradition for which the area has been known since the 1950s, an unofficial family of bands soon congregated around the club, which was known for its freewheeling late night jams. As more and more outfits formed, setting up Nublu Records was a logical progression.

Nublu Records

NUGISOUND is a production collective founded by father & son : Stanley "Nugi" Fields & Walden Wesley which specializes in blending the textures of contemporary R&B music with that nostalgic feeling of yesterday's soulful classics.

NUGISOUND

Omnivore Recordings is a Los Angeles, USA based independent record label specializing in preserving legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists, while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings.
Founded in 2010 by music industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger.
In 2017 Omnivore acquired the catalogs of Nighthawk Records, Blackheart Music, and Ru-Jac Records.

Omnivore Recordings

Onza Records is a NYC based record label specializing in Hip-Hop, Funk, and Soul. Founded in 2018 by music producer Statik Link, the company focuses on releasing music and media that is unique. Statik Link brings 12 years of music industry knowledge to Onza Records. Statik is a Recording Academy member and has worked with ASAP Ferg, Machine Gun Kelly, OG Maco, and more. Every Onza Records release is a unique experience. As soon as you press play, you'll recognize it's an Onza recording!

Onza Records

Oshu Records

Ostinato Records travels across Africa to dig up long-lost cassette tapes, recorded anytime from the early 70s up till now, including everything from looping rhythms of Sudan to synth disco of Cabo Verde.

Ostinato Records

Oval Music was established in1972 by South London neighbours Charlie Gillett and Gordon Nelki, who named their company after the local cricket ground, the Kennington Oval.

Oval

The Miami Booty Bass heritage label founded in 1981 by Bo Crane. Classic bass, dance and freestyle artists including Trinere, Freestyle, Debbie Deb, Young & Restless, Splack Pack, Pretty Tony, DJ Laz, MC Nas-D, Beat Master Clay D., Beat Dominator, Bass Mekanik, Maggotron and many more are on the roster. Pandisc Music Corporation is still active and fiercely independent.

Pandisc Music Corporation

Parry Music Library was a Canadian production music library founded in 1974 by John Parry and Chris Stone.
Since 2013, Parry Music stopped producing new albums. Nevertheless, two years later, the library's assets were acquired by BMG Rights Management and in consequence received new logo.

Parry Music Library

Philly Groove Records was a soul music label started by Stan Watson and Sam Bell in 1967, with noted producer Thom Bell doing A&R. The label's best-known artists were male vocal group, the Delfonics and female group, First Choice. Both acts enjoyed a run of hits during the late 60s and early 70s, especially on the R&B charts. The label also had other artists such as Nat Turner's Rebellion and David Lasley. It, along with Philadelphia International Records, was instrumental in establishing the famed Philadelphia soul sound.

The label was distributed by Bell Records from its inception in 1967 until 1974, when the label closed down shortly after Bell Records was folded into Arista Records.

In 2012, independent music publisher Reservoir Media Management acquired Philly Groove Records and its sister music publishing company, Nickel Shoe Music. In 2013, Reservoir released its first original record featuring music from the Philly Groove catalog, a compilation of select tracks by The Delfonics called Philly Groove Records Presents: This Time kicking off the album series Philly Groove Records Presents.

Philly Groove Records (Reservoir Media Management)

The Polyphonic Music Library was created & curated by Grammy Award Winning producer Mario Luciano 
to bring back the authenticity of Jazz, Gospel, Soul & Psych recordings from the 60s 70s & 80s by using rare equipment of those times as well as exact recording and processing techniques to deliver an authentic sound. Since starting out in late 2019 they’ve been sampled by Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Madlib, H.E.R., Jack Harlow, Westside Gunn, Conway and countless others.

Polyphonic Music Library

Powers Audio is a contemporary music library creating high-quality samples and compositions that highlight the best of soul, jazz, hip hop and R&B.

Powers Audio

Danish label founded by rapper Rasmus Poulsen aka Raske Penge.

Raske Plader

Established in 2003, Record Kicks is a Milan based independent record label and music publishing with over 250 releases under the belt. Home to artists such as Calibro 35, Hannah Williams, Tanika Charles, The Tibbs, The Diasonics, Marta Ren & The Groovelvets… and many more. Side by side with similar outfits like Daptone, Truth And Soul, Freestyle or Timmion, under its motto “The explosive sound from Today’s scene” Milan-based independent label Record Kicks has been pitching the contemporary funk & soul scene since day one. Record Kicks has released bands from all over the globe and earned the support of VIP fans such as Kenny Dope, Jamie Cullum, Craig Charles. Its catalogue has been sampled by quite a few rap superstars such as Jay-Z thanks to which the label has received a Grammy nomination in 2018 for HOV’s use of Hannah Williams’ “Late Nights And Heartbreak” as backdrop for his “4:44” album title track, Tyler The Creator and Dr. Dre.

Record Kicks

Records We Release Records

RPM Music Library is a an authentic collection of Soul and Funk compositions created by producer/artist Ryan Prewett.

Labels

Sample Bongo Joe's Extraordinary Sounds and Rare NuggetsSample Bongo Joe

Soul, Jazz, Funk, and Beyond

Vintage Library Music

Artists' Labels and Legacies

Boutique Labels

Contemporary Library Music

World, Folk, and Traditional Music

Electronic and Ambient

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