Egon and the team will be hosting a regular series of pop up events throughout 2025 and 2026 at the Now-Again Space in Los Angeles. The next event is Records From Big Red: Mr. Benson returns from a year on the road, driving buddhist monks around and buying rare records, and he’s selling them over a two day, weekend-long blow out!

Records From Big Red
Pop Up Record Shop at Now-Again
Sat. March 22nd and Sun. March 23rd.
Noon-5 each day.
5636 York Blvd. LA. MORE

Spacing Out is the epitome of Psychedelic Funk – an exceedingly rare album sought out by rock, funk, soul and hip hop sample fiends – and bootlegged – for decades. This is the first official reissue of the album, done with the license and participation of the entire Invaders band, with their story told in great detail in an oversized booklet penned by Jefferson “Chairman” Mao, complete with rare photos of this rarely seen ensemble.

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Spacing Out is instrumental masterpiece only ever issued in Bermuda at the turn of 1970. A mix of the band’s out-there original compositions and extravagant covers of The Meters, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin and Isley Brothers, it established this band as one of the greatest instrumental bands of any genre, and helped kickstart the retro-soul/funk scenes that birthed the likes of Daptone and Big Crown Records. It’s certainly a lode star for Now-Again Records. MORE

Notes & Tones is a collaborative effort in wine and music by DJ Muggs, Now-Again’s Egon and Broc Cellars’ Chris Brockway. Their inspiration: Art Taylor / Sun Ra / Stanko Radikon / Xavier Caillard.

Notes & Tones, the Second Vintage follows Muggs and Egon’s Holy Ghost wine and record pairing, and the first vintage of Notes & Tones. As with their first collaboration – based on samples from the Sun Ra catalog – this collaboration pays homage to jazz’s deep lineage with samples sourced from Gene Perla’s PM Records catalog.

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Egon’s follow up to the Now-Again classic Loving On The Flipside, a compendium of sweet funk and beat-heavy ballads recorded and issued between 1968-1975. Many of the tracks here have never been compiled, and some are previously unreleased.

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This anthology follows Now-Again’s Loving On The Flipside, issued more than a decade ago. And that anthology itself got its start in a different time, a decade even earlier – the era in which Now-Again’s Egon and his friends chased down funk 45s and the odd LP for their testosterone riddled, aggressive sound. Often times the funk song on one of their chosen is would be the throw-away b-side, the hasty afterthought the band cobbled together the night before hitting – or while in – the studio because they’d put all of their energies into writing the amazing ballad that would ensure their entry in soul’s history books. MORE

Lloyd Miller died early in the morning on December 27th, 2024. He was 86 years old. While the cause of his death was undisclosed, his wife Katherine Saint John said he had recently suffered a stroke; Miller had been in failing health for some time. Now-Again’s Eothen “Egon” Alapatt, who worked with Miller to manage and promote his catalog of inventive and esoteric jazz, wrote this short obituary.

I called him maestro as that’s what he was, of so many disciplines and challenges and dogmas. Those who might feel compelled to read further here will probably do so because of the wonderful clutch of records Lloyd cut and issued, both in Paris and in America, which culminated in his self-released masterpiece Oriental Jazz. Those who read further must also be asked to forgive the personal nature of these words, as Lloyd was a close friend and musical collaborator, and in the same way I couldn’t write about the passing of Galt MacDermot or David Axelrod outside of the personal, I couldn’t do so here.

My life working in music has topped more than a quarter century. Lloyd’s life in music spanned nearly 75 years. We first met when he drove from Salt Lake City to LA to hand deliver me his discography on vinyl, including an acetate he had cut of his solo piano experiments with Jef Gilson in Paris in the early 60s. He never told me why he took that long drive, nearly twenty years ago, but we hit it off immediately. And that evening’s hang led to one of the more challenging relationships I’ve developed with a musical elder. I’m much the better for it. MORE