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The bundle is SOLD OUT at our webstore at rappcats.com, but copies are still available at key vinyl retailers the world over.

As we previously announced: series of four, limited edition 7”s ranging from Deep American Funk and Soul, Zimbabwean Fuzz Funk, Zambian Proto-Punk, and Rare Disco. 500 copies of each 7” produced: not to be repressed. Download card for entire series included with each 7”.

This series is now available to our subscribers at Now-Again Deluxe at Drip.fm and we offered an exclusive bundle of all four 7″s at a discounted price at our webstore at rappcats.com. Though now sold out, we are already work on round two. More info to come soon.

Free download and streams of the a-side of each single below.

Download: Split Decision Band “Watching Out (45 Version)”

Buy all new Now-Again releases and your old favorites in all formats at our new webstore at Rappcats.

The Now-Again webstore at rappcats.com

We’ve been telling you that we are going to be launching a webstore for the past, well, going on two years – and while some of y’all have probably noticed some of our releases going live at Rappcats this past six months it’s now official: our entire catalog, and every one of our new releases, is going to be available there, keeping company with releases from Madlib’s Madlib Invazion titles, the Pay Jay imprint run by the J.Dilla Estate and DOOM’s Metalface Records.

To say that we’re overjoyed is an understatement. Look out for special offers – including our 7″ Sureshots bundle, mentioned below, coming soon!

If you haven’t gotten enough proto-punk with our Ngozi Family Day of Judgement release, have we got a fix for you. Our sister company, Sinecure Books (they behind the Enjoy the Experience book we’ve told you so much about), announced their fourth book: SST Records (Minutemen, Black Flag, etc) in house producer/engineer – and master photographer – Spot’s Sounds of Two Eyes Opening with a pre-sale of an exclusive, slipcased edition that comes with a hand-silkscreened 7,” poster and Spot photo print, only available at their webstore. The regular edition of the book was issued on Black Friday and is available anywhere good books are sold.

From Sinecure’s site: “Spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening offers an amazing portrait of SoCal coastal life: surfing, bikinis, roller skating and skate boarding’s fledgling days are set in contrast to iconic shots of the key denizens of hardcore California punk as it is being invented.”

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A series of four, limited edition 7”s ranging from Deep American Funk and Soul, Zimbabwean Fuzz Funk, Zambian Proto-Punk, and Rare Disco. 500 copies of each 7” produced: not to be repressed. Download card for entire series included with each 7”.

This series is now available to our subscribers at Now-Again Deluxe at Drip.fm. We will offer a bundle option via our webstore at Rappcats very soon. Though they were delayed due to issues with our pressing plant, and the 7″s are now being shipped to stores – and will continue to be throughout December.

They are:

NA 7027 Richard Marks “I’m The Man For You”/Buddy Cantrell “You Ain’t No Good:” two of America’s most sought after deep funk/soul sides available on a 7” single for the first time. Originally issued on the tiny Atlanta imprint Tuska at the turn of 1970, both of these singles will appear on our forthcoming Richard Marks anthology Never Satisfied.

NA 7028 Stars of Liberty “Power To The People”/Eye Q “I Am Selfish:” two tracks from the 1970s Zimbabwean black rock scene. Stars of Liberty and Eye Q are two of the most fiery ensembles to release fuzzy singles in funky protest of Ian Smith’s oppressive Rhodesian regime. Now-Again will be delving head first into this pivotal part of the African rock and funk story with anthologies dedicated to the scene and its key players in 2015.

NA 7034 Chissy Zebby Tembo “I’m Not Made Of Iron/Fisherman:” two proto-punk Zamrock tracks from the drummer behind
Paul Ngozi’s Ngozi Family Band whose work is focus of ongoing investigation and reissue on Now-Again.. “Fisherman” was originally issued on Zebby Tembo’s lauded My Ancestors album. “I’m Not Made Of Iron,” from his untitled third LP, has never been released in any form.

NA 7035 Split Decision Band “Watching Out (45 Version)/Watching Out (Alternate Take):” one of the best independent disco songs ever released, out of the unlikely locale of Des Moines, Iowa, in the late 1970s. A reissue of the original 45 version of this song is paired here with an unreleased version, taken from an album that the band recorded but never released. We will issue it at Now-Again in full in 2015.

Download: Split Decision Band “Watching Out (45 Version)”