Naptown’s Motown – the LAMP label anthology, LP #14 in Now-Again Reserve

LAMP Records – It Glowed Like The Sun – The Story of Naptown’s Motown, 1969-1972. The collected soul, funk, gospel and rock releases from Indianapolis’ greatest label. Shipping to subscribers now!

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SUBSCRIBE: NOW-AGAIN RESERVE – there are a limited amount of “Catch Me Up” subscriptions still available to get you the entire run of NOW-AGAIN RESERVE releases.

Now-Again Reserve: Custom-made LP’s delivered once per quarter, presenting some of the rarest records in their respective genres in high quality LP format. Each release is produced with the direct participation of the artist. MORE

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Experience Unlimited’s “Free Yourself,” and a deep dive into the legendary Black Fire catalog

Free Yourself, a Now-Again x Vinyl Me, Please release, was the latter’s May 2019 Record of the Month.

We are also offering limited runs of four key Juju/Oneness of Juju titles with Vinyl Me, Please, including a previously unreleased album recorded at the legendary Brooklyn jazz venue The East.

All albums were lacquered by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes.

Each album comes with an oversized 12″ x 12″ 12 page full color booklet detailing the story of each album and the Black Fire collective and showcasing dozens of unpublished photos. A variation of each of these albums will see public issue via Now-Again over the course of 2020.

ORDER » Oneness of Juju – Chapter Two: Nia
ORDER » Oneness of Juju – African Rhythms
ORDER » Oneness of Juju – Space Jungle Luv
ORDER » Juju – Live At The East MORE

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Out now – James Brown’s Psych-Rock Albums, the definitive reissues

James Brown issued two psych-rock albums. Sho Is Funky Down Here is the one he released under his own name.

OUT NOW » JAMES BROWN – SHO IS FUNKY DOWN HERE
OUT NOW » DAVID MATTHEWS – THE GRODECK WHIPPERJENNY

Sho is Funky Down Here and The Grodeck Whipperjenny are a pair of albums that are the result of an unlikely but highly productive musical relationship between James Brown, a superstar at the creative and commercial peaks of his long career, and David Matthews, a then young arranger-musician whose limited professional experience had little or nothing to do with the funk and soul of his collaborator.

James Brown Goes Underground – a short film about these albums by Bennett Piscitelli.. MORE

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Announcing: Karl Hector & the Malcouns “Non Ex Orbis”

Krautjazzrock produced by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm/Whitefield Brothers). The long-standing band’s third album. Featuring Embryo’s Marja Burchard. LP w/ Download Card/CD.

EXCLUSIVE 7″ » Karl Hector & The Malcouns “Mother Seletta” 7″
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OUT NOW» Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Non Ex Orbis
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Non Ex Orbis, the band’s third studio album, digs deeper into the Krautrock history embedded deep in the soil of their native Munch – three of the most influential bands of the 1970s experimental German rock scene spurng from there: Amon Düül, Popol Vuh and Embryo. MORE

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