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The first in a series of four, limited edition 7”s ranging from Deep American Funk and Soul, Zimbabwean Fuzz Funk, Zambian Proto-Punk, and Rare Disco. Essential funky listening.

Download: Now-Again 7″ Sureshots Round One

The Last Transmission is an interplanetary space/love odyssey told by the maverick Melvin Van Peebles in twelve chapters. In between producer/drummer Malcolm Catto’s thunderous syncopation and producer/bassist Jake Ferguson’s bellowing bass lines, amidst the analog electronics and atmospheric interference naturally accorded by their organic analogue process, Van Peebles’ voice floats in and out, spectral in its tone, complete in its conviction in the unfathomable sense that life’s eruption in the cosmic expanse made, and in love’s ability to transform and transcend death. Also included: instrumentals.

Download: Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles – The Last Transmission

Returning after their 13 Degrees of Reality album with a full on volley of psychedelic-funk songs first heard on Gaslamp Killer’s HELIO X GLK EP, the Heliocentrics offer nine tracks that Rolling Stone describe as “…sprawling, with percussive patterns that suddenly morph into extraterrestrial sound blasts and opaque, detouring patterns.” We couldn’t have said it better.

Download: Heliocentrics – Quatermass Sessions 1

Restored/remastered transfer and never-before-heard demos of this exceedingly rare Californian psych-rock album. We present the definitive look into a musical vision equal parts dangerous and peaceful, nihilistic and optimistic. It’s safe to say the world has never heard something like Heitkotter – it’s a rare and vital look at 60s and 70s American rock through the sad story – and incredible music – of an untethered soul. The Heitkotter tale is cautionary, but the music is as close to the sublime as American rock has ever ventured.

Download: Heitkotter – Black Orckid

The legendary Zambian band’s disco/boogie years, contains the entirety of their two rare albums: 1980-1984. In the 1980s, the Southern African nation of Zambia – whose Zamrock scene has been thoroughly investigated in prior Now-Again releases – came to be influenced by disco and rhumba from neighboring Congo. Thus even Zamrock’s greatest band, WITCH, splintered, with a skeleton crew of core members embracing younger musicians to record and release two albums that found the band replacing fuzz guitars with whirling synthesizers and trying their hand at soul, disco and boogie – all sung in English.

Download: WITCH – Movin’ On/Kuomboka