Double rap gold, double Bowie gold and double Congolese Psychedelic Rumba gold amongst other things…
A very welcome double reissue of Danger Mouse & Jemini (the Gifted One)’s absolutely glorious 2003 album Ghetto Pop Life and finally, its follow up Born Again, the album that was recorded a year later and shelved for twenty years!
We were absolutely obsessed with Ghetto Pop Life back on release, a wildly slick party record with rich, dense production. It’s very much the collaboration too, with Jemini’s flow both impressive, wry and straight-out funny. Why Born Again took twenty years to materialise we don’t know, but the formula remains very strong. Rich, crate-dug samples and party soul production, with Jemini on dazzling form once more.
Two great records, one we know inside-out and one we’re really loving already. Lex even kept the delicious gold foiling from the original sleeve for Ghetto Pop Life, which looks pretty mint in 2024!

These new pressings of Diamond Dogs were cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.
W3NG is Numero’s third instalment of lost radio gold, with 44 minutes of uninterrupted yacht rock, easy-glide, AOR, and blue-eyed disco that’ll rock your boat. Great curation, we hardly knew any of it but it flows real nice. Lush artwork, it’s all as smooth as Michael McDonald’s beard.
• Available on 'Coast To Coast' Clear colour vinyl.
We have a 50th Anniversary pressing of the iconic (and long-out-of-print) Fania All Stars album. The recordings of the star-studded roster are from the ’73 Live At Yankee Stadium and Roberto Clemente Coliseum concerts. (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes and 180-gram vinyl. Sounds like you’re front and centre.
Lastly for now, one from the Analog Africa vaults that is just ludicrously great. Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978 charts Verckys et L'Orchestre Veve at the height of their powers; hot nights and never-ending grooves from Kinshasa’s nightclubs and dance floors. Four sides of Rumba hip shakers and burning psychedelic shimmer. Bloody great!