Welcome back to our dope lil universe. We’re stoked to announce Cookie Stars, the second album from one of Raw Tapes’ most impressive instrumental lineups, the Duo Brothers. Visionary local staples Sol Monk and Yonatan Levy have taken the cool from their debut album to another level, lifting off into “spaceship jazz” territory.

Cookie Stars sends you out into orbit, each song a planet onto itself, leaving pleasureful tastes from different atmospheres but never drifting too far from home. Think Khrubangin meets psychedelic jazz: groovy synths, soft riffs, and flowing beats all effortlessly bounce off of one another, masterfully spaced and minimalistic, leaving each room to breathe.

Cookie Stars takes you on a chill journey towards the stars. Enjoy the ride.

Water Is Life is an audio sculpture that evokes impressions of one of the defining events of our time, the Standing Rock protests, with improvised sound. Each track describes a different phase of the conflict, beginning with "Inception", describing the initial tension between the Standing Rock Sioux and Energy Partners Pipeline, and ending with "The Twilight Of Capitalism", reflecting on the fortitude and resilience of the resistance.

Khruangbin are no slouches when it comes to the remix. They’ve been reworked before, in 2016, with the highly collectible EP on Boogiefuturo. But this time, they’re taking it a step further with an album dedicated to the art. Entering the tight-knit world of a Khruangbin song can be a little daunting.

Tangerine Dream set the stage for the style of "artsy" soundtrack music that dominated the '80s. Although Hyperborea is not a soundtrack, it was clearly influential on some of the work the group was hired to do for Risky Business, Flashpoint, Dreamscape, Firestarter, Legend, and close to 20 others…

DTx2 is a really varied and far-ranging album, and if you had a record shop or record library, twould be difficult to know where to shelve it; and maybe that's the point. It's pretty jazzy, but more in an Afro way; it's pretty experimental, in quite a punk-funk way; it's oftentimes very world groove, but in a really outwardly exploding way; it's properly old-skool pop, in a prankster way; it grooves, in a weird way…

The setting for Kangaroo Moon is usually ideal when there are low lights, high times and green grass. Their natural habitat mostly festivals, parties, and dances. Playing to a crowd who can let themselves go, or open their third eye. The 1995 Album Recorded in Bath. Produced by Grant Showbiz,/Kangaroo Moon, and Mastered by Beaver Beresford. Re-Mastered by G.Quinn March 2021.

After a short hiatus, The Gaslamp Killer has returned with turbulent, moody, and gorgeous symphonies on his third full-length album, Heart Math. An intense and emotional masterpiece, it reaffirms why he remains one of the best DJs and instrumental hip-hop producers of his generation. This is a work conceived and creative with every last ounce of love and pain, all of it made in turmoil and psychic unrest, with music providing the only form of solace or opportunity to find even a fleeting moment of happiness. It is as pure as catharsis gets. Heart music to survive a season in hell.

The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of music and boundless curiosity for new sounds, Hosono is the auteur of his own idiosyncratic musical world, putting his unmistakable stamp on hundreds of recordings as an artist, session player, songwriter and producer. Born and raised in central Tokyo, his adolescent obsession with American pop culture informed his early forays into country music, which he would revisit later in his career.

The Beaters – Harari was released in 1975. After changing their name, Harari went into the studio late in 1976 to record their follow-up, Rufaro / Happiness. In 1976 they were voted South Africa’s top instrumental group and were in high demand at concert venues across the country.

Archical discovery of 2 alternate takes for the Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda soundtrack that we did for Arthur Magazine in 2006.

Based in West Wales, UK. Instrumental psyche-space-rock band whose work blends early psychedelic outings, occasional heavy riffing, and electronic ambient musings. The core band in UK is currently: Pete Bingham on guitars & electronics, Glenda Pescado on bass, Meurig Griffiths on drums, Lee Relfe on sax and Lord Armstrong Sealand on theremin & synths.

These twelve astonishing tracks are drawn from a broad spectrum of early 70s West African psychedelic classics. Yet the fact that they scarcely registered on the Richter scale of contemporary underground music must surely be one of the greatest ironies of modern popular music, given that western counterculture drew so heavily on the musical, aesthetic and visual traditions of Africa.

The Brooklyn-based artist explores various techniques of sound healing, drawing on ancestral knowledge from Japan.

Recorded in 1972 at the legendary Landsdowne Studios in London, Cosmic Eye is an extraordinary piece of recorded music. Led by Indian born guitarist Amancio D’Silva, Cosmic Eye was a highly innovative studio experiment in which ‘Jazz Meets World’.

A collection of singles initially available on vinyl in three different sizes, cleaned, with magic dust applied.