Thursday, May 21, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Boogaloo Soul
Fourth 7-inch from DJ KOCO (a.k.a. SHIMOKITA) and SOUTHPAW CHOP's FUNKY SOUL BROTHER project. A-side 'Boogaloo Soul' rides a hip hop beat into Latin soul territory; the flip pairs the jazzy 'Keep On' with the chilled instrumental 'Seagull'. KOCO — a 45-only selector famed for sets as fluid as fancy dribbling — heads to Taiwan soon.
酒醉的探戈
Second 100% Pure LP reissue in Taurus Records' Teresa Teng series. Originally released in 1986, the album cherry-picks favorites from her commercial peak (Lover, I Only Care About You), including her own lyric translations 'Merry X'mas in Summer' and 'Non-Dragon Non-Cicada'. Pressed at 45rpm on heavyweight clear vinyl, limited to 1,000 numbered copies.
Silk & Soul
Nina Simone reissued in red vinyl, limited to 2,500 numbered copies. Originally cut in 1967, the album anchors itself on 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free' — a song that became an anthem of the Civil Rights movement. Simone never delivered a song the same way twice, but her conviction never wavered.
The Best of New Order
New Order's 1994 best-of, originally a top-5 hit in the UK, gathering the band's essential 7-inch mixes from 1985 onward plus four 1994 remixes. True Faith, Bizarre Love Triangle, Regret, Blue Monday — one anthem after another. Remastered at Abbey Road and reissued as a 2LP set.
The Rest of New Order
1995's companion remix album to The Best of New Order, headlined by Hardfloor's reworking of Blue Monday-95. Newly remastered at Abbey Road and pressed as a 3LP set with twelve legendary remixes.
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Post-rock landmark anchored by the 20-minute epic 'Djed'. Chicago legends Tortoise are heading to Taipei's The Wall this August with their iconic dual-drum lineup; the shop is releasing five copies of this long-out-of-print pressing from its private stash to mark the occasion.
Touch
Tortoise's first album in nearly a decade, fresh material they'll perform at Taipei's The Wall on August 23. The shop's releasing the last copy of its obi-strip pressing to coincide with the show.
Motorslice
Harvey Jones — better known as Pizza Hotline — has built a cult following in indie vaporwave and jungle/DnB by capturing the PS1-era aesthetic on every release. Motorslice is his soundtrack for Brazilian indie outfit Regular Studio's game of the same name, written, mixed, and mastered entirely by Jones himself. Limited run; expect it to sell out fast.
We Now Create
A haunted touchstone of Japanese free jazz, led by Masahiko Togashi with Masayuki Takayanagi, Mototeru Takagi, and Motoharu Yoshizawa. Built in four parts that each foreground a single voice — guitar, corn pipe, drums, bass — the album probes silence as carefully as sound. Recorded in 1969, the last major work before Togashi's 1970 accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Cover painted by Togashi himself. Reissued as Spin This Now!'s eighth installment.
山女魚
Saxophonist/flautist Akira Miyazawa's first leader date, recorded in 1962 with the cream of the Japanese scene — Sadao Watanabe (alto/flute), Akira Nakano (trumpet/trombone), Takeshi Inomata (drums), Masahiko Satoh (piano). Title track opens with a crystalline melody, and the cover shot of Miyazawa with a fishing line in hand has become iconic. Reissued on heavyweight clear vinyl.
DIG!
If Silk Sonic and Tom Misch are your speed, don't miss UK soul band Mamas Gun's sixth album. Cut to 16-track analog tape, all five members in one room, mostly first takes. The headline guest is Brian Jackson — Fender Rhodes and lazy flute open the record before Andy Platts glides in with the kind of falsetto-laden swing that pulls you straight back to '70s street-corner soul.
Joyful
Ayo's breakthrough debut from 2006 — neo-soul, acoustic folk, jazz, and reggae cut to tape in just five days in New York, with that signature clean, warm, room-around-it sound. If Norah Jones's mellow gloss or Tracy Chapman's deep grain is your speed, start with 'Down On My Knees'. Produced by Jay Newland of Come Away With Me fame. Now reissued for its 20th anniversary on transparent blue 2LP, limited until gone.
Harmless Melodies
Yellow Days — George van den Broek — built his reputation on a rasped, emotionally-loaded voice, introspective lyrics, and a hazy fusion of indie rock, R&B, and jazz-blues soul. His long-out-of-print debut finally returns on translucent gold vinyl, pressed in a limited run by Diggers Factory.
Rock and a Hard Place
Yellow Days' new album, a return to his soul roots that carries audible nods to Stevie Wonder, Gil Scott-Heron, and his idol Ray Charles. Pressed by Diggers Factory on blue-marble 2LP, limited run.
Career-spanning compilation of Cambodian legend So Savoeun — the 'Golden Cicada of Phnom Penh' — whose voice fused Western rock and Latin-Cuban brass with traditional Khmer song. The recordings document Phnom Penh's brief hopeful modernist era before the 1975 Khmer Rouge takeover silenced the scene and scattered its masters. Savoeun escaped to France; the master tapes were nearly lost. Rescued from the archives by France's Akuphone in partnership with Cambodia's retro-music archive. Sold-out first pressing now repressed.