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I posted about Amanaz's way sold-out 1975 LP Africa a while back, and it remains one of my favorite musical discoveries of the last few years, so it's worth noting that the record has been reissued by Now-Again, and is now available for purchase in the Stones Throw/Now Again web store...

Thanks to NPIP for delivering these two new jams from Christopher Curtis Smith, taken from Life Control, the impending follow-up to one of '09s best full-lengths, Night Control's Death Control (14 new songs, due "probably January 12" on Kill Shaman)...

According to this, "Nite Jewel is the latest to get jumped into the Stones Throw crew" (apparently Dam-Funk is a huge fan). Get her new "Weak For Me" 45, backed with "Suburbia" on the flip, here. mp3: ********

According to Stones Throw, Share My Bed = MJ + J Dilla. More coming soon. mp3: (via) *******

Now Again/Stones Throw just released a compilation of essential "beat-heavy global psychedelia" from the late '60s/early '70s, entitled Forge Your Own Chains. One standout jam is the fuzzed out afro-funk of the Strangers' "Two To Make a Pair...

Oh No flips some psych-soul from Now Again's vaults, taken from the limited-edition Oh No vs. Now Again record, out now on Stones Throw: mp3: Oh No vs. Now Again is a limited one-time pressing of 500. Get it here. ********

Stones Throw has just released Ethiopium, the highly anticipated follow-up to Oh No's underrated 2007 Anatolian psych-funk excursion, Dr. No's Oxperiment. This time out, Oh No mines Egon's awe-inspiring and seemingly endless trove of "rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock" to create another adventurous/educational collection of dusty, mostly laid-back bea

Oh No is set to follow up one of the best albums of '07 with a new record on which he samples only Ethiopian music. According to Stones Throw:Oh No is following up his album Dr. No's Oxperiment (Turkish & Lebanese Psyche samples) with Dr. No...

Stones Throw is offering a free download of "Sacrifice," one of the better tracks from Madlib's Beat Konducta Vol. 5 + 6: a Tribute to J Dilla, which we spoke very highly of late last year. mp3: *********

Via Stones Throw's twitter. Original produced by Oh No: mp3: ****************