Raf Reza
Why You Gotta? / Pineapple Island

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Shrimp Boats by Lionel Pillay feat. Basil Mannenberg CoetzeeAssembling unreleased recordings from 1979 and 1980, Shrimp Boats is a South African jazz archival compilation from 1987 built around its epic side-long title track featuring saxophonist Basil "Mannenberg" Coetzee. The recording was made during pianist Lionel Pillay's November 1979 session with Coetzee for the As-Shams/The Sun album Plum and Cherry. Side Two is composed of material recorded in September 1980 from the session for Lionel Pillay's Deeper in Black album. The 1951 pop standard "Shrimp Boats" was first given its unlikely jazz arrangement by Abdullah Ibrahim (recording as Dollar Brand) in 1971. Pillay and Coetzee take this seed of an arrangement to its furthest reaches with their mesmerising performance. Although the title track casts a big shadow, Pillay's "Slow Blues for Orial" is a welcome original composition on the flip side that stands proudly next to a rare 1970s cover of Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi's "Yakhal 'Inkomo" (Pillay was the pianist on Mankunku's original 1968 recording) featuring saxophonists Barney Rachabane and Duke Makasi. The set closes with a nod to the contemporaneous jazz fusion scene with a take on Weather Report's "Birdland" from 1977.

Burial lands on XL Recordings with the new single Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above. Outside of a handful of collabs and singles, Burial has been a bastion of Hyperdub’s impressive roster since its 2005 inception, so what better way to shake up the 2024 news cycle than a surprise drop on XL Recordings and bring back the hazy club soundscapes.Dreamfear is a tag team of sample-suffused dancefloor quakers: the invigorating beats of the title track thump at breakneck pace, with lightning charged rave synths and breakbeats contorted to match that epic cinematic feel, while ‘Boy Sent From Above’ is a club panacea of jittery vocal samples, electro-adjacent rhythms, and stuttering synth wizardry.A welcome return from the nocturnal hero of the south london boroughs, kicking off 2024 in style.

100 copies only."The sea as the engine of imagination. Imagination as the engine to overcome the sea." - Cees van den Oever Originally released in 1982 on tape.Paperless heat stamped special edition record kind of thing.

PCLUB019 serves as a reminder to always check demos. An instagram DM from AR:MG in Mexico City has proved to be one of the most vibrant records we've ever released.