Vernon Burch
Love-A-Thon

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, DJ, and 22a label founder Tenderlonious returns with a batch of new and old studio productions for 22a. Futuristic funk and beat music that extracts maximum flavour from just a few ingredients. This album marks a return to the studio for Tenderlonious and a sign of things to come from 22a.

“We’ve come too far and endured too much to not prosper now. It’s all possible together.” - Zima“There are forces out there, even within ourselves, that continue to threaten beauty in our world. I think to fight these forces we must name it and call out for protection and restoration. To me, when I wrote the lyrics “I want to live in a beautiful world”, it was very much a proclamation for peace.” - KalalaHip-hop duo SO.Crates are a boom-bap prayer sent live and direct from the heart of two of the culture’s most committed students.The group features Narrm/Melbourne based beatmaker and DJ Skomes alongside California-via-Adelaide MC & poet Cazeaux O.S.L.O, not to mention the MUSE, a forever changing third party who completes the creative trinity of the Crates.With a legacy built on releasing a steady flow of cold-crush records and delivering uplifting live performances to the party people, SO.Crates prove that hip-hop’s golden era is not a lost date in time, but a foundational state of mind.

The first ever issue of this Spiritual Jazz album! The Tribe Records co-founder’s lost album, rumored to exist no more. Mastered from the original tapes and lacquered by Bernie Grundman.“As I thought about reecting on an aggregate of music for this album, I projected my attitude and spirit while living and working here, in Detroit, Michigan. We are earning and learning a new way of life, which explicitly tells us to become self-reliant in taking care of our families and each other. Government hand-outs are not an option for us.” - Wendell HarrisonThe Tribe label, one of the brightest lights of America’s 1970s jazz underground, receives the Now-Again reissue treatment. This is your chance to indulge in the music and story of one of the most meaningful, local movements of the 20th Century Black American experience, one that expanded outwards towards the cosmos. In the words of the collective themselves, “Music is the healing force of the universe.”Included in an extensive, oversized booklet, Larry Gabriel and Jeff “Chairman” Mao take us through the history of the Tribe, in a compelling story that delves not just into the history of the label and its principals, but into the story of Black American empowerment in the latter half of the 20th Century. The booklet features never-before-seen archival photos and rare ephemera from Tribe’s mid-1970s heyday.

Dwight Thompson’s album Hypocrisy took hearts by storm in the 70's. The soulful, charismatic singer hailing from the USA released his ground-breaking Album “Hypocrisy” in 1975 on the Dutch Label Poker.A well sought after pearl of deep funk and soul on a small, misty label from the Netherlands. After the Deeptrax / Deepgrooves- crew met Dwight in Berlin by accident on a beautiful day in April 2019 on a sunny terrace, they kept in contact and planned a reissue of his classic album that is released now under their newfound label ReGrooved.