At the end of the year, it’s almost mandatory to take stock, so here’s ours. These are Brixton Records’ releases in 2005:
DROP COLLECTIVE – Eastern Stepper
Format: single digital
Release date: 28 february 2025
DROP COLLECTIVE – Eastern Stepper – digital single
Following their 2024 album INSIDE, the Barcelona-based ska-jazzers unveiled Eastern Stepper as a digital single. It is an instrumental track that explores the combination of both Eastern and Jamaican sounds, as well as dub and jazz.
DROP COLLECTIVE Meets CHALART58: IN DUB VOL. 2
Format: EP digital
Release date: 6 junio 2025
DROP COLLECTIVE Meets CHALART58 – In Dub Vol 2 – digital EP
Second volume of a fascinating collaboration between the ska-jazzers and the wizard of dub: dub remixes of three tracks from the album INSIDE and the dub version of the latest single from the Barcelona band ‘Eastern Stepper’.
DROP COLLECTIVE Meets CHALART58 – In Dub Vol 2 – digital EP
ALBERTO TARÍN – 25
Format: USB flashdrive
Relese date: 5 september 2025
ALBERTO TARIN – 25 – USB pendrive
Limited edition USB flash drive featuring the 25 best songs from the career of Valencian guitarist ALBERTO TARÍN as a solo artist.
AKATZ – A Go Go 3
Format: EP viniyl10″
Release date: 19 september 2025
AKATZ – A Go Go 3 – EP 10″
The third volume of the ‘Á go go’ series, in which the Bilbao band revisits six classics of soul, vocal jazz, ska and mambo in a tribute and declaration of love for music that moves bodies and consciences, making them their own, feeling every note, turning listening into a party.
AMAIKA RUDE – The Ska and the Abstract Truth
Format: LP vinyl
Release date:28 november 2025
AMAIKA RUDE – The Ska and the Abstract Truth – LP
An unprecedented encounter between jazz musicians and virtuosos from Bilbao’s ska/reggae scene, united by one obsession: to reinterpret Oliver Nelson’s legendary album, ‘The Blues and The Abstract Truth’, a record with fundamental historical significance in jazz, marking a timeless masterpiece. Now, Oliver Nelson meets Kingston.
Un encuentro inédito entre músicos de jazz y virtuosos de la escena ska/reggae de Bilbao, unidos por una obsesión: reinterpretar el legendario álbum de Oliver Nelson, “The Blues and The Abstract Truth”, un disco con un significado histórico fundamental en el jazz, marcando una obra maestra atemporal. Ahora, Oliver Nelson se encuentra con Kingston.
Although released in 2025, we hope that these releases will have a very long life and that the songs they contain will become classics of ska, reggae and ska-jazz.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best for 2026.