Various Artist - Twenty Years Deep

For Record Store Day 2026, Brownswood Recordings mark two decades of boundary-pushing independent music with Twenty Years Deep, a limited-edition 3xLP vinyl compilation celebrating the label’s rich, global catalogue and enduring influence.

Founded in 2006 by broadcaster, DJ, and cultural tastemaker Gilles Peterson, Brownswood has spent the last 20 years championing forward-thinking artists who sit just left of centre: rooted in Afro-diasporic music, but never confined by genre. Twenty Years Deep is a snapshot of that journey: a carefully curated collection spanning the label’s early breakthroughs, cult classics, and defining moments.

Pressed exclusively for Record Store Day on 3 piece coloured vinyl Twenty Years Deep brings together tracks that reflect Brownswood’s long-standing commitment to artistic freedom, musical lineage, and future-facing sounds. From deep jazz explorations and dancefloor mutations to global collaborations and genre-defying hybrids, the compilation captures the connective thread that has defined the label since day one: trust in artists and belief in music that lasts.

Rather than a greatest-hits exercise, Twenty Years Deep functions as an archive and a statement documenting how Brownswood has maintained its own point of view. By following a highly instinctive approach to A&R the label has shaped music culture, introduced new voices, and built a catalogue that continues to resonate well beyond release cycles.

Twenty Years Deep will be available exclusively at participating independent record stores on Record Store Day 2026, pressed as a limited-edition 3 piece vinyl release.

A1. A.I.E - SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS
A2.    Orisa - Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band featuring Dreiser & Sexto Sentido 
A3.    Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka (Rework) - Owiny Sigoma Band
A4.    Calle F - Mala
B1.    Something In My Soul - Diggs Duke
B2.Hammers and Roses feat. Tigran Hamasyan - LV
B3.    All Africa    - Zara McFarlane
B4.    Nós precisamos de você (feat. Moses Boyd) - Sonzeira
C1.    The Observer - Shabaka and the Ancestors
c2. Eleggua - Daymé Arocena
C3.    Brockley - Theon Cross
D1    Mollison Dub - Joe Armon-Jones
D2.Aspects (Demus Dub) - STR4TA
E1    Ke Nako - Bokani Dyer
E2.    no one else has your magik! - Divine Earth
E3.    We Give Thanks - Kokoroko
E4.    Chi Ave / A Love Letter to Salvador - Yussef Dayes
F1.    Save Me - Emma-Jean Thackray
F2. The Maxim (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello) - Tom Skinner
F3.    IT'S YOU (ANTE NEH) (Ft. Meron T) - ZENA, Meron T