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VA – Franz Ferdinand: Late Night Tales (2014)
Franz Ferdinand are the latest to participate in Late Night Tales, the ongoing series in which artists curate a mixtape. The band mixes krautrock, pop, soul, funk, reggae, electronic, and more from the...
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VA – Australian Pop of the 80’s: Like, Wow Wipeout (2014)
Carefully selected by compilation producer Brent James. Volume 5 brings together more all-time Aussie Classics and rare titles representing the three decades 60s.70s and 80s – arguably our most...
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VA – Local Customs: Cavern Sound (2014)
Local Customs: Cavern Sound covers six years lost in the deranging darkness of Independence, Missouri’s Pixley limestone mine, where a team of misfit engineers captured the reverberating echoes of...
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VA – Hyperdub 10.3 (2014)
For a label who commands almost unparalleled respect among devotees of a genre of music to which percussion is of such intrinsic importance, releasing a 23-track compilation that is very nearly bereft...
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VA – Link of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute to Chris Smither (2014)
In celebration of blues icon Chris Smither’s 70th birthday, Signature Sounds release Link of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute to Chris Smither on September 30, 2014. The album features friends and peers...
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Tradisyon Ka – Gwo Ka: Music of Guadeloupe, West Indies (2014)
Soul Jazz Records continues its journey into the vast musical world of the Caribbean – digging deep into the cultural African roots of the region. Tradisyon Ka’s Gwo Ka album is newly recorded in...
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VA – Mojo Presents: It’s a Wonderfull Life (2014)
1. Marty Manning – The Twilight Zone 2. Dimitri Mitropoulos – Suite One: Romeo and Juliet – Montagues and Capulets 3. The Shadows – Man of Mystery 4. Lotte Lenya & Orchestra Roger Bean –...
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VA – Work (2014)
Earlier this year, Darkside — the spacey, penetrating collaboration between Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington — sat down with the author Daniel Pinchbeck to talk about aliens, channeling, and...
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VA – No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era 1986-97 (2014)
It was in the mid-’70s that the first underground compilations of obscure ’60s garage rock gems began to circulate, and collections of little-known power pop, disco, and old-school hip-hop tracks have...
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VA – Morning of the Earth: Complete Original Soundtrack and Reimagined (2014)
Forty-odd years ago Australia helped invent the surf movie, and most importantly, the surf movie soundtrack. Morning of the Earth (directed by Albert Falzon) was dominated by the sounds of...
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VA – Chicago Hit Factory: The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (2014)
Celebrating sixty years since the launch of one of the most successful independent record labels in US Popular music. Received wisdom would have us believe that before Motown, no black-owned record...
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VA – Everything Is Shit: Punk in Brussels 1977-79 (2014)
There’s a handful of excavation music labels around the world that we actively check up on through the year and Sub Rosa is right amongst the top names in that list. The latest punk comp, Everything is...
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VA – Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul & Psych from Peru’s Radical Decade (2014)
Peru Bravo tells the whirlwind story of a culture in flux when, during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Lima boasted dozens of young bands full of ideas, spontaneous and unfazed by the instability in...
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VA – Dusty Heard Them Here First (2014)
Dusty Springfield wasn’t known as a songwriter — she didn’t write more than a handful — so the logic behind Dusty Heard Them Here First is tidy: collect 24 songs Springfield would later cover. As some...
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VA – Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cambodia (2014)
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cambodia compiles various psychedelic rock sides recorded during the ’60s and ’70s in Cambodia. Also included are a few cuts by contemporary Cambodian rock revivalists...
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VA – I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70 (2014)
In 1969, Sly Stone and his manager David Kapralik set up a label called Stone Flower. The records were distributed by Atlantic, and it didn’t last long — the imprint folded in 1971. But now, the full...
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VA – Spirit of Malombo: Malombo, Jabula, Jazz Afrika 1966-1984 (2014)
South Africa’s Julian Bahula created a unique synthesis of Western jazz and the indigenous rhythms of his home country, spreading his culture to an international audience as well as creating awareness...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Brain Damage (2014)
1. The Coffin Daggers – Interstellar Overdrive 2. Pontiak – Ghosts 3. Anthroprophh – Crow With Sore Throat 4. Foxygen – Star Power II: Star Power Nite 5. The Wytches – Digsaw 6. Goat – Gathering Of...
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VA – Northern Soul: The Film Soundtrack (2014)
The soundtrack package for Northern Soul consists of CD1: the soundtrack itself containing all the key Northern Soul tracks from the film, CD2: an additional CD of specially chosen Northern Soul...
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VA – Uncut: Beyond the Basement (2014)
1. Julian Casablancas – Where No Eagles Fly 2. Greylag – Yours to Shake 3. Sleater-Kinney – Oh! 4. Cool Ghouls – The Mile 5. Anais Mitchell – Out of Pawn 6. New Build – Look in Vain (Radio Edit) 7....
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