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VA – Blues, Blues, Hoodoo Halloween: Scary Jazz and Blues from 1925 to 1961...
Blues, Blues, Hoodoo Halloween includes music perfect for Halloween that isn’t actually about Halloween, although everything included here is definitely scary on one level or another. Consisting of...
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VA – Uncut: Time Has Told Me (2014)
1. Spider Bags – Back with You Again in the World 2. Ty Segall – The Faker 3. Bob Carpenter – Silent Passage 4. Allah-Las – Had It All 5. Ezra Furman – Been So Strange 6. Alice Gerrad – Wedding Dress...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Arabic Jazz (2014)
The syncopated beats and counter-culture attitudes synonymous with universal jazz culture have been swinging in the Arab world since the early twentieth century. The western Arabic region, the Maghreb,...
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VA – Tru Thoughts 15th Anniversary (2014)
Tru Thoughts Recordings have represented forward thinking talent in many spectrums of the independent music grid for over a decade now, breaking out artists and groups year after year. They manage to...
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VA – Prog Box (2014)
Only Purple Pyramid Records – home to progressive rock legends Nektar, Hawkwind founder Nik Turner, Amon Düül II, Tangerine Dream and others – could produce this massive 4CD set of cutting edge prog...
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VA – Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music of...
Finders Keepers sub-label Cache Cache released Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik, a compilation of 1980s West German home recordings. The project was headed up by Felix Kubin, who speaks on the...
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VA – When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel, 1926-1936 (2014)
In the history of American popular music, gospel is the great conveyor. People could hear it everywhere as the 20th century grew from infancy to adolescence: in churches, of course, but also on street...
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VA – Virgin Front Line: Sounds of Reality (2014)
Eighteen months isn’t a lot of time in the music biz. With this in mind, the story of Front Line records – as presented in Sounds of Reality, an attentively packaged box set across five discs with...
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VA – Native North America vol.1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock & Country 1966-1985...
The 34 tracks on Native North America, vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985 were curated and painstakingly annotated by Kevin “Sipreano” Howe. He assembled this set from independent,...
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VA – One in a Million: The Songs of Sam Dee (2014)
Sam Dees is a beloved name of soul aficionados but he isn’t a household name the way other subjects of Ace’s ongoing songwriters/producer series are. Dees had some success as an artist — his 1975...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music (2014)
The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music was compiled by DJ Ritu. It contains nine cuts from masters of the various schools of the carnatic tradition, both Hindu and Muslim, all deriving from the root...
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VA – Satisfaction Guaranteed! Motown Guys 1961-69 (2014)
A de facto sequel to the set Finders Keepers: Motown Girls 1961-67, Ace’s 2014 compilation Satisfaction Guaranteed! Motown Guys 1961-69 continues the label’s deep dive into the vaults of Motown. Where...
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VA – Brent: Superb 60s Soul Sounds (2014)
Brent was the ’60s soul imprint for Bob Shad, a record man who began his career as a producer at Savoy and National. He was based in New York City but Brent showcased soul singers from across the...
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VA – Wild [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2014)
The soundtrack for director Jean-Marc Vallee’s 2014 survival tale Wild features an evocative mix of classic singer/songwriter fare and warm, introspective rock tunes spanning over five decades....
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VA – Bunny Lee’s Agro Sounds: 101 Orange Street (2014)
Reggae impresario Bunny Lee was one of the driving forces behind shifts in the early developments of the sound and culture of Jamaican music. Working closely with almost every big name of ’60s and ’70s...
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VA – Dead Man’s Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A. (2014)
“Born down in a dead man’s town/first kick I took was when I hit the ground/You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much/then you spend half your life trying to cover it up” aren’t exactly the kind...
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VA – Mojo Presents: David Heroes Bowie (2015)
1. Little Richard – The Girl Can’t Help It 2. Chuck Berry – Almost Grown 3. Bobby Bland – I Pity the Fool 4. Ronnie Ross Quintet – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 5. Frank Sinatra – Bewitched, Bothered &...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: French Christmas (2014)
This festive compilation from Putumayo covers a variety of French and French-Canadian Christmas songs beginning with the classic sounds of Jacqueline François (“Noël Blanc”), Charles Trénet (“Chanson...
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VA – Real World 25 (2014)
Peter Gabriel’s groundbreaking Real World label celebrates a quarter-century of eclectic international releases and inspired collaborations with the three-disc anthology Real World 25. Having already...
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VA – Boyhood: Music from the Motion Picture (2014)
The original motion picture soundtrack for director Richard Linklater‘s ambitious, decade-spanning coming of age film Boyhood, like other soundtracks for Linklater films such as Dazed and Confused,...
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