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VA – Bombay Disco 2 (2014)
Brother Cleve, Combustible Edison’s keyboardist/ composer, curated and produced the debut volume in this Culture of Soul Records series that documents the genre in Bollywood films during the 1980s and...
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VA – Duo Art: Creating Magic (2014)
German label ACT has now been in existence for some twenty years or so and this double CD set celebrates the sheer diversity of the musicians on its roster with particular reference to duet...
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VA – Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness (2015)
A follow up to last year’s Hardcore Traxx, Ghetto Madness is the second trip through the Dance Mania label’s vaults. While Hardcore Traxx covered the years 1986 to 1997, when the label laid the...
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VA – Stoned: A Psych Tribute to The Rolling Stones (2015)
Following on from their successful Psych Tribute to the Doors, the folks from Cleopatra Records have rounded up another bunch of impressionable young ‘uns to psychedelicize a classic songbook. The...
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VA – Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party (2015)
For almost two dozen Saturday nights in 1982, Chicago UHF station WCIU — the same station that had premiered Soul Train a decade earlier — broadcast The Chicago Party, an oddball dance program that...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Physical Graffiti Redrawn (2015)
1. White Denim – Custard Pie 2. Blackberry Smoke – The Rover 3. Miraculous Mule – In My Time of Dying 4. The Temperance Movement – Houses of the Holy 5. Son Little – Trampled Underfoot 6. Songhoy...
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VA – The Brazilian Boogie Connection: From Rio to São Paulo (1976-1983) (2015)
This album is another chapter in the ongoing “there’s-much more-to-Brazil-than-bossa-nova” saga. It’s filled with disco-era tracks produced for the Brazilian domestic marketplace, some of which were...
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VA – Studio One Jump Up: The Birth of a Sound: Jump-Up Jamaican R&B, Jazz, &...
In the early releases featured here you will find the roots of Studio One’s unique sound – from the first jump-up, boogie-woogie and shuffle recordings made in Jamaica in the late 1950s, as the artists...
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VA – Jon Hopkins: Late Night Tales (2015)
Jon Hopkins is the latest participant in the Late Night Tales mix series. The long-running mixtape series invites artists to create their own “ultimate ‘late night’ selection,” with each collection...
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VA – Official Guide to Scottish Minimal Synth 1979-83 (2014)
This is the ultimate Anthology of Scottish Minimal Synth based around electronic mastermind Alistair Robertson and all his early 80’s solo or band- projects such as The Written Text, Al Robertson, DC3,...
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VA – Back From the Grave: Volume 9-10 (2015)
Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, Crypt Records dug up lost 45s from rock’n’roll’s fringes and assembled and released them on a series of Back From the Grave compilations. Adorned with album art...
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VA – Bristol Boys Make More Noise: The Soundtrack 1974-1981 (2014)
Book and CD celebrates Bristol music scene 1974-1981. Bristol’s leading counter-culture publishers Tangent Books and Bristol Archive Records have joined forces to produce a photographic book and CD...
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VA – Rhythm ‘n’ Bluesin’ By the Bayou: Mad Dogs, Sweet Daddies & Pretty...
Ten volumes into their seemingly never-ending, always-excellent By the Bayou series, Ace returns to R&B for Mad Dogs, Sweet Daddies & Pretty Babies. Like nearly all of its predecessors, this is...
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VA – Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music, Part 1 (2014)
Bear Family split their 12-disc American folk retrospective into quarters: four sets covering roughly 1936 through 1972, each following a loose chronology but assembled to make big, broader points...
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VA – Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music, Part 2 (2014)
On the second volume of Bear Family’s extensive four-part, 12-disc series, Bob Dylan arrives at the midpoint, his introduction as seismic as an atomic bomb. Prior to his introduction on the second disc...
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VA – Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music, Part 3 (2014)
In another fine box set series from reissue specialists Bear Family Records, the history of the American folk ballad tradition is chronicled with Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music. From...
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VA – Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music, Part 4 (2014)
In another fine box set series from reissue specialists Bear Family Records, the history of the American folk ballad tradition is chronicled on Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music. From...
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VA – The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions 2014 (2014)
The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions 2014 presents 20 of the best performances form last year’s Folk Show guests. It showcases the depth and breadth of talent on the current scene, whilst also offering an...
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VA – The Time & Space Machine Presents: The Way Out Sound from In (2014)
DJ and musician Richard Norris is probably best known as half of the ’90s techno duo the Grid, but since that band’s demise he’s kept busy making interesting neo-prog and neo-psych music and remixing...
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VA – Suicide Squeeze Records Presents: Forever Singles (2014)
Seattle label Suicide Squeeze Records is collecting some of its finest singles for limited-edition compilation. Suicide Squeeze Presents: Forever Singles culls 14 tracks from previously released...
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