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VA – Hello Everyone: Popsike Sparks from Denmark Street 1968-70 (2014)
Between 1968 and 1970, some of the finest, most obscure British psychedelic pop singles of the era escaped on the Spark label, the newly-inaugurated recording arm of long-established publishers...
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VA – Danse Sacrale: 14 Early Avant-Garde & Electronic Compositions for Ballet...
An unlikely combination of early recordings by international electronic and avant-garde composers as well as infrequent collaborators retrospectively unified by their commitment to the musical...
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VA – Lost River: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2015)
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, may be a critical flop, but its corresponding score and soundtrack are sure to have music fans excited. Chromatics producer Johnny Jewel helmed the score...
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VA – The Patuxent Banjo Project (2014)
Patuxent Records never ceases to present new and unique quality projects. The label never disappoints and this latest The Patuxent Banjo Project is certainly at the top of their offerings. This 2-CD...
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VA – Whatever Nevermind: A Tribute to Nirvana’s Nevermind (2015)
Last year, DIY workhorse Robotic Empire unveiled plans for a record of epic proportions with In Utero: In Tribute, a Nirvana covers compilation that was over 7 years in the works. This year, the label...
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VA – Los Angeles Soul: Kent-Modern’s Black Music Legacy (2015)
The Bihari brothers, owners of Los Angeles’ Kent and Modern labels, knew their black music, signing artists of the calibre of Etta James, Jesse Belvin and Jimmy Witherspoon in the ’50s. Their travels...
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VA – Bob Dylan Influence, Volume 2: I Was Young When I Left Home (2014)
Elvis Presley for rock’n’roll, Bob Dylan for folk and Johnny Cash forcountry music are still considered as the founding fathers. Few artists about whom it can be professed on the entire planet that...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Beyond Saturn (2015)
1. Toy – Motoring 2. Syd Arthur – Ode (Summer Is Leaving Me Behind) (Amorphous Androgynous Remix) 3. Temples – Sand Dance 4. Panda Bear – Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker 5. Neu! – Negativland 6....
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VA – Musiques de Films de Louis de Funès 1963-1982 (2014)
In July 2014, Louis de Funès would have been celebrating his 100th birthday. Of all the great ambassadors of comedy à la française, the aura of de Funès remains undiminished for new generations: he’s...
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VA – Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers and Hoss Hair Pullers (2014)
Produced by April and Lance Ledbetter utilizing transfers from the Music Memory archive, Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers and Hoss Hair Pullers features original recordings made between 1928-1937. This...
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VA – The Afrosound of Colombia, vol. 2 (2014)
Vampisoul is back with a fresh batch of funky, folky and psychedelic tropical bangers from the deep vaults of Discos Fuentes (and its other properties, Tropical and Machuca). As previously stated in...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Celtic Music [Second Edition] (2014)
The Rough Guides have had some notable success with compilations of Irish and Scottish music, but never a cross-national Celtic album until now. Luckily, they go beyond the usual two domains of...
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VA – The Other Side of Bakersfield, vol. 1: 1950’s & 60’s Boppers and Rockers...
The “other side” in the title of Bear Family’s two- volume 2014 set The Other Side of Bakersfield is effectively pre-history: it’s the hopping, swinging hillbilly boogie that laid the groundwork for...
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VA – Halloween Nuggets: Monster Sixties a Go-Go (2014)
The folks at Rockbeat Records have gone deep, culling together nearly 100 ultra-rare, delightfully campy Halloween nuggets from the ’60s on this well-curated three-disc set. Don’t murder your next...
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VA – Traces Three (2014)
Things don’t get much more binary than before and after, and the advent of digital technology has imposed a replication of its essence upon the development of electronic music. Look beforehand and you...
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VA – PC Music Volume 1 (2015)
PC Music Volume 1 is anti-physical music for an anti-physical time. Like everything that A. G. Cook’s London-based label’s released since 2013, these 10 songs are invocations of the hyperreal, created...
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VA – The Other Side of Bakersfield, vol. 2: 1950’s & 60’s Boppers and Rockers...
The companion volume to The Other Side of Bakersfield, vol. 1 naturally digs deeper into the same territory chronicled on the initial disc — namely, it presents all the wild, woolly Western swing,...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: Celtic Café (2015)
Putumayo’s world music collections are often an uneven affair of tasteful folk-inspired cuts with a unique regional flair and misguided marriages of factory drum loops and traditional instruments....
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VA – Saint Etienne Presents: Songs for a London Winter (2014)
You can guess from the title that this isn’t going to be your run-of-the-mill Christmas compilation. There’s no Slade, Cliff Richard or even Bing Crosby here. Instead, Saint Etienne frontman and delver...
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VA – Tease Torment Tantalize: A 30th Anniversary Tribute to the Smiths’ Debut...
So many albums have been marked as milestones over the years, but so many others have been over- looked in the process, many of them exceptional efforts that were either caught up in the sweep of...
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