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VA –µ20 (2015)
When Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq) formed his Planet Mu record label in 1995, electronic music was on the verge of breaking into the mainstream, moving from the clubs into to stadiums thanks to the...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Best Arabic Music You’ve Never Heard (2015)
It is true some legends of Arabic music have permeated the international music market: Oum Kalsoum’s powerful voice is respected the world over and Rachid Taha’s modern raï is the soundtrack to the...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Samba (2015)
In much the same way that the blues have informed so much Euro-American popular music in the last century, so too has the comparatively rough-and- ready but chameleon-like 2/4 tempo of samba, which has...
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VA – The Mule: Original Soundtrack (2015)
If you enjoy films about dudes with lethal amounts of narcotics up their arses then you are going to love The Mule. If the idea of a soundtrack composed by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring...
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VA – Daptone Gold II (2015)
Daptone Records has put its soulful stamp on contemporary music and helped make stars out of deserving talents such as Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley. Without Daptone, we may not have had such heard...
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VA – Uncut: Reason to Believe (2015)
Israel Nash – LA Lately Los Lobos – Made To Brake Your Heart Promised Land Sound – She Takes Me There Patty Griffin – Shine A Different Way John Grant (ft. Tracy Thorn) – Disappointing John Shelley –...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Songs The Beatles Taught Us (2015)
1. The Isley Brothers – Shout (Part One) 2. Little Richard – Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (Going Back to Birmingham) 3. Larry Williams – Bad Boy (Junior Behave Yourself) 4. Chuck Berry – Rock and Roll Music 5....
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VA – Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna (2015)
Prima Donna is a double album recording of Rufus Wainwright‘s 2009 opera of the same name, and features performances by Janis Kelly, Kathryn Guthrie, Antonio Figueroa, Richard Morrison, the BBC...
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VA – Ian Levine’s Solid Stax Sensations (2015)
Ace’s 2015 compilation Solid Stax Sensations was assembled by Ian Levine, a British DJ who first made his name as a soul collector when he compiled Solid Soul Sensations for Pye Records in 1974. As the...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters (2015)
Before there was the bluesman there was the songster and it was these travelling troubadours who helped lay the foundations for the development of the blues. In the decades preceding the phonograph and...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Unsung Heroes of Country Blues, vol. 2 (2015)
This second volume digs that bit deeper into the early days of recorded country blues and sheds light on other mysterious figures, many of whose contribution to the blues is easily overlooked. None...
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VA – Pied Piper: Follow Your Soul (2015)
Pied Piper: Follow Your Soul, Ace’s 2015 sequel to 2013’s Pied Piper Presents: A New Concept in Detroit Soul, covers the same ground as its predecessor, rounding up 24 tracks the production team of...
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VA – Masterpieces of Modern Soul Volume 4 (2015)
Ace’s fourth volume of selections from the Kent label is, by definition, heavy on rarities. “Modern Soul” refers not to a label but rather an offshoot of Northern Soul, one that focuses on smooth soul...
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VA – Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics (2015)
Following his phenomenal Metal Dance collections of industrial and post-punk tracks, DJ/producer/ graphic designer Trevor Jackson was asked to compile an extensive retrospective of British producer...
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VA – Excavated Shellac: Reeds (2015)
The Dust-to-Digital label are expert archivists, and for this Reeds instalment of their ongoing Excavated Shellac series, they’ve picked out 17 rare 78rpm records containing vigorous traditional reed...
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VA – Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015)
Jazz tribute albums are a dime a dozen. Often comprising familiar, oft-recorded material, many seem indistinct. Not so Hommage à Eberhard Weber, recorded live in January of 2015 on the occasion of the...
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VA – In a Moment… Ghost Box (2015)
From the very start, Ghost Box have understood that music is about memory. As well as providing sensory pleasure, music acts as a gateway to all manner of subconscious echoes and archived references,...
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VA – Ork Records: New York, New York (2015)
California-born Andy Warhol acolyte Terry Ork first came to prominence through managing seminal NYC proto-punks Television and releasing their legendary debut 45, Little Johnny Jewel, via his Ork...
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VA – Rhythm ‘n’ Bluesin’ By the Bayou: Vocal Groups (2015)
This 12th (!) installment of Ace’s ongoing Rhythm ‘n’ Bluesin by the Bayou series springs to life with a rolling piano lifted from “Tipitina,” but soon shifts the focus away from the rhythm and toward...
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VA – Prins Thomas: Paradise Goulash (2015)
Prins Thomas‘ Paradise Goulash is seamless like a DJ set and wildly idiosyncratic like an independent radio broadcast. Spanning three CDs totaling nearly four hours’ worth of music, it represents a...
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