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VA – Doused in Mud, Soaked in Bleach (2016)
Robotic Empire returns with their third Nirvana tribute, “Doused In Mud, Soaked In Bleach”, completing a trifecta of homages to the legendary band’s studio albums. The Hall of Famer’s debut LP...
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VA – Wake Up You! The Rise & Fall of Nigerian Rock Music 1972-1977, vol. 1...
There have been several excellent Nigerian rock and psychedelic music compilations issued by fine record labels that have gone to great lengths to assemble tapes and/or rare pressings of exemplary...
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VA – The Winding Stream: The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country...
There is a stream that courses through American roots music. Its source is in the Appalachian foothills in a place called Maces Spring, Virginia. It was there that A.P. Carter, his wife Sara and his...
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VA – California Soul: Funk & Soul from the Golden State 1967-1976 (2016)
There is a Californian myth of sun, sand and tanned blondes of both sexes enjoying a life of carefree exuberance. For black America, the Golden State offered a different dream and throughout the 20th...
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VA – BIS: 001-020 (2016)
Even at its most inclusive and open-minded, the underground dance community still aspires to a certain cool factor — man or woman, gay or straight, just, please, don’t be a dork. This is one of the...
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VA – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2016)
The annual double CD signature release from Proper presenting a track from each of the nominated artists for the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016 which will take place on April 27th at the...
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VA – AOR Global Sounds 1977-1982 (2015)
Following the recent success of French Disco Boogie Sounds, DJ and producer Charles Maurice is back on Favorite Recordings, this time engaging a musical World tour, in the search of hidden productions...
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VA – AOR Global Sounds 1975-1983, Volume 2 (2016)
Following the recent acclaimed first edition of AOR Global Sounds compilation, DJ and producer Charles Maurice’s dug even deeper through international lost productions to create a sequel for this...
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VA – Mojo Presents…..The Next Projected Sound Of 2016: A Mind Blowing...
1. Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation – Sunny Afternoon 2. Cate Le Bon – I Was Born On The Wriong Day 3. The Bevis Frond – Hot Sauce Or Nothing 4. White Fence – To The Boy I Jumped In The Hemlock Alley 5....
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VA – Love & Affection: More Motown Girls (2015)
A second collection of unreleased rarities from deep in the Motown vaults, Ace’s 2015 compilation Love & Affection: More Motown Girls contains nothing released in the ’60s — nothing that was issued...
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VA – Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches from Traditional Mali (2016)
Bamako-based producer/educator Paul Chandler has been documenting the sonic and cultural complexities of Malian traditional music for more than a decade and Every Song Has Its End is an out-of-time,...
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VA – Brown Acid: The Second Trip (2016)
Musical history is littered with bands that never got heard outside their immediate circle. It’s a fact of life in this creative art and perhaps a shocking statistic if one was to ever collate any...
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VA – Vinyl: The Essentials: Best of Season 1 (2016)
…While the first album, Vinyl: Music from the HBO Original Series, Volume 1, primarily consisted of tracks from the two-hour pilot episode, The Essentials is, according to Vinyl music supervisor...
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VA – WhoMadeWho: Body Language, vol. 17 (2016)
The Danish trio WhoMadeWho are indie rock survivors. Since releasing their 2005 debut they have continually refined and redefined their sound. Part of that process has involved the incorporation of...
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VA –Ólafur Arnalds: Late Night Tales (2016)
Ólafur Arnalds, one-half of Icelandic band Kiasmos, has mixed the latest instalment in the Late Night Tales mix series. The BAFTA-winning multi-intrumentalist and producer is known for a hybrid sound...
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VA – Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 (2016)
During the late ’70s and early ’80s, a crop of British experimentalists emerged with positions on conventional rock music that ranged from indifferent to hostile. Prompted by early electronic music and...
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VA – Los Alamos Grind! (2016)
Record buyers of a certain age need no explanation for Los Alamos Grind!, they will be immediately transported back to a time when going to see The Dwarves was de rigueur for fresh-faced American...
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VA – Uncut: Here We Are Now (2015)
01. Thunderbitch – Closer 02. Joe Ely – Coyotttes Are Howlin’ 03. Nadia Reid – Call the Days 04. Rocket from the Tombs – Coopy… 05. Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp – Long Beach… 06. Bill Ryder-Jones...
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VA – Jon Savage Presents 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (2015)
Assembled by Jon Savage as a soundtrack to his book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded, Ace’s double-disc set of the same name does indeed bring his words to life, but it’s not necessary to read his...
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VA – Hungarian Noir: A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday (2016)
When Billie Holiday released “Gloomy Sunday,” in 1941, accompanied by the Teddy Wilson Orchestra, no one could possibly imagine the back story and consequent repercussions associated with this song....
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