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VA – Cosmic Machine, The Sequel: A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Electronic...
Cosmic Machine: The Sequel is Because Music’s second collection of French electronic goodies from the ’70s and ’80s. As with the first volume, cheeky space disco coexists with library music and more...
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VA – Birds of a Feather Flock Together Vol.1 (2015)
The first volume of Birds Of A Feather Flock Together. A 20 track compilation CD and accompanying fanzine from Grow Your Own Records. Originally set up to Anthrax recordings, Grow Your Own started...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records Presents: Studio One Dub Fire Special (2016)
Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Studio One Dub Fire Special’ brings together 18 heavyweight dub cuts all recorded at 13 Brentford Road in the 1970s. Featuring a stellar selection of dub cuts to classic and...
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VA – Litmus Original Soundtrack (2015)
Litmus is the soundtrack to Andrew Kidman’s 1996 surf film. It features The Val Dusty Experiment, The Screaming Orphans and Yothu Yindi. By 1996, surfing was on the upswing in popularity as...
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VA – Rough Guide to Gospel Blues (2016)
The huge musical influence of the church has meant that gospel music and the blues have long been intertwined. From the true guitar evangelists such as Blind Willie Johnson and Reverend Gary Davis to...
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VA – The Golden Age of American Popular Music: More Country Hits (2016)
The Ace Golden Age CD series has always been popular and has often received many critical plaudits. More Country Hits is the second edition in the country genre of The Golden Age of American Popular...
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VA – Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985 (2016)
Among the many scenes that came out of the post-punk explosion in the U.K. was a healthy psychedelic one, full of revivalists, sonic explorers, weirdoes, and even a fair amount of ex-punks. RPM’s...
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VA – Bluesin’ By the Bayou: I’m Not Jiving (2016)
Baton Rouge was arguably the blues centre of Louisiana and just about all of the artists featured in this compilation spent part of their lives there. Long-time favourites Lightnin’ Slim, Lazy Lester,...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz (2016)
Mention Brazilian jazz to most music fans and the inevitable bossa nova images flood into view: the beach, the female whisper-vocal, the rimshot snare drumming, the chord-plucked acoustic guitar,...
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VA – Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally...
In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was preparing to leave the port of Baltimore with an important shipment of musical instruments. Its final destination was Rio De Janeiro, where the EMSE Exhibition...
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VA – The Rest Is Silence: Music of Our Time (2015)
30 years ago Stefan Winter recorded his debut production for JMT (Jazz Music Today). The early works were exactly at the transition point from analogue to digital recording techniques. Without digital...
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VA – Structures and Solutions: 1996-2016 (2016)
Long-running UK techno label Blueprint is celebrating 20 years with a compilation of unreleased tracks from some of techno’s biggest and most influential names. Titled Structures and Solutions: 1996 –...
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VA – Eccentric Soul: Sitting in the Park (2016)
Chicago radio disc jockey and soul archivist Bob Abrahamian was deeply devoted to celebrating and documenting unknown Chicagoland group harmony music. Upon his untimely passing in 2014, he left behind...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Blonde On Blonde Revisited (2016)
1. Malcolm Middleton – Rainy Day Women… 2. My Darling Clementine – Pledging My Time 3. Steve Gunn – Visions of Johanna 4. Chip Taylor – One of Us Must Know (Sooner or… 5. Phosphorescent – I Want You...
View ArticleVA – Sherwood at the Controls, Volume 2: 1985-1990 (2016)
Four primary factors distinguish Adrian Sherwood‘s earlier productions and remixes, anthologized on Sherwood at the Controls, Volume 1: 1979-1984, from the later work gathered here. The September 1983...
View ArticleVA – Uncut: The Best of 2015 (2015)
1. Ryley Walker – Summer Dress 2. Courtney Barnett – Depreston 3. Wilco – The Joke Explained 4. Father John Misty – When You’re Smiling and Astride Me 5. Björk – Quicksand 6. Sufjan Stevens – All of Me...
View ArticleVA – Smudge: Manilow Tribute (2015)
Forming in Sydney in 1991, Smudge proved hugely influential within the Australian and American indie rock scenes, partly through their own work and through frontman Tom Morgan‘s influence on The...
View ArticleVA – Beef Ball Baby! The New Orleans R&B Sessions (2015)
If New Orleans R&B could be compared to the Holy Bible, this CD would be considered the Book of Genesis — as in, “In the beginning, God created rhythm and blues.” Dating from the late 1940s, these...
View ArticleVA – Triple J: 40 Years of Music (2015)
Why does triple j continue to release compilations? It seems like every year the youth broadcaster releases some sort of retrospective album, and of course, the perennial juggernaut that is the Hottest...
View ArticleVA – Cherrystones Presents Critical Mass: Splinters from the Worldwide...
As a recording artist, Cherrystones (aka Gareth Goddard) has a discography that stretches back to the late-’90s with credits for Finders Keepers and the affiliated Brutal Music, but it’s his skills for...
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