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VA – Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece 1905-1956 (2013)
Greek Rhapsody surveys rebetika, the international style prominent among Greeks throughout the Ottoman Empire. The music collected here was recorded from 1905-56 in Greece, Istanbul, the United States,...
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VA – Los Nuggetz: 60′s Punk, Pop and Psychedelic from Latin America (2013)
Los Nuggetz is a collection of ’60s hyper kinetic garage, punk, pop and psychedelic music from Mexico, Spain and Latin American countries. While the inspiration for this collection has been the...
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VA – Turn Me Loose: Outsiders of Old Time Music (2013)
It was a different world, indeed, a different century, when the recording industry first got off the ground in the early 1920s, and A&R pretty much meant find any street corner, church, back porch,...
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VA – Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988 (2013)
Walls may not have issued an LP since 2011′s Coracle, but the UK-based electronic outfit’s Alessio Natalizia is ready to rep his home country’s classic new wave scene via a compilation called...
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VA – An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 7: Seventh and Last...
Sub Rosa’s essential compilation series culminates with this cherry-picked, 38-track triple disc and 84-page booklet of critical and biographic notes. For many sonic explorers this series has provided...
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VA – Live at Death By Audio 2012 (2013)
Included the entire live set from Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall. It probably goes without saying that long-running Williamsburg DIY spot Death by Audio gets a lot of good shows. Many of those are recorded...
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VA – Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece...
For more than a decade, Christopher King has proven his mettle as a foremost collector, curator, and restorer of vintage American vernacular music. And, for the past several years, he’s been exhibiting...
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VA – Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa OST (2013)
The soundtrack to Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa deliver an unexpected sales boost to a collection of one-hit wonders, 70s novelty hits and soft rock obscurities hand-picked by the spoof DJ, created by...
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VA – Island Records Presents Ska: 40 Original Ska Classics (2013)
Arguably Mods, and particularly fans of ‘Mod Music’, will one day have to erect a statue to Chris Blackwell. Founder of Island Records, producer, distributor and champion of Jamaican music –...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood (2013)
To most Westerners, the term “psychedelic Bollywood” must seem redundant. The melodrama, over-the-top musical numbers, elaborate costumes, and off-kilter dialogue looping often seem hallucinogenic by...
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VA – Giorgio Moroder: On the Groove Train Volume 2: 1974-1985 (2013)
Repertoire records last year issued On the Groove Train Volume 1: 1975-1993, a collection of Giorgio Moroder collaborations and productions spanning two CDs. On the Groove Train Volume 2: 1974 -1985...
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VA – A Young Person’s Guide to the Avant-Garde (2013)
Opening up with a three minute encounter with Satie’s Vexations and concluding with Ligeti’s Atmosphères, this primer has the daunting task of evoking the shock of the new to an audience for whom...
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VA – Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs from Tito’s Yugoslavia 1964-1980 (2013)
Stand Up, People is an astonishing collection of rare Pop songs by Roma Gypsy musicians from Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia, 1960-1980. Combining rootsy Gypsy Folk rhythms with the new influences of...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Irish Music (2013)
The Rough Guide to Irish Music features both big names and newcomers. That so many growing bands are showcased on this compilation is heartening. It seems to indicate that, despite the recession, which...
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VA – Theo Parrish’s Black Jazz Signature (2013)
Theo Parrish is a top-tier DJ who switches between decades and styles with unmatched fluidity. It’s fascinating to hear him work here with a very specific and small set of albums — seven, to be exact,...
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VA – The Records Tribute: Starry Eyed (2013)
This 20-song tribute on Australia’s Zero Hour Records gathers a host of bands/artists from around the world to pay tribute to one of the finest power pop bands ever. The Records may be the biggest,...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Johnny Cash…and Friends (2013)
1. Jerry Lee Lewis – Lovin’ Up a Storm 2. Johnny Cash – Transfusion Blues 3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wanted Man 4. Nick Lowe – Indian Queens 5. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – New Whaling 6. Townes Van...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Cumbia (2013)
Cumbia, originally from the coastal regions of Colombia, is an internationally beloved genre of tropical music (and dance) with a syncopated 4/4 rhythm characterized by call-and-response vocals, a...
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VA – Rootsman Vibrations at King Jammy’s (2013)
Rootsman Vibrations at King Jammy’s collects up four off Prince Jammy most sought after roots testaments. Folly Ranking issued in 1980 at the height of Johnny Osbourne fever contains some of Bumpy’s...
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VA – CT5 Sampler: Five Years of Captured Tracks (2013)
The New York-based retro-revivalists celebrate five years in the game with a collection of catalogue highlights from Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing, Mac Demarco, Soft Metals, Widowspeak,… 1. Wild Nothing...
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