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VA – Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa (2017)
Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa (Anthology of Atypical Portuguese Music) is series of volumes focussing on new strains of Portuguese music with an (un)characteristic foot in the past musical...
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VA – T2 Trainspotting [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2017)
Alongside albums like Blur’s Parklife, Portishead’s Dummy, Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, Pulp’s Different Class, and Radiohead’s OK Computer, the original Trainspotting soundtrack stands firmly as one...
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VA – 20th Century Women; Music from the Motion Picture (2016)
A comedy-drama from 2016 about coming of age and aging in the late ’70s, 20th Century Women features a soundtrack that mixes punk, new wave, and big band-era classics. In Mike Mills’ new...
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VA – The Men in the Glass Booth (2017)
In May 1976 a record was released that would have an unforeseen and lasting impact on the music industry Ten Percent by Double Exposure was an early release on the New York independent label Salsoul...
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VA – Agrim Agadez (2017)
Agrim Agadez is a compilation of contemporary field recordings of guitar music from the Sahelian empire of Niger. Focusing on guitar music throughout the country, from meditative starlight ballads,...
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VA – Studio One Rocksteady vol. 2, The Soul of Young Jamaica: Rocksteady,...
Rounding out the sound of Jamaica — alongside mento, ska, reggae, dancehall, and dub — rocksteady is one of the many genres born on the island. Providing the link between the swift bounce of ska and...
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VA – This Is Kologo Power! (2016)
The Kologo is a lute from Northern Ghana. It is physically very similar to many of the other versions of the “tradi-guitar” in West Africa (hoddu, xalam, tidnit, terhadant, ngoni), but for it’s minimal...
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VA – La La Land: The Complete Musical Experience (2017)
“La La Land: The Complete Musical Experience” includes both the film’s original soundtrack and score, plus several previously unreleased tracks. A musical romance about a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling)...
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VA – Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie’s 26 Northwest Songs (2017)
Okay, all you prolific singer-songwriters, how about knocking out 26 tunes, including some timeless classics, in 30 days? That’s what Woody Guthrie did in the spring of 1941. And even though the tunes...
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VA – Music from the Motion Picture “Gimme Danger” (2017)
The documentary Gimme Danger on Detroit’s legendary rockers The Stooges, directed by noted filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in May of this year. Following a...
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VA – Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present the Dark Side: 30 Sixties Garage Punk...
Picking up where they left off on the 2007 compilation Lost & Found: Rockabilly & Jump Blues, Keb Darge & Cut Chemist join forces once again, this time to explore the Dark Side of 1960s...
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VA – Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison (2016)
A sequel to Ace’s 2011 compilation Come Together: Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney, the 2016 set Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison expands upon its predecessor,...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: Mexico (2001, Re-Release 2016)
Updated with 4 new songs. “Mexican culture is as diverse as its landscape. Its roots stretch back thousands of years to the Aztec, Maya, Zapotec and other Native American empires. Echoes of these...
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VA – Follow Me to the Popcorn: The Untold History of the Belgium Popcorn...
Originating in Belgium at the tail end of the ’60s and into the ’70s, Popcorn was a music and dance scene with an emphasis on often obscure black American records of the then recent past. Drawing...
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VA – Strictly Mood II Swing (2016)
The duo Mood II Swing‘s productions in the ’90s helped establish a style of house music — moody, colorful, and rhythmically inventive — that has had a profound impact on several successive generations...
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VA – New Order Presents: Be Music (2017)
For the four members of New Order, production and remix work had two benefits. First it allowed them to experiment with sounds and ideas on someone else’s time, stumbling upon innovations and folding...
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VA – Sly & Robbie Present: Taxi Gang in Discomix Style 1978-1987 (2017)
Bear Family Records outta Germany, worldwide known for their high quality reissues of vintage music, releases their first Reggae album via their sublabel Cree Records: Sly & Robbie Present Taxi...
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VA – Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam (2017)
Songs ancient and divine – the seventh volume of Jazzman’s acclaimed Spiritual Jazz series examines the influence and impact of Islam on four decades of jazz innovation. Through Malcolm X and Muhammad...
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VA – Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz, & Electric...
For most listeners, Tanbou Toujou Lou: Merengue, Kompa Kreyou, Vodou Jazz & Electric Folklore from Haiti 1960-1981 will capture snapshots from a distant place — “the pearl of the Caribbean,” Haiti....
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VA – Rock & Roll Music! The Songs of Chuck Berry (2017)
It’s no secret that Chuck Berry‘s songs are rock & roll standards, covered by more musicians than can be counted. That poses something of a problem for Ace’s Rock & Roll Music! The Songs of...
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