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VA – Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu (2017)
In the early ’70s, a little shop opened in Frankfurt. It sold the small comforts many Turkish guest workers missed in Germany: tea glasses, carpets, art for their walls. It also sold music. The shop...
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VA – Miracle Steps: Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017 (2017)
In 1980, Brian Eno and trumpeter/downtown composer Jon Hassell released a collaborative album bearing the slightly cumbersome title of Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics. It bore a trace of Eno’s...
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VA – Imaginational Anthem vol. 8: The Private Press (2016)
The Private Press is the latest, and eighth volume of the Tompkins Square label’s Imaginational Anthem series ‘focusing on acoustic guitar, particularly in the American Primitive vein‘. However, this...
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VA – The Bob’s Burgers Music Album (2017)
Music, we are told, is important. Our cultural heritage of classic symphonies, soaring pop singles, and inscrutable jazz albums can grasp the human soul and move us to experience emotions we didn’t...
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VA – The Girls Want the Boys! Sweden’s Beat Girls 1964-1970 (2016)
Strange as it might seem, there was a time in the early ’60s when Sweden was not yet a force in pop music. True, there was jazz – Alice Babs, famously, sang with Duke Ellington, and Monica Zetterlund...
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VA – Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht (2017)
“With pop music’s volume knob adjusted for deflation in the early ’70s, softness begat smoothness. Crewmen arrived from the worlds of jazz, folk, rock, and soul, all peddling a product that was...
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VA – Gibble Gobble & Sadaba: Exotic Blues & Rhythm vol. 5 & 6 (2017)
Volumes 5 +6 in Exotic Blues & Rhythm series were released on limited edition 10” vinyl and sold out in next to no time! First time on CD. Ultra-hip work from the end of the 50s and start of the...
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VA – Making Time: A Shel Talmy Production (2017)
The American who changed the sound of British rock’n’roll. This unprecedented anthology draws upon both signature hits and some spectacular misses, along with unheard rarities from the producer’s...
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VA – The Glory Days of Aussie Pub Rock vol. 1 (2016)
Featuring a whopping 91 tracks The Glory Days of Aussie Pub Rock vol. 1 focuses on the birthplace of classic OZ Rock – the pub! It includes seminal songs from virtually every successful Aussie rock...
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VA – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Limited Edition (2016)
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you might miss something… like La-La Land Records’ newest soundtrack title, the first-ever release of a soundtrack from Ferris...
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VA – Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde...
It feels like there’s been a rush on the national archives of Cabo Verde lately. No fewer than three major releases of vintage music have been mined from the island nation in the past year alone,...
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VA – Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 (2017)
In 2009, Analog Africa’s founder Samy Ben Redjeb travelled to Cameroon and returned with enough music to document a shapeshifting era in the country’s popular music landscape. Pop Makossa: The Invasive...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records Presents Boombox 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro...
Boombox 2 is a new selection of early rap music from the period 1979-83, with barely a household name in sight. Featured here are some the earliest hip hop records that came out of New York City...
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VA – Dys Functional Electronic Music (2017)
Repitch, the experimental techno label run by Nino Pedone (Shapednoise), Davide Carbone (D. Carbone) and Pasquale Ascione (Ascion), has been the place to find techno bombs. The 13 tracks on their last...
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VA – Mavis Staples: I’ll Take You There, An All-Star Concert Celebration (2017)
Wherever Mavis Staples goes, church follows. So even if names like Grace Potter, Ryan Bingham, Michael McDonald and Widespread Panic don’t exactly scream gospel, they add grace and confident energy on...
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VA – C87 (2016)
In 2014, Cherry Red compiled the excellent NME C86 box set that reissued NME’s seminal cassette compilation released in the fateful year of 1986, adding another 22 songs that helped flesh out what was...
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VA – Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978-1992 (2017)
In 1985, Brazil’s repressive junta finally allowed for direct elections for a president for the first time since their military coup of 1964. For artists and musicians of all stripes, the censorship...
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VA – Function Underground: The Black and Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974...
…The idea of “progressivism” that took over rock music after psychedelia’s heyday in the late 1960s belatedly spilled over to funk. In the early 1970s, as the underground/psychedelic fire burnt out in...
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VA – Oté Maloya: The Birth of Electric Maloya On Réunion Island 1975-1986 (2017)
Strut present a brand new compilation documenting the groundbreaking maloya scene on Reunion Island from the mid-‘70s, as Western instrumentation joined traditional Malagasy, African and Indian...
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VA – Keb Darge Presents: The Best of Legendary Deep Funk (2016)
After losing his Northern soul collection, veteran DJ and fabled crate-digger Keb Darge began collecting the rare funk he shared at his Deep Funk sessions at Soho’s Madame Jojo’s through BBE’s...
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