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VA – Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares (2017)
Numero never really duffs an opportunity and so it comes to pass that the archival label’s dive into the thicker, fuzzier and less comforting half of acid rock scores some solid one-offs from the...
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VA – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2017)
The annual double CD signature release from Proper presenting a selection of tracks from the nominated artists for the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 (now in their 18th year) plus 4 bonus...
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VA – Behind the Counter with Max Richter (2017)
The spectacular compilation Behind the Counter with Max Richter, which was put together by British composer Max Richter, is the first in Rough Trade Shop’s Behind the Counter series, in which some of...
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VA – Magic Moments 10: In the Spirit of Jazz (2017)
25 years ago in 1992, music manager and producer Siggi Loch founded ACT. The label has discovered and promoted previously unknown talent on a huge scale, “in the spirit of jazz” and is one of the most...
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VA – More from the Other Side of the Trax: Stax-Volt 45rpm Rarities 1960-1968...
…the 225 singles released by Stax and Volt during their Blue Period were released in 1991 as part of The Complete Stax/Volt Singles nine CD box set. This Magnus Opus also featured a selection of...
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VA – Manchester North of England: A Story of Independent Music, Greater...
…Such an important city in musical terms has been compiled many times before, but never as comprehensively as this. This compilation runs from the spark of punk fury ignited by the legendary Sex...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Supreme: Maximum 70s & 80s Early...
By the 1970s Studio One and Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already proved himself to be the defining force in Reggae for almost two decades. From running the Downbeat sound system on the lawns and...
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VA – Uncut: The Hype! (2017)
01. Peter Perrett – An Epic Story 02. John Murry – Wrong Man 03. Broken Social Scene – Halfway Home 04. Bedouine – Dusty Eyes 05. The Deslondes – Hurricane Shakedown 06. Floating Points – Silurian Blue...
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VA – Bunny Lee Presents: Jamaican Rockers 1975-1979 (2017)
Collection of tracks sourced from Striker Lee intended to celebrate the “rockers” sound that emerged from drummer Sly Dunbar’s mid-seventies experiments at Channel One, most notably on recordings with...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Hillbilly Blues (2017)
The origins of blues and country are not so separate as common perceptions would have them. The early recording labels catalogued their earliest excursions into America’s folk music heritage as either...
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VA – The Gamelan of the Walking Warriors: Gamelan Beleganjur and the Music of...
…The international audience’s interest into Balinese music and its gamelan orchestras dates back to the edition of large ethnographic series in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s which largely encouraged the...
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VA – Tegan and Sara Present The Con X: Covers (2017)
Tegan and Sara released their fifth album, The Con, on July 24, 2007, but the original reviews read more like misogynist clippings from the ’70s. NME called the sisters “little more than twin airbags.”...
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VA – Jukebox Mambo vol. 3 (2017)
Jazzman Records releases the third volume of its Jukebox Mambo compilation series, artfully selected by DJ Liam Large. A journey through the popular American music of the 1950s influenced by exotic...
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VA – Marathon, Not a Sprint! 10 Years of Greco-Roman (2017)
Since Greco-Roman arrived into our lives a decade ago, they’ve never failed to deliver on their motto: “We make colourful music because we dance in the dark.” Throughout the years the independent has...
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VA – Swampland Jewels (1979, Remastered 2017)
Originally released on LP by Lake Charles’ Goldband Records in 1979 and reissued on CD in 1991, the third incarnation of Swampland Jewels, now on Yep Roc, is a significant departure from its...
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VA – Sammlung: Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Düsseldorf 1982-1989 (2017)
Bureau B dive into Düsseldorf’s underground scene during the ‘80s and come up with an amazing collection of wayward, feral/ferric and deeply trippy electronic music that may have lain by the wayside...
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VA – LESSONS (2017)
Front & Follow have already released two notable compilations during their first decade: Long Division with Remainders’ Collision / Detection, which collated four EPs from their intriguing project...
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VA – The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson (2017)
On Wednesday, March 16, an extraordinary collection of music stars came together at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., for the all-star concert event taping of a lifetime, The Life & Songs of...
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VA – Blind Pig Records: 40th Anniversary Collection (2017)
When blues fans Jerry Del Giudice and Edward Chmelewski started the Blind Pig label as an outgrowth of the live venue of the same name in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1977, there was no way they could have...
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VA – Sounds of the Unexpected: Weird & Wacky Instrumentals from Pop’s Final...
Until her recent passing, Vicki Fox was a versatile cog in the Ace Records machine, handling artwork and compiling several theme-based compilations. This anthology of bizarre instrumentals was her...
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