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VA – Mojo Presents: I Just Can’t Be Happy Today (2017)
1. The Damned – I Just Can’t Be Happy Today 2. Menace – Screwed Up 3. Alternative TV – Life 4. Johnny and the Self Abusers – Dead Vandals 5. The Vibrators – London Girls 6. The Brats – Be a Man 7....
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VA – Pied Piper: Finale (2017)
“Although this is our final volume of Pied Piper material, it is almost certainly not the end of the history of this short-lived but influential company. It features more exciting tape finds, and there...
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VA – Take What You Need: UK Covers of Bob Dylan Songs 1964-1969 (2017)
In February 1965, Melody Maker asked John Lennon about his personal enthusiasm for Bob Dylan material and Dylan interpretations. “I just felt like going that way,” he said about the new acoustic...
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VA – Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave (2017)
Veteran UK DJ and broadcaster Gary Crowley has curated Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave, a triple CD box set that seeks to avoid the usual ‘classic anthems’ and rather opts for a quirkier selection of...
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VA – How Is the Air Up There? 80 Mod, Soul, R&B & Freakbeat Nuggets from Down...
Subtitled 80 Mod, Soul and Freakbeat Nuggets From Down Under with this boxset New Zealand’s contribution to 1960s music is recognised and local heroes Chants R&B, Larry’s Rebels and Ray Columbus...
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VA – The Portofino Variations: Raymond Scott’s “Portofino” as performed by…...
1962 was the year Raymond Scott composed and recorded Portofino in many different arrangements. However, no recordings were released until Basta did include 2 versions on Manhattan Research, Inc. The...
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VA – Night Comes Down: 60s British Mod, R&B, Freakbeat, and Swinging London...
…This 87 song, 3-CD box set follows previous collections Looking Back (2011) and Keep Lookin’ (2014), which covered a gamut of musical styles emanating from the UK, diverse and yet united in their...
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VA – Flowers from the Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music (2018)
Stroboscopic Artefacts is run by an Italian (Lucy) and based in Berlin, but it’s never seemed beholden to any particular place. The music on the label seems to exist between zones — on the one hand,...
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VA – Strictly Rhythm Underground ’90-’97 (2018)
Founded in 1989 by Mark Finkelstein and Gladys Pizarro, New York house music label Strictly Rhythm quickly established itself as one of dance music’s most successful and influential record labels of...
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VA – 1+1=X (2018)
Erased Tapes is celebrating its tenth year of packaging quality avant-garde music with style. This triple LP features contributions from every one of the London-based label’s artists. These 20 striking...
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VA – BMN Ska & Rock Steady: Always Together 1964-1968 (2018)
Dub Store Records, the Japanese reggae record label specializing in Jamaican music reissues, has compiled a noteworthy album with music produced by Ronnie Nasralla, one of the founding fathers of the...
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VA – Jon Savage’s 1965: The Year The Sixties Ignited (2018)
A genre-spanning 2CD mix of hit singles, slow burners and lost gems from soul, funk, psych, garage and rock’n’roll. The 45s that defined 1965 and crystallised author Jon Savage’s memories of the year....
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VA – High Society Reggae (2018)
High-level vibes are the reason for High Society Reggae, a collection of progressive reggae with ganja lovers in mind. Timed for the 4/20 holiday, the 11-track compilation is evergreen when it comes to...
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VA – Transparent Days: West Coast Nuggets (2017)
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the original Summer of Love, Rhino have recently reissued a number of albums that provided the soundtrack to the Summer of Love on vinyl. These albums are a...
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VA – The Mojo Machine Turns You On 2018. (2018)
01. Courtney Barnett – Need a Little Time 02. Goat Girl – Cracker Drool 03. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Talking Straight 3 04. Ezra Furman – Maraschino-Red Dress $8.99… 05. LUMP – Curse of the...
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VA – Neu Decade: Mojo Presents a Compendium of Modern European Music:...
1. Michael Rother – Karussell 2. Brainticket – To Another Universe 3. Amon Düül II – Fly United 4. Can – Future Days (Edit) 5. Cluster – Dem Wanderer 6. Deuter – Der Turm – Fluchtpunkt 7. Guru Guru –...
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VA – African Scream Contest Vol. 2: Benin 1963-1980 (2018)
For a decade now, Analog Africa has been releasing vintage and rarely-found music from across the African continent and its diaspora. One of the label’s most popular releases over the years has been...
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VA – Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel (2018)
This is an unusual, beautiful and dark album curated by — and at times performed by — the Danish musician Agnes Obel. It’s part of a series of artist-curated albums called Late Night Tales. Nils Frahm,...
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VA – Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (2018)
Exotica defined a place in time but only a handful of artists defined exotica. Martin Denny coined the term in 1957 when he called an album Exotica but at that point the fad was well underway, kicked...
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VA – The Rough Guide to World Music: 25th Anniversary Edition (2018)
Twenty-five years ago, World Music Network released its first compilation, the inaugural Rough Guide to World Music. A quarter of a century, and 369 Rough Guides later, World Music Network founder,...
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