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VA – The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues: Reborn and Remastered (2017)
…Traceable to African-American “spasm bands” of the 1890s, jug bands were the original DIY music makers, often featuring an array of handmade instruments and simple objects put to musical use. At the...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records Presents Boombox 3: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Boombox 3 compilation continues their story of the first rap records to be put onto vinyl. It is a jam-packed collection of original independent old school hip hop, created with...
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VA & Modeselektor – Modeselektion Vol. 04 (2018)
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from Berlin’s Modeselektor, not counting the output cooked up in conjunction with Apparat and released together under Moderat. Now that Gernot Bronsert and...
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VA – The Kiwi Pop Music Scene 1967 (2017)
1967 was a pivotal year for New Zealand music – it was the last year where the independent labels ruled, as the multinational labels slowly took control. Some of our top artists were recording abroad...
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VA – Patina Echoes (2018)
The story of UK dance music is a story of mutation: of soundsystem culture and breakbeat hardcore colliding to create jungle and drum ’n’ bass; of American house that spawned its mutant UK garage; of...
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VA – Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by Bill Ferris...
This watershed release represents the life’s work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the...
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VA – Tokyo Flashback (1991, Remastered 2017)
Hideo Ikeezumi had worked in Japanese record stores for a decade when he realized “there was almost nothing coming out that I liked.” So in 1980, he started his own shop in Tokyo called Modern Music,...
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VA – When the Day Is Done: The Orchestrations of Robert Kirby (2018)
A college friend of Nick Drake, Robert Kirby’s first commissioned works as an arranger were his unique, autumnal orchestrations for Drake’s “Five Leaves Left”. The sound was English and melancholic,...
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VA – Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars (2018)
A new Eric Clapton documentary Life In 12 Bars (Directed by Oscar-winner, Lili Fini Zanuck) has prompted a new two-CD (and 4LP vinyl) soundtrack which spans Clapton’s long career and includes...
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VA – Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music (2018)
47 newly-transferred & remastered recordings that Hugh Tracey made in central and eastern Africa. Released in partnership with the International Library of African Music (ILAM), Listen All Around:...
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VA – Polish Radio Experimental Studio Revisited 1998-2018 (2018)
The Polish Radio Experimental Studio closed down in 2003. Its afterlife, however, began already in 1998. It was then that Norwegian ambient masters Biosphere and Deathprod paid homage to a pioneer in...
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VA – Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey (2018)
Back in 1957, mandolinist and vocalist John Duffey joined up with banjo player Bill Emerson and guitarist/singer Charlie Waller to form The Country Gentlemen, a group that expanded the boundaries of...
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VA – Bright Ambassadors of Morning: Mojo Presents 12 Cosmic Echoes from the...
1. The Flaming Lips – Pompeii Am Götterdämm… 2. Agitation Free – Malesch 3. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – An Intention 4. Jon Hassell – Dreaming 5. James Holden & the Animal Spirits – The Beginning and...
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VA – True Faith: Mojo Presents 15 tracks of soul-stirring gospel, country and...
1. Bob Dylan – Slow Train (Rehearsal) 2. Porter Wagoner – A Satisfied Mind 3. The Staple Singers – Will the Circle Be Unbroken 4. Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head,… 5. The Como Mamas – Out of...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Hokum Blues (2018)
With its early minstrel show origins, hokum was a novelty style that showed a completely different side to the blues that was upbeat, salacious and light hearted. Its spicy style often made repeated...
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VA – Onda De Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were (1984-94) (2018)
Some crate-digging compilations are often the result of someone hand-picking their choice favourites from another country’s musical history, perhaps unaware or uninvolved with its cultural lineage in...
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VA – Uncut: The Best of 2017: 15 Tracks of the Year (2017)
1. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Living in the City 2. Juana Molina – Cosoco 3. LCD Soundsystem – Oh Baby 4. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Sideways Fall (Edit) 5. The Weather Station –...
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VA – Mojo Presents: 2017 The Best of the Year (2017)
1. The War On Drugs – Pain 2. Songhoy Blues – Bamako 3. Paul Weller – Satellite Kid 4. Ghostpoet – Immigrant Boogie 5. Sparks – Unaware 6. Nadia Reid – Right On Time 7. Hurray for the Riff Raff –...
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VA – Funky Chimes: Belgian Grooves from the 70’s (2017)
There’s no question that funk is one of the quintessential American-born music styles, but in the 1970s, it was everywhere. In some places, especially across Latin America and much of sub-Saharan...
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VA – Black Man’s Pride 2: Righteous Are the Sons and Daughters of Jah (2018)
This is the second installment of deep roots Rastafarian reggae at Studio One and features classic music from some of the most important figures in reggae music – Alton Ellis, The Heptones, Jackie...
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