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VA – Saint Marie Records: Static Waves 7 (2018)
The seventh annual compilation release by the sonically-driven label Saint Marie Records. Specializing in Shoegaze, Dreampop, Indie Pop and Electronica. Featuring tracks exclusively from the Saint...
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VA – She Came From Hungary! 1960s Beat Girls From the Eastern Bloc (2018)
Feisty freakbeat, folk rock, funky pop and more from Hungary’s foremost female recording stars – backed by some of the nation’s leading beat bands. Having unearthed girl-pop delights from France,...
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VA – Backstreet Brit Funk Vol. 2: Compiled by Joey Negro (2018)
Z Records continues its commitment to unearthing the obscure and long forgotten tracks from the last 40 years with the much-anticipated follow up to Backstreet Brit Funk. Volume 2 has been eight years...
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VA – Turntables On the Hudson 20 Year Anniversary (2018)
Wonderwheel Recordings founder Nickodemus has always viewed New York City as a multicultural playground — a place where some of the world’s most interesting, thought-provoking, and compelling artists...
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VA – The Black Book (2018)
If you’re a newcomer to iDEAL Recordings, the monthly radio show hosted by the label’s founder, Joachim Nordwall, would be a good place to start. It’s a solid primer on the spread of styles and sounds...
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VA – Try a Little Sunshine: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1969 (2018)
David Wells and Grapefruit Records continue to raid the archives of late ’60s British psychedelic pop with their third Nuggets-like box set, Try a Little Sunshine: The British Psychedelic Sounds of...
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VA – Westbound Disco (2018)
…For all intents and purposes, disco was invented in New York in the first half of the 1970s, in a series of clubs where those on the edge of society went to forget about their troubles and have a good...
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VA – Just a Bad Dream: Sixty British Garage and Trash Nuggets 1981-89 (2018)
The underground U.K. music scene of the early ’80s was dominated by post-punk and new wave, but percolating below the surface were several scenes that looked back to the past for inspiration. Loads of...
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VA – Harmony in my Head: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-81 (2018)
Harmony in my Head is another of Cherry Red’s celebrations of a bygone era – this time, the boom in Power Pop and New Wave which followed the Punk explosion in 1977. This triple-CD box set spins off...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Swoons (2019)
1. Prefab Sprout – Lions In My Own Garden 2. Orange Juice – Bridge 3. The Kane Gang – Closest Thing To Heaven 4. Fantastic Something – If She Doesn’t Smile 5. Felt – Ballad Of The Band 6. Hurrah! –...
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VA – Soul of Jamaica: Here Comes the Duke [Expanded Edition] (2018)
One thing you couldn’t accuse Arthur Reid (aka Duke Reid) of was ducking out of the hard work needed to scale the heights in the Jamaican music scene. He laboured tirelessly on recording sessions and...
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VA – Step Forward Youth: Roots Masters from the “Punky Reggae Party” (2018)
1976 saw the explosion of punk rock and its unlikely championing of roots reggae in what would become a lasting counter-cultural union. Step Forward Youth provides a detailed study of reggae in the UK...
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VA – Motown Unreleased: 1968 (2018)
In a winter tradition that’s as reliable as any, UMe has released the latest in the annual copyright extension series, entitled Motown Unreleased: 1968. Between the two volumes, there’s a whopping 88...
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VA – On the Soul Side: 26 Soul Grooves (2018)
With its original iconic Ian Clark sleeve design, this best-selling Kent LP from 1983 makes the leap to CD with 12 additional tracks from the same big name labels – Capitol, Liberty, Imperial, Veep,...
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VA – Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label (2018)
Tommy Falcone is not a name usually uttered by folks discussing the visionary record men of the ’60s, but perhaps they should. Hailing from Hazlet, New Jersey, Falcone was the songwriter, producer, and...
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VA – The Beginning of the End: The Existential Psychodrama in Country Music...
…The newly expanded CD version features songs from the likes of Whitey Gallagher, Bobby Grove, Jimmy Griggs, Ed Bruce, Ray Sanders, Billy Rufus, George Kent, Johnny Dollar, Lonnie Holt, Tex Wayne and...
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VA – Hillbillies In Hell: The Rapture Country Music’s Tormented Testament...
Deep, deep underground… From the backwoods brimstone labyrinth comes ‘Hillbillies In Hell: The Rapture’ – a blazing collection of psychedelic pedal-steel guitars, rapturous Gospel odes, She-Devils,...
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VA – Welcome to Paradise Vol. III: Italian Dream House 90-94 (2018)
Italy’s house music scene circa the late ’80s and early ’90s was as varied as that of any other mainland European country. But for many, that era and that country’s house sound was defined by the kind...
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VA – Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan (2018)
In Sudan, the political and cultural are inseparable. In 1989, a coup brought a hardline religious government to power. Music was violently condemned. Many musicians and artists were persecuted,...
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VA – Brainfeeder X (2018)
In the decade that Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label has been operational, it’s become a hub for the wild and obscure, the experimental and the weird, for any type of beat music that defies...
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