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VA – Come Join My Orchestra: The British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-73 (2018)
Between 2016-2018, Grapefruit Records released three excellent box sets exploring the nooks and crannies of the British psychedelia movement. The three anthologies featured in excess of over two...
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VA – Reggae Archives Vol.1 + Vol.2 (2018)
This second volume of Reggae Archives dedicated to jamaican music and its famous offbeat propose around 50 rares tracks from Kingston and Blue Mountains into a special package (woodboxset) available...
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VA – Happy New Year! We Wish You Happiness! (2018)
Techno may come couched in an air of deep seriousness, but it is, in the end, largely party music. For all the admirable futurism that animated the genre’s Detroit pioneers, techno’s essence comes down...
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VA – Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music (2018)
With explosions of popularity in both broadcast television and genre filmmaking at the end of the 1960s, the demand grew for inexpensive soundtracks, incidental music, themes, and other such easily...
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VA – Hillbillies in Hell: Country Music’s Tormented Testament (1952-1974):...
…”A daemonic caliphate of rogue Hillbillies, tremulous Hayseed Balladeers and desperate Gospel pleas. They croon. They yodel. As the torments boil. Cut on microscopic or private-press labels and...
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VA – Black Mountain Sides: Mojo Presents 15 Folk and Blues Visionaries from...
1. Bert Jansch – Brought with the Rain 2. Ryley Walker – On the Banks of the Old… 3. Jake Xerxes Fussell – Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing On a Sweet Potato Vine? 4. Nathan Salsburg – Sketch from...
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VA – Dance the Blues: Mojo Presents the R&B Roots of David Bowie (2018)
1. Little Richard and His Band – She’s Got It 2. Johnny Otis and His Orchestra – Shake It 3. Alan Freed – Right Now, Right Now 4. Bill Doggett – Hold It 5. The Isley Brothers – Twist & Shout 6....
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VA – Feelin’ Right Saturday Night: The Ric & Ron Anthology (2018)
The Ric and Ron record labels are as indigenous and vital to the music of New Orleans as Stax is to Memphis. It’s where Irma Thomas and Johnny Adams debuted, not to mention their many singles from such...
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VA – Magic Moments 11: In the Spirit of Jazz (2018)
1. David Helbock’s Random Control – African Marketplace 2. Andreas Schaerer / Luciano Biondini / Kalle Kalima / Lucas Niggli – Planet Zumo 3. Jin Jim – House of the King 4. Benjamin Schmid &...
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VA – Italo Funk (2019)
Don’t worry Italo-disco fiends, you’re not missing a whole subgenre in your collection of sought-after 12”s. Italo Funk is a new-school gathering of underground heads who helped shape the country’s...
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VA – To Catch a Ghost: Field Recordings from Madagascar (2018)
This is Sublime Frequencies’ second volume of transcendent musical field recordings from central and southern Madagascar, produced by Charles Brooks. Like the grand beauty and wonder of its flora and...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Women of the World (2019)
This diverse selection of gems from some of the world’s most remarkable female musicians begins in celebratory fashion with the golden voice of Indian singer Anandi Bhattacharya whose ‘Jai Ganesh’ is a...
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VA – Black Man’s Pride 3: None Shall Escape the Judgement of the Almighty (2019)
This is the latest new installment of Soul Jazz Records’ on-going collection of Rastafarian music at Studio One, featuring classic material from legendary roots and culture artists The Gladiators,...
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VA – AOR Global Sounds Volume 4 (1977-1986) (2019)
Favorite Recordings and Charles Maurice present the 4th edition of the AOR Global Sounds compilations series: 14 rare and hidden tracks, produced between 1977 and 1986 in various parts of the world....
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VA – The Old Grey Whistle Test: Cherry Bombs (2018)
For over 15 years The Old Grey Whistle Test graced British television screens and would go on to become one of the most incredibly influential music programmes. From its premiere in 1971, through to...
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VA – All the Young Droogs: 60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks (2019)
Subtitled “60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks”, this boxset takes in Junk Shop Glam, Rock & Roll Bubblegum and Proto-Punk from around the globe and features such scene luminaries as Iggy And The...
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VA – Life & Death On the New York Dance Floor 1980-1983 Part I & II (2019)
In the preface to Time Lawrence’s Life & Death On the New York Dance Floor 1980-1983, the author all but waves his hands in surrender to the subject at hand. “Sanity dictated that this book should...
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VA – The Old Grey Whistle Test: Easy Riders / Jetboys and Ladytrons (2018)
For over 15 years The Old Grey Whistle Test graced British television screens and would go on to become one of the most incredibly influential music programmes. From its premiere in 1971, through to...
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VA – Music Inspired By the Film Roma (2019)
Music is integral to the world of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, but it is also incidental, experienced only as part of the action. The remarkable 2018 film contains only diegetic uses of music; no song is...
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VA – Girih: Iranian Sound Artists Volumes I-IV (2018)
Sote and Opal Tape present an astonishing abundance of electronic music by Iranian Sound Artists. Lovers of “unusual” (read: non-Western convention) rhythms, meters, scales and timbres will be in their...
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