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VA – Bonobo: LateNightTales [Deluxe Edition Mixed + Unmixed] (2013)
For the latest installment of the renowned Late Night Tales series, Bonobo takes a crack at a compilation that is traditionally rooted in downtempo. The album’s success lies in Bonobo’s ability to...
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VA – Saint Heron (2013)
The Weeknd’s House of Balloons is one of the more influential records of this decade, but thanks to Solange Knowles, “alt-R&B” would have happened without it. The sonic aesthetic she’s pieced...
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VA – Alabama & Friends (2013)
As the most popular band in country music history, Alabama never went away, not even after they faded into retirement in the new millennium. Nevertheless, Brad Paisley’s rousing 2011 salute “Old...
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VA – The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 12A: 1972 (2013)
Two songs into The Complete Motown Singles, vol. 12A: 1972, the Four Tops sing “L.A. (My Town),” an ode to the city that became Motown’s new hometown in 1972. By the middle of the year, all Detroit...
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VA – Machete Kills [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2013)
Morada Music releasing the original motion picture soundtrack of producer-director Robert Rodriguez’s, Machete Kills, the sequel to 2010′s exploitation classic, Machete. Rodriguez co-wrote several of...
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VA – NME Presents the 90s (2013)
NME Presents the 90s, the first in a new series of compilations celebrating some of the greatest eras in music. The three-CD collection features over 50 of the decade’s most influential artists,...
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VA – Mojo Presents: 2013 The Best of the Year (2013)
1. Primal Scream – 2013 2. John Grant – Glacier 3. Goldfrapp – Annabel 4. Phosphorescent – Song for Zula 5. Charles Bradley – Victim of Love 6. Bill Callahan – The Sing 7. Julia Holter – Hello...
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VA – The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1927, Volume 1 (2013)
Jack White’s record label, Third Man Records, will team up with John Fahey’s Revenant Records to release The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, a comprehensive catalog of recorded material from the...
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VA – Lee Perry & His Upsetters present Roaring Lion: 16 Untamed Black Ark...
Pressure Sounds dip back into the Black Ark for another judicious selection of previously unreleased material from the second half of the seventies, the result is probably the strongest yet in this...
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VA – New Orleans: Gris Gris (2013)
There is only one complaint against this collection of stellar sides by legendary New Orleans musicians: the title is pure jive. A gaze at the track list reveals that this is simply a stone-cold...
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VA – Top Deck Presents Ska Vocals: 40 Crucial Vocal Classics (2013)
After forming the ‘Top Deck’ sound system with his brother Ivan, Phillip ‘Justin’ Yap launched his label of the same name in 1962. Initial releases by local vocal acts sold moderately, but the...
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VA – Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (2013)
Regional funk and R&B compilations have been flooding the reissue market for ages now, and yet in all that time, it’s taken until this year for even the deepest-digging reissue label in the...
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VA – Classroom Projects: Incredible Music Made By Children in Schools (2013)
If only all music teachers were are compassionate and open-minded as Jonny Trunk. Collecting a vast array of music recorded in schools, from classic folk songs to haiku-based teaching experiments...
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VA – New Centre of the Universe Vol. 2 (2013)
Last year’s first New Centre compilation was a simple proposition: 18 mostly garage bands, split between Geelong and Melbourne. True to the title, a showcase of a swelling musical hotspot in Victoria....
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VA – Brazuca! Samba Rock & Brazilian Groove from the Golden Years (1966-1978)
DJ Paulão (Sao Paulo) compiles this great document on samba rock from the golden years of Brasilian music. This compilation gathers two influences of alternative brazilian musical references – Samba...
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Lee Hazlewood – Lee Hazlewood Industries: There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving...
Lee Hazlewood fans have seen a bounty of reissues and compilations issued over the past decade with anthologies of his MGM and Reprise singles, and albums appearing with some regularity. Light in the...
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VA – Jerome Derradji Presents Kill Yourself Dancing: The Story of Sunset...
Back in 1977, there was a nightclub in Chicago that was affectionately known as The Warehouse. It was there that DJ Frankie Knuckles began playing a lot of sounds there a bit divergent from the...
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VA – New German Ethnic Music: Immigrant’s Songs from Germany Electronically...
In the 1970s the American composer Henry Flynt started a series of pieces under the title “New American Ethnic Music”. In so doing he worked together native styles of music such as blues, country or...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean (2013)
This Rough Guide treads ashore to the hilly outposts of Mediterranean life where music is still the lifeblood of the old, opulent cultures that hail from the region. Spaniard Benjamin Escoriza features...
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VA – Goush Bedey: Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution...
Groovy Tehran ’70s pop singles swirl like the skirt of a dancing dervish!! With 5 volumes, this series is now the most complete investigation into Iranian singles ever issued. By now, you’ve probably...
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