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VA – Mojo Presents: The Best of 2018 (2018)
1. Idles – Great 2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – An Air Conditioned Man 3. Elvis Costello – Stripping Paper 4. Cat Power – Woman 5. Christine and the Queens – The Walker 6. Young Fathers – Border...
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VA – Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990...
Without question, we live in a reissue age. From eccentric soul to spiritual jazz and Italian library, Afrobeat, abstract minimalism and far beyond, few rocks have been left unturned in music’s vast...
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Afro Cuban All Stars – A Toda Cuba Le Gusta (1997, Remastered 2018)
Ever since its release in 1996, Buena Vista Social Club has played an integral role in reintroducing the world to Cuban music. But while it’s a crucial entry in Latin music history, the story of Buena...
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VA – LNOE100 (2019)
DJ Sasha’s Last Night On Earth enterprise has been a solid purveyor of beats since its launch in 2011. The label, podcast and regular party have all abused eardrums — much to their owners’ delight —...
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VA – Africa Airways Five: Brace Brace Boogie 1976-1982 (2019)
Fifth release in Africa Seven’s premiere compilation series, Africa Airways features boogie tracks from the likes of The Black Bells Group, Dikalo and Mekongo President representing Cameroon, Nigeria,...
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VA – Anthology of contemporary music from Africa continent (2019)
African music is as diverse as the topography of the land itself, and is said to be comprised of literally thousands of different styles of music. But many experts of regional music tend to separate...
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VA – An Anthology of Greek Experimental Electronic Music 1966-2016 (2019)
This anthology aspires to map the heterogenous landscape of Greek Experimental Electronic Music in all its contextual, sociopolitical, geographical and aesthetic disparity. With a single exception, it...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe (2019)
This handpicked selection of Eastern European music highlights the richness and diversity of both the traditional and contemporary scenes, with innovating artists who continue to keep their respective...
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VA – The Social Power of Music (2019)
Music has the power to bring people together from parties to protests to prayer, music is a powerful catalyst for celebration, for change, and for a sense of community. Through making music together,...
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VA – Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa Vol.2: Regiões (2019)
In 1959, Michel Giacometti moved to Portugal and dedicated the following thirty years of his life recording traditional music all over the country. In the present decade, Portuguese music has been...
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VA – Bunny Lee: Dreads Enter the Gates with Praise, The Mighty Striker Shoots...
Soul Jazz Records presents this new collection featuring the heavy ’70s roots reggae of Bunny Lee – a living legend, one of the last of the great Jamaican record producers who helped shape and define...
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VA – Spiritual Jazz 9: Blue Notes Parts 1 & 2 (2019)
The ninth volume in Jazzman’s Spiritual Jazz series is a 2 CD compilation from the Blue Note catalogue. Just over half the material was recorded between 1964 and 1966, the final years during which the...
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VA – Do the Reggae: Skinhead Reggae in the Spirit of ’69 (2019)
In 1969, after not so quietly developing in the Britain’s inner-cities over the months that had followed the demise of the once all-prevailing mod scene, the working-class youth subculture that became...
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VA – Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Paris in the Spring (2018)
In the first instance, the spark that lit the revolutionary tinderbox in Paris in May 1968 was a demand from Nanterre University students that they be allowed to sleep with each other in their...
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VA – Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration (2019)
Few musicians have had as lasting an impact on music as Joni Mitchell. In her four-decade career, she made groundbreaking music that traversed genres and continually stunned fans and critics alike. The...
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VA – Birth Work Death: Work, Money and Status in Country Music (1950-1970)...
32 timeless tales of clanging Hammers and pounding Shovels – from wry, dry working-stiff diatribes to bare-chested exclamations – Birth / Work / Death maps the human work experience from anger to joy,...
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VA – Interferencias, Vol. 2: Spanish Synth Wave 1980-1989 (2018)
Interferencias, Vol. 2 is the follow-up to the phenomenal first volume of Munster Records’ survey of Spain’s ’80s electro-pop underground. As with Vol. 1, the sequel spans everything from primitive...
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VA – Interferencias, Vol. 1: Spanish Synth Wave 1980-1989 (2018)
Shortly after releasing Invenciones, an excellent survey of Latin American experimental music from the ’70s and ’80s, Munster Records issued the first volume of a series focusing on Spain’s minimal...
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VA – Memory Motel: Inside the World of Keith Richards (2019)
1. Funkadelic – Lunchmeataphobia… 2. Buckwheat Zydeco – The Wrong Side 3. Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller 4. Dion – The Wanderer 5. The Coasters – I’m A Hog for You 6. The Slickers – Johnny Too Bad 7....
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VA – Eminent Domain (2019)
The full name of New York label L.I.E.S. is Long Island Electrical Systems. That might seem better suited to a utility company — until you hear the music coming out of it. Over a wide-ranging catalog...
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