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VA – I’m a Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych...
Much like the first volume of what deserves to be a long-running series, I’m a Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973 is a treasure...
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VA – Sounds Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World (2019)
Although much of this music went unheard for over 50 years, Smithsonian Folkways issue much of Martin Koenig’s archive of Bulgarian folk recordings, continuing its core mission to preserve rare and...
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VA – Put On Your Best Dress: Sonia Pottinger’s Ska & Rock Steady 1966-67 (2019)
Doctor Bird have put out a few compilations of Sonia Pottinger’s work over the past few years. Now we have Put On Your Best Dress which looks back at some of her early recordings of Ska and Rocksteady,...
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VA – Birth of a Nation: Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool...
The Cherry Red label has a long and fascinating history, and it would take entirely too long to trace all of its triumphs, vicissitudes and other twists and turns here. They have been a going concern...
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VA – This Is It! More from the Van McCoy Songbook 1963-1977 (2019)
Some years have passed since The Sweetest Feeling, Kent’s first dip into the catalogue of the late Van McCoy, was issued to acclaim from soul fans all over the world. Now, nine years later comes This...
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VA – Street Soul Brasil (1987-1995) (2019)
…The ten-track set was compiled by Brazilian DJ Augusto Olivani, AKA Trepanado, who heads up Selvagem and the Selva Discos imprint. The Brazilian take on street soul is less specific than the UK genre...
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VA – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (2019)
Unbelievably, it’s been 25 years since the inception of Chicago’s iconic indie label Bloodshot Records. To those that know them, Bloodshot is as much a part of the fabric of its hometown as anything,...
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VA – Dave Godin’s Deep Soul Treasures Volume 5 (2019)
15 years on from both Dave Godin’s death and his fourth volume of Deep Soul Treasures, Kent has compiled a further 25 tracks using titles chosen by Dave for future projects in the series. Many are...
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VA – Disco Not Disco: Leftfield Disco Classics from the New York Underground...
Disco Not Disco was a perfectly timed compilation back in 2000. Released when interest in the myths, history and playlists of original New York clubs like Paradise Garage and The Loft was at its peak,...
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VA – Send I a Lion: A Nighthawk Reggae Joint (2019)
Leroy Jodie Pierson started Nighthawk Records in 1974 with a series of classic blues compilations. By 1979 he had sold the label to Robert Schoenfeld and found himself in Kingston, Jamaica producing...
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VA – WXAXRXP Sessions (2019)
The collection includes sessions from Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kelly Moran, LFO, Mount Kimbie, Plaid, Seefeel, Flying Lotus, Bibio and Boards of Canada – who have shared a previously...
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VA – Passable in Pink [Official Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2019)
The soundtrack to author Mike Sacks’ satirical podcast production, 2019’s Passable in Pink, plays like a compilation of lost college rock hits from the ’80s. Conceived as a send-up of director John...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Blind, Black & Blue [Reborn and Remastered] (2019)
Legend has it that two of the towering figures of country blues once busked on opposite sides of the street in Marlin, Texas. Both ‘The Father of the Texas Blues’ Blind Lemon Jefferson and slide guitar...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Country Blues [Reborn and Remastered] (2019)
When it came to the compiling of this country blues album, the towering influence of a dozen or so of the giants of pre-war blues made them totally un-droppable. Therefore, with so many familiar names,...
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VA – New Improvised Music from Buenos Aires (2019)
…Here we have a taste of improvised music from Argentina. Like the places described above, creative artists cannot help themselves but to create. The liner notes by Jason Weiss of The Wire describe a...
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VA – The Rough Guide to World Music for Children (2019)
…With an upbeat emphasis throughout, this musical odyssey will transport listeners young and old to far-flung destinations from Calcutta to Colombia and beyond, providing a perfect introduction to a...
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VA – If You’re Not Part of the Solution: Soul, Politics and Spirituality in...
In the late ’60s jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of its black audience and rock’s intellectualisation was eating up its support amongst college students. The usual story told is...
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VA – Jon Savage’s 1969-1971: Rock Dreams On 45 (2019)
Unlike the previous volumes in Jon Savage’s series of year-based 2CD compilations, which featured music from an expansive mixture of genres, this latest edition spans three years of 100% rock. “In the...
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VA – Space Funk: Afro Futurist Electro Funk In Space 1976-84 (2019)
An intergalactic journey into black space, fuelled by funk, powered by computers. London’s Soul Jazz Records is releasing a new funk and electro compilation, titled Space Funk – Afro Futurist Electro...
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VA – Thousands of Eyes in the Dark (2019)
Thousands of Eyes in the Dark is the third full-length compilation released as part of Ghostly International’s SMM series, which is essentially shorthand for the label’s most experimental output. Not...
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