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VA – Jack Ashford’s Just Productions (2019)
Although a Philadelphian born and bred, Jack Ashford will forever be linked with Detroit: there he had the greatest successes of a remarkable professional life in music. Starting out as a vibes player,...
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VA – Motown Unreleased 1969 (2019)
…To mark 60 years, Motown Unreleased 1969 boasts 60 tracks, all recorded in 1969 and left unheard – until now. The label’s heaviest hitters are all here, including Diana Ross and The Supremes with...
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VA – Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (2019)
There are songwriters, and then there are storytellers who tap into mundane existence with beautiful specificity. 16 studio albums to his name, released from his 1973 debut, Closing Time, to 2011’s Bad...
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VA – Hanukkah+ (2019)
Inspired by Yo La Tengo’s annual run of Hannukah shows, the all-star holiday album Hanukkah+ includes covers and original songs by Yo La Tengo themselves alongside Jack Black, HAIM, and more. Hanukkah+...
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VA – Rough Guide to a World of Guitar (2019)
With just six strings, a fretboard and a sound chamber, the guitar is living proof that versatility comes with simplicity. With its wide range of tones, you can play melody, rhythm, or both at the...
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VA – Everything Is Gonna Be Alright: 50 Years of Westbound Soul & Funk (2019)
50 years ago Emanuel Lasky’s timely ‘A Letter from Vietnam’ appeared on a brand new record label: Armen Boladian’s Westbound Records was born. In the ensuing years Westbound set about proving that...
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VA – Spiritual Jazz 10: Prestige (2019)
Esoteric, modal and deep jazz from Prestige Records, 1961-73 – the tenth edition of Spiritual Jazz series takes a closer look at the music Prestige was recording at the start of the 1960s. This was the...
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VA – Body Beat: Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98) (2019)
17 obscure Soca B-side versions, dubs, instrumentals and edits as well as vocal tracks influenced by disco, boogie, house-music, soul and the more conscious lyrics of roots reggae. Owing as much to New...
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VA – Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British...
A year in the making, Further Perspectives and Distortion presents a snapshot of the UK’s experimental and avant-garde music scene, observed through the paradigm-shifting lense of the post punk...
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VA – Down in Jamaica: 40 Years of VP Records (2019)
Celebrating 40 years of growth in a fickle, fast-moving industry, VP Records’ Down in Jamaica draws from the label’s practically unrivaled catalog to honor the story of Chinese-Jamaican entrepreneurs...
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VA – Jazz Dispensary: The Dank D-Funk Blend (2019)
This new compilation for Record Store Day Black Friday highlights tracks from the Prestige catalog, in conjunction with the Prestige 70 campaign. The newest installment in the ongoing Jazz Dispensary...
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VA – Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) (2019)
Analog Africa returns with a killer compilation of Somali dance music that had lain undiscovered in the vaults of the country’s state broadcaster, Radio Mogadishu, for nearly 40 years. Label boss Samy...
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VA – Soul Sega Sa! Indian Ocean Segas from 70s vol.2 (2019)
Still untouched by human settlement barely 500 years ago, the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Reunion Island, Rodrigues and the Seychelles were colonized by Europeans (French, English...
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VA – Ten Years Gone: A Tribute to Jack Rose (2019)
Marking the 10 year anniversary of the passing of American guitarist Jack Rose, Tompkins Square presents: Ten Years Gone… an album of original instrumentals made as tribute to Jack by a few of his...
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VA – Jagged Little Pill [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (2019)
Upon first glance, Alanis Morissette’s blockbuster 1995 album Jagged Little Pill doesn’t seem like the ideal source material for a Broadway musical. It’s too personal, too idiosyncratic, too tied to...
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VA – HyperSwim (2019)
The journey from Hyperdub’s 10th to its 15th birthday has proved as exciting and change-ridden as the equivalent passage into human adolescence. It’s not that the London label has abandoned its...
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VA – Nervous Horizon, Vol. 3 (2019)
Few London labels are currently serving the dance floor so competently, or so enthusiastically, as Nervous Horizon. Last year’s release of cofounder TSVI’s first album defined the label’s emerging...
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VA – London Is the Place for Me 7 & 8 (2019)
Honest Jon’s vital, flagship series returns with a reminder of the cultural turning point when Caribbean migrants began to make their crucial contribution to UK life Arriving 6 years on from the...
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VA – You Can’t Wine / Music Alone Shall Live (2019)
Rupert Lloyd Edwards, Rupie for short, launched his aptly named Success label in 1968 from his base on Jamaica’s famed Orange Street. His band the Virtues (previously the Ambassadors) had split up, so...
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VA – The Linval Thompson Trojan Roots Albums Collection (2019)
Like a lot of Kingston youth Linval Thompson became enamoured with the burgeoning reggae scene of the late ’60s. He did not come from a musical family, but plainly had a talent for singing which he...
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