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VA – Afro Exotique: Adventures in the Leftfield, Africa 1972-82 (2019)
“The influence of both traditional and contemporary African music on funk and disco, from the late 60’s to the early 80’s, has rightly become ever more widely recognised over the last 30 plus years....
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VA – The Jimi Hendrix Tribute Concert: Live at Rockpalast 1991 (2019)
It was the idea of Peter Bursch (founding member and leader of the German Krautrock legend Bröselmaschine), to put together an illustrious crowd of popular musicians and to organize a Jimi Hendrix...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Roots of Country Music (2019)
The term “country music” hadn’t even been conceived when these American folk pioneers recorded in the 1920s and early ’30s. It wasn’t until the 1940s that it came into common parlance as an alternative...
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VA – Strut My Stuff: Obscure Country & Hillbilly Boppers (2019)
It’s almost certainly a coincidence rather than a product of careful planning, but it’s interesting that Strut My Stuff: Obscure Country & Hillbilly Boppers, a collection of rare, small-label...
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VA – Killing Eve Season 1 & 2 [Amazon Exclusive Edition] (Original Series...
…On the 2-disc CD version, you have the full experience, which amounts to 41 tracks, totalling over two hours of music – almost all of it fantastic. The curators of the soundtrack, David Holmes and...
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VA – Zosha di Castri: Tachitipo (2019)
This is the debut album of music featuring composer Zosha Di Castri, performed by various chamber musicians from the New York area. The pieces are diverse in several respects — they are electric or...
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VA – Anthology of Persian Experimental Music (2019)
Three or so years ago the Unexplained Sounds Group issued a digital collection of experimental and electronic music from Iran. It was the first of USG’s fascinating set of surveys of experimental music...
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VA – Garth Baxter: Resistance (2019)
Resistance is an interesting choice of title for this latest collection by California-based composer Garth Baxter (b. 1946 in Philadelphia), simply because the recording presents no barrier to impede...
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VA – American Tunes: Songs by Paul Simon (2019)
…American Tunes is weighted towards Simon and Garfunkel material, with 16 of its 23 tracks introduced by the duo. Simon’s distinctive, precocious compositions inspired performers from both sides of the...
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VA – Vanity Box: Music Is Up and Down (2019)
Vanity Box: Music Is Up and Down is a 11-CD box set that compiles all full length albums and 7″ singles that were originally released by Vanity Records from 1978 to 1981. All material included in this...
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VA – Masterpieces of Modern Soul Volume 5 (2019)
Chock-full of exclusive gems, this new volume in the Masterpieces series erupts from the speakers with the Mighty Whites’ unreleased master ‘Given My Life’, a song that would eventually see life as an...
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VA – Down in Jamaica: 40 Years of VP Records (2019)
…the set contains four 7-inch singles, four 12-inch singles, and four CDs. Celebrating 40 years of growth in a fickle, fast-moving industry, VP Records’ Down in Jamaica draws from the label’s...
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VA – DJ Andy Smith presents Reach Up: Disco Wonderland Vol. 2 (2020)
Like the 2017 inaugural chapter in Andy Smith’s Reach Up-Disco Wonderland series, the second volume reanimates forgotten boogie, funk, and soul tracks from the ‘70s and ‘80s and supplements them with a...
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VA – Shall Not Fade: 4 Years of Service (2019)
At the end of 2015, Bristol’s Kieran Williams launched Shall Not Fade with Alone, a four-track EP by the Australian producer Mall Grab comprising definitive takes on the lo-fi house aesthetic. Labels...
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VA – Atmospheres: Mojo Presents Post-Punk 2020 (2020)
1. Jehnny Beth – I’m the Man 2. IDLES – Divide & Conquer 3. Wire – Primed and Ready 4. Working Men’s Club – Teeth 5. Warmduscher – Blood Load 6. Dry Cleaning – Goodnight 7. A Certain Ratio – Make...
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VA – Spring NYC Soul (2020)
New York label Spring, and its Event and Posse subsidiaries, were very active from 1967 up to the late ’80s. They specialised in the city’s black music and tried most variations, including soul,...
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VA – Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol. 2 (2020)
Strut present the second volume in a series of compilations taken from the archives of Disques Debs International, the longest-running and most prolific label of the French Caribbean. Set up by the...
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VA – LÉVE LÉVE Sao Tomé & Principe sounds 70s-80s (2020)
The two Portuguese-speaking African islands of Sao Tomé & Principe, located in the Gulf of Guinea, created an unique music called Puxa: a refined mixture of various musical components from both...
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VA – The Pop Genius of Mickie Most (2019)
Record producer, hit-picker extraordinaire, entrepreneur, TV talent show pundit, pop mogul Mickie Most was a man ahead of his time, anticipating the workings of modern media before the internet made it...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70 (2020)
Soul Jazz Records new Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70 is the first ever collection of Apala music to be released outside of Nigeria. The album focusses on a wide selection of recordings made in...
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