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VA – Putumayo Presents: Celtic Women (2020)
Putumayo present Celtic Women, a collection of exceptional contemporary songs by renowned female singers inspired by Irish and Scottish traditions. Music has always been essential to daily life in...
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VA – Putumayo Presents Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond! (2020)
Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond! is a seductive collection of songs that originate across the vast tropical country of Brazil from the Amazonian rhythms of Belém and African roots of Bahia to the...
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VA – Alterity (2020)
The new compilation from Fabric’s Houndstooth imprint looks to pull together many disparate strains of electronic club music from across the globe. The release can be framed as a distillation of the...
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VA – Rough Guide to Urban Mali (2020)
It was at the end of the 1990s that the first Malian rap groups appeared on the scene. Influenced by American and French hip-hop artists as well as the rise of electronic music, rap fast became a...
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VA – Coxsone’s Dramatic and Music Centre (1961, Reissue 2020)
When Coxsone’s Dramatic and Music Centre was released in 1961, it became the first album put out by Studio One founder Clement Dodd and its appearance marked a shift in Mr. Dodd’s strategy. Long a fan...
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VA – That’ll Flat Git It! Vol. 34 From the Vaults of Blue Moon & Bella...
The first CD compilation ever with recordings from the vaults of the record companies Blue Moon and Bella Records from Santa Clara and San José in California respectively. The album includes the...
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VA – No Future: Complete Singles Collection – The Sounds of UK 82 (2020)
When Chris Berry and Richard Jones launched the No Future label in 1981 was very much a case of being in the right place at the right time. Though other imprints like Rondelet and Riot City had picked...
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VA – Cold War on the Rocks: Disco and Electronic Music From Finland 1980-1991...
Finland’s been giving us some great funk and soul sounds in recent years, but that legacy stretches back much longer than we might have guessed – to a point that includes all these groovy disco and...
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VA – Studio One 007: Licensed to Ska (RSD 2020)
Limited-edition one-off pressing exclusive Record Store Day collectors seven-inch box set, featuring ten super rare killer cuts on five 7″ singles. Featuring The Skatalites, Lee Perry, Jackie Mittoo,...
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VA – Spiritual Jazz 11: SteepleChase (2020)
Jazzman is releasing the eleventh instalment in its Spiritual Jazz compilation series, focusing on music from Copenhagen-based imprint SteepleChase. Founded in 1972, SteepleChase Records is one of the...
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VA – If I Have to Wreck L.A.: Kent & Modern Records Blues Into the 60s Vol 2...
20 years after the release in Japan of P-Vine’s limited-edition Modern/Kent Blues Treasures CD series, the anniversary isn’t going to spark a lot of commemorations, but it does make a renewed...
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VA – La Locura de Machuca 1975-1980 (2020)
La Locura de Machuca is the story of one man’s bizarre odyssey into Colombia’s coastal music underground, and the wild, hypnotic sounds he helped bring up to the surface. One night in 1975, a...
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VA – Alterity (2020)
The new compilation from Fabric’s Houndstooth imprint looks to pull together many disparate strains of electronic club music from across the globe. The release can be framed as a distillation of the...
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VA – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4: Experimental German Rock and Electronic...
This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series. It features many of the classic German electronic and Krautrock groups from the 1970s and 80s –...
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VA – Blue Note Re:imagined [Deluxe Edition] (2020)
In the jazz world, it is an established tradition for musicians from one generation to pay recorded tributes to their forebears. Blue Note, the music’s best-known label, has issued similarly approached...
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VA – New Horizons (2020)
South Africa’s jazz scene today is a vibrant one brimming with young talent. Several have emerged as bandleaders and composers, while at the same time being members of their contemporaries’...
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VA – Underground London: The Art Music and Free Jazz That Inspired a Cultural...
In the mid-1960s, the rigid and colourless British way of life was irrevocably transformed by the emergence of the underground movement, a loose collective of young radicals who introduced new social,...
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VA – Mojo Presents Kidology: A Radiohead Companion (2020)
1. Clinic – Monkey On Your Back 2. Can – Thief 3. Charles Mingus – Freedom 4. James Holden – Delabole 5. Harmonia & Eno – Atmosphere 6. Ane Brun – How to Disappear Completely 7. Sigur Rós –...
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VA – Alternate African Reality: Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental...
Syrphe presents a new compilation comprising a wide selection of contemporary African musicians. As Cedrik Fermont (Syrphe’s label head) states, ”the artists included on the compilation only represent...
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VA – Mojo Presents Escape from Reality: 15 Baroque ‘N’ Roll, Art Rock...
1. James Dean Bradfield – Seeking the Room with the Three Windows 2. Sparks – What the Hell Is It This Time? 3. Todd Rundgren – Is It My Name? 4. Rufus Wainwright – Trouble in Paradise 5. Jane Weaver...
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