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VA – Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age,...
Dutch label Music from Memory has amassed a vaunted discography comprising original albums, niche compilations and re-releases of (often criminally) slept-on gems since its debut in 2013. Across its 50...
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VA – Home Is Where the Art Is: 15 Years of Reveal Records 2006-2021 (2020)
…Home Is Where the Art Is is a mouth-watering journey through the first fifteen years of a label that has really struck artistic gold with many of its acts. The amazing thing when soaking up this...
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VA – Can’t Stop the Dread (2020)
By the middle of the 1970s Sonia Pottinger had cut out an enviable reputation in Jamaican music circles since she took over the musical side of errant husband Lindon’s businesses in 1966. She then...
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VA – Halcyon Days: 60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul & Freakbeat Nuggets (2020)
In the mind of the average American rock fan, kids in the U.K. Mod scene of the ’60s liked the Who, and that’s the end of their knowledge on the subject. The musical diet of the Mods was significantly...
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VA – The Linval Thompson Trojan Dancehall Albums Collection (2020)
Linval Thompson had made his name as a singer and producer in the early ’70s, navigating the fads of the Kingston music scene with apparent ease. First coming into his own during the dub and roots...
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VA – Right Back Where We Started From: Female Pop & Soul in 70s Britain (2020)
Maxine Nightingale had an unexpected international smash with 1975’s “Right Back Where We Started From,” a joyous hybrid of Northern soul and Elton John pop razzle-dazzle. It wasn’t the only single of...
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VA – She’s All Right with Me! Girl Group Sounds USA 1961-1968 (2020)
Kicking off this set is a great Rev-Lons song that nearly never was – ‘Whirlwind’, recorded for producer Gary Paxton in 1965 but unreleased until 2004. The Rev-Lons aren’t the only act on this...
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VA – Louis Wayne Moody High (2020)
Not being content to merely dig up and release all kinds of forgotten musical gems that range from lo-fi soul to raging post-hardcore, the crew at Numero decided to start whipping up a set of...
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VA – What Is This That Stands Before Me? (2020)
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of both the self-titled Black Sabbath album and ‘Paranoid,’ Sacred Bones is proud to present What Is This That Stands Before Me?, a compilation of Sabbath covers...
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VA – Cafe Exil: New Adventures in European Music 1972-1980 (2020)
When David Bowie and Iggy Pop escaped LA to go Interrailing in the mid-’70s, they heard a new European music that was largely devoid of Anglo-American rock influence: the German motorik sound, flashes...
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VA – Pop Ambient 2021 (2020)
It’s 2020, the year Pop Ambient turns 21 years old, a spritely young adult waltzing out of its teenage joys and tears. Pop Ambient has always stood for a certain classicism and elegance, a kind of...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Roots of Gospel (2020)
Deeply rooted in the rich traditions of the African-American church, gospel music was born out of grief and suffering and has long served as a beacon of hope for singers and listeners throughout the...
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VA – No Cover: A Carpark Covers Comp (2020)
Founded in 1999, the NYC-based label Carpark established itself at the forefront of the experimental / intelligent electronic music scene with releases from Kid606 and Casino Versus Japan. The label...
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VA – The Years: A MusicFest Tribute to Cody Canada & the Music of Cross...
A tribute record to the revolutionary Red Dirt rock country outfit Cross Canadian Ragweed and its frontman Cody Canada is on the way, and it includes a litany of cool artists from Texas and Red Dirt...
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VA – Roots Rock Reggae [Deluxe Edition] (2020)
The Big Phil/Revue Records catalogue doesn’t get much recognition these days, but as Roots, Rock, Reggae proves label boss and sometime producer Philroy Mathias must have been doing something right....
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VA – Linval Thompson & Friends: Thompson Sound All-Stars vol. 1 (2020)
Linval Thompson, in collaboration with Roberto Sánchez from A-Lone Productions and Baco Records, has put out the compilation set Linval Thompson & Friends: Thompson Sound All-Stars: Vol. 1,...
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VA – Spiritual Jazz 12: Impulse! (2020)
In the latest chapter of Spiritual Jazz, Jazzman return to the source – the Impulse! label, and the monumental influence of its most prominent artist, John Coltrane. “Since the first release in the...
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VA – Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound of British and Irish Folk 1966-75...
Like Elfland’s shimmering tide-like border in Lord Dunsany’s fantasy classic, a mystic world of sacrificial grain gods, green men, fertility rites, and sanctuary stones exists just beneath the surface...
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VA – Anthology of Experimental Music from Mexico (2020)
There is a certain narrative emerging from the excellent Anthologies being curated by Unexplained Sounds Group, in which the world outside the so-called global north is a place full of traditions and...
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VA – Sharpen, Moving (2020)
…the latest Timedance compilation released at the end of 2020 as part of the Bristol label’s fifth anniversary, Sharpen, Moving collects 12 spellbinding cuts of varying mood and tempo by a mix of...
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