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VA – Modern Love (2021)
Considering that reinvention was one of David Bowie’s guiding philosophies, it’s only natural that musicians covering his music would apply the same principle. That’s the approach taken by the artists...
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VA – Riding the Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock (2021)
Riding the Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock is a fine overview of the various types of guitar-heavy, window-rattling sounds emanating from the U.K. during that wild decade where seemingly...
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VA – Hemingway, A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Original Music from the...
Seeing the material for which it was created no doubt enhances one’s appreciation for a soundtrack, yet the mere fact of it being issued as a standalone implies it should be capable of holding up by...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents Cold Wave #1 (2021)
These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive...
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VA – The Problem of Leisure: A celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four (2021)
The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four is a double album of tracks written by Andy Gill and Gang of Four, all newly reinterpreted and recorded by artists whose own unique...
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VA – This Is Tehran? (2021)
…Tehran is home to 16 million people, a city with an almost unparalleled historical and cultural fecundity, largely untouched by European colonialism. Bluntly, things have developed and mutated...
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VA – Soul Power ’68 (2021)
By 1968, Duke Reid was firmly established as one of the big two in Jamaican music circles, along with his long time rival Clement “Coxsone” Dodd. He had possibly had the edge on Dodd in the rocksteady...
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VA – The Trojan Story (2021)
Since 1968, Trojan Records has been synonymous with the reggae, rocksteady, dub, and ska genres. The U.K. label founded by Lee Gopthal and Island Records’ Chris Blackwell was instrumental in spreading...
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VA – Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music (2021)
Alligator Records celebrate a half-century of recording history-making blues and roots rock with the release of Alligator Records – 50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin’ Music. Both the 24 song gatefold...
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VA – Birth of Soul: Los Angeles Special (2021)
CD Rip, 24 tracks. Ace has very strong links with Los Angeles labels such as Modern, Combo, Flash, Flip, Mirwood, Money, Doré and Era, most of which had notable soul singles in their catalogues. Couple...
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VA – Modernity (2021)
“40 years of soul and blues mining has given us access to some killer previously locked-away tunes for this third volume in our mod series. A hitherto unheard 1964-vintage Ike & Tina track is big...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents Cold Wave #2 (2021)
Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s. These first artists...
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VA – Naya Beat Volume 1: South Asian Dance and Electronic Music 1983-1992 (2021)
South Asian dance and electronic music rarities handpicked, remastered and occasionally reworked. Featuring overlooked future classics from India, Pakistan, the U.K., Canada, Guyana and Suriname...
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VA – The Rough Guide to African Guitar (2021)
Whilst the origins of stringed African instruments such as the kora and ngoni can be traced back several centuries, the humble six-string guitar only really began making serious inroads into African...
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VA – You Gave Me Reason To Live: Southern and Deep Soul From Louisiana (2021)
A celebration of the exceptional music that can occur in the most out of the way places. South-West Louisiana is rightly famous for its homegrown music: the Cajun sound and its black cousin Zydeco....
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VA – Sound Storing Machines: The First 78rpm Records from Japan, 1903-1912...
A veritable rainstorm of temporal noise pours down between sounds of early 20th century Japan and the audience’s listening ears on the new Sublime Frequencies release Sound Storing Machine: The First...
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VA – Can You Feel It? Vol.3: Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-85 (2021)
After one and a half years of extensive research we are exhausted but ecstatic to present to our fans and critics the third volume in the Can You Feel It? compilation series. This time our journey...
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VA – Le Début de la Fin (2021)
Occitanian record label and crew Toulouse Gouffre Club are proud purveyors of their local produce. Visually steeped in Y2K imagery, sonically they shift between Italo disco, EBM, techno, rave, IDM and...
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VA – Santuario; Sanctuary (2021)
If you wanted a snapshot of contemporary Latin American music in the UK at this moment, then you couldn’t ask for more than this 18-track compilation from London-based promoters Movimientos...
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VA – Duke Reid International Disco Series: The Complete Collection (2021)
The dancehall phenomenon of the late Seventies resulted in renewed interest in the sounds and rhythms of rock steady and early reggae; a development that prompted noted producer Sonia Pottinger to...
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