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VA – Changüí; The Sound of Guantánamo (2021)
When most think of Cuban music, they land on The Buena Vista Social Club, which rendered several styles but primarily son and danzon. Cuba, like most places, has a rich array of styles, depending on...
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VA – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Expanded...
…The expanded edition includes twelve previously unreleased tracks by Beck, Plumtree, Nigel Godrich, the fictitious band Sex Bob-Omb, and the oft-requested version of Metric’s “Black Sheep” with...
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VA – May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (2021)
First ever posthumous tribute to the psychedelic rock luminary and pioneer, featuring all-new recordings by Lucinda Williams, Billy F Gibbons, The Black Angels, Margo Price, Mosshart Sexton (Alison...
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VA – Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britian (2021)
The great trumpeter and educator Clark Terry used a phrase that became somewhat of a mantra for budding jazz musicians; it read “Imitate, assimilate, innovate”. Each and every musician featured in...
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VA – The Electric Muse Revisited: The Story of Folk Into Rock and Beyond (2021)
This is a 4-CD 61-track collection, based on the original book and album from 1975 and now brought up to date by one of the original authors, Robin Denselow. The release aims to explore the...
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VA – Almost Famous: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [20th Anniversary...
…deluxe 2CD with 35 songs. Although it’s been pronounced dead more often than Mark Twain, the life expectancy of rock & roll was surely looking faint at the end of the ’60s. Few people realize that...
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VA – Staring at the Rude Boys: The British Ska Revival 1979-1989 (2021)
This 3 CD, 69 track compilation provides the most comprehensive release to date to cover the UK Ska Revival 1979-1989. From the ‘Big 5’ of The Specials, Madness, The Beat, Selecter and Bad Manners,...
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VA – You Gave Me Reason to Live: Southern and Deep Soul from Louisiana (2021)...
South-West Louisiana is rightly famous for its homegrown music: the Cajun sound and its black cousin Zydeco. However, situated between New Orleans and Houston, the region’s music industry was ideally...
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VA – Hanin: Field Recordings in Syria 2008/2009 (2021)
Compiled by Spanish musician and filmmaker Michel Gasco between 2008 and 2009, this collection of field recordings spans a period when Gasco was living in Syria, having become enamoured with the...
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VA – C90 (2020)
Cherry Red’s ongoing, year-by-year look at the mostly underground U.K. music scene continues rolling along nicely with C90. Like C89 also did, this collection captures an underground scene that was...
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VA – An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World, Part 2 (2021)
Since 2015, Berlin-based label Habibi Funk has carved out a specific and increasingly popular niche by reissuing lesser-known records by artists from north Africa and the Middle East. Treading...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Best Country Blues You’ve Never Heard (Vol. 2)...
Loosely speaking, country blues is best described as the first flowering of acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, often incorporating elements of ragtime, Gospel, hillbilly and Dixieland...
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VA – Strain Crack & Break: Music from the Nurse with Wound List Volume Two...
With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrial music pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts us to lift the veil and expose “the right tracks” from his...
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VA – Planet Love vol. 1: Early Transmissions 1991-1995 (2021)
Like most dance music genres, trance, in its earliest days, was very different from the big-room sound that it became synonymous with. Taking influence from a wide range of styles including ambient,...
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VA – Back to the Basics: The Chips Moman Songbook (2021)
Ace’s Songwriter Series shines its spotlight on a man whose name will forever be associated with the Memphis music scene of the ’60s and ’70s. Lincoln Wayne “Chips” Moman was many things in his...
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VA – Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records (2021)
The Specialty label out of Southern California may not have recorded the first rock and roll music, but they were inarguably a major factor in its popularity. After all, if it wasn’t for artists on...
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VA – Banquet: Underground Sounds of 1969 (2021)
A sequel to their excellent compilation Revolution: Underground Sounds of 1968, Esoteric Recordings imprint offers up Banquet: Underground Sounds of 1969. Like its predecessor, Banquet devotes nearly...
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VA – Beyond the Pale Horizon: British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1972 (2021)
Another captivating entry into their year-specific archival series, Grapefruit Records offers up Beyond the Pale Horizon: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1972. Arguing that 1972 was the year that...
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VA – Caught Beneath the Landslide: The Other Side of Britpop and the ’90s (2021)
While working as a photographer for NME during the first half of the ’90s, Kevin Cummins was charged with documenting the Brit-pop scene, and his images helped popularize a wide range of groups. His...
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VA – Paul Weller Presents Into Tomorrow: 15 Tracks Hand-picked By Weller (2021)
1. Durand Jones & the Indications – Morning in America 2. The Blow Monkeys – Time Storm 3. Stone Foundation feat. Laville – The Light in Us 4. Black Pumas – Colors 5. Gabriels – Love and Hate in a...
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