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VA – Derrick Harriott Presents Earthly Sounds (2021)
Doctor Bird have done a fine job over the past few years in giving a number of perhaps unjustly ignored reggae producers an extensive reissue programme. Earthly Sounds continues on from previous...
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VA – Cameroon Garage Funk (2021)
The globe-trotting team over at Analog Africa are at it again, delivering another beautifully crafted package that shines a light and some of the lost scenes of yesteryear. After 15 years in the game,...
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VA – Nino Rota: Chamber Music (2021)
For U.S. listeners, the name Nino Rota will inevitably conjure that of the film The Godfather, and even in Rota’s native Italy, he will be strongly associated with the Cinecittà studio and with...
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VA – Gershwin: Porgy & Bess Highlights (2021)
George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, a major document in American cross-genre and interracial musical exchange, began a new moment in the late 2010s with a new production at New York’s Metropolitan...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Roots of Jazz (2021)
As with most musical forms, the birth of jazz didn’t happen overnight but came into being by a slow process of accumulation – the gradual fusion of many different strains and the impact of many...
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VA – The Metallica Blacklist (2021)
For younger headbangers, metal overlords Metallica have always been just that, all-powerful riff masters whose tours sell out stadiums in every country they touch. They’re comfortably part of metal’s...
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VA – Jon Savage’s 1972-1976: All Our Times Have Come (2021)
Continuing Jon Savage’s critically acclaimed series of compilations for Ace, which began in 1966 to soundtrack his Faber book of the same name/year, Jon’s musical journey is now firmly entrenched in...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: Putumayo World Café (2021)
No matter where you travel in the world, you will eventually stumble upon a great café. While they may take different forms depending on the country and local culture, great cafés share common...
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VA – The Wanderer: A Tribute to Jackie Leven (2021)
Marking ten years since his passing, The Wanderer: A Tribute to Jackie Leven is a heartfelt tribute to the cult Fife songwriter, curated and compiled by Michael Weston King, who has called on a guest...
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VA – I’m a Freak Baby 3: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych...
Following the success of the first two volumes of the series I’m A Freak Baby, Grapefruit returns with a third instalment of pioneering hard rock sounds from the nascent British underground. As with...
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VA – Magic Moments 14: In the Spirit of Jazz (2021)
“More than any other art form, music touches people directly,” is ACT founder Siggi Loch’s credo. For nearly 30 years, the core of what the label does has been to find and to promote the artists who...
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VA – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico (2021)
If Metallica’s new 53-track cover album free-for-all ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ took the maximalist approach to the tribute record by letting pretty much anyone who fancied it have a slot, this tribute...
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VA – The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes (2021)
The Village Out West celebrates the under- appreciated bastion of the Folk Revival that emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area in the ’60s, a counterpoint to the seminal New York City scene that has...
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VA – What Goes On: The Songs of Lou Reed (2021)
After leaving The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed embarked upon a solo career that spanned five decades and saw him release twenty albums. His final album was Hudson River Wind Meditations which was...
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VA – Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s Vol. 2 (2021)
The follow up the successful ‘Gary Crowley’s lost 80s‘ Released in 2019. “I count myself incredibly lucky when I think back to my 1980’s. A lot of those bands and artists that resonated with me during...
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VA – Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 (2021)
While the synthpop era has been fully raked over in the US and UK, Mexico’s innovative and eccentric contributions have too often been absent from the conversation. Most of the songs presented here...
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VA – Mighty Fine: An Austin City Limits Tribute to Walter Hyatt (2021)
Uncle Walt’s Band (David Ball, Champ Hood, and Walter Hyatt) were one of the most popular acts in Austin, Texas, even though they were originally from South Carolina. Their excellent songwriting,...
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VA – Can I Be a Witness: Stax Southern Groove (2021)
A brand-new collection gathered from the Stax catalogue of southern-flavoured dancers, from soul to funk and in between. Can I Be A Witness: Stax Southern Groove features 11 previously unreleased...
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VA – Disco 75 (2021)
Before it was sanitized, homogenized, and over-produced for mass consumption, disco simply classified a broad variety of R&B-rooted music spun by DJs at underground clubs hosting predominantly...
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VA – The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live ! At the Apollo (2021)
One of the smoothest labels in all the land is turning 20 years old this year and to celebrate they are releasing a whopping three-LP live set captured at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York...
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