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VA – The Best of Reggae [Expanded Original Album] (2021)
In 1973 K-Tel released a double LP, The Best of Reggae, collecting 30 tracks, including numerous chart-busting hits and dancefloor-fillers, performed by some of the best-known Jamaican performers of...
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VA – Good As Gold: Artefacts of the Apple Era 1967-1975 (2021)
When the Beatles set up their mini-empire in 1967, they intended to be involved in as many aspects of the recording industry as possible. Good as Gold: Artefacts of the Apple Era 1967-1975 collects...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents – Life Between Islands – Soundsystem Culture:...
Soul Jazz Records new Life Between Islands collection coincides with the launch of Tate Britain’s exhibition of the same name. This landmark exhibition explores the links between Caribbean and British...
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VA – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)...
Like the documentary, most of the audio recordings that were recorded during the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival have not been heard for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America’s history...
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VA – Rough Guide to Texas Blues (2022)
The compilation the Rough Guide To Texas Blues (World Music Network/Rough Guides) includes the diverse early blues genres of the 20th century. Texas is one of the musical melting pots of the United...
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VA – Modern Love (2021)
CD version with one bonus track. 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...
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VA – The Sun Shines Here: The Roots of Indie-Pop 1980-1984 (2021)
74 tracks exploring the evolution of indie pop, from the gloriously ambitious productions of soon-to-be household names to the lo-fi shoestring recordings of underground mainstays. A companion to the...
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VA – Hurdy Gurdy Songs: Words & Music By Donovan 1965-1971 (2021)
…He first entered the public consciousness on 22 January 1965. On that date, Donovan Leitch wasn’t yet signed to a record label but the producers of the weekly pop show Ready, Steady, Go! put him in...
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VA – Separate Paths Together: An Anthology of British Male Singer/Songwriters...
…Separate Paths Together is the companion and follow-up to an earlier Grapefruit compilation: Milk of the Tree, an anthology of the works of the female singer/songwriters of the late ’60s/early ’70s,...
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VA – Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono (2022)
Yoko Ono‘s catalog isn’t easy to navigate or even define at times. Even when John Lennon was on board as a collaborator – band member, producer or cheerleader – her music could be willfully difficult...
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VA – Fantastische Frauen (2022)
Fantastische Frauen presents a selection of the strong female voices who have either forged their careers in partnership with ACT, or at least been with the label for part of their journey. Some came...
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VA – Frälst! Swedish Christian Grooves 1969-1979 (2022)
This collection presents some of the best and unique music that could be found on rare records released by the Swedish Christian communities between 1969-1979. Between doubt and faith, there was way...
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VA – Revolt into Style 1979 (2022)
If 1977 was the year that punk broke, and 1978 saw the UK turn Day-Glo, then 1979 was all about the aftershock of punk, with the redrawn British musical landscape divided between various youth...
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VA – Lèspri Ka : New Directions in Gwoka Music from Guadeloupe 1981-2010...
The innovative, radical soul of Guadeloupe explored across thirty years of contemporary gwoka music, released by Time Capsule and Séance Centre. As Guadeloupean vocalist and composer Marie-Line...
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VA – Once Upon a Time in the West Midlands: The Bostin Sounds of Brumrock...
…In the immediate post-Beatle era, Jimmy Powell & The Dimensions became the first Birmingham group to record. The first regional outfit into the Top Ten were The Applejacks with “Tell me When,” a...
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VA – Blow My Mind! The Doré-Era-Mira Punk & Psych Legacy (2021)
Any compilation with a track credited to “Unknown Artist” is always going to entice, especially when it’s one which goes the full way by digging into original master tapes to find the best audio...
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VA – Weavings (2022)
Weaving is a core aspect of the culture of the Mapuche people, whose craft isn’t only about clothing and economics but art, knowledge and tradition, with stories, patterns and skills passed down from...
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VA – First Six Records (2022)
First Six Dischord Records: Vinyl box set Dischord Records was created in 1980 to document the music coming out of the Washington, D.C. punk community. The label has put out the work of over 60 bands,...
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VA – V4 Visions: Of Love & Androids (2022)
Numero come with one of the most needed archival editions we’ve heard in a minute, compiling precious gear from London’s V4 Visions, a short-lived label that harnessed a uniquely pivotal melting pot of...
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VA – The Wants List 5: 30th Anniversary of Soulful Rare Grooves (2021)
Soul Brother Records is celebrating their 30th anniversary and have released the fifth edition of The Wants List. This fifth volume of “The Wants List” features some great in demand tracks from the...
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