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VA – The Skippy White Story: Boston Soul 1961-1967 (2022)
This compilation pays tribute to the soul music of Boston that was originally captured on tape by legendary Boston record store owner, turned label owner and curator, Skippy White. This release is a...
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VA – Erased Tapes 十五 (2022)
A new compilation titled Erased Tapes 十五, encompassing a two hour cross-section of the label’s 15-year history including hidden gems and previously unreleased material, will be available on November 4...
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VA – Something Inside of Me: Unreleased Masters & Demos from the British...
Something Inside Of Me brings to the surface ninety-six unreleased recordings from fifteen artists who were all at the forefront of the burgeoning British blues scene of the early 1960s to mid 1970s....
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VA – PUNK 45: I’m a Mess! D-I-Y Or DIE! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s in the...
Soul Jazz Records’ long-lasting Punk 45 series are high-quality editions of early punk 45s. While previous editions have focussed on the early days of punk in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Akron, France, and...
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VA – Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (2022)
You need only look at the list of artists, crossing generations, who contributed to this tribute album to realize just how much of an impact Billy Joe Shaver had on the world of Country and Americana...
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VA – Bubblerock Is Here to Stay Volume 2: The British Pop Explosion 1970-73...
In 2020, the first volume of Bubblerock Is Here to Stay arrived, a tremendous collection of British pop from the early ’70s. The four hours of music on the compilation highlighted a particular wave of...
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VA – Blackwaterside: Sounds of the New Weird Albion (2022)
1. Michael Tanner – Ecce Quadragesimo Tertio 2. The Left Outsides – As Night Falls 3. Cath & Phil Tyler – The Old Churchyard 4. Henry Parker – The Brisk Lad 5. Rob St. John – Surface Tension 6....
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VA – Thorn Valley (2022)
Fetching in royal blue and crowded with potted plants in among the records, World of Echo is not, to look at, an outlier in the scheme of Columbia Road’s tasteful Balamory well-to-do-ness. You’d be...
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VA – Under the Bridge (2022)
If anyone has the right to put together a collection that serves as a tribute to the sound and spirit of the legendary indie pop label Sarah Records, it’s Skep Wax, which is run by Amelia Fletcher and...
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VA – Pillows and Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 [40th Anniversary...
Originally conceived as a label sampler by A&R man Mike Alway, ‘Pillows And Prayers’ quickly became both an iconic compilation and a must-have artefact of early 80s Thatcherite Britain. Famously...
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VA – High in the Morning: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1973 (2022)
High in the Morning continues an ongoing chronological series of box sets from the Grapefruit label, each one focusing on a single year of British prog and prog-adjacent sounds. The year presented by...
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VA – 29 Speedway: Channel Plus (2022)
Over the last few years, there’s been a new crop of what you could loosely call ambient techno: beat-driven music that floats, bubbles and gurgles, melts or sublimates into a pleasant fragrance....
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VA – Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry...
Soundway Records’ newest compilation journeys back to the origins of Indonesia’s contemporary recording industry, featuring 27 archive tracks that paint a vivid picture of the state-sponsored sounds...
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VA – Deep in the Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 (2022)
The British folk scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s isn’t necessarily known for breakbeats or dancefloor-filling jams. That said, eagle-eyed record detectives did manage to ferret out a small but...
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VA – A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto: To the Moon and Back (2022)
In celebration of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 70th birthday, Milan Records release A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto: To the Moon and Back, a collection of songs from Sakamoto’s vast catalogue newly...
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VA – Southeast of Saturn, Vol. 2 (2022)
The compilation is a follow up to 2020’s Southeast of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit’s space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the ‘90s. The second volume expands upon the Michigan-centric...
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VA – Live at KEXP Volume 10 (2022)
To celebrate KEXP’s 50th anniversary, these longtime collaborators (KEXP and BECU) have teamed up again to bring you Live at KEXP Volume 10. This double album, spanning decades of live recordings,...
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VA – Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (2022)
Less than a hundred miles inland from the capital city of Lima lies the great Peruvian jungle, an untamed land of impenetrable forests and endless winding rivers. In its isolated cities, cut off from...
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VA – Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History. Compilation Inspired...
Since the historiography of punk is a male-dominated one, a Revenge of the She-Punks was long overdue. This feminist reckoning was written by none other than post-punk pioneer Vivien Goldman, who has...
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VA – Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes (2022)
Without their soundtracks, John Hughes’ classic 1980s movies would be very, very different films. In a way that set the tone for an entire generation of youth culture, the song selections for his...
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