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VA – Wisdom Teeth: To Illustrate (2022)
Certain tempos are fundamental dance music concepts — 120, 140, 160, 170 BPM are all the cornerstones of various genres. When you get slower, though, things aren’t as clear-cut. As Latin club music...
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VA – Rough Guide to Memphis Blues (2022)
From the classic sounds of the jug band heyday to the earthy blues straight from the Mississippi Delta, Memphis was at the very epicentre of the 1920s country blues explosion. This Rough Guide charts...
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VA – Homecore! Miami All-Stars (2022)
As a gateway between the United States and Latin America, Miami has played a crucial role in facilitating Afro-Latin articulations of the Black Atlantic. We have Miami bass to thank for funk carioca —...
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VA – Get It Right: Afro, Dub, Funk & Punk of Recreational Records, 81-82 (2022)
Back in 1981, former schoolmates Mark Stewart and Nick Sheppard launched Recreational Records from their store Revolver Records in Bristol, England. Despite burning out after only a couple of years,...
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VA – Anthology of Contemporary Music from Greece (2022)
In ancient Greece, music played a central role in all areas of life, both public and private. We can only imagine how this music sounded. But there are many visual sources that can tell us who was...
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VA – David Hepworth’s Deep 70s: Underrated Cuts from a Misunderstood Decade...
Acclaimed U.K. rock journalist David Hepworth has compiled this new 4-CD box set featuring hidden gems from a wide range of artists including Daryl Hall and John Oates (“Abandoned Luncheonette”), John...
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VA – I Love to See You Strut: More 60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul & Freakbeat...
With 85 tracks spread out over three discs, Love to See You Strut offers hours of mod-adjacent sounds from the 1960s, with inclusions from some of the best-known bands of the time and far more obscure...
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VA – Wrap It Up: The Isaac Hayes and David Porter Songbook (2022)
Their partnership lasted barely four years and just over 50 songs – but between 1965 and 1969 Isaac Hayes and David Porter penned some of soul’s most enduring anthems of their era, many of which are...
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VA – Masterpieces of Modern Soul vol. 6 (2022)
The latest volume in our acclaimed Masterpieces of Modern Soul series is as strong as ever and drips with brand new, old recordings. An amazing 12 tracks are previously unheard and a further two are...
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VA – Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Pop Sound 1967-1974 (2022)
When the Beatles released “Penny Lane” in early 1967, it struck a tinkling, twinkling chord with a generation of budding English eccentrics, oddballs, and bandwagon jumpers. Suddenly everyone and their...
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VA – Bound for Hell: On the Sunset Strip (2022)
Numero Group, Chicago-based label known for crafting expertly-researched collections featuring rarities, out-of-print, and often forgotten musical sub-genres and artists, shines a spotlight on the...
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VA – Heavy Nuggets vol. 6: 15 Dispatches from the UK Psych Underground...
1. Dry Ice – Clear White Light 2. Groundhogs – Split – Part Two 3. Edgar Broughton Band – Love Gang 4. The Deviants – Broken Biscuits 5. July – Friendly Man 6. Blossom Toes – Wait a Minute 7. Humble...
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VA – C85 (2022)
Bubbling under the surface of the U.K. music scene in 1985, there were quite a few bands following in the mighty footsteps of record labels like Postcard and bands like Orange Juice, who wanted to make...
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VA – Rare Global Pop 1980s (Crammed Archives 2) (2022)
The second phase in Crammed Archives reissue series focuses on hidden gems released by the label during the ‘80s, including lots of colourful, ahead-of-its-time music: electronic global pop,...
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VA – Rare SSR Electronica 1988-94 (Crammed Archives 1) (2022)
Crammed Discs is marking the “not-round figure” of turning 42 by reissuing a number of rare tracks from its archives. The digital reissue series, totalling around 250 tracks, explore the releases put...
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VA – OZ DAYS LIVE ’72-73 Kichijoji: The 50th Anniversary Collection (2022)
OZ DAYS LIVE was originally released in 1973 as a private press two-disc set, packaged in a brown paper bag with its album title hand-stamped in rainbow-colored ink. The self-distributed record was...
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VA – Aladdin’s Rockin’ Cave: 30 Rockin’ R&B Platters from Aladdin Records...
Aladdin Records was one of the earliest indie labels in Los Angeles to specialise in Blues, R&B, R&R, Hillbilly and other non-mainstream musical genres. Originally formed in 1945 as Philo...
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VA – Ain’t Nothing But A House Party : 60s & Early 70s Club Soul Classics (2022)
3CD collection of 60s and 70s club classics, from mod to northern soul. Including floor fillers from Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Ike And Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, The Chairmen Of...
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VA – Black Hole: Finnish Disco and Electronic Music from Private Pressings...
Hot on the sold-out heels of the three previous Svart-issued early 80’s synth pop and underground electronic music compilations (Satan in Love, Dance for Your Life, Cold War On the Rocks comes the last...
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VA – Duke’s Cookies: Duke Reid’s Mento, Shuffle Blues & Ska 1960-1962 (2023)
First comprehensive anthology of the early productions of Jamaican legend, Duke Reid. Features some of the most popular and influential Jamaican recordings of the early 1960s. The influence of Duke...
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