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VA – Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Music In The Digital Age, 1983 – 1996: Vol.2...
Kalita are proud to unveil the second volume in their Borga Revolution! compilation series, focussing on the phenomenon of ‘Burger Highlife’, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers,...
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VA – Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975 (2023)
In the late ’60s and part of the ’70s, the Ladbroke Grove area of West London was home to a thriving bohemian community that included hippies, activists, psychedelic experimenters, and a good number of...
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VA – Ost-Kraut! Progressives aus den DDR-Archiven (1970-1975), Teil 1 (2022)
OST-KRAUT!: the two-part double CD series – a long overdue addition to our KRAUT! edition – comprehensively documents the history of progressive music in the GDR for the first time with studio and live...
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VA – Stoned Cold Country: A 60th Anniversary Tribute to The Rolling Stones...
Tribute albums are fairly common in country music. It seems almost like tradition for artists to tip their hats to the legends that came before. What is unique about the genre’s latest tribute...
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VA – Studio One Space-Age Dub Special: Intergalactic Dub from Studio One (2023)
Studio One Space-Age Dub Special is a brand-new Studio One release on Soul Jazz Records which draws on more rare and classic dubs taken from the mighty vaults of Studio One Records. Most of these...
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VA – As-Shams Archive Vol. 1: South African Jazz, Funk & Soul 1975-1982 (2023)
As-Shams Archive Vol. 1 introduces the core catalogue of As-Shams/The Sun, the independent record label that documented some of the most exciting developments in jazz, funk and soul from South...
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VA – Dance Craze [Deluxe Edition] (2023)
Dance Craze is a 1981 concert film recorded at various venues throughout 1980 at the height of the 2Tone movement. It features exclusive live recordings by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The...
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VA – Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of the 1960s Volume 2: The...
With a CV that consists of being a co-founder of Acid Jazz Records, radio DJ, club owner, and general expert on all things mod, it’s clear that Eddie Piller knows his stuff inside and out. After having...
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VA – Teenage Glampage! Can The Glam! 2 (2023)
Following on from the critical and commercial success of ‘Can The Glam’ comes Teenage Glampage – Can The Glam 2. Featuring a further 80 Glambusters spread over 4 CDs, covering the well known to the...
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VA – Blood On the Cats: Even Bloodier Edition (2022)
A welcome reissue of the 1983 Anagram Records compilation ‘Blood On the Cats’, now expanded and retitled as the ‘Even Bloodier Edition’ to include a total of 56 tracks spread across 2 CD’s. As punk...
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VA – Music from the Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM), vol. 3...
This is the third volume in a series of compilation albums presenting works by a selection of composers of the Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM). Like the second volume, the current...
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VA – The Birth of Bop: The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection (2023)
Craft Recordings’ The Birth of Bop: The Savoy 10″ LP Collection offers a version of Savoy’s initial involvement with bebop and its artists. These 30 tracks cover selections from 1944 to 1949 on five...
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VA – Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog...
On 12 February 1949 an angry mob stormed into the centre of the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, burning the offices of the city’s main newspaper and its oldest radio station to the ground. On that tragic...
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VA – Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 (2023)
Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 serves as a companion to Cherry Red’s gargantuan five-CD box Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995. Shifting the scope...
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VA – This is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975 (2023)
Bob Thiele is one of the great producers. For his work with John Coltrane alone, where he gave free reign to the saxophone great’s wildest musical visions including ‘A Love Supreme’, ignoring the...
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VA – Too Much Sun Will Burn: British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967, Vol 2. (2023)
The British psychedelic music scene of 1967 was too strong to be contained by one collection. It makes perfect sense that Grapefruit would need to follow up their 2016 collection Let’s Go Down and...
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VA – Clowns Exit Laughing: The Jimmy Webb Songbook (2022)
…After a period of establishing his credentials as a writer with Motown’s West Coast office, Jimmy Webb really came into his own in the mid-’60s with classic songs like ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’,...
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VA – One Night in Texas: The Next Waltz’s Tribute to the Red Headed Stranger...
Willie Nelson‘s presence on our planet gives us reason to celebrate. His turning 90 years old on 29 April offers us good cause to give thanks. Hallelujah! Where would American music be without him?...
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VA – A Moi La Liberté, Early Electronic Raï, Algérie 1983-90 (2023)
Before becoming an international musical phenomenon, raï was first and foremost the expression of a social behaviour, of a way of being. It bothers, excites, seduces, but leaves no one indifferent!...
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VA – Mainstream Disco Funk: The Finest Funky Sound of Mainstream Records (2023)
Funk and soul in the early ’70s were mutating to a new sound spearheaded by such labels as Scepter, Philadelphia International Records, and Salsoul: Early disco was taking off and Its sound was...
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