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VA – Rare SSR Electronica 1994-01 (Crammed Archives 3) (2023)
This third batch of digital releases of archival material is devoted to the output of SSR in the second half of the ’90s, when the imprint worked across stylistic borders in electronic music and...
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VA – I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 (2023)
You don’t really need a reason to celebrate Doc Watson’s legacy. He’s one of the most important artists in roots music history, with an influence that spans generations. That’s worth a tip of the hat...
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VA – NOW Yearbook ’78 (2023)
NOW Music present the next instalment in ongoing ‘Yearbook’ series, NOW – Yearbook 1978; 85 tracks from a magical year in Pop! Opening with the epic ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ from Electric Light Orchestra, the...
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VA – Cease & Resist: Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk in the UK 1979-1986 (2023)
Anarcho Punk was the one sub-genre of Punk that emerged in isolation from the rock & roll establishment. During its pioneering days of the early 1980s it thrived in opposition to the music...
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VA – Yo! Boombox: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 1979-83...
Yo! Boombox is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ Boombox series on the early days of hip-hop on vinyl and features some of the many innovative underground first-wave of early rap and disco rap...
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VA – Pleasures & Treasures (2022)
Initially exclusively available from Tower Records in Japan, 4AD released Pleasures & Treasures, a double CD compilation of classic and hard-to-find tracks that spans the label’s forty plus years....
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VA – Musik Music Musique 3.0: 1982 | Synth Pop On The Air (2023)
Following 2021’s ‘Musik Music Musique 2.0’ set, the third volume in the series looks at the electronic pop scene as it came to dominate the airwaves. A period which saw the 1980’s credible musical...
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VA – All I Ever Wanted: A Tribute to Depeche Mode (2023)
The next generation of darkwave electronic artists pay their respects to works of groundbreaking new wave icons Depeche Mode! Features performances by an astounding array of some of the most exciting...
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VA – Richard Sen presents Dream The Dream: UK Techno, House and Breakbeat...
Ransom Note Records are over the moon to launch new sub-label, Dance Music From Planet Earth, with a compilation of rave heritage from the mighty Richard Sen, who presents Dream The Dream: UK Techno,...
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VA – Jazz Dispensary: Hotel Jolie Dame (2023)
The groove connoisseurs of Jazz Dispensary take you back to the summer of 1978, to an imaginary hotel deep in the heart of the French Riviera, for a day of love, abandonment, and a whole lot of...
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VA – Luke Una Presents É Soul Cultura Vol. 1 & 2 (2022, 2023)
Satisfying as it was, É Soul Cultura was also tantalizing in its nanoscopic unmixed sampling of the varied collection possessed by Luke Una, a North of England DJ legend — Sheffield, Manchester, the...
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VA – Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War (2023)
Sun Ra’s ‘Nuclear War’ might be the Jupiter-born free-jazz maniac’s most malleable tune. Starting life in 1984 as the opening track on his album of the same name, there brimming with fucked-up be-bop...
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VA – Jon Savage’s 1980-1982: The Art of Things to Come (2023)
Ace are delighted to continue with Jon Savage’s highly respected year-by-year series documenting the music scene on a world stage, which began with a volume based on his successful 1966 book for...
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VA – Silberland, Vol. 2: The Driving Side of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984 (2023)
Welcome to Silberland – where the streets are paved with strobes. Home to neon lights, straight lines and open roads, this futurist fantasy was first founded in the mid-seventies, when Germany’s...
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VA – Black Diamond Express: Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 11 (2023)
The latest six-CD boxed set in the marvellous Matchbox Bluesmaster series collates six compilation albums originally released in the Late 60s and early 70s. A collection of piano blues, something that...
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VA – Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (2023)
In its heyday, Stax Records was synonymous with soul music’s biggest stars – from Otis Redding and Carla Thomas to Sam & Dave and the Staple Singers. But behind their iconic hits was a talented...
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VA – Where Have All The Bootboys Gone? A Celebration Of Yob Rock (2023)
“A Celebration Of Yob Rock”. A swaggering 3CD collection featuring 60 tracks that were the soundtrack to the terraces and back streets of 70s Britain. Featuring ‘Lads Rock’ legends The Faces, Mott The...
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VA – Afghan Musicians in Exile; Mashhad 2022 (2023)
For several decades now, on and off, the musicians of Herat, Afghanistan have been living in exile in the Iranian city of Mashhad. Their cyclical journeys across the border and back correspond to...
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VA – The Chants of the Holy Oyster (2023)
There’s something delightfully paradoxical about Rey Colino’s Kalahari Oyster Cult. For the past six years, the label has helped define dance music’s vanguard by looking to the ’90s. Colino understands...
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VA – Kids On the Street: UK Power Pop and New Wave 1977-1981 (2022)
The emergence of punk rock in the U.K. in the mid-’70s had a massive impact that extended far beyond the spiky hair and safety pin brigade. It made the pretension and excess that tainted much of...
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