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VA – Mojo Presents: Purple Soul (2014)
1. Polica – Warrior Lord [04:27] 2. Blood Orange – You’re Not Good Enough [04:20] 3. Arabian Prince – Strange Life [06:51] 4. Luke Temple – Florida [04:25] 5. Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town [07:06]...
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VA – Uncut: Hey! Ho! Lets Go! (2014)
1. Mutual Benefit – Golden Wake 2. Karl Smith – Hang Our Bodies 3. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Lariat 4. Dum Dum Girls – Lost Boys and Girls Club 5. D Charles Speer & The Helix – Cretan...
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VA – Duo Art: Creating Magic (2014)
German label ACT has now been in existence for some twenty years or so and this double CD set celebrates the sheer diversity of the musicians on its roster with particular reference to duet...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Death Disco: A Compendium of Post-Punk Grooves (2014)
1. Felt – Primitive Painters 2. Orange Juice – Simply Thrilled Honey 3. Bush Tetras – Too Many Creeps 4. Sonic Youth – Shaking Hell 5. Kleenex – Ain’t You 6. Public Image Ltd – Deeper Water 7....
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VA – The Saturday Sessions from the Dermot O’Leary Show (2014)
The fifth instalment in the highly successful series and potentially the best yet. The Saturday Sessions from The Dermot O’Leary Show is packed full of 40 live tracks from a whole host of artists,...
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VA – Uncut: Keep the Fire Burning (2014)
1. The Men – Another Night [05:30] 2. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Body Electric [02:49] 3. The Afghan Wigs – Algiers [04:04] 4. Joan As Police Woman – Holy City [04:44] 5. The Delines – Wichita...
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VA – Peru Maravilloso: Vintage Latin, Tropical & Cumbia (2013)
The 1960s were a pivotal era not only for young Americans in the U.S. but also for their counterparts in Peru. As the country’s political stability slowly fell to pieces, peaking with the ouster of...
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VA – Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne (2014)
Split fairly neatly between his contemporaries and those who followed in his footsteps, Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne is a generous tribute to the quintessential singer/songwriter,...
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VA – Dues Paid: The Bluestime Story (2013)
Bluestime is not a storied label, not in the way Sun and Chess are. An offshoot of ABC, Bluestime launched in 1969 and the intent of the imprint was to take old bluesmen and freshen them up for the new...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: Women of Brazil (2013)
From Carmen Miranda’s playful intensity in the 1940s and ’50s and Astrud Gilberto’s sultry alto in the 1960s to today’s multi-talented young generation, the voices of Brazilian women have long shaped...
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VA – The Rough Guide To The Best African Music You’ve Never Heard (2014)
This compilation presents a grassroots approach to the music of the moment emanating from Africa and its Diasporas. Gaining recognition through World Music Network’s ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition...
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VA – 94 Baker Street Revisited: Poptastic Sounds from the Apple Era 1967-1968...
In June 1967, The Beatles opened Apple Publishing in a one-room office on London’s Curzon Street, predating even the birth of Apple Records. Soon, the publishing concern moved to new quarters at 94...
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VA – Virgin Records: 40 Years of Disruptions (2013)
The Virgin label was largely the brainchild of one young businessman named Richard Branson. The London-born Branson began his career selling records by mail order and later opening a shop on Oxford...
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VA – Sawtuha (2014)
…the Sawtuha compilation of female artists from Libya, Tunisia and Egypt exercising their rights to freedom of expression. The full album, which along with Sudanese-American hip-hop scholar Oddisee...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali: Second Edition (2014)
Mali is a fabled land of musical giants and this Rough Guide features the towering figures of Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Touré and Basekou Kouyate. However the music of Mali is now under threat as never...
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VA – Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 13 (2014)
This new Counter Culture 13 compilation collects many favourite releases of the last twelve months. Every the staff at Rough Trade’s shops compile an annual release of those tunes that have received...
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VA – The Art of the 12″ Volume Three: A Soundtrack for Living (2014)
ZTT/Salvo issue a third volume of their popular The Art of the 12″ compilation series in February 2014, almost exactly two years after the previous volume was issued. Alongside Frankie Said (Deluxe...
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VA – Beyond Addis: Contemporary Jazz & Funk Inspired By Ethiopian Sounds from...
Beyond Addis is a collection of contemporary bands (compiled by J. J. Whitefield) inspired by Ethiopian music from the 70′s and features the likes of Akale Wube, Budos Band, Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong...
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VA – Voodoo Rhythm: Records to Ruin Any Party vol. 4 (2013)
Every year is a busy one for independent Swiss label Voodoo Rhythm Records. 2013 was such that Beat-Man, label founder and operator, felt the need to put together Vol. 4 in Voodoo Rhythm’s compilation...
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VA – Todo Muere Volume 4 (2014)
Sacred Bones present the fourth volume of their annual Record Store Day vinyl compilation, Todo Muere. This year’s edition features eight tracks from a wide variety of their artists, each one new or...
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