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KSCD 087CD
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RELEASE DATE: 3/25/2022
Rock Steady Cool is another fine collection of rocksteady hits. The "Cool" subtitle could not be more relevant to an album, as around 1966, an extreme heatwave hit the Jamaican island. This would not stop the all-night dances from going ahead but the jerky ska rhythms proved too strenuous of an activity to partake in, so a new slower beat to suit this extreme weather had to be found and the ever-resourceful music entrepreneurs came up with the slower paced beat and rocksteady was born. This two-year rocksteady period ran until 1968 and would see some of the power escape from the big three producers, Clement "Coxone" Dodd, Prince Buster, and Duke Reid. It was time to make room for a new wave of up-and-coming producers that also had something to offer the people. Such names as Joel Gibson (Joe Gibbs), Sonia Pottinger, Derrick Harriott, and most prolific of them all, Mr Bunny Lee would step forward and add some new musical touches to the island. Rocksteady was an inspirational and somewhat overlooked sound that provided some outstanding music. So, sit back and enjoy some rocksteady straight from the dances of Jamaica. Features The Rudies, Derrick and Patsy, Alton Ellis, The Imperials, Bunny and Bunny, Junior Smith, The Soul Flames, Rico, Fitz & The Coozers, Bobby Kalphat, The Rudies, Derrick Morgan, and Fredrick Bell. CD version includes two bonus tracks featuring Roy Shirley and Glen Adams.
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RELEASE DATE: 3/25/2022
LP version. Rock Steady Cool is another fine collection of rocksteady hits. The "Cool" subtitle could not be more relevant to an album, as around 1966, an extreme heatwave hit the Jamaican island. This would not stop the all-night dances from going ahead but the jerky ska rhythms proved too strenuous of an activity to partake in, so a new slower beat to suit this extreme weather had to be found and the ever-resourceful music entrepreneurs came up with the slower paced beat and rocksteady was born. This two-year rocksteady period ran until 1968 and would see some of the power escape from the big three producers, Clement "Coxone" Dodd, Prince Buster, and Duke Reid. It was time to make room for a new wave of up-and-coming producers that also had something to offer the people. Such names as Joel Gibson (Joe Gibbs), Sonia Pottinger, Derrick Harriott, and most prolific of them all, Mr Bunny Lee would step forward and add some new musical touches to the island. Rocksteady was an inspirational and somewhat overlooked sound that provided some outstanding music. So, sit back and enjoy some rocksteady straight from the dances of Jamaica. Features The Rudies, Derrick and Patsy, Alton Ellis, The Imperials, Bunny and Bunny, Junior Smith, The Soul Flames, Rico, Fitz & The Coozers, Bobby Kalphat, The Rudies, Derrick Morgan, and Fredrick Bell.
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$37.50
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RELEASE DATE: 2/25/2022
Algo Salvaje ("Something Wild"), now reaching its third volume, celebrates the darkest, neglected and rebellious side of Spanish beat. Internationally labelled as nuggets (after the original compilation of the same name concocted by Jac Holzman and Lenny Kaye in 1972 for the Elektra label), the more common garage rock label has been used to place and describe one of the most fertile chapters of rock n' roll history during its most creative years. An underground story which has luckily become known, with participants from all around the globe which included anonymous musicians, independent record labels with impossible names and ridiculously limited pressings, often not more than a few hundred copies. The tracks chosen for the occasion, a selection filtered strictly by their musical value, adhere to the rules of the classic nugget genre while demonstrating the permeability of garage sound and its inevitable evolution at the turn of the decade (1967-1974) through mixes that embraced psychedelia, soul and even prog rock. Epic and pretty wild. Just the kind of material that this record label usually handles. Many of the 28 tracks are reissued for the first time, including extremely hard-to-find records. This double-LP, gatefold sleeve package includes extensive notes by genre-expert Vicente Fabuel featuring all the original record sleeves and artist photos. Features Los Gatos, Los Joviales, Los Geminis, Los Gatos Negros, Los Tiburones, Los Bohemios, Els 4 Gats, Los Pirombodas, Los Watts, Los Flecos, Locomocion, Es Amics, Els Xocs, Los Pasos, Los Diana, Los Pajaros Locos, Los Nivram, Los Brujos, Los Shakers, Los Yunios's, Los Zooms, Atardecer, Los Protones, Los Yetis, Los No, Bertas, Los Faros, and Los Watusi.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/25/2022
Systema Naturae is the first compilation of 012. It is inspired by and takes the name of one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus, dating back to 1735, which broadly describes the hierarchical classification of the natural world. The series consists of three parts, each containing four tracks, where several artists are invited to recreate, with sounds, a deep reconnection with nature. Original artworks by Ciredz. Features Rambadu, Forest on Stasys, Dycide, and Claudio PRC.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
You know what happens when the clock strikes one?! Big Connie is gonna go out and have a little fun. You know what happens when the clock strikes two?! "Oh Boy" by Jimmy Witherspoon is what we gonna do! Here it is! Blues With A Rhythm Vol. 1, brought to you by the fine collections of Farewell Records from France. These rare recordings have been painstakingly re-released on LP in their original sonic 45rpm glory. Features Louis Jordan, Lester Robertson and The Upsetters, Al Vance, Mr. Calhoun, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Connie, Jimmy Trotter, Poppa Hop and His Orchestra, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Lightnin' Hopkins.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
You know what happens when the clock strikes three!? Blues With A Rhythm is back with volume 1-2-3! The best rhythm and rocking records found East of the mighty Mississippi are here for you, once again pressed to LP from the original 45 rpm records. Features The Philharmonics, Tony Harris, J.J. Jones and Band, Lattimore Brown, Guitar Gable, King Karl, Johnny Bragg and the Marigolds, Tony Harris, Billy Bland, Lester Williams, Bonnie "Bombshell" Lee, Billy (The Kid) Emerson, Larry Birdsong with his Songbirds, and Buddy Lamp.
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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
Once again, following the first three volume in the Blues With A Rhythm series, Doghouse & Bone Records are giving the incredible voices of rhythm n' blues the ability to shout! These recordings are carefully compiled in their rare original 45 rpm glory mastered to LP format. Hey! Hey! The blues are alright! Features Lloyd Price and His Orchestra, Lloyd Price, Billy Lamont, Ricky Allen, Joe Mayfield, Big "C" and The Galaxies, Al "TNT" Braggs, Bob Mackey, The Fames, and Dave "Baby" Cortez.
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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
Once again, following the first three volume in the Blues With A Rhythm series, Doghouse & Bone Records are giving the incredible voices of rhythm n' blues the ability to shout! These recordings are carefully compiled in their rare original 45 rpm glory mastered to LP format. Hey! Hey! The blues are alright! Features Arbee Stidham, Kip Anderson, Dossie (Thunderbird) Terry, Paul Gayten and His Band, Earl Gilliam, The Five Fleets, Katie Webster, Billy Lamont, Roy Brown, Larry Hart, Billy Bland, and Big John Demarcus (And Sons).
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
You know what happens when the clock strikes one?! You might have listened to blues with a rhythm and had a lot of fun. You know what happens when the clock strikes two?! Blues With A Rhythm Vol. 2 is what Doghouse & Bone Records have got for you! Oh yes! Blues With A Rhythm Vol. 2, brought to you by the fine collections of Farewell Records from France. These rare recordings have been painstakingly re-released on LP in their original sonic 45rpm glory. Detroit kicks things off with a side released in February of 1962 on the MAH's label. Lee Rogers hits you with "Troubles". Originally a B side, Detroit's Black DJ's preferred it to the A side which was "Walk On By". Lee, who was good friend of Marvin Gaye, buried Gaye's side "Sandman" in the charts which was released about the same time. "Troubles" features the pianist Joe Hunter and sax-man Eli Fontaine. Another B-side makes the grade with Ricky Allen doing "Catch Up With Your Crowd". Allen who came to Chicago in 1960, cut this record for AGE in 1963. Age was an offshoot of the Chief label, which is best known for the amazing blues records they released with Elmore James among others. A killer side released on Fling in 1962 by the elusive Mary "B" will lay you out. "Something For You Baby" is only one of four sides she is known to have recorded with the legendary Harlem record shop owner, and producer, Morgan "Bobby" Robinson at the controls. Legend has it Mary had a very jealous boyfriend who refused to let her go to sessions alone, thus possibly ending a blossoming recording career. Little Jimmy Griffin gives you the side, "If Things Don't Change" on Kansas City's R or "Our" record label, released in 1961. This fantastic record has King Alex and the Untouchables on it as the backing band. Features Lee Rogers, Ricky Allen, Mary "B", Little Jimmy Griffin, Tabby Thomas, Hannah Dean, Calvin and Clarence, El Pauling, Royal Abbit The Royalton, Davey Jones, and Jimmy Dotson and The Blue Boys.
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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
Once again, following the first three volume in the Blues With A Rhythm series, Doghouse & Bone Records are giving the incredible voices of rhythm n' blues the ability to shout! These recordings are carefully compiled in their rare original 45 rpm glory mastered to LP format. Hey! Hey! The blues are alright! Features Larry Darnell, The Lovers, Johnnie & Joe, Jim And Monica, Johnny Jenkins and The Pinetoppers, Barbara Greene, Louise Brown, Harold Burrage, The Premiers with Sonny, and Roscoe Shelton.
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IRON 027CD
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$12.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
The ISR Rootspective+ compilation focuses mainly on earlier Iron Sound Reggae Roots releases. Originally released on in 2018. Tracks have been updated and now includes the in-demand Alvin Davis "My Homeland Inst" and "Dub" tracks. Featured throughout is a variety of artists including: Asha B (percussion, vocal work), Alvin Davis (horns, flute), Kendrick Andy (vocals), Stephen "Marley" Wright (guitar), and Peter "Roots" Lewis (vocals).
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RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022
With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrial music pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts the label to lift the veil and expose "the right tracks" from his uber-legendary and oft misinterpreted psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List. Following the critically lauded first instalment and it's exclusively French tracklisting both parties now combine their vinyl-vulturous penchants to bring you the next Strain Crack & Break edition which consists of twelve lesser-known German records that played a hugely important part in the initial foundations of the list which began to unfold when Stapleton was just thirteen-years-old. From the perspective of a schoolboy Amon Düül (ONE) victim, at the start of a journey that commenced before phrases like kosmische and the xeno-ignant krautrock tag had become mag hack currency, this compendium is devoid of the tropes that united what many would accurately argue to be the greatest progressive pop bands in Europe (namely CAN, Neu! and Kraftwerk) and rather shatters the ingredients across a ground zero landscape. This record includes the music that skulked behind krautrock and perhaps refused to polish its backhanded name belt. Including lesser-known artists like the late Wolfgang Dauner whose career proceeded and outlived the kosmische movement while consistently informing and outsmarting 'em whenever they got stuck in their metronomic ruts, or Fritz Müller, the man who was to Kraftwerk what Stuart Sutcliffe was to The Beatles but had more in common with Yoko and quite rightly couldn't give a shit about the Fab Four's Hamburg roots. Elsewhere there's a plethora of German bands made for German audiences as they try and shed second hand flower power Americanisms and feel the benefits of much harder drugs and the realizations of difficult second album budgets. Bonzo Cockettes show off their Big Muffs and drummers ask for extra mics while Conny Plank goes for parliamentary office and gives babies good firm handshakes for the camera. Tracks by Mr. and Mrs. Fuchs (aka Anima-Sound) who played their instruments completely naked throughout their anti-career alongside previously unpressed tracks by the scene's leading Detroit-born African American drummer Fred Braceful (Exmagma). Finders Keepers and Nurse With Wound continue to sing from the same hymnal with this ongoing collaborative attempt to officially, authentically and legally compile the best tracks from Steve's list, where many overzealous nerds have faltered (or simply, got the wrong end of the stick). Volume Two focuses exclusively on individual tracks of German origin -- the country whose music forged the prototype of the NWW inventory in the form of his secondary school vinyl want-list in the early 1970s. Features Wolfgang Dauner, My Solid Ground, Association PC, Fritz Müller, Exmagma, Anima-Sound, Tomorrow's Gift, Out Of Focus, Brainstorm, Thirsty Moon, Gomorrha, and Brainticket.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
First ever vinyl reissue for this seminal compilation of early California hardcore punk, originally issued on the New Underground label in 1983. Featuring such names as the Germs, M.I.A., China White, Shattered Faith along with more obscure ones as Marshall Mellow, Ill Will, Powertrip. Also features Bags, Anti, Minutemen, Bpeople, Mood Of Defiance, Invisible Chains, Zurich 1916, and Vox Pop. Artwork by Raymond Pettibon. Includes double-sided insert with liner notes by Susan Swear. Fully remastered audio. Orange vinyl.
"Once you listen to the bands on Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself (RRS 149LP), and the other two volumes: Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods and Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record (RRS 165LP), the listener will agree that these are some of the best punk compilations of their time. No punk record collection is complete without copies of these albums, and it is amazing how time has forgotten and overlooked the impact and important piece of punk music history they are a part of. Now, thanks to Radiation Records, all three Life Is record compilations by New Underground Records are being re-released. Almost 40 years after their initial release, the Life Is compilations are the perfect soundtrack for the chaotic world we are currently living in." --Susan Swear
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RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
First ever vinyl reissue for this seminal compilation of early California hardcore punk, originally issued on the New Underground label in 1983. Featuring such names as the Germs, Minutemen, Sin 34, Shattered Faith along with more obscure, experimental ones as Doo-Dooettes, Modern Torture, and Tone Deaf. Also features Redd Kross, Modern Warfare, Anti, Mood Of Defiance, Hari-Kari, Artistic Decline, Invisible Chains, Slivers, Vox Pop, Marshall Mellow, Carl Stone, Zurich 1916, and Debt Of Nature. Artwork by Raymond Pettibon. Includes double-sided insert with liner notes by Susan Swear. Fully remastered. Red vinyl.
"Once you listen to the bands on Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself (RRS 149LP), and the other two volumes: Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods (RRS 166LP) and Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record, the listener will agree that these are some of the best punk compilations of their time. No punk record collection is complete without copies of these albums, and it is amazing how time has forgotten and overlooked the impact and important piece of punk music history they are a part of. Now, thanks to Radiation Records, all three Life Is record compilations by New Underground Records are being re-released. Almost 40 years after their initial release, the Life Is compilations are the perfect soundtrack for the chaotic world we are currently living in." --Susan Swear
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RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
First ever vinyl reissue for this seminal compilation of early California hardcore punk, originally issued on the New Underground label in 1982. Featuring such names as the Descendents, Minutemen, Anti, Saccharine Trust, Redd Cross along with more obscure ones as Civil Dismay, Ill Will, or Zurich 1916. Also features China White, Mood Of Defiance, 100 Flowers, Urinals, and Plebs. Includes double-sided insert with notes by Susan Swear. Fully remastered. Yellow vinyl.
"Once you listen to the bands on Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself, and the other two volumes: Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods (RRS 166LP) and Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record, the listener will agree that these are some of the best punk compilations of their time. No punk record collection is complete without copies of these albums, and it is amazing how time has forgotten and overlooked the impact and important piece of punk music history they are a part of. Now, thanks to Radiation Records, all three Life Is record compilations by New Underground Records are being re-released. Almost 40 years after their initial release, the Life Is compilations are the perfect soundtrack for the chaotic world we are currently living in." --Susan Swear
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OSTGUT 050CD
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$20.50
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RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
Fünfzehn + 1 is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton -- and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain. Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by. With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the set represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.
Features MMM, Avalon Emerson / Roi Perez, Tama Sumo / Lakuti, Substance / Soundstream, Len Faki / Honey Dijon, JASSS / Silent Servant, Luke Slater / Barker, Ben Klock / Etapp Kyle, Marcel Dettmann / Norman Nodge, Pom Pom, Oren Ambarchi / Konrad Sprenger / Phillip Sollmann, Martyn / Duval Timothy, Jessica Ekomane / Zoë McPherson, Atom TM / Tobias., Answer Code Request / Gerd Janson, Ryan Elliott / André Galluzzi, Paramida / Massimiliano Pagliara, nd_baumecker / Nick Höppner, Terence Fixmer / Phase Fatale, and Comets.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
Five-LP box version. Fünfzehn + 1 is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton -- and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain. Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by. With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the set represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.
Features MMM, Avalon Emerson / Roi Perez, Tama Sumo / Lakuti, Substance / Soundstream, Len Faki / Honey Dijon, JASSS / Silent Servant, Luke Slater / Barker, Ben Klock / Etapp Kyle, Marcel Dettmann / Norman Nodge, Pom Pom, Oren Ambarchi / Konrad Sprenger / Phillip Sollmann, Martyn / Duval Timothy, Jessica Ekomane / Zoë McPherson, Atom TM / Tobias., Answer Code Request / Gerd Janson, Ryan Elliott / André Galluzzi, Paramida / Massimiliano Pagliara, nd_baumecker / Nick Höppner, Terence Fixmer / Phase Fatale, and Comets.
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$16.50
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RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
An audacious volume number eight presents another whopping dose of what everyone needs in their life right now; a lysergic '60s pop extravaganza! 20 flower-power wonders from way down under, lovingly restored to their former, formidable glory. Recorded between 1967-1971. Featuring original recorded artifacts from Shane, The Party Machine, Gene Pierson, The Surfires, The Underdogs, Mantis, Trevor McNamara, Tol-Puddle Martyrs, The Twilights, Troubled Minds, The Motion, Jeff St. John & The Yama, Moonstone, Hi-Revving Tongues, Johnny Young, The Surfires, Roger Skinner Motivation, Tymepiece, Ray Brown Moonstone, Oakapple Day, The Avengers, and Salvation... Perfectly re-mastered with loving care, Volume 8 is happy to play a part in the industry of human happiness. Featuring a 20-page, full-color booklet with background liners and rare archival photos from the period.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/4/2022
With the cover artwork for Pop Ambient 2022, longtime Kompakt graphic artist Veronika Unland has once again outdone herself. Following the almost baroque, blood-red and jet-black, extremely physical sculptures of Pop Ambient 2021 (KOMP 161CD/KOM 430LP), which emerged from a dark, floral sea like bodies erect for dancing, the front of 2022 is adorned with a pastel-white form, intertwined, folded many times and crisscrossed with delicate shading, which seems to float on a pale pink background; soft, gentle waves woven from Venetian colors that leave the viewer puzzled: Is it a flower, a coral, a mollusk? Again, the current edition of the tradition-steeped compilation series curated by Wolfgang Voigt is about the persistent and ever-necessary definition of beauty, of reduction, of electronic music of heavy lightness and light heaviness, of ambient's eternal promise of a state of physical and acoustic weightlessness and pops of redemption. And about the question why a never arbitrary combination of soundscape, drones, samples and loops, put together in a certain way, can create this feeling of warmth, depth and space -- something three-dimensional, where the imagination feels at home as a fish in the water or a bird in the sky. A key aesthetic stimulus that sends all the senses into a slow glide and drift, after which your synapses feel like they've been bathed in essential oil. Next to Soul, Ambient is probably the most effective musical healing plant of mankind. Behind the aural test tubes, the who's who of Pop Ambient is once again at work, led for the first time by the highly trafficked Californian duo Blank Gloss, whose debut album Melt this year was certified by The Guardian as nothing less than "heartaching beauty". Yui Onodera's "Chrome" as well as "Kari", a cooperation of Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth, could also be imagined in the score of Denis Villeneuve's new film version of Dune -- however, colleague Hans Zimmer managed that quite well without the three. After such wonderful and stylish contributions by Reich & Würden, Triola, and Thomas Fehlmann, the ear then lingers a bit longer on the ghostly "Weiht" by Morgen Wurde featuring Maria Estrella, a track like a temple of sound, a deep electronic immersion in a Japanese onsen. In this sea of unnamable time you could sink forever, but with the tracks of Andrew Thomas, Thore Pfeiffer, and Max Würden & Pepo Galán the journey slowly comes to an end. CD version also includes additional tracks by Max Würden, Thore Pfeiffer, Joachim Spieth / Pepo Galán, and Blank Gloss.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/4/2022
LP version. Includes download. With the cover artwork for Pop Ambient 2022, longtime Kompakt graphic artist Veronika Unland has once again outdone herself. Following the almost baroque, blood-red and jet-black, extremely physical sculptures of Pop Ambient 2021 (KOMP 161CD/KOM 430LP), which emerged from a dark, floral sea like bodies erect for dancing, the front of 2022 is adorned with a pastel-white form, intertwined, folded many times and crisscrossed with delicate shading, which seems to float on a pale pink background; soft, gentle waves woven from Venetian colors that leave the viewer puzzled: Is it a flower, a coral, a mollusk? Again, the current edition of the tradition-steeped compilation series curated by Wolfgang Voigt is about the persistent and ever-necessary definition of beauty, of reduction, of electronic music of heavy lightness and light heaviness, of ambient's eternal promise of a state of physical and acoustic weightlessness and pops of redemption. And about the question why a never arbitrary combination of soundscape, drones, samples and loops, put together in a certain way, can create this feeling of warmth, depth and space -- something three-dimensional, where the imagination feels at home as a fish in the water or a bird in the sky. A key aesthetic stimulus that sends all the senses into a slow glide and drift, after which your synapses feel like they've been bathed in essential oil. Next to Soul, Ambient is probably the most effective musical healing plant of mankind. Behind the aural test tubes, the who's who of Pop Ambient is once again at work, led for the first time by the highly trafficked Californian duo Blank Gloss, whose debut album Melt this year was certified by The Guardian as nothing less than "heartaching beauty". Yui Onodera's "Chrome" as well as "Kari", a cooperation of Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth, could also be imagined in the score of Denis Villeneuve's new film version of Dune -- however, colleague Hans Zimmer managed that quite well without the three. After such wonderful and stylish contributions by Reich & Würden, Triola, and Thomas Fehlmann, the ear then lingers a bit longer on the ghostly "Weiht" by Morgen Wurde featuring Maria Estrella, a track like a temple of sound, a deep electronic immersion in a Japanese onsen. In this sea of unnamable time you could sink forever, but with the tracks of Andrew Thomas, Thore Pfeiffer, and Max Würden & Pepo Galán the journey slowly comes to an end.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/4/2022
Back for the second volume of Back from the Canigó! In the same spirit as Back from the Grave, Staubgold's goal is to look back at what happened in the South of France near Perpignan at the beginning of the 21st century. As you can hear it in the first volume (STAUB 152LP, 2020), the city of Perpignan (and its region, Northern Catalonia) has been a strong place for underground rock n' roll for many years. In the '90s, there were a lot of garage bands and an important mods community. These guys created a spirit in the city that's still present today. This volume showcases the new bands created by Perpignan's city rockers and the country punks from the nearby villages. Bands like Les Gardiens du Canigou, The Ugly Things, The Likyds, The Toxic Farmers, The Vox Men, The Feedback, heard on the first compilation, spawned plenty of new formations. This time the scene has its own labels -- Nasty Products and Profet Record are two of them. It has never been easier to record music and put it on vinyl. There are live venues all over the city. The beginning of the internet also made life easier, even when you're in a town in the South of France near the Spanish border and the Mediterranean. The Sonic Chicken 4 were signed by In the Red and Trouble in Mind. Parisian labels were also interested in the work of bands from Perpignan. The Hushpuppies, ex-Likyds, go to the capital and are signed by Diamondtraxx. They're certainly the best-known band of that era with their hit "You're Gonna Say Yeah", featured on Guitar Hero and in several commercial ads. Boosted by international touring, Catalan bands make their way into the world. The Fatals go on tour in Italy and Canada. The Sonic Chicken 4 are booked for a US tour while Jack Of Heart, signed on Born Bad, play all over Europe. The whole world listens. This is the story told by our compilation. Just put the needle on the record and let the music do the talking... Cover artwork by Pascal Comelade.
Features Jack Of Heart, Les Bellas, Sonic Chicken 4, El Vicio, Pablo Escobar's Sons, Destination Lonely, Migas Valdes, The Mighty Go-Go Players, Hair And The Iotas, T. Time Fantasy, Ultralove, Hushpuppies, White Ni***rs, Men In The Moon, Crank, The Fatals, Zoo Trash, Kung Fu Escalator, Circles, and Los Santos.
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LP version. "Here are just some of the gems from this latest edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage '60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid - The Thirteenth Trip: Max, from Montreal, QC -- originally known as Dawn, before Tony Orlando & Dawn forced a name change -- kick things off with 'Run Run' from their lone 1970 single. It's a hard-hitting rocker with scale climbing crunching guitars and powerful Bonham-esque drumming. 'Feelin' Dead' is extremely heavy blues from this also extremely rare 1974 single by Detroit, MI's Master Danse, which was only released as a promo 45. Think Led Zeppelin's 'Since I've Been Loving You.' Gary Del Vecchio is 'Buzzin'' hard, and from what sounds like an in-studio party of yelps and chatter at the start of the song, it seems that the whole band was in on the festivities. The funky blues riff, reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's 'Heartbreaker' and rollicking rhythmic changes certainly keep the buzz a rollin'. Finally, Good Humore's swaggering 1976 rocker 'Detroit' is a slick and smooth paen to the Motor City. It most likely doesn't predate 'Detroit Rock City' by Kiss, also released in 1976, and it has more rock'n'roll swing, but it could fit comfortably alongside the era's arena anthems."
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Double LP version. Following the recent success of the Tokyo Dreaming (WWSCD 040CD/WWSLP 040LP), Wewantsounds comes with another compelling set, this time compiled by city pop expert DJ Notoya who has dug the rich Nippon Columbia catalog to bring a breezy selection of funky gems. Nippon has amassed an incredible back catalog over the decades. Particularly strong in the '70s and '80s, the label was one of the main purveyors of great music at a time when Japan was entering its greatest economic boom and labels had budgets at hand to create the highest quality music. As Notoya explains in the liner notes "Back in the day, the record companies had big budgets and could afford to have many great musicians playing on one record, plus strings and horn sections, top drummers and keyboardists. It all made for a very rich sound, which is generally very different to today's music." Keen to emulate the music created in the US by their American counterparts, Japanese musicians came with their own blend of funk, boogie and soul that has come to be known as city pop. The selection on Tokyo Glow is full of such gems and starts with "Kimugare" a relaxed, mid-tempo track by Kumi Nakamura, famous actress who only recorded one album in 1980 for Columbia. The set continues and flows effortlessly with the sunshine grooves of Miyuki Maki, Hatsumi Shibata and cult keyboard player Hiroshi Sato before the pace starts going faster and funkier with New Generation Company, Kengo Kurozumi -- with his superb boogie, "Juggler" -- and one of the queens of the genre, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama with "Tuxedo Connection". Tokyo-based DJ Notoya is from a new breed of Japanese DJs there focusing on nippon music and is an expert on funk, modern soul, and boogie from the Island. With Tokyo Glow, Notoya says he "focused more on the slightly more underground tracks from the era, rather than the bigger, well-known releases. For me that was a more fun and satisfying approach." Another fine example on the set is the mid-tempo groove of "I Wander All Alone Part III" by New Generation Company, an aggregate group of some of the best Japanese session musicians led by arranger Katz Hoshi and including Hiroyuki Namba, Kazuo Shiina, and Yutaka Uehara. Tokyo Glow showcases the diversity and specificity of Japanese city pop during the late '70s and '80s. Also features Haruyoshi Yamashina, Sumiko Yamagata, Makoto Iwabuchi, Arakawa Band, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Ken Nishizaki, Jadoes, Midori Hara, Mizuki Koyama, Haruo Chikada & Vibra-Tones, and Mitsuko Horie.
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Following the recent success of the Tokyo Dreaming (WWSCD 040CD/WWSLP 040LP), Wewantsounds comes with another compelling set, this time compiled by city pop expert DJ Notoya who has dug the rich Nippon Columbia catalog to bring a breezy selection of funky gems. Nippon has amassed an incredible back catalog over the decades. Particularly strong in the '70s and '80s, the label was one of the main purveyors of great music at a time when Japan was entering its greatest economic boom and labels had budgets at hand to create the highest quality music. As Notoya explains in the liner notes "Back in the day, the record companies had big budgets and could afford to have many great musicians playing on one record, plus strings and horn sections, top drummers and keyboardists. It all made for a very rich sound, which is generally very different to today's music." Keen to emulate the music created in the US by their American counterparts, Japanese musicians came with their own blend of funk, boogie and soul that has come to be known as city pop. The selection on Tokyo Glow is full of such gems and starts with "Kimugare" a relaxed, mid-tempo track by Kumi Nakamura, famous actress who only recorded one album in 1980 for Columbia. The set continues and flows effortlessly with the sunshine grooves of Miyuki Maki, Hatsumi Shibata and cult keyboard player Hiroshi Sato before the pace starts going faster and funkier with New Generation Company, Kengo Kurozumi -- with his superb boogie, "Juggler" -- and one of the queens of the genre, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama with "Tuxedo Connection". Tokyo-based DJ Notoya is from a new breed of Japanese DJs there focusing on nippon music and is an expert on funk, modern soul, and boogie from the Island. With Tokyo Glow, Notoya says he "focused more on the slightly more underground tracks from the era, rather than the bigger, well-known releases. For me that was a more fun and satisfying approach." Another fine example on the set is the mid-tempo groove of "I Wander All Alone Part III" by New Generation Company, an aggregate group of some of the best Japanese session musicians led by arranger Katz Hoshi and including Hiroyuki Namba, Kazuo Shiina, and Yutaka Uehara. Tokyo Glow showcases the diversity and specificity of Japanese city pop during the late '70s and '80s. Also features Haruyoshi Yamashina, Sumiko Yamagata, Makoto Iwabuchi, Arakawa Band, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Ken Nishizaki, Jadoes, Midori Hara, Mizuki Koyama, Haruo Chikada & Vibra-Tones, and Mitsuko Horie.
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"Now-Again Records' follow up to one of its most well-loved compilations, Forge Your Own Chains, with another batch of rare, largely uncompiled -- and sometimes barely heard -- heavy psych-rock and funk. Pounding drums, scathing fuzz guitar and morose, contemplative lyrics will bring you up on a downer. Tickets For Doomsday, as the title hints, is and rumination on what might befall the human race -- made especially salient by the past year's trials and tribulations -- as performed by prison funk ensembles, Indonesian hippies, Krautrock legends, Icelandic prog-rock bands and even Bay Area rap catalyst E-40's uncle, the man to ¬first distribute Master P's No Limit Records, and the creator of this album's title track, St. Charles 'Chucky' Thurman. A unique and compelling listen, and surely a worthy companion for these times." Features Golden Wing, Misty, Icecross, Paternoster, Chucky Thurmon, Upheaval, Water Color, Stephen David Heitkotter, Christopher, Kourosh, and J.B Green and Band.
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