Rolling Reissues 2020

xpost good point Jon, have just queried publicist.

THere wasa good long interview with Randy Holden in Ugly THings a couple of issues ago #51. Goes right into the story behind the Population II lp and why nothings seemed to work for him at that point.He drifted out of music in disgust for decades.

That was a great read, if overall depressing.

Publicist replies: Because the vinyl was delayed considerably, as is the norm these days. It will be out on digital platforms this Friday, but the physical format won’t hit shelves until April 6th. Yeah, prob re the big pressing plant fire in Cali, I should think (but why no CD yet oh well meanwhile we have those streams linked in the press release web page posted above)

Thanks for the clarification!

The Distractions – Nobody’s Perfect (Island/Occultation, 1980) Mar 20
An exciting, relatively rare case where a lost classic (from major label Island no less) is reissued on CD (and digital and vinyl) for the first time ever. It was a long road to get there, as the project was first announced in 2016, then abandoned, then made into a crowdfunded project. You can stream or buy the 14 original tracks of the album now, or buy the physical two disc set with the singles, demos and remixed album to be delivered in March. The amazing Manchester band is the missing link between Buzzcocks and The Jam.
https://fastnbulbous.com/distractions-nobodys-perfect/
https://thedistractionsmcr.bandcamp.com/album/nobodys-perfect-2020-40th-anniversary-expanded-reissue

Nick Haeffner – The Great Indoors (Hanky Panky, 1987) Jan 8
The voice of unsung cult post-punk/psych hero Nick Haeffner is finally being heard thanks to a renaissance of reissues, reunions and new material. Last year he got together with his old post-punk band The Tea Set (1978-81) for some performances, new song and video “Pharoahs,” and the Cleopatra released the compilation of their complete catalog in July, Back In Time For Tea. Then Hanky Panky reissued a double album version of his underrated solo debut, The Great Indoors (1987), a truly original collection that marries his post-punk background with Syd Barrett psych and jangle pop. It was officially released late last year in UK, so Jan is the US date -- mine just arrived this week.

UT – In Gut’s House (Blast First/UT, 1987) Jan 31
UT formed in no wave-era NYC in 1978, but soon relocated to London. Their second album, In Gut’s House, is a masterpiece of spectral, skeletal noise rock and post-punk, one of the most original albums of the time. Had they not disbanded in 1990, perhaps they would have achieved at least a portion of the success that the likes of Swans and Sonic Youth saw. They’ve actually been active since 2010, and with luck we’ll hear new music someday.
https://utmusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-guts-house-2

East Village – Hotrod Hotel (Slumberland) Jan 24
I don’t know that East Village were one of the Great Lost Bands, but they did some nice jangle pop tunes that were in line with what was going on with Flying Nun and Creation label bands. They broke up in 1991, two years before their sole album was released. This collects their late 80s singles.
https://slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com/album/hotrod-hotel

Pale Saints – The Comforts Of Madness (4AD, 1990) Jan 17
Second tier dream pop & shoegaze from Leeds deserves a fresh listen on this deluxe reissue of their debut album, the first of three in their 7 year existence, 1987-94.

The Flys – Today Belongs To Me: The Complete Recordings 1977-1980 (Warner/Cherry Red, 2019)
This came out last year, but I just got my copy, tacked it on at the bottom of the Distractions review. One of the many Between The Cracks bands who navigated the murky gray areas between glam, pub rock, new wave and punk.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-flys-today-belongs-to-me-the-complete-recordings-1977-1980-2cd/

ggy Pop – The Idiot (Universal, 2CD, 1977) May
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (Universal, 2CD 1977) May
Iggy Pop – 1977: The Bowie Years (Universal, 7CD) May

This is exciting news, as I’ve been waiting for deluxe reissues of those albums for decades. No details on what’s on that 7 disc set yet, but I imagine there would be stuff starting with Raw Power era Stooges and some live recordings, possibly with Bowie serving on keyboards.

Pedaljets – Today, Today (Twilight, 1988) TBD - I reviewed their new album: https://fastnbulbous.com/winter-album-rundown-2020/

Yeah, I might well spring for the full Iggy box. Maybe we'll get even more live recordings with the awesome fidelity of TV Eye!

Batiscafo FINALLY being reissued, this is one crazy record and long overdue. It's out 4/3

Munster Records presents a reissue of Batiscafo by Gregorio Paniagua. Immersed in an age of re-releases and the pursuit of rarities, hidden gems and marvels, record labels are constantly rediscovering musical jewels, which previously only collectors have had the chance to own. Batiscafo is one of these elusive treasures. First released in 1980 on the label Hispavox, the album disappeared after a short run and no further editions in any format have been available until now, in spite of the huge level of interest shown by fans to get their hands on a vinyl record in mint condition by this outstanding musical oddity made in Spain. Paniagua is a classically trained musician and scholar of music with an extensive and fruitful history of researching, recording and rediscovering ancient music, varying from Las Cantigas de Santa María del Rey Alfonso X El Sabio (which earned him a gold record in Japan), to Andalusían music from Spain's past or compositions from ancient Greece, as well as playing with the vocal and instrumental ensemble Atrium Musicae, which toured across the world to great critical acclaim. In 1980, Paniagua embarked on a solo project, moving from the classical to the pop department at Hispavox. He shut himself off from the world every night for a whole month to record Batiscafo. Assisted solely by a sound technician at the controls of the latest mixing desk, his instruments and brilliant inventiveness, he managed to create this gem, a record that seeks to emulate Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (1973) and which vanished all too soon, becoming the Holy Grail of Spanish experimental music. Batiscafo anticipated a wave of avant-garde Spanish music in the '80s with key figures such as Suso Sáiz, Pep Llopis, Ishinoana, or Finis Africae, who are now being rediscovered and admired outside Spain. It is a highly original and imaginative record that continues to surprise listeners forty years on, with its bold combination of early electronic music, classicism, experimentation and psychedelia. It's a masterpiece that endures the test of time.

Oh! I'll order that East Village collection from Slumberland... Paul Kelly went on to form Birdie, who I love. And I guess Martin Kelly went on to marry Sarah Cracknell, who he loves.

ggy Pop – The Idiot (Universal, 2CD, 1977) May
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (Universal, 2CD 1977) May
Iggy Pop – 1977: The Bowie Years (Universal, 7CD) May

This is exciting news, as I’ve been waiting for deluxe reissues of those albums for decades. No details on what’s on that 7 disc set yet, but I imagine there would be stuff starting with Raw Power era Stooges and some live recordings, possibly with Bowie serving on keyboards.

― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, February 29, 2020 1:35 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Has this been confirmed somewhere now. The word was going around a couple of weeks ago but everything was citing the Uncut article in the Robert Plant cover edition as the source.
Iam looking forward to getting the lps if it is true but just haven't seen anything saying what makes them deluxe.
Have been waiting for an upgrade on the old cd for years.

There's a new African Head Charge box out: Drumming is a Language: 1990-2011. It compiles four albums - Songs of Praise, In Pursuit of Shashamane Land, Vision of a Psychedelic Africa and Voodoo of the Godsent - with a 10-disc set of outtakes, Churchical Chant of the Iyabinghi. I bought the 5CD version from the On-U store on Bleep.com (along with the 2017 Dub Syndicate box Ambience in Dub 1982-1985) and got free downloads (MP3, WAV, or FLAC) of everything.

Now that's what I call talkin' about!
Wonder how this is?

VARIOUS ARTISTS
The All American Powerhouse (Themes)
BE WITH RECORDS
Originally released in 1976, The All American Powerhouse is one of the very best of the Themes library releases. It’s killer. A feast of dramatic jazz, horizontal, melodic funk and bouncing sunshine-y West-Coast feels throughout, there also lurks an intense injection of the Blaxploitation sound. Understandable, given the subject matter and year it was released. Highlights include Alan Parker’s confident, horn-heavy wah-wah-fuelled album-opener “Sweeny Todd”, Hawkshaw’s graceful “Getaway” glide and dramatic, breathless “Speed Run”, Mike Moran’s loose, organ-driven propulsive B-Boy classic “The Pick-Up” and Keith Roberts’ percussive tour de force “Overide” that closes out the LP. Yet, perhaps the most significant track here is Les Hurdle’s long-adored “Soul Train”. A grooving, bass-heavy library classic, it’s all swirling strings, stabbing horns, heavy open drums and melodic funk-rock guitars. Add in the funky clavinet, and the combination works beautifully. Excerpts etc. of this and other label reissues here: https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/various-artists-the-all-american-powerhouse-themes-be-with-records/165104

Another Be With (tho currently Out of Stock on this site)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Visual Impact (kpm) LP
BE WITH RECORDS

Arguably the single greatest album in KPM history. An ensemble piece of staggeringly heavy works from none other than Brian Bennett, John Scott, Steve Gray, Jim Lawless and Johnny Pearson. For our immense pleasure, Visual Impact includes the insanely ace “Nuplex” by Brian Bennett, a nagging, sweeping, punchy funk piece that exists in a world of its own. If you don’t know, get to know - the record’s worth getting for this track alone. The same goes for the beautifully paced, string-drenched, horn-fed LP opener “Canaveral Scape”, courtesy of John Scott. Truly sublime. Other highlights on the A-side include Bennett’s easy, bass-heavy jazz groover “Sequence Of Events” and the spare, building, undercover funk of Steve Gray’s aptly-named “Low Profile”. The B-side is straight-up fantastic. The percussive, vibey exotica of Jim Lawless’s “Keeping Pace” is followed by five tracks of slick, weighty funk breaks from Johnny Pearson. Check the pure groove of “Jaguar” with its head-nod drum break intro, the creeping piano-strings combo and… er… giant neck-snapping breaks of “Giant’s Causeway”, the speaker-smashing progressive bass groove of “Fugitive”, the tense “Rock Climb” and the sheer heft of “Heavy Load". Library largeness. If that isn’t enough, John Scott’s incessant “Flight Of The Phoenix” ends the session, brilliantly pilfered by M.O.P. for their much-loved “We Run New York.”
More samples etc.:
https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/various-artists-visual-impact-kpm-lp-be-with-records/165102

I had a weird mix of going between CDRs of The Cult and The Doobie Brothers today at work.

As RidingEasy Records' highly successful Brown Acid series (now at 10 volumes and counting) proves, there is a massive amount of incredible heavy psych and proto-metal music that has been lost to the sands of time. Case in point, the astoundingly great 50-year-old album The Ice Age by Indianapolis quintet ICE was never even released upon its completion.

In 1970, the band recorded 10 original songs at 8-Track Studios in Chicago, only to break up shortly thereafter. Two of the tracks were eventually released as a 45 in 1972, but confusingly under a different band name, Zukus! The A-side of that single was featured on Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip, which led RidingEasy Records to discover when licensing the track that an entire album had been languishing in obscurity all of this time. The 2-inch master tapes had been shelved and forgotten until recently when The Ice Age tracks were converted to digital and remixed, preserving the sounds of the original vocals & instruments. Finally, half a century later, this 10-song album of radio-ready rock will finally see light of day.

The Ice Age is an exceptional archive of hard edged rock with serious pop hooks akin to something like Grand Funk Railroad meets The Guess Who and The Move. It rocks hard, but is also interlaced with glorious melodic hooks. Had fate been less fickle, this album would've long been a classic rock radio staple.

"Goes back and forth between riffy '70s hard rock and the more mind-bending psych-pop sounds of the '60s. It's not hard to picture this being recorded in 1970 - like a lot of that year's rock records, you can feel the hangover of '60s hippie culture coming on but the sounds of the summer of love aren't completely gone yet." -- Brooklyn Vegan
Links to first single + more words:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103023679580&ca=0611db24-05a7-4d09-9ebb-f41d5a7b0f8b

Sir Lord Baltimore finally getting an official reissue of their lps as a 3cd on April 24th. Through Cherry Red .
That includes a 2006 reunion lp.

I think all cd releases to now have been bootlegs.

Any updates on what is on the Iggy Pop 2cds or actual confirmation beyond the Uncut article?

Just reposted your SLB news here, stevolende: Singing drummers
where I prev posted this, without having heard that those CDs were bootlegs(?) Got the legit orig lps, but only heard reissues and reunion on youtube:

Surprised that John Garner of Sir Lord Baltimore isn't on here. SLB's 1971 Kingdom Come is what would now be called proto-metal I guess---tagged as heavy metal when that was still a new, esoteric rock critic category---real good, and the follow-up was okay; way later when they were mentioned in CREEM again, somebody wrote in to say that Garner had become a Christian EMT and wedding singer. Then about 12 years ago the third album was finally released, earlier sessions re-worked with Christian-themed lyrics (considering the title of the debut, maybe this was always in there, but originally over my head if so). Kingdom Come's re-reissue on CD is prob OOP by now but worth looking for.

― dow, Thursday, September 6, 2018 10:30 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Listening again---if you want visionary caveman vocals x drums for the wedding, Garner is your guy! Or was (RIP).

― dow, Thursday, September 6, 2018 1:17 PM

Mercury/Polygram put the first two SLB albums on one CD way back in 1994; I still have a copy (and it might even still be in print). Weirdly, both albums had their sides reversed, so the CD ran

Kingdom Come, Side A
Kingdom Come, Side B
Sir Lord Baltimore, Side B
Sir Lord Baltimore, Side A

I think I'm gonna spring for the Cherry Red box. That third album was good; I interviewed the two surviving members when it came out in 2007.

The Mercury set has been OOP for awhile; Garner himself published a review on Amazon complaining that he'd neither been approached nor compensated for it.

Well, I've just pre-ordered the Cherry Red box (only about $27 including shipping to the US; release date 4/24, which is just far enough in the future that I'll have forgotten I ordered it by the time it lands in my PO box).

From Sounds of the Universe, Soul Jazz Records storefront:

OVER 60% OFF RETAIL PRICE - ESSENTIAL BOOK!

From the writers of 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life', Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton have come up trumps again with this fabulous book 'The Record Players'!!!

Leading dance music writers Brewster and Broughton detail the visionary DJs who dramatically changed the course of music: from the very first nightclub DJs, to the founders of entire genres, including northern soul, hip hop, disco, techno, drum’n’bass and beyond.

These are the obsessives, the playboys, the musical eccentrics who founded the craft of DJing, developed amazing techniques for performing with recorded music, and revolutionised the way music is conceived, created and enjoyed. They gave us new ways to have the times of our lives and forged a worldwide industry of nightlife and dance music. From unsung pioneers to overheated superstars, all the biggest DJ names are here!

Includes Tom Moulton, Francois Kevorkian, Louie Vega, Marshall Jefferson, John Peel, David Mancuso, Alfredo, Shut Up & Dance, Danielle Badelli and lots, lots more!!!!!
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-record-players-the-story-of-dance-music-told-by-history-s-greatest-djs-by-bill-brewster-and-frank-broughton

also from SOTU:

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/UDRXeEUxME4xbU1QZmJxQnc5dHpsQT09/launderette-vivien-goldman.jpg

(update) SORRY SOLD OUT!!

Absolutely seminal dubby tripped-out POST-PUNK DANCE CLASSIC originally on New York's seminal 99 RECORDS in the USA and Goldman's tiny own label in the UK in 1981.

Recorded at the height of dance/punk crossover, Vivienne's seminal single features John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL's production, and the flip produced by Adrian Sherwood. It's even got Robert Wyatt on percussion! It's the bomb!

This is a beautiful new exact reproduction of the single with its stunning original sleeve with paper inner and polyurethene plastic outer sleeve. It has been unavailable for 40 years and you have one chance to get this before it gets deleted!

*ONE COPY ONLY PLEASE*!!! Oh well you can still hear some of the a-side: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/vivien-goldman-launderette

Haven't heard from Anthology Editions in years, thought gone!

Anthology Editions Announces 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History Book, Out April 21st
Their journey still occasions wonder and awe. For so many years, it was hardly told. Here it is, in pictures and words. This is the way, step inside.” - Jon Savage

13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History, written and curated by Paul Drummond and published by Anthology Editions, will be released April 21st, and is available for preorder now. Direct orders of the book through the Anthology website will be shipped immediately. 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History tells the complete and unvarnished story of a band, which, until now, has been thought of as tragically underdocumented. Drummond has spent years amassing an unprecedented archive of primary materials, including scores of previously-unseen band photographs, rare and iconic psychedelic artworks, and more. A full list of visual assets can be found belowBorn out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums, and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators’ pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal arguments, drug busts, and forced psychiatric imprisonments.

In their short existence, however, the group succeeded in blowing the lid off the budding musical underground, logging early salvos in the countercultural struggle against state authorities, and turning their deeply hallucinatory take on jug-band garage rock into a new American institution called psychedelic music. Before the hippies, before the punks, there were the 13th Floor Elevators: an unlikely crew of outcast weirdo geniuses who changed culture. 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History places the band finally and undeniably in the pantheon of innovators of American rock music to which they have always belonged.

13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History Visual Assets:
● Rare photos, including many newly-discovered color shots
● Family scrapbook photos and clippings
● Photography and ephemera from the band’s friends, a who’s-who of the 1960s Austin arts scene
● Stills from the band’s television appearances
● Contemporary newspaper and underground press clippings covering the band’s rise (and fall)
● Materials from the books that inspired the band’s unique iconography
● Internal documents from the band’s label International Artists documenting the disastrous business side of the Elevators’ career in detail
● Materials relating to the band’s legal troubles, from handwritten drug deal letters to Austin Police Department surveillance photos to mugshots and draft cards
● The most complete collection of show flyers and handbills ever assembled, including many rare alternate printings of iconic psychedelic posters

About the Author:
Paul Drummond is a renowned antiquarian bookseller based in London. He has spent years documenting every aspect of the history of the 13th Floor Elevators, and is the author of Eye Mind (2007), the exhaustive and definitive biography of the band.

Order 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History
https://shop.mexicansummer.com/product/paul-drummond-13th-floor-elevators/ (even if you don't want to pre-order, maybe check their reissues still available, like Tully's Sea of Joy)

I wish Eye Mind would get put back into print. My copy got trashed and it's fetching ridiculous $$$ online.

Matador's promo page for the new Alien Lanes vinyl re-ish includes this teaser at the bottom:

Other Matador Revisionist History Catalog Features Coming in 2020
April 11, 1995 — Pavement Wowee Zowee — 25th anniversary
May 2, 1995 — Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura — 25th anniversary
Anniversary releases for Chavez‘s Gone Glimmering, Bailter Space’s Wammo, and Mary Timony‘s Mountains to follow later this year.

New Zealand’s legendary group The Clean have dusted off several releases from their catalog and made them available on all digital platforms! Today marks the digital debut of the band’s 1996 studio album Unknown Country and that of Live Dead Clean, a six-song EP of early live tracks recorded in 1981 and 1982. Pop some “Champagne & Misery” to celebrate.

The Clean’s David Kilgour and Robert Scott on Unknown Country:

DK: The Clean always wanna try something different, but on this LP, we were obsessed with the idea. Tracks like “Wipe Me, I’m Lucky” and “Franz Kafka at the Zoo” are fine examples of the approach, I reckon. Quite a long way from “Tally Ho!” and “Beatnik”!

I remember we generally left vocal ideas to last, after the tracks were recorded, so we never really knew where we were headed. Might also explain all the instrumentals!

Made during the Balkan War, hence the reference. And for the freaks, I think “Balkans” is the only Clean track ever to not actually feature the Clean playing. It’s all Alan Starrett, as we removed the backing track.

RS: This album is very different from our other albums. We didn’t go into the studio with many “song” ideas—a lot of it was written on the spot. I really enjoyed recording this as it was free of expectation. We weren’t playing much live at the time. It does contain some of my favourite Clean songs such as “Twist Top,” “Wipe Me, I’m Lucky,” and “Valley Cab.” Certainly our most experimental album.

In addition to the releases mentioned above, Compilation, Vehicle, Modern Rock, and In-A-Live are available for your listening pleasure on your favorite digital service today!

contact: mike at mergerecords.com

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So last year, Reappearing Records released a listening companion to Love and Death on the New York Dance Floor, the third volume of historian Tim Lawrence's NYC saga--link to stream that is on the below bandcamp page, for upcoming soundtrack of his first book, Love Saves The Day (stream for this not yet available):
With knowledge to share, and a readership as well as a dance floor to feed, Lawrence released Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor as the debut imprint on Reappearing Records. A year in the making, a compilation featuring rare and iconic tracks that appear in his much-loved and heavily-thumbed classic Love Saves the Day amounts to the follow-up. The collection features several tracks selected regularly by David Mancuso, the party host who exerted a prophetic and unparalleled influence on New York City party culture, as charted by Lawrence. It also includes choice picks from groundbreaking DJs such as Michael Cappello, Steve D’Acquisto, Francis Grasso, Richie Kaczor, Larry Levan and Nicky Siano, whose expressive contributions are faithfully recorded in Love Saves the Day. The compilation traces how disco grew out of the record collections and intuitive sensibility of these and other DJs, offering a unique survey of the era’s expansive sonic palette.

releases May 22, 2020, digital and vinyl
tracks:
1.
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
2.
Chuck Mangione - Land Of Make Believe
3.
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 1)
4.
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 2)
5.
James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
6.
Jackson 5 - Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version)
7.
Brainstorm - Lovin' Is Really My Game (12" Version)
8.
Domenic Troiano - We All Need Love (12" Version)
9.
Gladys Knight And The Pips - It's Time To Go Now
https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-saves-the-day-a-history-of-american-dance-music-culture-1970-1979-part-1
Don't know if Part 1 refers only to the book's placement in series or if there will be a another audio release re the book.

PS:
this is how it's divided up on vinyl, according to Vinyl Factory:
Side A

1. Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
2. Chuck Mangione – Land Of Make Believe

Side B

1. Wilson Pickett – Don’t Knock My Love (Part 1)
2. Wilson Pickett – Don’t Knock My Love (Part 2)
3. James Brown – Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

Side C

1. Jackson 5 – Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version)

Side D

1. Brainstorm – Lovin Is Really My Game (12 Version)
2. Domenic Troiano – We All Need Love
3. Gladys Knight And The Pips – It’s Time To Go Now

Here's the one that came out last year, with 16 tracks:
https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-death-on-a-new-york-dance-floor-1980-1983

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This Delta 5 comp came out on CD in '06, then two vinyl editions and cassette were released late last year, but don't think I noticed---either way, listen/order here:
https://delta5.bandcamp.com/album/singles-and-sessions-1979-81
excerpts from post on that page:
Delta 5 - Biography
By Alan Riggs

Ros Allen - Bass guitar & vocals
Kelvin Knight - Drums
Bethan Peters - Bass guitar & vocals
Alan Riggs - Guitar & vocals
Julz Sale - Vocals

Formed in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK 1979.

There was a Leeds music scene at the time that revolved around the Leeds University Art Department, and local bands The Gang of Four and The Mekons were doing well. Kelvin had briefly replaced Hugo in The Gang of Four and was recommended to Delta 5 as a drummer. Kelvin and I played in a band in York together so I went along to audition and joined in May 1979.
...The single came out in December.

John Peel was given a pre-release copy and he decided to play it twice that night. The next day we got a call asking if we'd like to do a session for him - yes please!! Then, we were off and running.

"Delta 5" and "Make Up" included on this CD are from that session of February 1980. We recorded a follow-up, "Anticipation" / "You" in February 1980. We were gigging more often at this point and "You" turned out pretty well. More gigging in Europe and the UK; around 1980 - 81, we played quite a bit at The Lyceum in London and shared the bill with The Gang of Four a few times, Echo and the Bunnymen, B52s, Specials, Teardrop Explodes and U2 to name a few. We toured with The Gang of Four and Pere Ubu in 1980.

In September 1980 we did our second Peel session, which included "Triangle," which is included on this CD. Later in September 1980 we went to the USA.

We played New York and all along the East Coast. Then we went West, and "Shadow," "Circuit," and "Journey" are all from a show we did at the Berkeley Square in Berkeley, CA. Back to England in October and we recorded "Try"/ "Colour" with the Bad Manners horn section who we had met at a festival In Finland.
...We experimented quite a bit on the album and perhaps we should have just recorded the songs as they were - the session versions included here are more a reflection of how we were live as they were all recorded quickly in one or two takes.
...The early days were the best and although we did argue a lot, (what band doesn't!), we also had a lot of laughs - for a couple of years we got to play live and make some records, and then that was enough.

PHIL OCHS
The Best Of the Rest: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Coming to CD on May 22nd

"As much as has been written about the sixties, it's arguable that no one experienced that defining moment in American history more personally than Phil Ochs" - Steve Earle

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Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that - to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism and satire

More than a torrent, less than a flood-the songs poured out of Ochs so quickly in the early days of his career that not all were able to find their place on his albums, leaving a fair few in limbo. Some of those "betwixt and between" songs would only emerge decades later and a few have hitherto languished in the archives.

The Warner/Chappell demos which make up the main portion of this new album represent a time period spanning Ochs' last two albums for Elektra: I Ain't Marching Anymore and In Concert, when Phil was finding his full strength as a songwriter and moving to include the lyrical in his repertoire, alongside the topical and satirical.

Songs such as "In the Heat of the Summer" and "Here's to the State of Mississippi" will certainly be familiar to most Phil Ochs fans. Others, like "The Confession" and "I'm Tired" (the latter with subtlety adjusted lyrics) may be known only to those who have the Farewells and Fantasies and A Toast to Those Who are Gone albums, respectively (or perhaps Shawn Phillips' rare cover of "I'm Tired" on his 1965 album for Capitol, Favorite Things).

Readers of Broadside ("the national topical song magazine") issue 69, in April 1966 would have encountered Ochs' "Take It Out of My Youth. However, if they missed that issue, or did not have the rare good fortune to hear Ochs perform it live, then they might never have even been aware of the song. Rather than paying for a drink from a five or ten ("depending upon one's station in life"), Ochs suggests a more personal, and perhaps more draining, means of payment.

"I Wish I Could Have Been Along" is even more obscure-never published in any magazine, with no known live recordings or cover versions. The song ranges from (barely) repressed wanderlust and the desire for experience on the one hand, to introspection and mournfulness on the other (there are times when one can almost hear Ochs sing, "I Wish I Could Have Been Alone," son of "As I Walk Alone" perhaps?). Another line calls to mind an even more famous Ochs song, of similar vintage, "tell me of the changes in your mind."

"Sailors and Soldiers," perhaps partially inspired by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument in Riverside Park in New York City-with Phil transposing the armed services, either for the sake of emphasis through unfamiliarity or, perhaps more likely for the sake of how the line would scan, lyrically. In any case, it too was completely unknown before being rescued and covered by the Long Ryder's Sid Griffin with Billy Bragg (Phil fans both) on Griffin's solo album Little Victories in 1997. The words ("far from the planners who sent them to die") cut as deeply today as they did when the song was written.

The bonus tracks delve even more deeply into the Ochs Archives. The version of "The War is Over" from a November 20, 1967 WBAI broadcast, in advance of the protest celebration five days later, features almost entirely divergent lyrics ("all the children play with Gatling guns, tattooed mothers with their tattooed sons") from those of the released version and is a wonderful example of Ochs never being satisfied with the merely clever and well-written, forever polishing to a fine poetic point.

"All Quiet on the Western Front," from 1969, was previously only known from incomplete versions recorded live in New York and Philadelphia (both missing, as though through some conspiracy, the opening verses). Ochs was more economical with his songs later in his career and this is a rare example of a lost song saved from those latter days.

In "No More Songs" we close with a familiar song, but something new-a rehearsal take, replete with comments on what instrumentation and countermelodies Phil envisioned. It is a rare glimpse behind the curtain and a fitting last word from Phil.

I'm Gonna Say It Now: the Writings of Phil Ochs (Backbeat Books, May 2020) compiles damn near all of Phil's non-song works, sourced, in part, from the Ochs Archives at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Phil is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that - to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism and satire, all of which are included in this tome.

Spanning foundational texts written while still in school at Staunton Military Academy and Ohio State University-to the music criticism, polemics and satire penned in New York City (appearing in such diverse magazines as Sing Out, Mainstream, The Realist and Hit Parader). Onward, with ringing calls to action, from an absurdist point of view, for the two War Is Over rallies in Los Angeles and New York City-to exploring Phil's more lyrical side, via his poetry (the majority previously unpublished) to, finally, a recapitulation of sorts, in works written in the early 1970's touching on movies, travel (from his private journal), Bruce Lee and, dare we say it... Impeachment and the fate of presidents.
Track Listing
In the Heat of the Summer
That's What I Want To Hear
The Men Behind the Guns
Days of Decision
Here's To the State of Mississippi
Sailors and Soldiers (previously unreleased)
City Boy
I'm Tired
I Wish I Could Have Been Along (previously unreleased)
I'm Gonna Say It Now
Canons of Christianity
Song of Soldier
Colored Town
The Confession
Love Me, I'm A Liberal (previously unreleased)
Take It Out Of My Youth
Bracero
War Is Over: 20 November, 1967 (previously unreleased)
All Quiet On the Western Front (previously unreleased)
No More Songs (rehearsal, previously unreleased)
"Phil Ochs told the truth before it was ready to be accepted, before it was politically expedient. He was the kind of truth teller that made liberal allies nervous because his truth demanded an accountability to their own compromise."
- Tim Robbins

"Phil Ochs was a tireless crusader for justice. He is one of the all-time great activist troubadours. With wit and fire, his songs skewered the evildoers of his day and remain perfect examples of how to fight the power with guitar in hand."
- Tom Morello

"Phil Ochs was a born writer. He played guitar because that was the language his generation was speaking. Today, his questioning voice chimes as clearly as it ever did."
- Billy Bragg

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Volume 2 of Kyriakos Sfetsas' 1976 "Greek Fusion Orchestra" project. Sfetsas' vision behind the formation of GFO, was to create a piece of work that would expand the boundaries of Greek traditional music. The result was a Progressive-Jazz Fusion masterpiece comprising complex and intriguing compositions, performed by Athens' best musicians of the day.
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Soul Jazz Records’ new Black Riot: Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore is a brand new collection of heavyweight ragga-influenced hardcore jungle tracks from the early 1990s. Dark and heavy!

Featuring classic and seminal tracks from the likes of Levictus and Krome &Time, alongside a host of rare and little-known ragga & junglist hardcore tunes from the likes of Babylon Timewarp’s hypnotic Durban Poison, Rhythm for Reasons’ mad ‘The Smokers Rhythm’, The Freaky rave-y breakbeat sound of ‘Time and Age,’ Trip One’s super dark ‘Snowball’ and loads more!

Expect super heavy basslines, equally heavy twisted Amen drum loops, even heavier ragga vocals! Original jungle style - roots and culture - from the earliest days of drum and bass.

Included with the album is a free limited-edition graphic mini-novel “Black Riot: The Mysterons save Planet Earth from the Xatheroid Angels.” This is the third collaboration between Soul Jazz Records and writer/illustrator Paulo Parisi, the highly respected author of graphic books on Jean Michel Basquiat and John Coltrane.

This new graphic story continues the story of black electronic dance music – this time set around the birth of Jungle and continues onwards from Soul Jazz’s earlier ‘Invasion of the Killer Mysterons’ (Jamaican electronic Dub, co-compiled by Kevin Martin (The Bug)) and Mysterons Invade the Jackin’ Zone (about Chicago Acid & Experimental House).
LP, CD, mp3---more info, audio:
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Far Out Recordings reissue Milton Nascimento’s 'Maria Maria'! Recorded in 1974 and unreleased until almost thirty years later, the album was written as the soundtrack to a ballet which dealt with the legacy of slavery in Brazil. Raw, atmospheric and emotionally charged, Maria Maria reveals one of Brazil’s greatest ever songwriters at his creative peak.

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cor just got a crossword I couldn't finish a little closer to completion.
Probably ought to know that name a bit better though.

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A favourite within the rare-groove scene and Latin jazz scene alike, this classic from Eumir Deodato gets reissued via Far Out! At the height of Deodato’s productivity in the early 70s, 'Os Catedraticos 73' was recorded between Rio de Janeiro and New York, featuring a Brazilian rhythm section comprising Azymuth drummer Ivan ‘Mamao’ Conti, percussion master Orlandivo and Sergio Barroso on bass, while the horn section features some of NYC's top players from CTI's in-house brass section.
More info, audio:
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They also have reissues of the Deodato-produced group Caterdraticos, Azymuth, and a bunch of other Brazilain on the Far Out Label.

And speaking of jungle etc

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All Crews: Journeys Through Jungle/Drum & Bass Culture
By Brian Belle-Fortune
Killer book on the evolution of Jungle and Drum and Bass in the UK. The raves, the shops, the djs, the
mcs. Essential!

"The Definitive book on Jungle". GROOVERIDER
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And several, maybe all, Felas on Knitting Factory, incl. The Complete (?) Works[/i]:

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One copy for sale £542 on Discogs! Buy it here for £442 less!

29 cds + dvd! The whole kaboodle, the whole nine yards, the big whammy. Complete indeed! Phew!
Info, no audio (for this particular release):
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More Red Kross reissues/editions, optimistic tour dates----excerpt from Third Man Records press release:

Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald formed Redd Kross (originally Red Cross) in Hawthorne, CA in the late ‘70s. Rumor has it that the band name was inspired by a prop from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. Their first show was opening for Black Flag and they released their debut record the mythical Posh Boy EP in 1980 when they were just 17 and 13 respectively. The Posh Boy EP features Black Flag’s 2nd singer, Ron Reyes, on drums and founding member of Circle Jerks, Greg Heston, on guitar. 1982 saw a line up change and the release of Born Innocent, a high water mark of American Punk Rock. Containing nods to Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, Linda Blair, Lita Ford and breakfast cereal as well as a killer cover of Charlie Manson’s "Cease To Exist." Redd Kross loves pop culture.

The brothers have kept Redd Kross going through the decades (and line-up changes), releasing 8 studio albums and a slew of EPs and singles. They have also stayed busy with side projects, production gigs and even occasional acting jobs. What are Redd Kross? Punk Rock? Psychedelia? Heavy Metal? Bubblegum? Power Pop? Whatever they are they are 100% Redd Kross, the catchiest of catchy, chock full of hooks, melodies and harmonies, impossible to not smile and sing along.....maybe even dance. Their live show just keeps getting better. Redd Kross are one of those rare bands who would be equally at home in a dark punk club and on stage at the Enormodome.

Phaseshifter

The McDonald brothers are joined by drummer Brian Reitzell, guitarist Eddie Kurdziel (R.I.P.) and keyboardist Gere Fennelly on 1993’s Phaseshifter. Redd Kross leaves the ‘60s and ‘70s pop culture references at the door (well, most of them) and brings their strong melodies, dreamy harmonies, psychedelic punk/bubblegum metal to the front, tearing through 12 new Redd Kross tunes. Every track is a full-on Redd Kross gem, with standouts like "Crazy World," "Dumb Angel," "Pay For Love" and "After School Special."

Show World

Phaseshifter line-up intact (Gere Fennelly would soon move on, but plays all the keyboards on the recording), Redd Kross came back at us with amps turned up and smiles on their faces on 1997’s Show World. The album starts off with a spot on cover of The Quick’s L.A. power pop classic, "Pretty Please Me," and sets the tone for yet another killer album by the thinking person’s good time band.

Like all RK albums before and since, this one is all killer, no filler, with special highlights "Stoned," "Vanity Mirror," "One Chord Progression" and the absolutely sublime "Follow The Leader."

REDD KROSS

ON TOUR 2020

09-24 Cologne, Germany - Yard Club at Kantine

09-25 Copenhagen, Denmark - Stengade

09-26 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser

09-27 Oslo, Norway - Krosset

09-29 Malmo, Sweden - Plan B

10-02 Hamburg, Germany - Headcrash

10-03 Berlin, Germany - Hole 44

10-05 Epinal, France - La Souris Verte

10-06 Paris, France - Petit Bain

10-07 Antwerp, Belgium - Kavka Zappa

10-08 Brighton, England - The Albert

10-09 London, England - The Lexington

10-10 London, England - The Lexington

10-11 Bristol, England - Exchange

10-13 Glasgow, Scotland – Broadcast

10-14 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club

10-15 Manchester, England - The Deaf Institute

Oops. should have started w this info:
Third Man Records has released its reissues of Redd Kross' two beloved 1990s albums, Phaseshifter (1993) and Show World (1997). The 180-gram vinyl-only reissues, which come on the heels of their amazing 2019 album Beyond The Door and after 40 years as a band, mark the first-ever North American vinyl pressings of either album. Exclusive colored vinyl editions are also available -- Phaseshifter is available on red vinyl, and Show World on green. Purchase Phaseshifter HERE and Show World HERE. The band has also scheduled a slate of fall European tour dates, and will have the colored vinyl editions for sale on the road.

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THE MYSTERY KINDAICHI BAND
The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke LP

The ‘imaginary’ soundtrack to the adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke, the cult detective book series by writer Seishi Yokomizo is on many DJ want-lists. Arranged by soundtrack master Kentaro Haneda and featuring a mysterious group of the best 70s Japanese Funk musicians, the album is pure undiluted Disco Funk. This reissue is the album's first official release outside of Japan. Remastered from the original tapes, it features artwork by renowned illustrator Ichibun Sugimoto, OBI strip and a 4 page insert with a new introduction by Anton Spice. Writer Seishi Yokomizo is an institution in Japan. He could be compared to Agatha Christie with his series of novels based on the adventures of detective Kosuke Kindaich...a peculiar character. He is a sort of goofy, yet scrupulous detective, not dissimilar to Columbo, and has become legendary in Japan over the decades. Yokomizo's novels have been a prime source for film and TV scenarios, so when, in 1977, Japanese label King Records decided to record a concept album based on the Kindaichi novels, it made complete sense. The writer was slightly surprised though...

The concept album was arranged by pianist Kentaro Haneda, a key TV and film composer who has worked on many anime films and is also famous outside of Japan for composing the music for the video game 'Wizardry'. For "The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke" album, he assembled a supergroup of some of the best Tokyo funk and City Pop musicians. The long list includes jazz pianist Hideo Ichikawa who played on the 1971 'Joe Henderson In Japan' album, Jun Moriya (ds), who is on Joe Hisaichi's cult 'Wonder City Orchestra' album, Tadaomi Anai (perc) who played with Disco singer Eri Ohno, Koji Hadori (tpt) who's featured on Haruomi Hosono's "Pacific" album. Also present on the album are Takeru Muraoka (sax) who plays on many Tatsuro Yamashita cult albums including "For You" and "Spacy", Kimiko Yamauchi (koto) who's on Akiko Yano's landmark "Japanese Girl" and, last but not least, Koji Yamaguchi (fr horn) who plays on Yazuaki Shimizu's "Kakashi" album Together they lay the funk on ten instrumentals filled with pur disco and funk breakbeats, making the album one of the highly-coveted Japanese LPs on international cratedigger scene.
This reissue which Wewantsounds is delighted to officially put back on the market, features OBI strip and a four page insert faithfully reproduces the original artwork plus audio remastered from the original tapes.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
This Is Mainstream! LP
WEWANTSOUNDS

£24.98
2 x LP

Wewantsounds continues its collaboration with Bob Shad's grandchildren, Mia and Judd Apatow, to present a 2LP selection of 13 turntable-friendly Mainstream Records tracks recorded between 1970 and 1973 and showcasing the label's superb blend of Funk, Soul and Jazz. All tracks remastered from the original tapes, most of them released for the first time since their original release with a few highly sought-after ones. Liner notes by UK journalist Paul Bowler. The Mainstream sound is unmistakable: earthy, rich and funky, it's the signature sound of producer Bob Shad. After working with such geniuses as Charlie Parker, The Platters, Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin over three decades, Shad decided to go back to producing Great Black Music in the early 70s through his label Mainstream Records and started releasing a formidable series of jazz albums known as the 300 series. Released between 1971 and 1974, these albums are the main source of this set. Coincidentally, it opens with one of the two tracks on the tracklist not produced by Shad himself. Saundra Phillips' "Miss Fatback" is nonetheless fascinating as it's one of cult disco producer Greg Carmichael's earliest productions from 1975 (before he went on to produce Inner Life, Bumblebee Unlimited, Universal Robot Band with fellow producer Patrick Adams). The other track not issued by the Shad sound factory is Almeta Lattimore's 7" single "These Memories," a truly great soulful track from 1975 and now a sought-after classic on the international Soul scene. Shad's forte was Jazz, and the sessions usually used the best musicians you could think of, including Bernard Purdie, Billy Hart, Stanley Clarke, Dom Um Romao, Joe Sample, Freddie Robinson, Gordon Edwards, Larry Willis, Wilbur Bascomb to name just a few. Filled with gorgeous Fender Rhodes chords and heavy basslines, they define the unmistakable Mainstream sound which had one foot in the great jazz and bop tradition and the other in the sonic jazz explorations of the early 70s. Oscillating between jazzed-up covers of soul hits like Jay Berliner’s "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" or Afrique’s "Kissing My Love" and more introspective originals such as Hal Galper's "This Moment" or Dave Hubbard's "T.B.'s Delight", They all have this perfect
balance between groove and depth. One perfect example is Pete Yellin's "Bird and The Ouija Board," a superb 12 min opus starting off with a deep abstract improvisation before switching to an up-tempo funk beat fueled by drummer Billy Hart and bass player Stanley Clarke.

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From Numero's Wayfaring Strangers series:

ACID NIGHTMARES

As the hippie movement hurtled towards its imminent demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips.

Deluxe 2LP comes housed in a blacklight poster-style jacket illustrated by Benjamin Marra, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. 24 pages documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked into the gatefold pocket alongside two dead dinosaur-heavy LPs. Compact disc is packaged in standard Numero slipcase, with digipak and 40-page book, limited to 2000 copies.
In the fall of 1967, signs of San Francisco’s darkening fell like leaves. The transient young people who’d invaded the Bay Area to cash in on the media’s cheap drugs/free love promises had departed for points east. Haight-Ashbury, what remained of it, had become an open-air market for illicit substances, overrun with speed freaks, panhandlers, and Hell’s Angels motorcycle club adherents. Throughout the summer, leather-clad Hells Angels had become a fixture in the San Francisco scene, their Harleys crowding sidewalks outside the Fillmore West and the Carousel Ballroom, on nights when hometown rock n’ roll heroes the Grateful Dead or Big Brother and the Holding Company crowded the stage.

Hippie harbingers Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters had established ties to the Angels in ’65, introducing the biker brutes to LSD at a house happening in the hills of nearby La Honda. The Angels turned on and, for the most part, got along with psychedelic types who just liked to get high and groove. They loathed Berkeley’s politico set and were far from peaceniks. In less than two decades of activity, Angels had racked up more than 800 felony arrests—for sexual aberrations, drug charges, assault, and even attempted murder. On August 24, 1967, a prominent Hell’s Angel known as Chocolate George cruised Haight and crashed—at high speed and most likely high otherwise—into the back of a ’55 Chevy. For droves of locals, the demise of Chocolate George signified the Summer of Love’s departure.
From his apartment at 369 Haight Street, San Francisco musician Dickie Peterson looked down on the deathscape of Chocolate George’s last ride. At summer’s end, suffused with the Haight’s baddest vibes, Peterson and his bandmates took to Amigo Studios in North Hollywood to capture their fried acid trips on tape. They named themselves Blue Cheer, after a potent strain of LSD cooked up by Grateful Dead engineer and chemist Augustus Owsley Stanley. Vincebus Eruptum—mangled Latin for some kind of conquering eruption—emerged at the dawn of ‘68. The LP’s lead single was a fuzzed-over rendition of Eddie Cochran’s 1954 hit, “Summertime Blues.” On May 4, 1968, the single hit #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, sending fuzz-fueled acid rock into wildfire combustion. With pained ears and expanded minds, early Stateside adopters wasted little time cutting their own lysergic episodes to wax.

In 1968, Ty Gilliland was introduced to hard drugs by a member of the Outlaws motorcycle club after a gig in Columbus, Ohio. “They liked us enough because we played some Stones songs,” Gilliland said. “One of the Outlaws they called Muscles came up to me after a show. He held out his hand and said, ‘This’ll make you feel better.’ It was speed. Boy, I could sure play fast on that stuff.” And so he did. One amphetamine addiction later, Gilliland wrote “Speed Freak” for his band, The Rituals. Four hundred miles away, on the eastern seaboard, Baltimore high schoolers The Cross Blood Experiment were turning on with LSD—Orange Sunshine, specifically, a varietal concocted by the Brotherhood Of Eternal Love. They named their distortion-drenched single after the stuff, and made the drug’s effects sound far less than sunny. The embodiment of a bad trip, it comes on slowly, weaving vivid lyrical trails before speeding on into a rhythmic gallop beside an unhinged guitar solo. Out in Kansas City, Paul Parkinson of Bulbous Creation was having just as little fun, on pot or smack or whatever it was that had him “Hooked.” “I’m sick of hearing myself,” he sang. “My head hurts like hell. My mouth so dry I can’t spit. Oh Lord, I wish I had another hit.”
Darkness billowed out of the psychedelic cloud in the final weeks of 1969. In the months leading up to the West Coast answer to Woodstock, lurid tales of Charles Manson’s deathcult and their affiliations with rock’s literati had spilled across the headlines. The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young were set to share the bill at Altamont Speedway in northern California on December 6. Bad vibes disturbed the air long before sunrise. Concert-goers arrived the night before, ill-prepared for near-freezing temperatures; for warmth, they burned fencing, garbage, and rock show road cases, adding a crusty stench to a cold, dusty valley. As the morning rolled on, the highway leading to Altamont clogged for miles. Hell’s Angels showed up for security duty, parting the dense crowd on 800-pound metal bikes. By noon, the medical tent overflowed with acid casualties. An hour later, when Santana took the stage, the Angels had long since helped themselves to handfuls of uppers, downers, wine, joints, and the $500 beer allotment they’d received in lieu of pay. Power-mad, they descended on any fan who posed even the slightest threat, unleashing flurries of fists and pool cues. At sundown, the Stones mounted the stage, as tension filled the air. "The vibes were bad,” Grace Slick recalled. "It was that kind of hazy, abrasive and unsure day. I had expected the loving vibes of Woodstock but that wasn't coming at me. This was a whole different thing." Breaking point at Altamont and “Under My Thumb” arrived together, when a juiced-up Angel stabbed 18-year-old fan Meredith Hunter repeatedly with a buck knife. Hunter had been armed; he’d been on speed; he died of his wounds. The 1960s were officially fried.

Noxious fumes quickly crossed the Atlantic, as evidenced by Black Sabbath’s emergence from the haze on a Friday the 13th in February of 1970 with their Billboard debut LP. It’s a record that bears the pall of the sunny ’60s into a drug-addled English wood; lyrics are written in Lucifer’s voice, and “The Wizard” is as much an ode to Gandalf as it is to the band’s dealer. Sabbath countrymen Brass Alley and Sardonicus got the memo, dropping pink pills on the way toward eroding their own brains. In Portugal, the like-minded band Xarhanga didn’t even bother to mince words, delivering an actual “Acid Nightmare” that spun at 45 RPM. And a Viennese group called Novak’s Kapelle planted a flag firmly in the drug rock canon with their daring single “Hypodermic Needle,” its message mangled by a language barrier and a misunderstanding of what exactly was happening in the U.S. rock scene.
As the ’70s dragged on, a deep, dark hangover set in. In the American Midwest, Whistler’s Mother, TNS, and Gollum came in dehydrated and fumbling with the child-proof cap on a bottle of expired aspirin before issuing “Dark Dawn,” “Times Up,” and “Prayer of Despair.” In the south, the Shy Guys fretted about the dangers of lightning, Mass Temper wrote an ode to a drunk driving casualty, and The Purple Sun preached of “Doomsday.” Terre Haute, Indiana’s Goliath had made most of their career abusing drugs, but the comedown came at a terrible cost. “I had two guitar players and both of them committed suicide,” said Goliath drummer Steve Peterson. “In those days, it was very hard to keep young guys straight.”

The nightmare is over, but the flashbacks remain.

DROP OUT

Bulbous Creation
YOU WON'T REMEMBER DYING
NUM1227
A truly underground document of the national obsession with heavy, mind-bent psychedelia....
[LP, Digital]
Bulbous Creation
YOU WON'T REMEMBER DYING

Goliath
HOT ROCK & THUNDER
NUM5004
Crib notes from a 12-step confession gone awry. Wasted Terra Haute, Indiana, hard rock for the blue...
[Digital]
Goliath
HOT ROCK & THUNDER

Warfaring Strangers
DARKSCORCH CANTICLES
NUM048
With Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, the impacts of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on US...
[LP, CD, Digital]
Warfaring Strangers
DARKSCORCH CANTICLES
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cd?
I thought they totally dropped those.

From MVD Entertainment Group:

FLAMIN' GROOVIES To Reissue
"Now" and "Jumpin' In the Night" This Summer

The band that played a major role in the evolution of power pop and are considered a forerunner of punk rock readies two of their most popular albums.

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The Flamin' Groovies played a major role in the evolution of power pop and are considered a forerunner of punk rock. This summer they will reissue two classic albums: "Now" on July 10th and "Jumpin' In the Night" on August 7th.
NOW (CD, July 10th)

While it took a long and torturous five years for the Flamin' Groovies to find their way back to an American record deal with Shake Some Action, a year and a half later the band had a follow-up ready, and while 1978's Flamin' Groovies Now isn't quite as cohesive as the album that preceded it, in many respects the band sounds at once tighter and more relaxed, with some time on the road firming up the rhythm section while giving the songs a bit more room to swing (which wasn't one of the strong suits of the British Invasion bands that provided their aural template). The band lost guitarist James Ferrell during the post-Shake Some Action tour, but former Charlatans picker Mike Wilhelm proved to be a more than simpatico replacement on these sessions, and while leader Cyril Jordan didn't come up with another new song as transcendent as "Shake Some Action," "All I Wanted" comes pretty close. But it's significant that most of the songs on Flamin' Groovies Now are covers, and while all of them are played with love, enthusiasm, and the right period flair (especially the Beatles' "There's a Place," Paul Revere & the Raiders' "Ups and Downs," and "Move It," an early U.K. hit for Cliff Richard), they give the album a feeling of being padded, and just because covering the Rolling Stones rarity "Blue Turns to Grey" was a good idea didn't mean the Flamin' Groovies had any business tackling "Paint It Black." All in all, Flamin' Groovies Now is a terrific-sounding record that captures a fine band when it was in great form, but it also makes clear that the gremlins that often dogged the Groovies in the studio (namely their inability to make a 100 percent satisfying album) hadn't gone away.

Tracklist:
Feel A Whole Lot Better 2:26 Gene Clark
Between the Lines 4:15 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Ups and Downs 3:07 Mark Lindsay/Terry Melcher
Move It 2:57 Ian Samwell
Take Me Back 2:50 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Reminiscing 2:03 King Curtis
Good Laugh Mun 2:55 Dave Edmunds/Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Yeah My Baby 3:55 Dave Edmunds/Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
House of Blue Lights 2:18 C. Miller/Don Raye/Freddie Slack
Blue Turns to Grey 2:29 Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Paint It Black 3:04 Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
All I Wanted 3:02 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Don't Put Me On 4:12 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
There's A Place 1:50 John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Credits:
Cyril Jordan: Lead/rhythm guitars, guitars, mellotron, vocals
Chris Wilson: Vocals, Rhythm guitar, harpsichord
Mike Wilhelm: Lead/rhythm guitars
George Alexander: Bass/vocals
David Wright: Drums
All percussion: David Chris, George
Dave Edmunds: Piano, guitar on "Move It" and Piano, vocals on "Yeah My Baby"
JUMPIN' IN THE NIGHT (CD, August 7th)

The third and last of the Flamin' Groovies late-'70s albums for Sire, Jumpin' in the Night storms out of the gate with the title song, a top-shelf rocker that brings the muscle of the Flamingo-era lineup of the Groovies to the more style-conscious British Invasion sonics of Cyril Jordan's version. Though Jumpin' in the Night never rocks that hard or that well again, it does sound decidedly tighter and tougher than 1978's Flamin' Groovies Now, and guitarist Mike Wilhelm, a new addition to the Now lineup, is much better integrated into their wall of guitars, with the Groovies sounding more solid than they did a year before. But while Jumpin' in the Night finds the Flamin' Groovies sounding better than ever, the material unfortunately lets them down. It's no wonder why the Flamin' Groovies loved the Byrds -- both were American bands who fell in love with the sounds of British rock and crafted their own variation on the style -- but three Byrds covers on this album is about two too many (especially given how clunky David Wright's drumming sounds on "5D"), and though having the Groovies tackle "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Please Please Me" sounds good on paper, the audible results are a bit underwhelming. (On the other hand, their cover of "Werewolves of London" is better than anyone had a right to expect.) The production and engineering by Roger Bechirian is crisp and flattering to the guitars, but lacks the resonance of Dave Edmunds' more layered approach on Shake Some Action and Now. A great band, the Flamin' Groovies often seemed to have a hard time reconciling their best qualities with the record-making process, and Jumpin' in the Night is probably the best example of this dilemma, though it has more than enough worthwhile moments to compensate.

Tracklist:
Jumping In the Night (3:24) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Next One Crying (2:36) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
First Plane Home (3:50) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
In the U.S.A. (3:20) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Down, Down, Down (2:49) - James Burton
Yes I Am (2:35) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Werewolves of London (3:37) - LeRoy Marinelli; Waddy Wachtel; Warren Zevon
It Won't Be Wrong (1:57) - Roger McGuinn, Harvey Gerst
Please, Please Me (2:00) - John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Tell Me Again (2:00) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Absolutely, Sweet Marie (3:15) - Bob Dylan
5D (Fifth Dimension (2:41) - Roger McGuinn
Lady Friend (2:31) - David Crosby
Credits:
Cyril Jordan: Lead/rhythm guitars, mellotron, vocals
Chris Wilson: Vocals, Rhythm guitar, harpsichord
Mike Wilhelm: Lead/rhythm guitars
George Alexander: Bass/vocals
David Wright: Drums

Expanded Editions added here:
https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/

Ugly things has a review of a compilation of the songs cowritten by the pair of Chris Wilson and Cyril Jordan between 1971 and whatever.

Jackpot Records is coming out with five very special releases on August 29, the rescheduled first date of Record Store Day 2020

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Artist: DUNE - OST
Title: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)
Format: Limited Edition Color Vinyl
Limited to 2000
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR063
UPC: 602508565625
LP Suggested List: $34.99
• Soundtrack to David Lynch’s 1984 cult film.
•
Composed by T
OTO and Brian Eno.
• Sourced from the original master tapes.
•
Limited “Spice” colored vinyl.
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Includes 24 x 24 full color poster.
•
Audiophile Pressing a
t RTI.
• Limited to 2000 copies.
1. Prologue, Main Title
2. Robot Fight
3
. Leto’s Theme
4. The Box
5
.
The Floating F
at Man (The Baron)
6. Trip to Arrakis
7. First Attack
8. Prophecy
Theme
9. Dune (Desert Theme)
10. Paul Meets Chani
11. Prelude (T
ake My Hand)
12.
Paul T
akes The Water Of Life
13.
Big Battle
14. Paul Kills Feyd
15.
Final Dre
am
16.
Take My Hand

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Artist: Martin Denny
Title: Exotic Moog
NEW RELEASE FROM JACKPOT RECORDS
Format: Limited Edition Color Vinyl
Limited to 1500
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR061
UPC: 602508591679
LP Suggested List: $29.99
• The Inventor of Exotica/Cocktail Music goes
Electronic/Moog.
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First time ever reissued.
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Originally released in 1969.
•
“Exotic Moog” starts off
our reissue campaign of
Martin Denny classics coming out in 2020.
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Colored Vinyl.
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Audiophile pressing at RTI.
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Limited to 1500 copies.
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RSD exclusive.
Track listing
1. Quiet Village
2. I Talk To T
he Trees
3. Yellow Bird
4. The Enchanted Sea
5. Delilah
6. Let Go (Canto de Ossanha)
7. Midnight Cowboy
8. Cast Your Fate To The Wind
9. Let It Be Me (JeT’ Appartiens)
10.A Taste Of Honey
11.Was It Really Love
12.Love Me Tonight (All Fine Della Strada)

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Artist: Ted Cassidy
Title: The Lurch
Format: Limited Edition 7” - Limited to 500
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR060
UPC: 602508561603
LP Suggested List: $14.99
• Ted Cassidy (Lurch of TV - The Addams Family)
sings as Lurch, the Motown influenced monster
track : “The Lurch”.
•
One of the rar
est US Capitol Records 7”
picture sleeves.
•
Never before reissued.
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Sourced from the original 1965 master tapes.
•
Limited to 500 copies.
Track listing
1.
The Lurch
2.Wesley

Ace of Spades Box Set
BMG
30 October 2020
Upon its release in 1980, the Ace Of Spades album was nothing short of a gamechanger for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour, pushing at every musical boundary. Nothing was harder. Nothing was faster. And certainly nothing was louder.

Now, following on from last year’s fan and media acclaimed anniversary editions of the seminal Overkill and Bomber albums, comes the record that launched Motörhead into the stratosphere and carved their name into the walls of rock ‘n’ roll history forever; Ace Of Spades. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this milestone album, it is being presented in new deluxe editions. There will be hardback book-packs in two CD and triple LP formats, featuring a previously unheard concert from the ‘Ace Up Your Sleeve’ tour, the story of the album and many previously unseen photos. Also, the album will be released as an ultimate fan, collector edition Ace Of Spades box set, containing a bevy of era-specific treasures and some 42 previously unreleased tracks!

The Ace Of Spades Deluxe box set contains:

The Ace Of Spades album, half-speed mastered and created from the original master tapes.
Two double-live albums of previously unheard concerts from the Ace Up Your Sleeve tour.
A Fistful Of Instrumentals: A 10” EP of previously unreleased, instrumental tracks from 1980.
The Good, The Broke & The Ugly. A double album of B-sides, outtakes and rare tracks.
Ace On Your Screens: A DVD compilation of rare TV appearances from 1980-81, a live concert from 1981 and a 5.1 audio mix of the original album.
The Ace Of Spades story. A 40 page book telling the story of Ace Of Spades through previously unpublished interviews with the people that were there. Includes never before seen photos and memorabilia.
The Ace Up Your Sleeve tour programme
The Motörhead Rock Commando comic.
A set of 5 poker dice that can be played on the game board inside the box set lid.
All encased in a classic Wild West dynamite box.
A limited edition 7" reproduction of the Dutch “Ace Of Spades,” with a previously unreleased instrumental version on Side B. (while stock last!)

In 1980, off the back of two essential albums, Overkill and Bomber the previous year, MOTÖRHEAD continued to get bigger, better, louder and faster by the second. This time, on Ace Of Spades they teamed up with producer Vic Maile and came up with twelve songs; each and every one of which crams a regular band’s ten minutes of playing into an average of three. The song titles alone made ears bleed: “Love Me Like A Reptile,” “Shoot You In The Back,” “The Chase Is Better Than The Catch” and “The Hammer” were a few examples. This landmark album saw the three amigos of Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor at the helm of the juggernaut that was MOTÖRHEAD, gaining phenomenal growth in popularity as they forged onward. The band’s and fans ideas, wants and inspirations, converged at a perfect tangent. Anyone disputing this fact need look no further than any heavy metal gig of the time and play ‘spot the MOTÖRHEAD T-shirt and jacket.’ They outnumbered anyone else by at least five to one. A statistic that is still accurate some forty five years since they first began!

The Ace Of Spades album release was a magical moment in rock’n’roll history, an album which had enormous global impact and continues to resonate and inspire people worldwide. Fans to this day still remember where they were when they first heard it, and it immediately inspired bands worldwide to absorb the album’s energy, speed, and attitude into their own work. Ace Of Spades is ground zero for thrash, speed metal, and punk / metal crossover.

See below for full details of the Ace Of Spades releases and be sure to visit www.iMotorhead.com for news and updates!

BOX SET TRACKLISTING

Ace of Spades

A Fistful Of Instrumentals

Side One

Ace Of Spades

Love Me Like A Reptile

Shoot You In The Back

Live To Win

Fast And Loose

(We Are) The Road Crew

Side Two

Fire Fire

Jailbait

Dance

Bite The Bullet

The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

The Hammer

Side One

Ace Of Spades (demo)

Hump On Your Back (demo)

Shoot You In The Back (demo)

Fast And Loose (demo)

Side Two

Dirty Love (demo)

Love Me Like A Reptile (demo)

Dance (demo)

Riders Wearing Black

Live At Whitla Hall, Belfast – 23rd Dec 1981

Dead Man’s Hand

Live At Parc Expo, Orleans – 5th March 1981

Side One

Ace Of Spades

Stay Clean

Over The Top

The Hammer

Shoot You In The Back

Metropolis

Side Two

(We Are) The Road Crew

No Class

Bite The Bullet

The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

Side Three

Jailbait

Leaving Here

Capricorn

Too Late, Too Late

Side Four

Overkill

Bomber

Motörhead

Side One

Ace Of Spades

Stay Clean

Over The Top

Metropolis

Shoot You In The Back

Side Two

The Hammer

Jailbait

Leaving Here

Fire Fire

Love Me Like A Reptile

Side Three

Capricorn

Too Late, Too Late

(We Are) The Road Crew

No Class

Side Four

Bite The Bullet

The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

Overkill

Bomber

The Good, The Broke & The Ugly

Ace On Your Screens DVD

Side One

Ace Of Spades (Alternative Version)

Dirty Love

Love Me Like A Reptile (Alternative Long Version)

Shoot You In The Back (Alternative Version)

Side Two

Hump On Your Back

Fast And Loose (Alternative Version)

(We Are) The Road Crew (Alternative Version)

Fire Fire (Alternative Version)

Jailbait (Alternative Version)

Side Three

Waltz Of The Vampire

The Hammer (Alternative Version)

Dirty Love (Alternative Long Version)

Bastard

Godzilla Akimbo

Side Four

Love Me Like A Reptile (Alternative Version)

Dirty Love (Alternative Version)

Please Don’t Touch (Performed by Headgirl)

Bomber (Performed by Girlschool)

Emergency

Part 1: MOTÖRHEAD on TV 1980-1981

Part 2: BBC In The City; Live In Belfast ‘81

Part 3: 5.1 audio

Repress of this 2010 comp is good enough excuse to mention it again (also avail in MP3/FLAC) (and here: https://waltergibbons.bandcamp.com/

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Jungle Music
Mixed With Love:Essential and Unreleased Remixes 1976-1986
Walter Gibbons

A first ever retrospective of one of New York’s most important DJ remixers, the late, great Walter Gibbons. Deconstructing disco tracks for the dancefloor in his own unique way, Gibbons re-works Saloul Orchestra, Gladys Knight, Arthur Russell and more on this essential compilation.
1. Sun Sun Sun (Walter Gibbons Original 12 Edit) Jakki 9:21
2.Ten Percent (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) Double Exposure 7:04
3.Get Up On Your Feet (Keep On Dancin') (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) TC James & The Fist-O-Funk Orchestra 11:07
4. It's A Better Than Good Time (Walter Gibbons Acetate Mix) Gladys Knight 12:27
5. Magic Bird Of Fire (Firebird Suite) (Walter Gibbons 'Disco Madness' mix) Salsoul Orchestra 8:04
6.You Are My Love (12 version) Sandy Mercer 7:33
7. Doin' The Best That I Can (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) Bettye Lavette 11:05
8.Go Bang (Walter Gibbons mix) Dinosaur L (Arthur Russell) 12:28
9. I've Been Searching (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) Arts & Craft 9:56
10.Moon Maiden (12 mix) Luv You Madly Orchestra 8:48
11.Calling All Kids Arthur Russell 7:17
12.Play With Me Sandy Mercer 7:25
13.Calling All Kids Arthur Russell 7:17
14. Play With Me Sandy Mercer 7:25

One of the most important producer / remixers of the disco era, Walter Gibbons changed the rules of the remix with his work for Salsoul, creating stripped back arrangements for the dancefloor. His best work is collected together by Strut for the ‘Jungle Music’ compilation including mixes for Strafe and Double Exposure.

Walter Gibbons remains one of the most important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-‘70s.

At his famed residency at Galaxy 21 (alongside a then young percussionist, Francois Kevorkian), Gibbons perfected his turntable prowess, mixing two copies of records seamlessly at a similar time to Kool Herc’s famed block parties across town in the Bronx in 1975. He was among the first to make his own reel to reel edits of tracks, extending breaks and restructuring tracks specifically for the dancefloor. As a direct result, he was the first DJ to be granted access to multi-track tapes as Ken Cayre’s Salsoul Records brought him in to re-work Double Exposure’s ‘Ten Percent’ in ‘76, a mix that would set the blueprint for disco, the 12” format and all future dance music mixes.

Gibbons would become a prolific remixer for Salsoul and developed a style his contemporaries called ‘Jungle Music’, a raw, uncompromising approach to DJ-ing and mixing which often extended tracks to 10 minutes plus with tribal percussion breaks and off-the-cuff, unexpected production touches. This compilation focuses on some of the more adventurous and ground-breaking mixes that Gibbons produced during the disco era including a freeform treatment of Dinosaur L’s ‘Go Bang’, Paradise Garage favourite ‘You Are My Love’ by Sandy Mercer and underground disco rarity, ‘I’ve Been Searching’ by Arts & Craft.

Into the ‘80s, Gibbons continued to break new ground. One of his recognised classics, ‘Set It Off’ by Strafe, fused electro, disco and New York post-punk in a genius re-work, later reprised on the proto-house version he recorded as Harlequin Fours with a young Barbara Tucker on vocals. He also worked with Arthur Russell during the mid-‘80s and became one of the only remixer / producers that Russell would trust with his work. Gibbons’ mixes of Indian Ocean’s ‘Treehouse / School Bell’ and Russell’s ‘Let’s Go Swimming’ are now acknowledged classics.

Walter Gibbons found religion and had stopped producing by 1986, although he continued to DJ with a much heavier slant towards gospel. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1994.
More info: https://strut.k7store.com/walter-gibbons and on the bandcamp page above.

Same excuse: new orange vinyl of The Raincoats + digital code:

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stream/download/order here: https://killrockstars.bandcamp.com/album/the-raincoats

(If you can't see the cover, a cartoon fella passing shot-up mansion w long gun under his arm sez "Roll up your sleeves and look at your arms.")

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Metrobolist (aka The Man Who Sold The World)
Artist: David Bowie
Format: Vinyl
New: Available 24.98
(also on CD 16.98)
Label: RHINO / PARLOPHONE
Rel. Date: 11/06/2020
UPC: 190295198787
1. The Width of a Circle (2020 Mix)
2. All the Madmen (2020 Mix)
3. Black Country Rock (2020 Mix)
4. After All (2015 Remaster)
5. Running Gun Blues (2020 Mix)
6. Saviour Machine (2020 Mix)
7. She Shook Me Cold (2020 Mix)
8. The Man Who Sold the World (2020 Mix)
9. The Supermen (2020 Mix)

MORE INFO: 2020 release. Originally titled Metrobolist, the album's name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World - the original stereo master tapes were in fact labeled Metrobolist, with the title ultimately crossed out. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track 'After All' which Tony considered perfect as is and is featured in it's 2015 remaster incarnation.
https://schoolkidsrecords.com/UPC/190295198787

Holy Dancin;, just listened to the xpost Walter Gibbons comp, which, maybe track 2 aside, had almost 0 wasted seconds, and he's def not reliant on Arthur Russell etc. material; he brings generic tracks toward the cosmic carwash as well, in an organic, seamless-seeming way---also has a ear for just the right conga sound, and not like AR is his only weirdo client either. That link again: https://waltergibbons.bandcamp.com/
Just now ordered the olde CD, which has a few more tracks than bandcamp's 12; Amazon digital only has 10.
Saw several complaints about quality of the first pressing, hope this new one is better.

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Ennio Morricone Morricone Segreto
DECCA

2×LP 3521870 £28.00
In stock
CD 3521864 £13.00
In stock

**The hidden, dark-tinged and psychedelic side of the maestro!**

This collection, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks, explores what is possibly Morricone’s richest creative period, between the end of the 1960s to the early 80s, demonstrating Morricone’s long lasting influence for generations of musicians and film directors to this day.

'Morricone Segreto' is an acid-tinged sonic journey through mysterious voices, fuzz guitars, airy strings, eerie synths and modern grooves from the Academy award-winning composer who was always ahead trends, dictating style in his own way.

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27 tracks. More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/morricone-segreto

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Trio Ternura Trio Ternura
GROOVIE RECORDS

LP
in stock
The second album by the family vocal group, Trio Ternura. Features essential tracks such as 'Sol Quarenta Graus' and 'Sempre Existe Alguem'. Originally released in 1971.

More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/trio-ternura-trio-ternura

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Harmonia Musik Von Harmonia
LILITH
LP+CD
LP includes CD version of album
In Stock
The debut Harmonia album 'Musik Von Harmonia' appeared in 1974, marking the first collaborative effort between Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and Neu!'s Michael Rother: a German supergroup and genuine rarity, a colossal artistic success. The three members were skilled keyboard players, guitarists, electronic percussionists and composers. This was a group musically and conceptually miles ahead of its time. Musik Von Harmonia is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik ideal. It's not Kraftwerk's all-synth, clean, clinical pulse, nor Neu!'s seemingly effortless glide, nor Can's stomping art world funk. Instead it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-musik-von-harmonia_2

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Harmonia Deluxe
LILITH

LP+CD
LP includes CD version of album
In Stock
Reissue of 'Deluxe', the second album from the West German krautrock group Harmonia, featuring Neu! guitarist Michael Rother with the duo Cluster (consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius). It was recorded in June 1975 in Harmonia's studio in Forst, Germany and was released on the Brain Records label in 1975. For 'Deluxe', Harmonia worked with producer Conny Plank (who had previously worked with both their main projects Cluster and Neu!). He brought a 16-track recording machine and mixing desk to the band's country studio. Plank brought along drummer and Guru Guru member Mani Neumeier to perform on several tracks.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-deluxe_2

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Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN
LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
New LP (Coloured Vinyl)
Limited, deluxe green coloured vinyl edition
In stock
eissue of this groundbreaking, Japanese environmental/ambient music album from 1986!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/green_2

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The Heshoo Beshoo Group Armitage Road
WE ARE BUSY BODIES
LP
in stock
**Killer South African Jazz album!**

With a unique sound founded on a persuasive mix of American and African jazz, Armitage Road, originally released in 1970, was the only studio recording released by South Africa's Heshoo Beshoo Group.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-heshoo-beshoo-group-armitage-road

Heshoo Beshoo sounding pretty damn good! And not that much like anything else I can think of. The audio samples are all 2 minutes long. I'd buy it if could find an affordable record player, any suggestions?

Looking forward to the resissue of post-punk/experimental comp From Brussels With Love on Les Disques Du Crepuscule. Out this weekend.

There's also a 2LP reissue of Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants coming later this month with the Testcard and Final Day EPs on the second record, so that's everything they recorded in there I think.

This is the From Brussels With Love tracklist

1. John Foxx A Jingle *1
2. Thomas Dolby Airwaves
3. Repetition Stranger
4. Harold Budd Children on the Hill
5. Durutti Column Sleep Will Come
6. Martin Hannett The Music Room
7. The Names Cat
8. Michael Nyman A Walk Through H
9. Brian Eno interview
10. Phill Niblock A Third Trombone
11. Jeanne Moreau interview
12. Richard Jobson Armoury Show
13. Bill Nelson The Shadow Garden
14. Durutti Column Piece For An Ideal
15. Kevin Hewick & New Order Haystack
16. Radio Romance Etrange Affinite
17. Gavin Bryars White's SS
18. Der Plan Meine Freunde
19. Gilbert & Lewis Twist Up
20. John Foxx A Jingle *2

Looks good!

Might as well put this here too (already on the laughner/rockets thread)

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Adele Bertei "Peter and the Wolves" book
THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-SALE THROUGH NOVEMBER 9, 2020. DURING THIS PRE-SALE PERIOD, ENJOY FREE SHIPPING IN THE UNITED STATES!

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I said I wanna walk on down the alley
down where the light shines so very dimly

I wanna shake hands with all the creatures that I meet with Miss Cinderella Backstreet

--Peter Laughner

Peter… I’m listening to your voice and guitar on Pere Ubu’s “Final Solution,” hearing the rusted heart of our town beating inside the tenderness of your reach. And in there too, the foreboding that comes when we can’t make the pieces fit… –

--Adele Bertei

Smog Veil Records is pleased to announce the first paperback edition of Adele Bertei’s infamous, long-out-of-print memoir, Peter and the Wolves.

ADELE BERTEI is a poet, writer, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. She entered the downtown New York scene of the late 1970s as organist for musical insurrectionists, the Contortions. Bertei appeared in lead roles in several indie films, notably Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, and has toured with, written songs for, and recorded as a vocalist for artists as diverse as Tears for Fears, Sandra Bernhard, Culture Club, Scritti Politti, Whitney Houston, and Lydia Lunch. Bertei’s first solo recording “Build Me a Bridge” on Geffen Records was a dance hit, as were singles “Just a Mirage” and Thomas Dolby’s “Hyperactive!”. She debuted new material in 2017-18 at MoMA, Club Salo Paris, and in Florence at La Compagnia Cinema. Adele has facilitated songwriting workshops for homeless youth at My Friend’s Place in Hollywood, and volunteered with Wayne Kramer’s Jail Guitar Doors. Bertei’s book Why Labelle Matters will be published in 2021 by the University of Texas Press.

Adele’s memoir, Peter and the Wolves, recounts her friendship with the late great Peter Laughner, Cleveland’s answer to all things underground and punk in the 1970s. Adele and Peter’s collaborations appear in Smog Veil’s groundbreaking 2019 box set. The book is Bertei's intimate recounting of the musical education she received from Laughner; of their complex artistic kinship, and the vivid trajectory of the ‘live fast die young’ ethos that extinguished the light of a radiant rock and roll heart.

This first paperback edition contains newly discovered photos, a new forward, and an epilogue penned by original Pere Ubu bassist Tim Wright all contained in 93 pages.

THIS ITEM SHIPS ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 10, 2020.

SPECIAL PRICING IS AVAILABLE WHEN YOU BUY THIS BOOK AND THE Peter Laughner box set. Click HERE for details.https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/adele-and-peter-powerpak

$18.98

"There are, as Bertei calls them, unholy incantations. Electric guitars, drugs, books of poetry, bullets, queer love, adventures, and misadventures. Real life and sounds that refuse to fade, all wrapped in the most stunning prose." - Camilla Aisa/Shindig

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Soul Jazz Records Present - Studio One 007
Record Store Day Exclusive #1
Licensed To Ska ! James Bond and Other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

5×7" Boxset SJR 450 BOX £35.00
In stock

This Studio One box set sold out from our site in the first hour when we released it for RSD and was deleted the same day! We've managed to get the last 50 ever back from one of our distributors. So if you want one NOW is your last chance!
STUDIO ONE 007

Licensed To Ska! James Bond and Other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes

Soul Jazz Records are releasing Studio One 007 – Licenced to Ska, a limited-edition one-off pressing exclusive Record Store Day collectors seven-inch box set, featuring ten super rare killer cuts on five 7" singles.

Featuring The Skatalites, Lee Perry, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Roland Alphonso and The Soul Brothers, rare and classic tracks from Jamaica's no.1 record label, Studio One.

James Bond and Jamaica have very strong links and the films have always been much loved there – it was home for Bond's creator Ian Fleming and provided the setting for Dr. No, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun and the latest instalment, 'No Time To Die', which will be released in 2020, sees Bond return to the island once more.

Also includes killer tracks from the James Bond 1969 spoof 'Our Man Flint' and the Clint Eastwood-starring Spaghetti Western 'Hang 'Em High'!

All tracks have been digitally remastered and the singles come housed in a thick, heavyweight card box.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/licensed-to-ska-

^^^that looks great, I have that Crime Show Theme comp that Soul Jazz put out some time ago, but don't really return to it very often...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto Hidari Ude No Yume WEWANTSOUNDS

2×LP Deluxe vinyl WWSLP33£34.00
Limited 2xLP edition in a gatefold sleeve. Includes a second disc of instrumental versions of the album.
In stock
LP WWSLP34 £26.00
In stock
2×CD WWSCD33 £16.00
2xCD version. Includes a second disc of instrumental versions of the album.
Reissue of Ryuichi Sakamoto's landmark 1981 album reissued for the first time in decades outside of Japan featuring the rare Japanese edition in a superb blend of electro, funk and ambient music styles

oops--link for more info, audio re Sakamoto: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/ryuichi-sakamoto--hidari-ude-no-yume-left-handed-dream

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Bobby Hutcherson
Oblique (Tone Poet Edition)
BLUE NOTE
LP (180 gram) 884051 £35.00
180g audiophile vinyl reissue in a deluxe gatefold sleeve
In stock
REVIOUSLY JAPANESE ISSUE ONLY BLUE NOTE. Recorded in 1967, not released to 1980. Bobby Hutcherson is joined by Herbie Hancock, Joe Chambers and Albert Stinson.

More info, audio for Hutcherson: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/bobby-hutcherson-oblique

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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders
The Trance Of Seven Colors
ZEHRA
2×LP ZEHRA001 £27.00

**Back in stock!**

Originally released in 1994 on Bill Laswell's AXIOM imprint, "The Trance Of Seven Colors" is the meeting of two true musical masters: master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania, & free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. Recorded in Morrocco in 1994, the album is considered to be one of the most important albums of Gnawa / spiritual, healing ceremonialtrance music. First time on vinyl
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-trance-of-seven-colors

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Jo Bisso
African Disco Experimentals (1974 to 1978)
AFRICA SEVEN

2×LP ASVN078 £27.00
In stock
A compilation of key disco tunes from international star, Jo Bisso! Includes the full, 16 min version of his awesome 'Play Me' from 1978.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/african-disco-experimentals-1974-to-1978

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The Shaolin Afronauts
Flight Of The Ancients
FREESTYLE RECORDS

**Repress of this awesome Afrobeat/ethio-jazz album from 2011!**

Heavily inspired by the sounds of 1970's West Africa, Ethiopia and the pioneering avant-garde jazz artists of the same period, The Shaolin Afronauts draw on the this highly innovative and sometimes volatile era in music, using it as inspiration to create music with the same fire and intensity.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-shaolin-afronauts-flight-of-the-ancients

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WAMONO A to Z Vol. 1: Japanese Jazz Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980
Various Artists
180G

An essential primer for those with an interest in Japanese popular music culture and, specifically, the 'Wamono' sound - the cream of the Japanese funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the decades since the end of the 60s in Japan. A exemplary selection by Japanese super diggers and Wamono specialists DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite and Chintam!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/wamono-a-to-z-vol-1-japanese-jazz-funk-rare-groove-19681980

oh wow, I might have to pick up that Left Handed Dream reissue

not sure if I want an instrumental LP...wish it instead included the tracks from the US version that wasn't on the original.

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Randy Mundy
Celestial Skies
CORDIAL RECORDINGS

**Previously unreleased blue-eyed/country soul and AOR album! Check the stunning opening track, 'Sunshine'!**

Randy Mundy recorded his album ‘Celestial Skies’ in 1975 in Nashville, Missouri. The album remained previously unreleased until this issue via Cordial Recordings. A beautiful sprinkling of Americana, blending a touch of blue eyed/country soul with some good old AOR!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/randy-mundy-celestrial-skies

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Lucifer (aka Mort Garson)
Black Mass
SACRED BONES

Supernatural and occult-themed electronic music from composer, Mort Garson. Originally released in 1971, it’s his only release under the Lucifer moniker, and it taps into a profound darkness that may surprise fans of his sunnier work. These songs are Garson's synthesizer interpretations of occult and esoteric phenomena ranging from the Satanic black mass, to exorcism, to witchcraft, and beyond, inspiring artists from Coil to Oneohtrix Point Never.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/lucifer-2-black-mass

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Mort Garson
Music From Patch Cord Productions
SACRED BONES
A collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the archives of electronic music pioneer Mort Garson, composer of 'Mother Earth's Plantasia'. The compilation plays like an ultimate Mort Garson playlist, and includes alternate takes of 'Plantasia' tracks, music for never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction films, erotic oddities, and much more from the prolific composer's '60s and '70s synthesizer oeuvre.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/mort-garson-music-from-patch-cord-productions

Did I paste that cover rong?

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Mort Garson
Didn't You Hear?
SACRED BONES

Reissue of Mort Garson’s long-out-of-print soundtrack for the 1970 experimental film 'Didn’t You Hear?'

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Tantra
Hills Of Katmandu (inc. Patrick Cowley & Jurgen Koppers remixes)
HIGH FASHION MUSIC

12" Single
In Stock
Hi-NRG disco classic remixed by Patrick Cowley and Jurgen Koppers in 1982!
2 mixes

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tantra-2-hills-of-katmandu

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Talking Heads
Fear Of Music - Unreleased Outakes
SIRE
12" EP
Limited promo 12" featuring four previously unreleased Talking Heads demos from 'Fear Of Music' sessions. Never before available on vinyl!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/fear-of-music-unreleased-outakes

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Sun Ra
Egypt 1971
STRUT
4CD Box Set
in stock

Sun Ra took his legendary Arkestra over to Egypt in 1971 to play a series of concerts which were later released on three LPs throughout the 1970s. This collection includes all of those releases plus two further albums of previously unreleased material. It also includes photos and liner notes as an all encompassing document of the man from saturn's sojourn in the desert. They also have all the individual albums, I think.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/sun-ra-egypt-1971

Well they have the three that were previously released: Dark Myth Equation Visitation, Horizon, and Nidhamu--all on LP, £21.00 each, while the 4CD box is £22.00, with two more albums incl.

from bandcamp:

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Savage Young Krayolas’ is the surprise historic preservation effort of 2020. The recently unearthed space suit album pays tribute to the late Jett Bass, Sal Dana and Freddie Herman who perished in an unsanctioned time travel experiment. Egos and alter-egos combust as soon as the needle touches down -- a rock’n’roll requiem that bends time.

Box Records teams up with Saustex Records on this new 180 gram Vinyl, CD and digital collection that unearths the Krayolas 1980 debut album “that could have been.” This singular Texas act thunders with the fun bliss of then-contemporary acts such as Cheap Trick and Go-Go’s while echoing heroes The Dave Clark Five, Doug Sahm and early Kinks. Play it loud and revel in the carefree, antihero beginnings of these Chicano rockers on a collision course with fruterias, border beheadings and political piñatas.

Restored! Remixed! Remastered! For the first time the original 1970s and 1980 two-inch analog, multi-track source tapes are revealed complete with liner notes, including ‘I Just Wanna’ which pairs the Krayolas with Augie Meyers of the Sir Douglas Quintet on his Vox Continental combo organ.

releases November 27, 2020

More info, audio:https://thekrayolas.bandcamp.com/album/savage-young-krayolas

[Oops, overlooked:
When Elliott Smith's self-titled second album came out in 1995, it was ignored by the press but championed by artists from the Beastie Boys to Fugazi. To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elliott Smith, the Kill Rock Stars label is releasing a special deluxe package, which includes a new remastering of the original record; a coffee table book of previously unseen photographs by JJ Gonson with handwritten lyrics, and reminiscences from Smith’s friends and colleagues; and a bonus disc documenting the earliest known recording of Smith performing as a solo act. The set is a revelatory look at an under-appreciated work by an artist whose influence continues to expand seventeen years after his death.
credits
released August 28, 2020
More info, audio: https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/elliott-smith-expanded-25th-anniversary-edition
Also, vinyl of this is back in stock:
https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/either-or-expanded-edition

Azure Ray
Azure Ray (20th Anniversary Edition)
Flower Moon Records
16 January 2021
Twenty years ago this January, Azure Ray released their eponymous debut record featuring the hit songs “Sleep” & “Rise." To mark the special anniversary on January 16th 2021, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink are releasing Azure Ray on vinyl for the first time. In addition to the album being mastered for vinyl, the band also uncovered an unreleased track from the original recording sessions which is included as a bonus track for the digital album.
The album will be available in three different colors including a Flower Moon Records exclusive bundle variant (Maria’s independent label which is now home to Azure Ray’s full catalog), and an independent record store version.

Limited to 100 copies, the exclusive FMR bundle includes a 100 page photobook curated by band which recollects the last 20 years and features never before seen private photos and stories detailing their pre-Azure Ray days, formation, recording and tours and with Bright Eyes, Moby and more.

Pre-order Azure Ray now at the Flower Moon Records Store

Taylor and Fink have been called “indie rock royalty” in more than one publication, and it’s not an undeserving title. After a brief stint with Geffen Records, barely out of their teens, the pair began touring and releasing independent records in 1998, a time when most indie rock clubs had never seen a girl walk into the door carrying her own guitar. While the pair started with a focus on rock, the untimely death of Taylor’s boyfriend quickly changed the duo’s relationship to music from release to catharsis, and Azure Ray rose from the ashes of grief. The duo fearlessly followed their hearts and pioneered a genre, what some affectionately dubbed “whisper core.” But to Maria and Orenda, there was no easy way to describe what they did. Their work was about alchemizing pain into beauty, heartbreak into art, loss to transcendence, a way to walk with the angels — and a style that has left a lasting impact even onmainstream music. Their songs are included on playlists by Phoebe Bridgers and Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift is an admitted fan, and one search on social media shows the comparisons of Swift’s new record with Azure Ray twenty years after their first release.

Bill Sullivan, former tour manager of The Replacements and co-owner of Minneapolis’s 400 Bar, said it best after watching the young duo calmly stare down a rowdy crowd until the last voice laid silent, then serenade a rapt crowd for hours with voices barely above a whisper. “That,” he said backstage, as he set out two shots of whiskey for the girls “was the most punk rock thing I’ve ever seen.”

Always looking forward, this special 20th anniversary package has given them time to reflect on their past.

Maria & Orenda say: “This is a very special anniversary for us, and we know it will be one for our long-time fans too. One thing is especially clear and that is how grateful we are to all of our collaborators, fans and supporters.Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We hope you will enjoy the book and hearing Azure Ray on vinyl for the first time!”

About Flower Moon Records:

Flower Moon Records was founded in 2016 by Maria Taylor (Azure Ray) and is now home to Taylor, Orenda Fink and Azure Ray’s complete discography. FMR has also released records from Radnor & Lee (actor/director Josh Radnor and Australian pop-folk singer Ben Lee), Taylor Hollingsworth (of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band), Louis Schefano (singer-songwriter, producer/engineer), as well as reissuing O+S and Art In Manilla’s catalog.

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Jay Dee aka J Dilla
Welcome 2 Detroit - The 20th Anniversary Edition
BBE
2x7" Deluxe Box Set BBEBG001SLP £100.00
Limited edition 12x7" box set with book
Expected 05 Feb
J Dilla’s classic 'Welcome 2 Detroit', reissued and presented in a deluxe 7” vinyl box set boasting instrumentals, two brand new interpretations by Azymuth and Muro, a stash of previously unreleased alternative mixes and studio outtakes pressed over 12 discs, plus a book revealing the album’s hidden story, told by those who were there!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/welcome-2-detroit-the-20th-anniversary-edition

That's 37 tracks.

This will go w book of same title (prev. mentioned, out this month) written by compilers Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker:

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Cuba: Music and Revolution - Compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker
Culture Clash In Havana Cuba - Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
3×LP SJRLP461 £26.00
Expected 22 Jan
2×CD SJRCD461 £12.99
Expected 22 Jan
...album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state of Cuba.

The album comes as a heavyweight triple vinyl and deluxe double CD, complete with extensive sleeve notes, and is jam-packed with heavy bass lines, synth and Wah-Wah guitar funk combined with the heavyweight percussion, powerful brass lines and the all-encompassing Latin rhythms of Cuban music known throughout the world.

The album is released to coincide with the massive new deluxe large format book Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Cover Art of Cuban Music: Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1959-90, published in November, which is also compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records), and which features the music and record designs of Cuba, made in the 30-year period following the Cuban Revolution.

The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba – and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states.

The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s – who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album have never been heard outside of Cuba.

Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades – Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/cuba-music-and-revolution

Third Man Records has released Southeast of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit’s space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the ‘90s. Stream the album or purchase standard black vinyl HERE. Exclusive limited edition copies of Southeast Of Saturn on Deep Space Dark/Aqua Wave colored vinyl are available in select independent record stores across the US and in UK/EU, as well as in both Nashville and Detroit storefronts. Watch a video on the making of the compilation HERE. links: https://mailchi.mp/thirdmanrecords.com/tmr-news-69221?e=ad0f175359

Wonder how similar that cuba lp is to Nu Yorica. are they parallel developments leading to similar sounds or is the difference in geography enough of an influence and is Nu Yorica more puerto rico.

CD booklet and/or book may deal w that.

Limited copies going fast - all deep funky spiritual jazz classics on Black Jazz!
Black Jazz in stock NOW! Doug Carn/Awakening/Walter Bishop/Roland Haynes/Kellee Patterson Albums on the Black Jazz label. My hand hurts after going back and forth through a list of thousands of albums for Uproxx ballot, so here's link to the press release:
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SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die
Various Artists
STRANGER THAN PARADISE

2×LP STPR01LP £34.00
Black vinyl version
In stock
CD STPR01CD £11.00
In stock
**First time ever on vinyl, the legendary compilation taken from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's infamous Kings Road, London ‘SEX’ shop jukebox!**

Compiled by SEX shop regular Marco Pirroni (Siouxsie & the Banshees/Adam & the Ants), 'SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die' is treasure trove of underground/outsider classics from the likes of The Sonics, Alice Cooper, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages, Johnny Hallyday and more!

This brilliant debut release/edition from Stranger Than Paradise includes new updated artwork plus testimonials from Don Letts, Jon Savage, Paul Cook and more!
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-sex-too-fast-to-live-too-young-to-die

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Tokyo Dreaming
Various Artists
WEWANTSOUNDS

2×LP WWSLP40 £30.00
In stock
CD WWSCD40 £13.00
In stock
A superb, extensive exploration of Tokyo's cutting edge 80s sound through the music of cult Japanese label Nippon Columbia and its Better Days imprint - all selected by British radio presenter and DJ, Nick Luscombe.

The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk and ambient and features such artists as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariah, Shigeo Sekito, Juicy Fruits, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama and Yumi Murata. The tracklist includes many sought-after rarities and hidden gems which have never been released outside of Japan.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tokyo-dreaming

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Mogollar
Anatolian Sun Part 1
NIGHT DREAMER
LP ND009part1 £20.00
Expected 11 Dec PREORDER

Legendary Turkish psych innovators Mogollar grace the Night Dreamer label for a masterclass in the original Anadolu psych roots, cutting a compendium of their rawest hits and most-wanted psychedelic rock classics; including the J Dilla-sampled 'Halic'te Gunesin Batisi.'
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/anatolian-sun-part-1

Part 2, also an LP, will be released the same day---more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/anatolian-sun-part-2