Rolling Reissues 2020

Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround Part One

50th Anniversary, Multi-Format, Album Re-issues

Out December 18 on BMG

Available to Order Now: https://thekinks.lnk.to/Lola50AnniversaryPR

New Track "The Follower - Any Time 2020" https://thekinks.lnk.to/AnyTime2020PR

Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, commonly abbreviated to Lola Versus Powerman, or just Lola, is the eighth studio album by The Kinks, recorded and released in 1970. A concept album ahead of its time, it’s a satirical appraisal of the music industry, including song publishers, unions, the press, accountants, business managers, and life on the road. One of the all time classic Kinks albums.

Let the 50th anniversary celebrations begin, as The Kinks unveil special multi-format release plans for the album as a lovingly produced Deluxe Box Set, 1LP, Deluxe 2CD, 1CD and digitally - to be released on December 18 via BMG.

Limited Edition, Deluxe 10” Slipcased book pack (containing 60 page book, 3 X CDs, 2 X 7” singles, 4 X color prints)
1LP Gatefold
2CD Hardback Book
1CD Softpack
Digital
HD Digital
D2C Limited Edition Exclusives (free with boxset orders): 7” Single, Enamel pin badge

Although it appeared during a transitional period for The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman was a success both critically and commercially for the group, charting in the Top 40 in America and helping restore them in the public eye, making it a "comeback" album. It contained two hit singles: "Lola", which reached the #9 US, #2 UK and Germany - becoming the Kinks' biggest success since "Sunny Afternoon" in 1966 - and "Apeman", which peaked at #5 in the UK and Germany.

Ray says: “The album is a celebration of artistic freedom (including my own) and the right for anyone to be gender free if one wishes. The secret is to be a good and trusting person and friend.”

Ahead of its time, the track "Lola" was written by Ray Davies in early 1970 and recorded at Morgan Studios in London. The track supposedly tells the romantic tale between a young man and a transgender person whom he meets in a club in Soho, inspired by an alleged encounter by the band’s manager. Released with Village Green Preservation Society outtake "Berkeley Mews" in the UK and the Dave Davies-penned "Mindless Child of Motherhood" in the US, the iconic hook has been sung around the world for decades.

The Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One release plans follow the recent successful #LolaDay, celebrating 50 years of the seminal hit single. Fans were able to ‘Lolafy’ their individual photos with 10 new custom-made stickers available via The Kinks website. Throughout the day some of the finest acts such as The Amazons released their interpretations of the track via The Kinks’ channels, and various exciting Kinks archive audio, video and printed material was shared with fans.

The ‘Lolafy’ site has been updated from today to include four new stickers of the band members, Dave, Mick, Pete and Ray.

The 50th Anniversary box set campaign launches with a brand new Ray Davies’ remix / medley of the Kinks track "Any Time" (titled "The Follower - Any Time 2020 Feat: Anytime by The Kinks"). https://thekinks.lnk.to/AnyTime2020PR

Originally written by Ray as a possible B-side for "Apeman", "Any Time" includes previously unreleased versions and excerpts of several Kinks tracks from the Lola album as well as added spoken word and sound effects. It is a concept piece about which Ray states “The isolation caused by Coronavirus can give people time to re-evaluate the world and re-assess their lives. Music can comfort the lonely, transcend time and it’s not the future or the past, yesterday, today or tomorrow. It’s anytime”. He adds, “I saw a way of making this unreleased 1970s track connect to an audience in 2020. I also saw a way of showing that music can time-travel, that memory is instantaneous and therefore can join us in the ‘now’. I put this together as something surreal then realized that it was really happening. The song has found its place - after its 50th Birthday!”

THE KINKS LOLA VERSUS POWERMAN AND THE MONEYGOROUND, PART ONE
Available to Pre-order here: https://thekinks.lnk.to/Lola50AnniversaryPR

RELEASE FORMATS:

DELUXE 10” SLIPCASED BOOK PACK

Rigid, matte laminated, open one end card slipcase, with foil and metallic special cover effects, containing: 60 page hardback book with notes, band quotes, Ray Davies ‘1970 Diary’, rare photos / memorabilia; 3CDs in card wallets containing the remastered original album and bonus audio including many unreleased tracks: front and back pocket pages containing 2 reproduced original international 7” picture sleeve singles ("Lola" & "Apeman") and 4 x printed 5” sq rare band photocards.

CDs x 3

Stereo original album newly remastered from original master tapes, singles (stereo and mono mixes), B-sides, alternate original mixes.

Exclusive to the boxset: new medleys with Ray & Dave Davies in intimate conversation in Ray’s kitchen, plus nine new Ray Davies remixes and out-takes from the original session tapes, previously unreleased session and live tapes, instrumental and acoustic versions, previously unreleased demos and BBC material. Track lists curated and produced by Ray Davies.

7” Singles x 2

"Lola / Berkeley Mews" Italian picture sleeve.
"Apeman" / "Rats" Portuguese picture sleeve, (with alternate version of "Apeman")

Reproduced original artwork, remastered audio, black vinyl.


Book

Deluxe 60 page, 10” square, gloss-art hardback book with extensive notes by renowned Kinks expert Andy Neill, interviews / new band quotes (from Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Mick Avory and John Dalton and John Gosling), rare photos and memorabilia. Includes full, detailed tracklist information and historical background.

Photos

4 x 5” sq, light card, gloss-art photos:

GATEFOLD 1LP
Newly remastered original album (Stereo), original gatefold sleeve, heavyweight vinyl, booklet with notes, new band quotes, rare photos and memorabilia. Officially available for the first time since 1983.

DELUXE 2CD

Newly remastered original album (Stereo), deluxe hardback book 2CD, booklet with notes, new band quotes, rare photos and memorabilia.

1CD

Newly remastered original album + key bonus tracks from the box set. Digi-pack,
booklet with notes, new band quotes, rare photos and memorabilia.

DELUXE DIGITAL

Newly remastered original album (Stereo) plus other key tracks from the box set, including the IGs / e-singles

D2C EXCLUSIVES (LIMITED EDITION, FREE WITH BOX SET ORDERS)

"Lola / Berkeley Mews" original Danish picture sleeve 7” single: Remastered, reproduced original artwork, clear vinyl
Bespoke round metal & enamel pin badge featuring album cover art.
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PRESS CONTACT:
Jim Merlis
Big Hassle Media
jim at bighassle.com

Put this on Tompkins Square a while back, just got reminder, worth putting here:

Robbie Basho - Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes - 5CD set Available December 4th, 2020

All tracks previously unreleased

PRE-ORDER

HEAR / POST A TRACKhttps://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/american-sunday

Robbie Basho (1940-1986) is widely regarded as one of the progenitors of what's commonly known today as American Primitive guitar. Growing up in Maryland alongside neo-traditional guitar explorers John Fahey and Max Ochs, Basho's path would take a decidedly different turn, bringing Hindi, Indian, Japanese and Native American musical traditions into his work. His albums for Takoma and Vanguard have left an indelible trail of influence across generations of musicians, from William Ackerman and Pete Townshend to Ben Chasny and William Tyler.

Liam Barker first became aware of Basho having purchased Tompkins Square's reissue of Venus in Cancer, released in 2006. This led him on an incredible fact-finding expedition, unraveling the many layers of mystery surrounding Basho's life and death, all deftly compiled and depicted in his documentary film, Voice of the Eagle : The Enigma of Robbie Basho.

During the research process, Barker came across a large cache of unheard Basho tapes recorded throughout his career, ranging roughly from 1965-1985. By arrangement with Basho's Estate and the original custodians of the tapes, Tompkins Square is set to release Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes, a 5CD set of previously unreleased material, on December 4th, 2020. The set includes notes by Barker, Henry Kaiser, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones and Richard Osborn, as well as many unseen photographs. The box set package featuring gold foil inlay, poster and extensive booklet, was designed by Barbara Bersche, known for her work on the 2009 Grammy-nominated Alan Lomax in Haiti box, as well as the new Dust-To-Digital Harry Smith B-Sides box.

TSQ 5715 - Robbie Basho / Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes - 5CD set

Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves/Universal and Revolver in NA, Cargo UK for Europe

Tompkins Square 15th Anniversary playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uiu05uzg7qB17xNRBee7c?si=a_B35QixTxCJSFeSRo0qug

New Decembrists vinyl editions, more info and streams here:
https://thedecemberists.bandcamp.com/

from fania.com via Downbeat email:

Ray Barreto, Barreto Power---

Featuring ALL-ANALOG mastering by Kevin Gray
at Cohearant Audio, this 50th Anniversary reissue marks the first
return to vinyl since its original 19T0 release.

GRAMMY-winning Nuyorican bandleader and
conguero Ray Barretto was an incomparable force
in Latin and jazz music. He was a long-time
member of the Fania All-Stars, and played conga
in recording sessions for major artists including
the Rolling Stones and the Bee Gees. Barretto
appeared on albums with jazz giants such as
Gene Ammons, Red Garland and Sonny Stitt,
and recorded regularly with Kenny Burrell,
Dizzy Gillespie and Wes Montgomery.

Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back)
by Oli Freke
Book (350g)£18.00
Expected 25 NovPREORDER
Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back) celebrates their impact on music and culture by providing a comprehensive and meticulously researched directory of every major synthesizer, drum machine and sampler made between 1963 and 1995. Each featured instrument is illustrated by hand and shown alongside its vital statistics and some fascinatingly quirky facts.

From its invention in the early 1960s to the digital revolution of the 1980s right up until the point that analogue circuits could be modelled using software in the mid-1990s, this book tells the story of synthesizers from analogue to digital – and back again.

Tracing that history and showing off their visual beauty with art-book quality illustrations, this a must for any self-respecting synth fan. The book has 128 pages, is 23cm x 17.4cm in size and printed on high quality 130gsm matt art paper.

Author Oli Freke says: “This book has grown out of a life-long obsession with synthesizers and electronic music, and it’s fantastic to be able to share this with my fellow synth obsessives and music fans who celebrate the synth’s role in modern music.”
Ships in Mid-November
More info, cover, pages: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/jriocxsu

(i work with oli freke)

is this book good?

i have no idea. he's in the same department as me, different team, but i've not seen any of them for 7 months, except via zoom.

he's been selling the poster version of the book, with all the illustrations, for some time but i guess this has writeups of the individual synths as well (based on the 3 pages on that link)

https://www.synthevolution.net/

Your link's missing the final letter btw
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/jriocxsus

Sorry, thanks!
Related docudrama:

LE CHOC DU FUTUR
(aka The Shock of the Future)

The story of the forgotten female pioneers of electronic music

Coming to DVD and Digital Formats on November 10th

PRE-ORDER HERE - TRAILER BELOW

"This day-in-the-life portrait of a struggling electronic musician circa 1978 is never happier than when it gets to fix a loving, lingering gaze on the drum machines, synths, sequencers and reel-to-reel tapes that crowd its heroine's apartment."
- Variety
On November 10th, Cleopatra Entertainment will release Marc Collin's directed electronic music drama LE CHOC DU FUTUR (The Shock Of The Future), which premiered at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. The DVD release also includes an exclusive interview with Collin, a slide show, and other bonus features.

LE CHOC DU FUTUR takes place in the Paris of 1978, when old formulas do not charm listeners anymore, creating the need for new music to arise in its place. In an extremely male-dominated industry, Ana (Alma Jodorowsky) uses her electronic gadgets to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.

Mixmag, the world's biggest dance music and clubbing destination, says "As electronic music ages and develops, more moves are being made to look into the cultural history that initially bred it. This film aims to shine a light on the under-appreciated and somewhat forgotten female pioneers of electronic music."

PRESS QUOTES:

"Driven by a great turn from Alma Jodorowsky, it celebrates the creation and possibilities of music through a distinctly female filter.
- Empire

"A beguiling central performance and a near-numinous belief in the transformative power of music are the highlights of this modest yet perfectly formed French-language drama about the origins of synthesizer pop."
- The Times (UK)

"Explores the thrilling possibilities of electronic music in a drama with a timely feminist slant."
- The Guardian
Relieved it's not an untimely Feminist slant.
Hmm, Cleopatra can have some pretty cheesy offerings, but maybe---links to trailer, press contact etc. in here: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102557630070&ca=b0abd388-e055-4ea3-9ec4-11bfb569281c

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Fourteen years ago, four young Atlanta women picked up instruments without any prior musical experience or lofty aspirations and decided that they were going to start a band so that they could play a friend’s party. The house-show led to more shows around town, and the fiery live sets of this feisty new band known as The Coathangers begat a self-titled album. Recorded during a single graveyard shift at a local studio and mixed the following night, The Coathangers was a raw, rowdy, and revelrous affair. What it lacked in polish it made up for in its undeniable energy and charisma. “We didn’t think anyone was going to listen to it,” says vocalist/guitarist Julia Kugel. “We knew our friends in Atlanta would get it, but we didn’t think it was going to go anywhere. We were just excited to make a record.” Little did Kugel or her bandmates—vocalist/drummer Stephanie Luke, bassist/vocalist Meredith Franco, and keyboardist Candice Jones—know that their scrappy house show-anthems would catch on, prompting years of international tours, a slew of excellent LPs and singles, and, eventually, a deluxe re-mastered version of their boisterous, long out-of-print debut, The Coathangers.

The first thing the listener hears when the needle drops on The Coathangers is a sample of a man’s voice asking “Why this record? Why should you listen to a full-scale discussion of the magic of thinking big?” Given the band’s modest initial aspirations, the soundbite was obviously tongue-in-cheek, and yet given the triumphs and accolades bestowed upon the band in the thirteen years since the album’s initial release, there is something a little prescient in that opening statement. Revisiting the album in hindsight, it’s surprising to hear both how little has changed and how much The Coathangers have grown. On the one hand, the band has always been multi-faceted, able to switch from their rousing rockers like album opener “Tonya Harding” to caustic no-wave scorchers like “Don’t Touch My Shit!” to Americana-tinged pop songs like “Buckhead Betty.” This diversity stems from having multiple songwriters in the band who each brought their own tastes and styles to the group. “It’s cool too to see how genre-fluid we‘ve always been,” Kugel says. “We got labeled as punk, and that was cool because that set us up as being against something, going against the grain. But it’s always been a weird dynamic of different tastes, and it still ultimately comes across as a bunch of girls having fun.”
Fun is key. While the mash-up of approaches continues to be a part of the band’s repertoire, there is a reckless abandon and irreverence to The Coathangers that was dialed back on subsequent albums. That brings us back to the initial question posed on the album: why this record? If The Coathangers have evolved into more nuanced sounds and sophisticated lyrical commentary, why dust off and revisit the fledgling anthems of their youth? The answer is simple. We live in difficult times, and there is a spontaneity and carefree spirit on The Coathangers that is as invigorating and inspiring now as it was thirteen years ago. The band may have merely been a vehicle for having a good time, but in the process of making music they also made a space for friendship and laughter, created an environment for people to be free and independent, and helped foster a sense of community in the Atlanta music scene.

“We were just brash and making fun of things,” Kugel says. “We weren’t thinking about lyrics. We weren’t thinking about the industry. There was no thought about ‘making it’ or how people were gonna perceive it.” Consequently, the album was treated more as a private conversation between friends, full of various in-jokes and frivolities that reflected the group’s insular audience and casual approach. “With this band I’ve felt like we have to speak for all woman-kind and as the records went on it became more and more at the forefront, but with the first record it was more like ‘ugh, these fuckin’ haters!’ It’s stuff we thought was hilarious and that felt really good to say because we felt safe. We didn’t think anyone was going to listen to it.” This was The Coathangers at their most spontaneous and unfiltered. From the deliciously fractured kiss-off garage rocker “Shut the Fuck Up” to the jubilantly nasty “Nestle in My Boobies,” there’s a wild, untamed heart at the center of every track on the album. It’s a record that celebrates being young, independent, and full of life.
Ultimately, the eponymous debut album by The Coathangers is a whirlwind ride of a band at the most frenzied, celebratory, and free moment of their existence. As a standalone record, it’s a brash and bawdy rocker sure to please anyone who likes their rock n’ roll sweaty and messy. As a piece in the band’s legacy, it’s an exhilarating reminder of the band’s youthful carefree beginnings. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to offer up the deluxe version of The Coathangers to the world on December 4th, 2020. This latest version of the album includes the bonus tracks “Wife Eyes” from the Hard Candy EP and the title track from the Never Wanted You EP. The Coathangers will be available on vinyl featuring expanded artwork with an initial pressing of 1000 copies (500 on Confetti Crush Splatter Vinyl, 500 on Neon Strawberry Banana Pinwheel Vinyl). The album will also be available on digital formats.

(one for the striking covers thread)

Matador just announced a lavish Gang of Four box set.

Btw - I preordered that American Jangle Underground 2CD. Will let ya know how it is...

It's... ok. Very samey sounding (by design I imagine) and the best bands are very well known to those of us into that scene (28th Day, Salem 66 - but they picked a weak track). Lots of off-key singing, lots of energy, and some great discoveries like Primitons and Holiday. Worth hearing but not a keeper for me. I was hoping for something akin to "Yellow Pills: Prefill".

Hmm, I trust your judgement... maybe I should cancel the order? (FWIW, I don't have any real familiarity with the scene.)

Ahhh, I really don't want to dissuade you. Look up a handful of those tracks on Youtube first - one's man trash something something.

Cool... I had listened to the clip of the first track (Reverbs) and liked it.

Ha, just posted this on The Mountain Goats thread by mistake!

Don't know how far back you want to go w the jangle, morrisp, but you might like Fields/Aquamarine, which is a reissue of the album and EP by the Individuals, who were one of the Hoboken Three, along with the Bongos and dBs, back in the late 70s and maybe early 80s, real good and you can read all about them on bar-none.com, along with other releases of related interest, like ones by the Feelies and Alex Chilton.
Also I'd try the Bongos and dB's, and reissue comp of pre-dBs' incarnation the Scruffs, along with Big Star, the Shoes' Black Vinyl Shoes, the Bangles, the Records, 20/20, prob a lot more on YouTube etc. I haven't thought of.

― dow, Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:43 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

And speaking of the dBs, Holsapple and Stamey have reworked some band material for the mostly acoustic Our Back Pages in Omnivore's MusiCares Covid-19 Relief Fund series (which also incl. an NRBQ set):
...Signature dB’s songs, including “Black and White,” “Big Brown Eyes,” and “Happenstance,” are ably propelled here by lyric and guitar energy alone, and the hooks remain — it’s easy to find one’s self singing along. Tunes such as “Dynamite” and “From a Window to a Screen” are revealed as precursors to the music the two made together later, as they feature “dual lead,” close-harmony vocals as essential elements. Others, such as Peter’s “Today Could Be the Day” and “Molly Says,” were originally recorded by the band after Stamey’s departure, so this marks the first time he’s gone on record with them. When going through the material in preparation for mastering, they even discovered a forgotten track, “Depth of Field,” and completed it for this release; although a version had appeared on a Stamey solo record, it fits in here because it was originally written and rehearsed contemporaneously with the rest for The dB’s’ second album, Repercussion.

Another song, “Picture Sleeve,” is both old and new. A song by this title was in the band’s sets circa 1978, but all that anyone could remember, years later, were the first few lines, some chords, and the subject matter. Using those elements as a jumping-off point, it was rewritten for a Record Store Day single release three decades later, and a duo version is part of this release. Peter’s classic ballad “Nothing Is Wrong,” a staple of their live duo sets, was overlooked during the original sessions and sadly missed. Fortunately, it’s included on this new collection in a version The dB’s themselves recorded during a rehearsal in New York City in 2008.

“We’re still proud of the electric versions of the songs,” Stamey insists, “but a sturdy song should be able to handle a bit of reinvention from time to time...In most cases, it’s a trip back in time to the songs’ origins of being written on acoustic guitars in apartments or hotels..."

A few special guests joined Holsapple and Stamey on the sessions: John Teer (Chatham County Line) and Libby Rodenbough (Mipso) both contribute violin, and Andy Burton (Little Steven, John Mayer, Cyndi Lauper) plays keys on “Nothing Is Wrong” with, of course, Rigby (drums) and Holder (bass). The mastering by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound is a homecoming of sorts as legendary mastering engineer Calbi had previously mastered the pair’s influential Mavericks outing as well as Falling Off the Sky, the last dB’s album. For the most part, it’s Peter and Chris around the campfire at Modern Recording in Chapel Hill, N.C., grabbing whatever was in the room at the time: a toy piano, a ukulele, a banjo, a harmonium, an upright or an old Silvertone bass, and of course, guitars, guitars, guitars.

In addition to 1991’s Mavericks (RNA Records), Holsapple and Stamey also paired up for 2009’s hERE & nOW (Bar/None). For more insight into the genesis of some of these songs, see A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories (University of Texas Press), Stamey’s 2018 “songwriting memoir.” Be on the lookout for A Brand-New Shade of Blue, Chris’s new audio-and-songbook collection, currently slated for a summer 2020 release.

― dow, Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:56 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's... ok. Very samey sounding (by design I imagine) and the best bands are very well known to those of us into that scene (28th Day, Salem 66 - but they picked a weak track). Lots of off-key singing, lots of energy, and some great discoveries like Primitons and Holiday. Worth hearing but not a keeper for me. I was hoping for something akin to "Yellow Pills: Prefill".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Had the same reaction. Was looking forward to hearing this because I don't really know much about this scene outside of the Paisley Underground bands, but I was disappointed. Man, a lot of these bands had some pretty terrible singers, huh?

as a proud contributor to yellow pills volume 4, and a terrible singer, i demand they put my single on the next jangle comp thing!

also is it just my digital copy or did they not do a great job cleaning up the audio on this? Lots of sibilance on some of the vocals, like a really bad mp3

The Crassical Collection, a collection of seminal avant-punk collective CRASS’ legendary albums restored from the original analogue studio tapes, is available today (Oct. 30) via One Little Independent Records.

The Crassical Collection includes Stations of the Crass (1979), Feeding of the Five Thousand (The Second Sitting) (1981), Penis Envy(1981), Christ – The Album (1982), Yes Sir, I Will(1983), Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day (1986), and Best Before 1984 (1986). Each of the records have been repackaged and bolstered by rare and unreleased tracks, and stunning new artwork from Gee Vaucher, who has lovingly created what could only be considered a true artifact.

“There are those who believe that things should be left just as they are because any intervention after the event might in some way dilute or even corrupt original intentions,” says CRASS’ Penny Rimbaud. “It was on this basis that some of the band members objected quite strongly to the ‘Crassical Collection’ which, in short, was Gee’s and my own attempts to find new ways of smartening up the act. For many years we’d been updating everything into new formats as they came along, so what was the problem? I’d made concerted efforts to keep up with advances in mastering and playback technology and had applied these many times before, so questions of ‘originality’ appeared to me to be purely academic. What I do know is that the ‘Crassical Collection’ remasters were closer to how CRASS actually sounded than anything we’d released before. Notwithstanding, some of the band made efforts to prevent us from releasing them, at one point even threatening us with legal action. This hampered operations at Southern Studios, where we were then operating, and created severe financial difficulties which was in part the reason that the ‘Crassical Collection’ version of ‘Best Before’ was never released. The first remastering had been finished by 2010, but ready cash had now become a problem and we had to call a halt to it. And so it festered, gathering dust in a North London storage unit like modern day Dead Sea Scrolls.”

The first six albums include two CDs, with the first disc being the main album remastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios and the second being a mixture of rare live and remastered studio recordings. Each package also includes a fold-out poster and a high-quality 60-page booklet featuring all lyrics along with extensive liner notes from band members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, which shed light on the making of the records.

The Best Before 1984 Crassical Collection is brand-new and has also been remastered and features five fold-out posters and a 52-page booklet. Watch a video for “Sheep Farming 3,” a previously unreleased track available on Best Before 1984 (Crassical Collection), at https://youtu.be/LfWWr477tN4.

In addition to the CRASS releases, Rimbaud’s latest solo record, HOW?, was released in August. HOW? is available at https://oli.lnk.to/How.

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.

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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.
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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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