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Roll Your Moneymaker: Early Black Rock 'n' Roll 1948 - 1958
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Long before Elvis had rolled his pelvis, or the Rolling Stones tapped into the Mississippi-Blues, and the legions of white bands made their electrified guitars roar, black Blues-Gospel & Jazz artists had laid the cornerstone for the musical revolution known as Rock n Roll! Besides well-known names like Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, or Bo Diddley. This comp also features many unjustly overseen musical pioneers.
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La Paloma (A Song For All Worlds) Vol. 1
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Volume 1 in this collection of various artists covering the classic song La Paloma.
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La Paloma (A Song For All Worlds) Vol. 2
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Volume 2 in this collection of various artists covering the classic song La Paloma.
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La Paloma (A Song For All Worlds) Vol. 3
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Volume 2 in this collection of various artists covering the classic song La Paloma.
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La Paloma (A Song For All Worlds) Vol. 5
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Volume 5 in this collection of various artists covering the classic song La Paloma.
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La Paloma (A Song For All Worlds) Vol. 6
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Volume 6 in this collection of various artists covering the classic song La Paloma.
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Beyond Istanbul: Underground Grooves of Turkey
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A collection of rare and contemporary grooves from Turkey.
Featuring neo-psychedelic and swirling sounds from artists such as Ceza and the Replikas, it is the perfect soundtrack for major bongage and black lights.
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Cheatin' Soul & The Southern Dream of Freedom
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This excellent collection is a sister compilation to the recent Dirty Laundry country-soul set, this time focusing on the classic Southern soul tradition of cheating songs.
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Doom & Gloom: Early Songs of Angst of Disaster 1927 - 1945
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A series of disasters in the 1920s and 1930s helped to create a climate of fear that affected the societal psyche in a similar way as today, when wars, fanaticism, terrorism, natural disasters, global warming, bird flu, tsunami, hurricanes and tornados all contribute to a gloomy atmosphere of uncertainty and constant dread.
Hillbilly and blues musicians in the 1920s and 30s expressed the general mood in a poignant way. They sang of catastrophes and disasters, whether far away or on their doorstep. They talked of the effects these events had on the lives of ordinary people. They described what happened when disaster struck, as seen through the eyes of the victims.
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Import Export a la Turka: Turkish Sounds From Germany
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In 2006 Trikont & DJ Ipek released the critically acclaimed Beyond Istanbul. They now come with another installment of contemporary Turkish grooves, with a focus on Turkish-pop artists who now record in Germany.
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Mariachi: The Sounds of Hysteria & Headache
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“Mariachi – The sound of Hysteria and Heartache” documents the whole spectrum of its infiltration. Mariachi trumpets exult in Techno and Hip-Hop as well as in ballads of popular music gogetters, the typical violins yowl no less in House than they do in Calexico’s desert sound. This compilation brings together the happily joyful and the depressingly sad. The main thing is the heart gets deeply touched!"
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Mexican Boleros: Songs of Heartbreaking Passion & Pain 1927 - 1957
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It was music which millions of Latinos fell in love to, found pleasure in, and cuckolded others to: The Mexican Bolero.
The rise began in Mexico City’s brothels, finding its prime in the Golden Thirties, when it conquered the whole continent with beautiful tear-jerking songs. The Amazonian jungle, the Argentinean pampas or the New York concert halls – everywhere the Bolero was paid homage to.
It was the soundtrack to innumerable melodramas and gun movies, today’s Mexican TV Premiers would be unthinkable without its success.
Still Bolero tear-jerkers never were mass productions, but compositions comparable to cut and polished diamonds: delicious, crafty and precipitous.
This compilation is a sound trip through the dance-halls, cabarets and gangster’s dens of the sensual Mexico of the thirties, a trip through the emotional world of machos, masochists and love lunatics.
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More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country
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More Dirty Laundry is the second volume in Trikont’s anthology of country music performed by some of the great soul artists of all time. In the process of shedding light on these rare cuts of this oft-neglected genre, More Dirty Laundry exposes the country roots of many soul greats, including Ike and Tina Turner, Joe Tex, and James Brown. This collection of forgotten musical nuggets explores the overlooked connections that exist between two truly American genres, Country and Soul.
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Motel Lovers: Southern Soul from the Chitlin Circuit
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The Chitlin’ Circuit is a chain of Soul venues in the black quarters of the South. This compilation proves Southern Soul is still very much alive. Feat. Bobby Rush, Sir Charles Jones, Denise LaSalle, Floyd Dixon, and many more.
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Wish You: Best Christmas Ever
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A compiled holiday CD with x-mas related songs not only celebrating the festive atmosphere of the holy night but also showing the other side of Christmas.
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Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country
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Dirty Laundry explores the long connection and crossover between soul music and country music. Addressing the misconception that black music has evolved along a branch completely divorced from the country music that has come to be associated with white America.
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American Polka: Old Tunes & New Sounds
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A mix of polka tunes from the 1920’s to today. Classics of the genre such as Frankie Yankovic and Li’l Wally to contemporary maestros like Guy Klucevsek and Brave Combo to new wave wackos like Polkacide and The Polkaholics.
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American Yodeling: 1911 - 1946
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26 tracks of all forms of American hillbilly yodeling.
Some of the artists assembled here are well known to fans of yodeling, others will be familiar to blues and country fans, but its the selections themselves that set this apart from virtually any other yodeling collection available.
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Black & Proud: The Soul of the Black Panther Era Vol. 1
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A thrilling group of soul, funk, reggae and hip-hop songs, inspired by the struggle of the Black Panthers.
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Black & Proud: The Soul of the Black Panther Era Vol. 2
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A sizzling blend of Black Panther politics and late-60’s, early-70’s genius with a splash of reggae and early rap too.
Featured artists – Earl Sixteen, Gil Scott-Heron, Hank Ballard, Staple Singers, and more.
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Creative Outlaws: U.S. Underground 1962 - 1970
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This collection of 22 underground curiosities reflects the clash between 1960’s liberals and the American Establishment.
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Dope & Glory: Reefer Songs Of The '30s & '40s
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A collection of 30s and 40s vocal jazz music with marijuana as the single defining theme. Both esoteric and carefree, this 2CD set features 50 songs by such artists as Cab Callaway, Louie Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. In the end, Dope and Glory is an ethnomusicological curiosity, a political album, and a simply great set of jazz.
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Down & Out: The Sad Soul Of The Black South
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Never has a collection of obscure, raging heartbreak songs like these been issued. These are “done wrong” songs, but they have an edge missing in so much of the period’s R&B and blues. These songs believe in a love so pure, it can only be consummated by murder, suicide, or an act of divine intervention-such is its emotional intensity.
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England's Dreaming: Punk, Compiled by Jon Savage
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To coincide with the European publication of Jon Savage’s book ’England’s Dreaming’, which chronicled the punk revolution of the 1970s, this compilation of international classics from the years before, during and after Punk 1970-1979.
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Flowers In The Wildwood: Women In Early Country Music 1923 - 1939
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A well selected collection of early 21st century southern women singers.
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Hits & Misses: Muhammad Ali & The Ultimate Sound of Fist Fighting
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A compilation of tunes about Muhammad Ali, or about boxing! From afro-beat, to reggae, and even country western.
These nuggets are all mined from the mid-60’s and early-70’s, and all are anchored one man – ALI.
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Ho!: Roady Music From Vietnam
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This album is an anthology of great street music from Vietnam. Some of the tracks are recorded very poorly, you can hear car horns in the back ground, but it only adds to the character of the music. Jazz horns, fast drum beats, bar blues, and more!
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John Peel & Sheila: The Pigs Big 78s
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A wild selection of 78’s from legendary DJ John Peel’s collection. Vintage music chosen by Peel and his wife Sheila, for Trikont – their favorites from his legendary late night Radio 1 show.
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Mzansi Music: Young Urban South Africa
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The early brash days of kwaito are over — when everything was new and possible in the Rainbow Nation — this album is an eclectic collection and reflects a subtler sound and creativity from black urban music-makers.
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Prayers From Hell: White Gospel & Sinners Blues 1927 - 1940
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A compilation of country folk, blues and bluegrass in the US between 1927-1940.
25 tracks feature The Carter Family, The Monroe Brothers, Edith And Sherman Collins, Bill Carlisle’s Kentucky Boys, and more.
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Queer Noises 1961 - 1978: From The Closet To The Charts
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Beginning in 1961 with drag queens and cap records on tiny labels, this compilation passes through the mid 60’s pop, 70’s soul, glitter rock, and punk. Features The Ramones, Sylvester, Chris Robinson, The Miracle, and more!
Compiled by Jon Savage.
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Shtetl Super Stars: Funky Jewish Sounds From Around The World
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19 tracks from a variety of Jewish musicians. Multiple genre’s are found here, including ska, punk, reggae, hip hop, rock, klezmer, and much more.
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Sidewalk Songs & Street Stories: New Urban Folk
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Artists on this comp have grown up in a different time than that of Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell. Out with the country-nostalgia, in with the big-city melancholy. Wonderful tracks from Devendra Banhart, The Frogs, Double Deuce, The Babyskins, and much more!
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Stranded In The USA: Early Songs of Emigration
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Recorded between 1922 and 1959, this set of tunes is an outstanding encapsulation of the immigrant experience in the US.
The songs are sung in the languages of virtually every major national group that arrived in the New World.
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Suburban Bucharest: Mahala Sound From Romania
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Suburban Bucharest unites magnificent voices and virtuous fiddlers. It is telling us about musical occasions and their places, the constant changing of prevailing taste, and about the imminent end of the old Lautari-Music in Romania.
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Texas Bohemia: 70's South Texas Moravian Bands
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This CD presents a smorgasbord of toodling tubas, stomping oompahs and spirited yodelling: if you like the Latin Playboys, Boozoo Chavis, Tom Waits of Dixieland jazz, its worth checking out. Ja! Sehr gut!
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Dead & Gone Vol. 2: Totenlieder - Songs of Death
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Volume 2 in this evil series about death!
Featured tracks – Lou Reed’s “Goodbye Mass”, Billy Holiday’s "Strange Fruit, and Beasts Of Bourbon’s “Rest In Peace”
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In Prison: Afro-American Prison Music From Blue To Hip-Hop
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A collection of song about the chain gangs, imprisoned blues men like Robert Pete Williams, the prison-soul of the Escorts, enraged hip hop from Tupac, Brand Nubian & K-Solo as well as prison songs by Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Last Poets, and more!
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Mestizo Music: Rebelion en Americana Latina
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Latin Ska, Cumbia, Reggae, Hip Hop, and Manguebeat from Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico & Brazil. People in Latin America are fighting against injustice and destructive globalization in their countries. This is their music!
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Russendisko: Hits
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A compilation of the new underground music which developed in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. From Punk Rock from Siberia to Gypsy Ska from Moldavia – this is wierd and wonderful pop music from the Wild East!
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Yikhes: Early Klezmer Recordings 1911 - 1939
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This historical anthology presents the traditional Jewish wedding music at a turning point in its history. After its almost complete extermination during the Nazi holocaust it has survived in the USA in the heads and hands of immigrants from Eastern Europe.
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Flashbacks Vol. 1: Drug Songs 1917 - 1944
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The highs, the lows, the pleasure and the pain are all here in a diverse selection of songs about illicit narcotics to moonshine alcohol, from the period 1917 to 1944.
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Flashbacks Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914 - 1946
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Imitation train whistles and Oriental instruments, yodels and scat vocals, uncontrollable laughter and strings of tongue twisting nonsense feature in this comp of 27 absurd, zany, hilarious and logic defying tracks recorded between 1914-1946.
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Flashbacks Vol. 3: Copulation Blues 1926 - 1940
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Innuendo and metaphor, an explicit and unexpurgated example from the underground ‘party’ tradition, and the most convincing fake orgasm on record are featured in these 25 items dating from the period 1926 to 1940.
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Flashbacks Vol. 4: Heartbreakers 1927 - 1946
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Songs of lost love, dire straits, and endless nights of loneliness are offset by songs of hope and promise and some up tempo blues instrumentals. Black and white folk traditions sit comfortably alongside uptown numbers from Hollywood and the Broadway stag
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Flashbacks Vol. 5: Halleluja 1926 - 1946
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This compilation contains 23 powerful tracks spanning the years 1926 to 1946, performed by urbane quartets and rasping street singers, vaudevillian blues divas and ordained ministers.
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Swamp Music Vol. 1: Best of Cajun and Zydeco
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The first release in the 9 CD series…and oh is it good!
Lots of blazing guitars, slamming accordions, and plenty of fiddle. And while offering listeners all the HITS in both Cajun and zydeco, it also proposes to offer many obscure field recordings!
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Swamp Music Vol. 2: Jewels of Cajun Music
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Forcibly expelled from their adopted Canadian homeland French settlers ended up in Louisiana, where they intermarried and absorbed the local musical forms. The result was a fiery, convoluted and infectious hybrid guaranteed to move your body and feet.
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Swamp Music Vol. 3: Kings of Zydeco/Black Creole Music From The Deep South
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This set has all the names associated with the origins of zydeco, including its two founding fathers, Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis, as well as John Delafose, and Rockin Sidney.
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Swamp Music Vol. 4: Modern Cajun Lovers - Music of the Bayou & French Rock
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Swamp Music Vol. 5: Krazy Kats - Louisiana Swamp Pop & Rock
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Easily the most satisfying volume in the Trikont Cajun and zydeco series for anybody interested in the roots of the musics modern sound. Mostly recorded in the 60’s with a couple of 70’s numbers thrown in for measure, it contains 18 tracks in total!
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Swamp Music Vol. 6: Prend Donc Courage - Early Black & White Cajun
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Swamp Music Vol. 7: Legends of Zydeco - The Old School Strikes Back
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Featuring 2 artists, Boozoo Chavis & John Delafose playing their brand of zydeco in the modern era. Featuring some of the best blues-zydeco you can imagine! -
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Swamp Music Vol. 8: Young Zydeco Desperadoes - Black Creole Sounds of Today
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This volume is all about Beau Jocque and his peers! He was the man who, like Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis before him, changed the face of zydeco by taking it to another level. This CD includes his precious few recordings, and more. -
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Swamp Music Vol. 9: New Trail Riders - The Big Cajun Squeeze
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Si, Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba Vol. 1
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An unprecedented combination of socialism and artistic freedom flourished during the mid-years of Castro’s Cuba, enabling musicians to create an innovative body of music based on traditional styles like those made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club. Si, Para: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba Volume 1 captures the spirit of this time.
The music ranges from son, beat, jazz, funk, and abounds with psychedelic influences, electronic experimentation, and a heavy dose of soul. Communist funk may seem unlikely, but here it is, as Light In The Attic & Waxing Deep team up for this deluxe vinyl release.
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Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair: Scandinavian 60's - 70's Folk
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During the last two decades the fusion of folk music and jazz has produced some of Norway’s bestselling jazz records, from Arild Andersen to Dag Arnesen Trio. But this release aims to present the early folk jazz scene in Norway between the years 1971-1977, when the Norwegian folk song heritage was interpreted in different progressive ways by some of Norway’s top musicians.
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V/A - Gozalo: Bugalu Tropical Vol. 1
A collection of the Peru’s best artists of the 60s and 70s. Names include Charlie Palomares, Mario Allison, Lucho Macedo, and Al Valdez, all of whom were experimenting with sounds such as jazz, boogaloo, and soul. Fans of Os Mutantes will love this one!
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Doyres:Traditional Klezmer Recordings 1979-1994
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The leading bands and soloists of the Klezmer revival, not only from America but also from Israel, Hungary and Ukraine. The music ranges from older styles and modern sounds to the adoption of the Jewish tradition by Gentile musicians.
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Thai Funk: ZudRangMa Vol. 1
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Beautifully packaged in a hand-stitched soft cloth sleeve (patterns and colors may vary), and limited to 1300 copies worldwide, this first collection compiled by Maft Sai for Bangkok‘s Zudrangma Record label brings 18 forgotten seventies Thai pop, garage, and funk tracks by 16 artists into the spotlight.
Impress your cultured friends with this, a no doubt about it ethnomusicologist’s wet dream!
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Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's Mowest Story 1971-73
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You know the old saying, “Go west, young man”? Well, it’s far from cliché. Over the years, some have hit the road in search of Hollywood’s glitz and glamour, others, simply for warmer climes, but in the early 1970’s, Detroit-native and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. brought his musical family to the left coast, one piece at a time. He began by launching the Mowest subsidiary in 1971, a new L.A.-based label dedicated to coastal grooves and an eye towards the top of the charts.
We are completely honored to present the first ever compilation of this now legendary label: _*Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story (1971-1973)*_ (LITA 065), an adult portion of sweet soul, heavyweight funk, and even a dose of potent West Coast hippy rock.
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Early Rappers
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The compilation "Early Rappers“ features more than one and a half dozen of these early pioneers. Their rhetoric inventiveness, their word skills and esprit fuels what hip hop has become today!
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