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2lp 2010/1998/1964-69 new The twin cities spawned a healthy clutch of garage bands over the course of the 60s, ranging from the heavenly Trashmen to the freaky CA Quintet, and even 'The Crusher' by... |
Get Hip |
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lp 2012/2001/1964-67 new In old, cold Detoit, the first teen club that featured live bands was the Hideout. And they opened with a band that did a dirty version of 'Louie Louie', causing instant... |
Norton |
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2lp 2012/1973-87 new Suburban Illinois powerpop that, as it did everywhere, tried to resurrect the fun of harmonies & songwriting & therefore got stuck between the punk rockers, boring bar bands, &... |
Numero |
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lp 2011/1968-81 new The bulwarked & matronly ladies of lounge-laden Germany take on the sickly sweet strings and flashing lights of disco. They will be sexy if it is the last thing they do, but it... |
Grosse Freiheit |
$16.00
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cd 2009/1968-79 new With the hacking 'ch' sounds & rolled 'r's of the German language to contend with, not to mention the syrupy vocal backups known to the world as schlager, it's a small miracle... |
Bureau B |
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lp 2010/1968-79 new With the hacking 'ch' sounds & rolled 'r's of the German language to contend with, not to mention the syrupy vocal backups known to the world as schlager, it's a small miracle... |
Bureau B |
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cd 2011/197x new Sassy & diamond hard funk. The Soul Patrol label was started in the early 90s by Nicolas Magneron. A quote from a typically snooty London DJ should put it into perspective: "There... |
Soul Patrol |
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cd 2008/196x new Library music from the little engine that could company, Studio G. Started by an ad exec who thought most library music was too stuffy. Rather than fund a whole orchestra, John Gale... |
Trunk |
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cd 2009/1927-31 new A bump on a log outside of Charlotte, NC, Gastonia (which I'm told by a southerner here in the shop, rhymes with Petunia) was once the home of the largest cotton mills in the... |
Old Hat |
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4cd 2010/1927-34 new Known best for it's early jazz catalog, the Gennett label, born as the arm of a piano company in Indiana, also recorded a ton of now-obscure hillbilly/blues sides. They were the... |
JSP |
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lp 2009/1964-68 new All unreleased acetates and tapes of savage primitive garage from the good ol' USA. Amazing that records this good can still be found, much less unissued ones. Tracklisting:... |
Norton |
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cd 2004/1970-78 new Deep afrosoul explosion & funky hotfoot dances are just the starting point here, & Miles Cleret dug through the trash left sitting at old pressing plants to turn up forgotten... |
Soundway |
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cd 2009/1968-81 new Having spent 10 years researching the musicians of Ghana, Miles Cleret decided that his two volumes of 'Ghana Soundz' weren't enough to give a true overview of the country's... |
Soundway |
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2lp 2008/1925-29 new More amazing 78s dug out of the EMI archive, this time documenting the rich, fluid, urban kaleidescope of 20s Baghdad. Arabic folk singers, professional Jewish oud players, dabka... |
Honest Jon's |
$19.00
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cd 2008/1925-29 new More amazing 78s dug out of the EMI archive, this time documenting the rich, fluid, urban kaleidescope of 20s Baghdad. Arabic folk singers, professional Jewish oud players, dabka... |
Honest Jon's |
$16.00
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2cd 2012/1983-89/1963-67 new Minor key psych, mostly from the USA with lots of decidedly trebly distortion & fuzz. Delivers lots of a very subtle certain sort of mixing job that was all that wished... |
Particles |
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lp 2012/1982/1966-70 new The 80's version of the 60s is back once more, and you can revisit the days when Germans reintroduced Americans to some of their great paisley-covered exports: Mouse & the... |
Spiral Groove |
$21.50
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2cd 2010/1982/1966-70 new The 80's version of the 60s is back once more, and you can revisit the days when Germans reintroduced Americans to some of their great paisley-covered exports: Mouse & the... |
Past & Present |
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cd 2001/1927-48 new In the mid-1800s the accordion was the cheap & portable instrument that you couldn't hit any wrong notes on. It became fashionable in nearly every country on earth & founded whole... |
Wergo |
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2cd 2012/1982-2004 new For whatever reason (rich white government shills forcing everyone else into Maryland mayhaps?), Washington DC is a bizarre musical goldfish bowl that makes genres all it's own... |
Z |
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2cd 2005/1971-83 new All over West Africa, political independence and a new urbanity caused club owners & bands to add a wide variety electric instruments to traditional rhythms. This well annotated... |
Network |
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cd 1990/1951-71 new Dive deep into Bollywood, with a set that stays away from the kitchen sink production & crime funk eras to focus on the slightly less western, lilting songs of the 50s. A striking... |
Ace |
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cd 1990/1949-78 new Last volume in this dandy series introducing Bollywood from the point of view of it's original audience, rather than DJs in Rocawear. Lata sings courtesan dances, Rafi pretends to... |
Ace |
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cd 1996/196x new Obscure singles from the glorious Memphis soul label Goldwax, and they're on the cheap. Otis Redding wannabes, doo-woppers who never made it, slammin organ instros. Most of all... |
Vivid |
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cd 2006/197x new The inexhaustible soul fiends at Numero bring you the dirtiest & funkiest Jesus freakers out there. Stomp in your choir robes to these burnin' cuts. Tracklisting: Preacher & the... |
Numero |
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cd 2013/1973-79 new For their 3rd set of independently made 70s gospel, Numero steps away from 45s and into generically packaged full length lps. Making them was only slightly more expensive than... |
Numero |
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lp 2010/1973 new Blaxploitaton flick directed by actor Ossie Davis. Orchestral funk, mostly instros, & mostly by a studio band called Badder Than Evil. Takes a bit to get past the faux-classy wafting... |
Buddah |
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lp 2011/196x new J'adore this gitchy, itchy little Paris series of freakbeat & R&B cuts about trashy dancing. Do the jerk, or the bugalu, or the frankenstein walk as instructed, or just be impressed... |
Classe Internationale |
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cassette 2012/1961 new Son & Guajira from Cuba. Singer Cheo Marquetti's dad had been in a pre-WWI band where the members pretended to be Chinese. During the 1930s he started singing with big bands &... |
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cd 2007/1965-69 new Groovy Peruvians get the boogaloo itch and whip out their trumpets and four-foot-tall conga drums. Influenced by Latin big bands, American soul hits, and Carribean booty shaking,... |
Vampisoul |
$11.50
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2lp 2007/1965-69 new Groovy Peruvians get the boogaloo itch and whip out their trumpets and four-foot-tall conga drums. Influenced by Latin big bands, American soul hits, and Carribean booty shaking,... |
Vampisoul |
$25.00
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2lp 2007/1965-69 new As Cuban/NYC-inspired dance bands in black suits gave way to smaller electric combos in tight paisley pants, the Lima club scene started to incorporate touches of cumbia, Celia... |
Vampisoul |
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2lp 2009/1966-70 new Lima was riddled with a fever for the latin sound of Nu York during the mid-60s, but the boogalooing Peruvians had also been reared on hard descargas rhythms & would soon fall to... |
Vampisoul |
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cd 2013/1966-70 new Lima was riddled with a fever for the latin sound of Nu York during the mid-60s, but the boogalooing Peruvians had also been reared on hard descargas rhythms & would soon fall to... |
Vampisoul |
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2lp 2011/1961-70 new Scorching son rhythms imported to Peru from Cuba, where they got mixed up with American jazz, local folk songs, western classical music, & more. Somewhere between the big bands... |
Vampisoul |
$24.00
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cd 2011/1961-70 new Scorching son rhythms imported to Peru from Cuba, where they got mixed up with American jazz, local folk songs, western classical music, & more. Somewhere between the big bands of... |
Vampisoul |
$16.00
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2 lp set 2007 new Jazzy funk and soul instrumental groovers from Spain. The standout track here is definitely a sadistically funky version of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. It'll turn your head all... |
Vampisoul |
$25.00
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2lp 2011/1966-77 new Succulent, sugary, lavish French 60s pop. Not quite ye-ye, but a bit later once dirty Serge & wanton Jacques have had their way with the filles of Paris. Vocal harmonies ring... |
Lion |
$21.00
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cd 2011/1966-77 new Succulent, sugary, lavish French 60s pop. Not quite ye-ye, but a bit later once dirty Serge & wanton Jacques have had their way with the filles of Paris. Vocal harmonies ring... |
Lion |
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2lp 2010/1965-75 new And just when you thought you were done, here comes an avalanche of heavy Khmer rock songs that haven't been easily available before. While information about Sinn Sisamouth & Ros... |
Lion |
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cd 2010/1965-75 new And just when you thought you were done, here comes an avalanche of heavy Khmer rock songs that haven't been easily available before. While information about Sinn Sisamouth & Ros... |
Lion |
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2lp 2010/1965-75 new What could be better to rev you up than the instant kick-off at the beginning of Ros Sereysothea's loud & proud classic 'Jah Jou Aem' (Old Sour and Sweet)? This volume has a... |
Lion |
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cd 2011/1965-75 new What could be better to rev you up than the instant kick-off at the beginning of Ros Sereysothea's loud & proud classic 'Jah Jou Aem' (Old Sour and Sweet)? This volume has a... |
Lion |
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2cd 2006/1957-86 new One track from Miriam Makeba, who was given sanctuary in Guinea after she denounced apartheid & married Stokely Carmichael. But the real story here is the music of Sekou Diabate... |
Syllart |
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2cd 2010/1970-77 new The slogan goes "culture is more efficient than machine guns". And if it ain't the truth, as Conkary's state-funded orchestras & record label (Syliphone) once took over the dance... |
Syllart |
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cdr 2012 new Joyous street recordings made by Jonah from the Debo band while travelling through China, Vietnam, Thailand, & Japan. Karaoke, heavy metal cover bands, taxi radios, parades, yodelers,... |
Mass Dist |
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2xcdr 2012/2009 new Members of Boston's Ethiopian-American band Debo spent a big chunk of 2009 traveling through Addis Ababa & the rural countryside, and they recorded hours of street performers,... |
Mass Dist |
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lp 2013 new Hausa is one of the largest linguistic groups in Nigeria, and so films in the language form a section of Nigeria's film industry. Based out of Kano, a northern city 2nd only in size to... |
Sahel Sounds |
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lp 2013 new Hausa is one of the largest linguistic groups in Nigeria, and so films in the language form a section of Nigeria's film industry. Based out of Kano, a northern city 2nd only in size to... |
Sahel Sounds |
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lp 2012/1976/1928-36 new Loud & cheap, the harmonica could travel with even the most destitute, and in the right hands it could imitate trains, chickens, people talking, babies crying, a whole band,... |
Yazoo |
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