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Various 135 Grand Street New York cd

Various 135 Grand Street New York cd

cd 2010/1979 new A few blocks away from the bands that populated 'No New York', plenty of equally awkward, equally angry Soho combos had sprung up. Without the visuals of un-beautiful young New...
Soul Jazz $13.00

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Various 2131 South Michigan Avenue 3lp

Various 2131 South Michigan Avenue 3lp

3lp 2009/1966-68 new In Chicago, right across the street from Chess, lived the little USA label, where A&R hustler Jim Golden broke records onto the teen market by way of radio powerhouse WLS. The...
Sundazed $42.50

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Various Acid Dreams Testament lp

Various Acid Dreams Testament lp

lp 2012/1979/1967-69 new The recent series of 'Acid Dreams' reissues doesn't have a 1-to-1 relationship with the late 70s-early 80s lp series, so most of the tracks from the very first one are...
Spiral Groove $21.50

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Various Afro Baby cd

Various Afro Baby cd

cd 2006/1970-79 new 70s Nigerian funk, soul, afro-jazz, and highlife. Go beyond Fela and hear the straight shit from Lagos before the military went haywire. Tracklisting: Sahara All Stars-Alikali...
Soundway $15.00

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Various An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music 3lp

Various An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music 3lp

3lp 2012/1921-2001 new First volume in this dont-try-it-at-home series that pairs major classics & rarities of 20th century avant with cuts by today's kids. Suprisingly successful on the ears. Even...
Sub Rosa $32.00

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Various An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 2 3lp

Various An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 2 3lp

3lp 2012/1921-01 new This series looks like it's going to be a cringer when you read about it. But stick with it, cause the sounds completely prove otherwise. Half is amazing & historic 20th century...
Sub Rosa $32.00

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Various Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 2 2cd

Various Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 2 2cd

2cd 2013/1921-01 new This series looks like it's going to be a cringer at first. But stick with it, cause the sounds completely prove otherwise. Half is amazing & historic 20th century electronic &...
Sub Rosa $17.50

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Various Awon Ojise Olorun: Popular Music in Yorubaland cd

Various Awon Ojise Olorun: Popular Music in Yorubaland cd

cd 2006/1931-52 new British Library collection of early Nigerian recordings. Sakara, Juju & Apala styles, and plenty of turmoil as the imperial government redraws the maps, mints new money & ships in...
Savannahphone $21.00

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Various Beat From Badsville Vol. 2 2x10 inch

Various Beat From Badsville Vol. 2 2x10 inch

2x10 inch 2013/1957-64 new Chicks and chick magnets alike will go zowie over these doo woppers, rockabilly fireballs, bongo boppers, & other little black circles that made Lux & Ivy of the Cramps...
Stag O Lee $21.50

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Various Best of Kayden & Merben Records cd

Various Best of Kayden & Merben Records cd

cd 2009/1966-67 new Big-reverb northern soul in the shadow of Motown, and with just a bit of extra horns or arranging verve to let you know that you're in Philly. Some uptempo pounders & some...
Soul $11.00

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Various Bokan: Musics in the Margin cd

Various Bokan: Musics in the Margin cd

cd 2008 new 2nd volume of outsiders released by a French art brut society, & this one concentrates on youths at some sort of school for little wanderers. Raw yowling attacks at instruments with...
Sub Rosa $14.00

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Various Bollywood Steel Guitar 2lp

Various Bollywood Steel Guitar 2lp

2lp 2012/1962-1986 new Zippy & rich steel guitar instrumentals that channel Jimmy Bryant/Speedy West, Hindustani swirl, a touch of rainbow disco ball, and even Helen's dancing snazz in an eruption of...
Sublime Frequencies $25.50

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Various Bossa Nova 2cd

Various Bossa Nova 2cd

2cd 2011/1962-7x new The style swept the world so fast that seemingly every jazzbo & crooner suddenly threw in 2 bongo bonks & ran after Astrud Gilberto, with her flipped hair & flat pitches. Ever...
Soul Jazz $19.50

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Various Can You Dig It Vol. 1 2lp

Various Can You Dig It Vol. 1 2lp

2lp 2009/1968-75 new Fine introduction to the world of Blaxploitation soundtracks. One of the few genres in US film history where vital, popular & truly contemporary music was given equal billing to...
Soul Jazz $20.50

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Various Cartagena cd

Various Cartagena cd

cd 2011/1962-72 new The Soundway label goes back to Columbia for an irrestistable, flamboyant, infectious crop of singles on the big Discos Fuentes label. You can hear the elegance of 40s swing...
Soundway $15.00

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Various Chicago Soul cd

Various Chicago Soul cd

cd 2011/2004/196x new Introductory but nicely done overview of the Chess label. The Chess brothers began by running a club on the South Side of Chicago, and the muddy bottom end, brash horns &...
Soul Jazz $19.50

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Various Colombia Golden Age of Discos Fuentes 2lp

Various Colombia Golden Age of Discos Fuentes 2lp

2lp 2007/1960-76 new Hard & funky Salsa, Cumbia, & Descarga from Bogota's great Fuentes label. Reverse the Mercator projection and give the fandango it's due with afrosound musicians that can outplay...
Soundway $23.00

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Various Colombia: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes cd

Various Colombia: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes cd

cd 2007/1960-76 new Hard & funky Salsa, Cumbia, & Descarga from Bogota's great Fuentes label. Reverse the Mercator projection and give the fandango it's due with afrosound musicians that can outplay...
Soundway $15.00

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Various Congo Pont Sur Le Congo 2cd

Various Congo Pont Sur Le Congo 2cd

2cds 2008/197x new The chiming, rippling major-key guitars of Leopoldville/Kinshasa & Brazzaville is what those in the west usually first hear from African music (i.e.- it's the source of the widely...
Syllart $19.00

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Various Cote D'Ivoire 2cd

Various Cote D'Ivoire 2cd

2cd 2009/197x-8x new With it's stable, industrialized economy, & long running president, Abidjan was the gateway for musicians to reach French, UK & USA audiences from the late 70s to the late 80s....
Syllart $19.00

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Various Dabke Sounds of the Syrian Houran cd

Various Dabke Sounds of the Syrian Houran cd

cd 2012/1997-10 new I know what you've been thinking: If only my Omar Souleyman records had some chipmunk voices on them once in a while. Mmm, well perhaps that's just what I've been thinking, but...
Sham Palace $15.00

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Various Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China cd

Various Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China cd

cd 2013/2006-12 new Laurent Jenneau has spent the last 10 or so years knocking around rural China, recording hundreds of hours of music by groups of people who's traditional languages & attendant...
Sublime Frequencies $15.00

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Various FM-BX Society Tape 001 lp

Various FM-BX Society Tape 001 lp

lp 2010/1981 new Two Belgian bands & 1 from Scotland, who were all put together on a cassette in the early 80s just because the Brussels folks who issued it couldn't think of any other new wave bands...
S-S $13.50

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Various Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 1 lp

Various Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 1 lp

lp 2011/2003/196x-7x new The English-speaking seafaring tradition maintains that all sailors who cross the equator during a nautical voyage must undergo rites of passage and elaborate rituals...
Sublime Frequencies $21.50

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Various Funky Sex Machines cd

Various Funky Sex Machines cd

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 $17.50

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Various Ghana Soundz Vol. 2 cd

Various Ghana Soundz Vol. 2 cd

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 $15.00

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Various Ghana Special 2cd

Various Ghana Special 2cd

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 $22.00

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Various Glimpses Vol. 1 lp

Various Glimpses Vol. 1 lp

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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Various Guinee 2 Cultural Revolution 2cd

Various Guinee 2 Cultural Revolution 2cd

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 $19.00

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Various Guinee 70 The Discotheque Years 2cd

Various Guinee 70 The Discotheque Years 2cd

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 $19.00

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Various Harafin So cd

Various Harafin So cd

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 $13.50

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Various Harafin So lp

Various Harafin So lp

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 $15.50

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Various Indonesia Pop Nostalgia lp

Various Indonesia Pop Nostalgia lp

lp 2012/197x new Matters little whether it's Javanese folk, dangdut, pop Melayu, or Bollywood & Middle Eastern knockoffs. Indonesian melodies always seem to wind back around themselves, as ethereal...
Sham Palace $17.50

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Various Jim Jam Gems Vol. 1 10 inch

Various Jim Jam Gems Vol. 1 10 inch

10 inch 2013/1947-56 new Little Willie John's brilliant 'Leave My Kitten Alone' is such a diamond (check Mickey Baker's guitar on it), you coulda put 10 versions of it on here & this record would...
Stag O Lee $16.00

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Various Jim Jam Gens Vol. 2 10 inch

Various Jim Jam Gens Vol. 2 10 inch

10 inch 2013/1948-56 new Rompin stompin jump blues obscurities by folks on both sides of the color line, and sometimes even both sides of the ocean. A Joe Meek production graces this volume, as do...
Stag O Lee $16.00

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Various Kenya Special 2cd

Various Kenya Special 2cd

2cd 2013/197x new Kenyan musicians are well known for the post-WWII fingerstyle guitar that spread throughout Africa. All through the 60s & 70s this style melded with the imported fashions of...
Soundway $18.50

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Various Kenya Special 3lp + 45

Various Kenya Special 3lp + 45

3lp + 45 2013/197x new Kenyan musicians are well known for the post-WWII fingerstyle guitar that spread throughout Africa. All through the 60s & 70s this style melded with the imported fashions of...
Soundway $33.00

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Various Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp cd

Various Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp cd

cd 2007/196x new Yowie. Completely heady & frothy mix of Ventures ripoffs, mexican hat dances played on wurlitzers, children's instructional records, multiple attempts at chipmunk voices, fake steel...
Sublime Frequencies $15.00

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Various Live Kraut cd

Various Live Kraut cd

cd 2013/1972-84 new In the late 70s, bands that were slowly (or not so slowly) moving on from hippiedom littered the West German countryside, traveling around in campers from festival to festival....
Sireena $15.50

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Various Mello Jello for Mello Muffins lp

Various Mello Jello for Mello Muffins lp

lp 2006/1958-64 new Mad daddies & glue sniffers, these ditties are zoomeratin' at ya. Wonderful little collection of amphetamine rockers & novelty dances that'll give you the big twitch to get on the...
Skinupski $16.00

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Various Michigan Mixture Vol. 1 lp

Various Michigan Mixture Vol. 1 lp

lp 2012/1990/1966-71 new I know you know they make nuthin' but bad motherfuckers in that mitten state. Lusty fuzz snarlers & evil intentions everywhere you look. Obscure but gloriously snide bands...
Spiral Groove $21.50

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Various Mindexpanders Vol. 1 lp

Various Mindexpanders Vol. 1 lp

lp 2012/1966-69 new From Belgium to Peru, shades-wearing studio players, fast-talking exploito labels, industrious library hacks & at least one performer of the musical saw all tried to get their...
Spiral Groove $21.50

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Various Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1 2lp

Various Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1 2lp

2lp 2012/198x new Morose new wave bands who replaced erratic guitarists with the clean rigidity of cheap keyboards & even cheaper drum machines. Chosen from the deep enclaves of cold 80s goth in...
Stones Throw $17.50

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Various Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2 2lp

Various Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2 2lp

2lp 2012/198x new Another volume of glum new wave. Lots of boy-girl duos or solo gents armed with echo, barely-functional samplers, & a few keys held down. Not a major chord to be found anywhere. You...
Stones Throw $20.00

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Various Mirror to the Soul 2cd + dvd

Various Mirror to the Soul 2cd + dvd

2cd + dvd 2013/1954-13 new A huge set about the Carribbean islands, including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and even coastal Colombia. One disc of 70s pop music that...
Soul Jazz $33.50

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Various Mirror to the Soul 2lp

Various Mirror to the Soul 2lp

2lp 2013/1954-13 new A huge set about the Carribbean islands, including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and even coastal Colombia. One disc of 70s pop music that cruises...
Soul Jazz $27.50

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Various Molam Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 1 2lp

Various Molam Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 1 2lp

2lp 2012/2005/197x new Mark Gergis' (Porest) fantastic collection of records & cassettes from rural Northeastern Thailand. Lots of the buzzy, 2 foot tall bamboo mouth organ, gorgeous lilting nasal...
Sublime Frequencies $25.50

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Various Music From Saharan Cell Phones Vol. 2 lp

Various Music From Saharan Cell Phones Vol. 2 lp

lp 2012/2009-10 new Chris Kirkley continues his investigation into music trading by cell phone in contemporary Mali, Niger, Egypt and Morocco, a project that's gotten more & more fragile & surreal as...
Sahel Sounds $13.50

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Various Music From Saharan Cellphones lp

Various Music From Saharan Cellphones lp

lp 2011/2009-10 new Traveling from Portland through Mali & Mauritania, Sahel Sounds' Chris Kirkley landed in Kidal, at the edge of the Sahara where there are no paved roads, but there is cell...
Sahel Sounds $14.00

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Various Musics in the Margin cd

Various Musics in the Margin cd

cd 2006 new Compilation of outsiders released by a French art brut society. Some folks here are well known and others very obscure. All of em, however, are nutty as fruitcakes. Tracklisting: Jacques...
Sub Rosa $12.50

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