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(Spectral Sound)   www.ghostly.com/releases#Spectral   The leadoff track on Document speaks volumes; "Got No Place to Go" is the raw, hissing, borderline abrasive work of Chicago hou more...

(Strut)   www.k7.com   When the tiny Kona imprint released its classic set of rare and underground funk and rock from the Dark Continent entitled Afro-Rock Vol. 1 in the summer of more...

(The Shanghai Restoration Project)   www.shanghairestorationproject.com   Electronica is an international language, but for Chinese authorities promoting the current Shanghai Expo, more...

(Sugar Hill) www.sugarhillrecords.com Any attempt to neatly categorize Shel Silverstein inevitably ends up as an exercise in futility. An author, cartoonist, broadcaster, performer, Playboy co more...

(Needwant Recordings)   www.needwant.co.uk     Giving Balearic Beat a facelift, UK-based Needwant Recordings' first edition of new mix compilations¸ Future Balearica: N more...

(Vampi Soul)   www.vampisoul.com   The plethora of re-issues and re-issue labels in the last 10 + years has made clear one truth that had previously been well known to record colle more...

(Proximal)   www.proximalrecords.com   Who would have thought ten years ago that the next major movement in Los Angeles hip-hop following the G-Funk era would be coming from a colon more...

  (Soundway)    www.soundwayrecords.com   A mad diversity of styles and a pulsating, percussion heavy beat is the hallmark of this engrossing collection of Colombian Champet more...

    (Tompkins Square)   www.tomkinssquare.com   The Imaginational Anthem series started in 2005, as a way to unearth forgotten guitar pickers from the American primitive more...

    (The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation)   www.idelsohnsociety.com   Once partners in the struggle against bigotry and intolerance, Blacks and Jews found themselv more...