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     (Ninja Tune) www.ninjatune.net   A sprawling compilation documents Ninja Tune's double decade of slice and dice innovation, its nearly 100 cuts dizzyingly diverse, ye more...

(Barbes)    www.barbesrecords.com   It's not often that a single release gets to kick-start a full-on revival of a largely lost musical form, but such was the case with Barbes R more...

(Rare Rockin' Records) (import)   www.rarerockinrecords.com     It used to be, in the early 1960s, that the key drama in caring about rock ‘n' roll was following the weekl more...

(Delmark)   www.delmark.com   Sometimes, it's all in the delivery. Much as a good comedian can take a stale one-liner, punctuate the right syllables and make it funny again, a good b more...

(Mad Decent/Downtown)   www.maddecent.com   Newly minted Blackberry spokesman and Die Antwoord collaborator Wes Pentz - Diplo to you - has rarely met a genre-babbling sound he doesn' more...

(Masterworks Jazz)   www.ctimasterworks.com   A lot of jazz geeks see the 70s as a dead zone, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch of the genre. The late-50s/early 60s heyday of hard bop's more...

 (Constellation Records)   www.cstrecords.com/musiquefragile01/   Les Momies de Palerme/Brulez Ce Coeur (six stars) Khôra/Silent Your Body Is Endless (seven stars) Nic more...

(Nacional)   www.nacionalrecords.com   Sergio Días, Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee conceived of Os Mutantes in 1966 as a free flying brand of world psychedelia without realizing more...

            The redoubtable archivist label Soundway Records' first foray into Asian music reaps sensational rewards on The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz more...

(Umbrella Tree)   www.umbrellatreerecords.com   Regional music compilations are as inevitable as they tend to be hit-and-miss, their overall reach additionally restricted, for the mos more...