The groove connoisseurs of Jazz Dispensary take you back to the summer of 1978, to an imaginary hotel deep in the heart of the French Riviera, for a day of love, abandonment and a whole lot of psychedelia, soundtracked by the sweet themes of Dizzy Gillespie, The Blackbyrds, Dorothy Ashby and many more. Psych-Sunset Orange…
RECORD STORE DAY 2022 RELEASE LIMITED TO 2,000 COPIES WORLDWIDE LIMITED TO 1,650 COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA The first-ever compilation of the rare and unissued garage and rockabilly from Jetstar Records! Largely done under the watchful eye of Dale Hawkins (who penned “Suzie Q”) including an unearthed blistering version of Q, lost tracks from the…
KIDZ BOP Ultimate Playlist is packed full of today s biggest pop hits sung by kid for kids! The all-new album from the #1 kids music brand features Stay, Bad Habits, Fancy Like, and many more of the songs kids love that parents can feel good about! From the living room to center stage and…
What an outstanding compilation of artists who played at the International Pop Underground Convention in 1991. You read the performers list; from Bratmobile, to Courtney Love, to Bikini Kill, to Nirvana, to 7 Year Bitch. This is a beautiful snapshot of the best of the early 90 s west coast, and perhaps more importantly and…
The Kraut Jazz Futurism compilation shows what s cookin in the new German jazz scene. Young German bands and a few of the international musicians working in Berlin now. Fresh artists that combine jazz, krautrock, Afro, hip-hop and electronica in a new way. The first volume of the compilation came out in 2020 (KRY 013LP) and was…
Texan Roky Erickson was one of the true mind-blowing pioneers of psychedelic music. The original leader of the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators formed in 1965, Erickson and band invented a brand new style of rock & roll, one that was slightly unhinged while it explored the consciousness-expanding influence of LSD on music. After three years,…
For the lowriders, the souleros, and for any armchair drag racer who still has a record player within reach, Mid-Atlantic Story pays tribute to the aftermarket sounds of soul music, inspired by the record industry s metric trunkload of cruising compilations, legitimate and otherwise, that soundtracked an entire subculture. This getaway ride mixtape strips aesthetics from the timeless East Side Story series, and poaches music from the…
40 years after the beginnings of the Italo disco movement Milano Undiscovered leads you to discover the first ferments of the Milanese post-punk dance scene. In the early 80s future producers began to veer towards a form of dance music not yet defined, what once seemed like an experimental form, today sounds like a cornerstone for future…
The second volume of the well-received collection of analogically recorded sessions held at the Odd Funk Studio in the tradition of spiritual jazz, post-bop and free improvisation.
Pacific Breeze documents Japan’s blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the world’s second largest economy. Thriving tech exports sent The Rising Sun over the moon. Its pocket cassette players, bleeping video games, and gleaming cars boomed worldwide, wooing pleasure points and pumping Japanese pockets…
When Light In The Attic released _Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986_ in 2019, it was the first collection of it s kind to be released outside Japan. It proved to be just what music fans had been waiting for-a compilation of sought-after tracks that had been nearly impossible to obtain unless…
Light in the Attic s Pacific Breeze series has supplied the world s growing legions of Japanese music fans with an expertly curated selection of the most sought-after City Pop recordings-the mesmerizing and nebulous genre of Japanese bubble-era music of the 70s- 80s that encompasses AOR, R&B, jazz fusion, funk, boogie and disco. These familiar…
After half a century of constant development, inspiration and hothouse flowerings, certain genres have found their perfect expression – soul-funk is one of them. Dojo Cuts are one perfect expression of this perfect expression. Lean, mean and heavy (in the true sense) there is not a bass-note or hihat-beat out of place – everything is…
funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from 60s and 70s nigeria, iran, turkey, russia, south korean and other exotic countries. rare and previously unreleased tracks restored and remastered, many from the original master tapes. detailed liner notes with rare photos, ephemera and full annotation and band histories. psych-funk 101- a global psychedelic funk curriculum introduces students to…
As the final chapter in the initial run of Jazz Is Dead releases, Remixes JID010 continues the creative catharsis of an exhilarating new chapter in jazz music. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad tapped nine iconic creators to reimagine their personal favorites from Jazz Is Dead’s catalogue to-date, who created striking new versions of songs…
From the classic murder ballads “Stack O Lee” and “Frankie & Johnny” to songs of jealous pistol-yielding lovers, blues music and the gun have long crossed paths. This Rough Guide charts this troubled association with tracks from country blues legends including Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis and Skip James.