Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog, vol. 1-11 (2016)
Peter Kuhlmann, the artist best known as Pete Namlook who passed away in 2012, was very prolific on his own and alongside many others, including Biosphere, Richie Hawtin and Move D. His work with Klaus...
View ArticleThe Jam – Fire and Skill: The Jam Live (2015)
Named after the legend painted on Paul Weller’s amp, Fire and Skill featuring six previously unreleased live recordings from shows between 1977 and 1982, remastered at Abbey Road Studios. The first...
View ArticleOsibisa – Singles As, Bs & 12 inches (2015)
If ever there was a musical collective that defined and inspired the African diaspora in its besieged infancy, then Osibisa were it; the lightning rod, the benchmark, the precious Constructivist...
View ArticleVA – Triple J: 40 Years of Music (2015)
Why does triple j continue to release compilations? It seems like every year the youth broadcaster releases some sort of retrospective album, and of course, the perennial juggernaut that is the Hottest...
View ArticleArthur Lee & Love – Coming Through to You: The Live Recordings 1970-2004 (2015)
Though the Los Angeles band Love never achieved wide acclaim during their late-sixties heyday or later, that probably had less to do with their music than with group leader Arthur Lee’s personal demons...
View ArticleSkin Crime – Case Studies in Early Taxidermy Techniques (2016)
The latest release on Prurient and Vatican Shadow mastermind Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions shines a light on Patrick O’Neil’s harsh noise project Skin Crime. Titled Case Studies in Early...
View ArticleThe Archies – Sugar, Sugar: The Complete Albums Collection (2016)
The Archies were perhaps the most popular animated band in the late ’60s, with a cartoon that aired every Saturday morning and one chart-topping single, “Sugar, Sugar.” With songs written by big shots...
View ArticleLush – Origami (RSD 2016)
Last year, ’90s shoegazers Lush announced they would reunite for a series of shows. Since then, they have released their first new song in 20 years, announced an EP and hinted at a new album. Now, to...
View ArticleNina Simone – The Philips Years (2016)
The Philips Years is a humble title for a collection that contains some of the most important, moving documents of American history. Nina Simone’s Philips records remain her most essential. Nina Simone...
View ArticleCoil – Threshold Archives (2015)
Coil’s discography has fallen into neglect somewhat over the years as more and more releases have gone out of print. That was intended to change with the Threshold Archives (named after Coil’s label...
View ArticleTucky Buzzard – The Complete Tucky Buzzard (2016)
Tucky Buzzard released five albums – and they are gathered here in a special collector’s edition CD clamshell boxset. Tucky Buzzard arose from the ashes of The End in 1970, retaining the line-up of...
View ArticlePeter Erskine Trio, John Taylor, Palle Danielson – As It Was (2016)
Over the course of five years in the 1990s, drummer Peter Erskine, pianist John Taylor and bassist Palle Danielsson came very close to perfecting the contemporary piano trio presentation. Across four...
View ArticleSpencer Davis Group – Taking Time Out: Complete Recordings 1967-1969 (2016)
3CD boxset of all the 60s post-Steve Winwood recordings by R n B/Psych Popsters the Spencer Davis Group, including two LPs “With Their New Face On” and “Funky”, singles and outtakes plus unreleased BBC...
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Joe Cocker – The Album Recordings 1984-2007 (2016)
Born in England in 1944, Joe Cocker undeniably had one of the most distinctive voices in music. He first rose to fame in the late 1960s with his cover of the Beatles’ song “With a Little Help from My...
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Classic Album Set (2016)
This box set collects together all the albums that the band recorded for Mercury including two never before officially released on CD (Street Action / Rock n’ Roll Nights). The discs have all been...
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Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt – The Complete Trio Collection...
Talking about the first time she harmonized with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt in 1975, Dolly Parton said, “We all got to singin’ and it was absolutely incredible. It gives me chills, even now.”...
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Anthology (2016)
The Anthology, a three disc album, accompanies the first three Deluxe Emerson, Lake & Palmer albums, being Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970), Tarkus (1971) and Pictures at an Exhibition (1971)....
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John Coltrane – The Atlantic Years: In Mono (2016)
The superb 2016 six-disc John Coltrane box set The Atlantic Years: In Mono brings together most of the legendary jazz musician’s Atlantic albums into one package, restored to their original mono...
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The Scientists – A Place Called Bad (2016)
In 2016, when The Numero Group released the comprehensive box set A Place Called Bad, The Scientists had mostly faded from the indie rock landscape. While their influence was widely felt in the music...
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King Crimson – Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (2016)
Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind is three-CD culled largely from its 2015 performance in Takamatsu, Japan, with additional material from two nights elsewhere in Japan, as well as...
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