Archive for the Various Artists Category
Various Artists “Midnight In Tokyo Vol.1” (Studio Mule)
Mule Musiq announce their new label, Studio Mule. Midnight In Tokyo Vol. 1 is a compilation of Japanese disco, boogie, and soul music. The compilation starts off with the Afro disco classic “Mi Mi Africa” by harmonica player Nobuo Yagi. “Silver Spot” is a jazzy fusion disco track taken from […]
Various Artists “The Lobster OST” (Fire America)
Academy award nominated film and winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Jury prize (among many others), ‘The Lobster’ is a dystopian comedy-drama directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogstooth, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) and co-written by Efthymis Filippou that stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman. Love is […]
Various Artists “Hillbillies In Hell Vol.5” (Iron Mountain Analogue Research)
Years in the making – ‘Hillbillies In Hell’ (Volume Five) presents a further 18 timeless testaments of sinners, winners, troubles, tribulations, shallow graves and hot flames. An abandoned catacomb of subterranean 45s, some of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for […]
Various Artists “Mono No Aware” (Pan)
2017 repress. Mono No Aware is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists. Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called “ambient”, to incorporating wider […]
“Tokyo Nights: Female J-Pop Boogie Funk 1981 to 1988” (Cultures of Soul)
This compilation presents 12 of the most memorable and sought-after songs of the era recorded by female artists. The music is a reflection of the unbridled optimism, technological achievement, excess and exuberance of Bubble-era Japan. More than catchy melodies and funky baselines, these are reflections of a time when Japan […]
Various Artists “80’s Underground Cassette Culture Vol.1” (Contort Yourself)
The 1980s. Neo-liberal excess. Crumbling communism. Military juntas ruling with an iron fist. And of course, freaked out music. Contort Yourself are turning back the clock and returning to an unholy fount of inspiration with “80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1.” A buffet of beaten up and brutalized tracks are […]
Various Artists “Lysergic Saviours: A Psychedelic Prophecy! The Holy Grail Of Xian Acid Fuzz 1968-1974” (Particles)
Particles present a hallowed collection of psychedelic evangelists, hell-bent on summoning the Lord and armed with the latest fuzz pedals and hallucinogenic. Let us embrace the sound of the heavens with a toxic mix of wild garage punk and prayer recorded between 1968 and 1974. This pious platter delivers 13 […]
Various Artists “Tokyo Flashback” (Black Editions)
Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the history of underground music. Originally released by Japan’s P.S.F. Records, […]
Various Artists “Brown Acid:The Fifth Trip” (Riding Easy)
The hits just keep coming—for this fifth lysergic journey, Riding Easy assembles ten heavy slabs of obscure rock the likes of which have never been seen before… not in this form, anyhow. And as usual, the tracks from these impossibly rare records have all been fully cleared through the artists […]
Various Artists “Even A Tree Can Shed Tears” ( Light In The Attic)
There was something in the air in the urban corners of late ‘60s Japan. Student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for “underground) movement that thrived on subverting traditions of the post-war years. Rejection of the Beatlemania-inspired Group Sounds and the squeaky clean College […]
OST “Akira” (Milan)
Milan Records and Nicolas Winding Refn are thrilled to release the amazing score to the cult Japanese animated feature AKIRA directed by Katsuhiro Ohtomo. This game changer in the world of animation is celebrating its 30 year anniversary! The Symphonic Suite features the original unremixed and complete versions of the […]
V/A “Tony Humphries: Running Back Mastermix ” (Running Back)
Gerd Janson’s label is celebrating 15 years in operation by inviting Tony Humphries to compile and mix Running Back Mastermix. It will be available as a unmixed double-vinyl LP. The tracklist is made up of Running Back releases, including productions from artists like Mr. G, Redshape, Leon Vynehall and Todd […]
V/A “Hillbillies In Hell Vol.4” (Iron Mountain Analogue Research)
More Country Gospel diatribes and Hellfired Hillbilly laments originally waxed on microscopic labels and distributed in minuscule amounts. These troubled but largely forgotten Hayseed troubadours sing of damnation and infernal choices, tormented sinners, Devil trains, Luciferian trysts, evil dope schemes and fallow final dreams. Years in the making – ‘Hillbillies […]
Bollywood Bloodbath: The B-Music of the Indian Horror Film Industry (Finders Keepers)
This musical mausoleum of malformed freak funk and dreadful discothèque pop has been resurrected from the maligned cinematic subculture of Bombay’s bloodthirsty horror film industry and witnesses the cognoscenti of the Bollywood pop scene at their most creative, destructive, and experimentally effective. Bollywood Bloodbath features India’s finest composers, such as […]
Various Artists “Twin Peaks: Music From The Limited Event Series” (Rhino)
“David Lynch’s lauded cult TV series Twin Peaks has returned in 2017, with a cast of beloved characters and some notable new additions. As with the original series the music used in the show is a beloved character in itself, lead by Angelo Badalamenti and a reprised version of the […]
V/A “Beach Diggin Vol 5” (Heavenly Sweetness)
Over the last five years and as many volumes of their Beach Diggin’ compilations, Guts and Mambo have explored the reefs of five continents, dredged the sea beds of countless seas and oceans, examined every single seashell with the aim of making sure that no vinyl pearl should escape their […]
V/A “Welcome To Paradise Italian Dream House 89-93 Vol 1” (Safe Trip)
Welcome To Paradiso is an expansive retrospective of the Italian dream house sound co-compiled by label founder Young Marco. At the tail end of the 1980s, a new take on deep house began to emerge from Italian studios. ‘Dream house’ drew inspiration from key U.S deep house records of the […]
OST ” Menace II Society ” (Jive)
Menace II Society is the name of the official soundtrack for the movie of the same name. It was released May 26, 1993 by Jive. It peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number 11 on the Billboard 200.[2] Several songs heard both in the […]
Various Artists “Psychemagik: Magik Sunset Part 2” (Leng)
**LIMITED EDITION GREEN VINYL** Here is the second part of the long anticipated follow up to Psychemagik’s Magik Cyrkles and Magik Sunrise compilations, out on Leng Records. The UK duo, known for their beautiful production work, prolific remixing skills, obscenely vast record collections and transcendent mixtape journeys, have been heralded […]
Various Artists “Psychemagik: Magik Sunset Part 1” (Leng)
**LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL** After more than a year in the making Leng has released the final chapter in Psychemagik’s ‘Magik’ series. Due to incredible responses from the artists we contacted we ended up with more tracks than we needed for one album so it was decided to release Magik […]
Various Artists “Welcome To Paradise *Italian Dream House 89-93* Vol. 1” (Safe Trip)
Young Marco mines deep into the 90s era Italian house underground and strikes absolute gold… Part 1 of 2.. In spring of 2017 Safe Trip released Welcome To Paradiso, an expansive retrospective of the Italian dream house sound co-compiled by label founder Young Marco. At the tail end of the […]
Various Artists “Master of None Season 2 Soundtrack” (Mondo)
Mondo in partnership with Lakeshore Records, are proud to present the soundtrack to Aziz Ansari’s critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series: Master Of None – Season Two. Aziz Ansari’s Netflix Original Series Master Of None has been critically acclaimed for various reasons, including its incredible use of music. The music of […]
Various Artists “Space, Energy and Light” (Soul Jazz)
Soul Jazz Records’ new Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists, spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame. All of these artists used […]
Various Artists “Welcome To Zamrock 1” (Now-Again)
Explore Zambia’s liberation and its impact on the country’s rock revolution. The book, written by Eothen Alapatt and Leonard Koloko is the first investigation into the Zamrock scene, and is filled with original record artwork and rarely-seen photos of Zamrock’s best ensembles. LP comes with a download/wav files to the […]