Vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released in 1963. Spector treated a series of mostly secular Christmas standards to his Wall of Sound treatment, and the selections feature the vocal performances of Spector s regular…
 A Very Special Christmas – The first volume of A Very Special Christmas was issued on behalf of the Special Olympics organization in 1987. The vinyl version of that debut sees itself reissued 29 years later with the same look and content for this Christmas season. Fifteen notable artists contributed their time and talent,…
Recording technology was completely revolutionized in the 80s by the multitrack recorder, with the popularity of 24-channel SSL consoles sweeping the world. Japanese pop music created during this wave of digital improvement is now recognized worldwide as City Pop. Techno Pop was another offshoot born of the same revolution. Precise, computer-controlled beats produced by groups…
Increasingly detached from the original punk formula, the modern and arty youth of the early eighties set itself to jettison an artform that had lost much of the nihilistic and exhilarating energy of its halcyon days, stuck, as it was, in an endless and noisy regression. No Future was the motto of an artform without…
Get the blues this Christmas with our excellent set of exclusive and vintage recordings by blues guitarists and vocalists who offer a unique spin on holiday cheer! Includes recordings by beloved virtuoso guitarists such as Eric Gales, Kenny Neal, Pat Travers, Leslie West, Joe Louis Walker, Chris Spedding and more! Now available on vinyl!
During his 40 years spent operating in the farthest margins of L.A.’s cutthroat music business, Consolidated Productions founder Mel Alexander penned a total of 73 original songs while running one of the longest running Black-owned independent record conglomerates of the 20th century. Across those same decades, he’d track hundreds of tunes for his Ajax, Angel…
After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing the Miami Sound.
Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois answer to a question no one asked. Pressed in minuscule numbers and barely outside the 62002 zip code, the singles by The James Family, Jimmie Green, Pete &…
Lost in the soot and fallout from Youngstown, Ohio s infamous Black Monday steel industry collapse was Tony March s cross-generational Tammy label. From its early days as a doo wop powerhouse to their last gasps chasing disco hits, Tammy unintentionally documented Youngstown s small but prolific Black music scene. This single LP surveys the…
Atlanta s original Eccentric Soul labels, Jesse Jones Tragar & Note concerns captured critical regional R&B, soul, and funk from 1968-1976. Compiling 34 tracks and sprawled across two LPs, this 15 year anniversary deluxe edition appears on vinyl for the first time. Featuring rare-as-hens-teeth 45s by Eula Cooper, Tee Fletcher, Richard Cook, Frankie & Robert,…
Double vinyl LP pressing. UK collection. By the turn of the 80s, the impact of David Bowie s ground-breaking Berlin recordings – the synths, the alienation, the drily futuristic production – was being felt on music across Europe. What s more, the records being made were reflecting back and influencing Bowie s own work –…
Soundway presents a collection of 18 Burger Highlife, Electronic Afrobeat and Reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. A period of movement, emigration and innovation. The dawn of the 80s saw an increase in emigration following a period of…
Kickin presents Hi Tide Groove, DJ’s choice 1969 – 1981, selected by Daisuke Kuroda. A collection of Hi Records singles from the famous Al Green and Ann Peebles, to the obscure African and Jean Plum on double 180 gram vinyl. Tracks Larry T-Byrd Gordon – Contact Off FunkAl Green – Love RitualAnn Peebles – Come…
The spiritual sequel to Dante Carfagna s landmark Black rock mix tape Chains and Black Exhaust, this 13 track compilation exhumes forgotten brilliance from the Afroamerican underground of the 1970s. Awash in fuzzed-out guitars, wah-wah pedals, lysergic-soaked grooves, and enough inflation depression to fill the tank of a shag wagon, If There’s Hell Below imagines…