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Caribou - Honey (Rough Trade Bonus Mixtape) (2024)

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Caribou - Honey (Rough Trade Bonus Mixtape) (2024)

Caribou - Honey (Rough Trade Bonus Mixtape) (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 565 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 196 MB
1:25:04 | Electronic, Ambient | Label: City Slang

Dan Snaith's latest album, Honey, marks an intriguing new phase for Caribou. Over more than two decades Dan Snaith has had many guises. After putting every ounce of himself into Our Love and Suddenly, for his sixth Caribou album Snaith now pulls himself away a little in search of music that isn’t about any one person and is available to everybody. Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle, shimmer and surprise in a way only Snaith’s productions can but with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music- making to ever truly settle into any one sound.

VA - The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium (Remastered) (2007)

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VA - The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium (Remastered) (2007)

VA - The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium (Remastered) (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.1 GB
5:12:51 | Indie Rock, Britpop, Alternative, Shoegaze | Label: Rhino

Incredible four CD box set filled with influential and diverse U.K.-based Indie Pop and Rock acts that emerged from Great Britain in the broad wake of '80s Post-Punk. The Brit Box features all of the styles that wormed their way into the hearts of the music lovers during the late '80s, all through the '90s and beyond including Indie, Shoegaze, Baggy and Brit-Pop. While many artists featured here enjoyed superstar status in Mother England, their impact on U.S. charts was more peripheral but their stylistic imprint and collective uber-hip peer-pressure on late 20th century popular music overall is undeniable. With the respect given the '60s-era British Invasion in countless other compilations, Rhino's new trans-Atlantic ocean liner-sized box shaped to resemble a vintage UK phone booth with real flickering lights champions close to 80 independent acts that didn't so much reject mainstream musical sensibilities as spin it in their own fashion for hits that defined cool. Lovingly compiled with true oh to be in England spirit, Rhino hails Britannia with over five hours of tastemaker tracks.

Ken Tamplin - Stand Up and Shout (2024)

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Ken Tamplin - Stand Up and Shout (2024)

Ken Tamplin - Stand Up and Shout (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 2.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 711 MB
4:56:56 | Hard Rock, Heavy Metal | Label: Girder Records

"Stand Up and Shout" is a 69-song, career-spanning box set from Ken Tamplin, a four-time Dove Award winner renowned for his vocal talents, often compared to Lou Gramm, Paul Rodgers, David Coverdale, and his cousin, Sammy Hagar. This new Girder Records release is monster with 69 songs total on a comprehensive 4 CD collection features 22 unreleased tracks never before on CD as well and 6 new exclusive re-sung/re-imagined versions such as the song Borderline, Radio Bikini, Big Bang, In the Brave Days of Old and two more. Additionally, the box set includes a massive 12-page, 3,700-word essay detailing Tamplin's musical history along with an array of memorabilia photos.

VA - The Best Of Wales (1996)

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VA - The Best Of Wales (1996)

VA - The Best Of Wales (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 275 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 MB
1:02:48 | Classical, Brass & Military, Folk, World | Label: Music For Pleasure

The album "The Best of Wales", released in 1996, is a compilation featuring various artists and is focused on Welsh music. Includes 20 tracks that highlight traditional Welsh folk music and choirs. It represents the rich cultural heritage of Wales, with performances by well-known Welsh groups and possibly famous male voice choirs such as the Morriston Orpheus Choir and Treorchy Male Choir. This album captures the essence of Welsh national pride through music.

Ian Dury - Reasons To Be Cheerful The Best Of Ian Dury (2005)

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Ian Dury - Reasons To Be Cheerful The Best Of Ian Dury (2005)

Ian Dury - Reasons To Be Cheerful The Best Of Ian Dury (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 0.98 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 347 MB
2:30:34 | Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Pub Rock | Label: Music Club Deluxe

Ian Dury, like Ray Davies and Paul Weller was a very English talent. The colorful, metropolis-inhabiting characters like Billericay Dickie or Plaistow Patricia he sung about, and the ever so cockney music hall accent he chose to sing in, were a big part of that. But mostly, it was the detailed, poetic way he cataloged English life and the melting pot of musical styles he used to do so, from punk and funk to jazz and rock'n'roll, which left no doubt that Dury's work could only come from one place: The very heart of England. So few were surprised when after his death Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Madness and more all lined up to pay their respects with cover versions of some of his best loved songs. You'll find plenty of them here, in their original versions, culled from his entire career from the mid-'70s with pub rockers Kilburn & the High Roads through the golden years with the majestic Blockheads right up to the last studio recordings at the start of the '90s. 2 CD set is comprised of 34 tracks. Music Club. 2005.

VA - Psych! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues 1966-1973 (3CD) (2024)

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VA - Psych! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues 1966-1973 (3CD) (2024)

VA - Psych! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues 1966-1973 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 521 MB
3:44:37 | Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues, Folk | Label: Decca / Deram

Psych', a newly compiled 64 song 3CD set celebrating an extraordinary era in British Pop and Rock music that saw an expansion of musical styles that heralded Psychedelia and the arrival of Prog (or Progressive) Rock. It coincided with the launch of the eclectic, occasionally esoteric but always interesting Deram label - the music press of the day described it as a 'hip label for groovy people'. Includes esteemed artists such as Genesis, The Moody Blues and Caravan alongside hidden gems within the catalogue.

VA - Funky Jazz Saxophone (2024)

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VA - Funky Jazz Saxophone (2024)

VA - Funky Jazz Saxophone (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 678 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 239 MB
1:44:17 | Dance, Funk, Jazz | Label: Irma Records

A various artist compilation album was released by Irma Records on October 7, 2024.

Emma - SOUVENIR (Extended Edition) (2024)

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Emma - SOUVENIR (Extended Edition) (2024)

Emma - SOUVENIR (Extended Edition) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 353 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 122 MB
52:04 | Pop, Pop Rock | Label: Universal Music Italia Srl

Souvenir è il settimo album in studio della cantante italiana Emma, pubblicato il 13 ottobre 2023 dalla Capitol Records. Il progetto discografico ha esordito alla prima posizione della classifica FIMI Album, diventando il quinto album della cantante a ottenere tale risultato. Nel 2024 è stata pubblicata una riedizione dell'album con l'inserimento del brano Apnea, presentato in gara al 74º Festival di Sanremo, seguita da una riedizione streaming con l'aggiunta di Femme Fatale, presentato come singolo inedito per l'estate 2024. Entrambi i brani sono stati poi inseriti nella Extended Edition dell'album, pubblicata il 4 ottobre 2024.

Steve Roach - One Day of Forever (2024)

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Steve Roach - One Day of Forever (2024)

Steve Roach - One Day of Forever (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 274 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 MB
1:13:44 | Electronic, Ambient, New Age | Label: Projekt

Steve Roach's new purely atmospheric statement hovers within a warm and embracing expression of etheric ambience. One Day of Forever pulls back the layers of memory, time and perception to express life’s amber-lit emotions, continuing an intimate, mystical-revealing vision within Roach's work. In this one day of forever the meditation on longing, nostalgia, connection, loss, grace and gratitude transmutes from fleeting moments into gentle epiphanies. This album furthers the refined intention within the elemental approach first expressed on his previous 2CD, Reflections in Repose.

Suede - Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition) (1994/2024)

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Suede - Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition) (1994/2024)

Suede - Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition) (1994/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 0.98 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 336 MB
2:26:06 | Indie Rock, Glam, Britpop | Label: Edsel

Suede’s era-defining second album from 1994 celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. It was the last album to feature the band’s guitarist and co-songwriter Bernard Butler. It includes the classic hit singles ‘We Are The Pigs’, ‘The Wild Ones’, and ‘New Generation’. Art and design for this new format has been undertaken for Suede by official designer and photographer Paul Khera. On the reissue, bassist and founding member Mat Osman said this in a press release: “Your first album is songs you’ve been playing live for a long time. Generally, it’s almost set. The songs evolved in a certain way and you’re just trying to get them down. Dog Man Star was the first time where we just said, ‘Right, what happens if you push everything further? The slow songs, we take all the drums out. If we have a big closing song, we’ll have a fucking orchestra. To start the record, let’s have something that’s on one chord, and it’s just like a mantra. The kind of band we are, how far can we take it before it breaks?’”

Sun Ra - Berkeley Lecture, 1971 (2024)

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Sun Ra - Berkeley Lecture, 1971 (2024)

Sun Ra - Berkeley Lecture, 1971 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) - 314 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 122 MB
53:28 | Jazz, Space-Age | Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

Officially released for the first time ever, a previously unknown half-hour from cosmic mythologist and sound scientist Sun Ra's 1971 U.C. Berkeley course "The Black Man in the Cosmos." Ra's soft-spoken intensity is underscored by the sound of chalk on the board as he ambles effortlessly through his potent and prescient ideas. The class session closes with two musical tracks, a piano version of "Love In Outer Space" and a blistering Moog solo.A very cool document of the great Sun Ra – and a set that combines both music and a spoken passage from a class that Ra was teaching at the University of California in the 70s! The spoken work is fascinating – as it really captured Ra as he lived, but in ways that are different than you might expect – still as intellectual as any of his writings, and ideas you might have picked up from other sources – but with a very down-to-earth approach that maybe makes the man seem more human than some of his future-thinking music, or the cosmic garb that he's usually wearing on a record cover! Ra is completely captivating during the 30 minute lecture – which was part of a cours titled The Black Man & The Cosmos – then the set moves into a wonderful five minute solo piano piece, and an extra cool solo Moog performance that runs for over sixteen minutes in length – mindblowing analog electronics that has Ra getting some very noisy sounds from the Moog!

VA - Cologne Curiosities · The Unknown Krautrock Underground, 1972-1976 (Remastered) (2016)

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VA - Cologne Curiosities · The Unknown Krautrock Underground, 1972-1976 (Remastered) (2016)

VA - Cologne Curiosities · The Unknown Krautrock Underground, 1972-1976 (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 355 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 144 MB
1:00:06 | Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Prog Rock | Label: Mental Experience

The “Nuggets”of Krautrock?
“Cologne Curiosities” collects, for the first time on vinyl, all the otherwise unpublished/un-reissued material that firstly appeared on the three "Unknown Deutschland - The Krautrock Archive" CDs released on Virgin during 1996. These CD only releases were originally compiled by Trevor Manwaring (Paratactile, Impetus, Virgin, Harmonia Mundi) from tapes supplied to him by Toby Robinson. Toby - aka The Mad Twiddler, aka Genius P. Orridge - is well-known to Krautrock collectors as one of a number of engineers working at Stockhausen’s WDR and Dierks Studio in Cologne in the mid-1970's, where he assisted on recordings by many famous Kraut bands such as Can, Birth Control, Mythos or Dzyan. The recordings included here were made between 1972 and 1976 using studios in and around Cologne, produced by Toby Robinson for his own amusement, just having fun on the studio. Inevitably, bands would come in for practice sessions, to record demo's, and during slack periods impromptu jams would happen. Most of these sessions were recorded by Toby, and they feature Toby himself plus a revolving cast of friends and musicians (some of them apparently big Kraut names under pseudonym).

VA - I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-1981 (2024) (Hi-Res)

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VA - I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-1981 (2024) (Hi-Res)

VA - I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-1981 (2024) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-44.1kHz - 1.2 GB
3:10:51 | Soul, Gospel | Label: Louisville Story Program

In the mid-20th century, Louisville gospel music was occasionally recorded when members of the local gospel community pressed 45rpm records and LPs, and released them through grassroots record labels such as Sensational Sounds, Grace, Blessed, and D.J.S. Over the years, a substantial body of work was produced in our city, but those recordings are in danger of being lost forever.The Louisville Story Program has been working with dozens of people in the local gospel music community to locate, digitize, and preserve hundreds of these recordings and to develop a book that documents and honors the legacies of the people and communities that produced them.For decades, the passion, hard work, and support of countless people across dozens of Black church communities in Louisville have nurtured and sustained a rich gospel music ecosystem. This music has served as a central part of people's religious practice and as an expression of Black pride, joy, affirmation, love, dignity, determination, and hope. This legacy continues to this day.

VA - I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-1981 (2024)

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VA - I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-1981 (2024)

VA - I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville 1958-1981 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 696 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 442 MB
3:10:51 | Soul, Gospel | Label: Louisville Story Program

In the mid-20th century, Louisville gospel music was occasionally recorded when members of the local gospel community pressed 45rpm records and LPs, and released them through grassroots record labels such as Sensational Sounds, Grace, Blessed, and D.J.S. Over the years, a substantial body of work was produced in our city, but those recordings are in danger of being lost forever.The Louisville Story Program has been working with dozens of people in the local gospel music community to locate, digitize, and preserve hundreds of these recordings and to develop a book that documents and honors the legacies of the people and communities that produced them.For decades, the passion, hard work, and support of countless people across dozens of Black church communities in Louisville have nurtured and sustained a rich gospel music ecosystem. This music has served as a central part of people's religious practice and as an expression of Black pride, joy, affirmation, love, dignity, determination, and hope. This legacy continues to this day.

Coldplay - Moon Music (Full Moon Edition) (2024) ) (Hi-Res)

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Coldplay - Moon Music (Full Moon Edition) (2024) ) (Hi-Res)

Coldplay - Moon Music (Full Moon Edition) (2024) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-48kHz - 892 MB
1:19:06 | Alternative Rock | Label: Parlophone UK

A special full moon edition of moon music is now available as a digital download. Featuring the full moon music album plus 10 ‘blue moons’ bonus tracks, including three stunning new tracks: the karate kid, man in the moon, and a wave.