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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967 - 1973 [ Ace / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] By mid-1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. The nation s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country with urban... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967 - 1973 (Double LP) [ Ace / 2 LP - released 16/Nov/2018 ] By mid-1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. The nation s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country with urban... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound (1968-1974) (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The English baroque sound of the late 60s and early 70s shunned guitar solos for string quartets and woodwind, drenched in summer-into-autumn melancholy, as heard on this collection of the genre's finest moments. |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears of Technology [ Ace Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] At the turn of the 80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesisers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Winter of Discontent [ Ace Records / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] WINTER OF DISCONTENT has been compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the latest in their highly acclaimed series of albums that includes The Daisy Age, Fell From The Sun and English Weather ("really compelling and immersive: it's a... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Winter of Discontent (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 27/Jan/2023 ] WINTER OF DISCONTENT has been compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the latest in their highly acclaimed series of albums that includes The Daisy Age, Fell From The Sun and English Weather ("really compelling and immersive: it's a... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present English Weather [ Ace Records / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and a deluxe double LP of English music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but it's always... |
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Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Volume 4 [ Kent / Ace Records / CD - released 19/Nov/2004 ] These 25 tracks combine equal measures of familiarity and obscurity by vocalists such as Roy Hamilton, Garnet Mimms, Irma Thomas, Bobby Bland, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Clarence Carter, Bob & Earl, etc. |
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The Green Room 005: Whanau [ Loop Recordings / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] This popular series of compilations features music designed to inspire global unity and environmental awareness, as well as promoting positive change. 'The Green Room 005: Whanau' includes tracks by Deva Mahal, Shihan The Poet, Solaa, Freddie... |
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Muscle Shoals: Small Town Big Sound [ Sony Music / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA . . . Since the 1960s, the city has been known for music - developing the "Muscle Shoals Sound", as local recording studios (including FAME Studios in the late 1950s and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1969) produced hit records... |
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Out of this World: WOMAD 2003 [ WOMAD / CD - released 4/Mar/2003 ] The aural companion to WOMAD festival for 2003 delivers a brilliant, international blend of Latin fusion, Ethnic Dub, and Afro-groove. |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound (1968-1974) [ Ace Records / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The English baroque sound of the late 60s and early 70s shunned guitar solos for string quartets and woodwind, drenched in summer-into-autumn melancholy, as heard on this collection of the genre's finest moments. |
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Various Artists
1:12 Party (LP) [ 1:12 Records / LP - released 20/Jun/2020 ] Tāmaki Makaurau's 1:12 Records is proud to introduce their latest vinyl concoction, 1:12 PARTY; a compilation of 14 tracks from Auckland's most exciting DIY bands and artists. |
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Directions In Music: 1969 to 1973 Miles Davis, His Musicians and the Birth of New Age Jazz [ BGP Records / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] In 1970 Miles Davis released "Bitches Brew", which crystalised the trumpeter and bandleader's experiments in rhythm, electronics and musical structure which he had been building on over the previous three years. The album has since become one of t... |
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28 Little Bangers From Richard Hawley's Jukebox [ Ace / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] Ace are thrilled to be working with seminal singer-songwriter, toast of this year's Olivier Awards and all-round Sheffield legend Richard Hawley on this, the first volume of a compilation series of some of his favourite singles. These are a choice... |
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A Nod to Bob - An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on His 60th Birthday [ Red House / CD - released 8/May/2001 ] |
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All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 (LP) [ Night School / 2 LP - released 11/Jul/2025 ] All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth pop 1978-1985 is a new compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music. Compiled by curator Phil King, the music here connects the dots between DIY... |
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American Baroque - Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967 - 1971 [ Ace Records / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] The heyday of American baroque pop - or chamber pop - ran from 1966 to the turn of the seventies. It used string quartets, harpsichords and woodwinds to create a summer-into-autumn melancholy that was quite new, and quite far removed from rock'n'roll... |
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Various Artists
American Baroque - Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967 - 1971 (Double LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 31/Jan/2025 ] The heyday of American baroque pop - or chamber pop - ran from 1966 to the turn of the seventies. It used string quartets, harpsichords and woodwinds to create a summer-into-autumn melancholy that was quite new, and quite far removed from rock'n'roll... |
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Andy Smith's Northern Soul (LP) [ BGP / 2 LP - released 9/Sep/2016 ] This 25-track compilation from Andy Smith (Portishead) explores his love of Northern Soul. Selected with his inimitable style, the cuts are a mixture of Northern Soul classics, including tracks previously sampled by Fatboy Slim and Wutang Clan, as... |