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CD / The Pandoras / It's
About Time / Voxx Records The Pandoras were an all-girl garage revival band from LA in the
early '80s. I give this album my most hearty and thoroughly biased
recommendation. |
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CD / Screen Prints / Perfect City (twenty songs 1998 - 2000) / Earworm Records Beautiful melodic pop from Manchester. Some tracks are quite mellow,
while others are more on the upbeat, poppy side -- and almost half
are instrumentals. |
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CD / various / Staubgold / Staubgold Records Beautifully drawn textures, well thought-out compositions, scattered
minimalist rythyms and some noble attempts at originality here. |
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CD / various / There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs - recordings of musicians photographed by John Cohen / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Compiled and produced by photographer John Cohen, this cd spotlights
artists that Cohen photographed throughout the years. |
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CD / To Rococo Rot / Kölner Brett / Staubgold Records 12 untitled songs inspired by the architectural grid of Kölner
Brett, a building in Cologne. |
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CD / various / Totally Damaged / Damaged Goods Damaged Goods is a great label, releasing swell punk, pop and garage
records This 30-track sampler is dirt cheap, with lots of stand-out
tracks. |
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CD / various / Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Volume 4 / Blow Up Records Dancefloor friendly recordings from the French Chappell DMM series
of library music LPs recorded in Paris from 1966 to the early 70's. |
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CD / various / Social Classics Volume 2: Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown selected by DJ Don Letts / Heavenly Recordings Who could resist this? A compilation of reggae cuts which were played
in the London Roxy Club as punk was exploding from December '76 -
April '77. |
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12" / Kiki / Hott! / Bpitch Control "Hott!" has vocals that remind me of Frank Zappa if
he was singing for The Normal. |
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3xCD / various / Nigeria 70 / AfroStrut There are no tracks you will want to skip over. The whole thing
is one great listen. No band has more than one cut. Most of the
tracks are incredibly upbeat, with focused jamming on lots of cuts. |
