A total of 15 discs for this CD section covers various genres and combines extended news items and longer-form reviews, including mastering comments JAMIE COE Title: Summertime Symphony Label: Jasmine If there…
Title: Gary Crowley’s Punk And New Wave Label: Demon Crowley has worked under many titles: DJ, NME scribbler, TV presenter and more. Now he has collected 77 tracks of a rare…
Title: Over Rock And Roll Label: Spectrum An interesting 2CD compilation from this Universal imprint, it examines the rock’n’roll outpt from the Chess label. Itself arguably more famous for its blues…
Title: A Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72 Label: Grapefruit A big title for big music stuffed onto three CDs totalling 48 tracks and featuring…
Title: Local Objects Label: ECM I get so used to ECM trios and quartets that it becomes a bit of a shock when you come across an ECM CD that features…
Title: IRL Remixes 2000-2015 Label: Independent The first 15 years of the Independent label is celebrated with this 2CD package which takes a look at the label’s back catalogue and offers…
Title: Out in the Streets Again: The Soul Sounds of Scepter Label: Sundazed Scepter was one of the most important independent, US-based soul labels and run by…a woman! I’m not being…
Title: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney & Harrison Label: Ace I normally cringe when a Beatles covers CD is produced. I wonder why these people bother. I say this because most…
Title: More Hot 100 Chartbusters of the 70s Label: Ace This is a compilation and, all things being equal, I hate compilations. When I used to write within in the computer…
Title: Sun Singles Label: Bear Family Of late, a range of classic albums has filled this column. Sometimes, though, classic cuts do not and cannot fill an album. Yet they are…
Title: The Songs of Jerry Ross Label: Ace His career spanned several decades and he was responsible for some of the most well crafted pop songs of the sixties, there are…
Title: Various Label: Cherry Red Oh, how a time and a place can knock you for six. Blimey. I was about to give this box set a right ol’serious review. Studious,…
Title: Classic 45s Label: Demon The first is a series of box sets from Demon concentrates upon the classic 7” single and then themes them into slip cover-type box sets that…
Title: 1956-1962 Label: Jasmine Although I tend not to actively seek them out, whenever I do hear themes to films and, especially, TV programmes, then I tend to wallow in the…
Synth Wave Title: Volume 1 Label: Electro London Also contact: [email protected] According to the label, what we have here is “some of the world’s freshest innovative electronic music. Electro, synth pop,…