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Sep21

Sixteen F**king Years of G-Stone Recordings (Review)

Various Artists

Sixteen F**king Years of G-Stone Recordings

Released by G-Stone


Founded in Austria in 1993, independent label G-Stone Recordings has and continues to be a forerunner in electronica, maintaining their role as providers of quality releases from artists from the dub, hip-hop, downtempo, trip-hop and lounge traditions. With legends Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister (of Kruder & Dorfmeister, Peace Orchestra and Tosca) at the helm, G-Stone has maintained their vision of music by consistently outputting a plethora of bass-hugging grooves and infectious jams of memorable and everlasting reverberation. The importance of G-Stone as a label and as a ‘signature ...

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Feb27

Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti (Review)

Various Artists

Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti

Released by Now-Again Records


To begin describing the epic importance of Fela Kuti is to write a doctoral thesis on the history of African music from before his birth to the present day. To understand the impact the music of a person such as Fela is to consider the history of struggle, prejudice, racism, and political disenfranchisement as an understandable whole.  In the music of Fela Kuti, we see these positive undercurrents of political awakening, consciousness, activism, empowerment and liberation.  These values are what make the messages embedded in the work of Fela ...

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Jan07

V.A. – Keb Darge & Paul Weller Present Lost & Found (Real R’n'B & Soul) (Review)

V.A.

Keb Darge & Paul Weller Present Lost & Found (Real R'n'B & Soul)

Released by BBE


Keb Darge is responsible for revitalizing innumerable old tyme records over the past few decades. Anything from gritty funk to laconic soul is the man’s stock and trade. By contrast, Paul Weller made a career of taking the influence from records that Darge and his cohort find interesting and attempted to distill it into some British rockisms. On Keb Darge & Paul Weller Present Lost & Found (Real R'n'B & Soul) the two men dig deep to find a spate of unsung classics. The odd aspect to the entire endeavor, ...

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Dec08

Various – Kitsune Maison 8 (Review)

Various

Kitsune Maison 8

Released by Kitsune


From A-Trak to Zongamin, France’s Kitsune has collected some fine contemporary club music in recent years. Ever bang on trend, as only a label with an associated fashion brand could be, it uses its style-conscious Maison compilations to highlight that taste-making prowess. And it’s through these releases that far-flung territories can be alerted to the sounds of La Roux, Digitalism, Klaxons, M.I.A., Shinichi Osawa, Simian Mobile Disco, Rex The Dog and… well, we could go on and on and on and on. But let’s move on to ...

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