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Dylan Thomas was always present in my life - we shared the same view of the crescent shaped Swansea bay, and my uncle Colin Edwards amassed the largest amount of interviews on him, starting in the years following Dylan's tragic death in New York City.

Colin would talk to us about him for hours, and it wasn't long before I too fell for his magical, maverick voice. 'The world is never the same place once a good poem has been added to it'. Said
Dylan, who never prefaced his readings with explanations, but rather with a simple 'I am going to read aloud now'.

Reading his work aloud, feeling those syllables roll around your mouth with the rhythms finding their own ebb and flow is one of life's greatest pleasures. In Welsh (and similarly in Somali) there is only one word to cover both music and poetry - the powerful, transformative qualities of each have always lead me to treat them both with a similar approach. I often hear music when I read great writing, especially Dylan's, which is so infused with melody and rhythm, and so the idea for this project was born.

Jeff Towns, Chairman of the Dylan Thomas Society, and owner of the one and only Dylan Thomas Mobile Book Bus' has written the notes on the poems, excerpts and short story released in this double album and also generously shares with us some of his wonderful collection of Dylan Thomas photographs and illustrations.

Choosing the works presented here seemed to come naturally, some are familiar, some more obscure. As for 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' Well, I've always loved the matrimony of music and narration in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and dreamed, many years ago, that A Child's Christmas' should also dance' with music.

Together with composer and arranger Mason Neely from Chattanooga, I began working toward this
goal. With the help of some of the countries leading players and soloists - Catrin Finch on harp, Alice Neary on cello, and David Adams on violin, we made this a reality. Tiger eggs indeed.

1. A Child's Christmas Theme
2. We Waited To Snowball The Cats
3. Fire!' Cried Mrs Prothero
4. Years And Years Ago (Feat. Catrin Finch)
5. The Useful, And The Useless Presents
6. Bell Tongued Ball Of Holidays
7. There Are Always Uncles At Christmas
8. To Walk Into The Waves
9. Turkey And Blazing Pudding
10. Hippos
11. The Hooting Of Ships And Auntie Hannah's Rum Tea
12. Ghost Story
13. Home Sweet Home And Auld Lang Syne
14. The Close And Holy Darkness
15. A Child's Christmas End
16. A Child's Christmas (Orchestra Only)

1. Mr And Mrs Cherry Owen (Under Milkwood)
2. In My Craft Or Sullen Art
3. Should Lanterns Shine
4. I Am Going To Read Aloud'
5. Laugharne
6. Do Not Go Gentle
7. Captain Cat And His Drowned Sailors (Under Milkwood)
8. The Hand That Signed The Paper
9. Being But Men
10. Fern Hill
11. That Sanity Be Kept
12. The Hunchback In The Park
13. And Death Shall Have No Dominion
14. The Reverend Eli Jenkins' Prayer

Incredible double A sided reissue on tiny early eighties New York imprint Small Axe. Side A features the awesome boogie funk of 'Throwdown' by Larry Harris, a phat floor-filling monster which always changes hands for big bucks in auctions. On the flip we get another in-demand bomb - The Sparkles' 'Trying To Get Over', a superb soulful disco groover with great vocals and synth hooks. Originally released way back in '81 and produced by The Strikers' Darryl Gibbs, this killer cut still remains a firm favourite of many in the know disco DJs. Top stuff!

Rubix Cube's, Knight Rider, The Nintendo and Dirty Dancing - all reasons why we love the 80s! But the one thing that defines this decade was the incredible music that was produced in this era be it pop, electronic or disco.



It was during these years that some of the world's greatest artists including Michael Jackson, Madonna and George Michael cemented themselves in pop music history. So crimp those ponytails, coiffure those quiffs and dust off your 80s garments, it's time to go back.

Having started life 6 years ago as a festival and now entertaining over 100,000 people every year, REWIND brings you 45 huge unforgettable anthems that will take you back to those good old days.



This incredible 3CD collection features the biggest 80s hits from the some of the most talented acts, all laced with nothing but pure nostalgia. We start our journey on CD1 with the biggest pop anthems from Rick Astley, Chesney Hawkes, Jason Donovan, Billy Ocean and Culture Club before we move into synth pop classics on CD2 from The Human League, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and ABC. Finally we end on CD3 where every party should- the dancefloor with classic Disco anthems from Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Real Thing and the Village People.



80s music has never sounded so good so take a trip down memory lane with the biggest 80s album ever, 'quit your jibber jabber' and get your copy now!
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Great new 12' compilation featuring a superb selection of tracks showcasing the Balearic sound of the mighty Richie Havens. First up is his awesome take on the Lamont Dozier classic 'Going Back To My Roots'. Originally released back in 1980, Richie's version was rediscovered later by the early Balearic DJs and became an anthem on that scene. Also included are Richie's incredible versions of classics like Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams', The Doobie Brothers' 'Long Train Running' and his beautifully lush take on The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' as well as the gorgeous sun-kissed vibe of 'Gay Cavalier', a captivating duet with Pino Daniele taken from Havens' 1983 LP 'Common Ground'. Another great collection from the Sunkissed camp.

Sing Me a Song of Songmy (subtitled 'A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape') is a moving anti-war statement by Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and Turkish musician Ilhan Mimaroglu, released in 1971.

It was Hubbard's third album released on the Atlantic label and features performances by Hubbard, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Art Booth and drummer Louis Hayes. The album also features a chorus, strings, recitations of poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca and other texts, organists and tape-based musique concrète. It is one of Hubbard's most experimental albums, boasting a variety of processed sounds emanating from tapes.

Ilhan Mimaroglu was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to the United States working as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he created his own record label, Finnadar Records, in 1971. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus' Changes One [MOVLP701j and Changes Two [MOVLP856j, as well as Federico Fellini's Satyricon.

Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Primal Scream, released in 2006. On this album, Primal Scream leaves its electronic element behind and returns to more traditional Rock & Roll. The album features Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen) on 'When The Bomb Drops' and 'Little Death', Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three) on 'Hell's Coming Down' and Alison Mosshart (The Kills) adding vocals to 'Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)' and 'Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar'.

One can hear traces of not only the Small Faces but everything from early Alice Cooper (à la Killer) to Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, the Kinks, the New York Dolls, and a whole lot of other Rock & Roll bands. The debut single, 'Country Girl', became the band's highest charting in their career, while the album charted at #5 in the UK. 'Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)' and 'Sometimes I Feel So Lonely' were also released as singles in 2006.

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Volunteered Slavery is a classic Jazz album by multi- instrumentalist Roland Kirk, featuring his 1968 Newport Jazz Festival appearance and studio performances recorded in July
1969. It features performances by Kirk with Ron Burton, Vernon Martin, Jimmy Hopps and Joe Habao Texidor, Charles McGhee, Dick Griffith, Sonny Brown, Charles Crosby and the Roland Kirk Spirit Choir.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk could play more than one wind instrument at once. Apart from clarinets and flutes, his main instruments were tenor saxophone and two obscure saxophones: the stritch and the manzello. He modified these instruments himself to accommodate his simultaneous playing technique. He is also noted for his circular breathing technique and was reportedly able to sustain a note for over an hour.

At the time of recording Volunteered Slavery, Kirk was exploring ways in which to make Soul and R&B rub up against Jazz and come out sounding like party music. From the Bluesy title track, through the creative choir jam on "Spirits Up Above" to covers of "My Cherie Amour", "I Say A Little Prayer" and the Coltrane medley of "Afro Blue", "Lush Life" and "Bessie's Blues", Kirk sets it all in context. He proves that he is indeed the master of any music he plays because of his sense of harmony, rhythm, and melody.

REPRESS: Blackest Ever Black presents the first vinyl edition of Dickon Hinchliffe's original score for 1980 - the second part of Channel 4 and Revolution Films' Red Riding trilogy, adapted by Tony Grisoni from David Peace's quartet of novels and first screened in 2009. Each film in the Red Riding trilogy, a landmark achievement in British television history, was helmed by a different director and had its own distinctive look, sound and feel. While Julian Jarrold's 1977 and Anand Tucker's 1983 were both marvellous, well-rounded pictures, James Marsh's1980 - photographed by Igor Martinovic on 35mm - somehow seemed to penetrate deeper, hit harder, and linger longer and more vividly in the memory. Described by Tony Grisoni as "an elegant steely trap", 1980's tragic arc is all the more devastating for the glimpses of lightness and redemption with which it taunts its hero - policeman Peter Hunter, played with astonishing grace and nuance by Paddy Considine. Warren Clarke, Maxine Peake, Peter Mullan, Tony Pitts, Jim Carter, David Morrissey, Sean Harris, Shaun Dooley and Lesley Sharp also figure in what surely ranks as one of the finest British ensemble casts ever assembled. So yes, the acting, writing and direction are all first-rate, but crucial to the mesmeric, elegiac and ultimately pincering, punishing effect of 1980 is its music, composed by Dickon Hinchliffe and performed by a small string ensemble augmented with bass, piano, guitar and percussion. A founder member of Tindersticks, Hinchliffe has played a major role in the band's scores for the films of Claire Denis (including Vendredi Soir,Trouble Every Day and Nénette Et Boni), and since flying the roost has established himself as an arthouse and Hollywood composer of considerable renown, with credits including Forty Shades Of Blue, Project Nim, Winter's Bone and Rampart. Even more eloquently than Paddy Considine's note-perfect performance, Hinchliffe's music for 1980 articulates Hunter's journey from righteousness to ruin, his optimism gradually consumed by dread and paranoia. Even at its most tender, its most hopeful, its most soaringly romantic, the stench of death is all over it.

Die wichtigsten Facts:
- Die erfolgreiche Re-Issue- Series: erstmals auf Vinyl erhältlich!
- Restauriertes Audiomaterial
- Das legendäre Konzert aus Paris 1975!

Das legendäre Konzert aus Paris 1975 aus der erfolgreichen Re-Issue-Series mit restauriertem Audiomaterial und exklusivem Originial-Inter-view erscheint erstmals auf Vinyl! Was gibt es noch zu erzählen über Deep Purple Zusammen mit Led Zeppelin, The Who und Black Sabbath gilt die Band als Begründer des Genres Heavy Rock. Deep Purple prägte so manch eine Jugend der 70er. Über 100 Millionen verkaufte Alben weltweit und Hits, die ins kol- lektive Gedächtnis übergegangen sind, sprechen da eine deutliche Sprache.Im Rahmen der Stormbringer-Tour trat Deep Purple 1975 auch in Paris auf. Aber diese Show ist mehr als nur ein gewöhnliches Konzert, sie ist ein historischer Musikaugenblick: Gitarrist Ritchie Blackmore stieg noch im selben Jahr aus der Band aus und gründete die erfolgreiche Rockband Rainbow. Am 7. April 1975 trat das legendäre MK-III-Line-up also zum letzten Mal gemeinsam auf. Aber an dem besagten Abend in Paris merkte man der Band nichts davon an. David Coverdale (Gesang), Glenn Hughes am Bass, Ritchie Blackmore an der Gitarre, Jon Lord an der Orgel und Ian Paice an den Drums performen so enthusiastisch, so fiebrig energetisch wie selten. Auf dieser Aufnahme hört man der Band die Spielfreude egelrecht an. Ausgedehnte Schlagzeug- und Gitarrensoli, die gekonnt überraschenden Improvisationen, all das findet sich auf diesen Live-Aufnahmen wieder. Selbst die Intros und Ansagen kommen in der hier vorliegenden ungeschnittenen Fassung nicht zu kurz. Voller Power performt die Band

Soundtrack to Madonna's 1987 comedy Who's That Girl. Features the title track and Causing A Commotion.









[(] B4 | El Coco Loco (So So Bad)

This double pack 12' will include 6 previously unreleased and highly coveted remixes. Stars of the show are two extremely coveted and previously unreleased 12' mixes from Teena Marie and Tata Vega. The Teena Marie track has previously been released in edited form on a flexidisc, which generated a huge amount of praise and excitement within the Motown community, and are sure to become dancefloor staples upon release.

Wenn man einen der coolsten Soundtracks einer ganzen Generation sucht, dann fragt man nur WHO YA GONNA CALL Das Original Soundtrack Album war lange nicht mehr als Vinyl erhältlich und kehrt 30 Jahre nach VÖ auf ebendiesem Format zurück. Mit dem Oscar und Grammy nominierten weltweiten Nummer 1 Hit 'Ghostbusters' von Ray Parker jr, sowie den anderen allseits bekannten Songs aus dem FIlm von Air Supply, den Thompson Twins, Laura Branigan und vielen mehr.
Der Film: als Wissenschaftler sind sie kläglich gescheitert, aber als selbständige Geisterjäger stehen sie am Beginn einer großen Karriere - die Doktoren Venkman, Stantz und Spengler, kurz, die Firma 'Ghostbusters'. Telekinese, PSI, modernste Apparaturen und 24-Stunden-Service sind ihre Waffen gegen eine uralte sumerische Gottheit, die sich mitten in der City zur Wiedergeburt anschickt. Es droht eine Katastrophe biblischen Ausmaßes - und die bringt den Ghostbusters ihren ersten Riesenauftrag, und uns den SOUNDTRACK noch mal frisch auf VINYL !

New release on Sunkissed Records featuring Balearic highlights from Scottish 1980s powerhouse band Simple Minds. Recorded early in their career, these four sublime tracks illustrate just how mind-blowingly good and experimental Simple Minds were before they hooked up with U2's producer and headed down the stadium rock route. The first cut 'This Fear of Gods', plucked from the Leckie-produced 1980 LP 'Empires and Dance', is a hard-edged slice of electronica which sounds way ahead of its time rolling through an eerie soundscape of angry chants, hypnotic synths and thunderous pounding drums. Next up is the equally impressive 'Theme For Great Cities'. Produced by Steve Hillage, this lush instrumental epic had major rotation and became a big anthem in Ibiza. Flip over for another Balearic classic - the extended 12' version of the superbly futuristic Moroder-esque 'I Travel' and last but not least, the in-demand 12' instrumental version of 'This Earth That You Walk Upon' - another Hillage-produced tripped-out masterpiece.

Ende 2013 tauchte im Netz ein Song mit dem Namen 'Drive (Part 1)' auf, ein elektrisierendes Amalgam aus zurückgenommenen Vocals, einem bedrohlich pulsierenden Bass, elektronischen Rhythmen und geschundenem Blues. Zwei Wimpernschläge später war der Track zu Tastemakern auf der ganzen Welt vorgedrungen, was Ben Khan unmittelbar zum ‚Most Blogged Artist' auf Hypemachine machte.

Es folgten die Stücke Eden und Savage, die nun auch von Pitchfork und ersten britischen Radio-moderatoren gefeiert wurden und schließlich als Tracks die Hype Machine Charts anführte.

Nur wenige Monate nachdem Ben Khan sein allererstes Lebenszeichen entsendete, verzeichnen seine Stücke allein bei Soundcloud bereits weit über 1,5 Millionen Plays. Und auch jenseits von Szenekreisen hat man sich mittlerweile von der auf angenehme Weise aufwühlenden Musik des Londoners infizieren lassen. Noisey machte ihn zum 'Artist of the month', das Clash Magazine sieht in ihm einen der Künstler, die das Jahr 2014 prägen werden und längst werden seine Stücke auch auf Englands einflussreichstem Sender für neue Popmusik, BBC's Radio 1 rauf und runter gespielt.

Nun endlich erscheint mit 1992 die erste EP von Ben Khan auf dem Dirty Hit Label Imprint Blessed Vice. 1992 enthält nicht nur die bereits genannten Tracks, sondern auch die neue Single Youth, eine berauschende Einladung in Ben Khans strahlende, eskapistische Welt, in der R'n'B, Funk, lädierter, nachtaktiver Soul und quirliger Hip Hop auf sehr persönliche Lyrics treffen und in der Summe einen Sound ergeben, dem jederzeit anzuhören ist, dass er etwas Neues und Aufregendes schaffen will. Seine Musik spiegelt dabei die vielfältigen Einflüsse wieder, die Ben Khan umgeben - das Leben in London, die Ideen und Ästhetik fernöstlicher Kunst und Philosophie, die Liebe zum Film und sein kultureller Hintergrund (Khans Vater ist ein in Kashmir geborener Raw-Design- und Textilkünstler).

Dem 21jährigen ist mit 1992 ein Statement gelungen, das nicht nur unerschütterliches Selbstvertrauen und eine außergewöhnliche musikalische Reife zur Schau stellt, sondern zugleich beweist, dass Ben Khan eine der aufregendsten neuen Stimmen des Vereinten Königreiches ist.

Harfenklänge, Gitarreneuphorie und klassische Disco-Sounds: Harvest of Gold heißt das Debütalbum von Gossling, dem Soloprojekt von Singer/Songwriterin Helen Croome aus Melbourne. Darauf definiert sie mit insgesamt 10 Tracks den Begriff Pop immer wieder neu. In ihrer Heimat Australien ist Gossling schon längst ein gefeierter Star. Die Tracks der jungen Dame wurden dort bereits mehrfach für Fernseh-Formate eingesetzt und bescherten ihr massenhaft Fans. Häufig dominiert der Sound von Farfisa-Orgel und JUNO-Synthesizern ihre Tracks. Im Zentrum ihres Albums steht dabei jedoch immer wieder ihre charmant-süße Stimme, die nicht nur auf dem Titeltrack und gleichzeitig der ersten Single Harvest of Gold richtig zur Geltung kommt.

01. Big Love
02. Harvest Of Gold
03. Never Expire
04. Songs Of Summer
05. Vanish
06. Challenge
07. Accolade
08. That Feeling
09. Pulse
10. A Lover's Spat

New 4 track EP of rhythm & blues ska covers the "GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK". JOOLS HOLLAND's band back FLORENCE WELCH for "MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME", LILY "ALLEN" ROSE COOPER on "THE LADY IS A TRAMP", JOSS STONE on "BEI MIR BIST DU SCHON" and they go solo on "WHEN YOUR SMILING". 2 TONE style cover!

Rightly regarded as the Italian answer to the pop pianists as Richard Clayderman or Stephen Schlaks, under the pseudonym THE PIANIST, lies one of the most versatile musicians of Italian, with years of experience and collaborations with the biggest names in pop scene Italian and dance. Now, at the threshold of his first fifty springs, gives us an album of covers and unreleased played piano and arranged in a manner nothing short of masterful. A Cd of great class, for connoisseurs and lovers of beautiful instrumental music that deserves to be heard on a journey through the notes and memories. Over an hour of music played by a pianist who is already widely being talked about if public and critics.

produced by Joachim Garou (producer of David Guetta) !!

After five years , Gnut (Claudio Home ) returns with an album by intense intimate pop / dance atmospheres . The album unfolds his skein around the concept of the journey : Eun physical motion made by walking, running , trains, planes , returns home at dawn , but is primarily a movement of the soul made of moments when you dig inside her and become ruthless budgets . Eleven songs to tell us : Take what you deserve . As an exhortation , a warning . The sweet and cosmopolitan spirit that characterizes the temperament from the beginning and the music of Claudio - Gnut also permeates the disc from the phase composition : Gnut writes in Italy while cruising far and wide , between the houses and recording studios of musician friends , so as to get the perfect mix of different souls that inhabit this work. Featuring featuring important as Matt Woods and John Gulino of Marta Sui Tubi , the Eighth Richter on horns , Andrew "Fish" Fish, Robert " Bob" Angelini and Daniel "Mr. Coffee ' Rossi. Gnut has been so successful to bring together in his " lazy river " urgency creative individual , contaminated with musical point of view of each artist involved , bringing out spontaneously capable of evoking multi-faceted soul , along with the melancholic atmospheres of the past, a renewed and liberating lightness.

01. Non E' Tardi
02. Fiume Lento
03. Quello Che Meriti
04. Solo Una Carezza
05. Foglie Di Dadgad
06. Estate In Dadgad
07. Dimmi Cosa Resta
08. Ora Che sei
09. Torno
10. Universi
11. Passione

Nice & Sexy Pict Disc with 10 Unforgettable Songs:

Nice & Sexy Pict Disc with 10 Unforgettable Songs:

Neueinspielung des nicht mehr erhältlichen Klassikers!

Im Jahr 1987/88 wurde das zweite Album der Band, "No Place for Disgrace", aufgenommen, von vielen Metallern als besonders starkes Metal-Album betrachtet. Es erschien im Mai 1988 und war seinerzeit der Einstieg beim Major Label Elektra Records! Das Album enthält noch Songs mit der Handschrift von JASON NEWSTED, der auf dem ersten Album noch zur besetzung zählte und kurz vor Veröffentlichung des Zweitwerks zu METALLICA wechselte. "No Place For Disgrace" wurde seinerzeit gemixt und gemastert von der legende MICHAEL WAGENER und beinhaltet u. a. eine Cover-Version von ELTON JOHN'S Hit "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". Die Band tourte damals als Vorgruppe von King Diamond in Amerika und mit Megadeth und Testament auf der "So far..., So good..., So what" Festival-Tour in Europa.

Die Band war allerdings stets unzufrieden mit dem Sound dieser Produktion, fügte sich aber seinerzeit den Vorstellungen ihres Major Labels. Nachdem auch immer mehr Fans nach einer Neuauflage in neuem Soundgewand gefragt haben, hat die Band sich schließlich dazu entschlossen, das Album 2013 komplett neu aufzunehmen! Dabei handelt es sich keineswegs um eine 1:1 Kopie, es beinhaltet neue Arrangements und teilweise geänderte Lyrics.

Bis heute zählt dieses längst nicht mehr erhältliche Album zum "Must Have" im Schrank eines jeden Metalfans!

History Of NDW erzählt die Geschichte der neuen
Deutschen Welle. Diese begann bereits Mitte der 70er
Jahre als Untergrundbewegung und wurde Anfang der 80er
Jahre zum kommerziellen Erfolg.
Diese Compilation beinhaltet zum Großteil Bands, die sich
am britischen Punk und New Wave orientierten und damit
den Weg ebneten, für die großen Erfolge der NDW in den
80ern.
Hier werden Erinnerungen wach an Kulthits von: Joachim
Witt, Ideal, Nichts, Malaria, Die Radierer,
Der Plan, Malaria u.v.m.
Die Neue Deutsche Welle war der Startschuß für
deutschsprachige Rock- und Popmusik, die zuvor
Keinen großen Stellenwert hatte.
Auch heute dürfen auf keiner Party die Hits der NDW
fehlen!

Into The Light go deeper into the archives of a ats (Vangelis Katsoulis) after featuring him on their highly acclaimed compilation late last year... great selection (as you'd expect) of ambient / new age gems from this king of Greek electronics. Shining TIP!