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1. Four Tet: DJ Kicks
The great DJ Kicks series, where electronica icons program a CD as if it were a great mix set, has produced another winner. Four Tet, AKA Kieran Hebden, spins an amazingly eclectic set that ranges ...read more
2. v/a: Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label
The fourth release in the Eccentric Soul series is another winner, proving again that tiny regional ’60s soul labels most of us outside those regions never even heard of were nonetheless producing ...read more
3. v/a: Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label
Big Mack was a Detroit label in operation on a shoestring budget from 1962 to ’72. It never had much distribution, or a good sound engineer, but it had more than its share of talent, and there are ...read more
4. v/a: Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes
This is the third release in Numero’s Wayfaring Strangers series of folk compilations, this one focusing on obscure ’70s male American singer-songwriters (though the release dates among the 1...read more
5. v/a: Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
We can always depend on quality when Chicago's Numero Group releases a compilation. Whether they are digging up long-lost soul from Columbus, Ohio, reggae from Belize, psych-folk from California or...read more
6. v/a: This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45rpm
Oh my god! But that's only a part of the story here, and actually, not even that large a part. For while "gospel" is in the title -- and sure enough, every song here in one way or another exults th...read more
7. v/a: WTNG 89.9FM
Cheekily subtitled Solid Bronze, this new compilation from the in-geniuses at the Numero Group puts the x back in yacht rock. Essentially a tossed salad of some classic pearls of the mid-'70s soft-...read more