With the annual EDC Las Vegas festival taking place in June, Viper - one of the largest Drum & Bass labels on the planet alongside Bassrush one of the largest bass music event brands in America have teamed up to bring one of the year's most definitve Bass Music compilations. Featuring a staggering 50 tracks, Bassrush 1.0 brings some of the biggest names in Drum & Bass, Dubstep, and Trap from around the world together as one. Alongside the epic list of instantly recognizable artist names on the album, 'Bassrush 1.0' also features six new unreleased tracks! Viper have already developed a strong-armed reputation for compilations over the years but this is taking things to a whole new ridiculous level. Investigating bass music's widest corners.

"Rainmaker" is the second studio album released by the hard rock band Fair Warning. Whereas the "Fair Warning" album had an upbeat vibe, very close the late 80's USA Arena Rock sound, its successor was a much more mature sounding record.

Byron Woods's music falls between R&B, soul, and adult contemporary, and those qualities are evident on IN THE LAND OF THE SMOOTH. Woods revisits classic by Gamble & Bell and LeRoy Hutson, but puts his own distinctive vocal stamp on things. Chicago singer, songwriter and musician Byron Woods has made music behind the scenes for over ten years. He has worked as backing singer with Phil Perry whose music in particular has inspired the smooth, soulful and adult contemporary style of this debut album for Expansion.

Swoon is the debut studio album by English pop band Prefab Sprout, released in March 1984. It has a markedly different, and less accessible, musical feel than their later works, featuring intricate guitar-based compositions that drew comparisons with Steely Dan and Aztec Camera.

French instrumental progressive rock band established in the early 1980s by the Payssan brothers. Their early recordings featured a lot of folk references, which were replaced by more stylish contemporary elements on many later releases…

A multi-talented producer of music for films, television, and video games, Iranian-German composer Ramin Djawadi honed his considerable talents alongside contemporaries like Klaus Badelt, John Debney, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Steve Jablonsky while working for veteran composer Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions film score company. He worked as an assistant to the aforementioned Badelt before venturing out on his own with the RZA-assisted score for director David Goyer's Blade: Trinity (2004). He continued to work with Goyer, providing music for both film (The Unborn) and television (FlashForward), earning an Emmy nomination for the latter. In 2008 Djawadi, a longtime fan of the Marvel character, provided the guitar-heavy score for director Jon Favreau's big screen rendering of Iron Man, and in 2011 he provided the memorable (and oft-covered) theme and incidental music for HBO's massively popular fantasy series Game of Thrones. Subsequent film scores have included Clash of the Titans, Red Dawn, Pacific Rim, Warcraft, and The Great Wall, while his work in television expanded to vampire horror show The Strain and sci-fi techno thriller Person of Interest.

Conscious is the follow up to Broods' 2014 debut album, Evergreen, which contained the singles Bridges; and Mother & Father; and climbed into the Top 10 of Billboard's Alternative Albums chart. Joel Little (Lorde, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding), who produced Evergreen, served as Executive Producer on Conscious, producing many of the tracks. Additional producers include Broods, Alex Hope (Troye Sivan) and Captain Cuts. The new album features a duet with Tove Lo and a song the band co-wrote with Lorde.

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered expanded edition of Steve Hackett's unique 1994 album, "Blues With a Feeling". The album showcased another side of the musical personality of the legendary guitarist. As Steve says; "The Blues is a style of music that's intensely emotional and exciting. The music is the place where truly alive electric guitar sounds were first born. All the sonic developments that rock music inherited stem from that". "Blues With a Feeling" demonstrated Steve Hackett's ability and affinity with the music form and was a very satisfying and entertaining excursion into a new genre for it's creator. This new release has been re-mastered from the original masters and is graced by two superb brand new bonus tracks, especially recorded for this reissue.

After his involvement into many English Melodic Rock bands as both singer and guitarist British singer, song-writer, musician and producer Steve NEWMAN started his solo band with the release of Newman in 1997. "Heaven Knows" fifth studio album and magnificent effort which was almost recorded by Steve NEWMAN himself – with the help of Rob McEwen on drums at Blue Room Studios in Sussex, UK. It just simply gets better!

The Metronomical Society by Egg, a collection of live and studio recordings made by the Stewart / Campbell / Brooks trio between 1969 and 1972. The CD features archive recordings unheard for nearly 40 years, including a sizeable segment of Egg's last Roundhouse concert.

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of Passion and Warfare comes a special 2CD edition of the album which includes the first-ever release of Vai's Modern Primitive songs and recordings. Based on song sketches and works-in-progress penned, and recorded, by Vai following the release of Flex-Able, the artist's debut album, in January 1984, the music on Modern Primitive has been completed by Steve for release as a full album bonus disc in the Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition.

New version of the Paco de Lucía Integral, 27 CDs his complete work remastered. "Cositas Buenas", his last album, comes as a new in this new Integral. Now in a new economic format. This collection is a unique tour of the work of Paco de Lucia from 1964 to 2004. Accompanied by orchestral arrangements, Paco and Ramón recorded a series of successes which now belong to the European and American canon. These songs are now known around the world, certified classics in what is now called easy-listening, some of which featured on cinema soundtracks.

The Bob Baldwin love affair with Brazil began with his love of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto and Sergio Mendes as a child. His love elevated when he witnessed the marriage of American Funk/Jazz and the Samba/Bossa Nova sound, which was later explored by the likes of Djavan, Ivan Lins, Elaine Elias, George Duke, Maurice White, and Pat Metheny. Fast forward, Baldwin follows up his experimental Brazil Chill (2004) disc with more flavors from Rio, with covers by the aforementioned Djavan, Jobim and Lins. The result is a 20-song plus soundtrack through the eyes of this American…musically celebrating the year of the 2016 Summer Olympics, in beautiful Brazil. Enjoy!

The works presented here belong among the most inventive repertoire for cello and electronics of our time. They invite us to become wondering listeners, to discover new realms of exceptional musical originality, connecting and intertwining the triangle of mind, body and soul; heart, intellect and pleasure; respiration, sensuality and thought.

"Magic Christian Music" is an debut album by the British rock band Badfinger, released in early 1970 on Apple Records. Three tracks from the LP are featured in the film The Magic Christian, which also gives the album its title. However, Magic Christian Music is not an official soundtrack album for the film.