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VA - Miami Vice Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)

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VA - Miami Vice Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)

VA - Miami Vice Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 445 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 167 MB
1:13:15 | Electronic, Rock, Stage & Screen, House, Soundtrack, Post Rock, Ambient, Downtempo
Label: Atlantic

Like the film itself, the soundtrack to Miami Vice is no 1980s retro-ride. Sure, it opens with "In the Air Tonight," but it's a cover by nü metal band Nonpoint taken from their 2004 album Recoil. Director Michael Mann's slick revisionist aesthetics are confirmed on two types of tracks. First, there are the dancefloor-friendly ones like "One of These Mornings" (a collaboration between Moby and Patti Labelle) and a house remix of Nina Simone’s "Sinnerman" by Felix da Housecat. Then there are the more atmospheric offerings, such as a couple instrumentals by Scottish band Mogwai and the last four tracks, that suggest the kind of steel-blue ambiance Mann is so good at creating (especially John Murphy's "Mercado Nueva" and Klaus Badelt & Mark Batson's "A-500"). Odder is the lack of local flavor: there's only a pair of Latin-flavored tracks, Arranca and Emilio Estefan, for instance. Not to mention that if ever there was a soundtrack that should have included at least one Miami bass song, it's this one. As for those who still associate Miami Vice with pastel colors and the 1980s, they're better off checking out the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City–a video game that's actually more faithful to the spirit of the TV series than the movie that bears its name. –Elisabeth Vincentelli

VA - Patterns On The Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974 (2024)

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VA - Patterns On The Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974 (2024)

VA - Patterns On The Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, log) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 753 MB
3:54:12 | Full Scans Included | Rock, Pop | Label: Grapefruit

The latest instalment of Grapefruit’s popular year-by-year overview of the British rock/pop scenes of the 70s. Featuring big hits, intriguing misses and key album tracks from 1974 as well as a clutch of alternative versions and unissued-at-the-time gems. Although 1974 was dominated by the country’s crippling economic woes, the British rock and pop scene continued to flourish. The more creative element of the glam rock spectrum inspired a host of new bands, with Cockney Rebel, Be-Bop Deluxe and Sparks coming through to establish themselves alongside genre heavyweights Roxy Music, T. Rex and Slade. London’s pub rock circuit saw stalwarts Brinsley Schwarz joined by early Ian Dury outfit Kilburn & The High Roads, Ace (who scored a hit single with the timeless ‘How Long’) and Dr. Feelgood, whose aggressive attitude and slashing, guitar-based brand of tough R&B influenced a whole new generation of musicians.

VA - Control I'm Here (Adventures On The Industrial Dancefloor 1983-1990) (2024)

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VA - Control I'm Here (Adventures On The Industrial Dancefloor 1983-1990) (2024)

VA - Control I'm Here (Adventures On The Industrial Dancefloor 1983-1990) (2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 498 MB
3:36:21 | Electronic, EBM, Experimental, Industrial, Synthwave, New Wave | Label: Cherry Red

In the post post-punk aftermath, as electronic rhythms and synthesisers began to dominate the landscape, and with industrial godheads Throbbing Gristle now no more, artists across the UK, Europe and the US began to fuse minimal, emerging proto-house music, dark and Gothic tinged aesthetics and the noise and brutality of industrial music to create a hybrid which proved simultaneously cold, alienated and accessible. Taking it's lead from the dark shadows of cold war politics, governmental control, medical gore and a brutalist futuristic vision, this industrial mutation slid comfortably onto dancefloors catering for those for whom Thatcherism, Reaganomics and Eastern Bloc ideologies provided no hope, producing the most unlikely of clubbing scenes.

VA - Where the Boys Are: The Songs of Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield (2011)

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VA - Where the Boys Are: The Songs of Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield (2011)

VA - Where the Boys Are: The Songs of Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 318 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 MB
1:03:12 | Pop Rock | Label: Ace

Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield were the first songwriters to sign with Al Nevins and Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music. ‘Stupid Cupid’, their initial song for the company, was recorded by Connie Francis. It shot up the charts in 1958 and before long Aldon was the most successful music publisher in the USA, with scores of international hits in their catalogue and a stable of writers that included Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and many of the other top exponents of the day. In 2005, Ken Emerson published his book Always Magic In The Air, in which he chronicled the lives and careers of seven eminent New York-based songwriting duos of the Brill Building era. Here at Ace Records, we launched our songwriter series the previous year with a collection of tracks penned by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the book’s main characters. Since then, the series has expanded to include, amongst many others, six of the writing teams featured by Emerson. With this latest edition, which spotlights the songs of Sedaka and Greenfield, the soundtrack of his book becomes complete.

VA - Tim's Listening Party (2024)

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VA - Tim's Listening Party (2024)

VA - Tim's Listening Party (2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 597 MB
3:55:12 | Pop, Rock | Label: Edsel Records

Four CD set. Demon presents the first official compilation from Tim Burgess celebrating Tim's Listening Party. "I'd done Charlatans listening parties and some solo album listening parties, and as the Twitter followers grew, I'd repeat it and do it again and again. It was maybe about a week before being told that we were going to go into a lockdown before we actually did something. I saw all the TV stuff, all the kind of crazy things that were happening and thought if there's going to be a lockdown, there's going to be something that I can do." As well Tim's Twitter Listening Party, Tim's Listening Party is also a six-part radio and podcast series airing on Sunday nights on Absolute Radio. Available as a 62 track 4CD Deluxe Gatefold set, this brings together 62 highlights from the 1,278 Listening Parties that took place. The parties themselves were an eclectic mix of genres and eras, and the compilation reflects that with Suede, New Order, The Chemical Brothers, Sparks, The Breeders, The Lovely Eggs, John Grant, Joan As Police Woman and The Charlatans. Within the top 100 listening parties, artists reflected on the compilation include Iron Maiden, Liam Gallagher, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, The Libertines, MGMT, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Specials and Belle & Sebastian. The booklet also includes an interview conducted by Danielle Perry with Tim Burgess, detailing the cultural importance of the Listening Party during lockdown.

VA - Italian Music Toppers (The Best of Italian Sounds) (2014)

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VA - Italian Music Toppers (The Best of Italian Sounds) (2014)

VA - Italian Music Toppers (The Best of Italian Sounds) (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.4 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 615 MB
4:26:54 | Pop | Label: Promosound

"Italian Music Toppers (The Best of Italian Sounds)" is a superb collection of the best Italian music has to offer. This album is a must-listen for anyone who loves Italian music, with a diverse range of tracks that showcase the rich musical heritage of Italy.

VA - Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (2024)

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VA - Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (2024)

VA - Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 228 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 84 MB
36:29 | Soul, Funk, Psychedelic | Label: Time Capsule

The kaleidoscopic psychedelia of 1970s Japan captured a fragile and fertile moment as the country sought its future in funk grooves, heavy reverb and lyrical hallucinations. The follow-up compilation to Time Capsule’s Nippon Acid Folk, Nippon Psychedelic Soul takes myriad pathways into the tripped-out undergrowth of 1970s Japan. Finding their feet at home and looking for inspiration abroad, the musicians featured here were engaged in the communal soul-searching that followed the breakdown of the 1960s protest movements. Some made it big, others drifted into oblivion. The music they left behind shimmers with intensity.

VA - I Wanna Love Him So Bad: '60s Pop Hits & Rarities (2024)

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VA - I Wanna Love Him So Bad: '60s Pop Hits & Rarities (2024)

VA - I Wanna Love Him So Bad: '60s Pop Hits & Rarities (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 315 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 240 MB
1:33:53 | Pop | Label: Sun Records

"I Wanna Love Him So Bad: '60s Pop Hits & Rarities" is a compilation album that takes you on a nostalgic journey through the enchanting world of 1960s pop music. This meticulously curated collection brings together some of the most iconic hits of the era, along with rare and forgotten gems that will captivate your senses and rekindle the magic of a bygone age.

VA - Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females (2014)

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VA - Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females (2014)

VA - Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females (2014)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, booklet) - 763 MB
3:52:32 | Rock & Roll, Swing, Rhythm & Blues, Jump Blues | Label: Fantastic Voyage

Compiled by R&B and rock & roll authority Dave Penny, the 90-track 3CD set Voodoo Voodoo pays tribute to the distaff side of 1950s R&B music that would inform the rock ’n’ roll explosion of the latter half of the decade, from the last shout of the 1940s big band “thrushes” such as Ella Johnson and Dinah Washington, through the fearsome vocal power of the likes of R&B trailblazers such as Big Maybelle, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker and Big Mama Thornton, to the early experiments of the mainstream pop singers such as Ella Mae Morse, Kay Starr, Peggy Lee, Lillian Briggs and Jaye P. Morgan.

VA - Brain In A Box - The Science Fiction Collection (Remastered) (2000)

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VA - Brain In A Box - The Science Fiction Collection (Remastered) (2000)

VA - Brain In A Box - The Science Fiction Collection (Remastered) (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 721 MB
5:07:48 | Psychedelic, Soundtrack, Alternative, Pop Rock, Rock & Roll, Indie, Jazz, Modern Classical, Novelty, Rockabilly, Blues, Funk
Label: Rhino

It doesn't take much rhetorical muscle to argue that science fiction was one of the dominant genre artforms of the 20th century, from the Lumiere brothers to Spielberg, from Wells and Conan Doyle to Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. This nearly exhaustive, lavishly packaged collection documents the genre's musical legacy across virtually every major genre on its five discs and 113 tracks. Each volume is divided by sub-genre–Movie Themes, TV Themes, Pop, Incidental/Lounge, Novelty–with each containing both the obvious contenders and some delightful surprises. The film disc alone contains a wealth of rarities, including music from Them!, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Andromeda Strain, Fantastic Voyage, and other notables. The packaging is brilliant kitsch: a 6.5-inch square, metal-lidded cube emblazoned on three sides with suitably tacky 3-D images of–you guessed it!–a floating brain. But the profusely illustrated, hard-bound, 200-page book (designed to emulate the Big Little Books of the 1940s and '50s) that's included gives the subject its serious due, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and contributions from an array of other notables, including Forrest J. Ackerman, Billy Mumy, Joe Dante, Dr. Demento, and Matt Groening. Perhaps the best half-cubic-foot of sci-fi brain food every assembled. –Jerry McCulley

VA - American Sea Songs And Shanties (1952/2004)

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VA - American Sea Songs And Shanties (1952/2004)

VA - American Sea Songs And Shanties (1952/2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 227 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 MB
1:13:50 | Folk, Sea Shanties | Label: Rounder Select

American Sea Shanties and Songs is part of Rounder's extensive Library of Congress compact disc reissue series. Originally released as part of the Folk Music of the United States series in 1952, it features 21 unaccompanied tracks sung by Richard Maitland, "Sailor Dad" Hunt, Noble B. Brown, and Capt. Leighton Robinson. These are shanties for purists, sung slowly – a sailor's work was never done in haste – and surely by the men who incorporated them into their everyday nautical routines. The tracks themselves are typical of the Lomax era, recorded in the field to capture all of the atmosphere and emotion generated by the physical workplace. All of the original illustrations, extensive research notes, and in-depth discussions of the genre and its colorful terms and characters are intact, and these, more so than the fascinating – but poorly recorded – songs, are reason enough to pick up this invaluable maritime resource.

VA - John Morales – The M&M Mixes: NYC Underground Disco Anthems + Previously Un-Released Exclusive Salsoul Mixes (2009)

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VA - John Morales – The M&M Mixes: NYC Underground Disco Anthems + Previously Un-Released Exclusive Salsoul Mixes (2009)

VA - John Morales – The M&M Mixes: NYC Underground Disco Anthems + Previously Un-Released Exclusive Salsoul Mixes (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.06 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 360 MB
2:35:45 | Funk, Disco | Label: BBE

"If you grew up in the ‘80s and had even the smallest of passing interest in music, particularly club music, chances are you were very familiar, albeit unwittingly, with the work of John Morales. On the radio, in the record racks and most importantly on the dancefloor John’s work (predominately with studio partner Sergio Munzibai) helped define an era and influence future generations of DJs, producers and artists.
Born into a hard working Puerto Rican household in the Bronx, New York, at the start of the rock ‘n’ roll era, Morales, like many children of the era, was fascinated by this new art-form that was saturating the airwaves and rebelling parents everywhere. So in love with the music he heard, as a 12-year old he persuaded his local record store to give him a part-time job with payment not in dollars, but in 45s. By the time he was old enough to get a full-time job his burgeoning record collection had helped land him one of his first DJ gig at the influential Stardust Ballroom in the Bronx (his father had early owned a bar in Jersey City where John had first got the DJ bug). As his reputation grew Morales was invited downtown to Manhattan to play guest spots at the likes of Pippins, Bentleys, 1018, Limelight and the infamous Studio 54.

VA - The Harder They Come (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1972/2003)

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VA - The Harder They Come (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1972/2003)

VA - The Harder They Come (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1972/2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 604 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 245 MB
1:37:00 | Covers - 12 MB | Soundtrack, Reggae, Rocksteady, Roots Reggae | Label: Hip-O Records

This 1972 film broke reggae into U.S. pop culture with Jimmy Cliff's Many Rivers to Cross ; the Maytals' Pressure Drop , and the rest of its stellar soundtrack. 30 years later Island and Hip-O teamed to create this 2-CD edition, the definitive master of the original plus 18 cuts of crucial 1968-72 reggae: Guava Jelly Johnny Nash; Sweet Sensation Melodians, and many more of Cliff's classics. Great new liners, too! Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack–here presented in a remastered version–with classics from Toots & the Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), the Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." –Sam Sutherland

VA - 9½ Weeks Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986)

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VA - 9½ Weeks Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986)

VA - 9½ Weeks Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 255 MB
41:42 | Rock, Pop, Stage & Screen, Soundtrack | Label: Capitol

9 1/2 Weeks Review by Thom Jurek
Every Valentine's Day, video stores and online rental outlets are swamped with requests for the film this soundtrack represents. Crazy as it sounds, this tale of obsession, surrender, masochism, and domination really gets under the skin of some people over and over again. (For those who either don't remember or never knew, the film was an interpretation of a seemingly authentic account of just such an affair by a well-known socialite who wrote it under a nom de plume.) While the film might have a sort of timeless appeal – Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke were young then, and while one has aged gracefully, the other has become a plastic surgery disaster – the soundtrack (which also experiences a bit of a sales spike during this holiday) has lost much of it. Certainly the theme song, "I Do What I Do," penned by John Taylor (right), Michael Des Barres, and Jonathan Elias and performed by them along with B.J. Nelson, Michael Brecker, and Dalbello, sounds so dated as to be almost laughable, as are contributions by Devo ("Bread and Butter"), Dalbello ("Black on Black"), and Corey Hart ("Eurasian Eyes"). Other cuts here have become classics (or already were): Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love," Joe Cocker's "You Can Leave Your Hat On," and Eurythmics' "This City Never Sleeps." Still others, such as Luba's "The Best Is Yet to Come" and "Let It Go," are campy fun, and Stewart Copeland's moody "Cannes" is a miniature masterpiece that actually reflects something akin to incidental music in a film score.

VA - The Hot Spot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1990)

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VA - The Hot Spot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1990)

VA - The Hot Spot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 197 MB
40:43 | Jazz-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Smooth Jazz, Soundtrack | Label: Antilles

The Hot Spot [Original Soundtrack] Review by Eugene Chadbourne
A return look and listen to this historical and breathtaking collaboration between two of the great figures of modern music should naturally be prefaced by a few key facts. Although this album presents itself as the soundtrack to the film The Hot Spot, like many such releases it bares little relation to the music that was actually used in the film – not that much of this music was actually used.