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Lalo Schifrin

Mannix | Collectors’ Choice
The “rare beat” crowd has been clamoring for a re-release of this source of funky samples.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | September 16, 2008

Various Artists | Jump Back

LSD
Crammed with tracks guaranteed to make your chit-chatting friends go quiet for a few seconds and ask, “Isn’t that ‘Sex Machine’ in Spanish?”

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | September 10, 2008

Scott Walker

’Til The Band Comes In | Water
This is one of the classic artistic-breakdown albums, as revelatory as the Beach Boys’ Wild Honey or the Beatles’ Let it Be .

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | August 26, 2008

Black Affair

Pleasure Pressure Point | V2
Mason’s off-kilter lyrics and psychedelic sense of melody overpower the thrift-store Gary Numan and Depeche pastiches and the trite S&M vibe.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | August 19, 2008

V/A(1)

I Like It Like That: Fania Remixed | Fania
I Like It Like That: Fania Remixed | Fania

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | August 04, 2008

Vetiver + Phosphorescent

Museum of Fine Arts, August 1, 2008
Houck looked nothing like Bonnie Prince Billy or the more emotionally tortured freak-folkies he’s usually lumped with.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | August 04, 2008

Nurse with Wound

Nurse With Wound | The Bacteria Magnet
This is cinematic pastiche at its best, similar to Barry Adamson’s phantasmal scores but with the dada knob tweaked way to the right.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | July 15, 2008

Herbie Hancock, et al.

Hear O Israel, A Prayer Ceremony In Jazz | Jonny
English master of obscure reissues Jonny Trunk strikes again.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | July 01, 2008

Gal Costa

Gal | Dusty Groove America
The Brazilian tropicália movement had it bad for the Beatles.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | June 09, 2008

Nobody

Blank Blue: Western Water Music Vol. II | Ubiquity
It’s the Monkees’ “Porpoise Song” (a track Nobody has covered) expanded into a full-blown stoner opera.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | June 03, 2008

Adrian Sherwood

Becoming a Cliché/Dub Cliché | Real World
Have no fear: Real World’s reissue of producer Adrian Sherwood’s second solo album from 2006 is a fantastic choice for dubdorks and dubnewbs alike.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | May 06, 2008

Kevin Ayers

Unfairground | Gigantic
His philosophizing is rarely twee, and his fine-oaked voice gives new authority to his pastis-and-mushroom-fueled musings.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | April 07, 2008

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