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Spiritual Jazz 17 - Saba/MPS

The Jazzman label continues its excellent Spiritual Jazz compilation series with a focus on the SABA and MPS labels from Germany, who released tons of music by a diverse range of international jazz artists in the sixties and seventies. Few have heard of these labels next to colossuses like Blue Note and Impulse! - Spiritual Jazz 17 ought to change that, containing music from artists range from Elvin Jones to Pedro Iturralde and Hideo Shiraki.

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Television Personalities - Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out - Radio Sessions 1980-1993

This new collection brings together classic radio sessions from Television Personalities, the masters of DIY post-punk and indie pop. Featuring two 80s BBC sessions that aired on John Peel and Andy Kershaw, along with a super rare 1992 WMBR set, this double LP features covers of Buzzcocks, The Raincoats and Daniel Johnston with previously unreleased songs and a bonus download WFMU session from 1993

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Liz Green - Haul Away!

Produced by Liam Watson at Toe Rag studios. Liz Green made two albums and then retreated. An extraordinary talent and too good for our times. I’d like to see her make more records but get why she doesn’t.

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Radioactivity - Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

The joy of finding this in some tiny little backstreet record shop in Tontine Street in Folkestone in the mid 80s. It was a lot harder to find records then (pre-internet). I think I picked up Computerworld in the same shop.

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