Joining the dots between punk, new wave, electronica & dub.
Bustin’ Out 1983 Tracklisting & Packshot Revealed
We are thrilled to announce details of the next instalment in our ongoing series.
Bustin’ Out 1983 : New Wave To New Beat Volume 3 is released 20 September on CD and 4-track 12” sampler.
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Bustin’ Out 1982 – The New Wave To New Beat Series Continues
Second in our ‘New Wave To New Beat’ series, charting the groundbreaking developments in electronic based music through the ‘80s, features Gary Numan, E.S.G., Man Parrish, Mark Stewart, Colourbox and Portion Control amongst others.
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Bustin’ Out 1979 – 1981: The Post Punk Era
The first in our series of New Wave to New Beat compilations 'Bustin' Out, The Post Punk Era 1979-1981' is out now. The music termed post punk is well represented in many of its diverse strains by some of its prime movers.
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Classic & collectable rock n roll, blues, jazz, soul, pop, beat & soundtracks across the decades.
Mambo In The Mainstream (CD / 2LP)
It took a while, ten years in fact, before the music, mood and majesty of the mambo entered the mainstream. Cuban bandleader Perez Prado first introduced the dance at La Tropicana night-club in Havana, and through a natural and gradual process the message quickly spread.
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Lightnin’ Hopkins “Texas Blues Giant” (3CD)
There was nobody quite like Lightnin’ Hopkins. John Lee Hooker may have made more records but even he couldn’t match the consistently high level of Hopkins’ creativity.
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Bluegrass Big Three (3CD)
This set has been compiled to represent the three most commercially successful groups of the post-war explosion of traditional bluegrass from its “labour pains” in 1945 through its widespread acceptance in the late 1950s shortly before the revolution in progressive bluegrass.
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Another Happy Hour In The Ember Lounge (1CD)
Welcome back to the Ember Lounge where you’re now greeted on the door as a regular. The soundtrack remains an impeccably blended cocktail of predominantly sixties recordings.
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