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VA - David Hepworth's Deep 70s (Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade) (2022)

Posted By: Rtax
VA - David Hepworth's Deep 70s (Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade) (2022)

VA - David Hepworth's Deep 70s (Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade) (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 649 MB
4:42:07 | Pop, Rock, Funk, Soul | Label: Edsel Records

David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music since the 70s. He was involved in the launch and editing of Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word. He was one of the presenters of BBC TV‘s The Old Grey Whistle Test, and one of the anchors of the BBC’s coverage of Live Aid in July 1985.
He has written six books about music in the last five years: 1971 – Never a Dull Moment: Rock’s Golden Year, Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Star, Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop, A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives, Rock & Roll A Level: The only quiz book you need and Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America.

The Unfolding - How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak-Out Party (1967) [Reissue 2006]

Posted By: gribovar
The Unfolding - How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak-Out Party (1967) [Reissue 2006]

The Unfolding - How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak-Out Party (1967) [Reissue 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 201 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 84 MB | Covers - 27 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Raga Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Gear Fab Records (GF-221)

Not bad at all. Not exactly brilliant either, but this recorded free-form "freak-out" from 1967 (originally released on New York City's Audio Fidelity label) is not only not terrible, but surprisingly pretty OK for stretches, especially considering the typical quality of these types of had-to-be-there period curios that purport to blow your mind with an aural approximation of an acid trip. This one actually manages to be something approaching far out, man, even at its most half-baked. Whether How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freakout Party was, in fact, created as a "head" LP by practicing heads (a certain David Dalton is listed as the Unfolding's presiding mastermind - no word in the liner notes if this is the same Dalton who was a pioneering rock scribe and founding editor of Rolling Stone), or as an exploitation of same by a faceless assemblage of session musicians is really anyone's guess…

Osamu Kitajima - Osamu (1977) [Reissue 2010]

Posted By: gribovar
Osamu Kitajima - Osamu (1977) [Reissue 2010]

Osamu Kitajima - Osamu (1977) [Reissue 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 202 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 97 MB | Covers - 24 MB
Genre: New Age, Ethnic Fusion, Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: East Quest Records

This is the third album by Osamu Kitajima, one of Japan's most prolific artists from the ethno rock, world music and progressive department. You can certainly not divide all the mentioned stylistic aspects from each other for they were all incorporated in a homogenious sound and complex arrangements. It is the same with his other albums like „Benzaiten“ and or his fourth „Masterless Samurai“; traditional Japanese music meets Western jazzrock and progressive sounds to form a new style unheard by most people in Western countries at the time. Osamu Kitajima easily plays with elements of reggae and funk, fusion jazz and colorful pop while staying true to his Japanese roots with bits and pieces of traditional melodies and the use of old Asiatic instruments…

VA - Sweet Inspiration - The Songs Of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham (2011)

Posted By: Rtax
VA - Sweet Inspiration - The Songs Of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham (2011)

VA - Sweet Inspiration - The Songs Of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham (2011)
CD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 356 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 204 MB
1:06:48 | Full Scans Included | Soul, R&B | Label: Ace

We have received many requests to add Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham to our songwriter series. It’s never really been about if we would, so much as when. With 2011 being something of a “Year Of Southern Soul” for Ace and Kent, what better way to kick it off than with a genius gathering of 24 of the best songs ever to bear their names below the title. “Sweet Inspiration” does a bang-up job of assembling the key songs Dan and Spooner wrote together during the 1960s and early 1970s. A quick look at the track listing will show prospective buyers that my co-compiler Bob Dunham and I have tried hard to make sure that there’s a version of every major Penn and Oldham composition included. We haven’t always chosen the obvious versions, so there will be some nice surprises here for even the most avid collectors. It was difficult to bring what started out as a massive wish list down to just 24 selections, but we think our choices do justice to the performers of the songs and, most importantly, the writers.

Corey Stevens - Albums Collection 1995-2010 (4CD)

Posted By: Designol
Corey Stevens - Albums Collection 1995-2010 (4CD)

Corey Stevens - Albums Collection 1995-2010 (4CD)
EAC/XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.3 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 463 Mb | Scans ~ 254 Mb
Genre: Blues-Rock, Country Blues, Modern Electric Blues | Time: 03:22:48

Corey Stevens is an American blues guitarist from Centralia, Illinois. Stevens began playing guitar at age 11 and moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale to pursue a career in the music business. Stevens worked as a school teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District for ten years before signing a recording contract with the independent label, Eureka Records. He released his debut album in 1995, garnering comparisons to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, and scored a rock radio hit with the single, "Blue Drops of Rain." "One More Time" from his 1997 follow up, Road To Zen, was his highest charting single. It reached the top ten in Radio & Records and #22 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Collection includes: Blue Drops of Rain (1995); The Road To Zen (1997); Albertville (2007); The Dreaming Man (2010).

Eddie and The Hot Rods - The Island Years (2018)

Posted By: Rtax
Eddie and The Hot Rods - The Island Years (2018)

Eddie and The Hot Rods - The Island Years (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 786 MB
5:35:55 | Pub Rock, Punk Rock, Hard Rock, Power Pop | Label: Caroline Records

Definitive boxset of Eddie The Hot Rods’ sojourn with Chris Blackwell’s Island Records featuring the 3 albums Teenage Depression, Life On The Line and Thriller plus separate discs for BBC sessions, In Concert recordings and a rare Fan Club LP from 1977….LTW’s Ian Canty does anything he wants to do, well he wanted to write this review anyway…

Hazell Dean - Searchin' (40th Anniversary Mixes) (2024)

Posted By: Rtax
Hazell Dean - Searchin' (40th Anniversary Mixes) (2024)

Hazell Dean - Searchin' (40th Anniversary Mixes) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) - 139 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 46 MB
20:01 | Disco, Pop, Dance | Label: Fantasia Records UK

Hazell Dean (née Poole; born 27 October 1952) is an English dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading hi-NRG artist. She is best known for the top-ten hits in the United Kingdom "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", "Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)" and "Who's Leaving Who". She has also worked as a songwriter and producer.

VA - Chine: Musique classique (1988)

Posted By: Rtax
VA - Chine: Musique classique (1988)

VA - Chine: Musique classique (1988)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 318 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 MB
1:14:12 | Classical | Label: Ocora

Seventeen tracks, recorded from the 1950s to the 1970s, featuring solo instrumental pieces on dizi, erhu, gaohu, guqin, pipa, sanxian, sheng, sihu, xiao, yangqin, and zheng.

The 5th Dimension - The Very Best Of (Remastered) (1999)

Posted By: Rtax
The 5th Dimension - The Very Best Of (Remastered) (1999)

The 5th Dimension - The Very Best Of (Remastered) (1999)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 496 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 200 MB
1:11:02 | Funk, Soul | Label: Camden/BMG

Between 1967 and 1973, the 5th Dimension enjoyed 29 U.S. hit singles on the Soul City and Bell labels. This compilation selects all of their Top 40 hits (bar two live tracks) and tops up the running order with five lesser hits. Top-notch material by Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Neil Sedaka and Bacharach & David is rendered as exquisite harmony pop by the vocal group and their producer Bones Howe. Although "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" (from the musical "Hair") and Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues" were the chart-toppers, Webb's "Up, Up And Away" is the archetypal 5th Dimension sound. That the songs still sound remarkably fresh is due to the avoidance of formulaic writing, with no one writer or team being allowed to dominate. From the first hit, tellingly a cover of the Mamas & The Papas' "Go Where You Wanna Go," via material by Tony Macaulay, Sloan & Barri, and Ashford & Simpson, the quality never diminishes.

The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) {2018, 3CD Box Set, 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Japan}

Posted By: popsakov
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) {2018, 3CD Box Set, 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Japan}

The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) {2018, 3CD Box Set, 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,15 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 544 Mb
Full Scans | 02:49:10 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock / Soft Rock / Progressive Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Rock & Roll / Experimental
Apple Records / Universal Music #UICY-78857/8/9

For 50 years, The White Album has invited its listeners to venture forth and explore the breadth and ambition of its music, delighting and inspiring each new generation in turn. The Beatles have now released a suite of lavishly presented White Album packages, including an expanded 3CD package. The album's 30 tracks are newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell and features the new stereo album mix on 2CDs, adding a third CD of the Esher Demos. This is the first time The BEATLES (‘White Album’) has been remixed and presented with an additional disc demo recordings. To create the new stereo audio mixes for ‘The White Album,’ Giles Martin and Sam Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios in London. This 3CD ‘White Album’ release includes Martin’s new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original four-track and eight-track session tapes.

VA - Het beste uit de Top 500 van de zomer (2016)

Posted By: Rtax
VA - Het beste uit de Top 500 van de zomer (2016)

VA - Het beste uit de Top 500 van de zomer (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 784 MB
5:36:07 | Pop | Label: Sony Music

De zomer is eindelijk begonnen! De geur van zonnebrand, sissende worsten op de BBQ, verfrissende cocktails, zwoele zomeravonden en zomerse muziek! Van maandag 25 juli t/m donderdag 28 juli 2016 zendt Qmusic de 500 populairste zomerhits uit. De hoogtepunten zijn verzameld op deze schitterende 5 cd box met natuurlijk de 2016 hits van Deorro “Bailar”, Alvaro Soler “Sofia”, Willy William “Ego”, Sia & Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills”, Fais “Hey”, Cheat Codes “Sex”, The Chainsmokers “Don’t Let Me Down”, Fifth Harmony “Work From Home” en Sam Feldt “Summer On You”. Maar ook de zomerhits van afgelopen jaren van The Underdog Project, Axwell ^ Ingrosso, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Avicii, Los Del Rio, Calvin Harris, Wes, Las Ketchup, Gipsy Kings, T-Spoon, etc. etc. ontbreken natuurlijk niet.

Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (1984)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (1984)

Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (1984)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 221 Mb | Total time: 62:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 411 475-2 | Recorded: 1982, 1983

It is obviously not the sentimental aspect of Rachmaninov's music that has attracted Zoltan Kocsis to record all of the piano concertos for Philips. His view of the composer is more involved with making an impact through spine-tingling virtuosity, balanced by moments of poetic insight.

Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (1985)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (1985)

Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (1985)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 192 Mb | Total time: 55:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 412 881-2 | Recorded: 1982, 1984

It is obviously not the sentimental aspect of Rachmaninov's music that has attracted Zoltan Kocsis to record all of the piano concertos for Philips. His view of the composer is more involved with making an impact through spine-tingling virtuosity, balanced by moments of poetic insight.

Midori Seiler, Köthener Bachcollektiv - Bach's Virtuosos (2023)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Midori Seiler, Köthener Bachcollektiv - Bach's Virtuosos (2023)

Midori Seiler, Köthener Bachcollektiv - Bach's Virtuosos (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 59:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0302926BC | Recorded: 2022

Under the direction of violin virtuoso Midori Seiler, this album presents a very lively musical portrait of the Köthener Hofkapelle, now revived as Köthener BachCollectiv. With exceptional virtuosos and composers, Bach went to the limits of what was then playable and experimented with instruments, scorings, sounds and musical forms; New reconstructions of Bach Concertos BWV 1056R & 1064R by Midori Seiler - Musical treasures and world premiere recordings by A. R. Stricker (Sonata D major), J. Spieß (Concerto E minor) and G. Linike (Suite D major)

Cedar Walton Trio - Ironclad (1995)

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Cedar Walton Trio - Ironclad (1995)

Cedar Walton Trio - Ironclad (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 300 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 146 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Monarch Records/Sugo Music (MR-1005)

The working trio of pianist Walton, bassist David Williams, and drummer Billy Higgins is not only bulletproof but in lockstep with Walton's extraordinary musical talents. This set, done at Yoshi's Nitespot in Oakland, CA for radio broadcast over KJAZ-FM, is a perfect example of the Walton trio's brilliance. Of the seven pieces, four are Walton's and comprise his better writings. "Bremond's Blues," an underrated composition in the Walton repertoire, starts and ends by quoting "Giant Steps" and paraphrasing "Sweet & Lovely" in the middle, and spreads buttery melodicism throughout. "N.P.S." is a Walton classic, with Higgins' tango-to-light-swing rhythm accenting a bluesy melody. "Fiesta Espanol" is quicker, brighter, and quite familiar to fans, with Higgins digging in on his lengthy drum solo, while "Ironclad" features an elongated intro and coda, stating the chiming staccato melody in two spurts over 14 minutes…