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great Chicago/London/LA reissue label with impeccable taste in undiscovered/forgotten music
Jan 18, 2025
Funk, psych, and soul revival is our daily go to in the last few years. Always nice to bring out some Colemine Records for the walk to the train. Puts some extra bounce in each step.
Jan 4, 2025
I recently dove deeper into Numero Group’s reissue of tracks from Deep City Records, the Miami-based soul and R&B label founded by FAMU classmates Willie Clark and Johnny Pearsall in the early 60s. Really fun to trace the influences drawn from Motown, marching bands, and Afro-Caribbean music that created the “Miami sound” and launched the careers of great artists like Betty Wright, who recorded the linked song “Paralyzed” when she was 12 years old (!!!)
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Supplemental: a solid YouTube documentary on the history of Deep City
Apr 18, 2024
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Empires in decay.
Toshifumi Hinata's debut came out at a time when Japan's star was momentarily starting to wane. In response, he went wandering through Europe, taking in the waste and desolation of World War II that much of Europe never fully recovered from.
As a result, we get this strange, beautiful album of solo piano, like a mix of Angelo Badalamenti's early-90s soundtracks, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and proto-vaporwave, anticipating the Neoclassical music of Erased Tapes in the '00s by a few decades.
Jan 23, 2024