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Masami Akita & Russell Haswell – Satanstornade

Noise, basically. Catalogue number 666

Snoop Dogg – Paid Da Cost To Be Da Boss

Original gangsta reforms

Fleetwood Mac – The Very Best Of…

Odd hits affair which hardly acknowledges Peter Green

Lee Hazlewood – These Boots Were Made For Walkin’—The Complete MGM Recordings

Two-CD garnering of US maverick producer/songwriter's golden years. Includes rare and unreleased gems

Herbie Hancock – The Herbie Hancock Box

Music of unfeasibly large variety of style

Branford Marsalis Quartet – Footsteps Of Our Fathers

Serious overview of black music

Ben Vaughn – Glasgow Time

US TV soundtracker (3rd Rock From The Sun), producer (Ween) and Alex Chilton collaborator makes sunny Scotpop with Norman Blake and co

Various – Homesleep2: Cover Songs

Italian lo-fi indie label collates impressive covers album

This Month In Soundtracks

The producers of 8 Mile expect it to do for hip hop what The Blackboard Jungle did for rock'n'roll and Saturday Night Fever did for disco. As Eminem is already far and away the biggest-selling recording star in America, you kind of wonder where there is left for him to cross over to. Nevertheless, word is the movie's a highly successful Rocky-type dream-fulfilment tale of poor-kid-becomes-rap-star. The soundtrack, however, isn't some nightmare hybrid of "Eye Of The Tiger" and "Stayin' Alive".

Various Artists – The Very Best Of World Duets

First and Third world meetings in music
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