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Various Artists – Legend Of A Mind: The Underground Anthology

Shockingly good three-CD archive of UK prog-rock

Fred Frith

Re-releases of solo outings by prodigious ex-Henry Cow guitarist

The Style Council – The Sound Of The Style Council

Best-of to mark 20th anniversary of Weller's experimental post-Jam outfit

Horsepower Productions – In Fine Style

Compilation of 12-inchers by London producers

El Hula – Violent Love

Cultured NZ pop from Boy George's label

Birdie – Reverb Deluxe

Rarities from sometime St Etienne crew

Stylophonic – Man Music Technology

Debut album from Italian house man Stefano Fontana

Adaptation – Source

New Yorker Carter Burwell scored Velvet Goldmine, which would be a coincidence (see above) if I didn't diligently plan these things ahead. He's also done most of the Coens' movies and, as he beautified Being John Malkovich, lands the return gig on the new Jonze-Kaufman headfuck. His new-school, indie sensibilities show from the dark opening title piece (remixed by Fatboy Slim), and he relishes working with titles like "The Slough Pit Of Creation" and "The Unexpressed Expressed" (who wouldn't?).

Various Artists – 16 Classiques De 1995 À 2002

Double CD of best tracks from celebrated Sourcelab compilations

Various Artists – Reggae Love Songs

Romantic tunes played a big part in British reggae charts in the late '70s and early '80s as a new generation of aspirational, British-born black kids abandoned roots reggae in favour of our first indigenous black pop style—lover's rock. Many of the tunes were nothing more than insipid cover versions of UK pop or US soul hits, but the movement yielded a clutch of genuinely moving songs such as Sharon Forrester's "Silly, Wasn't It?" (incidentally, Melody Maker's reggae single of 1974) and Janet Kay's 1979 Top 3 hit "Silly Games", both featured here. More recent
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