VA - La Boite Noire : Les Racines de Nova 1961-1970 [10 CD/FLAC]

 Radio Nova (or simply Nova) is a radio station broadcast from Paris, created in 1981 by Jean-François Bizot. Its playlist is characterized by non-mainstream or underground artists of various music genres, such as electro, new wave, reggae, jazz, hip hop and world music. 

 

 

VA - I Didn't Give A Damn If Whites Bought It! - The Ralph Bass Sessions Vol.1 & 2 (2 CD, 1998/FLAC)

 

Ralph Bass Jr.; (1 May 1911 The Bronx – 5 March 1997 Chicago) was an American rhythm and blues record producer and talent scout for several independent labels. He was a pioneer in bringing black music into the American mainstream. During his career he worked in key roles for Black & White Records, Savoy Records, King Records, Federal Records, and Chess Records, recording some of the greatest performers in black music, including Etta James, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Earl Bostic, and groups such as The Platters and The Dominoes. Bass was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as a non-performer.

 

Vol.1 (feat.Magic Slim, Jimmy Johnson, Lacy Gibson & Joe Carter)

01 - Jimmy Johnson - Pretty Baby

02 - Jimmy Johnson - Hi Heel Sneakers

03 - Jimmy Johnson - Looking For My Baby

04 - Jimmy Johnson - Thing I Used To Do

05 - Lacy Gibson - You Better Be Sure

06 - Lacy Gibson - Whop That Thang Around Me

07 - Lacy Gibson - Easy Woman

08 - Lacy Gibson - Take My Love

09 - Magic Slim - Born In Missouri

10 - Magic Slim - Strange Thing Happen

11 - Magic Slim - Soul Blues

12 - Magic Slim - Ship Made Of Paper

13 - Joe Carter - Joe's Boogie

14 - Joe Carter - Sweet Home Chicago

15 - Joe Carter - Annie Lee

Recorded at PS Studios, Chicago

Tracks 1-4 March 29, 1977

Tracks 5-8 March 9, 1977

Tracks 9-12 March 22, 1977

TracKs 13-15 April 5, 1977

Vol.2 (feat.Sunnyland Slim, Eddie Clearwater, Lee Jackson & Willie Williams)

01 - Lee Jackson - Dirty Old Man

02 - Lee Jackson - Chicago Woman

03 - Lee Jackson - Pleading For Love

04 - Lee Jackson - Rocks In My Pillow

05 - Sunnyland Slim - Bessie Mae

06 - Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get To Drinkin'

07 - Sunnyland Slim - I Had It So Hard

08 - Sunnyland Slim - Soft And Mellow Stella

09 - Eddie Clearwater - Mayor Daley's Blues

10 - Eddie Clearwater - Boogie My Blues Away

11 - Eddie Clearwater - I Don't Know Why

12 - Eddie Clearwater - Came Up The Hard Way

13 - Willie Williams - You Went Away Baby

14 - Willie Williams - Alcoholic Man

15 - Willie Williams - Showing Off My Car

Recorded at PS Studios, Chicago

Tracks 1-4 March 16, 1977

Tracks 5-8 March 8, 1977

Tracks 9-12 March 14, 1977

Tracks 13-15 March 17, 1977

Kraftwerk discography [1970-2011]

  

During the mid-'70s, Germany's Kraftwerk established the sonic blueprint followed by an extraordinary number of artists in the decades to come. From the British new romantic movement to hip-hop to techno, the group's self-described "robot pop" -- hypnotically minimal, obliquely rhythmic music performed solely via electronic means -- resonates in virtually every new development to impact the contemporary pop scene of the late-20th century, and as pioneers of the electronic music form, their enduring influence cannot be overstated. Kraftwerk emerged from the same German experimental music community of the late '60s that spawned Can and Tangerine Dream; primary members Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter first met as classical music students at the Dusseldorf Conservatory, originally teaming in the group Organisation and issuing a 1970 album, Tone Float, in the U.K. Schneider and Hütter soon disbanded Organisation, re-christening themselves Kraftwerk (German for "power station"), beginning work on their own studio (later dubbed Kling Klang), and immersing their music in the fledgling world of minimalist electronics; their 1971 debut, titled simply Kraftwerk 1, offered a hint of their unique aesthetic in its earliest form, already implementing innovations including Schneider's attempts at designing homemade rhythm machines.

 

 

VA - Time Life - Solid Gold Soul (1965-1980s) (14 CD, 1996-2000)

 

While the Rhythm & Blues series and the Solid Gold Soul series were not identical, they had a huge overlap, so are covered here together. Essentially, the Solid Gold Soul series was a reissue of the earlier Rhythm & Blues series with much more colorful artwork. Although there were CDs in each series that were not in the other, a vast majority of the CDs in Solid Gold Soul were exact reissues of the earlier Rhythm & Blues series.

The Rhythm and Blues series was a late 1980s-early 1990s subscription offering that concentrated on music from the R&B or soul charts. The series was successful, and eventually reached 24 volumes plus a budget 2-CD compilation, covering the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.

Starting around 1996, the volumes of the Rhythm and Blues series by year were reissued as the Solid Gold Soul series, with completely different artwork, even though the CDs inside were trackwise and sonically identical to the corresponding volume in the earlier Rhythm and Blues series. The new series used the R838- prefix instead of the old RHD- prefix. The Solid Gold Soul series did not include all the volumes in the Rhythm and Blues series, and later issued new volumes that weren't included with the older series, eventually reaching 31 volumes plus a budget box set and a special edition CD. In the late 1990s, Time-Life was selling both series side by side. 

 

 

Cripple Clarence Lofton - Complete Recorded Works 1935 - 1943 [2 CD]

 

Cripple Clarence Lofton (March 28, 1887 - January 9, 1957), born Albert Clemens in Kingsport, Tennessee, was a noted boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

Though Lofton was born with a limp (from which he derived his stage name), he actually started his career as a tap-dancer. Lofton moved on from tap-dancing into the blues idiom known as boogie-woogie and moved on to perform in Chicago, Illinois.

With his distinctive performance style, Lofton found himself a mainstay in his genre: His first recording was in April 1935 for Vocalion Records with guitar accompaniment from Big Bill Broonzy. He later went on to own the Big Apple nightclub in Chicago and continued to record well into the late 1940s, when he retired.  Lofton lived in Chicago until he died from a blood clot in his brain in Cook County Hospital in 1957.

Lofton was an integral part of the boogie-woogie genre in Chicago. Some of his more popular songs include: "Strut That Thing", "Monkey Man Blues", "I Don't Know" and "Pitchin' Boogie". His talent was likened to that of Pinetop Smith and other prominent boogie-woogie artists including: Meade Lux Lewis, Cow Cow Davenport and Jimmy Yancey.