Posts Tagged V/A
Archive
February 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: For The Love Of You
Various Artists: For The Love Of You Athens of the North The Athens of the North reissue label always takes you down a new wormhole, finds the sweet spot, opens the door, mixes the metaphor and spins your head with its lush simplicity; its super cool, super sweet ideas. So try this one! A compilation […]Archive
February 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Music For Falling (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various Artists: Music For Falling (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Perceval Press Living in Wellington 20 odd years ago we all found out first hand about The Renaissance Man that is Viggo Mortensen. The actor was here for the interminable Lord Of The Rings trilogy but couldn’t rest at only that; soon he was hosting poetry […]Archive
February 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: True Colours, New Colours
Various Artists: True Colours, New Colours Warners Of all the cruel jokes in the world, tribute albums tend to be a specially crafted insult. But this one, this is different. This one is brazen as all fuck. Warner Music decided to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Split Enz’ dynamic and dynamite True Colours – our […]Archive
December 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Fatboy Slim: Back To Mine
Various Artists: Fatboy Slim: Back To Mine Back To Mine The Back To Mine series of mix-albums, first started in 1999, offers dance music for after-hours sips rather than for in-the-zone hips; these are the tunes you listen to at the end of the night, the idea being this would be the ‘private mix’ from […]Archive
December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Khruangbin: Late Night Tales
Various Artists: Khruangbin: Late Night Tales Late Night Tales This is the one in the series I’ve been most looking forward to this year – for many reasons I guess, chief amongst them is the fact that I’m a pretty big fan of Khruangbin – as I was saying right here just recently.Archive
October 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 28
V/A, Hit Wave 82 (1982) These Various Artists compilations…I used to have so many of them – they’re worthless too, all battered up and bear-soaked and tattered covers but they’re fun. And I still collect them up a bit. Though not as much as I once did. They were fun fillers for DJing – you […]Archive
October 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Hot Chip: Late Night Tales
Various Artists: Hot Chip: Late Night Tales Late Night Tales We make our own playlists and compilations and mixtapes and many people have long given up caring about the curated mix-album…but I’m still a fan. And I love the Late Night Tales series – for a start it’s still going after nearly 20 years (it […]Archive
August 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 71
Crazy Ed For Governor: Live From Crazy Ed’s (1973) God bless the internet. It always catches up and surpasses your expectations. Sometimes you just have to wait. This album was released in 1973. I’ve owned it since 1997 and I’ve had no idea what it was or why it came to happen despite a few […]Archive
July 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2
Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2 NOW As with the first volume this is more a compilation of acceptable cheese than it is ‘Yacht Rock’. Yacht Rock’s dead anyway, it sunk – but not without traces. The wind changed. Maybe as soon as people started making compilations with the words […]Archive
June 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present ‘Soul On The Corner’
Various Artists: Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present ‘Soul On The Corner’ Acid Jazz Records It’s easy to be a bit cynical about celebrity-endorsed compilations and – for that matter – non-soundtracking compilations altogether. And this ticks both boxes! But this is totally fantastic and there’s real love and care here, and a track-record too…Archive
May 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman