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Track: Bobby Oroza – ‘Loving Body’: a waking lover’s dream of a soul nugget

RAISED in Helsinki’s east side by a Latin mother and a jazz guitarist father, the music seized Bobby Oroza from an early age; an excellent familial record collection included Motown,…

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Track: Brainstory -‘Bye Bye’: solid Sixties’ soul grooves from the April Big Crown 7″

BRAINSTORY came firing out of the San Bernadino Valley in California s in 2015 with a six-track, jazzy CD EP entitled A Natural Phantasm; and Big Crown over in Brooklyn…

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NEWS: The Durutti Column to release first wax single this century

THE FIRST standalone vinyl single to come from Vini Reilly’s brittle guitar soundscapers The Durutti Column in the 21st century is due to be released this summer – on Vini’s…

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TRACK: Jimi Tenor – ‘Sugar and Spice’: you’re shimmying in its pocket

PHILOPHON, the Berlin label with a deep and abiding mission to bring forth all things with a deep groove, has today released a “haptic” 7” by Finnish multi-dimensional artist Jimi…

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NEWS: Horsemeat Disco get back on the floor with Kathy Sledge

GLITTERBOX, Defected’s boutique disco imprint inspired by the Ibiza club night of the same name, has released a second collaborative single by the Horse Meat Disco boys and Sister Sledge…

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SEE: Archers of Loaf shuffle forward a new 7″

THE BEST made plans of mice and men: this year has seen everyone’s diary go into the shredder. US alt.rock mainstays Archers of Loaf are no exception. With Record Store…

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Album Review : Beach House’s ‘7’

It took me a bit before I truly could appreciate the magic of Beach House’s music. The Baltimore band’s appeal eluded me their first couple records. What I’d heard off…

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From an old record box: Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl

In amongst some pretty bonkers material from a pretty bonkers career, the ‘Cornflake Girl’ b/w ‘Sister Janet’ single is still an impressive box of lyrical frogs. Atlantic catalogue number…

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From an old record box – introduction

It was a Sunday, just back from Mass, so what else would I be doing but pottering around in the shed, doing some gardening and spraying some wd40 on the…

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