1998 横田 進 Susumu Yokota

Tortilla Funk is the foolishly-named 1998 compilation album honoring Latin-flavored soul and funk from North America. Released by Lazarus Records, this was released with rumors of its true legality but it's a way to hear this style of music with a few rarities galore.

Do What You Like is a 1998 compilation by drummer Ginger Baker that combines three of his albums: 1970's Ginger Baker’s Air Force, 1970's Ginger Baker’s Air Force 2, and 1972's Stratavarious, plus a non-LP track and a song previously unreleased.

Spice Power Hit is a 1998 bootleg compilation CD by British girl power group The Spice Girls. It features all of their hit songs from their first two albums plus key album cuts. No label is listed on this disc.

The New Sound Of The Venezuelan Gozadera is the 1998 album by Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles. This was released on the Luaka Bop label.

Naked Spirit is the 1998 album by Sainkho Namtchylak, who released this solely under her first name, who is from Tuva and sings both normally and Tuvan throat singing, This CD is credited as featuring "Special Guest Djivan Gasparian" but he is only featured in the opening composition. This was released by Amiata Records.

Two Pages is the 1998 album by British electronic duo 4 Hero. This was released by Talkin' Loud via Mercur

A massive four-disc box that screams of industrial overkill as only Cleopatra Records can, Black Bible actually starts out quite well, with period classics from Bauhaus, Legendary Pink Dots, Ministry, Fields of the Nephilim, Tones on Tail and 1000 Homo DJs. By the second disc things go downhill, with newer tracks from Spahn Ranch, Big Electric Cat, Genitorturers and Electric Hellfire Club. That still leaves more than 30 tracks of middling-to-downright-obnoxious industrial music; the label even dredged up a Marilyn Manson track, a remix of "Transylvanian Concubine" by Rasputina.

The Big Payback is a 4CD box set of rare soul and funk released in 1998 by Clubmasters. It consists of 10 songs on each disc, featuring the works of Syl Johnson, Eddie Bo, Chuck Carbo, and Nu Sound Express, a few of which have been sampled over the years in hip-hop. Many of these recordings are sourced from vinyl.

Karma Pharma is the 1998 album by Genetic druGs. All of the sounds are meant to be hallucinatory, or at least it is meant to go into your mind. This was released by Blue Flame.

Priceless Jazz is a good midline sampler of highlights from Carmen McRae's recordings for MCA and Decca. Although this isn't a definitive collection, it offers representative material to make this a good introduction to these recordings for curious listeners on a budget. ~ AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine