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Ein fast vierstündiger Mix aus 60 Deep House & Chillout Perlen lässt den Alltagsstress vergessen und verbreitet auch in der kalten Jahreszeit chilliges Urlaubsfeeling pur auf dem heimischen Sofa. Insgesamt eine Mischung, die für jeden Geschmack etwas bereithält und ein absolutes Must-Have in jeder Musiksammlung ist. Nicht nur für eingefleischte Fans, sondern auch für Neuentdecker. Mit dabei sind Tracks von Ole Biege & Martin Waslewski, Nora En Pure, Jan Blomqvist, &ME, Lane 8, Maya Jane Coles, Andhim, Sans Souci, Kiasmos, Grandbrothers, Satin Jackets, Carl Craig, Lycoriscoris, Blank & Jones, Eelke Kleijn, Guy Gerber und vielen mehr.

With the new Kontor Sunset Chill 2019 and its amazing Tracklist, you can start your Cocktail Party. While at the major Festivals around the world it is always powerful to the point, at numerous Cocktail or Pool parties rather Deep House or matching Chillout Beats provides the right mood. For years we have been reporting on this Compilation on our portals and listen to it year after year in fact several times in the editorial department itself.

Light in the Attic Records (LITA) proudly announces The Power Of The Heart: A Tribute To Lou Reed. The star-studded album celebrates the pioneering singer-songwriter’s enduring influence—as well as the timeless appeal of his songs—through performances by Reed’s closest friends and biggest fans, including Keith Richards, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Afghan Whigs, Bobby Rush, Maxim Ludwig & Angel Olsen, Mary Gauthier, and Automatic. Blending generation-defining hits (“I’m Waiting for the Man,” “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Perfect Day”) with lesser-known gems, the collection spans the artist’s five-decade-long career: from his earliest days with The Velvet Underground to his groundbreaking solo work.

EIGHTEEN AND I LIKE IT… if you survived trips 1-17 with one tiny speck of psychedelic sunshine intact, Brown Acid The 18th Trip will be your coming of age nightmare. Vintage underground ’70s hard rock, coming at you from bizarre angles, local scene wasteland America when everybody was out for themselves and the drugs went bleak. The guitars kill, the attitude is twisted, even the sex is headed down the wrong road. Real people, no compromise, pure and potent. Get stoked, take the 18th Trip and know that the artists will get paid for pulverizing your soul!

EIGHTEEN AND I LIKE IT… if you survived trips 1-17 with one tiny speck of psychedelic sunshine intact, Brown Acid The 18th Trip will be your coming of age nightmare. Vintage underground ’70s hard rock, coming at you from bizarre angles, local scene wasteland America when everybody was out for themselves and the drugs went bleak. The guitars kill, the attitude is twisted, even the sex is headed down the wrong road. Real people, no compromise, pure and potent. Get stoked, take the 18th Trip and know that the artists will get paid for pulverizing your soul!

A Solid compilation of exclusive new music on the freshly formed 'Advanced Public Listening Records', Japan. It’s a the new Japanese label established by Miho Mepo, a veteran of the Berlin music scene for the past 22 years. After recently coming back to Japan, she decided to start this new, highly conceptual label that symbolizes her unconventional musical vision, experience and network that she accrued while living in Europe. As she has stated, “This is my dedication to the musicians and music lovers everywhere. What the world needs now is pure energy and the essence of real music. Through our label, we strive to share with all, true music created out of miracles and magical moments. I have no doubt that these refined musical vibes will help us grasp the universal nature of true understanding and hopefully assist us in realizing that music has the ability to make us free.

This seven-CD collection exhaustively documents Columbia Records' first attempt at niche marketing with the Piano Moods series. Born out an impromptu marketing plan by a small Columbia Records staff in 1950, the Piano Moods series was hatched from the marketing discovery that there were more pianos than phonographs (that's record players for all you kids who don't remember vinyl LPs) in the homes of postwar America. The 12" LP had been launched a scant two years before and few titles were available. The Piano Moods series linked 20 albums of the same general type, all of them produced and sequenced by George Avakian, who had created the jazz and pop catalog on LP for Columbia beginning in 1948 – though they were originally released 33 rpm 10" discs to keep the folks with all those 10" 78 rpm discs happy when it came to storage. The sides were cut – usually – with no spirals (spaces) between tunes, giving the side a longer feel than its 17 minutes because the music was continuous. Most pianists preset their sequences and prepared introductions of the key of the preceding tune that modulated into the key of the next one.

NOW Music is proud to present the newest addition to the ‘Yearbook’ series: NOW – Yearbook 1981. 4 CDs of 85 tracks that defined the charts in 1981. This special edition CD is housed in ‘hard-back book’ packaging, including a 28-page booklet with a summary of the year, a track-by-track guide, a quiz, and original singles artwork, and as a standard 4-CD package.

The album You Can Be A Star! Deep Disco and Crossover 70's Soul From The Now-Again and Soul-Cal Vaults 1972-1982 was released on September 24, 2024, by Now-Again Records. This compilation features a rich collection of soul, disco, and crossover tracks from the 1970s, representing a lesser-known but vibrant part of the era's music. The songs come from deep within the vaults of the Soul-Cal label, offering a selection of rare gems that were often overlooked at the time but have since gained appreciation by collectors and soul enthusiasts.