Your favourite various artists compilations? (1 Viewer)

[nlgbbbblth]

Though you might have a few nlgbbbblth....

I ordered a second hand copy of the Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey's, The Trip a while ago. The Saint Etienne had some good stuff on it.

I remember reading a review of it where the reviewer said something like "Pete Wiggs & Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne are well know for their planet sized record collections but just because you know great music doesn't mean you can make great music".....ouch

hmmm, I think Saint Etienne are deadly. As well as the regular albums, they've put out some excellent fan-club and soundtrack releases [The Misadventures Of... especially]

 

[nlgbbbblth]

from my list
meant to include

The Rubble Collection: Volumes 1 to 20

Pebbles: Volumes 1 to 5

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

im not much of a fan of compilations, i rarely bother with them but i like these:

Lowest Form Of Music - 10cd boxset of L.A. Free Music society related stuff, not all good but mostly deadly.

Voice Of The People - some deadly old folk stuff on these, i havent all 20 volumes though

 

[aoboa]

Two long lost and forgotten Irish comps:
Various - Zip Up Your Boots for the Showbands (Dead Elvis)
Various - The Weird Weird World of Guru Weirdbrain (Hotwire)

 

[Lili Marlene]

huge fucking post

dude, your favourites, not just a selection of good ones

 

[guy of the tiger]

Do mixes count?

Blech II

Coldcut - Journeys by Dj

Hit the Decks vol 3
(deadly oldschool rave!)

Shining OST

Jeff mills- Live at the liquid room

 

[guy of the tiger]

forced to pick a favourite, it would be Blech II

 

[tombstome]

Now We Are Ten- Trunk Records V/A
Super Numeri presents The Enochian Way
Andrew Weatherall presents -Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi
songs In The Key Of Z

 

[aoboa]

For electronic comps I would have to go for these:

 

[theoootini]

this satamile comp is grate too:

 

[theoootini]

For electronic comps I would have to go for these:

don't think you can link to discogs photos...

 

[aoboa]

don't think you can link to discogs photos...

Damn!!!
They were:
Sub Bass For Your Face (Suburban Bass)
Retro Techno (Network)
Deepest Shade of Techno (Reflective)

 

[nlgbbbblth]

dude, your favourites, not just a selection of good ones

well there were plenty more I didn't mention....

absolute favourites

Soul - Beg, Scream and Shout: The Big 'Ol Box of 60s Soul

Rock - Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra Records: 1963 - 1973

Psych - Nuggets II

Series (multi disc) - The Complete Motown Singles

Series (single volumes) - Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz

 

[Tubby Tucker]

 

[shitepipe]

and alot of the Azuli choice series are pretty deadly, but especially:

 

[ddmurph]

Lowest Form Of Music - 10cd boxset of L.A. Free Music society related stuff

.|..| greatest single musical purchase i've ever made .|..|

compilations rule as far as i'm concerned... some other favourites ...

revue ou (henri chopin curated sound poetry)
futura: poesia sonora (only have mp3 rips of this though)
broken flag: a retrospective 1982-1985
come org anthologies
susan lawly extreme music from africa + russia
dotdotdot: grain - a compilation of 99 short tracks
harry smith anthologies
ocora world of traditional music
northern heritage: crushing the holy trinity
loads of sublime frequencies comps, especially thai pop spectacular
chocolate monk: from lips of lepers + broken brain comps
skulls of heaven: bound with skin
last visible dog: invisible pyramid - elegy box
digitalis: gold leaf branches
flex your head
soul jazz: studio one roots, dynamite dancehall
warp 10+1: influences
skam recs skampler

loads more compilations are right up at the top of my wishlist too ... waiting to order the following cassette comps from rrr as soon as i'm not skint anymore ...

AN AFFLICTED MAN'S MUSICA BOX
DEVASTATE TO LIBERATE
HOISTING THE BLACK FLAG
IN FRACTURED SILENCE
(... will have to do with tape versions of above cos i can't see myself forking out big bucks for originals anytime in the foreseeable future)

HERZ AUS G.R.O.S.S. - BEST OF G.R.O.S.S. - JAPANESE NOISE
JOURNEY INTO PAIN
RISING FROM THE RED SAND
SEXORAMA

 

[oh shit]

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Working my way through this one this evening, it's deadly. Some familiar names there but loads of great stuff I knew nothing about.

A year in the making, ‘Further Perspectives And Distortion’ presents a snapshot of the UK’s experimental and avant-garde music scene, observed through the paradigm-shifting lense of the post punk revolution and bringing together disparate names from across the experimental spectrum. This is a long-overdue look at the ‘other side’ of the freedom offered by the tectonic shifts in the musical landscape in 1976 & 1977.

For all of the upheaval of that mid-late ‘70s demolition of musical boundaries, the guitar and the search for a saleable melody continued to dominate. But for the willing the opportunity also arose to operate free of such commercial concessions, and in tandem with the explosion of angular guitar music and electronic pop (and often alongside those sounds on the same album or EP) came a wealth of exploratory and experimental material which, for the first time, demanded an audience beyond the culture set and the art world. From speed-fuelled kids bursting with raw talent and homemade electronic gizmos to trained composers and writers with a new, fresh audience to explore, herein lay the flipside – literally, in many of these recordings’ cases – of the independent explosion and the newfound ability to find homes (and stockists) for even the most unruly of sounds.

By design, ‘Further Perspectives And Distortion’ seeks to comfort, challenge and question in equal measure.

Disc 1
1. Alterations – Trail Of Traps
2. Alternative TV – The Force Is Blind
3. AMM III – Convergence
4. ...And the Native Hipsters – Hang Ten
5. The Art Bears – Rats And Monkeys
6. A Tent – Intellectual Stance
7. Blancmange – Overspreading Art Genius
8. Bodhi Beat Poets – Positive Paranoia/The City In The Sea
9. Gavin Bryars – After Mendelssohn (137 Years)
10. Paul Burwell & David Toop – Lmc 1979
11. Chris & Cosey – The Giant's Feet
12. Clock DVA – Exercise In Magnetic Tape No 4
13. Bob Cobbing – Refreshment Break
14. Lindsay Cooper – General Strike
15. Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher – Vase
16. David Cunningham – Error System (Bagfgab)
17. Deux Filles – Her Master's Voice
18. Doof – Brighton, Pt. 1
19. Eyeless in Gaza – John Of Patmos

Disc 2
1. Faction – Burning Feet
2. Five or Six – Think
3. Robert Fripp – Miniature
4. Fred Frith – The Boy Beats The Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany)
5. Ron Geesin – Blades Spin Notions
6. B.C. Gilbert, Graham Lewis & Russell Mills – Mzui (Extract)
7. Bill Gilonis & Tim Hodgkinson – Night By The Sea
8. Nico & The Invisible Girls (a.k.a. Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins) – Procession
9. Kevin Harrison – Wooden Heartthrob Of Peking
10. Henry Cow – Industry
11. Het – Music For The Hanging Of A Minister
12. Hula – Junshi
13. George Melly – Sounds That Saved My Life (Homage To K.S.)
14. No Artist – (Extract From) The Compassion And Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher
15. Nocturnal Emissions – Down The Sink
16. Nurse with Wound – I Was No Longer His Dominant (Alternate Version)
17. Mark Perry – Death Looks Down
18. Psychic TV – In The Nursery

Disc 3
1. Robert Rental – Paralysis
2. Second Layer – Japanese Headset
3. Will Sergeant – Scene X
4. Nigel Simpkins – Scattered Strategies/Oblique References
5. Soft Machine – Kayoo
6. Stinky Winkles – Opus
7. Swell Maps – Robot Factory
8. Test Dept. – Wwbc
9. Door & the Window – Nostradamus
10. The New Blockaders – Changez Les Blockeurs (Extract)
11. The Pop Group – Amnesty International Report
12. The Wildings – Crossover
13. The Work – Brickyard
14. This Heat – 24 Track Loop
15. Throbbing Gristle – Zyklon B Zombie
16. 23 Skidoo – Banishing
17. Two – Pale Yellow
18. John White – Drinking And Hooting Machine?
19. Trevor Wishart – Musical Box
20. Robert Wyatt – Rangers In The Night
21. Zos Kia – Baptism Of Fire