Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town

Best Dressed Chicken in Town was first released in 1978 and became a huge hit with punks in the '70s when Johnny Rotten heavily plugged it's cosmic babble in an interview. This Debut consists of tracks laid down at King Tubby's, Black Ark, Channel One & Randy's Studios from 1974 to 1976. Dr Alimantado is assisted with the vocal talents of Gregory Isaacs, Horace Andy, Jah Woosh, Jackie Edwards & even enlisted top engineers /producers like Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King Tubby, and Scientist to add their own alchemy to the mix. The dub-inflected tracks and Alimantado's idiosyncratic musings prove a potent combination, part of this album's charm derives from the different production styles that offer plenty of variation and a delightful listening experience.
Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town

1. Best Dressed Chicken In Town
2. Just The Other Day
3. Poison Flour
4. Gimmie Mi Gun
5. I Killed The Barber
6. Unitone Skank
7. Can't Conquer Natty Dreadlocks
8. Ride On
9. Plead I Cause
10. I Shall Fear No Evil
11. Ital Galore
12. I am the Greatest Says Muhammad Ali
    
13. Johnny Was a Baker
14. Tribute to the Duke

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V/A - No Compromize (Chocolate Fireguard) 1996

A Benefit compilation for the Campaign For Free Education, a group who campaign against mainstream politics for a free higher education system! Organised by hundersfield based label Chocolate Fireguard and released in 1996 with the help of Delerium records, many of the tracks are exclusive or previously unreleased versions. enjoy

V/A - No Compromize

Disc one | Disc two

1. Suede - New Generation (Radio Edit)
2. Senser - Charming Demons (Keep On Dreaming) Skip McDonald/Adrian Sherwood Mix
3. Dreadzone - Fight The Power
4. Northern Uproar - Rollercoaster
5. Zion Train - Eagle Ray
6. Kava Kava - Freedom
7. Mother Earth - Compare Yourself
8. Marion - Let's All Go Together
9. Transglobal Underground - Armchair Cowboys Clash (Furry Asteroid Colossus Mix)
10. Intastella - Track 18
11. Fun Da Mental - Mother India
12. Eat Static - Epsylon (Set Mix)
13. Unknown Society - Reach Higher (Tee's Ill House Dub Bonus Mix - Todd Terry)
Disc: 2
1. Cud - Magic (Smalltown USA Mix)
2. X-CNN - Cocaine (Mix by Tim Bran - Dreadzone)
3. The Wedding Present - Sports Car
4. New Model Army - Vengeance (Zion Train Remix)
5. Nine Invisibles/Kava Kava - Chip Away (featuring Tony Benn)
6. Sanjuman - Glittoris
7. Utah Saints - Emperor
8. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Iration
9. Banco De Gaia - Sunspot
10. Chumbawamba - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. Loop Guru - Soulus - Submarine Variation No. 2
12. Ukrainians - Revelation
13. The Aardvarks - Girl On A Bike
14. Autechre - Silverside
15. Moonflowers - Ug

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Punishment Of Luxury - Gigantic Days

Punishment Of Luxury, aka Punilux, were originally a post-punk band from Newcastle, in the North East of England. Formed in December 1976 with a background in radical fringe theatre, their futuristic rock collision of punk and prog was years ahead of its time. Their debut single, the classic 'Puppet Life' was released on Small Wonder in June 1978. In 1979 the band released the seminal 'Laughing Academy' lp, followed by the 'Jellyfish'/'Engine Of Excess' single. 1980 saw the release of the pych-drenched proto hardcore 'Secrets'/'Brain Bomb' single. In 1981, Punishment Of Luxury re-entered the studio and recorded various sessions for a concept album titled 'Gigantic Days'. Upon completion Punishment Of Luxury toured the new recordings and offered the album to various labels. However, as the line-up changed and a contract was negotiated with Red Rhino these recordings were overlooked in favour of the newer recordings that would become the 'Seven' album.
This release couples the 'Gigantic Days' recordings with the rare 1984 ‘Feels Like Dancing Wartime' album (tracks 11-16), virtually unseen as Red Rhino folded just after its release.
Punilux are out there gigging NOW.
Punishment Of Luxury - Gigantic Days

1. Plants And Insects
2. Fascicult Barabaraclique
3. Empire Of
   Idiots
4. No Admittance
5. Destiny
6. Death And Boogie
7. Auschwitz
8. Love Decayed
9. All Change
10. The Dragon
11. Feels Like Dancing Wartime
12. Eyes
13. Motivator
14. Welcome
15. The Prisoner
16. Rock Out The Box
    

Nevilluxury - synth guitar / guitar/ vocals
Jimi Giro - bass / vocals
Malakabala - guitar / vocals
Steve Sekrit - drums / vocals

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glutton for punishment-dave simpson on punilux
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On Fire - Smalltown Supersound

Norway's Smalltown Supersound label is just one of those imprints that you have to keep an eye on, because if not you're sure to miss out on some nugget of psyched avant-metal or North European disco that you'll be kicking yourself over neglecting in 10 years time. 'Smalltown Supersound On Fire' is a very handy and rather essential compendium of forthcoming releases on the label. Bjørn Torkse remix of Sunburned Hand Of The Man, lending the mid-west Psyche-ateers a dubbed disco revisio & is only one of many far out tracks here.
On Fire - Smalltown Supersound
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Fence Collective - Fence Reunited

The Fence Collective is an ever-expanding collection of like-minded oddballs, singers, musicians... members include King Creosote, James Yorkston, Pip Dylan, Pictish Trail, Gummi Bako, The Red Well, Lone Pigeon, HMS Ginafore, MC Quake, KT Tunstall & members of The Beta Band have also been involved. Based in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife & affiliated to the Fence record label... Fence Reunited was released in 2004 and i guess could be simply seen as a label sampler... although i prefer to think of it as a bunch of mates playing together. Enjoy!!

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1. Comfort In Rum - Yorkston, James & HMS Ginafore

2. Lemonbelly - Down The Tiny Steps

3. Easily Led - Yorkston, James & King Creosote/Down The Tiny Steps/HMS Ginafore

4. We're On A Roll - UNPOC & King Creosote/Gummi Bako

5. Going Down To The Water - Pictish Trail & King Creosote/Down The Tiny Steps

6. Unknown Yesterday - Lone Pigeon & King Creosote

7. St Abbs - HMS Ginafore & Onthefly

8. Floating - Pictish Trail & Beth

9. Friday Night In New York - Yorkston, James & King Creosote

10. Well Hung Up - Bako, Gummi & King Creosote

11. I Believe It's True - Dylan, Pip

12. Nobody Knows/Last Man Standing - Yorkston, James & King Creosote/Down The Tiny Steps/HMS Ginafore

13. Musakal Lives - Lone Pigeon & King Creosote

14. And The Racket They Made - Yorkston, James & HMS Ginafore/John Bews

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Sugar Minott - Sugar Minott At Studio One

Sugar (Lincoln Barrington) Minott unexpectedly died last week aged 54(May 25, 1956 – July 10, 2010) , a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator who used to hang around Coxsone's studio as a young man and was an aficianado long before he cut his first record. He worked a local sound system where he rehearsed his own songs over those old classic Studio One rhythms. When he eventually got his opportunity to record with the great man he didn't bring an instrument or a band along with him and he had no original melodies. Why bother when Coxsone had all the best tunes already?

The cuts here will be familiar to many reggae fans. You might not know the names of all the originals but you'll recognise the killer rhythms and you'll be hooked. When that happens be prepared to spend time searching out the original Alton Ellis, Heptones and Ken Booth recordings. Sugar didn't get his nickname for nothing and his voice here is as sweet as ever and the material is very strong. Sugar Minott almost single-handedly invented the Dancehall style, and these are some of the best examples of the genre.
R.I.P

Sugar Minott - Sugar Minott At Studio One

1. Vanity

2. Please Be True

3. Hang On Natty

4. Never Give Up (12”)

5. Jahovia

6. Try Love

7. Roof Over My Head

8. Is It True

9. Love Gonna Pack Up

10. Give Me Jah Jah (12”)

11. Jah Jah Children

12. Party Time

13. Change Your Ways

14. Come On Home

15. Jah Almighty

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Sugar Minott - A True

Sugar Minott- Uptempo showcase 10″

VA. SC100

This was Secretly Canadian's 100th release, finally stamped and shipped out on its 11-year anniversary. But this isn't a 11-years-of-Secretly-Canadian-budget-blow-out-back-pat. SC100 is more a suspended, freeze-dried nugget of evolution from those humbled beginnings, all artists who issued recordings from SC01 (June Panic, Glory Hole) to SC99 (Swearing at Motorists, Last Night Becomes This Morning) were up for inclusion to cover a song by a label mate via the ol' names-in-a-hat method. No one wants to get hokey here, but this is a communal gathering, a family jamboree where each takes a turn, fugs it up a smidge, and pays homage to tourmates of past, or in some takes, to personal strangers.
"What does Secretly Canadian mean?"

VA. SC100

1. See(ing) Double - Nikki Sudden
(covering a June Panic song from the album Baby's Breadth
2. The Last Bandit - Songs:Ohia
(covering a Nikki Sudden song from the album Texas)
3. Structure:Necessity - Suzanne Langille
(covering a Songs:Ohia song from the album Impala)
4. The Escape - Early Day Miners
(covering a Suzanne Langille & Loren MazzaCane Connors song from The Enchanted Forest)
5. Upstate - Damien Jurado
(covering an Early Day Miners song from the lp version of Let Us Garlands Bring)
6. Abilene - Dave Fischoff
(covering a Damien Jurado song from Where Shall You Take Me?)
7. Propaganda For A Comic Strip - Danielson
(covering a Dave Fischoff song from The Ox And The Rainbow)
8. Fruitful Weekend - June Panic
(covering a Danielson song from Tri-Danielson!!!(Omega))
9. Soft Eventings - Ativin
(covering a Marmoset song from the ep Mishawaka)
10. Lungs For The Race - Swearing At Motorists
(covering a Havergal song from Lungs For The Race)
11. Riding And Roaming - Havergal
(covering an Ativin song from the ep Summing The Approach)
12. The Real Thing - Racebannon
(covering at Swearing At Motorists song from This Flag Signals Goodbye)
13. Clubber Lang - Cornelius Boots
(covering a Racebannon song from In The Grips Of The Light)
14. Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death - Jens Lekman
(covering a Scout Niblett song from I Am)
15. Sky Phenomenon - Marmoset
(covering a Jens Lekman song from the ep Maple Leaves)
16. 40 Years Of Our Family - The Impossible Shapes
(covering a Japonize Elephants song from Bob's Bacon Barn)
17. Birds - The Panoply Academy
(covering an Impossible Shapes song from We Like It Wild)
18. Highlight And Marginalia - The Japonize Elephants
(covering a Panoply Academy song from No Dead Time)
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Blyth Power - Ten Years Inside The Horse

Ten Years Inside The Horse was released on cherry red in 94 and features tracks from the first five Blyth Power albums written and recorded between 1984 -1994 (originally released on midnight music). When drummer, lead singer and songwriter Josef Porta met Curtis Youe in 1983, this meeting signalled the birth of a band named after a steam engine, Blyth Power. Porta's eloquent lyrics, coupled with a punk influenced folk drew analogies from England's history, such as Watt Tyler and Oliver Cromwell's army, to the state of present day politics. His attacks on the ruination of the common man's right to English heritage have endeared them to an audience of kindred spirits.
Blyth Power - Ten Years Inside The Horse

Stand Into Danger

Hurling Time

Probably Going To Rain

Hard Summer Long

He Who Would Valiant Be

Me And Mr. Absolutely

Chilterns

Summer Song

Song Of The 3rd Cause

Execution Song

Right Hand Man

Inside The Horse

Animal Farm

Knights On Malta

Guns Of Castle Cary

Vane Tempest

Pastor Skull

Royal George

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The Recollections Of Josef Porter…