![]() There are 20 today and 20 tomorrow, listed alphabetically we’ve included links to Bandcamp where possible, YouTube or Discogs where it isn’t. We’ve listed 40 compilations here, although there has been a bit of rule-stretching, so some entries include multiple titles. You might not like everything they uncover, but they often find a gem that points you off in a fresh musical direction. Analog Africa, Light In The Attic, Numero Group, and Soul Jazz are all labels that excavate the past with welcome levels of care and sensitivity shining a spotlight on previously ignored areas of music. The trick is to detect an area of music that hasn’t been raked over thoroughly before. Thorough research, proper licensing, and eye-catching design work are contributory factors. The other style of compilation is retrospective curation: this is where record labels really do the work. Pick your theme wisely and time the compilation’s release well, and suddenly you have produced a work that defines an era. If you are a label with a creative and inventive roster (pretty much the only sort of label we review at ACL), then you can task them with making something special: locked grooves, ringtones, pieces for pipe organ, for example. Pool your selection and give it a genre name: breakcore, post-rock, turntablism, etc. The first is the attempt to define a musical style, to pull together a collection of tracks that share similar features but might not have previously sat next to each other. There are a couple of other areas where we can detect a theme. This list is not just about record labels or friends – or planets – seeking to attract fresh new music fans. ![]() ![]() This is who we are! Check out our record collection! And, as it turns out, the whole planet: we sent a compilation into space on the Voyager probes. Please like me! But where we are concerned on this list, it is Kranky and Constellation who are projecting the same sentiment. ![]() If you or I make a compilation, it is to impress a friend with our breadth of taste or – maybe – express our depths of emotion to that girl we have a crush on. Ultimately, they seek to achieve the same goal. Instead of a tape compiler spending hours picking out the right tracks to go in the correct order, and then sweating over a tape deck to ensure the volumes stay consistent, it’s a record label doing the same thing. We mention ‘mixtapes’ above because – in a sense – a lot of these compilations operate in the same field. Listen to this – it will change your world. But the variety of names and song titles, with a design that caught the attention said the same thing. It may have been a mixtape passed on by a friend. It could have been a magazine’s cover-mounted CD maybe an old one lying around the house and caught your eye. It could have been a present from a grandparent, uncertain what a child might like. But there is a good chance that your first opportunity of experiencing music in a physical form, be it LP, tape, or CD, was a compilation. Look up between a rock and a hard place in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.īetween a rock and a hard place, or simply a rock and a hard place, is an expression meaning having to choose between two difficult options.You may not think of compilations with the same nostalgia that you treat the first record you bought in a shop.
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