The influence that gay nightlife had on electronic music and pop music in the 1980s general is explored in a new various artists collection called Box of Sin. This is available as a 5CD or 4LP set.
The Orb and David Gilmour/Metallic Spheres in ColourCD, Vinyl
Metallic Spheres, The Orb’s 2010 collaboration with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has been remixed and reimagined for this reissue called Metallic Spheres in Colour.
Electronic/Get The Message: The Best of ElectronicCD, Vinyl
The 2006 Electronic‘best of’ is reissued. A new 2CD set offers a bonus disc of remixes and rarities and the compilation is released on vinyl for the very first time.
Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, Cousin, sees the band back to their more familiar progressive and experimental rock territory. Interestingly, the album has been produced by Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon – the first time an outsider has been actively involved in a Wilco recording session for over ten years.
Green Day’s third studio album Dookie is reissued for its 30th anniversary (somewhat early, it was released in Feb 1994). 4CD and 6LP super deluxe editions offer unreleased demos, the 1994 Woodstock performance, studio outtakes and a Barcelona club show (unreleased). Lots of ‘stuff’ in the box sets including in the vinyl one a “Doggie poop bag” (surely a first – and hopefully last – for super deluxe edition). There’s indie-only coloured vinyl editions of the 6LP box and the standard single vinyl remaster is pressed on “baby blue” vinyl.
Steely Dan’s 1977 album Aja is reissued on vinyl. Features the singles ‘Deacon Blues’ and ‘Peg’. Remastered by Bernie Grundman from the “an analog, non-EQ’d, tape copy”.
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By Paul Sinclair
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