· Good Times Skank, Joey Jay's compilation of sounds from the Good Times Sound System, is released on Monday by Trojan.
Check out the five minute compilation of the sounds found in each borough in the following order: Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island.
He appears in press photos in flowing linen robes and favors languid pools of synthesizer the main structure of most of the compositions here, but its far more of a head trip than your average Wal-Mart endcap compilation of centering sounds.
It is a remarkable compilation, full of sounds and ideas and styles that have been ruthlessly squeezed out of modern popular music.
Spartak - Nightshift (Version) Spartak were one of many great bands I discovered on the recently released compilation, The Sound of Young Canberra, which is full of exciting music from the oft-forgotten titular city.
Like many of Godard's later films, "Goodbye to Language," which opens today, is a kind of collage, a compilation of images and sounds, incidents and phrases that don't tell only one story but bring lots of stories together, in a cycle that fulfills a grand idea.
Lewis's album comes at the pinnacle of a resurgence of interest in Crass, with two recent books, a film, several compilations of related sounds and at least one more book on the way.
A new double CD compilation The Sound of the Smiths (Rhino) is released on 10 November Walk this way On 7 October, pioneering rap trio Run DMC, riding high with their album Raising Hell, stage an anti-crack concert in New York (they come from Queens).
In mid-April, Throwback: Old Skool Anthems, a Ministry of Sound compilation of garage from the turn of the century, was No 1 in the dance chart, leapfrogging the Prodigy.
Ocean of Sound is a compilation album compiled and produced by English musician and author David Toop.
