Rikas – Showtime (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rikas – Showtime (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:01 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Local

Rikas were founded in 2016 in Stuttgart. Music has always been done by the four gold-throats and heartbreakers. They have known each other since childhood, playing in the school band at the age of 13, 14, and then on the streets of their hometown. After leaving school, I started walking: two summers criss-crossing Europe. Zurich, Milan, Nice, London, Paris. With songs by Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and the Beatles in their luggage and a sign on the guitar case: “Schlafplatz gesucht!” A thrilling experience for the band. Her music came straight to her, the reactions even more urgent. The glow in the eyes of the people in front of them, the twitching in their legs … Since then they are addicted to it.

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Rick Braun – Crossroads (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rick Braun – Crossroads (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:47 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shanachie

As a solo artist, producer and core member of the smooth jazz super-group BWB (along with Kirk Whalum and Norman Brown), Rick Braun is responsible for more than 20 #1 Smooth Jazz radio hits! Crossroads features Rick’s brilliant re-imagining of Stevie Wonder’s iconic “I Wish’ plus inspired originals such as the romantic “Me And You’ featuring superstar guitarist Peter White, and the majestic “Versace On The Floor’ featuring Richard Elliot, making this album a sure-?re classic!

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Rex Orange County – Pony (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Rex Orange County – Pony (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:56 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rex Orange County

Briton Rex Orange County first became known to the general public after taking part in the track Tyler, The Creator “Boredom”. Tyler has a special love for artists who record non-standard, but very emotional music. He mixes jazz, soul, classical, baroque pop, hip-hop and electronica in his sound, so it is easier to classify it as an alternative to streaming platforms and publications. It seems that this is how the artist who grew up on the work of Stevie Wonder, Weezer and Queen should sound like this. 21-year-old Rex writes very kind, neutral, sweet songs in which he positively talks about not always pleasant events. Before the piano solo, he can insert his yawn, and then in a naturally relaxed manner to tell about the duplicity of the people around him. Rex is a very good songwriter, so we advise you to pay attention to its lyrics in order to fully immerse yourself in the history of tracks.

British singer-songwriter Rex Orange County has announced his new album Pony, which arrives October 25 via Sony Music. The follow-up to 2017’s Apricot Princess features his recent single “10/10.” Check out the video below. Last year, Rex Orange County teamed up with Randy Newman for a new version of the Toy Story classic “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” In 2017, Rex was a prominent collaborator on Tyler, the Creator’s album Flower Boy.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:05 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI – EMI Records (USA)

Chart History/Awards
– “Behind The Sun” reached #7 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks.

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the groundbreaking 1987 masterpiece by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is the sole album to include all four founding members on every track and features the band’s signature blend of funk-rock with influences of reggae and heavy metal. This Gold-certified work was the band’s first album to reach the Billboard 200. It features the hit standouts “Fight Like A Brave” and “Behind The Sun.”

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother’s Milk (1989/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother’s Milk (1989/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:52 minutes | 1,81 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI – EMI Records (USA)

A pivotal album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1989’s Mother’s Milk turned the tide and transformed the band from underground funk-rocking rappers to mainstream bad boys with seemingly very little effort. Mother’s Milk brought them to MTV, scored them a deal with Warner Bros., and let both frontman Anthony Kiedis and the ubiquitous Flea get back into a good groove following the death of co-founding member Hillel Slovak. With a new lineup coalescing around the remaining duo plus new drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante, and with producer Michael Beinhorn again behind the boards, the band took everything that The Uplift Mofo Party Plan hinted at, and brought it fully to bear for this new venture. If anyone doubted the pulsating power of the opener, “Good Time Boys,” it took only a few bars of band’s outrageous and brilliant interpretation of the Stevie Wonder classic “Higher Ground” to prove that this new lineup was onto something special. Wrapping up with the aptly titled and truly punked-out “Punk Rock Classic” and the band’s own punched-up tribute to “Magic Johnson,” Mother’s Milk was everything the band had hoped for, and a little more besides. Effortlessly going gold as “Knock Me Down” and “Taste the Pain” careened into the charts, the album not only set the stage for the band’s Blood Sugar Sex Magic domination, it also proved that funk never died; it had just swapped skins.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits (2003/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits (2003/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:47 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first Warner Bros. Greatest Hits album spans almost 15 years of rock greatness. Featuring all of the band’s best- loved recordings, Greatest Hits includes “Under The Bridge” (#2 pop and gold), the Top 10 “Scar Tissue,” six classic Modern Rock #1s, a pair of Modern Rock Top 20s and three other fan favorites plus two brand-new songs. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Greatest Hits will be en fuego this holiday gift-buying season.

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Randy Waldman – Superheroes (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Randy Waldman – Superheroes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:33 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BFM Jazz

Look! Up on the bandstand! It’s a piano! It’s a saxophone! It’s a trumpet! It’s Superheroes, a bold and daring, wall-scaling, day saving, faster than George Benson’s blazing guitar, a Chick Corea synth run or Vinnie Colauita drum solo all-star jam session celebrating humanity’s global obsession with these godlike beings who have become multi-billion dollar comic book, film and TV icons.

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Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (2009/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (2009/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:19 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Ray Charles’s Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 are major landmarks in American culture. Charles demonstrated that great songs with signature performances work in all genres. “I Can’t Stop Loving You” was a standard in country, soul and R&B, as he proved. Modern Sounds also brought America together during the Sixties’ civil rights movement. Charles became one of the first recording artists to have ownership and complete control of the masters. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been listed among the greatest albums of all time, along with the Beatles, Dylan, Motown, Springsteen, Hendrix and the Beach Boys.

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Raspberries – Raspberries (1972/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Raspberries – Raspberries (1972/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:18 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Raspberries played their first show on October 16, 1970. Weekly gigs at the Agora in Cleveland created a groundswell of support for this new hot local band whose reputation as a live act was already becoming legendary, and before long they were attracting more than 1,000 people a night. Signed to Capitol Records by noted producer Jimmy Ienner in the winter of 1971, they completed their first album, Raspberries. To create excitement about this new band, Capitol employed a raspberry-scented scratch-and-sniff sticker affixed to the cover of their debut, the aroma of which exists to this day.

Released in early 1972, the album showcased the smash top 5 single, “Go All The Way”, which became a million-seller and Raspberries’ first gold record. Raspberries garnered rave notices from almost every music publication of the day with Rolling Stone providing their most impassioned review: “Raspberries opens with the finest burst of lightweight English rock I’’ve heard all year. The rest of the album is just as good.” Following the album’s release, Raspberries toured with the Grass Roots and the Hollies and appeared in front of over 50,000 fans at a major outdoor rock festival held at the Los Angeles Coliseum with such acts as Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, the Bee Gees, the Eagles and Chuck Berry.

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Randy Brecker – Double Dealin’ (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Randy Brecker – Double Dealin’ (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:16 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shanachie

2020 release. Two time Grammy winner Randy Brecker, an original member of Blood, Sweat and Tears, has been featured with legendary artists such as Stevie Wonder, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver and many others. The groundbreaking Brecker Brothers group, formed with his multi Grammy Award-winning brother Mike Brecker, is revered as one of the creators of fusion jazz. Two time Grammy Winner Eric Marienthal, a longtime featured member of The Chick Corea band, has performed with such greats as Elton John, Aaron Neville and Ramsey Lewis. His many #1 Smooth Jazz radio hits have garnered him a wide audience. Double Dealin’ is an historic meeting of these two Jazz giants. Kicking off with the funky “Double Dealin'”, the album features 10 originals such as “Mind The Fire,”a heartfelt tribute to Chuck Loeb, the Brazilian-flavored “Sambop,” the laid back “3 Deuces” and much

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Rahsaan Patterson – Heroes & Gods (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rahsaan Patterson – Heroes & Gods (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:41 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shanachie

Singer, songwriter and actor Rahsaan Patterson’s career started at the age of 10 in the role of “the Kid” on the long-running TV show Kids Incorporated, along with other future stars Fergie, Martika, and Shanice. His critically acclaimed debut album on MCA sparked a passionate following over a series of excellent albums, Urban AC radio hits, touring and contributions to film soundtracks such as Brown Sugar and Steve Harvey’s “Sign of Things to Come” compilation. ‘Heroes & Gods’ is Rahsaan’s highly-anticipated new studio album; it marks a return to his classic “neo-soul” sound his fans crave. Standout tracks include infectious mid-tempo “Catch Me When I Fall,” the classic soul balladry of “Sent From Heaven” and the innovative title track.

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Terrace Martin – Fine Tune (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Terrace Martin – Fine Tune (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 721 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Terrace Jamahl Martin (born December 28, 1978) is an American musician, rapper, singer, and record producer. He is perhaps best known for producing records for several prominent artists in the music industry, including Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, the Game, Busta Rhymes, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Wilson, Raphael Saadiq and YG, among others. Martin is a multi-instrumentalist whose music production embodies funk, jazz, classical and soul. Martin released his sixth studio album, Velvet Portraits, on his label, Sounds of Crenshaw Records, through Ropeadope Records.

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Ramón Valle – Inner State (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ramón Valle – Inner State (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:25 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IN+OUT Records

”You have opened up a new path for Cuban music.” (Chucho Valdés) referring to the first live album of the new Ramón Valle Trio.

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Roger Daltrey – As Long As I Have You (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Roger Daltrey – As Long As I Have You (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:23 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

Legendary frontman of The Who, Roger Daltrey returns with his 9th solo album ‘As Long As I Have You’. The album produced by Dave Eringa, best known for his work with the Manic Street Preachers and on Roger and Wilko Johnson’s album ‘Going Back Home’ and features Pete Townshend’s inimitable guitar on 7 tracks as well as guest performances from Mick Talbot on keyboards (Dexys, The Style Council) and Sean Genockey on lead guitar who has worked with Suede, Shame and The Proclaimers).

Work on ‘As Long As I Have You’ was started shortly after the top 5 gold selling ‘Going Back Home’ was released and continued during breaks on The Who’s record breaking 50th anniversary tour ‘The Who Hits 50’.

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Rod Stewart – Soulbook (2009/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Rod Stewart – Soulbook (2009/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:16 minutes | 945 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © J Records

British rock musician, Rod Stewart’s 25th studio album released in 2009. The record features Stewart performing classic motown and soul tracks. It debuted in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number 4. The album inlcudes special guest appearances by Mary J. Blige, Smokey Robinson and Jennifer Hudson.

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