Various Artists

Various Artists – Hospital Mixtape: Lens (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:05 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Electronic, Drum & Bass
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Hospital Records

“Digging for unheard music and curating sets are some of my favourite things to do, so to be asked to create the next mixtape for Hospital was an absolute dream. My vision for the mixtape was to represent the jungle flavours that I’m passionate about but also to include some deep, soulful tracks which is what captured my heart when I first got into D&B. It’s also been amazing to release my first ever track with Lally alongside fresh music from so many artists that I’m extremely excited about.” – Lens
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Various Artists – Bridgerton Season Two (Covers from the Netflix Series) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:12 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

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Various Artists – Olivier Calmel – Rites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:18 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Klarthe Records

“Whether celebrating peace or invoking Lovecraft’s terrifying (and far from peaceful!) creatures, Calmel’s first words are about music. His own is rooted in the great french tradition, in jazz and film music. It is constructed of clear lines and harmonies carried by jubilant rhythms. As an accomplished jazz pianist himself, Calmel loves free and sometimes even improvised instrumental playing. But he also cultivates rich, shimmering orchestral colours as a key to unlocking the listener’s imagination. This is music that seduces right from the start, but whose melodic motifs remain in one’s memory for a long time. Music that sounds evident but is written using science. Music that is woven with distant heritages and multiple present-day influences. In short, a very contemporary artist” (Guillaume Connesson)
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Various Artists – MJ the Musical – Original Broadway Cast Recording (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:46 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Heralded as ‘a riveting adrenaline rush of a show!’ by Peter Marks in The Washington Post, ‘MJ the Musical’ opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on February 1, 2022 to rave reviews from both critics and audiences. ‘MJ delivers the thrills!’ exclaimed Jesse Green at The New York Times. Recorded at Power Station at BerkleeNYC, the album was produced by David Holcenberg and Jason Michael Webb and co-produced by Derik Lee, Lia Vollack, John Branca, and John McClain served as executive producers. MJ is currently in the running for ten Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Myles Frost), Best Book of a Musical (Lynn Nottage), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Derek McLane and Peter Nigrini), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Paul Tazewell), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Natasha Katz), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Gareth Owen), Best Direction of a Musical (Christopher Wheeldon), Best Choreography (Christopher Wheeldon) and Best Orchestrations (Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg).

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Various Artists – Hollywood Stories (50 Legendary Original Soundtrack) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:23:46 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BnF Collection

Not every movie soundtrack has to go as hard as it does. The best soundtracks exist outside of the movie, giving you all the feels without all the *drama.* It’s like a specially curated mixtape (aka a playlist, duh) from your favorite movie to you. There’s often that one, epic song that the movie’s known for—the one that plays over the end credits and sends you out of the movie theater with a smile on your face—but then there are some hidden gems that maybe only got a few lines in the film but are utter bangers in their own right. Movie soundtracks = an underrated way to find new music!

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Various Artists – Blue Coast Collection – The E.S.E Sessions (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:15 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Coast Records

Blue Coast Records’ first release features exceptional acoustic recordings performed live in the studio without the use of headphones, overdubs or digital effects. Label founder, and five time Grammy-Nominated producer/engineer, Cookie Marenco, assembled a cast of world-class performers, engineers and technicians familiar with her passion for audio excellence and appreciation of skilled musicianship.
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Various Artists – Best From The West: Modern Sounds From California, Vol. 2 (1955/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 23:45 minutes | 755 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Originally released on 10-inch vinyl in early 1955, this album spotlights some of the best from Blue Note’s West Coast jazz roster of the day, as the title implies, recorded in Los Angeles and featuring prominent jazz musicians from both coasts such as Harry “Sweets” Edison, Stan Levey, Conte Candoli and Marty Paich. The “blindfold test” refers to the fact that this was originally issued with no credits, presenting a challenge to jazz fans to identify the players who were only revealed on the second volume of this series.

This note appeared on the original record jacket: “We’re curious to see which of Blue Note’s customers, long noted for their astute jazz tastes and discernment, can come up with a complete or at least partially correct answer”.
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Various Artists – Saigon Supersound, Vol. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:31 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © INFRACom!

Saigon Supersound Continues to present more interesting tunes of a musical era that has long been obscured. With the well received Volume 1, we are very delighted to dig deeper and share with you the beautiful music of a short but significant period in Vietnam‘s history.

Much like the country itself, the music of Vietnam has endured many twists and turns through the fate of history. As the result of the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnam was divided into two. From the North, the Nationalist forces fought to reunite Vietnam as a Communist State, while the American troops backed the government of the South.

This caused a mass migration of around 600.000 to 1.000.000 Northerners to the South, which includes many Tân Nhạc (Modern Music) singers and songwriters. Often characterised by its emotive, poetic and prolific personality, Tân Nhạc continued to freely develop in the South and progressively vacating from the influences of its main inspiration, French music. In the North, the Resistance music, or the so-called Nhạc Đỏ (Red Music), which promoted socialism, patriotism and anti-capitalism was the only genre allowed to be played on national radio. Tân Nhạc was something new to the South Vietnamese repertoire, which consisted mainly of Cải Lương (Renovated Theatre Music) – a form of Vietnamese folk opera.

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Various Artists – Saigon Supersound, Vol. 1 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:34 minutes | 773 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © INFRACom!

Saigon Super Sound is the story of a musical era that was almost lost. The selection of tracks is limited to the period between 1965 and 1975, the so-called “Golden Era” in the South ofVietnam, where – under difficult circumstances – a lively pop culture had developed.

The music of Vietnam in the sixties was shaped by three currents: Nhạc đỏ (“red music” or communist revolutionary music) had developed around the beginning of the 20th century in opposition to the French colonization of Indochina. It usually promoted independence, socialism and anti-capitalism in its lyrics and was the dominant genre in the communist North. These were mostly heroic songs celebrating the men and women who left their families to bravely fight against the French and, soon enough, also the US Army.

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Various Artists – Erased Tapes Collection VIII (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:05 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erased Tapes

Initially founded by German-born Robert Raths in 2007, the London-based label has grown and extended across the world with satellite offices in Los Angeles and Berlin. Spanning over ten years, Erased Tapes has nurtured avant-garde artists from all around the world whilst remaining genre-defying and truly independent.

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Various Artists – Erased Tapes Collection IX (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:16 minutes | 553 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erased Tapes

As the label’s tenth anniversary celebrations draw to a close, the latest Erased Tapes compilation, featuring new and unreleased music as well as a selection of its tenth year’s highlights, is now available. Curated and sequenced by Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths, Erased Tapes Collection IX also contains tracks from label favourites including Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Kiasmos and Ben Lukas Boysen, as well as Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Kora Kora taken from the re-issue of their final studio album Union Cafe.

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Various Artists – Queen Elisabeth Competition: Cello 2017 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 04:44:06 minutes | 4,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Queen Elisabeth Competition

The second edition of the Queen Elisabeth Competition dedicated to the cello gives us an opportunity to re-immerse ourselves in the performances of four laureates during the very first session dedicated to this instrument, in 2017.

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Various Artists – Lampe: The Dragon of Wantley (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:47:49 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

A rapacious dragon has been terrorising a Yorkshire village. Gubbins and his daughter Margery, together with Mauxalinda, decide to seek the help of Moore of Moore Hall. Moore needs persuading away from his beer but succumbs to Margery’s pleading, and her promises of love. Unfortunately, he had already promised to marry Mauxalinda, and so the love triangle has to be resolved in dramatic fashion before Moore heads out and defeats the dragon, restoring harmony and prosperity to the village.

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Various Artists – ELVIS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:47 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © House of Iona – RCA Records

Have you listened to the highly-anticipated ELVIS original motion picture soundtrack yet?! The one-and-only Baz Luhrmann collaborated with many of today’s hottest Grammy Award-winning superstars to curate a musically diverse soundtrack that accompanies the film in a similar fashion to The Great Gatsby (2013) adaptation’s sensational album produced by Jay-Z. The 36-track accompaniment to the Warner Bros. motion picture ranges from classic rock covers to original rap verses, fusing Elvis Presley’s legendary sound with modern hip-hop. Some of the ELVIS soundtrack’s best tracks include Måneskin’s “If I Can Dream,” Swae Lee & Diplo’s “Tupelo Shuffle,” Kacey Musgraves’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” and (of course) Doja Cat’s leading single “Vegas.”

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Various Artists – Woodstock — Back To The Garden — The 50th Anniversary Archive (Live) (2019/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 10:49:03 minutes | 38,28 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Between August 15-18, 1969, more than 400,000 people converged on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in upstate New York for Woodstock. Thirty-two acts performed including some of the most popular and influential musicians of the era such as Joan Baez, The Band, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, and The Who.

Woodstock — Back To The Garden — The 50th Anniversary Archive (Live) features 416 tracks recorded at the legendary festival. It is the first digital Woodstock collection to feature almost every live recording in existence at the festival. (Does not include Jimi Hendrix’s performance)

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