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October 16, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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It's that time of year again! With Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event happening just weeks away - on Friday, November 29 - news has arrived of what to expect from each label. Craft Recordings' ever-eclectic slate features classic jazz, rare soundtracks, vintage soul sides, and more from an array of boldfaced names including Max Roach, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Angelo Badalamenti, and others. You'll find the full list below, with descriptions provided by the label for all

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Angelo Badalamenti, Born Jamericans, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Joe Bataan, Max Roach, Norma Jean, Record Store Day

July 13, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

VMP Anthology Ghetto Records

Singer-songwriter-musician Joe Bataan's 1973 album Salsoul - so named for its fusion of soul and salsa - would inspire the label of the same name for which Bataan would go on to record.  But before inspiring the birth of Salsoul Records, Bataan founded his own New York-based independent label: Ghetto Records.  Its label adorned by the image of a cat at home among the trash cans, Ghetto sought to bring further attention to such sounds as salsa, soul, jazz, boogaloo, and beyond.  Bataan and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Latin, R&B/Soul Tags: Candido Y Su Movimiento, Eddie Lebron, Joe Acosta, Joe Bataan, La Fantastica, Papo Felix, Paul Ortiz, Ray Rodriguez

October 8, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, The Best of Bond...James Bond (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic (gold) The Best of Bond...James Bond is released on vinyl today (the CD arrived two weeks ago).  The compilation offers a stellar 25-track overview of the pop themes that scored nearly all of the films based on Ian Fleming's famed British secret agent. There are 14 U.K. Top 10

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aaliyah, Joe Bataan, John Barry, Lizard Music, Loreena McKennitt, Orleans, Ray Barretto, Reba McEntire, Violent Femmes

January 13, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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As Big Break Records' first releases for 2014 hit stores in the U.K. today (more on those shortly!), the time is right to take a look at more from the label's closing slate of 2013.  This eclectic roster - from legendary Latin music artist Joe Bataan, the post-Vince Montana iteration of The Salsoul Orchestra, jazz flautist Herbie Mann and soul man Chris Jasper - is doubtless one of BBR's strongest. So influential was Joe Bataan's 1974 Mericana Records release Salsoul that it literally

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Chris Jasper, Herbie Mann, Joe Bataan, Salsoul Orchestra

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