Everything-- or at least everything that matters-- recorded by Chuck Berry for Chess in the 1950s. Rock'n'roll is older than Chuck Berry, but one can argue this collection as much as any collection documents where rock'n'roll as we know it really begins.
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They're still working with an overriding concept, but this time Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel of Matmos focus on a simple aesthetic limitation: using only synthesizers as input sources. While there's little in the way of outside text to grapple with as a result, the decision opens the door on some gorgeous sonic shifts.
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A hall of mirrors, warping reflections of Ella Fitzgerald, two-tone ska, dark psychedelia and Pentangle's 'acid folk' into unsettling shapes
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The brainchild of Philadelphia native Annie Sachs, Tickley Feather creates scratchy bedroom probings that slot nicely next to fellow Paw Tracks alum Ariel Pink, yet she's not nearly as musically dynamic or engaging as the kingpins of her loose coterie, Animal Collective.
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On her debut album, Dommisse sounds like a fanciful bard in the Joanna Newsom mold, an electric cello player singing narrative set pieces about twin girls telling ghost stories; but something dark and serrated is hidden among all those would-be costume folds.
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A sampler of music recorded at Chris Blackwell's studio in the Bahamas, this record is also a symposium on the polyglot tendencies that made the dance underground of the first half of the 1980s so unpredictably rich in ideas.
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On her debut record, Santogold enlists an all-star team of producers for this inconsistent (if occasionally stunning) blend of dub, new wave, and hip-hop.
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