Scritti Politti - Anomie & Bonhomie - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Digitally remastered edition of this 1985 album. From a bedsit in London to New York recording studios... alternative acclaim to mainstream adulation... indie tag hopefuls to major signings... despite the series of radical shifts that underpinned it's creation, Scritti Politti's second album Cupid & Psyche 85 achieved the virtually impossible. While everything was scaled up - the ambition, the sound, the audience - the singular artistic vision that drove the group not only remained intact and undiluted in these bigger surroundings, but became more inventive, more adventurous and, ultimately, more beloved. Introduced to pianist and programmer David Gamson while making of the band's debut album songs to remember, Green Gartside realized he had found a creative foil to help him achieve the ambitions he had for Scritti Politti. Partially recorded in New York, with several tracks produced by Arif Mardin (who had worked on Aretha Franklin's InchI Say A Little PrayerInch, a track Green beautifully commemorates on this record) and partially in the UK, with Green and Gamson directly overseeing the process, Cupid & Psyche 85 is infused shimmering synths and the heat of classic funk. Yet weaved together by Green's intoxicating melodies, it is also embroidered with ideas from philosophical writings, while taking cues from myths and fables.

This panoramic portrait of the late '50's and early '60's mixes pop, folk and country classics with the rockers that shaped the sound of the era. Check it out Cathy's Clown Everly Brothers; El Paso Marty Robbins; Lucky Lips Ruth Brown; Who's Sorry Now Connie Francis; He'll Have to Go Jim Reeves; Puppy Love Paul Anka; Ruby Baby Drifters; Home from the Hill Kingston Trio; Lollipop Chordettes; It's All in the Game Tommy Edwards; the Battle of New Orleans Johnny Horton; a Tall Oak Tree Dorsey Burnette; I Want to Be Wanted Brenda Lee, and more!

@0 is a collection of ambient tracks - curated by Coldcut - to benefit mental health, featuring some incredible names in the ambient world (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Suzanne Ciani, Laraaji, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, and many more). Coldcut's most recent album as Keleketla! (a meeting ground between Ninja Tune cofounders Coldcut and a cadre of South African musicians) was included in Rough Trade's Albums of the Year and deemed as PopMatter's Best World Music Album of 2020. Upon the album's , NPR deemed it as one of the top 6 albums to be released in early July 2020.Ninja Tune will be donating their share (50% of net receipts) to three charities; CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), Mind and Black Minds Matter.Julianna Barwick - Star RaySigur Rós - Rembihnútur (Liminal re-work by Paul Corley)A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Beethoven 250Laraaji - Illusion of TimeKaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Mt Baker Ryuichi Sakamoto - Aqua (from Playing Piano for the Isolated)James Heather - And She Came Home (Strings Version)Suzanne Ciani - Morning SpringNailah Hunter - SadkoHelena Hauff - ThalassaMira Calix - danaïdesDaniel Pemberton & FSOL - Behind the Eyes Skee Mask - CG DripColdcut - The Fire Burns OutObay Alsharani - Dream Within a DreamDavid Wenngren - PianoiseSteve Roach - The Drift HomeSpecimens - Concrète DreamsYak Herder - Otaku ReverseRovo & System 7 - Unseen Onsen (Translucent Mix)Ned Scott (The Egg) - PatchworkNoodreem - The Healing Light of SoundNDiPA X Flex Machina - Bombay Tanpura (feat. Sandeep Mishra)Double Cushion - For Ignatz KarmelitoFRKTL - Rhododendron Forest RescueANNA - Another DreamImogen Heap - The Happy Song (Coldcut Remix)Irresistible Force X Coldcut - Autumn Leaves Return