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Artist:	VA
Title:	Music For Dancefloors: Cream Of The Bosworth Library Session
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	STRUT 022CD

"Strut's first two Music For Dancefloors collection featured highlights from the celebrated London libraries KPM and Chappell Music. With our third volume, we explore the lesser-known catalogue of Bosworth Music, including another London archive, Joseph Weinberger. From the mellow, spacey funk of Brian Green's 'Indian Dream' to the killer percussion workout 'Percussion Monoton' from Bob Downes, the album also touches on heavy dancefloor jazz, funky soundtrack styles and even harp funk! Composers include Italian library heavyweight Paolo Zavallone and Dutch session gurus Piet Van Meren and Jonny Teupen."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Disco Not Disco 1974-1986
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRUT 032CD

Subtitled: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics. "The Strut label returns, celebrating its re-launch in January 2008 through !K7 with a brand new edition of one of the imprint's most in-demand series, Disco Not Disco, exploring original anthems and rarities from the world of 1970s and '80s post-punk and leftfield disco. Originally released at the turn of the decade as a new wave of bands like The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem drew on the music's influence, Disco Not Disco has since been adopted in its own right as a term to describe a whole genre. The compilation is more timely than ever in 2008 as a reference point for a burgeoning mainstream scene. The new edition moves from New York classics by Konk and Bill Laswell's Material to early Detroit machine music, Belgian New Beat and a healthy dose of UK originals from Pigbag, Quando Quango and more, on seminal labels like Y and Factory. Watch out too for rare gems from unexpected sources including '70s prog collective Isotope and Japan's electronic pioneers, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Disco Not Disco is packaged in a deluxe digipak with full booklet featuring sleeve notes by Bill Brewster, author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, extensive track -by-track notes and rare photos."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Funky Nassau: Compass Point Story 1980-1986
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	STRUT 033CD

"It is a sound which defined an era and became the very essence of Island Records. During the '80s, Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas, set up by Island MD Chris Blackwell, was a magnet for soul, reggae, punk and rock artists eager to inject their sound with some Nassau magic. And the magic, apart from the tropical sunshine, was the production genius of reggae legends Sly & Robbie, engineers Steven Stanley and Alex Sadkin, and the Compass Point All-Stars house band. Most people would recognize the sound from hits by Grace Jones or Tom Tom Club, an unmistakable fusion of great, often quirky songwriting, dub production techniques and low end funk, extended into spacious and unhurried 12" versions. This was vibe music which has remained timeless on dancefloors ever since. For the first time, Strut presents the story of Compass Point from 1980 to 1986 bringing together acknowledged classics by artists whose sound was indelibly shaped there including Grace Jones, Black Uhuru and Gwen Guthrie. The album also highlights selected lesser known tracks by French DJ Guy Cuevas, Slits-offshoot band Set The Tone and the queen of trash disco, Cristina. Funky Nassau comes packaged in a deluxe digipak with full booklet featuring extensive sleeve notes and artist interviews by David Katz, author of the official Lee Perry biography, People Funny Boy alongside rare photos by Adrian Boot, Lynn Goldsmith and Alison Jarvis."

Artist:	KID CREOLE
Title:	Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	STRUT 034CD

"Strut Records, with seminal compilations such as Disco Not Disco, has established itself as one of the premier sources for vintage post-punk, no wave, and genre-bending dance music of all sorts. With Going Places, the aficionados at Strut take a look at one of the archetypical producers behind this burgeoning sound, shedding light on the career of a man more familiar to many for his work in the spotlight than behind the boards. During the '80s, Kid Creole was the zoot-suited Tropical Gangster, a Latino Cab Calloway mixing pop, funk, big band swing and Latin rhythms for a series of global chart smashes, from 'Stool Pidgeon' and 'Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy' to 'Endicott.' Before taking on the Kid Creole persona however, August Darnell developed his feel for jagged dance rhythms and musical fusion through a series of projects as a prolific writer, musician and producer. Darnell began his career as key member of Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band (of late a staple of hip-hop sampling at the hands of Ghostface and others) alongside his brother, Stony Browder Jr. In 1974, Darnell then masterminded Machine's disco anthem 'There But For The Grace Of God' before becoming the in-house producer for the extremely influential Ze Records in New York. There, he helped fashion the grungy Ze sound through Cristina's trash disco debut album and groundbreaking work for Aural Exciters, James Chance and more. With today's DJs consistently championing Darnell's early work, this exclusive Strut release covers the period from 1974 to 1983 and features rare extended versions and album tracks released on CD for the first time. The set compiled by DJ Guido of Paris DJs with extended sleeve notes by legendary New York journalist Brian Chin."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	STRUT 036CD

"On today's electro-obsessed dancefloors, original Italo disco is a regular fixture with DJs and dancers seduced by the epic, spacey energy, the brash synths and heavy percussion breaks leaping from the grooves. Italo Disco brings together original classics and rarities by some of the genre's leading producers, from Claudio Simonetti and Giancarlo Meo (aka Kasso and Easy Going) to Peter Micioni and Balearic favorite, Tullio De Piscopo. Many tracks appear on CD here for the first time and the album features several exclusive re-edits by compiler Stevie Kotey, member of DJ/producer team Chicken Lips and label boss of Bear Entertainment."

Artist:	MIGHTY SPARROW, THE
Title:	Sparrowmania!
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.50
Catalog #:	STRUT 090CD

Subtitled: Wit, Wisdom And Soul From The King Of Calypso 1960-1974. "Strut presents a brand new retrospective of one of the Caribbean's most towering musical figures, Mighty Sparrow, covering 1962 to 1974. During a career of over 40 years, Sparrow has been an unmatchable figure in the world of calypso and a constant backdrop to Caribbean life, recording over 300 albums and winning eleven Calypso Monarch and eight Road March titles at the annual Trinidad Carnival during one of the most competitive times in its history. Scoring his first hit, 'Jean And Dinah', aged 20, Sparrow's style drew on influences from US street harmony quartets to crooners like Nat King Cole, jazz greats -- Ella, Sinatra -- and the early calypso generation including Lord Melody and Lord Kitchener. By the late '50s and in his early '20s, he was already an influential figure, encouraging Trinidad's people to pay taxes with Carnival hit 'P.A.Y.E.' and highlighting cruelty to animals on 'Russian Satellite'. This new collection hones in on Sparrow's most creative years as he effortlessly surfed musical styles from calypso party jams to hard-hitting boogaloo and soul. He had become a confident political commentator, tackling subjects as varied as domestic economic hardship ('Ah Diggin' Horrors'), slavery ('The Slave') and the Cuban missile crisis ('Kennedy And Kruschev'). Other tracks serve as a vital reference point for today's music. On 'Picong Duel', we hear Sparrow and fellow calypso legend, Lord Melody, trade insults, a direct forerunner to later mic battles in hip hop culture. Elsewhere, Sparrow just plain rocks the party ('Calypso Boogaloo', 'Jook For Jook') and turns in the odd choice cover -- we feature here his lilting version of Otis Redding's 'Try A Little Tenderness' with Byron Lee."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.50
Catalog #:	STRUT 091CD

Industrial, post punk, EBM classics & rarities (1980-88). "Strut present Metal Dance, a new compilation from one of the UK's most respected DJ/producers, the man behind Playgroup and original founder of the legendary label Output Recordings, Trevor Jackson. Drawing on the specials that have peppered Jackson's DJ sets for over a decade, Metal Dance hones in on the more underground and danceable side of industrial, post-punk and EBM (Electronic Body Music), a phrase coined by Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk but honed by later bands like DAF and Front 242 as socialist realist aesthetics were dragged onto the dancefloor during the mid-'80s. Herein lie sounds that have heavily influenced today's crop of artists and labels -- from DFA and MGMT to Factory Floor and Hot Chip. Jackson cherry-picks classics and rarities from this era, including a new edit of Nitzer Ebb favourite 'Control I'm Here' (sampled on Quartz' rave classic 'Meltdown'), the cold dance of Analysis' 'Surface Tension', Neon's dark 'Voices', re-interpreting a Master C&J riff from the early days of Chicago house, and hard-hitting dubs from Pete Shelley, Alien Sex Fiend and more. Elsewhere on the album, Jackson brings in unexpected cold wave gems -- a track from cult John Carpenter film 'Escape From New York' remixed by Klein & MBO's Mario Boncaldo, a lost album track by avant garde Spanish artist Diseno Corbusier and a UK promo-only mix of Yello's 'You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess'. Following his award-winning graphic design work for Soulwax and fresh from projects with car giants Lexus and electro heroes Chromeo, Jackson draws on his considerable status as an artist and graphic designer with some stunning package graphics on Metal Dance. The album is released as a deluxe digipak (2CD)." Other artists include: The Bubblemen, 400 Blows, Cabaret Voltaire, Shock, Executive Slacks, Portion Control, Jah Wobble, SPK, Fini Tribe, Hard Corps, Naked Lunch, Secession, The Cage, Ledernacken, and 23 Skidoo.

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Metal Dance
Label:	STRUT (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	STRUT 091EP