Manchester band the Stone Roses are partly responsible for the media renaming their home city "Madchester" in the late 80s/early 90s. Along with the Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and the rave and acid-house scenes promoted by the Hacienda nightclub, the hype surrounding the Stone Roses' breakthrough brought the UK music media to England's north-west in droves.
2003 Recollection Once More of One of the Most Influential UK Indie Bands that Inspired an Entire League of Imitators. All Tracks Are Remastered by Producer John Leckie (Be Bop Deluxe, Radiohead)

2009 eight CD box set containing the digitally remastered and expanded editions of the first five albums from '80s hitmakers The Thompson Twins. This collection contains four separate double disc sets: A Product of.../Set (first two albums plus bonus tracks) and the deluxe expanded two CD editions of Quick Step & Sidekicks, Into The Gap and Here's To Future Days. Features all their hits, album tracks, b-sides, extended mixes and so much more. It's like owning a piece of the '80s

The Thompson Twins were a British New wave group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993.
They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the US and around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Herges comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.A predominantly synthpop trio, they were joined on stage at Live Aid by Madonna and were at the forefront of the second so-called British Invasion

Tal & Groethuysen specifically chose a Fazioli piano for these realizations which were made in the excellent acoustical ambience of the Schlo? Grafenegg in Austria.
With "their absolute synchronicity, perfect timing and a degree of emotional and creative accord almost beyond belief, [the Duo Tal & Groethuysen] achieve a breathtaking uniformity in their interpretations."

2009 six CD box set that contains all of the Doors' performances in their entirety recorded in 1970 at the Felt Forum in New York. All four shows were mixed and mastered by the band's long-time engineer, Bruce Botnick, who recorded a number of shows from their 1970 tour. While most of the music in the collection has never been released, a few songs appeared on the 1970 release, Absolutely Live and in the 1997 box set.

Tal & Groethuysen specifically chose a Fazioli piano for these realizations which were made in the excellent acoustical ambience of the Schlo? Grafenegg in Austria.
With "their absolute synchronicity, perfect timing and a degree of emotional and creative accord almost beyond belief, [the Duo Tal & Groethuysen] achieve a breathtaking uniformity in their interpretations."

Ten years after the recordings of their celebrated debut album "Saviour", ANTIMATTER release "Alternative Matter," a retrospective of quite another kind. This is not a standard "best of" album, but rather a compilation of exclusively unreleased recordings and alternative versions from the archives of the band, compiled by ANTIMATTER mastermind Mick Moss with the utmost care and passion. "Alternative Matter" features demo and acoustic versions of well-known ANTIMATTER songs, live recordings, remixes, and also new recordings which have been conceived especially for this compilation. And in their entirety, all these songs tell a yet-unknown ANTIMATTER story. Both expansive in form and content, "Alternative Matter" will draw an impressive line under ANTIMATTER's first decade of existence!

Cypress Hill were notable for being the first Latino hip-hop superstars, but they became notorious for their endorsement of marijuana, which actually isn't a trivial thing. Not only did the group campaign for its legalization, but their slow, rolling bass-and-drum loops pioneered a new, stoned funk that became extraordinary influential in '90s hip-hop — it could be heard in everything from Dr. Dre's G-funk to the chilly layers of English trip-hop. DJ Muggs crafted the sound, and B Real, with his pinched, nasal voice, was responsible for the rhetoric that made them famous. The pro-pot position became a little ridiculous over time, but there was no denying that the actual music had a strange, eerie power, particularly on the band's first two albums. Although B Real remained an effective lyricist and Muggs' musical skills did not diminish, the group's third album, Temples of Boom, was perceived by many critics as self-parodic, and the group appeared to disintegrate shortly afterward, though Muggs and B Real regrouped toward the end of the '90s to issue more material.

Blues with a Feeling is a two-CD, 40-track compilation which makes the perfect audio bookend to The Essential Little Walter (or the single disc The Best of Little Walter for those on a budget) by systematically combing the Chess vaults and rounding up the best stuff. No bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings here; this compilation effectively renders all '70s Euro vinyl bootlegs null and void, both from a sound and selection standpoint. While not as exhaustive as the European nine-CD retrospective (in and out of print as of this writing), there are still things on this compilation that are left off the box set on Charly. The rarities (including the low down "Tonight with a Fool," possibly the rarest Walter Checker single of all and one whose title never shows up in the lyrics) are all noteworthy by their inclusion. But the alternate takes are the real mother lode here; everyone of 'em has got some kind of major screw-up to 'em while showing Walter's penchant for putting a new spin on a tune every time the engineer hit the record button. Like Charles Brown's "Drifting Blues," where he decides to start up his solo by playing the bump and grind part from "Night Train," leaving the entire band in the dust trying to figure out what changes to play once Walter changes his mind, or "Blues with a Feeling," where halfway through his solo the chord on Walter's harp mike unexplainably shorts out, just crackling away like a bowl of Rice Krispies. Or "You're Sweet," where he mangles the first line of the vocal ("you sweet, as any apple on a fruit") thus immediately relegating it to the unissued file, regardless of how great the solo in the middle is. By far the most interesting instrumental here is the previously unissued "That's It" (formerly only a discographical sighting) where Walter honks mind-altering stuff that I've never heard him do anywhere else on record. The alternate of "My Babe" doesn't sound anything like the hit version, making it another minor revelation while the storming uptempo reading of "Going Down Slow" — with the track fueled by a particularly nasty riff courtesy of Robert Jr. Lockwood, whose acerbic comments punctuate the liner notes throughout — is a prime candidate for the repeat button mode on the CD player, featuring the groove from Hell that refuses to abate.