Used to love the album but it got nicked along with part of my vinyl collection a long time ago.
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The Heptones - On Top (Studio One/Coxsones Music City)
Originally released in 1968, this is a later Music City re issue but still nice.
Vocal harmony trio led by the great Leroy Sibbles with Earl Morgan and Barry Llewellyn, stone cold classic Studio One Rocksteady album featuring songs like Equal Rights, Heptones Gonna Fight aka Fight It To The Top, I Hold The Handle (you’ve got the blade), Sea Of Love, Pretty Looks, Party Time
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You may have missed my other post, MOV have recently re issued it. Quality pressing as always with MOV, flimsy sleeve but sounds good to my ears.
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I know Highway 61 revisited so well @Radikal I think I’m on it. Will definitely queue it up on qobuz for comparison.
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Steve Gibbons Band - Birmingham To Memphis (Linn LP 1993)
Laid back Blues, Boogie, unfortunately a bit of cod Reggae, a motorbike and Wock n Wole…
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I’m in the US! Strange if we have it and the UK doesn’t.
Gogol Bordello - Trans Continental Hustle (American Recordings 2LP 2010)
“Gypsy Punk” anyone?
Not a band I know anything much about, I bought this back when it came out, out of curiosity. Forgot how good it sounds.
This is their 5th album and produced by Rick Rubin
From Allmusic;
Combining elements of punk, Gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tell the story of New York’s immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz’s taste in music was spun out of black market tapes of the Birthday Party and Einstürzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster, Hütz became enamored of the mystical, outsider qualities of Gypsy music. Living as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before moving to the United States in 1993, he experienced life as an outsider himself. After arriving in New York, he teamed up with guitarist Vlad Solofar and squeezebox player Sasha Kazatchkoff. American Eliot Fergusen added a strong rock sound on the drums and the band was also augmented by Sergey Ryabtsev on fiddle, a former theater director from Moscow whose past experience would prove helpful in the future in crafting Gogol Bordello’s bizarre stage shows (like one that tells the story of superpowered immigrant Ukrainian vampires).
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Hip-O Select were a specialist US based label, no longer active I dont think, I spotted Hip-O on the Qobuz image you posted, so maybe some kind of licensing restriction on Qobuz making it unavailable outside US?
I think it sounds amazing on Qobuz 
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Much underrated IMO. Used to see him every year in the late 70’s for his Christmas show at the Odeon in Birmingham. Always a good night.
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Love this album! I have it on cd. The vinyl must be really rare
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I dont thinks it’s rare, it’s a Linn record quite widely available at the time iirc, the most it has sold for on Discogs is £20
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I saw them at Cropredy Festival in 2019, seriously fun high energy set, and excellent musicianship.
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I’m thinking of them right now as a kind of Transatlantic Bellowhead with added edge!, if you get my drift
And great music to get the beers out too…(will have a repeat play at the weekend!)
That sounds about right. 
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LP - Deutsche Grammophon 1973 : )
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Georges Bizet was born on this day in 1838
Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
Georges Bizet 1838-1875
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British Sea Power | Let The Dancers Inherit The Party | 2017
A bit of a return to form (at the time) with perhaps a more melodic indie rock album than previously released.
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La Luz - all girl Los Angeles group - imagine Hope Sandoval in a surf band.
Added bonus production by Adrian Younge - who is a god as far as I am concerned.
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