Another highlight comes in the form of ‘Malunde’ with its kwaito melodies, taking in balearic elements and slamming drums for an exercise in the frenetic, limber dancing styles that swept through South African townships at the time of its production. It’s not often that you discover tracks with the sheer ability that ‘Mashisa’ has to make one smile. The lead track, which appears here alongside an additional ‘Dub Mix’ stripping back some of the elements of the original, is a slice of boundless joy bursting with pure energy in its grin-inducing synths and sprightly vocals. With original copies having fetched something into the hundreds of pounds, the record, comprising four of the six tracks which appeared on the 1990 pressing, is exemplary of just why reissue culture in record buying continues to gather so much steam, with Invisible City putting excellent, mostly undiscovered older music into the hands of today’s record buyers. Their latest release is a reissue of a highly sought after South African record dating back to 1990, V.O.’s ‘Mashisa’. Tower Of Silence serves as a tantalising introduction to Musci’s work much like past reissues of music by Gigi Masin, Suso Sáiz on MFM have done also.Īnother label at the forefront for some years now of putting long out-of-press records back into the hands of music lovers today, and keeping the Discogs sharks at bay somewhat, is Toronto’s Invisible City Editions, run by the duo of Brandon Hocura and Gary Abugan, both of whom also DJ together simply under the guise of Invisible City where they showcase their immense abilities as diggers, mixing house, disco and soul, sourced from around the world. This can be heard across Music From Memory’s retrospective - wind chimes combine with horns and tranquil percussion on ‘Nexus On The Beach’ and field recordings also presumably collected during Music’s travels are put to stunning use. The music was produced at a time that Musci was “travelling extensively across Asia and Africa” where the multi-instrumentalist collected a number of instruments that he would go on to combine with the synths that would form much of his work. Following on from what has already been a busy year for the label, their latest release, Tower Of Silence, collects a raft of material from Italian composer Roberto Musci, some of which dating back to the mid-1970s. One of those labels at the forefront of the ever-expanding reissue culture that permeates electronic music today is Amsterdam’s Music From Memory, founded in 2013 by Abel Nagengast, Jamie Tiller and Tako Reyenga, all of whom are behind the day-to-day running of the city’s revered Redlight Records shop and stand as some of the finest selectors currently based in Amsterdam. For that reason, I wanted to dedicate the introductory gambit of this month’s column to focusing on just some of those labels and some of the best reissues of recent months. With so much excellent, boundary-pushing new music finding its way out in the interim period between each edition of this column, it’s often easy to overlook the tons of noteworthy records being given new leases of life via reissues, with so many well-curated labels dedicated to introducing older music to new audiences and putting out-of-print and expensive records back into circulation having popped up particularly over the last couple of years.
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