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VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Shadow Music Of Thailand
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £15.99
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Released: Nov 2009
Catalogue Number: SF042CD

"Shadow Music" was a broad term given to the Thai guitar pop movement of the 1960s and the groups that came out of it -- all under the profound influence of early Western rock and roll. British instrumental wonders The Shadows (as in Cliff Richards & The Shadows) were the origin of the genre's title -- also coined "Wong Shadow" or early Thai "string" music. Shadow records were often marketed as "Thai Modernized Music" which it was in the truest s... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Shadow Music Of Thailand, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Shadow Music Of Thailand:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2 (1960's-1980's)
Sublime Frequencies
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Released: Nov 2009
Catalogue Number: SF050CD

Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop of Sublime Freqencies finally deliver a hugely welcome follow-up to the 'Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s' with 15 tracks of mindblowing exotic soul. As anyone who witnessed their DJ sets or followed this series will attest, these guys have a deadly ear for a groove, again pulling out unimaginable variations and charmingly off-kilter permutations of disco, pop, soul and funk filtered through the unique Thai character t... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2 (1960's-1980's), Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2 (1960's-1980's):
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £18.49
WORLD
Released: Apr 2009
Catalogue Number: SF045CD

This is Raï music from Algeria as you've not heard it before. In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians were operating on the northwest coast, and what they pioneered was a sound that eventually reached worldwide status by the end of the decade; however, their names are relatively unknown to this day outside Algeria. This crucial and defining period of the development of Raï is criminally ignored and overlooked by Algerian music hi... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : GROUPE EL AZHAR
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : BOUTAIBA SGHIR
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : CHEB ZERGUI

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
Sublime Frequencies
LP // £23.49
WORLD
Released: Oct 2008
Catalogue Number: SF045LP

This is Raï music from Algeria as you've not heard it before. In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians were operating on the northwest coast, and what they pioneered was a sound that eventually reached worldwide status by the end of the decade; however, their names are relatively unknown to this day outside Algeria. This crucial and defining period of the development of Raï is criminally ignored and overlooked by Algerian music hi... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : GROUPE EL AZHAR
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : BOUTAIBA SGHIR
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : CHEB ZERGUI

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Myanmar (Burma)
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Jun 2008
Catalogue Number: SF044

The Union Solidarity & Development Association (USDA) has grown to become one of the most pervasive organizations in Burma, claiming over 22 million members (nearly half the country's population). Very little is known of the USDA to the outside world, but it has become imbedded throughout the social infrastructure of the state. Its widely-published statutes expressing the importance of state sovereignty and public solidarity can be found in all m... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Myanmar (Burma), Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Myanmar (Burma):
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Bollywood Steel Guitar
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Apr 2008
Catalogue Number: SF043CD

Another absolutely priceless transmission from the Sublime Frequencies label, and without doubt one of their best so far. Bollywood Steel Guitar is the most comprehensive collection to date of steel-guitar pop music from India. All 21 tracks featured here were film hits from 1962-1986 and all the masters of the steel guitar sound from the period are represented: Van Shipley, Kazi Aniruddha, S. Hazarasingh, Sunil Ganguly, and Charanjit Singh. An e... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Bollywood Steel Guitar, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Bollywood Steel Guitar:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Shadow Music Of Thailand
Sublime Frequencies
LP // £21.49
WORLD
Released: Apr 2008
Catalogue Number: SF042LP

"Shadow Music" was a broad term given to the Thai guitar pop movement of the 1960s and the groups that came out of it -- all under the profound influence of early Western rock and roll. British instrumental wonders The Shadows (as in Cliff Richards & The Shadows) were the origin of the genre's title -- also coined "Wong Shadow" or early Thai "string" music. Shadow records were often marketed as "Thai Modernized Music" which it was in the truest s... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Shadow Music Of Thailand, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Shadow Music Of Thailand:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : THE SON OF PM
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : PM7/JUPITER
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : JONNY GUITAR

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Choubi Choubi : Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £13.99
WORLD
Released: Jan 2008
Catalogue Number: SF025CD

Back in stock!!! Given the amount of Iraq we all see daily on our TV screens, it seems almost abhorrent as to how ignorant the West (and by West, read 'me') are in respect to their cultural output. Bar the odd mention of Mesopotamia on the History Channel, or the fleeting insights afforded by blogs such as Salam Pax, I know fuck all about Iraq's art or music; a situation that is thankfully rectified (in part at least) by Sublime Frequencies frank... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Choubi Choubi : Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Choubi Choubi : Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Choubi
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Taught Me
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Hecha

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
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Released: Aug 2007
Catalogue Number: SF032

Back in stock! This is just so great - a new super-obscure collection of weird and wondeful Thai pop music from the supremely good Sublime Frequencies crew. And not only that - we're honestly pretty sure that it's one of label's most charming, interesting and delicious compilations yet - taking us into a world of alien pop music that's just too f*cked up and too inspirational for words. I can't say I'm well versed in the world of Thai pop music, ... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Proibidao C.V - Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £13.99
WORLD
Released: Nov 2007
Catalogue Number: SF038CD

Probidao is defined by Sublime Frequencies as a particular variety of gang-oriented funk given to electronic music played out at bailes in various Brazilian favelas. Roughly recorded and distributed under the most lo-fi circumstances, this music is rarely heard outside the slums of Rio De Janeiro as controlled by the notorious Comando Vermelho criminal organisation (hence the C.V. of the title). Probidao has been made illegal for radio broadcast ... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Proibidao C.V - Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Proibidao C.V - Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro:
• VARIOUS / SUB : 01
• VARIOUS / SUB : 02
• VARIOUS / SUB : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin American Psychedelia Vol. 1
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £13.99
WORLD
Released: Nov 2007
Catalogue Number: SF039CD

The Sublime Frequencies audio colonialism carrack docks into South America, having fully exhausted Asia's musical resources. The focus of this latest compilation is Latin America's psychedelic rock and pop music, mainly from the '60s and '70s. The tracks have been collected from a host of lost and discarded LPs sourced from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Isle De Pascua (Easter Island) and vary wildly in style and genre, at times sound... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin American Psychedelia Vol. 1, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin American Psychedelia Vol. 1:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £13.99
WORLD
Released: Nov 2007
Catalogue Number: SF037CD

A third volume in the series, compiled by sonic adventurer Laurent Jeanneau, this disc features recordings made in the most remote, tribal extremities of North Vietnam taking in the music of a number of different peoples along the way (the Giay Lu, Red Zao and Black Hmong). There are some incredible documents here, covering pieces played on bamboo percussion, kheng, Jew's harp, and best of all the truly unearthly Baozoo singing of the Red Zao, ba... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Oct 2007
Catalogue Number: SF036CD

Back in stock. Without knowing a lot about the troubled lands of Laos it's hard for me to really work out a difference between music that is or isn't from the various ethnic minorities gathered there, but trust Alan Bishop's Sublime Frequencies imprint to get us more than simply a history lesson with this latest disc from the label. Compiled by regular contributor Laurent Jenneau the liner notes detail how he became deeply interested in the ethni... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Music Of Nat Pwe: Folk And Pop Music Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 3
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Oct 2007
Catalogue Number: SF035CD

I know we have a tendency to harp on about the Sublime Frequencies releases but it's not our fault that they just keep getting better and better is it? Last month it was the killer Thai Pop Spectacular that caught our ears, and this month we've been stopped in our tracks by this latest collection of music from Burma. Now Burma's no stranger to the news recently (unless of course you read The Sun) so it's nice to get a look in to some of the quirk... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Music Of Nat Pwe: Folk And Pop Music Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 3, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Music Of Nat Pwe: Folk And Pop Music Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 3:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Molam : Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £11.99
WORLD
Released: Aug 2007
Catalogue Number: SF033

The first volume in Sublime Frequencies' series of 'Molam' releases took us on a journey through a lesser heard area of Thai music, a kind of country folk music from the rural northeast of Thailand which centres primarily on male and female singers (Molam literally means 'master singer') and the khaen (a bamboo mouth organ) and phin (a lute-like instrument). Here we see the style diversify as it hits the 1970s and 1980s and introduces the sound o... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Molam : Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Molam : Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Morocco
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF007

I can't say I'm overly familiar with Moroccan music so a disc like this is pretty darned useful for diving into an alien world. This particular disc was recorded back in 1983 by Alan Bishop and documents his travels in the country at this time. On the liner notes Bishop notes how he was exposed to Western Culture at this time only by picking up radio transmissions, and spent his time immersing himself in Arabic music. Picking up the strongest sig... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Morocco, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Morocco:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Night Recordings From Bali
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF003

I know there are a lot of them to sift through but the Sublime Frequencies cds really are something special, and this particular one is about as special as they come. Recorded in Bali, this shows field recording at it's most potent; instead of being merely a collection of random recordings from various sources this feels like you are actually walking from place to place hearing people play, practice or talk with each other. Also we are not confin... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Night Recordings From Bali, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Night Recordings From Bali:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Broken Hearted Dragonflies : Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF013

This otherworldly disc is comprised of unprocessed field recordings of an assortment of insects – mostly cicadas and dragonflies. Apparently it’s these latter beasties that make up the most distinctive element of these truly surreal soundscapes: according to Alan Bishop’s liner notes, there’s a folk tale behind the so-called Broken-Hearted Dragonflies, indigenous to Burma. These creatures emit a bizarre screeching sound upon finishing mating, onl... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Broken Hearted Dragonflies : Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Broken Hearted Dragonflies : Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Folk And Pop Sounds Of Sumatra Vol. 1
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF001

'Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.1' was the first ever Sublime Frequencies and my my is it a good one. Collecting the tracks from tapes he managed to acquire back in 1989 Alan Bishop has come up with a window into a world of pop music rarely heard by those outside of this equatorial island. I mean, it's clearly pop - the sounds you hear are very slightly related to sounds you would have heard anywhere else in 1989, but at the same time this is... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Folk And Pop Sounds Of Sumatra Vol. 1, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Folk And Pop Sounds Of Sumatra Vol. 1:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Java
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF002

The rich musical output of Java is no real secret, especially for those of you who have trawled through the incredible Nonesuch Explorer series of releases, but here we have Alan Bishop's take on the music pieced together from hours of radio recordings made in the Indonesian country. As usual these recordings are awash with diversity, virtuoso skill and a great sense of humour so listening is a hugely satisfying experience. Recorded in 1989 we se... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Java, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Java:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Palestine : Sounds Of The Eastern Mediterranean
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF008

Recorded in 1985 by Sun City Girl Alan Bishop this is another of Sublime Frequencies' crucial radio explorations and serves as a priceless time-capsule of the Eastern Mediterranean at this time. Flicking through the radio as ever, Bishop manages to pick up all sorts of weird and wonderful sounds from the more obvious Arab traditional and pop music all the way through to coded spy messages and UFO signals. I don't know what it is about these relea... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Palestine : Sounds Of The Eastern Mediterranean, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Palestine : Sounds Of The Eastern Mediterranean:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Harmika Yab-Yum : Folk Songs From Nepal
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Feb 2005
Catalogue Number: SF017CD

Back in stock! Latest in the Sun City Girls' acclaimed, inspiring Sublime Frequencies series. Harmika yab yum is a divine blend of radio excerpts and field recordings from nepal compiled by robert millis. This exciting mosaic snares among other oddities a 'king cobra' snake charmer, the sounds of slaughtering buffaloes and guns firing amidst a durga puja festival, dreamy folk music, sarangi and harmonium players seeping in from unknown radio sign... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Harmika Yab-Yum : Folk Songs From Nepal, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Harmika Yab-Yum : Folk Songs From Nepal:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Ramsarannepali
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Ponytrain
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Raindevl

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Streets Of Lhasa
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Feb 2005
Catalogue Number: SF016CD

Back in stock! Latest in the Sun City Girls’ acclaimed, inspiring Sublime Frequencies series. Streets of lhasa lifts us to the high plateau of tibet where anonymous street balladeers sell folk songs for a living and ghostly voices drift in an ambience of time forgotten. Children, birds, trains, prayers and a traditional temple activity called 'bian jing' (where monks discourse about scripture and punctuate their points by clapping loudly) provid... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Streets Of Lhasa, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Streets Of Lhasa:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Number 1
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Prayer
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Peace

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Phnom Penh
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Feb 2005
Catalogue Number: SF020

Back in stock! Latest in the Sun City Girls' acclaimed, inspiring Sublime Frequencies series. Cambodia's people, economy, and culture have been 're-mixed' perhaps more than any place on earth for the past 50 years. The name was even changed to kampuchea and then back again to cambodia. so it almost seems natural that modern cambodian record companies have been re-mixing the old classic pop and rock tracks from the pre-khmer rouge era, overdubbing... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Phnom Penh, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Phnom Penh:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Condoms n Condors
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Sign-Off
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Multipopin

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Sumatra : The Indonesian FM Experience
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Feb 2005
Catalogue Number: SF021CD

Back in stock! Latest in the Sun City Girls' acclaimed, inspiring Sublime Frequencies series. The music and production encountered here represents a cross-section of Sumatran FM radio and to a greater extent, what's happening now in indonesian culture. from the signature sounds of sumatra (melayu, minang pop, the batak ballad) to the widespread indonesian phenomenon of Dangdut, this exclusive 'FM only' radio collage will leave your skull shatter... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Sumatra : The Indonesian FM Experience, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Sumatra : The Indonesian FM Experience:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Hit Explosion
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Great Songs
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Beautiful

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Folk & Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.2
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Feb 2005
Catalogue Number: SF018

Back in stock! Latest in the Sun City Girls' acclaimed, inspiring Sublime Frequencies series. Folk and pop sounds of sumatra (volume 2) expands our presentation of the world's least-known, outstanding musical improbabilities. From the infectious trance beat of sumatra's folk dangdut music, featuring rabab (violin) or saluang (flute), to the highly-refined and glorious Orkes Gambus (orchestral arabic music with 'gambus' literally meaning 'oud')... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Folk & Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.2, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Folk & Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.2:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Molam : Thai Country Groove From Isan
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Feb 2005
Catalogue Number: SF019CD

Back in stock! Latest in the Sun City Girls’ acclaimed, inspiring Sublime Frequencies series. Molam is a multi-faceted folk music native to laos and the predominantly rural northeastern region of thailand known as Isan - home to myriad ethnic groups and provinces, and once a part of present-day laos. ‘Mo’ meaning 'master' and ‘Lam’ meaning 'song', Molam literally translates into 'master singer', but it remains more of an umbrella term covering o... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Molam : Thai Country Groove From Isan, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Molam : Thai Country Groove From Isan:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Cambodian Cassette Archives : Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: SF011CD

Back in stock! Latest from the Sun City Girl's incredible series of audio documents from the furthest reaches of the globe. "Cambodian Cassette Archives" is an unbelievable collection of dynamic cambodian music recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both in cambodia and in the united states. A truly khmer blend of folk and pop stylings - cha-cha psychedelia, phase-shifting rock, sultry circle dance standards, pulsing cambodian new wave, haunte... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Cambodian Cassette Archives : Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Cambodian Cassette Archives : Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Track 07
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Track 12
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Track 13

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Bush Taxi Mali : Field Recordings From Mali
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: SF012CD

Back in stock! Latest from the Sun City Girl's incredible series of audio documents from the furthest reaches of the globe. "Bush Taxi Mali" is an aural tour through the heart of Mali. These field recordings were made by Tucker Martine in 1998 while travelling throughout the west african country. The blend of bluesy Ngoni's, clamoring street sounds, the stunning voice of Jalimusa Amanita Diabate (of the famous diabate family), passing radios, ful... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Bush Taxi Mali : Field Recordings From Mali, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Bush Taxi Mali : Field Recordings From Mali:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Rihlan
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Segou
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Kaita

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio India : The eternal dream of sound
Sublime Frequencies
2CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: SF 014CD

Back in stock! Latest from the Sun City Girl's incredible series of audio documents from the furthest reaches of the globe. This is an absolutely amazing dive into perhaps the most astounding radio treasure chest the world has ever known, an amazing collection of audio art which is a testament to India’s museum of sound. This two hour double cd features radio collage of music-only edits on disc one, with a more adventurous mix of music, radio com... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio India : The eternal dream of sound, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio India : The eternal dream of sound:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Radio Delhi
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Transit
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Jaipur

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Ethnic Minority Music Of Northeast Cambodia
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2006
Catalogue Number: SF027CD

Back in stock! Apparently this is the first time that a cd has been available which collects ceremonial music from the mysterious tribes of Northeast Cambodia, so trust it to come out on the ever intriguing Sublime Frequencies label eh?! A largely vocal disc, 'Ethnic Music of Northeast Cambodia' features pieces recorded from tribal elders hoarsely wailing chants and religious rites. It's as gripping as it sounds, and music like this which is rare... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Ethnic Minority Music Of Northeast Cambodia, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Ethnic Minority Music Of Northeast Cambodia:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Thailand - Transmissions From The
Sublime Frequencies
2CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2006
Catalogue Number: SF028CD

Back in stock! By now you should know what to expect from the Sun City Girls affiliated Sublime Frequencies compilations - they really do deserve a generic classification all of their own, defying contemporary categorisation totally. Over the course of their almost 30 releases they have managed to tick the box for countless genres and worldwide locations and they have informed many of us about... let's say Iraqi psychedelic music for instance? Wh... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Thailand - Transmissions From The, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Thailand - Transmissions From The:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Algeria
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2006
Catalogue Number: SF029CD

Back in stock! Yet another absolutely essential addition to the Sublime Frequencies 'Radio' series - this time we head deep into the Sahara desert with raw Berber folk, modern Arabic pop, sacred Islamic traditional, Andalusian orchestral, Guesba (the origin of Rai), classic early Rai, Khabyle, Tuareg, Saharaui, and hybrid music styles influenced by Europeans to the north and sub-Saharan Africa to the south. Phew, that enough for you? Well I've go... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Algeria, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Algeria:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Pyongyang : Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Sep 2005
Catalogue Number: SF023CD

Back in stock! Worth buying for the title alone ('Commie Funk'!), this compilation is a bit like sniffing glue and then watching back-to-back propaganda films for North Korea's nut-job leader Kim Jong-Il. That's right; this is music from pretty much the most politically and culturally isolated place on Earth, assembled through intercepted TV and radio signals and further bolstered by the odd field recording. Now I have no idea what living in Nort... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Pyongyang : Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Pyongyang : Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Commie Funk
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Numbers
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Startem

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Guitars Of The Golden Triangle : Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol.2
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Sep 2005
Catalogue Number: SF024CD

Back in stock! A follow-up to 2004's 'Princess Nicotine - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 1', 'Guitars Of The Golden Triangle' was recorded in the early 1970's at various locations around the Shan State of North East Burma. Known as 'The Golden Triangle' for its poppy growing reputation (nod nod, wink wink), the artists featured make a heady blend of pysch rock, blues/folk ballads and raw country and western that suggests the odd dalli... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Guitars Of The Golden Triangle : Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol.2, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Guitars Of The Golden Triangle : Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol.2:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 01
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 02
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : 03

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Princess Nicotine - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) vol. 1
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £12.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2004
Catalogue Number: SF006CD

Back in stock. Not only are the roots of this music unique, but so are the results after incorporating outside instrumentation from modern colonial and (unavoidable) international influence. what the Burmese have done with a piano is so precise in its adaptation to existing form and melody that one would think they invented it. burmese music has a very distinct sound and whatever instrument is assimilated into its core only seems to magnify its o... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Princess Nicotine - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) vol. 1, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Princess Nicotine - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) vol. 1:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Good Time
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Jasmine
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Lover

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - I Remember syria
Sublime Frequencies
2CD // £14.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2004
Catalogue Number: SF009CD

Back in stock! A jaw-dropping expose of music, news, interviews and field recordings from one of the least-known quarters of the arab world. Recorded and surgically-assembled by Mark Gergis from two trips to Syria in 1998 and 2000, disc one of this 2-cd set features recordings made in Damascus and is a virtual documentary of sound from the legendary capital including street scenes, a wedding, a mosque interior, spontaneous live music and intervie... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, I Remember syria, Sublime Frequencies

• Tracks on VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - I Remember syria:
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Bedouin
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Damascus
• VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES : Ramadan

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Isan : Folk & Pop Music Of Northeast Thailand
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £21.99
DOCUMENTARY
Released: Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: SF015

Here's an interesting one - if you've come across the Sublime Frequencies cds before you'll know what you're letting yourself in for, but this isn't your standard Sublime Frequency compilation, this is an all-singing all-dancing DVD release. Just as the field recordings compilations sounded like someone walking around with a tape recorder, this shows someone walking around with a camcorder, recording street musicians and performances in the Thai ... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Isan : Folk & Pop Music Of Northeast Thailand, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Phi Ta Khon : Ghosts Of Isan
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £17.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2006
Catalogue Number: SF026DVD

Masks and outfits made of coconut husks, rice steamers, shredded rags and clanging bells transform participants of Thailand's Phi Ta Khon festival into ghosts, devils, demons, and spirits unleashed for a bacchanal. Outrageous wooden phalluses and plenty of rice whiskey heighten licentious behavior as Mo Lam -- Thai country groove music -- blasts from makeshift bands in the back of pickup trucks. Described as "The Mardi Gras from Hell" and "Thai H... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Phi Ta Khon : Ghosts Of Isan, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Niger : Magic & Ecstasy In The Sahel
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £19.99
WORLD
Released: Sep 2005
Catalogue Number: SF022DVD

Latest installment in the Sun City Girls amazing Sublime Frequencies series. "A celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, this film showcases many of Niger's venerable music styles. Tuareg Electric Guitar trance rock, Bori cult dance ceremonies, Fulani Folk, and Roadhouse Gospel Rave-ups are some of the segments included in this latest "Folk Cinema" classic from Sublime Frequencies! Filmed in December of 2004 on location in Niger, Hisham... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Niger : Magic & Ecstasy In The Sahel, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol 1
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £15.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: SF001

The debut album released on the new ethno-centered Sublime Frequencies label founded by Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. Folk and pop sounds of Sumatra is an essential collection of unique folk and pop music from the island of Sumatra, including drone beat pop, jungle folk trance, gypsy hybrid songs, haunting vocal chants, and other beautiful, lost styles yet to be discovered.

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Java
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £15.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: SF002

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VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Isan: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £19.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004

Latest from the Sun City Girl's incredible series of audio/visual documents from the furthest reaches of the globe. This remarkable DVD explores Isan, thailand’s forgotten frontier, where Lao, Thai and Cambodian folkloric traditions have conspired to create a mystifying pageantry of music and dance still relatively unknown to outsiders. It Explores the raw cultural heritage of the Mekong interior, land of the phin guitar and the bamboo khaen and ... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Isan: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Brokenhearted Dragonflies : Insect Electronica from S.East Asia
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £13.99
WORLD
Released: Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: SF013CD

Latest from the Sun City Girl's incredible series of audio documents from the furthest reaches of the globe. There is a legend in Burma stating that swarms of male dragonflies gather to join in choruses of highpitched tones to court their mates. The ones that don’t succeed in mating eventually scream so loud that their chests explode and they drop dead to the ground. These recordings are a tribute to this legend. Droning Cicadas, dragonflies and ... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Brokenhearted Dragonflies : Insect Electronica from S.East Asia, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £24.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2004

Sublime Frequencies is overseen by Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls. The label defines itself as "a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all cha... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Folk Music of the Sahara - Among the Tuareg of Libya
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £18.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2004

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the performers, this mind-blowing in your face document captures the spirit of Libyan folklore and the essence of emotion armed with pounding rhythms and wailing vocal choruses. Both men and women are featured here equally as overseers of the hybrid form... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Folk Music of the Sahara - Among the Tuareg of Libya, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Jemaa el fna: Morocco's Rendezvouz Of The Dead (Night music from Marrakech)
Sublime Frequencies
DVD // £18.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2004

Filmed in Marrakech's legendary 'Jemaa el Fna', the central square of the final outpost before venturing into the great beyond of the western sahara desert, this film is one of the most vivid documents ever presented capturing the raw folk stylings of moroccan music. Shot at night, the performers manifest their passions right before your eyes, some drifting into extreme characters, others floating in dark, flowering breeze. Region-free DVD.

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Radio Morocco
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £13.99
WORLD
Released: Mar 2004

Sublime Frequencies is overseen by Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls. The label defines itself as "a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all cha... READ MORE ABOUT: VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES, Radio Morocco, Sublime Frequencies

 

VARIOUS / SUBLIME FREQUENCIES - Night Recordings From Bali
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £15.99
WORLD
Released: Jan 2004
Catalogue Number: SF003

The third album released on the new ethno-centered Sublime Frequencies label founded by Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. A wondrous collection of field recordings from central Bali at night, with mood, magic and all the mystery this great island can supply. Several styles of Gamelan music are present, along with sounds of the midnight forests and crossroads. Supernatural sound from the balinese interior.