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Spacey, club ready remixes of ascending hip hop-gospel-soul spirits Washington Projects – plus the full Light Up The Dark album as a bonus disc! Washington Projects blend modern hip hop and R&B singing and rhymes beautifully well, with inspirational songs that are, well, genuinely inspirational. Space Time Continuum is filled heavily thumping, pulsing, floor-shaking remixes from the duos previous couple of albums. Titles include "Work (Intergalactic Public Transit Mix)", "Time (Spiral Galaxy Mix)", "My Dream (Wicker Park Mix", "Zephyr Wings (Chicago Discothaque Mix)", "Yesterday (Northern Lights Mix)" and more. Includes the Light Up The Dark album as a bonus disc, with "Light Up The Dark", "You Are Beautiful", "My Dream", "Stay", "Go", "Justus", "Momma", "Heaven Here I Come" and more.

A "pocket guide" to 69 Love Songs – the wildly ambitious mid 90s art pop breakout effort from Magnetic Fields – and possibly the most sprawling single project profiled in the 33 1/3 series! 69 Love Songs is such an ambitious project, they probably could have eked a 3 part series of 33 1/3 releases, but LD Beghtol does an admirable job here penning a fun print companion piece, rather than a "making of" or "behind the scenes" tome. He was also a collaborator on the actual album(s). He sort of profiles the language and culture that inspired 69 Love Songs more than anything else – and the book also has notes for each individual song with insights from friends and collaborators. A fun read!

The most sparely beautiful of Nick Drake's legendary three albums – the immortal Pink Moon – and as perfectly suited for the 33 1/3 classic albums biography series as any album could ever be! After the comparably ornate Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later, Drake's songs are stripped her to the bare essentials of voice, acoustic guitar and just a bit of piano – and oh, how essential it is. Author Amanda Petrusich's name appears on some of best-written and smartest reviews in Pitchfork Media's history and has an especially keen ear for folk-based music. She does a terrific job here profiling Nick Drake's one-time obscure, now uber-classic Pink Moon.

This is the one that really nailed it for Jaco Pastorious – a brilliant showcase for all his many talents on the bass, and a key illustration of the way that he influenced an entire generation! Sure, Jaco in Weather Report was already pretty darn great – but here, on his own, he really gets to sparkle – jamming hard with heavyweights on some funky numbers, sliding out in spacey territory on mellow cuts, and even trying out a few more experimental moments that are far beyond what most other bassists might imagine for a debut of this nature. Players on the date include Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Don Alias on percussion, Lenny White on drums, Hubert Laws on flute, and Randy Brecker on trumpet – and titles include "Portrait Of Tracy", "Donna Lee", "Continuum", "Okonkole Y Trompa", "Kuru/Speak Like a Child", "Opus Pocus", and "Come On Come Over". CD features 2 bonus tracks – "Used To Be A Cha Cha" and "6/4 Jam".

This is the one that really nailed it for Jaco Pastorious – a brilliant showcase for all his many talents on the bass, and a key illustration of the way that he influenced an entire generation! Sure, Jaco in Weather Report was already pretty darn great – but here, on his own, he really gets to sparkle – jamming hard with heavyweights on some funky numbers, sliding out in spacey territory on mellow cuts, and even trying out a few more experimental moments that are far beyond what most other bassists might imagine for a debut of this nature. Players on the date include Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Don Alias on percussion, Lenny White on drums, Hubert Laws on flute, and Randy Brecker on trumpet – and titles include "Portrait Of Tracy", "Donna Lee", "Continuum", "Okonkole Y Trompa", "Kuru/Speak Like a Child", "Opus Pocus", and "Come On Come Over".