An excellent 3CD compilation of slept on Ninja Tune cuts – a diverse batch of tracks that go back about a decade to collect rarities, should-be classics and some unreleased material from the Ninja Tune canon – nearly 50 tracks in all! Funky club, stuttering left field glitch hop, folky electronic grooves, and riotous remixes galore! Includes tracks by Diplo, Blockhead, Spank Rock, Coldcut, The Heavy, Sixtoo, Amon Tobin, Roots Manuva and many more. Includes "Blazin" by Ghislain Poirier feat Face-T (Modeselektor rmx), "Fair Weather Friends" by Daedelus, "Donkey Ride" by Mr Scruff & Quantic, "Epistemology Suite 1 – Don't Fall" by Diplo, "Bloodstone" by Amon Tobin, "Chin High (Manuvadelics version)" by Roots Manuva, "Inside The Globe" by Airborn Audio, "Just For The Kick" by Coldcut, "Around The World" by Death Set, "Again With The Subtitles" by Yppah, "Atomic Moog" by Coldcut (Qemists rmx), "The Chart" by Super Numeri, "Melted Crayons" by Fog, "Sunday Seance" by Blockhead, "Say Goodbye" by Bigg Jus and tons more! CD

A rare Jubilee Records album from Art Blakey – one of his non-Blue Note sets from the late 50s, cut during the year of 1957 – a time when the Jazz Messengers were hopping around a lot of different labels! This version of the group is searing and soulful – and features Johnny Griffin on tenor, Bill Hardman on trumpet, Sam Dockery on piano, and Spanky DeBrest on bass – plus the unusual addition of Sabu Martinez on conga, rocking and rollicking alongside Blakey's drums in an amazing way! The set's quite different than some of Art's "with percussion" dates for Blue Note – as Sabu's congas kind of just set an extra fire to the hardbop groove – giving it a slight Latin flavor, but more than anything, just getting in a wicked edge that really cooks up the session. Griffin is great, as always, and the album features four long tracks "Woddyn You", "Sakeena", "Shorty", and "Dawn On The Desert". CD

The Beatles weren't just the biggest recording act on the scene in the mid 60s, they were also probably the most influential from a songwriting perspective too – such that countless other groups, singers, and musicians picked up their songs and gave them a try, including some tracks that The Beatles never recorded themselves! These aren't just hack cover versions, though – as the artists here clearly love the Fab Four, and are dedicated to unlocking ways that the music inspires them, and makes them seek their own expressions too – expressions that are presented here in full force, in a very cool package that mixes up rock, soul, jazz, folk, and other styles too – all in a massive 85 track set, with very detailed notes. Artists include Jackie Lynton, Marilyn Powell, The Merseymen, Dick Rivers, Mary Wells, Duffy Power, The Coterie, Mark Wynter, Strawberry Fair, Brotherhood, The Buckinghams, Madeline Bell, The Transatlantics, Count Basie, Jimmy James, Spanky & Our Gang, Zoot, Junior Parker, Jackie Trent, The Four Preps, PJ Proby, Mae West, Five Man Electrical Band, Dave Baby Cortez, and many others. CD