The Week's Best Vinyl Releases

Few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store.

After years spent discovering gems in Phonica’s end of year lists, it made sense to give them a regular space on FACT. Every Saturday, staff from the Soho institution will pick out the five vinyl records you should grab this week.



GLITTERBEAT
Dubs And Versions LP
(Glitterbeat)

Barely a year after launching the Glitterbeat label, Chris Eckman and Peter Weber have pieced together this ace compilation of dubs and remixes, tapping post-punk rebel Mark Stewart, dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Basic Channel’s Mark Ernestus and Shangaan electro progenitor Nozinja to rework their stable of mostly Malian releases. Truly unique.

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SEBASTIAN MULLAERT & EITAN REITER
Reflections Of Nothingness 2xLP
(Mule Music)

A deeply absorbing listen from the combined brainpower of Minilogue’s Sebastian Mullaert and Israeli cross-genre producer Eitan Reiter, flitting from tactile analogue techno (the LP was largely made on a TB303, TR808, SH101 and Juno 60) to billowing ambient interludes and back again with meditative ease.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Spirit Of Malombo – Malombo Jazz Makers, Jabula And Jazz Afrika 1966-1984 LP
(Strut)

The industrious crate-diggers at Strut head to South Africa to celebrate the influential music of afro-jazz drummer and anti-apartheid activist Julian Bahula and his 1966-1984 run of releases with the Malombo Jazz Makers, Jabula and Jazz Afrika.

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BEAU WANZER
Untitled (Beau Wanzer LP)
(No ‘Label’)

Chicago’s Beau Wanzer has gone back to his archive of tapes to pull out 12 tracks of freaky-deaky house and techno dating right back to 2002, touching on ghoulish darkwave (‘Basement Dwellers’), trashy no-wave stompers (‘23132’) and comically aggro takes on EBM (‘I Don’t Even Want To’). Much weird.

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ERNEST RANGLIN
Mod Mod Ranglin LP
(Dub Store Records)

Any of the Dub Store album reissues would be a good pick, but Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin’s 1966 fusion of ska and Caribbean instrumentals gets the nod for having the best sleeve. Easy breezy island life captured on six strings.

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