A distanza di 31 anni dal loro primo disco (“Strade di città” nel 1993), dopo aver collezionato oltre 250 milioni di stream audio/video, con l’attesa reunion a Sanremo lo scorso anno e un tour che da maggio a settembre 2023 ha visto presenti oltre 100mila spettatori, gli Articolo 31 pubblicano il loro nuovo album di inediti Dal titolo “Protomaranza” segna il ritorno in grande stile del duo e rappresenta un nuovo capitolo della loro storia.

Diving deep into the archives of Sony CBS and BMG, we have managed to compile a 3 hour set now available on 3 CD's. The selection runs from very slow (Marvin Gaye), to very fast ending with the Weather Girls

The soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's critically acclaimed Django Unchained features original contributions from Rick Ross, John Legend and Luis Bacalov, as well as classic tracks handpicked from the director's own vinyl collection.

UK three CD set containing a trio of albums from the Hip Hop duo: Atliens, Aquemini and Stankonia.

Dusty Fingers is the name of a series of compilation records of songs that are widely admired as breakbeats collected by Bronx DJ Danny Dann the Beat Mann. Some of the songs featured contain "open breaks" which are solo drum passages which enable DJs to easily transition into them. These are also attractive to producers, who loop or rearrange them to create new compositions. Following in the tradition of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats series, the Dusty Fingers records contain an eclectic range of musical styles: mainly funk and jazz, but also including soul, rock, disco, and pop. Many of the songs in the Dusty Fingers series have been sampled into new musical compositions, mainly by hip hop producers. Popular songs that sample songs from the Dusty Fingers series include "Guilty Conscience" by Eminem, "Find Your Wealth" by Nas, "Rowdy Rowdy" by 50 Cent, "Show Me What You Got" by Jay-Z, "Daydreamin'" by Lupe Fiasco, and "Dr. Carter" by Lil' Wayne.

11:11 (Deluxe) is the deluxe edition of Chris' eleventh November 2023 album, 11:11. The deluxe edition was first teased on November 28, 2023 via Instagram, asking fans, “y’all wanna deluxe?”. On February 19, 2024, Chris revealed that the deluxe edition would have 11 more tracks and also shared a tentative release date.

Doja Cat Announces "Scarlet 2: Claude Frollo" And Reveals A Mystery Feature In New Trailer. Doja Cat still has a lot of haters out there, but that is not going to stop her one bit from making a massive return. A few days ago, the California rapper and singer revealed cover art for an upcoming single "Masc." It went viral on social media, with fans declaring it was the artist's "pubic hair" or "sheep's wool". However, she decided to clear the air, albeit frustratingly. "Let’s move forward. Let’s grow. “Cause I can’t tell you what to do, I’m not your f***ing parents. Like pubic hair? Really? That’s where we stand." Dust settling aside, this Doja Cat track was announced to promote Scarlet 2: Claude Frollo, the deluxe of her last record.

Flash was the DJ and the Furious Five were the best multiple rappers around, moving from the music's low-rent dance origins (it was Flash who began cutting in repeated portions of other records) and party spirit to the "message" approach that took over in the mid 80s, prefigured in "The Message." Much of what came later, started here.

Unlike other labels subjected to exhaustive multi-disc retrospectives like this whopping ten-disc Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records – The First Fifty Years, Warner Brothers never embodied a scene or sound: they've always embodied what a major label should be – a dominant force that chronicles and dictates the sound of the mainstream. Coming out at the tail-end of 2008, when the influence of major labels is on a slow steady decline, Revolutions in Sound can be seen as a portrait of a time that's beginning to recede into the past: a time when there was such a thing as mass entertainment, when the pop audience all shared a common bond of hit records they either loved or rallied against. Perhaps the greatest things about this monumental box set is that it captures that colossus while also illustrating that for a while, majors did take risks. Of course, Warner was the riskiest of all the majors, never held back by an anti-rock & roll sourpuss like Mitch Miller, who struggled to keep CBS out of the tumult of the '60s (this with no less than Bob Dylan as the label's flagship rock artist). Instead, Warner embraced the underground, recording some of the strangest to shake out of the '60s, and that adventure fits a label that turned to rock & roll to help establish themselves as a real player at the turn of the '60s.

The 9CD+DVD set will effectively be the entire studio recordings of the band and will feature all their albums (remastered, presumably) plus additional discs of remixes and unreleased material.

It wasn’t really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that briefly permeated pop, R&B and hip hop. The name was coined by Long Island trio De La Soul; they claimed D.A.I.S.Y. stood for “da inner sound, y’all”, but then De La Soul said a lot of things. Playfulness and good humour were central to their 1989 debut album, which cast a long, multi-coloured shadow. The 90s, it promised, would be a lot easier going than the 80s.

For all intents and purposes, Whitney Houston retired from being a full-fledged recording artist after her third album, 1990s I'm Your Baby Tonight, choosing to be a Streisand-like celebrity who cultivated a career through movies, soundtrack contributions, and social appearances. She may have been content to continue in that direction for many years if Arista president Clive Davis didn't push her into recording My Love Is Your Love, her first album in eight years, which easily ranks among her best. Never before has Houston tried so many different sounds or tried so hard to be hip. It's one thing to work with Babyface, the standard-bearer of smooth soul in the '90s, but it's quite another to hire Wyclef Jean, Lauren Hill, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, and Q-Tip – all cutting-edge artists (albeit on the accessible side of the cutting edge), the kind who never would have been associated with Houston in the late '80s.

The Fugees translated an intriguing blend of jazz-rap, R&B, and reggae into huge success during the mid-'90s, when the trio's sophomore album The Score hit number one on the pop charts and sold over five million copies. The trio formed in the late '80s in the New Jersey area, where Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel Michel ("Pras") attended a local high school and began working together. Michel's cousin Wyclef Jean ("Clef") joined the group (then called the Tranzlator Crew), and the trio signed to Ruffhouse/Columbia in 1993. After renaming themselves the Fugees (a term of derision, short for refugees, which was usually used to describe Haitian immigrants). Though the group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, was quite solid, it reflected a prevailing gangsta stance that may have been forced by the record label. Presents the Carnival No matter how pigeonholed the Fugees may have sounded on their debut, the group had obviously asserted their control by the time of their second album, The Score. With just as much intelligence as their jazz-rap forebears, the trio also worked with surprisingly straight-ahead R&B on the soulful "Killing Me Softly With His Song," sung by Lauryn Hill. Elsewhere, Clef and Pras sampled doo wop and covered Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry," giving the record familiarity for the commercial mainstream, but keeping it real with insightful commentary on their urban surroundings. The Score became one of the surprise hits of 1996, reaching number one on the pop charts and making the Fugees one of the most visible rap groups around the world.

Few things are more exciting than a Girls' Night Out; and as every girl knows, the best part of going out is getting ready to go out! So whack the Prosecco in the fridge, put your gladrags on and get this album on the stereo - Ultimate Girls' Night Out is exactly that. Boogie your way out the door to classics from Amy Winehouse, Sugababes, Maroon 5, Blondie, Kylie, the Pussycat Dolls, The Black Eyed Peas, Shalamar, Nelly, Jessie Ware and many more. Here come the girls!

Pop Muzik brings you 100 tracks of the finest Synth Pop from across the decades! There are oodles of 80s classics on offer - huge hits by synth legends Frankie Goes To Hollywood, a-ha, Talk Talk and New Order; pure pop from Kylie Minogue, Bucks Fizz, Dollar and Kajagoogoo; and atmospheric rock from The Cars, Foreigner and Yes. The alternative side of the genre is explored with tracks from Suicide, Joy Division, Silicon Teens and Propaganda whilst the everlasting impact of the mighty synthesizer on dance music can be heard via 808 State, Tinie Tempah and X-Press 2. If you’ve ever been partial to "boxes that go beep" this is the album for you!