Various - Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central AsiaCompiled from ultra rare dead stock pressed at a Soviet era vinyl plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, this first of its kind fully licensed album features a supreme selection of Uzbek disco, Tajik electronic folk, Uyghur guitar licks, Crimean Tatar jazz, Korean brass, and genre defying styles from Soviet Central Asia. Drop the needle, and you're not just hearing rare Soviet dance music. You're journeying along the Silk Roads, revisiting raucous USSR disco

Firstly Ivan Iacobucci

organ-piano-steel drum-driven "Song For My Mother" is a slo-mo show of sincere gratitude to all the great mothers

The Bronx-based band - that later went on to form heavyweight disco outfit GQ - originally released this treasure in 1976 and it's long been a hard to find record

Caoilfhionn has always pursued music with a fierce commitment

From the avant–minimalism of Mkwaju Ensemble

Tini’s stand-out contribution to the album is “Tune for L

THIS: Limited edition of 300 copies pressed on standard-weight transparent lime green vinyl and housed in single reverse-board sleeve

Originally only available as a digital release on Nightwind Records

while Deck was still winning praise for his gold-selling solo disc Uncontrolled Substance

comprising nothing but raw virtuosity: Williams's colossal drumming

still ultra-rare and slept-on records from the USA

He contributed massively to the Italian techno and rave scene in the nineties