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- Record Label: Festival
- Release Date: Aug 5, 2016
- Summary: The two-disc compilation of tracks from artists such as Miles Davis, Funkadelic, The Isley Brothers, Keith Jarrett, Santana, and Sly & the Family Stone that included influences from psych, rock, funk, soul and jazz music from between 1967 and 1980.
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- Record Label: Festival
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jan 4, 2018Despite a few obvious omissions (Sun Ra, Marvin, Curtis and others), it’s an endless source of sonically challenging, mind-freeing ambition.
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Jan 4, 2018It’s a beautifully compiled set that shows what was really going on in 1967 and how subsequent years translated the aftershock. The guitars rock like a motherfucker throughout.
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Jan 4, 2018Dean Rudland and Tony Harlow’s selections here mix up the canonical (Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” and “Red Hot Mama”, The Undisputed Truth’s “Like A Rolling Stone”, Sly & The Family Stone’s “Thank You For Talkin’ To Me, Africa”), with a good few cratedigging rarities. If anything, in their enthusiasm they may have set themselves a little too wide a brief. [May 2017, p.46]
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MojoJan 4, 2018Mind-expanding stuff. [May 2017, p.106]
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Jan 4, 2018By its very nature, RTVD is eclectic, and there is an obvious element of hit or miss to contend with. The sequencing isn’t fantastic, and the compilation does lose focus at times. It does however do what it sets out to do; it explores, and gives a good sense of the ways in which African-American music of the late 60s and 70s splintered off in different directions and absorbed outside influences.