Various - A Rhythm & Blues Chronology 1: 1940-1941Rhythm and Blues was not generally recognised as a distinct musical genre until the years following the end of World War II. These 4CD sets centred on 1940 1944 attempt to pinpoint records typical of the various strands of music which coalesced into what can now be seen as a historically definable form of black popular music, commonly abbreviated to R&B. Previously, the American record industry had marketed blues, jazz, jug band, hokum, sacred and

White Light/White Heat is easily the least accessible of The Velvet Underground's studio albums

Û÷Aesthethica‰۪ is inventive

Una Mae Carlisle Blitzkrieg Baby 10

is largely composed of unreleased music

Chris Gray's guitar on "Mandible Mambo"

a heavily weird

‰ÛÏThat he tackles an alien style so adeptly is proof of Moir̩‰۪s versatility and technical prowess‰۝ - Resident AdvisoråÊ

HERE FOR YOU and UNMISSABLE

Mount Kimbie etc

‰ÛÏoddly beautiful and strangely alluring‰۝ - Loud And Quiet (8/10)

The characteristic framework of piano and synthesiser is reinforced with a newly conscripted 26-piece string section to startling effect

The album‰۪s biggest single was Johnson‰۪s slowed- down take on Green‰۪s ‰Û÷Take Me To The River‰۪