Every year, recording companies plunge deeper into their vaults, unveiling demos, outtakes, rough drafts, live recordings and more. The boxed sets that emerge from those excavations are reminders of all the options and decisions that go into every official album release.
Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan opens a trove of Basho's live recordings from the late 1960s and early 1970s, most of them surprisingly well-miked with quiet, raptly attentive audiences.
Clouddead, which featured Why?, Doseone and Odd Nosdam, was a trio of counterculture, bizarro-world experimentalists with an almost fully deconstructed style, collecting a series of six vinyl EPs.
The hip-hop underground was moving past logorrhea toward full abstraction in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and few embodied that more completely than the members of the Anticon collective.
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