Auteur Labels: Robs Records/ Various - Auteur Labels: Robs Records2010 release, a new volume in LTM's ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Manchester dance imprint Robs Records. Founded by Joy Division New Order manager Rob Gretton, Robs Records was effectively the 'Factory Dance' label that Tony Wilson refused to back. Active for a decade before Rob's untimely death in 1999, Robs and sister label Pleasure released a raft of excellent underground dance music, much of it by Manchester artists

' Shortly thereafter Hetherman left Universal Music and Johnny ventured into the pop music world with the creation of The Tonight Album

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Tracks: Shine On

Sipiagin reinvents Thelonious Monk's Epistrophy and Bill Evans' rarely covered Orbit (Unless It's You)

3 consists of a series of variations on the melody that almost a century later would become the famous song Deck the Halls

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Lukaszewski's collaboration with the choir also resulted in a great number of musical studies

Debussy's song cycle Ariettes oubliées of 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine's collection Romances sans paroles

while tonality with Charles Ives and Alban Berg begins to lose it's hold

Recorded in Kansas City the album has that KC feel and ranges wide - from the stunning original ballad "Ancient Bell" to piano blues on the suggestive "You You You" to a horn driven piano boogie romp on "Auld Lang Syne"

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was the psychedelic era's most beloved musical ambassadors as well as it's most enduring survivors