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Here you'll find album stories, birthdays, and anniversaries from musicians working outside the English-language mainstream, along with vinyl reissue news as it appears. This is a genre where reissue labels do much of the heavy lifting: names like Analog Africa, Strut, and Awesome Tapes From Africa built their catalogs by tracking down and repressing recordings from regional scenes that rarely had wide international distribution. The stories here follow specific musicians, labels, and recording scenes from around the world, and note why a given reissue matters to collectors looking past the more familiar corners of the record shop.

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