veneration for the sacred action is the first compilation release by london-based independent record label life is beautiful records.
…The London collective — part label, part event series, part multidisciplinary arts project — has operated for the last three years as a porous, community-led platform where music collides with poetry, live performance and visual art. Favouring physical presence over perpetual online visibility, the seven-strong group has fostered exactly the kind of scene from which new musical languages tend to emerge.
“I think the sheer volume of shows, recordings and releases we’ve put on over the last three years — and even before that — has really helped shape the artistic relationships that have…
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Three hours of music about water is an audacious proposition. But not, perhaps, for Slovak label Mappa, which for the past decade has made a habit of asking listeners to slow down and pay attention, releasing records that move between field recording, electronics, and idiosyncratic folk. 
Despite the widespread popularity of reggae music in the UK, following its explosion onto the international music scene in the late 1960s, many of those in charge of Britain’s mainstream media were reluctant to give the exciting new sound coverage, whether in print or over the airways.
As a club DJ, radio broadcaster, podcaster, and label founder, Jamz Supernova has become one of the U.K.’s foremost tastemakers, exposing audiences to music from around the world, particularly from regional dance music scenes. Her first official release is 
Released as an exclusive covermount CD with the November 2026 issue of MOJO magazine, 
The mid-20th century was a period of dramatic social upheaval across the Caribbean, especially for the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. Claimed by the Dutch in colonial times, this area became a hub for the slave trade, and following abolition it gradually receded into a sleepy cultural backwater. But an influx of outsiders—first oil companies, then later waves of tourists and migrants—opened the area to the outside world, sparking cultural mixing and a new spirit of political self-determination that led to events like the 1969 Curaçao uprising.
Strut presents 
01. Joy Division – Transmission (Live The Factory Manchester 13th July 1979)
This is raw, unfiltered ceremonial gong ensemble music recorded on location by Laurent Jeanneau in Ratanakiri, Cambodia’s northeastern province, bordering Laos and Vietnam. Along with Mondolkiri to the south, it was once home to many of the country’s ethnic minority communities. During the colonial period, the French failed to establish full control over the region. After independence, the Khmer state also struggled to govern it, while Khmer Rouge rebels hid in its forests in the 1960s amid the wider conflict between communist Vietnam and the United States. The Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975 and the subsequent Vietnamese occupation, which lasted until 1991, could have devastated the traditions of northeastern Cambodia’s ethnic minorities.
Pop historian 
Filmmaker, author, musician and Indian classical music industry academic Robert Millis presents a sequel to his 2018 book/2CD compilation Indian Talking Machine with this incredible double LP haul of instrumental Hindustani, Carnatic and folk 78rpm records from the subcontinent featuring over 25 artists recorded between 1904 and 1959 playing a panoply of instruments: jalatarang, dilruba, sarod, clarionet, pakhawaj, violin, been, kazoo, shehnai, tabla, sarangi, vina and more. 
The 1970s was a truly glorious decade of reggae. While the likes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear and Culture powerfully highlighted political and social inequalities, and the message of Rasta, other artists, both in Jamaica and the UK, drew inspiration from the joys and pains of romantic love. The widespread popularity of love-themed reggae during this golden period is highlighted on this essential 2CD collection which brings together 46 of the most popular romantic reggae recordings ever to have seen issue.
…Across western Algeria, the gasba, a reed flute central to Bedouin folk traditions and ceremonial music, continues to appear in new forms. Once associated primarily with saint festivals and trance rituals, its distinctive hypnotic sound now sits alongside the drum machines, synths and electronic textures of contemporary raï.
Since Chapter Music’s inauspicious start as the musical spinoff of a Syd Barrett fanzine, the Australian label has had a knack for curating quirky, eclectic compilations. Their 
The dawn of the British folk revival broke in 1965 when Bert Jansch’s “folk-baroque” finger style revolutionised tradition, providing the early morning light for a burgeoning psychedelic scene which, by 1972 had traveled from folk clubs to the high-concept landscapes of progressive rock, exemplified by the Eastern-tinged sitar-guitar on Yes’s ‘Siberian Khatru’.