Endangered Species - Various Artists

Advantages: it's music !
Disadvantages: hard to find

...this should be called: Female Of The Species - Various Female Artists. Way back in 98 when Phil Earle, head honcho of law and auder looked back at his catalog of releases he realised that none of them featured any women so he set off to put that right and hunted the rare and hard to find artists on this compilation. The result : a double cd of pure electronca made by women .encompassing an incredible scope of styles rarely found on a compilation like this. Released in 1999, this was a bit of a visionnary move by Phil Earle as since then, some of the artists featured here such as Bit Tonic, Kaffe Matthews, Laura B, and Apache 61 have stepped onto the world stage with their widly respected uncompromising and unique talent. Phil would say: remember where you heard them first !... Read review

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...I got this album because I was sick of buying singles and hunting down other tracks that I liked, and they seemed to be on different ones, which is quite peculiar for compilations records these days! It features artists such as: All Saints, N-Tyce, Lutricia McNeal, Shola Ama, Aretha Franklin, Kristine Blond, Robyn, En Vogue, Zhane, Deni Hines, Aaliyah, Erykah Badu, Tina Moore, the list just keeps on going. There aren't many not-so-good songs on this album, I think you'll find it really good and groovy! The Sisters of Swing and boys of swing records are good ones to collect, they often feature songs that aren't on the satndard compilation Cd's.... Read review

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Advantages: Strange, innovative, memorable
Disadvantages: Not good if you don't like kitsch

...Beaming down from planet KeroKero, eX-GIRL serve up another slice of occasionally very strange, occasionally very kitsch but always interesting and fun space-punk-funk-opera-metal. 'Endangered Species is certainly a leap forward from earlier releases: unlike their earlier work that tended towards the highly-variable and scattershot, the eleven songs contained here are very much a self-contained body of work and strong throughout. Starting off with the Sleater-Kinney-and-Shonen-Knife-by-Sanrio of 'E-Sa-Ya' and careering madly through the demented opera-metal of 'Hettakorii no Ottokotou' and the punk sneer of 'Pretty You Ugly', they take a brief detour through the waily electro of 'PUJEVA', the Boredoms-esque skrunk of 'New Pulse' and the 'Knife-esque 'Venus Vs. Gas Onna'. They even manage to summon up the spirit of the much-missed (well... Read review

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