Various Artists - Gilles Peterson Presents International Anthem (RSD 2025)

Various Artists - Gilles Peterson Presents International Anthem (RSD 2025)2LP Frozen Lake Michigan Vinyl Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago born record label International Anthem. The tracks on this compilation were chosen by Peterson via an extensive review of track lists from his broadcasts on BBC

it’s a proper step up

‘The Hotel Sessions’ is filled with insider secrets

As he tells it

Two of the earliest Big Dada signees in the late-90s—Juice Aleem and Mike Ladd—close the album as two contemporaries who paved the way for much of the forward-thinking

he manifested that vision in Cologne

self-penned songs in 1993 ahead of him signing with American Records and his releases with Rick Rubin that re-established himself as one of world’s best songwriters to a new generation of fans

before switching to jazz in college

The New York Times called Source “a sweeping set of jazz with Afro-Caribbean inuences that funnels a life’s worth of experiences into an hourlong listen

I was living on my own for the first time

The Ghent-based duo

something that has helped him make sense of how he acted and felt at certain times in the past

It’s an expansive record laced with heady krautrock