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  • Beat Happening – Black Candy
    Beat Happening – Black Candy
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    What our staff has to say: “Some records should never go out of print, Beat Happening’s output is a staple of indie rock. Glad these are available again, for now.” […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • SOHN – Trust
    SOHN – Trust
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    Trust marks a seismic shift in perception and direction for the solo artist, echoing SOHN’s new responsibility as the father of three children. Moving from Los Angeles to the serenity […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolutely floored by this, feels like it’s already 20 years old. Everything from the recording to the writing feels genuine for YLT and the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Freddie Gibbs – Singles
    Freddie Gibbs – Singles
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    Freddie Gibbs latest release is a special limited edition 12 inch available in 3 random covers pressed on black vinyl.

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Romanti_ne Boje – Romanti_ne Boje LP
    Romanti_ne Boje – Romanti_ne Boje LP
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    In cooperation with Doomed To Extinction Records Romanticne Boje (Romantic Colours) was the very first synth-pop band from Nis, a town in South Eastern Serbia (former Yugoslavia). They started as [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joy Division – Unreleased Pleasures
    Joy Division – Unreleased Pleasures
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    Unreleased radio sessions and demos spanning Joy Division’s career. Fan club edition.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Fall – Live At The Phoenix Festival ’95
    The Fall – Live At The Phoenix Festival ’95
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    The Fall’s performance at the annual Phoenix Festival was broadcast live on the BBC by DJ John Peel. Their blistering 1995 performance is now available here in deluxe vinyl format […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris
    Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris
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    “The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, expanding to a chamber orchestra, marks its sixth decade as a vital force on the world music stage with an ear-opening live recording on two […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents (50th Anniversary 3xLP Boxset)
    The Residents – Meet The Residents (50th Anniversary 3xLP Boxset)
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    “Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have now been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for half a century. To commemorate their 50th Anniversary, the group revisit [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cosmic Jokers / Sternenmädchen – Gilles Zeitschiff
    Cosmic Jokers / Sternenmädchen – Gilles Zeitschiff
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    Reissue of the original 1974 album by Gille Lettmann aka Sternenmädchen/Star Maiden. Live in the Quadro Studio: Gille and Klaus Schulze. Music inserts from the LPs Seven Up (Ash Ra […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • NBDY – Woods & Wires
    NBDY – Woods & Wires
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    Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Love & Rockets – Express
    Love & Rockets – Express
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    Express is a unique, mystical and transcendental travelogue of sorts. The original press release for the album said that “the balance of light and dark, positive and negative, yin and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Derek Bailey, Cyro Baptista – Cyro
    Derek Bailey, Cyro Baptista – Cyro
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    Honest Jon’s Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey and Cyro Baptista’s Cyro, originally released on Incus in 1988. When Cyro Baptista moved to New York in 1980 from his […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
    Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
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    Sons of Kemet return in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future. This release finds the UK-based quartet at their most dynamic – showcasing harmonically elegant arrangements and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McClean – A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
    Jackie McClean – A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
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    Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series Curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman; Great Reid Miles Covers (Part 3) Themed Installment Presented on 180g Vinyl LP In honor of Blue […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – The Latin Bit (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
    Grant Green – The Latin Bit (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
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    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Grant Green’s The Latin Bit Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Just Coolin’
    Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Just Coolin’
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    All-analog 180-gram LP mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio No drummer more palpably imprinted their sonic identity and aesthetic principles on the soundtrack and culture of late 20th- and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
    The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
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    What our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Frank Wright Trio – Frank Wright Trio
    Frank Wright Trio – Frank Wright Trio
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    Reissue, originally released on ESP Disk’ in 1966. Frank “The Reverend” Wright was one of the most powerful saxophonists to pick up on Albert Ayler‘s freedom and ferocious [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    Matthew J Rolin – Passing
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    What our staff has to say: “I’m a big fan of Matthew Rolin’s guitar style, and this recent record is stunning. Each track is a dense, glimmering passage of fingerstyle […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
    Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
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    Limited pressing of 300 with riso sleeve. “In the spirit of Dead Moon before them, Green/Blue have wrangled the simplicity of “Worry” and “Gimme Hell” to write some of their […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Smut – How The Light Felt (Transparent Orange Vinyl)
    Smut – How The Light Felt (Transparent Orange Vinyl)
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    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
    Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
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    A lone pair of footsteps meanders down a street in Omaha, into the neighborhood bar and then into a near-imperceptible tangle of conversations – about wars, sleepless nights –  a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tempers – New Meaning
    Tempers – New Meaning
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    The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sprung aus den Wolken – S/T
    Sprung aus den Wolken – S/T
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    The Berlin project Sprung Aus Den Wolken was part of the “Geniale Dilletanten” movement in the early 1980s, along with Einstürzende Neubauten and Mechanik Destrüktiw Komandöh. The [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • People – Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock
    People – Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock
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    Reissue, originally released in 1971. A monster on its own Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock still is one of the most enigmatic records to have come out of the early seventies Japanese […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Masonna / Prurient – Annihilationism
    Masonna / Prurient – Annihilationism
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    Includes two-sided poster and download code. Years in the making, Annihilationism is a split full-length of brand new material of “harshtronics and exclamation” from Japan’s [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
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    Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
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    It should come as no surprise that ‘deep listening,’ a practice attributed to the late Pauline Oliveros, gestated into a form of ‘music,’ often labelled ‘as ambient, ethereal, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
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    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
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    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
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    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smut – How The Light Felt
    Smut – How The Light Felt
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chronophage – S/T
    Chronophage – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Chronophage is one of those bands that I will forever be interested in their output. This most recent record feels like a small departure […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Paul Flaherty & Zach Rowden – As Far As Death
    Paul Flaherty & Zach Rowden – As Far As Death
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    As Far As Death is the cross-generational debut of fire music evangelist and saxophonist Paul Flaherty with double bassist and composer Zach Rowden. The Connecticut natives forge an album of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
    Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
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    On April 2, 1979, Japanese musicians and Fluxus practitioners Takehiosa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki recorded New Sense of Hearing at Tokyo’s Aeolian Hall. Described by Suzuki as the “culmination” of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dickie Landry – Solos
    Dickie Landry – Solos
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    On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert. This ensemble’s […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
    Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
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    Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
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    What our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Private Lives – S/T CS
    Private Lives – S/T CS
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    Five tracks of incredibly vital and hard hitting punk from Montréal! Private Lives morphed from the pandemic bedroom project of husband and wife Chance (guitar) and Jackie (vocals) into a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
    Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
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    Undeniably one of the most prolific punk bands of the moment, Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? are back mere weeks after their debut LP with an eleven song cassette! Just in time […]

    GENRE:
  • Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
    Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
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    Shake the Feeling: B-Sides & Rarities 2015–2021 surveys the sound surrounding Iceage’s last three albums, Plowing Into the Field of Love, Beyondless and Seek Shelter. A study in the powerful [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
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    Waiting and Counting : Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field Material for this release is based around a performance determined by a partial system of cues (max patch) that occur […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ryu Hankil – 3
    Ryu Hankil – 3
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    Released by Incheon Art Platform in Korea. “This is also connected with exorcism. In the ruling system of medieval religion and politics, demons, devils, etc. were treated as viruses that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Various Artists – Ny Dansk Romantik LP
    Various Artists – Ny Dansk Romantik LP
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Iindisputably, one of the most critically acclaimed compilations in 2014. Originally released on cassette by Janushoved on a much sought-after limited edition of 61 copies, now outstandingly [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
    Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
    $14.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Honestly how does a record this good get made??? Sorry Eric – The Problem with fun is the perfect driving the car record, it’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Sluggo was that band, and The Contradiction E.P. that gave me pride of being from the midwest. Amazing reissue with the first EP and […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Diamond Soul – Maya’mi
    Diamond Soul – Maya’mi
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    Maya’mi is the third release and first LP on Orange Milk from Alex Colombo’s Diamond Soul project. The album continues to experiment with hyper-abstracted electronics and collage aesthetics, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic