May 17th Newsletter
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  • Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
    Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
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    Enhanced CD Edition remastered from the original master tapes. CD digi-sleeve mimics the vibe of the original LP and comes with a 12-page booklet that includes lyrics for an immersive […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
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    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
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    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alex York – The Tiger Is In The Library
    Alex York – The Tiger Is In The Library
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    Live set of field recordings & sampled sounds. “Recorded live December 10, 2023 In Yellow Springs Ohio At the Foundry Theatre, Antioch College At a live performance by myself & […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Discus – To Relate To
    Discus – To Relate To
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    Recorded and Mixed by Michael Macdonald at bim bom studios Mastered by Alan Douches Art & Design by Clare Byrne Rewind as you might, but your ears didn’t deceive you: […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Central Heat Exhange – Central Heat Exchange
    Central Heat Exhange – Central Heat Exchange
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    Central Heat Exchange is the sound of four co-writers and a deep list of special features (Sun June, Lala Lala, Fran, + more) scattered by distance, time, and circumstance. Their […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Elon Katz & Michael Vallera – Independence Day
    Elon Katz & Michael Vallera – Independence Day
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    Limited Edition – 125 Copies   NINA – Editorial (Staff Picks) On Nina, one of the tags used to describe Independence Day, the new collaborative release by the artists Elon […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
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    Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint. Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
    Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
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    Tracks complied from previously released cassettes released on Property Solution as “Dopamine Scythe”, “Imprudent Abjection”, “Pure Slaughter Value” and “Sabotage Momentum” All sounds and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
    Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
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    Amplexus is a raw unforgiving barrage of harsh noise as one might expect from two well-known figures in the noise world. There is definitely some shared territory with the newer […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • K9 Hemorrhoids ‎– Garfield Is Dead
    K9 Hemorrhoids ‎– Garfield Is Dead
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    Michigan-based noisecore. Feel the burn.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
    Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
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    Reissue of cassette on Bizarre Audio Arts from 2018

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Agniratha – To Fell A God
    Agniratha – To Fell A God
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    Mysterious, dungeon-synth tinged black metal from the person behind Vanen

    GENRE: Metal
  • Frailord / Ambrogio – Those Who Enter The Land Of Phantoms Are Forever Lost
    Frailord / Ambrogio – Those Who Enter The Land Of Phantoms Are Forever Lost
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    Vampryic split of dungeon synth and black metal.

    GENRE: Metal, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Systematic Elimination / Death Cult Ritual – Anti Cult Assassins
    Systematic Elimination / Death Cult Ritual – Anti Cult Assassins
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    Split 7″ from two Midwest noise heavies.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Support Unit – A New World In Our Hearts
    Support Unit – A New World In Our Hearts
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    Harsh Noise Wall from the anarchist project out of Pittsburgh.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Rita ‎– Sharks And The Female Form
    The Rita ‎– Sharks And The Female Form
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    The aesthetics and patterns of a woman’s physical form violently and tragically manipulated in the arts. A revisit of classic sharks/women fetish themes and crackling walls synonymous with THE [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dahulagiri ‎– Spectral Pilgrimage
    Dahulagiri ‎– Spectral Pilgrimage
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    Haunted and decayed dungeon synth from Indonesia

    GENRE: Metal, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Ghost Gardener ‎– Chaos Natura
    The Ghost Gardener ‎– Chaos Natura
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    Deeply atmospheric black metal from Turin, Italy.

    GENRE: Metal
  • Upir, Forbidden Tomb – Upir​/​Forbidden Tomb
    Upir, Forbidden Tomb – Upir​/​Forbidden Tomb
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    Pulverizing Indonesian black metal.

    GENRE: Metal
  • Castlerock – Honmaru
    Castlerock – Honmaru
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    inspired by the castles still standing in japan today. all music written and performed by P.T.S. in the winter of mmxx the first entry in the Kuruwa trilogy

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Katabasilisk / Kneipegeist – What Flowers Bloom In Velvet Night
    Katabasilisk / Kneipegeist – What Flowers Bloom In Velvet Night
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    Dark ambient/black metal split. Absolutely crushing.

    GENRE: Metal, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • People Skills – Subalternity Interlude
    People Skills – Subalternity Interlude
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    Avant-folk electronics and surrealistic sound construction from Philadelphia.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Creode – Zep Tepi
    Creode – Zep Tepi
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    The duo of Samantha Flowers and Tyler Hicks have been perfecting their dulcet tones for over ten years now. Combining, as if in a cauldron, blender, or analogous mixing device […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark Anderson & Anthony Guerra ‎– River Transcription
    Mark Anderson & Anthony Guerra ‎– River Transcription
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    Gently lay your palm on the warmed belly of a flat stone, and skim your humming thoughts across the murmuring divide. The opposite shore is a shadowed encampment of slowly […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Russell Walker – Back To The Womb
    Russell Walker – Back To The Womb
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    “Stockport’s Regional Bears unleashes their label MVP Russell Walker for what seems to be their debut solo album proper on ‘Back To The Womb’ – a rambling masterclass of British […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hugo Randulv – Drunkna I Ljus
    Hugo Randulv – Drunkna I Ljus
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    The much anticipated sophomore solo album from Hugo Randulv (Enhet För Fri Musik, Amateur Hour, Makthaverskan etc). Drunkna I Ljus was composed and recorded mainly during 2024 and consists of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Five Years Of Failure
    V/A – Five Years Of Failure
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    Five year anniversary compilation from Discreet Music featuring new or unreleased music from Facit, Eftergift, Demeters Döttrar, Sewer Election, Juho Toivonen, Leda, Shadow Pattern, Livskraft, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Parasite Nurse  – Lack
    Parasite Nurse – Lack
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    Parasite Nurse’s follow up to 2023’s “Life Is Beautiful” with “Lack” which as far as I’m concerned, it might be necessary to listen to as a whole, all [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
    Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
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    A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker. Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lovely Midget – Lovely Midget
    Lovely Midget – Lovely Midget
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    A long time in the works vinyl edition of one of our favorite New Zealand albums. Rachel Shearers astonishing debut as Lovely Midget was originally released as a CD on […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Blod – Helvetet Pa Jorden Skona Ingen Fast…..
    Blod – Helvetet Pa Jorden Skona Ingen Fast…..
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    With the intention of doing a proper and full out choir record, Helvetet På Jorden was initiated by Blod two years ago. While the finished album became something slightly different, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Franciska Og Emilie – Franciska Og Emilie
    Franciska Og Emilie – Franciska Og Emilie
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    Jonas Torstensen returns to Discreet Music with the second Franciska album, following up the much praised Tryghed (Discreet Music 12) that was released in early 2023. Since Tryghed came out, […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Arv & Miljo – Arv & Miljo
    Arv & Miljo – Arv & Miljo
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    The final album from Arv & Miljö consists of two sidelong pieces based almost entirely on field recordings. The recordings roughly span from 2014 to 2024 and were primarily recorded […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
    Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
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    What our staff has to say: “Neutral live tape – now reissued on wax via Happiest Place. Disturbing “true industrial” sound. No flexing – akin to throbbing gristle or buried […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Ekin Fil – Sleepwalkers
    Ekin Fil – Sleepwalkers
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    the drone-pop consternations of ekin fil emerge through vaporous tone and forlorn, distant song, as if plucked from a dream. these exist on their own accord, moving with their own […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ekin Fil – Maps
    Ekin Fil – Maps
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    ekin fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on maps. for many years now, this istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ekin Fil – Dora Agora
    Ekin Fil – Dora Agora
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    ekin fil returns to the guitar on dora agora. her earliest recordings, notably her debut on root strata, prominently featured guitar in this urgent expressions of a dreamy dreariness that […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jim Haynes – Inauspicious
    Jim Haynes – Inauspicious
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    in a recent interview, the california artist jim haynes was asked to name his top five noise albums. in quick fashion, he listed off kill the king, send, desnos, persona, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Gemini
    The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Gemini
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    In Latin, the word Gemini denotes “two together” or “twins”. In astrological terms, Geminis are noted for, amongst other things, being curious and versatile. For San Diego’s 9-piece (mostly) [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • William Hooker Reality Trio – A Time Within: Live At The New York Jazz Museum 1977
    William Hooker Reality Trio – A Time Within: Live At The New York Jazz Museum 1977
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    Featuring William Hooker (drums), David S. Ware (tenor saxophone), and Alan Braufman (alto saxophone), this recording captures a rare and electrifying moment in time. Recorded live at the New [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Frollen Music Library – 001-015
    Frollen Music Library – 001-015
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “Do you need samples?” We all ask ourselves this from time to time, and thankfully, Frollen Music Library (FML) has you covered. ‘001-015’ is a “best of” compilation celebrating the […]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
    James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
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    “In 2023 James Elkington released Me Neither, a double album of solo guitar improvisations and experiments. He ended up thinking of it as a wordless collection of library music. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Shop Tote
    Shop Tote
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    Premium  Canvass Tote with 4″ Gussets. Can Hold up to 35 LP. Shop Logo designed by Robert Beatty

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  • The French Connection – French Ye Ye Garage Pop & Psych Mixtape – Radio Topo #20
    The French Connection – French Ye Ye Garage Pop & Psych Mixtape – Radio Topo #20
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    “There is no such thing as intellectual property.” Jean-Luc Godard Take a ride on the back of DJ WW4’s vespa and hold on tight…  

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Don’t Talk To Me About New York – Radio Topo #18
    Don’t Talk To Me About New York – Radio Topo #18
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    Justin Wiese, our film guru, is here to lay knowledge on the under appreciated jams of our lord, Lou Reed. Mistrial haters – fuck off!!   C60

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Secrets From The Castle Keep: Kate Bush Mega Mix – Radio Topo #14
    Secrets From The Castle Keep: Kate Bush Mega Mix – Radio Topo #14
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    What our staff has to say: “This is my Mix, so of course i recommend it. 60 min of my fav KB tracks. Some extended cuts, instrumentals, and screwed up […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Willis – Midnight Mirage –  Radio Topo #8
    Willis – Midnight Mirage – Radio Topo #8
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    Nasty edit of fusion/prog/beats from a midwestern best kept secret: Willis.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
    Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
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    Sullen folk / psych-folk mixtape from many years back by John Rich & Alex. Mostly all bleak tracks.   C60

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • And I’ll Never Do It Again – Songs Of Cheating And Killing From A Womans Point Of View –  Radio Topo #6
    And I’ll Never Do It Again – Songs Of Cheating And Killing From A Womans Point Of View – Radio Topo #6
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    Very excited this is finally back in stock. Cleo’s mixtape of the vengeance of a woman. Recordings from 1930s-present. Jazz, country, post punk… it’s all here. C60ish – [...]

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