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  • Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
    Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
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    A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. “Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion
    The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion
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    The landmark study of world myth and culture Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos of ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. The third edition of this monumental […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
    The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
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    New studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees’ David Costa. Dunedin’s finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol 2 – 4LP
    Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol 2 – 4LP
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    Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) releases on Oct 4, 2024, celebrating the original album’s 30th anniversary. Written when Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) was in his early 20s, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
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    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
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    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
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      Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
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    Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. It’s [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
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    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
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    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
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    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    $38.00 | Add to cart

    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nu Sire – Human Shield
    Nu Sire – Human Shield
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    Nu Sire is Jason James, who is active between the various underground communities of noise, techno, hardcore and metal in Los Angeles. Human Shield arrives after several years of upstaging […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
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    Seeing the world through a Pratt’s eyes is a surpassingly beautiful thing. But subtly, oh so subtly, and with such sweet flakes of humor falling. Tunes and vibe to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
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    M as in mysterious. A group of sounds recorded in Louisville KY. Smooth blue instrumental guitar music. In the musical alphabet, what comes after rock?

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Matchess – Stena
    Matchess – Stena
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of pyschoacoustic voyager Matchess, crafts an encompassing work of psychoacoustic music with two separate releases. On Hav, an LP under her own name, Whitney [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Whitney Johnson – Hav
    Whitney Johnson – Hav
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of psychoacoustic voyager Matchess, debuts with a new composition that meditates on the duality of the human body. An instrument that collates awesome sensory [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
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    Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
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    It’s 2012 — do you know where your government is tonight? Occupy yourselves — and let’s get busy with the music in our minds.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
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    6OOA’s 2020 opus is reunmanaged by sound composer Twig Harper, whose REMIX goes places no other remix record could dare under his unlimited brief. In the process, it affords the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
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    The Earth, the sky and the earth again — plus another trip through “La Soci é t é du Spectacle.” Something between a riveting caress and an invigorating shake. Elevated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
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    Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. This assembly of previously [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Sings Greatest Palace Music
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Sings Greatest Palace Music
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    The master Bonnie comes to terms with his past and takes it to Nashville for some serious revamping. The greatest release from the greatest Prince in the greatest Palace- historically […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
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    An excursion in electronic sound instrumentally unpacking Dean Spunt’s fascination with language – in this instance, the syntax of the systems and processes of various 64-voice E-mu modules [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Y_@_G@ – Green Village EP CDr
    Y_@_G@ – Green Village EP CDr
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    Suriname/Chicago-based deconstructionist duo Y@G@ team up 20 years too late. “Green Village” pairs rolling production and songcraft from Andrew Apollos with granular defragmentation [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rhybadi – Twine EP CDr
    Rhybadi – Twine EP CDr
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    Rhybadi’s “Twine” unravels across four disparate tracks. The original, a hazy reflection on childhood, kinship, and distrust, plays out like a perpetually developing photograph. [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Michael Bingaman – Thought Reducer CDr
    Michael Bingaman – Thought Reducer CDr
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    Michael Bingaman melts hardware into soft serve piercing ubiquity with exploratory wayfinding and a reverence for groove. This collection of tracks was selected for maximum viscosity. They keep [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
    Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
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    “Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933–1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in art education [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Neil Quigley –  Stretchings 1 CDr
    Neil Quigley – Stretchings 1 CDr
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    A stately blend of timecode and incoherence. Neil Quigley ages gracefully in the wheelhouse, but it’s rolling directly at you. Supple and anxious maneuvers.

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Jackie Mclean – Let Freedom Ring LP Tone Poets Series
    Jackie Mclean – Let Freedom Ring LP Tone Poets Series
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Jackie McLean’s Let Freedom Ring: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI Jackie McLean’s 1962 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of The Modest Jazz Trio’s Good Friday Blues: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI. Featuring Jim [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Contemporary Records Series 180g Vinyl LP Reissue of Prince Lasha Quintet’s The Cry!. All-Analog Mastered from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman and Pressed at QRP. Released in 1963 on [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Max Richter – In A Landscape 2LP
    Max Richter – In A Landscape 2LP
    $40.00 | Add to cart

    Max Richter’s ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new studio in rural Oxfordshire – is a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in […]

    GENRE: Classical
  • Stan Getz – Sweet Rain LP
    Stan Getz – Sweet Rain LP
    $39.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    Stan Getz Sweet Rain on 180g LP. Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP and Packaged in a Stoughton Printing Gatefold Old-Style Tip-On Jacket. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Reissue of Patrice Rushen’s 1974 Debut Album Prelusion on 180g LP. Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Its Original Release 50 Years Ago. Mastered [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
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    Miles Davis Quintet – The New Miles Davis Quintet LP
    Miles Davis Quintet – The New Miles Davis Quintet LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    Original Jazz Classic Series Reissue of The Miles Davis Quintet’s 1956 Album Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet on 180g Vinyl LP. Cut from the Original Master Tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray at [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
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    Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, July 6th 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, broadcast on WBGO-FM

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    George Russell – Four Classic Albums
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    AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from George Russell, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details ‘Jazz In The [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
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    Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
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    SLICK! – Live at Oil Can Harry’s is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar great Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at a popular club in Vancouver, BC […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
    Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
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    Digitally remastered edition. This was made by a fine small Jazz group operating in the early ’60s, co-led by saxophonist Harold Land and vibes player Bobby Hutcherson. They released [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers – The Quest
    Sam Rivers – The Quest
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    «Improvising is sort of a real democracy kind of situation where everyone is performing in their own particular style or idiom of performing», stated Sam Rivers in December 1997 during […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
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    Contains Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead & The World Of Cecil Taylor

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
    Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
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    ICONIC MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST MAKES A TYPICALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING STATEMENT ON HISTORIC 1969 RECORDING Of all the African-American jazz musicians who arrived in Paris at the end of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
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    HISTORIC 1969 PARIS SESSION BY THE AMERICAN SAXOPHONIST-VOCALIST-INTELLECTUAL WHO CONVEYS HIS DEEP ANGUISH AT THE LOSS OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
    Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
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    Livin’ In Elizabethan Times is a 2017 mini-album by Alien Stadium – a collaboration between Steve Mason and Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Second Sun – El?ndes El?nde
    Second Sun – El?ndes El?nde
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    ‘Eländes Elände’ is the second album from Second Sun. The Swedish band fronted by Jakob Ljungberg (ex Tribulation) combines influences of space rock, progressive rock and hard rock [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Live 74
    Hawkwind – Live 74
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    Stellar live show from the seminal space-rock band.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Broadcasts 1968-1980
    Captain Beefheart – Broadcasts 1968-1980
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    When Captain Beefheart filtered the blues through his own avant-garde vision, he not only discovered a new language for music-making, but he also created a singular body of work that […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kevin Ayers – Kevin Ayers
    Kevin Ayers – Kevin Ayers
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    2014 Original Albums Series release. Includes the albums: Joy of a Toy, Shooting at the Moon, Whatevershebringswesing, Bananamour & the Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories. Warner.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Syd Barrett – Barrett
    Syd Barrett – Barrett
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    Second and final studio album of new material released by former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett. The album was produced by Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
    Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
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    Beefheart’s second album, and an interesting precursor to his fried out 70’s work.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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    “The band’s best studio album, coming off of the success of Space Ritual. The group’s rock roots are juxtaposed effectively with the swelling synthesizer flourishes and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
    Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
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    “Doremi may not be Hawkwind’s most renowned album, but it carries the same type of prog rock spaciness as their first two releases. Even though the keyboard playing is trimmed […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
    The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
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    Five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the Psychedelic rockers all housed in mini LP sleeves and packaged in a slipcase. Includes the albums I Had Too […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fraternity – Livestock
    Fraternity – Livestock
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    CD reissue of ultra-rare Australian prog/psych album featuring contributions from Bon Scott, pre-AC/DC.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Early & rare psych gem.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
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    2023 collection from the psych rock icons. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24-bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
    Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
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    “Having left Pink Floyd in 1968 after a daily LSD habit had taken its toll, Syd Barrett’s first solo album finally appeared two years later with ex-Floyd sidekicks David Gilmour […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych