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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
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    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
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    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
  • 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
  • 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 – 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
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    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
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    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
  • Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
    Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
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    The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – Parachute
    Pretty Things – Parachute
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    “The Pretty Things always made ‘The Stones’ look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance” David Gilmour, Pink Floyd The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
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    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
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    The Prisoners, contemporaries of Billy Childish, epitomize the garage punk sound of the Medway Delta. This reissue of their 1982 debut album is re-mastered from the original tapes & is […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – Leaving Meaning
    Swans – Leaving Meaning
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    leaving meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Can – Live in Brighton 1975
    Can – Live in Brighton 1975
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    Can Live Series Vol II.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Joni Île – Semaphore CS
    Joni Île – Semaphore CS
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    In the age of boredom-less nights I sometimes yearn for times I sat on my bedroom floor listening to the same albums over and over. The first time I heard […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kazumoto Endo – Brick And Mortar
    Kazumoto Endo – Brick And Mortar
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    Skeleton Dust is honored to reissue Kazumoto Endo’s “Brick And Mortar”, originally released on Rhystop in 2003. Despite being produced in an ample edition of 500 copies, Brick And Mortar […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
    Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
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    “Mercer County is in central New Jersey, main city is Trenton (they make pork roll) but the more known town is Princeton (they have the college where Einstein spent time […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
    Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
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    The collection of music you’re about to squeeze through your temporal lobe is not comprised of your standard 4/4 dance remixes. Unlike traditional remix records, these thirteen pieces are [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
    Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
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    Using an idiosyncratic compass and thinly disguised as Broken Telepathy, the Bronx-based duo of Kaori Nakamura (Soft Gang) and Darin Mickey (Dichroics/Soft Gang) navigate a range of emotional [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
    Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
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    Co-Released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records. The NZ-American *Bilders* brings *Matt Swanson (Lambchop,* *My Dad Is Dead*) and *Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop)* into the fold, all [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative