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  • Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Rot
    Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Rot
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    “There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler. Revolution, pop art and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Varukers ‎– Bloodsuckers
    The Varukers ‎– Bloodsuckers
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    “A true building block of UK hardcore/punk. This record is a steamroller of slightly metallic d-beat punk. As mandatory a piece of history as any Discharge record. The Varukers were […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tangerine Dream ‎– Encore 2LP
    Tangerine Dream ‎– Encore 2LP
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    “Encore — Tangerine Dream Live, 1977 is one of the better concert albums from Tangerine Dream. As with most of their live releases, this disc features all new material. Each […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Howlin Rain – The Alligator Bride [colored vinyl]
    Howlin Rain – The Alligator Bride [colored vinyl]
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    “On June 8, Oakland, California’s Howlin Rain return with The Alligator Bride, their fifth LP of swampy, ragged, unapologetic rock ’n roll. Led by Ethan Miller (co-founder of psych rockers [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cage & Lejaren Hiller / Ben Johnston – HPSCHD / String Quartet No. 2
    John Cage & Lejaren Hiller / Ben Johnston – HPSCHD / String Quartet No. 2
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    “This work comprises 20-minute solos for 1 – 7 amplified harpsichords and tapes for 1-51 monaural machines to be used in whole or in part in any combination with or […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Lightning Hopkins – Houston’s King Of The Blues (Historic Recordings 1952-1953)
    Lightning Hopkins – Houston’s King Of The Blues (Historic Recordings 1952-1953)
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    Collects some of Hopkins’ best tracks from 1952-1953 Label: Blues Classics – BC 30 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG. spine cracked open 3″ with some [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Link Wray – Missing Links Vol. 2 – Big City After Dark
    Link Wray – Missing Links Vol. 2 – Big City After Dark
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    “A mix of super-rare cuts, a couple of unissued outtakes, and live material, all from the 1960s. It’s rawer than Link Wray’s norm (which is durned raw indeed), but not […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Link Wray – Missing Links Vol.3 – Some Kinda Nut
    Link Wray – Missing Links Vol.3 – Some Kinda Nut
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    “Another great grab bag of hideously rare Link, all from the ’60s on this volume, including tracks that Wray issued under his own name, and side projects that he lent […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – 1948-1961
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – 1948-1961
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    “Original recordings from the collections of Joe Bussard, Dani Gugolz, Hans Maitner, Johnny Path and Victor Pearlin A1 to A4 recorded in Houston, Texas in 1948 A5 to A8 recorded […]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Blind Lemon Jefferson – How Long, How Long Lasting Loving
    Blind Lemon Jefferson – How Long, How Long Lasting Loving
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    Side A and “Long Lastin’ Lovin'” recorded in Chicago between February and March 1928 other songs recorded in Chicago between June and August 1928  Label: Monk – mk340 Format: [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Title TK
    Title TK
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    “Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
    Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
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    “For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
    Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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    “‘That’s brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
    Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
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    “From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
    Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
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    “Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
    Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
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    “You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody’s left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
    Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
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    “The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
    Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
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    “Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau’s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
    Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
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    “The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
    Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
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    “Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
    Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
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    “Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
    Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
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    “We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
    Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
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    “Stories about young people in the unique concentration-camp ghetto organized by the Nazis in the Czech city of Terezin are based on the author’s own childhood experiences and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
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    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)
    CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)
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    “This is more of a novelty record than a punk record per se. The song gets to the core of British life, both thematically and structurally, since it’s in the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day
    Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day
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    “I (Steve Lake) wrote ‘More Trouble…’ during the riots that were taking place in London and other English towns at the time. I nicked the title from Frank Zappa (who […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Zounds – Dancing
    Zounds – Dancing
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    “Joseph walked out of the studio half way through when Lawrence had the bright idea of recording all the drums on ‘Dancing’ one at a time. He also hated ‘True […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nikki Sudden – Back To The Start
    Nikki Sudden – Back To The Start
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    Back To The Start/Ringing On My Train from the Swell Maps founder’s solo album, Waiting On Egypt. Label: Numero Group – NUM 1229.5 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue Country: US […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
    Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
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    “Recording is the Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives is a three-LP, three-CD box set, including a download card and a shirt. Three LPs: Includes for the first-time ever on […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Z’EV / Zerfall_Gebiete – Untitled
    Z’EV / Zerfall_Gebiete – Untitled
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    “Four exclusive tracks. Released in conjunction with a live performance at the Lagerhaus Bremen on 17. April 2004. Record One features two very dynamic untitled tracks by legendary [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Don Dietrich – Chinese Root Letter / Tabulae Sex
    Don Dietrich – Chinese Root Letter / Tabulae Sex
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    Free Sax Madness from the Borbetomagus member. Label: Ecstatic Peace! – E#25 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)
    Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)
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    Includes: Towers, Rift Canyon Dreams, The Bleeder/Rift Canyon Dreams 12″, Live At The China Club 1996 and a DVD of two live sets from 1997. . Label: Southern Lord – […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.
    Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.
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    Compilation of rare Garage 45s, featuring The Vagrants & The Fantastic Dee-Jays. Label: Kramden Records – KR 101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Repress Country: US Released: 1996 VG/VG. [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)
    Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)
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    “Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Hair Police – Strict
    Hair Police – Strict
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      Label: Troubleman Unlimited – TMU 181 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released:2007 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Crass – How Does It Feel-
    Crass – How Does It Feel-
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    “George Barber wrote in the crass story, Having had a bit more time to consider their response, Crass released another single: ‘How Does It Feel To Be The Mother Of […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Trees – Trees
    Trees – Trees
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    “It’s now over fifty years since Trees’ formation, a band who helped define ‘Acid Folk’, creating a sub-category in the lexicon of record dealers and music critics alike. Earth’s new […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lee Hazlewood ‎– Forty
    Lee Hazlewood ‎– Forty
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    “Originally titled Will The Real Lee Hazlewood Please Stand Up?, Forty was a different kind of Hazlewood album, one in which Lee just focused on being a performer. In 1969 […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Hapshash And The Coloured Coat – Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids
    Hapshash And The Coloured Coat – Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids
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    “One of the most sought-after of all ’60s cult LPs, 1967’s Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids is the sort of record […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Fabulous Wailers Featuring Rockin’ Robin And Gail Harris – At The Castle
    The Fabulous Wailers Featuring Rockin’ Robin And Gail Harris – At The Castle
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    “Bobby Blue” Bland, James Brown, Freddy King: the Wailers all had that roots music imbedded in us, we played black music but white people thought it was ours. It was […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)
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    Limited edition of 300 copies encased in a chocolate and silver Solander box. Included is the signed and numbered hardback edition of the book ‘Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • The Damned – The History Of The World Part I
    The Damned – The History Of The World Part I
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    The first single from The Damned’s 1980 album, The Black Album. Label: Chiswick Records – CHIS 135 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
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    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
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    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
    Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
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    In Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
    Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
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    The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
    Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
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    In the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
    Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
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    Neon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
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    Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
    Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
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    Soma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction