March 8th Newsletter
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  • M.B. – Plays The Clockwork Orange
    M.B. – Plays The Clockwork Orange
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    “Reissue of a February 1980 decomposition (M.B. skippin’ up the film’s original soundtrack) from the Italian industrial forereunner. Halting tape cut-ups of the classical score [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Ramirez & MSBR – Negative / Offensive
    Richard Ramirez & MSBR – Negative / Offensive
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    (A tribute to The New Blockaders (A celebration of the influential) Anti) artists Richard & P.D. Rupenus, TNB. Dedicated to the memory of Koji Tano. Collaboration release. Each artist [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Colin Potter – A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation
    Colin Potter – A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation
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    Compiled from his early ICR releases and compilation tracks all recorded/released from the years of 1978-1983. Label: Vinyl-On-Demand – VOD 35 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Germany [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The New Blockaders – First Live Performance
    The New Blockaders – First Live Performance
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    Recorded live at Morden Tower, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 8th. June, 1983. Originally released together with Changez Les Blockeurs as part of a 2LP box set, has since been released as a single […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Boyd Rice – S/T
    Boyd Rice – S/T
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    An early entirely sample-based work that approaches Warp Records territory in certain sections. Label: Mute – STUMM 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: UK Released: 1981 VG+/VG. Some creasing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • COUM Transmissions – Sugarmorphoses
    COUM Transmissions – Sugarmorphoses
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    “Sugarmorphoses was recorded in 1974 solely by Genesis P-Orridge within the COUM Transmissions headquarters, joyfully known as the Ho Ho Funhouse, and are some of the most compelling [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Asmus Tietchens – Teils Teils
    Asmus Tietchens – Teils Teils
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    “The first track of this is the side-long “Teilmenge 20,” which begins as a set of indecipherable static electricity clicks that are quite warm and engaging, which quickly [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
    Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
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    “Miscellany Deluxe was originally released as a 13 CDR box set in 2003. Eleven of the albums included in the box were later made available as individual downloads in 2011. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Malcolm Neon – 1980 – 1985
    Malcolm Neon – 1980 – 1985
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    “Nowadays a member of Datblygu, who are still active and apparently played ATP Prestatyn in 2016, Malcolm’s early work fizzes with a raw outsider quality that’s hard to ignore, and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Nocturnal Emissions – Imaginary Time
    Nocturnal Emissions – Imaginary Time
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    Warped text-to-speech recordings and other traces of early electronica abound from the ever shifting Nigel Ayers. Label: Soleilmoon Recordings – SOLV 002 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Galen Herod – Word & Musics
    Galen Herod – Word & Musics
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    “Galen Herod has always considered himself a “recording artist”. Not in the traditional sense, as in, “recording artist Frank Sinatra!” But as an actual description of what he does. [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Aaron Dilloway / Carlos Giffoni – Live At The No Fun Fest 2007
    Aaron Dilloway / Carlos Giffoni – Live At The No Fun Fest 2007
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    “Full no fun 2007 live sets, from Giffoni and Dilloway recorded to the best possible quality.Total tape mangling, and Analog Synth destruction.” – No Fun. Label: No Fun [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Astro / Hiroshi Hasegawa – Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple
    Astro / Hiroshi Hasegawa – Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple
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    “This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At the Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. Astro, of course, is the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Willem Breuker Kollektief – S/T
    Willem Breuker Kollektief – S/T
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    Recorded at Right Track, New York City Oct. 31, 1983 Label: About Time Records – AT-1006 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress Country: US Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Band Of Holy Joy – (More) Favourite Fairytales For Juvenile Delinquents
    Band Of Holy Joy – (More) Favourite Fairytales For Juvenile Delinquents
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    “Band Of Holy Joy were formed in the summer of 1983 when Johny and Max found a synthesiser in the cellar of the squatted house in New Cross Gate they […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Eugene Chadbourne / John Zorn – School
    Eugene Chadbourne / John Zorn – School
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    “School is a double album released on Eugene Chadbourne’s Parachute Records label in 1978. Each of the two LPs was organized by Chadbourne and reedist John Zorn, respectively. This [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Anthony Braxton – Five Pieces 1975
    Anthony Braxton – Five Pieces 1975
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    “The tightness of his very alert and versatile group and the strength of the compositions make this one of Anthony Braxton’s most rewarding records of the mid-1970’s.” [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Current 93 Dreamt By Andrew Liles – Like Swallowing Eclipses
    Current 93 Dreamt By Andrew Liles – Like Swallowing Eclipses
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    “The Material on these albums, that has now been dreamt by Andrew Liles, was originally performed and released by Current 93 on the following albums Nature Unveiled, Dogs Blood Rising, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Viva Negativa! – A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume I
    V/A – Viva Negativa! – A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume I
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    “Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders including. collaborations with/reworkings by 75 avant garde/industrial/noise artists. 2 volumes, 4LPs each. Typically insane presentation [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • V/A – Wahrnehmungen 1980/1981 (Early P16.D4 and related groups, comes with 7″)
    V/A – Wahrnehmungen 1980/1981 (Early P16.D4 and related groups, comes with 7″)
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    “Members of the group p.d. (later renamed p16.d4) founded the label selektion in 1980. Using the name Wahrnehmungen the label released 19 cassettes in 1980/1981. The tapes mostly presented [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Robert Rich – Premonitions 1980-1985
    Robert Rich – Premonitions 1980-1985
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    “Undoubtedly, Rich’s imprimatur was hallmarked early on, his feel for what constituted moods both light and dark colored in from the outset. His facility with manipulating sound borders on [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • V/A – The Lung Function Years – Solo & Side-Projects To Click Click
    V/A – The Lung Function Years – Solo & Side-Projects To Click Click
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    “The Lung Function Years gives an insight into Adrian and Derek Smith‘s musical legacy from 1982 to 1986 focusing on their Lung Function label, solo work and side projects Half […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sleep Chamber – Sonorous Invokations Ov Brian Jones
    Sleep Chamber – Sonorous Invokations Ov Brian Jones
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    Hallucinogenic sounds Label: Manhood Records – RRR-SC Format: Vinyl, 10″ Country: Italy Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Muhal Richard Abrams – Spiral: Live At Montreux 1978
    Muhal Richard Abrams – Spiral: Live At Montreux 1978
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    “Muhal Richard Abrams performs unaccompanied throughout this concert appearance from the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival. The relatively brief “String Song” features some odd sound [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
    Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
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    Hanuman Books, 10.5 x 7 cm.Softcover. 1988 edition. Light discoloration & foxing to both dustjacket and edges of pages. Noticeable corner crease/warp along upper right corner of front wrap. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
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    Grove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Staining to & writing on both front and back wraps.Some general wear & discoloration to edges of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
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    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
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    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
    James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
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    “Written by Merton’s friend Jim Forest and drawing heavily upon their extensive correspondence, this booklet explores Merton’s beliefs about Christians and war, his life as a monk and his [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
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    “A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
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    Transcript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
    Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
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    In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alfred Jarry – The Supermale
    Alfred Jarry – The Supermale
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    Jarry’s legendary novel is a comical celebration of erotic prowess in the machine age. With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi―”Shite!”―Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
    Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
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    On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – The Winners
    Julio Cortazar – The Winners
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    A widely assorted group of people win as a lottery prize a cruise—destination unknown. Their journey reads like—and is—a superb story of suspense that ranges from the most unconventional of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
    Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
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    ”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
    Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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    Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
    Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
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    Victimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
    Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
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    The literary and cinematic legend gives his no-holds-barred account of a dangerous addiction In this classic study Cocteau vividly describes his extraordinary experiences while taking opium, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
    Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
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    Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor.  He […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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    Neither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
    Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
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    It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
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    Alberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
    Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
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    Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Hawkes – Travesty
    John Hawkes – Travesty
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    Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
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    There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladimir Paral – Catapult
    Vladimir Paral – Catapult
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    This twist on the Don Juan story looks at the attractions and difficulties of freedom. In the course of his commute, Jacek Jost is suddenly catapulted out of his daily […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Fable For Another Time
    Celine – Fable For Another Time
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    Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Walser – Selected stories
    Robert Walser – Selected stories
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    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive