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  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • V/A – Rock Rendez Vous: M​ú​sica Moderna Portuguesa 1985​-​1986
    V/A – Rock Rendez Vous: M​ú​sica Moderna Portuguesa 1985​-​1986
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    The seductive sounds of Portugal swing to Dark Entries on Rock Rendez Vous: Música Moderna Portuguesa 1985-1986, a compilation of vintage Iberian synth, wave, and postpunk gems. The legendary [...]

    GENRE: International, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Techno / House / Electronic
  • V/A – Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980​-​1989
    V/A – Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980​-​1989
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    Dark Entries returns to Mexico with Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop 1982-1989. Following 2021’s Back Up compilation, Back Up Dos delivers 10 more tracks of synth-pop and New Beat, […]

    GENRE: International, Techno / House / Electronic
  • V/A – Backup Expediente Tecno Pop
    V/A – Backup Expediente Tecno Pop
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    On Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop, Dark Entries brings us 10 divergent tracks of Mexican electronics from 1980-1989, full of skittering analog drum boxes and saucy synthesizer hooks. 8 of […]

    GENRE: International, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
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    In 1968, while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt, The Cairo Jazz Band. Some […]

    GENRE: International, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Japan: New Psychedelic Underground
    Japan: New Psychedelic Underground
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    Recorded live at Seikazoku, Nagoya on July 20-21, 1996. Label: Manifatture Criminali – bob 107/indigo 4157-2 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Germany Released: VG+/VG+ with small crack in case [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
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    City Pop 12″ with some solid melodies and grooves Label: Niagara Records – 15AH 1515 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Mini-Album Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Akiko Yano – Nagatsuki Kannazuki
    Akiko Yano – Nagatsuki Kannazuki
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    Akiko Yano’s follow-up to Japanese Girl Label: Phillips – S-7001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1976 VG/VG+ with some noticeable light marks. Includes liner  

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Fantastic Tchico* ? Mon Enfant
    Fantastic Tchico* ? Mon Enfant
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    Folk/pop from the Republic Of Congo Label: Pili-Pili – AC-10012 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1984 VG+/VG+ with some wear to sleeve. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: International
  • Nyboma* Et L’Orchestre Les Kamal? Dynamiques Du Za?re* ? Doubl? Doubl?
    Nyboma* Et L’Orchestre Les Kamal? Dynamiques Du Za?re* ? Doubl? Doubl?
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    Stellar Soukous music from Zaire Label: Pili-Pili – AC10006 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1984 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International
  • The Denis-Roosevelt Expedition* ? Primitive Music Of Africa
    The Denis-Roosevelt Expedition* ? Primitive Music Of Africa
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    Reissue of an early international field recording record documenting rituals and traditional dance songs Label: Mainstream Records – XM-20-MSD Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Morio Agata ? Zipangu Boy
    Morio Agata ? Zipangu Boy
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    Hosono produced experimental, psychedelic pop album. Label: Phillips – FW-8001~2 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1976 VG+/VG with a seam split. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Haruomi Hosono – Cochin Moon
    Haruomi Hosono – Cochin Moon
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    “Hosono’s fifth solo album. Initially intended as a collaboration with illustrator Tadanori Yokoo, who traveled to India alongside Hosono (as part of a group) for inspiration; Yokoo [...]

    GENRE: International, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
    Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
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    The songs on ‘Funeral For Justice’ speak unflinchingly to the plight of Niger and of the Tuareg people. “This album is really different for me,” explains Moctar, the band’s singer, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 2
    Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 2
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    On August 26, 1971, the Fania All Stars electrified the Cheetah Club stage in New York, causing a salsa-induced delirium that not only defined their career, but the salsa genre. […]

    GENRE: International
  • Willie Colon – The Hustler
    Willie Colon – The Hustler
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    In 1964, a young musician from the Dominican Republic by the name of Johnny Pacheco teamed up with ambitious Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci for the creation of a record label […]

    GENRE: International
  • Ralfi Pagan – With Love
    Ralfi Pagan – With Love
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    Craft Recordings present a remastered vinyl reissue of With Love, one of the most transcendental Latin Soul LPs in the history of the genre. Released in 1971, just as Latin […]

    GENRE: International
  • Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 1 (Colored Vinyl)
    Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 1 (Colored Vinyl)
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    On August 26, 1971, the Fania All Stars electrified the Cheetah Club stage in New York, causing a salsa-induced delirium that not only defined their career, but also the salsa […]

    GENRE: International
  • Tito Puente – Para Los Rumberos
    Tito Puente – Para Los Rumberos
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    By virtue of his warm, flamboyant stage manner, longevity, constant touring, and appearances in the mass media, Tito Puente is probably the most beloved symbol of Latin jazz. But more […]

    GENRE: International
  • Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe – Crime Pays
    Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe – Crime Pays
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    Eight years after its creation, Fania Records had accumulated such a sizable catalog of artists that it began to issue compilations from its roster of hit-making stars such as Willie […]

    GENRE: International
  • Ray Barretto – Que Viva La Musica
    Ray Barretto – Que Viva La Musica
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    Que Viva La Música just turned 50 and features Ray Barretto at his peak of the “Hard Salsa” era. The album contains the track “Cocinando” from the famed documentary Our [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
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    Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Lumumba – Lumumba
    Lumumba – Lumumba
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    Heavy & underrated afrobeat dancefloor jammer. Label: A & M Records – SP-3610 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1974 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International
  • Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93
    Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    Soundway presents a collection of 18 Burger Highlife, Electronic Afrobeat and Reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie & House (1982​-​1992)
    Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie & House (1982​-​1992)
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    The 21 track selection curated by Trujillo, a Venezuelan producer, DJ and record collector based in Berlin, explores the forgotten corners of the 1980s and early 90s Spanish music scene. […]

    GENRE: International
  • Arundhati Bhaumik, Hemant Kumar ? Devotion and Love
    Arundhati Bhaumik, Hemant Kumar ? Devotion and Love
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    Stellar and obscure Indian classical album. Label: Oriental Records – BGRP 1047 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG+, sleeve still in shrink with light marks & wear

    GENRE: International
  • Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    2023 repress. Originally released in 1970 this was the third album from Os Mutantes, the geniuses of wacked out Brazilian psychedelic rock. They may have been trying to pay homage […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen
    Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen
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    A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on […]

    GENRE: International
  • V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
    V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Four essential cuts from Ghana & Cape Verde, compiled by Arp Frique… Music is a great connector, bringing people together in many ways. On his journey in music so far, […]

    GENRE: International
  • V/A – Afro Exotique 2: Further Adventures In The Leftfield Africa 1975-87
    V/A – Afro Exotique 2: Further Adventures In The Leftfield Africa 1975-87
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    After “Afro Exotique – Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1972-88” was enthusiastically embraced by heads, collectors and core Africa Seven enthusiasts alike, we dived back [...]

    GENRE: International
  • V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
    V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records latest album Yoruba! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria is newly recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. The album is co-produced by Soul Jazz Records label […]

    GENRE: International
  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
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    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
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    Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara. This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that […]

    GENRE: International
  • Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
    Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
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    Baad John Cross’s New Revolution is a Afro-electro-funk-boogie-disco banger that could only come from 1980s Nigeria. Bright, optimistic, with an unrelenting eye on the dance floor, it is regarded [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Black Children Sledge Funk Group – Love Is Fair (RSD Italy)
    Black Children Sledge Funk Group – Love Is Fair (RSD Italy)
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    INDIE EXCLUSIVE, RSD ITALY APRIL RELEASE. Nigerian classic, Black Children Sledge Funk Group’s 1976 debut album is full of positive vibrations and feel-good grooves. A sunny blend of Reggae [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
    The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Anadolu Psych tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to a sudden end by a repressive right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered […]

    GENRE: International
  • Mutantes – Ao Vivo
    Mutantes – Ao Vivo
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    Vinilisssimo present a reissue of Mutantes’ Ao Vivo, originally released in 1976. Those who fell in love with Os Mutantes after listening to their Tropicália work in the late ’60s, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • João De Bruçó, R.H. Jackson – Caracol
    João De Bruçó, R.H. Jackson – Caracol
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    First time reissue of Caracol. Brazilian underground music in the 1980s produced fascinating and mysterious records, where organic and regional percussion finally gained electronic and synthetic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, International
  • Cinema – S/T
    Cinema – S/T
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    First time vinyl reissue. 1985 was one of the most important years in Brazil’s recent history, when the country was freed from more than 20 years of military dictatorship. The […]

    GENRE: International
  • Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
    Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
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    Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Luka Productions – Falaw
    Luka Productions – Falaw
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    Luka Productions presents Falaw, an innovative take on West African Hip Hop and sample-based folktronica. A follow up from the acclaimed Malian “new age” inspired Fasokan (2017), Luka [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Troupe Ecole Tudu – Oyiwane
    Troupe Ecole Tudu – Oyiwane
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    Sweet and sublime school recordings from elementary school group in Northern Niger from the 1980s. All-girl group accompanied by their instructor on the guitar, recalling Guinean folk and early [...]

    GENRE: International