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  • V/A – Best Of Chi-Sound Records 1976-1983 (RSD)
    V/A – Best Of Chi-Sound Records 1976-1983 (RSD)
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    180g Translucent Blue Vinyl – first time on vinyl. Chi-Sound Records was launched in 1976, by US music industry executive and soul producer Carl Davis. However, it was one of […]

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  • David Bowie – Brilliant Adventure E.P. (RSD)
    David Bowie – Brilliant Adventure E.P. (RSD)
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    1LP 12″ EP Single (black). Includes 75 sticker. Additional info strictly confidential until announcecd via Bowie.

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  • David Bowie – Toy E.P. (‘You’ve Got It Made With All The Toys’) (RSD)
    David Bowie – Toy E.P. (‘You’ve Got It Made With All The Toys’) (RSD)
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    1LP 10″ Single (black). Includes 75 sticker. Additional info strictly confidential until announcecd via Bowie.

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  • V/A – Salutations
    V/A – Salutations
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    An inaugural compilation of new music from RVNG Intl., Salutations observes and elevates the nature of meetings, greetings, group assemblies and exercises along the invisible plane created [...]

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  • Marv – Marv
    Marv – Marv
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    Marv is a keyboard duo based in Carrboro, NC. This effort is their debut, self-titled, LP, recorded in February and July 2019 in Campobello, SC and Carrboro respectively. Each track […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • S. Carey – Break Me Open
    S. Carey – Break Me Open
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    S. Carey is the moniker of Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Sean Carey, commonly recognized as the drummer, backing vocalist, and second-longest serving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fourth Wife – Head Fell Between Two Horses CS
    Fourth Wife – Head Fell Between Two Horses CS
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    Fourth Wife is the long-running project of Cincinnati’s Michael Latella. His latest full-length is Head Fell Between Two Horses, and as in his previous work, Latella stretches, splits, and [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Orquere – Foundations
    Orquere – Foundations
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    With an explorative approach Orquere organizes concrete sounds into experimental structures of cold and dry sonic landscapes where sounds appear as objects. Stripped down to their bare essence. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Riley – Drowned
    Riley – Drowned
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    “Drowned” is a collection of spectral, downtempo jungle reverberations from NYC-based artist Riley, who East Coast underground types may also know from the intense tape-machine and [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • M Ross Perkins – E Pluribus M Ross
    M Ross Perkins – E Pluribus M Ross
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    Like some kind of time-hopping wizard with preternatural melodic sensibilities, M Ross Perkins is back with his sophomore full-length, E Pluribus M Ross. The album, his first for Colemine/Karma [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin On
    Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin On
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • BUÑUEL – Killers Like Us
    BUÑUEL – Killers Like Us
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    Bunuel is the sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice. If slotting it in a genre makes it easier for one […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
    Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
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    2017 release on BLUESANCT, “Phantoms Of Place” is a psyche-pastoral hymnal which seems to be as informed by noise shows in West Coast Basements as it is by the Blue […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
    Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
    Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
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    «One can be a discontent – that is, an insurgent or a revolutionary – but there is also that more literal, personal meaning of the word which may be in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
    Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
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    “Beings of ImberIndus” was commissioned as a hexaphonic sound installation to accompany the “Beings of ImberIndus” solo soft sculpture show by Carrie Weaver; presented at [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
    Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
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    “There is no silence left” is a collection of remixes and reworkings by Mkl Anderson of Drekka, released under various monikers between 1996 and 2012. Contains 13 previously [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Examinations: 2016 -2018
    Drekka – Examinations: 2016 -2018
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spike In Vain – Death Drives A Cadillac
    Spike In Vain – Death Drives A Cadillac
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    What our staff has to say: “Spike In Vain, my fav Ohio band. The almost forgotten weirdos of midwest US HC in the 80’s, This being their 2nd full length […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Fall – Slates
    The Fall – Slates
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    If The Fall truly is a cult band, then Slates both benefits from and reinforces such shrouded obsessions. In presenting these six particular songs as a 10-inch EP, the inherent […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Francesco Messina – Reflex
    Francesco Messina – Reflex
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    Francesco Messina is perhaps best known for his collaboration with fellow composer Raul Lovisoni on the album Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, originally released on seminal Italian label Cramps [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Gentle Leader XIV ? Channels
    Gentle Leader XIV ? Channels
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    Gentle Leader XIV conjures the unholy ghost of modern life while warming around the fire of a domesticated mythology. A friend long gone, a beloved object stolen, a bird on […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Indiegubben – Morka Moln
    Indiegubben – Morka Moln
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    He doesn’t tell me too much about how he makes the music, it just happens. Wise decision making from a seasoned listener and (only recent) sound creator. Magnus Jensen is […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Halalchemists – Total Nihilistic Butchery
    Halalchemists – Total Nihilistic Butchery
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    Halalchemists Total Nihilistic Butchery Implements : A1 Total Nothing Blank Iii A2 Cry Me A River [Tnb-Halalchemy Live Newcastle 1983-2006] B1 Untitled [Total Nothing Blank Ii] B2 Senzuri Nothing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Flower Travellin’ Band – Anywhere (Picture Disc)
    Flower Travellin’ Band – Anywhere (Picture Disc)
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    A picture disc reissue of the first album from the legendary Japanese rockers, Flower Travellin’ Band, fronted by Yuya Uchida. Although an album consisting mainly of cover versions, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fangoria Vol 2 #14 (January 2022)
    Fangoria Vol 2 #14 (January 2022)
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    2022 is upon us! FANGORIA #14 rings in the new year with the one you’ve been waiting for… and one you’ll have to wait a little longer for. Here’s what […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Horror Fiction
  • Tyvek – Live At Third Man
    Tyvek – Live At Third Man
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    Tyvek ‘Live at Third Man’ recorded straight to tape on 09/27/2010.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (Olive Green Vinyl)
    Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (Olive Green Vinyl)
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    Over eighteen boundless albums as experimental as they are pop, Deerhoof has continuously quested for radical sounds and daring storytelling. 2020’s Future Teenage Cave Artists explored fairytale [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
    K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Cold, surgical harsh noise achieving militant purity through unorthodox means. Minimalistic brain drilling, carving, and rolling textures. Latent tones that attack the body’s nodes and trigger [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Testicle Hazard – Fifty-Sixty
    Testicle Hazard – Fifty-Sixty
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    The long-lost psychedelic album from the Incapacitants of the North! On Friday the 13th, 2009, Lasse Marhaug and Tommi Keränen had an extremely productive day at a real-deal high-end studio […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lacerations
    Lacerations
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    Six international artists showcased across two compact discs of shredding sound, clattering depths, power electronics violence, and deafening discordance. Though a diverse compilation, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lonnie Holley – National Freedom
    Lonnie Holley – National Freedom
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    This 5-song collaboration between artist Lonnie Holley and the late visionary producer Richard Swift is a tribute to urgent, raw, American art — from Howlin’ Wolf to Captain Beefheart, from [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Lonnie Holley – MITH
    Lonnie Holley – MITH
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    The expansive American experience Lonnie Holley quilts together across his astounding new album, MITH, is both multitudinous and finely detailed. Holley’s self-taught piano improvisations [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Alex Cameron – Oxy Music
    Alex Cameron – Oxy Music
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    Alex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into the depths of the places where not many others are looking, and Oxy Music continues on that trajectory. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Vasculae – Broken Lust
    Vasculae – Broken Lust
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    The distant clang and scrape of metals, slow burning atmospherics, and subdued electronics both tonal and textured; less blast and more resignation this time around. Mostly recorded and composed [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
    Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
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    mt114cs released July 31, 2017 2016-2017 Linden St., Brooklyn NY

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    Snail Mail – Valentine CD
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    Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – S/T CD
    Caroline – S/T CD
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    UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – S/T
    Caroline – S/T
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    UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
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    Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval releases her new album Classic Objects. Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ethan P. Flynn – Universal Deluge
    Ethan P. Flynn – Universal Deluge
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    On his forthcoming EP ‘Universal Deluge’, Ethan P. Flynn plunges into the darker side of experimental pop, combining electronics with stripped-back acoustics, underpinned by his well-recognised [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stare Tasmy – Kryzys Czytelnictwa
    Stare Tasmy – Kryzys Czytelnictwa
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    Debut from this Polish group, whose name means Old Tapes and whose members have an impressive background in punk, improv, experimental and even classical music. They have come together here […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
    Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
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    DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL’S NINTH STUDIO ALBUM, ALL THE TRUTH THAT I CAN TELL, IS BOTH A REMARKABLE RENEWAL AND FORTUNATE STEP FORWARD FOR THE BAND’S SONGWRITER, FRONT MAN, AND FOUNDER, CHRIS […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Gene Vincent – Gene Vincent And The Bluecaps
    Gene Vincent – Gene Vincent And The Bluecaps
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    Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps is an album by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. It was originally released in 1957, four months after its predecessor, Bluejean Bop. It […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Clarence Reid – On The Job
    Clarence Reid – On The Job
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    Clarence Henry Reid is also known by the stage name and alternate persona Blowfly Reid wrote and produced for artists including Betty Wright Sam & Dave, Gwen McCrae, Jimmy “Bo” [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Blues Magoos – Psychedelic Lollipop
    Blues Magoos – Psychedelic Lollipop
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    Psychedelic Lollipop is the debut album by the American rock band the Blues Magoos, and is one of the first records to have the word “psychedelic” on the sleeve. Their […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
    Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
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    What our staff has to say: “When it comes to people who I think have some of the most interesting voices in rock, Wanda Jackson is on that list. The […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Tangerine Zoo – Outside Looking In
    Tangerine Zoo – Outside Looking In
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    Excellent sophomore album by this fuzz drenched, organ driven psych band from Rhode Island, originally released by Mainstream Records in 1968. Both albums by Tangerine Zoo (this one and the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Forest Kelley – Silt CS
    Forest Kelley – Silt CS
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    3/29/22 street date. ships week prior. Forest Kelley’s debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal [...]

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  • Forest Kelley – Silt CS
    Forest Kelley – Silt CS
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    3/29/22 street date. ships week prior. Forest Kelley’s debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal [...]

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  • Forest Kelley – Silt CS
    Forest Kelley – Silt CS
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    3/29/22 street date. ships week prior. Forest Kelley’s debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal [...]

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  • Sean McCann – Puck
    Sean McCann – Puck
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    Puck is here. Music for Public Ensemble, my previous album, was released three years ago. And three years before that was Private Ensemble. Puck is both public and private in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
    Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
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    What does it mean to pray? To address someone, to plead for something, to welcome humiliation and failure: Please, let me forget about the China Chalet parties, please let there […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Molly McCann – Das Jahr
    Molly McCann – Das Jahr
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    The first published recordings of Molly McCann, my older sister, playing Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841); a groundbreaking cycle of 12 thematically interlocked character [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Charlie Morrow – Chanter
    Charlie Morrow – Chanter
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    To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. Curated by Sean McCann, this collection spans over 60+ years [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Dead Goldfish Ensemble – Fishy Tails
    Dead Goldfish Ensemble – Fishy Tails
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    conatala presents “Fishy Tales” – the first ever vinyl release of the works of The Dead Goldfish Ensemble, the recording name of UK musician Steve Hartwell. Hartwell began [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982
    Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982
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    Punk and industrial culture in late ’70s and early ’80s San Francisco Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
    On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
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    Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constance DeJong – Modern Love
    Constance DeJong – Modern Love
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    What our staff has to say: “An essential reissue of this autofiction classic.” – Cleo “People used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you’ll make a name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive