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  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo Vol. 3 Music To Eat Pong Scum To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo Vol. 3 Music To Eat Pong Scum To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vol. 1 Music To Kill Bad People To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vol. 1 Music To Kill Bad People To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nu Sire – Human Shield
    Nu Sire – Human Shield
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    Nu Sire is Jason James, who is active between the various underground communities of noise, techno, hardcore and metal in Los Angeles. Human Shield arrives after several years of upstaging […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Matchess – Stena
    Matchess – Stena
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of pyschoacoustic voyager Matchess, crafts an encompassing work of psychoacoustic music with two separate releases. On Hav, an LP under her own name, Whitney [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • 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
  • Rog Logan – Explode The Rose
    Rog Logan – Explode The Rose
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    “Explode the Rose” is the first solo recording by Rob Logan (Desert Liminal / Midnight Minds). The album is as much self-examination as it is an exploration of composition and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Finished Basements – Varnish
    Finished Basements – Varnish
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    *ships mid Sept at latest* Finished Basements β€œVarnish” full length cassette is up now for pre-order. 50+ minutes, 22 tracks of basement electronics. Beats, kraut zones & 99 WARP RECORDS […]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
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    Less than eighteen months after the release of their debut album New Long Leg, Dry Cleaning return with their sophomore album entitled Stumpwork. With 25M+ streams behind them and over […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
    Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
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    Baphomet Sex is V. Jasper Fairbanks 4 track cassette player with looping cassette 10 channel mixer Genthalz C.U.N.T Earthquaker Organizer, Arpanoid, Astral Destiny Donner loop pedal Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
    Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
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    Leslie Keffer: vocals, radios Previously unreleased material written and recorded in 2006 Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
    Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Bassist Uli Trepte was one of the founders of the seminal space rock Krautrock group Guru Guru, and this CD, a reissue of a […]

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  • The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
    The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Pink Fairies at their absolute best. Remarkable psych freaks make loud noise.

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  • Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]

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  • King Tubby – At The Grass Roots Of Dub
    King Tubby – At The Grass Roots Of Dub
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Seminal dub album produced by Winston Edwards. Β In 1974 Edwards left Jamaica to reside in the UK and through his strong connections with such […]

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  • King Tubby – Shalom
    King Tubby – Shalom
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Originally released in 1975, King Tubby And The Aggrovators ‘Shalom Dub’ stands as one of the earliest and most cherished dub albums in [...]

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  • Bunny Lee & King Tubby Present The Aggravators – Brass Rockers
    Bunny Lee & King Tubby Present The Aggravators – Brass Rockers
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. King Tubby and producer Bunny ‘striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of dub music. After discovering a mistake that made a [...]

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  • Conduit Gold – s/t
    Conduit Gold – s/t
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    Electric guitar duo musings from Kelly MacDonald & Alex York. Released in tape edition of 30 copies & given away for free at our first gig opening for Ned Collette […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
    Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
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    Czech split cassette from Happy Families. “When I heard the Diptych / Ohnive plamene split tape I felt alive for the first time in a long while. What is going […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Factultad de Medicina – de vez en cuando
    Factultad de Medicina – de vez en cuando
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    New Argentinean tape in from Happy Families: “Originally released in 2019 by Facultad de Medicina in Buenos Aires, Argentina – Slacker core genius. Sleepy indie pop from underground [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bashi Rose – Ritual of Rebellion
    Bashi Rose – Ritual of Rebellion
    $10.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    Hank Shocklee said the most unique thing about hip hop’s genesis is that it was the first time non-musicians were responsible for making records. Before that, everybody involved knew what […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Marwa Helal – LIVE from the light unobserved
    Marwa Helal – LIVE from the light unobserved
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    Poetry is as much voice as it is writing. The writing captures the voice so that we can remember. The idea that many of our great contemporary poets remain unrecorded […]

    GENRE: Spoken Word
  • Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
    Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
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    Camille is the rawest cellist working today, straight up, no qualifiers. It’s hard to separate her from her dad and co-conspirator Don Dietrich in the same way it’s incredibly difficult […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    $10.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    When Ab from Cartas de Cartalunya (OCFC-002) sent me Christi Annu Ali Vyianna I thought it was another of his alter egos because it shared the same dreamscape Brazilian cyclical […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rolex – Promo 2022
    Rolex – Promo 2022
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    THEY’RE BACK! Rolex is back with a promo that returns with a vengeance. From an upcoming split LP with my other favorite LA band, Grimly Forming. These are four of […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Spllit – Infinite Hatch
    Spllit – Infinite Hatch
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    Cut from a magnetic, jagged edge of the Louisiana underground, Spllit open up an entirely new can of worms on ‘Infinite Hatch’. A dozen new originals, mined from the minds […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Timeout Room – Tight Ass Goku Pictures
    Timeout Room – Tight Ass Goku Pictures
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    First solo project from S.T. McCrary who longtime wrote and played for Baton Rouge punk band the Melters. A true lo-fi masterwork, Tight Ass Goku Pictures is a compilation of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spiteful Womb ? Traumacore
    Spiteful Womb ? Traumacore
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    C20, Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mot ? Remains
    Mot ? Remains
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    Recorded during the Autumn of 2023 amidst fluctuating extreme states of tension and tranquility, Canadian artist Paul van Trigt delivers 30 minutes of thoughtfully spliced cassette and reel [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Franciska – Afvikling
    Franciska – Afvikling
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    The latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alex York – Electro Paralysis
    Alex York – Electro Paralysis
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    Frequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
    Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
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    “Who is he?!” While the subgenre of gorenoise may be a hair outside of this label’s wheelhouse, Gracious Host is no less proud to present the debut of Ithaca’s STINKMEAT. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Running & Ryley Walker – s/t
    Running & Ryley Walker – s/t
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    Ryley Walker, guitar Jeffrey Tucholski, guitar Matthew Hord, bass Alejandro Morales, drums

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Erez Dessel – Non Define Roar
    Erez Dessel – Non Define Roar
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    In my never ending quest to find fearless music that hasn’t grown soft and conventional with jazz department comportment and scene assimilation I have a deep tendency to lurk deep […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dave Grundy – The Problem, The Questions, The Poem
    Dave Grundy – The Problem, The Questions, The Poem
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    The deeper goal of poetry has always been ritual. In Fred Moten’s early PennSound recordings, unbelievable, I listened in headphones for the year of 2010, the words, crawling and dripping, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cartas Da Catalunya – When Damian Meets Suitcase Bob
    Cartas Da Catalunya – When Damian Meets Suitcase Bob
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    Bruno Abdala, or Abdala, or Ab as he’s known in Brazil is an enthusiastic supporter. Unlike folks of a certain age who center themselves in every story as hero or […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Shadowklan – Einstein’s Rainbow
    Shadowklan – Einstein’s Rainbow
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    Shadow Klan is a ghost. Like Sun Ra he is utterly aware that it’s after the end of the world. And if that is the case, then he’s already gone, […]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
    The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
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    Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Sofia Carbonara – On Names
    Sofia Carbonara – On Names
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    ON β€œON NAMES:” I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
    Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
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    Ships by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
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    Ships by or around 7/21/223 β€œDo you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore
  • Limbs Bin – A Glass Of Sour Quince
    Limbs Bin – A Glass Of Sour Quince
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    18 new tracks of heartstopping blast chaotics from Western Mass noisecore legend Limbs Bin. 17 originals and a Bob Dylan cover in less than three minutes. When they said you’d […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
    The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
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    What our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
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    It should come as no surprise that β€˜deep listening,’ a practice attributed to the late Pauline Oliveros, gestated into a form of ‘music,’ often labelled ‘as ambient, ethereal, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Private Lives – S/T CS
    Private Lives – S/T CS
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    Five tracks of incredibly vital and hard hitting punk from MontrΓ©al! Private Lives morphed from the pandemic bedroom project of husband and wife Chance (guitar) and Jackie (vocals) into a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
    Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
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    Undeniably one of the most prolific punk bands of the moment, Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? are back mere weeks after their debut LP with an eleven song cassette! Just in time […]

    GENRE:
  • Gary R Amedy – The Cold Room CS
    Gary R Amedy – The Cold Room CS
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    Label Description: Gary R Amedy has also gone by the moniker Neurospora and plays bass in Sea of Bones. More akin to the former and under his given name we […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Drone – A Perfect Blind
    Drone – A Perfect Blind
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    The 2nd in our 3 drΓΈne reissues, released on cassette for the first time, in anticipation of new material from the band late ’19, early ’20 a perfect blind was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spoils – Find Later CS
    Spoils – Find Later CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Spoils are my favorite band in Ohio. Rock for life.” – Kobe “Ohio style baby you know what we mean haha” Upon first listen […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • DJ Chooch – Moongazer
    DJ Chooch – Moongazer
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    This is the debut release of Atlanta’s DJ Chooch, the moniker of Ashley Choo-Hen, active primarily as a dj the past few years and is distinguished by her energetic, non-conformist, […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Alan Harman – Human Research Program CS
    Alan Harman – Human Research Program CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Cold Minimal synth cassette! It’s good.” – Jack Label Description: Alan Harman is the solo minimal synth project of Ethan Harman from the small […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
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    In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 40 handnumbered copies. Includes one handnumbered insert. 10 audiotqps with interviews/statements, experimental and electronic music by William Burroughs, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Cunningham – Armor
    Alex Cunningham – Armor
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    Six tracks of solo acoustic violin improvisation, recorded at home in October 2020. Alex Cunningham – violin, objects, artwork

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alie – Whole
    Alie – Whole
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    𝐼𝑛 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘œπ‘’π‘›π‘‘π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘  π‘œπ‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘› π‘œπ‘“ π‘šπ‘¦ 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘šπ‘–π‘›π‘‘ 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 π‘‘π‘œπ‘€π‘› For π‘Šβ„Žπ‘œπ‘™π‘’, Berlin-based Alie illustrates a selection from the Ashtavakra Gita with a sprawling excursion of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Tarkamt – 1100dB
    Tarkamt – 1100dB
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    Tarkamt, the solo project of Egyptian artist Cherif El-Masri (The Invisible Hands), unfolds its second release 1100 dB. A deluge of mass psychotropic soundscapes, churning crude spurts of coarse [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
    pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
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    The first cassette release by pnl(a), a project conceived by Brandon Auger (Halifax, NS) in 1995 and now highly active after some torpid years. Compulsion Fabric droops sentimental tones tangled [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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    Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Marv – Basse Danse CS
    Marv – Basse Danse CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Magical little tape here, hits on all cylinders. Label hails from Boone NC, artists from Durham NC. Places both family and friends are located […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • 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 / Neofolk
  • 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
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