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  • Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
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    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
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    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • High Rise ? Speed Free Sonic
    High Rise ? Speed Free Sonic
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    High flying and hard hitting noisy psych rock from Japan. Blue Cheer x100. Label: Paratactile – PLE 1104-2 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1999 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Y_@_G@ – Green Village EP CDr
    Y_@_G@ – Green Village EP CDr
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    Suriname/Chicago-based deconstructionist duo Y@G@ team up 20 years too late. “Green Village” pairs rolling production and songcraft from Andrew Apollos with granular defragmentation [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rhybadi – Twine EP CDr
    Rhybadi – Twine EP CDr
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    Rhybadi’s “Twine” unravels across four disparate tracks. The original, a hazy reflection on childhood, kinship, and distrust, plays out like a perpetually developing photograph. [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Michael Bingaman – Thought Reducer CDr
    Michael Bingaman – Thought Reducer CDr
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    Michael Bingaman melts hardware into soft serve piercing ubiquity with exploratory wayfinding and a reverence for groove. This collection of tracks was selected for maximum viscosity. They keep [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Neil Quigley –  Stretchings 1 CDr
    Neil Quigley – Stretchings 1 CDr
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    A stately blend of timecode and incoherence. Neil Quigley ages gracefully in the wheelhouse, but it’s rolling directly at you. Supple and anxious maneuvers.

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
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    Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, July 6th 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, broadcast on WBGO-FM

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    George Russell – Four Classic Albums
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    AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from George Russell, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details ‘Jazz In The [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
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    Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
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    SLICK! – Live at Oil Can Harry’s is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar great Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at a popular club in Vancouver, BC […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
    Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
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    Digitally remastered edition. This was made by a fine small Jazz group operating in the early ’60s, co-led by saxophonist Harold Land and vibes player Bobby Hutcherson. They released [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers – The Quest
    Sam Rivers – The Quest
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    «Improvising is sort of a real democracy kind of situation where everyone is performing in their own particular style or idiom of performing», stated Sam Rivers in December 1997 during […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
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    Contains Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead & The World Of Cecil Taylor

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
    Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
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    ICONIC MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST MAKES A TYPICALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING STATEMENT ON HISTORIC 1969 RECORDING Of all the African-American jazz musicians who arrived in Paris at the end of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
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    HISTORIC 1969 PARIS SESSION BY THE AMERICAN SAXOPHONIST-VOCALIST-INTELLECTUAL WHO CONVEYS HIS DEEP ANGUISH AT THE LOSS OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
    Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
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    Livin’ In Elizabethan Times is a 2017 mini-album by Alien Stadium – a collaboration between Steve Mason and Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Second Sun – El?ndes El?nde
    Second Sun – El?ndes El?nde
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    ‘Eländes Elände’ is the second album from Second Sun. The Swedish band fronted by Jakob Ljungberg (ex Tribulation) combines influences of space rock, progressive rock and hard rock [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Live 74
    Hawkwind – Live 74
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    Stellar live show from the seminal space-rock band.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Broadcasts 1968-1980
    Captain Beefheart – Broadcasts 1968-1980
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    When Captain Beefheart filtered the blues through his own avant-garde vision, he not only discovered a new language for music-making, but he also created a singular body of work that […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
    Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
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    Beefheart’s second album, and an interesting precursor to his fried out 70’s work.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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    “The band’s best studio album, coming off of the success of Space Ritual. The group’s rock roots are juxtaposed effectively with the swelling synthesizer flourishes and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
    Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
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    “Doremi may not be Hawkwind’s most renowned album, but it carries the same type of prog rock spaciness as their first two releases. Even though the keyboard playing is trimmed […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
    The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
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    Five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the Psychedelic rockers all housed in mini LP sleeves and packaged in a slipcase. Includes the albums I Had Too […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fraternity – Livestock
    Fraternity – Livestock
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    CD reissue of ultra-rare Australian prog/psych album featuring contributions from Bon Scott, pre-AC/DC.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
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    Early & rare psych gem.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
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    2023 collection from the psych rock icons. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24-bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
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    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
    Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
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    The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – Parachute
    Pretty Things – Parachute
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    “The Pretty Things always made ‘The Stones’ look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance” David Gilmour, Pink Floyd The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
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    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
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    The Prisoners, contemporaries of Billy Childish, epitomize the garage punk sound of the Medway Delta. This reissue of their 1982 debut album is re-mastered from the original tapes & is […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – The Stooges
    The Stooges – The Stooges
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    “Everything the peace and love vibe of the ’60s wasn’t the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop’s monotone [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – Leaving Meaning
    Swans – Leaving Meaning
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    leaving meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Can – Soundtracks
    Can – Soundtracks
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    First released in 1970, Soundtracks consists of songs written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band’s original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
    Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
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    After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Can – Live in Brighton 1975
    Can – Live in Brighton 1975
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    Can Live Series Vol II.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
    Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
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    Vulnicura Strings is the acoustic version of Björk’s Vulnicura, featuring strings, voice and viola organista only – out on CD and vinyl. The original version of Vulnicura layered the boom […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
    Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
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    ‘Endlessness’ is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    DJ Speedsick / Giugno
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    Released on CDr from endogenesis – housed in a manilla envelope. labeled CDr.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Apryl Fool ? The Apryl Fool
    Apryl Fool ? The Apryl Fool
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    Pre-Happy End Psych-rock from Hosono and company. Label: Columbia – COCA-12154 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Repress Country: Japan Released: VG+/VG+. No obi. Image may not be of actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sixties Japanese Garage/Psych Rarities
    Sixties Japanese Garage/Psych Rarities
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    Solid compilation of some early Japanese Psych/Group Sounds tracks Label: Victor – VICL-23047 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1992 NM/NM, sealed. Image may not be of actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Guru Guru ? UFO
    Guru Guru ? UFO
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    The Krautrock pioneers first album. Label: Ohr – CD 556005-2 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Germany Released: 1993 VG+/VG+ with some light marks/wear Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
    Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
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    Underrated album by UK Amon Duul affiliates. Label: Abstract Sounds – ABT049CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Robert Wyatt – Shleep
    Robert Wyatt – Shleep
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    “Robert Wyatt continues to follow his singular musical path with the lovely Shleep, delivering another album of considerable quirky charm and understated beauty; a less melancholy affair [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Coltrane* ? “Live” At The Village Vanguard 11-01-1961
    Coltrane* ? “Live” At The Village Vanguard 11-01-1961
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    Recorded at “Village Vanguard” NYC, November 1, 1961. Label: Impulse! – MVCI-23001 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1991 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jacks ? Vacant World
    Jacks ? Vacant World
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    “The Jacks may have been short lived but their recordings carry reverberations into modern times. Feels like the Japanese contemporary to VU, the newer route in psych paved by the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Archie Shepp ? Attica Blues
    Archie Shepp ? Attica Blues
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    “Attica Blues is one of Shepp’s most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
    Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
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    Turning his attention to dance for his latest album, Fearless Movement out this May on Young, Kamasi Washington resumes his ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
    Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
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    Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album the self-released Divide And Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
    Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
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    There are bands that come and go, and then there are those that carve their own unique path, leaving an indelible mark on the heart of listeners. Future Islands are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
    Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
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    Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like its predecessor, 1993’s Four Calendar Café, it’s yet to be formally […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, ‘The Twits’, on November 3, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
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    New sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise