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  • Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
    Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
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    “A question popular among followers of Thrash Metal is undeniably this, “Which is considered the fastest Thrash Metal album of all time?”. There would be a high percentage of answers […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Romain De Ferron – Notre Dame Des Neiges
    Romain De Ferron – Notre Dame Des Neiges
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    “In 2014 I was at a show in Lyon, France. I had my mind blown apart that day by FRANCE (the band), Junko, and Romain de Ferron. Apparently, I slipped […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Cal And The Calories – Greatest Assssssssssssssssssssssssss
    Cal And The Calories – Greatest Assssssssssssssssssssssssss
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    All releases from 2013 – 2015 plus extras. Label: Lumpy Records – 43.5 Format: Cassette, Compilation Country: US Released: 2015 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ela Stiles & Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scalpel
    Ela Stiles & Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scalpel
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    “Ela Stiles (Bushwalking / Solo) & Jensen Tjhung (Deaf Wish/ Lower Plenty) bring you ‘Golden Scalpel’ – two blissful yet world weary sides of transportive, mostly [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Max Nordile – Go To Sleep, Fool!
    Max Nordile – Go To Sleep, Fool!
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    “We are happy to present our friend Max Nordile’s (Preening, Nothing Band, Uzi Rash) third solo release: Go To Sleep, Fool! Pulses (squirms?) like some kind of primitive organism, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Liz Durette – Six Improvisations
    Liz Durette – Six Improvisations
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    “Ehse is proud to announce the arrival of ‘Six Improvisations’, the debut tape by Baltimore-based keyboardist and composer Liz Durette. 2013 began a series of electrifying performances, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sanford Clark – They Call Me Country
    Sanford Clark – They Call Me Country
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    “Propelled by his 1956 Lee Hazlewood-produced hit “The Fool,” Sanford Clark was already a rockabilly legend in his own right by the time he swapped his hair gel and switchblade […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jacob Wick / claire rousay – I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
    Jacob Wick / claire rousay – I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
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    “A Jack Spicer quote – “Get those words out of your mouth and into your heart” – may be useful when consuming this provocatively bare duo performance, which compels the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ryan Garbes – Tabbed View
    Ryan Garbes – Tabbed View
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    “Ryan Garbes is an experimental musician currently rooted in Minneapolis. He’s been shaping and influencing the sound of the weirdo Midwest experimental scene since the mid-00s with his [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Untitled Tape – Untitled Work – Untitled Tape / Untitled Work #1
    Untitled Tape – Untitled Work – Untitled Tape / Untitled Work #1
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    Blown out New-Age/Ambient sounds Label: no label – no cat number Format: Cassette, Album, Repress Country: UK Released:2021 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pengo – Bubbles In A Bomb Shelter
    Pengo – Bubbles In A Bomb Shelter
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    “Heavy duty psychedelic music. Released in celebration of their TripMetalFest appearance.” Label: Carbon Records – CR232 Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 2016 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Program 2: Electric Musings from the Hoosier Flatlands & Other Distant Zones
    Program 2: Electric Musings from the Hoosier Flatlands & Other Distant Zones
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    “Bright spots in contemporary underground experimental, electronic and free music happening in Indiana, often stretching out in to other parts of the country and world.” Label: Medium [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Müriscia Divinorum / Pablo Picco / Aphra Cadabra – Electronic Neorruralism Music In Viarava & Charava
    Müriscia Divinorum / Pablo Picco / Aphra Cadabra – Electronic Neorruralism Music In Viarava & Charava
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    “Psychedelic and experimental free improv collaboration project by Müriscia and Aphra from Vlubä + Pablo Picco aka Bardo Todol (also known from Ø+yn). Lots of sounds, acoustic and electric, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Patrick Shiroishi – Resting In The Heart Of Green Shade
    Patrick Shiroishi – Resting In The Heart Of Green Shade
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    “Patrick Shiroishi is a prolific voice in the burgeoning world where experimental music and jazz playfully overlap. He is constantly collaborating with groups, including his own collective, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mark Tester – Super Hiss
    Mark Tester – Super Hiss
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    “A psychedelic tapestry of vignettes and loose, homespun pop-adjacent songs, “Super Hiss” finds Indianapolis musician Mark Tester at his stream-of-conscious best. Tester plays in Crazy [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Beyt Al Tapes – Une Rose
    Beyt Al Tapes – Une Rose
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    “Ikuisuus presents Une Rose by Beyt Al Tapes. Layers of dark lightness. Airy sounds combined with a de-constructed organic weaving. A vanishing point in constant extension.” Label: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hum Of The Druid – Down-Home Paganism
    Hum Of The Druid – Down-Home Paganism
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    “Recorded to analog 4-track 10/21 – 10/23 at 1907 12th Ave SW using metals, guitar, bass, feedback, vocals, other acoustic materials, and simple electronics/processing. All sound and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hum Of The Druid  – A Strange Export
    Hum Of The Druid – A Strange Export
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    “The first new recordings released since “Predatory Outlook,” marking the 15th anniversary of the project, this has glimpses of similarly chilling melodic ambient music but runs [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Shoeb Ahmad – Breather Loops
    Shoeb Ahmad – Breather Loops
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    “Shoeb Ahmad conceived of the Breather project during peak lockdown on the Australian continent. Ruminating on a dry season marred by devastating bushfires led Ahmad to start writing the A [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Juho Toivonen – Suurpää
    Juho Toivonen – Suurpää
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    “Juho Toivonen is a 24-year old musician from Pori, Finland who is just beginning to flourish as an artist. In 2021 his debut solo tape arrived via Finland’s Ikuisuus label […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Grady Runyan – Solar Guitar
    Grady Runyan – Solar Guitar
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    Recorded live at The Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, 12/27/02. Solo electric guitar. Label: The Loki Label – LOKI-017 Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 2016 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kösmonaut – Songs For Healing
    Kösmonaut – Songs For Healing
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    “The massive engines are tuned on for this ground vibrating drone burner by Kösmonaut. Processional percussion amid a fanfare of horns. The towering wall of noise pushing all sounds to […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Vädersolsgruppen – Vädersolsgruppen
    Vädersolsgruppen – Vädersolsgruppen
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    Dark and heavy psych-rock from the ever-potent Swedish underground Label: Early Music – EM14 Format: Cassette Country: Sweden Released: 2020 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Drone Accelerator – The Drone Accelerator
    The Drone Accelerator – The Drone Accelerator
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    Free-Jazz tinged psych rock brain melter. Label: Sky Lantern Records – SLR107 Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 2014 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Didaktische Einheit – Dosis 6
    Didaktische Einheit – Dosis 6
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    “This mercurial Neue Deutche Welle “didactical unit” discharge thrillingly scabrous and prickly no-waveish sturm und drang, their great lungfuls of malcontent disgorged in a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Possessed – Victims Of Death
    Possessed – Victims Of Death
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    Compiles key tracks from the first two albums and the Eyes of Horror EP Label: Relativity – 88561-1121-4 Format: Cassette, Compilation Country: US Released: 1992 VG+/VG+ with some jcard wear.

    GENRE: Metal
  • Lumerians – The Weaning And The Dreaming
    Lumerians – The Weaning And The Dreaming
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    “Lumerians most experimental release. The Weaning and the Dreaming was recorded on a 4 track tape recorded in the lobby of a sensory deprivation tank facility in Oakland. The rhythm […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Chuck Johnson – CJ-1
    Chuck Johnson – CJ-1
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    “Second in Drawing Room’s cassette series, CJ-1 is a departure for those primarily familiar with Chuck Johnson’s intricate guitar workings. With its hypnotic intensity, the cassette [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fraufraulein – Solum
    Fraufraulein – Solum
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    “On their first release since 2017, the duo of Andy Guthrie and Billy Gomberg craft a world inhabited by both the familiar and foreign. Guthrie’s intimate vocals float like smoke […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
    Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
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    ““Malleus Maleficarum” is the debut album of PESTILENCE; a band’s whose input – that stretches across nearly 40 years – blazed the trail for generations of progressive death metal artists. [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh ‎– The Complete Atlantic Recordings Of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh
    Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh ‎– The Complete Atlantic Recordings Of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh
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    Cool jazz giants boxset. Very ill – 6CDs. Label: Mosaic Records (2) – MD6-174 Format: 6 x CD, Compilation Box Set, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: US Released: 1997 VG+/VG+ Virtually [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Soul Side ‎– Less Deep Inside Keeps
    Soul Side ‎– Less Deep Inside Keeps
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    “From the ashes of LUNCHMEAT, this band kicks out a strong melodic hardcore sound much like that of early SCREAM. Catchy riffs, clear vocals, pounding bass and personally political lyrics [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Jerry’s Kids ‎– Kill Kill Kill
    Jerry’s Kids ‎– Kill Kill Kill
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    “The new Kids harness some of the original blurring speed on solid crunchers like “Fire,” “Bad Trip” and “Back Off,” but there’s a weightier demi-metal bottom to most of Kill […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Government Issue ‎– Crash
    Government Issue ‎– Crash
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    “The apex of GI’s studio career, Crash is something of a musical summary of the band’s eight-year history. Each track sounds as if it had been assembled on a loom, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Rodney On The ROQ Vol. III
    V/A – Rodney On The ROQ Vol. III
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    “1982 Posh Boy comp featuring The Vandals, Ill Repute, The Bangles & more” Label: Posh Boy – PBS 140 Series: Rodney On The ROQ – Vol. III Format:  Vinyl, LP, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • English Dogs ‎– Metalmorphosis
    English Dogs ‎– Metalmorphosis
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    “Adie’s vox have a character that brings the great speedcore compositions of the ENGLISH DOGS to a thundering proportion, raw, uncompromising, and shouting. They blurt well with this crazed [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Psycho ‎– Hosebags From Hell
    Psycho ‎– Hosebags From Hell
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    “PSYCHO has released a full album’s worth of blazing thrash which is undeniably powerful, but some tempo variations would have helped. Lyrics cover conformity, society, Ed Gein, and more. A [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sons Of Ishmael ‎– Pariah Martyr Demands A Sacrifice
    Sons Of Ishmael ‎– Pariah Martyr Demands A Sacrifice
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    “Two years after the Hayseed Hardcore EP and some lineup changes, the Canadian SONS return. This is a great album of sociopolitical thrash and the lyrics are right on target. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Broken Bones ‎– Bonecrusher
    Broken Bones ‎– Bonecrusher
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    “Side one is the better recorded of the sides, with a mighty driving bass clearing all obstacles, leading the way for non-stop metalish thrash. Lyrics remain in the doom-and-gloom mold, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Detox ‎– Detox
    Detox ‎– Detox
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    “Sounds like a less thrashy and slightly more serious VANDALS. There’s lots of catchy punk songs with lots of humor or satire, plenty of melody, tight playing, and even tinges […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cabaret Voltaire – The Original Sound Of Sheffield ’78 / ’82. Best Of;
    Cabaret Voltaire – The Original Sound Of Sheffield ’78 / ’82. Best Of;
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    “Electronic music has come a long way since Cabaret Voltaire began mixing it up with machines in order to evade boredom. As primitive as Watson, Kirk, and Mallinder’s early material [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3
    William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3
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    LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier’s universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demdike Stare ‎– Wonderland
    Demdike Stare ‎– Wonderland
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    “Following Demdike Stare’s ambitious 2012 double CD, Elemental, which compiled four EPs along with bonus material, the British experimental electronic duo (consisting of Sean Canty [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
    Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
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    Noisy and experimental, Britain’s Swell Maps experienced little commercial success during the course of their chaotic career, but in hindsight they stand as one of the pivotal acts of the […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
    Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
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    “The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with Imikuzushi, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of last year’s highly praised In a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Betty Davis ‎– Nasty Gal
    Betty Davis ‎– Nasty Gal
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    “In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre–punk, funk–blues fusion that had yet […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Shaggs – “Shaggs’ Own Thing”
    The Shaggs – “Shaggs’ Own Thing”
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    “When The Shaggs’ Philosophy Of The World came out in 1969, some people couldn’t or wouldn’t understand it. But many musicians, including Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain, cited the Shaggs […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • 2814 – Lost Fragments
    2814 – Lost Fragments
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    “One of the defining electronic music acts of the 2010s, HKE and Telepath cap off their collaborative work as 2814 in this decade with a 10-track release of rare and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Patrick Shiroishi – I Shouldn’t Have To Worry When My Parents Go Outside
    Patrick Shiroishi – I Shouldn’t Have To Worry When My Parents Go Outside
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    “Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles. Patrick has been involved in a bewildering array of musical projects in the last decade, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Perfect Angels – Exit from the Ultra-World
    Perfect Angels – Exit from the Ultra-World
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    “For those a bit more familiar with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zach Phillips, you’re sure to know that he belongs in that exciting and always refreshing field you can loosely call [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative