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  • Rosali – Chokeweed
    Rosali – Chokeweed
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    “Fresh off of her masterful third album No Medium, Philly songwriter/vibe-spinner Rosali Middleman decompresses with Chokeweed, a beautifully low-key collection of expansive guitar [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Lake Mary – Once It’s All On The Ground
    Lake Mary – Once It’s All On The Ground
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    “From Chaz : My friend Patrick sent me his new album to listen to before he released it to see if it was a good “ambient” album, and I was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Elkhorn – Lionfish
    Elkhorn – Lionfish
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    “”In the fall of 2017, Drew Gardner, the electric guitarist in the guitar duo Elkhorn, had a life-changing, mystical experience eighty feet underwater while scuba diving in Belize. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hellvete – ’t Land van Den Akker
    Hellvete – ’t Land van Den Akker
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    “´t Land van den Akker finds Glen Steenkistes HELLVETE project in a soothing, friendly mood. The six tracks on this newest cassette feature harmonium and banjo, and it is quite […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stefan Christensen – Circular Ruins
    Stefan Christensen – Circular Ruins
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    “Circular Ruins“ shows the more psychedelic, bluesy side of Stefan Christensen (Nagual, Center, Headroom, C/Site Recordings…). Blurry and buried in clouds of concrete, these tunes meander [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kristen Roos – Universal Synthesizer Interface Volume Two
    Kristen Roos – Universal Synthesizer Interface Volume Two
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    “Hotham Sound is pleased to announce the much-anticipated second volume of Kristen Roos’s ‘Universal Synthesizer Interface’ series; an ongoing audio exploration of early [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Komare – Komare
    Komare – Komare
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    “The U.K.’s crypto, avant rock trio, Mosquitoes, have captured the attention of more than a few heads over the past couple of years. After two self-released offerings, their latest EP […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lia Kohl – Too Small To Be A Plain
    Lia Kohl – Too Small To Be A Plain
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    ““I decided to treat my process like gathering tiny beach rocks — nothing stands on its own initially but after a few months you find yourself with a collection,” says […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hollow Hand – Ancestral Lands
    Hollow Hand – Ancestral Lands
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    New-Age tinged ambient brain wave music that feels as cleansing as spring day. Label: Cosmic Ocean – COSMIC001 Format: Cassette, Album Country: UK Released: 2020 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • XV – Basement Tapes
    XV – Basement Tapes
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    “Recorded in the basement in 2018-2019 and originally released on cassette in 2020.”Free punk” that’s by turns playful, absurd, weirdly funny, oblique, and catchy as hell. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Shane Parish – Way Haul Away: A Collection Of Fireside Songs
    Shane Parish – Way Haul Away: A Collection Of Fireside Songs
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    “Shane Parish (founding member of Ahleuchatistas) received Fireside Book of Folk Songs as a gift. It sat on the shelf for a few months, a proud edition to his sheet […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Jon Collin – What Is Thunder
    Jon Collin – What Is Thunder
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    “On recent releases Jon Collin has taken to the woods, mostly near his adoptive home of Stockholm, playing amid the sounds of birdsong and waterfalls. Meanwhile, those who’ve caught [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Program 3: Sonic Communications From The Circle City, Midwest & Other Far Off Places
    Program 3: Sonic Communications From The Circle City, Midwest & Other Far Off Places
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    “Twenty-eight tracks across two tapes of strange electronics, free-wheeling aural experiments and other sonic trickery from Indianapolis, the greater Midwest and beyond.” Label: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Josh Medina – Drifting Toward the Absolute
    Josh Medina – Drifting Toward the Absolute
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    “Josh from somesurprises hits you where it counts with this collection of shimmering slices of life. Guitars and synths melt together in a woozy puddle reminiscent of Astral Social Club [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Delphine Dora & Jackie McDowell – The Dream Of Change
    Delphine Dora & Jackie McDowell – The Dream Of Change
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    “The initial collaborative seed for The Dream of Change was planted back in 2016 when Delphine Dora invited Jackie McDowell to release some of her solo work on her now-defunct […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – On The Night To Destruction
    Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – On The Night To Destruction
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    recorded live at Navaro in Kumamoto, Japan 20th December 2016 Label: Eye Vybe – ev-055 Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 2017 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • IE – Pome
    IE – Pome
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    “IE (pronounced “eee”) is a five-piece from Minneapolis devoted to experiences of hypnotic minimalism— sonic rituals from the future and ambient, desert soundscapes. Their shows feature [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Model Home X His Name Is Alive – Versions Returned
    Model Home X His Name Is Alive – Versions Returned
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    “This is fables of the deconstruction part six point something. Return Versions Returned. The half-disciples series of deeper dives disappeared into a dub basement lurking by the empty [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • DSR Lines* – Analogie Van De Dageraad
    DSR Lines* – Analogie Van De Dageraad
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    “All tracks are live improvisations, recorded between october 1st and 8th 2014 at ElektronMusikStudion, Stockholm. Mixed and compiled at ll150, Antwerpen. The EMS Buchla 200 and Serge [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Saint Pepsi ‎– World Tour
    Saint Pepsi ‎– World Tour
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    “THE OFFICIAL “FIRST ALBUM” FROM SAINT PEPSI AND NEW GENERATION” Label: My Pet Flamingo – MPF063 Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: UK Released: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Alternate Express
    Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Alternate Express
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    Late 80’s Japan-exclusive release by the longstanding avant-jazz collective. Label: DIW – DIW-832 Format: CD, Album Country: Japan Released: 1989 VG+/VG+. No obi.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Various ‎– CIMPFest: Live In Villach 2009 [5CD set]
    Various ‎– CIMPFest: Live In Villach 2009 [5CD set]
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    All perfomances recorded at CIMPFest, Villach, Austria Label: CIMP – CIMPoL 5020-5024 Format: 5xCD, Album Country: US Released: 2011 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Peter Tradowsky – Stigmata: Destiny as a Question of Knowledge
    Peter Tradowsky – Stigmata: Destiny as a Question of Knowledge
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    Stigmata―the spontaneous appearance of bodily marks in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ―have long been a controversial phenomenon. Well-known stigmatics such as [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Victor Serge – Notebooks, 1936-1947
    Victor Serge – Notebooks, 1936-1947
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    Available for the first time, Victor Serge’s intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary’s life, from his liberation from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
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    Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bill Peel – Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
    Bill Peel – Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
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    Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism. Tonight It’s a World We Bury is […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
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    Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
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    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
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    An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
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    A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
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    Art polymath extraordinaire, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) maintained throughout his career an output so prodigious and various that art historians and fans are still struggling to keep up. Bringing [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
    Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
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    Robert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp’s often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
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    Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Tommy Jay & Mike Rep ‎– The Grim-O Comix Sequence
    Tommy Jay & Mike Rep ‎– The Grim-O Comix Sequence
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    “It’s not essential, but this collection of early, (mostly) acoustic recordings from Ohio oddballs Tommy Jay and Mike Rep is there for you when you want to wade deep into […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Richard Band ‎– H.P. Lovecradt’s Classic Tale of Horror Re-Animator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Richard Band ‎– H.P. Lovecradt’s Classic Tale of Horror Re-Animator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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    OG Copy! “Stuart Gordon’s 1985 movie based on the H.P. Lovecraft story “Herbery West – Re-Animator” was an instantly made its mark on the science fiction horror genre. [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings With Drew Gladstone – Tibetan Bells
    Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings With Drew Gladstone – Tibetan Bells
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    “Back in 1972, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings made a landmark recording. They released the first album of Tibetan singing bowls and Tibetan bells. They, in effect, introduced the meditative [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Quiet Sun – Mainstream
    Quiet Sun – Mainstream
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    “QUIET SUN is a strange little beast. The jazz-fusion band existing in the Canterbury Scene was one of the few to incorporate highly distorted rock guitar in its sound. The […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians ‎– Fegmania!
    Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians ‎– Fegmania!
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    “Robyn manages to combine his Syd Barrett/John Lennon-esque oh-so-British vocals, Byrds-y guitar jangle, and lyrics which run the gamut from Monty Python-like absurdity to late [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jon Cale – Caribbean Sunset
    Jon Cale – Caribbean Sunset
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    Label: ZE Records – IT 8401 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– Pawn Hearts
    Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– Pawn Hearts
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    Van der Graaf Generator’s fourth album, Pawn Hearts was also their second most popular; at one time this record was a major King Crimson cult item due to the presence […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Dexys Midnight Runners ‎– Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
    Dexys Midnight Runners ‎– Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
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    The crackling stations being switched on the radio and the gang shout followed by the spoken injunction to “burn it down” sound like they should be starting off a Sham […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • John Cale ‎– Sabotage/Live
    John Cale ‎– Sabotage/Live
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    Though Lou Reed is often thought of as the abrasive member of the Velvet Underground, during the punk era Reed was writing confessional singer/songwriter albums while his former bandmate John [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale – Honi Soit
    John Cale – Honi Soit
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    The rise of the punk/new wave scene finally provided John Cale with a context in which he didn’t seem that much more eccentric than the other musicians surrounding him, and […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale – Artificial Intelligence
    John Cale – Artificial Intelligence
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    Though this is still nowhere near prime John Cale, 1985’s Artificial Intelligence is a big step up from its predecessor, 1984’s weak and sloppy Caribbean Sunset. For the first time [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale – Vintage Violence
    John Cale – Vintage Violence
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    John Cale had the strongest avant-garde credentials of anyone in the Velvet Underground, but he was also the Velvet whose solo career was the least strongly defined by his work […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – Russian Mind
    Oneohtrix Point Never – Russian Mind
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    “Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘Russian Mind’ is centred around the theme of a Russian cosmonaut past his prime, composing the score to a film from his hospital bed in a room on [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (Clear Vinyl, Bonus 12″) (RSD)
    Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (Clear Vinyl, Bonus 12″) (RSD)
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    Limited edtion clear vinyl pressing. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an exclusive Record Store Day 2022 limited gatefold clear vinyl edition of Tangerine Dream’s [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Rot
    Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Rot
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    “There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler. Revolution, pop art and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic