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  • The Body – I Shall Die Here
    The Body – I Shall Die Here
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    “Sharing their heathen vision with The Haxan Cloak, The Body’s tried and true sound is cut to pieces, mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state for their fourth […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Missing Brazilians* – Warzone
    The Missing Brazilians* – Warzone
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    “Another Science Fiction Dancehall Classic! Originally released in 1984, this is one of the most envelope-pushing records on the On-U Sound label: a rhythmic collision of noise, dub and [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • DDAA – Ronsard
    DDAA – Ronsard
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    French experimental/art-music that crosses into industrial at certain points. Label: Electrip – ELECTRIP 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:Belgium Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
    Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
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    Reissue of a limited edition CDr from 2003 Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records – mt056b Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
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    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
    Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
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    “I admire metal’s integrity, brutality, and obsessiveness, but I can’t stand its delusions of grandeur–the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility. [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink Plus Albert Mangelsdorff – The End (Late 70’s Pressing)
    Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink Plus Albert Mangelsdorff – The End (Late 70’s Pressing)
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    “The great thing about this trilogy/set is how naturally everything flows. . . . each subdividing of the group, each solo excursion, feels smooth and logical, as though the player(s) […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (Japanese Pressing)
    Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (Japanese Pressing)
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    “For the first time, this album is released as the unbroken improvisation it was when performed “live,” instead of being broken into two parts as it was when released on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Golden Dawn  – Power Plant
    The Golden Dawn – Power Plant
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    The sole album by the “Other Great Texas Psych Band”, The Golden Dawn. Label: International Artists – IA-LP #4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bad Brains – Rock For Light
    Bad Brains – Rock For Light
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    “This band was a weird bundle of contradictions from day one: black Rastafarian instrumental virtuosos playing hardcore punk, formerly the exclusive domain of white, aggressively atheist [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats (UK Pressing 1982)
    Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats (UK Pressing 1982)
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    “Street punk pioneers Charged G.B.H. formed in Birmingham in l978, the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy’s trial for grievous bodily harm. The in-your-face hardcore of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
    The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
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    “In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters’ frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
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    “By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of ‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac,’ the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of
    The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of
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    “Did the 13th Floor Elevators invent psychedelic rock? Aficionados will be debating that point for decades, but if Roky Erickson and his fellow travelers into inner space weren’t [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
    Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
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    It’s all about Sister Ray. Label: Verve Records – 23MM 0190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Epicycle – Special First Edition
    Epicycle – Special First Edition
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    Psych tinged power-pop from Chicago. Label:Cirkle Records – CST 1111 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG with some noticeable sleevewear & staining. Start of split at upper [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nick Drake – Demo Collection Volume Two
    Nick Drake – Demo Collection Volume Two
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    Fan club collection of early takes & demos from Drake’s haunted career. Label: no label Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: undated VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • My Bloody Valentine ‎– m b v
    My Bloody Valentine ‎– m b v
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    My Bloody Valentine’s 3rd album, covering the ground they’d previously established and embracing an oceanic current. Label: MBV Records – mbv lp 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
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    “Tones for Joan’s Bones, Chick Corea’s first session as a leader, is a blazing, advanced hard bop set from late 1966, with writing that reveals an affinity with McCoy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    $48.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The most significant dividing line in Ornette’s chronology might be Charlie Haden’s leaving the group in the mid-’70s. This set of duos from a few years later highlights the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
    Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
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    Documentation of The Stooges final live performance. Heavy & hostile. Label: Import Records – IMP 1015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released: 1977 VG+/VG+ with light marks & some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
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    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
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    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
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    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
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    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
    The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
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    “We’ll admit, this finished album landed at our headquarters late last summer, but it just seemed unfair to release it in the Fall or Winter months, since this debut LP […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer
    Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer
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    Garage-punk led by Mac Blackout

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Medication – This Town
    Medication – This Town
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    “The debut album from New Milford, Connecticut’s melodic saving grace, MEDICATION. The one-man home-recording project has built itself up into a fully-automated live band over the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Wizzard Sleeve – Make The World Go Away
    Wizzard Sleeve – Make The World Go Away
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Heavy, psych-influenced garage rock.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Smith Westerns – Smith Westerns
    Smith Westerns – Smith Westerns
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    From this young Windy City group, retro-rock doesn’t feel like a history class. Rummaging through 1970s glam, Phil Spector teen-pop, and Nuggets garage-punk with the youthful abandon of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Terminals – Uncoffined
    The Terminals – Uncoffined
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    “25th Anniversary remastered edition, the Kiwi Pop classic origininally on Flying Nun Records, now available on HoZac Archival, 500 copies pressed.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Screaming Urge – BUY LP + 7″
    Screaming Urge – BUY LP + 7″
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    “Screaming Urge. Archetypal American Punk Rock. Emerge now as the best underground music you never heard created in their own NOWHERE, their own nu-topic derangement fantasized and realized [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Baby Grande – Baby Grande
    Baby Grande – Baby Grande
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    “Unreleased proto-punk / glam rock album, recorded 1975-77 in Canberra, Australia, featuring Steve Kilbey and Peter Koppes, who would later found THE CHURCH. Available for the first time [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nice Face – Horizon Fires
    Nice Face – Horizon Fires
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    Synth-driven post-punk.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Dents – 1979/80
    The Dents – 1979/80
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    “If Cincinnati quintet the Dents had done what so many other early U.S. punk/new wave bands were able to do in their day, wax just one limited-press seven-inch single before […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Puffy Areolas – 1982: Dishonorable Discharge
    Puffy Areolas – 1982: Dishonorable Discharge
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    “One of the most pivotal bands currently infecting the Midwest universe, Puffy Areolas are a pummeling ensemble of free jazz skronk, laid mercilessly on top of a proto-punk nuclear waste [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
    Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
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    Droney & spacey indie rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Revelons – 1977-82
    Revelons – 1977-82
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    “Available on vinyl for the first time anywhere, The Revelons are known to punk prevaricators one of best “lost bands” of the CBGB era who simply released one earth-moving 7” […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Neon Leon – 1979-84 Singles Collection
    Neon Leon – 1979-84 Singles Collection
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    “When NYC hit its punk stride in the mid 1970s, the one-of-a-kind ‘Neon’ Leon Matthews was already in the thick of it. Getting his start in music in the late […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Burnt Envelope – I’m Immature: The Singles Vol. II
    Burnt Envelope – I’m Immature: The Singles Vol. II
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    “There really isn’t much you can do to prepare yourself for something as profound as Burnt Envelope. Punk this “pure” has to be fake these days, or does it? We […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gentilesky – Ways Of Seeing
    Gentilesky – Ways Of Seeing
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    “Tighter than nails, and with an irascibly bleak swagger, this indefinably irresistible female-fronted Sardinian/Istanbul supergroup with members of The Rippers, Love Boat, Maggot Madness, [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Brides – Suburban Vermin
    The Brides – Suburban Vermin
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “We’re finally here! The long-awaited LP comp from “Chicago’s Best Band of the 1990s” is in the pipe and on the way. Featuring the legendary previously unreleased 8-song 1997 demo […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Lewsberg – Out And About
    Lewsberg – Out And About
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    Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, ‘Out And About’ in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lewsberg – Lewsberg
    Lewsberg – Lewsberg
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    First US pressing of Lewsberg’s 2018 debut album.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gerycz* / Powers* / Rolin* – Activator
    Gerycz* / Powers* / Rolin* – Activator
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “Activator” is the third installment from the trio of Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, who respectively need no introduction writ-large. For anyone observing the American [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Weak Signal – Fine
    Weak Signal – Fine
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Apocryphally, saxophonist John Coltrane realized at a certain point that his hour-long live solos could be cut down significantly, and if what he had to say and do over the course […]

    GENRE:
  • Voice Imitator – Of How Hits
    Voice Imitator – Of How Hits
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    In attempting to write this dispatch on the second Voice Imitator album my instinct is to pitch them as somewhat of an antidote to the current ills of what could […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • BADBADNOTGOOD – Mid Spiral
    BADBADNOTGOOD – Mid Spiral
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    At the start of 2024 BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy. Having just come off a run of one-off international tour dates and a series of sessions for projects […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bardo Pond – Set And Setting (25th Anniversary Edition)
    Bardo Pond – Set And Setting (25th Anniversary Edition)
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    Following not-so-hot on the heels of a long-since sold out 2021 repress of Bardo Pond’s monolithic Matador label debut, ‘Amanita,’ we are pleased to announce a much overdue reissue of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    $35.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    I have recently been watching a lot of Japanese popular movies from the 50s and 60s. I loved the vibrant Japan of this era. After the war, Japan was rapidly changing […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai
    Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai
    $35.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    New album “Shiminkai” by Kafka’s Ibiki, a three-piece band comprised of Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Recorded live performance in Tokyo in 2023 by [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Deef – Nou
    Deef – Nou
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    Deef, forming in 1979 in Sapporo City, Japan evolved from a school-age free jazz group into a raw hardcore band influenced by the global explosion of political punk and hardcore, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Deef – Real Control
    Deef – Real Control
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    Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken​-​Ichi
    Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken​-​Ichi
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    Die Öwan’s final cassette release, 1983’s Mikawa Ken-Ichi, shows the band at their most focused, crafting a full on album’s worth of music in their trademark style of DIY experimental […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Öwan – Öwannibalism
    Die Öwan – Öwannibalism
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    A cult teenage Japanese punk group which existed from 1979-1983, and during that time managed to release the rarest punk record in Japan, operate their own cassette label, organize house […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore