March 8th Newsletter

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  • Gidia – Struga
    Gidia – Struga
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    Ritualistic, tribal industrial from the mountains of Greece. GIDIA is a Greek duo of george kondaktor and giorgos lemos, part of Athens fruitful electronic music scene for a long time […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Vinny & Charlie – The Repo Code
    Vinny & Charlie – The Repo Code
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    Following in the steps of last year’s mysterious “Beyond the Garage” 12 inch, L.I.E.S. throws another curve ball with a 30 track continuous LP from veteran West Coast producers, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    In your face new 8 track LP of vicious beat driven warehouse electronics from the L.I.E.S. boss. Straight and to the point, “Extinctionist” stands very much in line and continues […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    In your face new 8 track LP of vicious beat driven warehouse electronics from the L.I.E.S. boss. Straight and to the point, “Extinctionist” stands very much in line and continues […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • 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
  • Jean Baudrillard – Spirit of Terrorism
    Jean Baudrillard – Spirit of Terrorism
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    In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious. […]

    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
  • Jean Baudrillard – Cool Memories II: 1987-1990.
    Jean Baudrillard – Cool Memories II: 1987-1990.
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    Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed “France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism” and “a sharp-shooting Lone [...]

    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
  • Songs of the Unsung: The Musical & Social Journey of Horace Tapscott
    Songs of the Unsung: The Musical & Social Journey of Horace Tapscott
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    Songs of the Unsung is the autobiography of Los Angeles jazz musician and activist Horace Tapscott (1934–1999). A pianist who ardently believed in the power of music to connect people, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Memoir
  • 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
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
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    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    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
  • Isobel Harbison – Performing Image
    Isobel Harbison – Performing Image
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    An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nam June Paik
    Nam June Paik
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    Explore the ground-breaking work of 20th-century, avant-garde artist Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, and discover his impact on the digital age. Nam June Paik was one of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • Heule / Leguía / Rivero / Escalante – An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
    Heule / Leguía / Rivero / Escalante – An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    A monumentally fucked up recording from this quartet. Anything short of saying “AUDIO ASSAULT” is not doing any justice to the release. This is fucked up and violent/blown out & [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
    Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
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    Long out of print and presented here for the first time in paperback, is Arthur Machen’s classic collection of prose poems. The ten exquisite pieces included in this volume are: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Althea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
    She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
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    She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
    Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
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    The Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal  between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Institute For Erotic Vertigo – Enigma Strategy
    The Institute For Erotic Vertigo – Enigma Strategy
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    A collection of work from the Institute for Erotic Vertigo. “Possibly, I could describe the entire oeuvre as a series of poems, images and literature, interested more in form and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mrs. Florence Aadland – The Big Love
    Mrs. Florence Aadland – The Big Love
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    The Big Love is a Hollywood nightmare. It tells the story of Errol Flynn—a fading, alcoholic movie star—and the underage dancer-actress Beverly Aadland. The narrator? Beverly Aadland’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Armand Charpentier – Claustrophobic Madness
    Armand Charpentier – Claustrophobic Madness
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    Armand Charpentier (1864-1949), though all but forgotten today, was one of a number of journalists who, around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, contributed [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
    Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
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    In Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Wolf Eyes – Dread
    Wolf Eyes – Dread
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    A sought after early Wolf Eyes album back on vinyl and CD for the first time in 17 years. Originally released on Hanson Records, American Tapes and Bulb Records in […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Michel Leiris – Nights As Day Days As Night
    Michel Leiris – Nights As Day Days As Night
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Translated from French by Richard Sieburth, with a foreword by Maurice Blanchot. Hailed as an “important literary document and contemporary pleasure” by Lydia Davis, Nights as Day, Days as Night [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Tommy Jay & Mike Rep ‎– The Grim-O Comix Sequence
    Tommy Jay & Mike Rep ‎– The Grim-O Comix Sequence
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    “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
  • Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    $25.00 | , Ships on/around May 19, 2025 Add to cart

    Technicolor Band is a revolving-cast, cross-genre improv unit based in Bloomington, IN. The group, initially instigated by multi-instrumentalists David Brown and Caleb Hickman as a regular [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Michael Vallera – The Other World
    Michael Vallera – The Other World
    $13.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 25, 2025 Add to cart

    Released in an edition of 300 CDs by Torn Light Records — The Other World was recorded in the spring of 2023 by Greg Norman at his home studio in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    $22.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 01, 2025 Add to cart

    Pre-order ships on or around April 1st, 2025. Church Shuttle “ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle” is an 8 track LP of alien abducted industrial music. Specifically Pure Michigan soundscapes Chris […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • 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)
    $70.00 | , , Add to cart

    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!
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “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
  • Billy Bragg – Back To Basics
    Billy Bragg – Back To Basics
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    After Elektra signed Billy Bragg to his first major-label deal and released Talking with the Taxman About Poetry in 1986, the label decided to do a clean-up job on his […]

    GENRE:
  • 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
    $32.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– H To He Who Am The Only One
    Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– H To He Who Am The Only One
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    The foreboding crawl of the Hammond organ is what made Van Der Graaf Generator one of the darkest and most engrossing of all the early progressive bands. On H to […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
    Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    Following the release of Pawn Hearts, bandleader Peter Hammill took time out to develop a solo career, choosing to focus his energy on darkly introspective works that seemed to be […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 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