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Sluggo – Sluggo LP
$18.00 | LP Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Sluggo was that band, and The Contradiction E.P. that gave me pride of being from the midwest. Amazing reissue with the first EP and […]
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Crazy Doberman – — / Haunted, Non / Haunted – 2nd pressing
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartThe Doberman crew has been relentlessly touring the U.S. for years now, existing as a traveling band of frequent collaborators and changing lineups, consisting of often radically different [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Flag Decal Bumper Sticker
$5.00 | Merchandise Add to cartHomage to the imortal John Prine. “But your flag decal won’t get youInto Heaven any more.They’re already overcrowdedFrom your dirty little war.Now Jesus don’t like [...]
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New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
$13.00 | CD Ships on/around Jun 30, 2022 Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]
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Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
$12.00 | CD Add to cartRecognized as a skilled and sought after collaborator, Ted Byrnes solo albums cast a wide net that capture Byrnes’ adventurous and omnivorous approach to solo percussion. An alumnus of [...]
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Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
$20.00 | Book, Print Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart*Ships Late Dec* English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction -
Gift Card
$275.00 – $300.00 | Gift Certificate, Merchandise Buy gift card This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageDigitally send anyone a Gift Card for Torn Light Records! Cards can be sent in any amount and redeemed online! Your recipient will be given a code for the amount […]
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Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
$30.00 | LP Add to cartScreen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live in The Mean Fiddler, London – 22.10.1987. Against all predictions, the fight to release these recordings has finally been won. We [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Personal Best 9
$16.00 | Magazine Add to cartLasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]
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Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
$30.00 | LP Add to cartScreen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live 11th January 1988 at The Rose Club in Koln, Germany. Excerpt from Nov 19, 1988 Melody Marker interview: The red room is […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
$26.00 | 2xLP, LP, Vinyl Add to cartOut December 16th, 2022 – Pre-Orders ship immediately! “Wasteland Jazz Unit is a staple in the world of destroyed music. With countless releases cataloged by a literal who’s who [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
$22.00 | LP Add to cartShips prior to release date of 9/29/2023. What our staff has to say: “‘Kentucky Kraut Rock’ If you are not yet familiar with EPA, please make it a point to […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
$12.00 | CD Add to cartThe first release from our CD imprint, ARKEEN – a 7 track, 30 minute full length from Los Angeles based Ted Byrnes. Percussive abuse and aural assault. Fragmented time creating […]
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Music Of Algeria 50’s – 70’s : Radio Topo #021
$8.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartRadio Topo #021 Born from the rich musical heritage of the Berber people, the music of Algeria is as diverse as Algerian culture itself. While primarily associated with Rai, […]
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Low Life – Catholic Guilt 7″
$10.00 | 7", Vinyl Add to cartLabel Description: New 7” from Sydney’s Low Life featuring two previously unreleased tracks which tie up loose ends from the band’s first wave period. ‘Catholic Guilt’ was originally leftover [...]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth -
The Drin?- Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom LP
Original price was: $22.00.$11.00Current price is: $11.00. | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWay out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati – the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. Cold rhythms reverberate through the […]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth -
Joy Division – Unknown Martyrs
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartRecorded live July 13, 1979. One of the most fierce and spirited live JD bootlegs. Unofficial European import. 12/3/2024 *Currently shipping to us from Hungary. Ships from us by Christmas.*
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth -
Eraserhead – Film Audio
$9.00 | CS Add to cartComplete audio rip from VHS to cassette.
GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music -
G.I.S.M. – “Repami Kakuon Group Rush 911” DVD
$46.00 | DVD Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cartThoughts are disrupted. P.P.P.project + BEAST ARTS presents “Reppai Kissoku Gun Tonyuu 911” has been decided to be released on DVD. On September 11th, 2018, the film “Reppai [...]
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V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartAs I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]
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V-3 – The Enemy Within LP
$21.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartAs I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]
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Monokultur – Ormens Väg LP
$15.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A top 10 of mine from 2021. Incredible subdued electronic pop music.” – Alex “2021 starts as 2020 ends, the good as well as […]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth -
Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
$10.00 | CS Add to cartShips by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Hijokaidan – No Paris / No Harm LP
$21.00 | LP Add to cartOriginally released on LP through Jojo Hiroshige’s Alchemy Records in 1988, Hijokaidan’s No Paris / No Harm captures the vitriol and terror of the legendary noise group’s studio and live […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
GIFTNÅLEN no 1
$49.00 | Book, Print Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cartBook-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, ecoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic [...]
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Personal Best 10
$16.00 | Magazine, Print, Zine Add to cartInterviews with: Alexander Rishaug Carlos Giffoni Hilary Woods Harald Fetveit Evicshen Rhodri Davies Deathprod 100 pages. Offset CMYK print. Perfect bound.
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The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Pink Fairies at their absolute best. Remarkable psych freaks make loud noise.
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DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
$16.00 | CD-R Add to cartNew 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 -
Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Bassist Uli Trepte was one of the founders of the seminal space rock Krautrock group Guru Guru, and this CD, a reissue of a […]
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Alex York – Electro Paralysis
$7.00 | Cassette Add to cartFrequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
$22.00 | LP Add to cartShips prior to release date of 9/29/2023. Zach Rowden’s new album, titled “No Middle Without The Beginning”, radiates the current musical concrete. Two pieces, each spanning a [...]
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Nape – Ten Tonne Angel CS (2nd Edition)
$10.00 | CS Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Top level techno. Raw, primitive, engaging angular sounds all under the umbrella of dance inducing psychedelia. A MUST HAVE OF 2021!!!” – Brandon [...]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
NE 21 – In The Realm of Electricity
$23.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to carthe NE-21 return to She Lost Kontrol after their first pitch-perfect 80s dark wave release in 2016. After releasing a collaboration with Donato Dozzy with the project ‘Men with [...]
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Enhet F?r Fri Musik _? ?mhet & Skilsm?ssa LP
$33.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartNew Enhet För Fri Musk album, recorded in Gothenburg and Malmö 2020 by Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson, Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. A concept album on relationships, family [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country -
Miles Davis – Belgrade 1973
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cart“At his most adventurous 70s zone. The band was Dave Liebeman, Al Foster, Michael Henderson, Reginald Lucas, Pete Cosey & Mtume.” Unofficial European import. 12/3/2024 *Currently [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Miles Davis – Belgrade 1971
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cart“At his most adventurous 70s zone. The band was Gary Bartz, Leon Ndugu Chancler, Michael Henderson, Keith Jarrett, Don Alies & Mtume.” Unofficial European import. 12/3/2024 [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Laibach – Deutschland 1985
$7.00 | CD-R Add to cartCDr packaged with fold over cover in polybag. A bootleg live recording from Oberhausen, Germany, performed on 4 December 1985. Bringing to mind the best of underground industrial tapes in […]
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Container – Yacker
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRen Schofield’s long running electronic project Container returns with his first release since the Creamer EP in 2021. Rolling straight out of the pandemic Schofield has since played a large […]
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Franciska – Afvikling
$7.00 | Cassette Add to cartThe latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
$10.00 | CD, CD Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
$7.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartCurrently based out Miami FL Autumn Casey is an Artist in the truest sense, using multiple different mediums to express her inspirations. On the A.side of “Your Own Entertainment [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative -
Discreet Music Mag #2
$7.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartSecond issue of Discreet Music Mag, featuring interviews with Greymouth and Jon Collin and a long piece on IDDB 001-044. Full colour, written in English. Discreet Music, 2021
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
$7.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartFrom the label: “Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapter’s landmark compilation of 70s gay musical pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever – and on pink […]
GENRE: Folk / Country -
Matt Adis – Heads Of The Malnourished
$20.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartPublished in 2020 by IQ32 Press 8.5″ x 11” zine – 24 pages Full color printed eggshell covers Includes single color 8.5”x11” risograph printed by Nick Flessa at the Los […]
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Nico & Cale – En Concert À L’Enfer
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cart“Tracks taken from Nico’s 1965 45 single, an outake from The Academy In Peril & the Reed/Cale/Nico “Le Bataclan 72″ concert. Wonderful cover art worth price of [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Korm Plastics “The Second Annual”
$20.00 | Book, Print Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cartFollowing the critically acclaimed first Annual, Korm Plastics is very proud to present The Second Annual, which has more pages and more authors and covers a wide selection of musical […]
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Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
$8.00 | CS Add to cartNowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]
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C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
$10.00 | CD Add to cartA searing document of C.C.C.C.’s indelible live performance at Wilkins School Community Center on October 11, 1992, Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh voyages into an abyss of [...]
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Kali Malone – All Life Long
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRelease Date: February 9th. Will start shipping when in stock. Kali Malone’s anticipated new album “All Life Long” is a collection of music for pipe organ, choir, and [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
$22.00 | LP Add to cart“What the heck? You’re Somebody’s World, the new album from Fruit LoOops, is both a jagged sonic question mark and a fruitful return to the avant grit. Their second release […]
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Leda – Neuter
$21.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartSofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]
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Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
$8.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartmt114cs released July 31, 2017 2016-2017 Linden St., Brooklyn NY
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Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
$11.50 | Flexi, Vinyl Add to cartDescription Languid washes of warming tones punctuated by untreated piano, glittering glissandos, and delicate droplets welcome us into Florian T M Zeisig’s 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ. Like icicles drifting [...]
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Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite books I read last year, features an unreal interview with Milford Graves to close it out as well. Highest Rec […]
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Zero Magazine – Volume One (Japanese HC Photo book)
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Insane document of Japanese 80s punk & hardcore. Unreal spreads of punks & skins and grind freaks. Flyers & photos that will make you […]
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Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite bands making music in the world today. All star cast of Kentucky HEADS – members of Flanger Magazine (Torn Light), […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Jojo Hiroshige – Triple Echo 3
$22.00 | CD Add to cartPart 3 of Jojo Hiroshige’s drone series, released in 2017. Jojo Hiroshige was born in Kyoto on September 9, 1959. He founded the seminal noise group Hijokaidan in 1979, and […]
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DJ ARG – 808 Miles High
$10.00 | Cassette Add to cartFrom Mainz Germany, DJ ARG is one of the most prolific and skilled acid producers in the underground scene. He lives and breathes acid. With ‘808 Miles High’ he has […]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
Endless Decay – Volume One
$10.00 | Cassette Add to cartDead Channel is proud to present Endless Decay – Volume 1. A scorching compliation featuring a powerhouse lineup including: DJ VST, Eindkrak, Keith&Kevin, Robert E Livingood, Memory [...]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
John Driscoll – Ghostly Agents 2LP
$15.00 | 2xLP Add to cart**Regular edition of 350 copies, gatefold sleeve** John Driscoll is a composer who is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE) and collaborated on David Tudor’s Rainforest V [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic