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  • Ethan WL – Blood Farm (American Primitive playing – amazing)
    Ethan WL – Blood Farm (American Primitive playing – amazing)
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    “This is my latest album, about 40 straight minutes of acoustic guitar. All originals, live takes, and no overdubs. Filmmaker and Journalist Bill Lichtenstein told me that it ‘sounds like […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
    Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
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    “It’s like a fever dream at a fiddlers convention when you wake up sweating in your tent at 4 in the morning. And the music outside, you can’t tell if […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bitter Wish – Candle Finger
    Bitter Wish – Candle Finger
    $24.00 | Add to cart

    Formed in Philadelphia during the COVID days of fall 2021, Bitter Wish is a psychedelic power trio comprising guitarist John Comune, bassist Clint Takeda (Bardo Pond/Double Wig) and percussionist [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    $24.00 | Add to cart

    I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
    Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
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    In 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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  • The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
    The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Pink Fairies at their absolute best. Remarkable psych freaks make loud noise.

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  • King Tubby – At The Grass Roots Of Dub
    King Tubby – At The Grass Roots Of Dub
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Seminal dub album produced by Winston Edwards.  In 1974 Edwards left Jamaica to reside in the UK and through his strong connections with such […]

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  • King Tubby – Shalom
    King Tubby – Shalom
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Originally released in 1975, King Tubby And The Aggrovators ‘Shalom Dub’ stands as one of the earliest and most cherished dub albums in [...]

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  • Bunny Lee & King Tubby Present The Aggravators – Brass Rockers
    Bunny Lee & King Tubby Present The Aggravators – Brass Rockers
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    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. King Tubby and producer Bunny ‘striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of dub music. After discovering a mistake that made a [...]

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  • Conduit Gold – s/t
    Conduit Gold – s/t
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    Electric guitar duo musings from Kelly MacDonald & Alex York. Released in tape edition of 30 copies & given away for free at our first gig opening for Ned Collette […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 2
    Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 2
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    On August 26, 1971, the Fania All Stars electrified the Cheetah Club stage in New York, causing a salsa-induced delirium that not only defined their career, but the salsa genre. […]

    GENRE: International
  • Willie Colon – The Hustler
    Willie Colon – The Hustler
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    In 1964, a young musician from the Dominican Republic by the name of Johnny Pacheco teamed up with ambitious Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci for the creation of a record label […]

    GENRE: International
  • Ralfi Pagan – With Love
    Ralfi Pagan – With Love
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    Craft Recordings present a remastered vinyl reissue of With Love, one of the most transcendental Latin Soul LPs in the history of the genre. Released in 1971, just as Latin […]

    GENRE: International
  • Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 1 (Colored Vinyl)
    Fania All Stars – Live at the Cheetah: Vol. 1 (Colored Vinyl)
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    On August 26, 1971, the Fania All Stars electrified the Cheetah Club stage in New York, causing a salsa-induced delirium that not only defined their career, but also the salsa […]

    GENRE: International
  • David Axelrod – Heavy Axe
    David Axelrod – Heavy Axe
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    For the dusty-fingered deep diggers who have a sixth sense for sample-worthy sounds and unique headnodders, the name David Axelrod is gospel. An arranger with A-list credits a mile long, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bernard Purdie – Purdie Good!
    Bernard Purdie – Purdie Good!
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    In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time (the “Purdie Shuffle” graced everything from Aretha to Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie squeezed in a few sessions [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Violent Femmes – Add It Up (1981-1993) 2LP
    Violent Femmes – Add It Up (1981-1993) 2LP
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    As Violent Femmes celebrate their 40th year together, Craft Recordings honors the band’s enduring catalog of cult classics with the long out-of-print vinyl reissue of the popular 1993 [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ray Barretto – Que Viva La Musica
    Ray Barretto – Que Viva La Musica
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    Que Viva La Música just turned 50 and features Ray Barretto at his peak of the “Hard Salsa” era. The album contains the track “Cocinando” from the famed documentary Our [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
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    Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn?s Varda
    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn?s Varda
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    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
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    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Giallo Fantastique
    Giallo Fantastique
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    An anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Blake Butler – Aannex
    Blake Butler – Aannex
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    Incorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker’s maze-map meant to have already been [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    The sequel to Pendleton’s acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    Emilíana Torrini emerges from hiatus with a brand new album, MISS FLOWER. Returning to an illustrious career, spanning chart-topping hits like ‘Sunny Road’ and ‘Jungle Drum’ from acclaimed albums [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Michael Rother – Sterntaler
    Michael Rother – Sterntaler
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    Digitally remastered reissue of 1978 solo debut by this bassist/ guitarist/ keyboardist for Krautrock duo Neu & early member of electronic pioneers Kraftwerk.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • DAF – Fur Immer
    DAF – Fur Immer
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    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Harmonia – Live 1974
    Harmonia – Live 1974
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    a previously unavailable concert recording from the German super-group made up of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (of Cluster) and Michael Rother (of Neu!). They re-defined not only the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Birdie – Some Dusty
    Birdie – Some Dusty
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    Birdie’s debut album, 1999’s “Some Dusty,” is the culmination of a series of fortuitous events, set in motion in 1992 when members Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    A lot has happened to SUSS since their last vinyl release, 2020’s Promise on Northern Spy Records. That album ended up on many best-of lists that year, and was cited […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Various – The Conny Plank Rework Sessions
    Various – The Conny Plank Rework Sessions
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    12″ containing remixes of Eurythmics, NEU! And Moebius & Plank

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pearls Before Swine ? One Nation Underground
    Pearls Before Swine ? One Nation Underground
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    “Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • MC5 ? Back In The USA
    MC5 ? Back In The USA
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    The second MC5 record, cementing their status as proto-punk stalwarts Label: Atlantic – SD 8247 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG. Drillhole, some moisture damage and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind _? Hawkwind
    Hawkwind _? Hawkwind
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    The debut Hawkwind album still sounds pioneering and new years later. Label: United Artists Records – UAS 5519 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1971 VG+/VG, with some tearing […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    Probably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to be believed. Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
    Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
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    “This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Clarence Cooper Jr – Black: Three Short Novels
    Clarence Cooper Jr – Black: Three Short Novels
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    “Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. “The Dark Messenger” is a short, sizzling novel in which a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Get Even: The Complete Book Of Dirty Tricks
    Get Even: The Complete Book Of Dirty Tricks
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    “A hilarious overview of the methods people use to get even with big business, government and enemies. These dirty tricks range from the simple to the elaborate, including more [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Cage – Notations
    John Cage – Notations
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    “Notations is a book that was edited and compiled by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992) with Alison Knowles and first published in 1969 by Something Else Press. The book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Charles Willeford – Cockfighter
    Charles Willeford – Cockfighter
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    Charles Willeford’s violently masculine southern noir, loosely modeled on The Odyssey. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1991 paperback edition. Creasing to front cover, along with some [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William H. Gass – The Tunnel
    William H. Gass – The Tunnel
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    “Thirty years in the making, William Gass’s second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
    Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
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    Sissy Spacek Mirror Aggressor State CD Helicopter HEL 99099 On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Carver Area High School* Presents The Carver Area High School Seniors ? Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap)
    Carver Area High School* Presents The Carver Area High School Seniors ? Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap)
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    “Unbelievably rare private press disco/rap bomb tune! Absolutely stunning very rare old school party disco rap 12” performed by members of the Chicago public high-school Carver High. [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
    DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    Undistributed DJ Speedsick business card CDr of samples & loops. Tracks 1, 7-9, 33: samples Tracks 2-6: drum shots Tracks 10-32: loops

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
    Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
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    Screen 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
  • Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
    Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
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    Screen 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
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    $8.00 | Add to cart

    Nowhere 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 [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
    Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Czech split cassette from Happy Families. “When I heard the Diptych / Ohnive plamene split tape I felt alive for the first time in a long while. What is going […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Punk / Hardcore
  • Factultad de Medicina – de vez en cuando
    Factultad de Medicina – de vez en cuando
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    New Argentinean tape in from Happy Families: “Originally released in 2019 by Facultad de Medicina in Buenos Aires, Argentina – Slacker core genius. Sleepy indie pop from underground [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lumumba – Lumumba
    Lumumba – Lumumba
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    Heavy & underrated afrobeat dancefloor jammer. Label: A & M Records – SP-3610 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1974 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International
  • Swedish Meatballs Vol 2 – The Psychedelic Hard Rock Underground 1970-1977
    Swedish Meatballs Vol 2 – The Psychedelic Hard Rock Underground 1970-1977
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Way-out heavy psych mindblowers with blistering guitars and pounding drums! Sweden – heaven and hell. Strictly limited edition of 500 copies only. Comes with a striking day-glow coloured sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie & House (1982​-​1992)
    Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie & House (1982​-​1992)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    The 21 track selection curated by Trujillo, a Venezuelan producer, DJ and record collector based in Berlin, explores the forgotten corners of the 1980s and early 90s Spanish music scene. […]

    GENRE: International
  • Kvartetten Som Sprängde – Kattvals (DELUXE EDITION, PSYCHEDELIC SPLATTER VINYL)
    Kvartetten Som Sprängde – Kattvals (DELUXE EDITION, PSYCHEDELIC SPLATTER VINYL)
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    Finally available again – in a special new psychedelic splatter vinyl limited edition of 600 copies! Kvartetten Som Sprängde (The Quartet That Exploded) “Kattvals” (“Cat Waltz”). A reissue of one [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kleenex/Liliput – First Songs (DEEP PURPLE VINYL)
    Kleenex/Liliput – First Songs (DEEP PURPLE VINYL)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Legendary Swiss punk band from the late 70s. “You can’t dispute Liliput’s status as pioneers of feminist art-punk. Along with fellow travelers like the Slits and the Raincoats, this [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • John Cale – POPtical Illusion (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, TRANSLUCENT ORANGE VINYL)
    John Cale – POPtical Illusion (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, TRANSLUCENT ORANGE VINYL)
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    Despite the album’s playful title, Cale’s second album in just over a year still contains the same feelings of fierce and inquisitive rage that were present in 2023 album MERCY. […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale – MERCY
    John Cale – MERCY
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    What does John Cale have that the rest of us don’t—some gene that engenders infinite restlessness, a rapacious mind that is never satisfied? For nearly 60 years, or at least […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ixtahuele – Pathways to Paradise (CURIOUS YELLOW VINYL)
    Ixtahuele – Pathways to Paradise (CURIOUS YELLOW VINYL)
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    A new album from the masters of exotica! Mix up a mighty rum typhoon and emerge yourself in this excitingly dazzling audio fantasy! Experience the fearsome Jungle Chase. Behold the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (LTD ED)
    Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (LTD ED)
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    The idolized and enigmatic duo are back. After considerable speculation by their rabid fan base (not to mention the media following every step of the way), Boards of Canada have […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
    Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Beth Gibbons releases her debut solo album Lives Outgrown on Friday the 17th of May 2024, following her work as a member of Portishead & her collaborative album with Rustin […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative