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  • The Varukers ‎– Bloodsuckers
    The Varukers ‎– Bloodsuckers
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    “A true building block of UK hardcore/punk. This record is a steamroller of slightly metallic d-beat punk. As mandatory a piece of history as any Discharge record. The Varukers were […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tangerine Dream ‎– Encore 2LP
    Tangerine Dream ‎– Encore 2LP
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    “Encore — Tangerine Dream Live, 1977 is one of the better concert albums from Tangerine Dream. As with most of their live releases, this disc features all new material. Each […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Howlin Rain – The Alligator Bride [colored vinyl]
    Howlin Rain – The Alligator Bride [colored vinyl]
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    “On June 8, Oakland, California’s Howlin Rain return with The Alligator Bride, their fifth LP of swampy, ragged, unapologetic rock ’n roll. Led by Ethan Miller (co-founder of psych rockers [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cage & Lejaren Hiller / Ben Johnston – HPSCHD / String Quartet No. 2
    John Cage & Lejaren Hiller / Ben Johnston – HPSCHD / String Quartet No. 2
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    “This work comprises 20-minute solos for 1 – 7 amplified harpsichords and tapes for 1-51 monaural machines to be used in whole or in part in any combination with or […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Flash Lightnin’ – Volume One
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – Flash Lightnin’ – Volume One
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    A compilation of Lightnin’ Hopkins tracks from 1954. Label: Diving Duck Records – DD 4307 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Netherlands Released: 1985 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Blues
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Bad Boogie Vol. 2
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – Bad Boogie Vol. 2
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    A compilation of Lightnin’ Hopkins rare tracks from 1954 Label: Diving Duck Records – DD 4308 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue Country: Netherlands Released: 1985 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Blues
  • Lightning Hopkins – Houston’s King Of The Blues (Historic Recordings 1952-1953)
    Lightning Hopkins – Houston’s King Of The Blues (Historic Recordings 1952-1953)
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    Collects some of Hopkins’ best tracks from 1952-1953 Label: Blues Classics – BC 30 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG. spine cracked open 3″ with some [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File [Clear Blue Vinyl]
    Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File [Clear Blue Vinyl]
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    “Within The Gag File, the most recent album from Wolf Eyes co-founder Aaron Dilloway, themes of obsession and neurosis splinter Dilloway’s persona as an artist balancing control and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Link Wray – Missing Links Vol. 2 – Big City After Dark
    Link Wray – Missing Links Vol. 2 – Big City After Dark
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    “A mix of super-rare cuts, a couple of unissued outtakes, and live material, all from the 1960s. It’s rawer than Link Wray’s norm (which is durned raw indeed), but not […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Link Wray – Missing Links Vol.3 – Some Kinda Nut
    Link Wray – Missing Links Vol.3 – Some Kinda Nut
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    “Another great grab bag of hideously rare Link, all from the ’60s on this volume, including tracks that Wray issued under his own name, and side projects that he lent […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – 1948-1961
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – 1948-1961
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    “Original recordings from the collections of Joe Bussard, Dani Gugolz, Hans Maitner, Johnny Path and Victor Pearlin A1 to A4 recorded in Houston, Texas in 1948 A5 to A8 recorded […]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Blind Lemon Jefferson – How Long, How Long Lasting Loving
    Blind Lemon Jefferson – How Long, How Long Lasting Loving
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    Side A and “Long Lastin’ Lovin'” recorded in Chicago between February and March 1928 other songs recorded in Chicago between June and August 1928  Label: Monk – mk340 Format: [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Midnight Minds – Echo Poems
    Midnight Minds – Echo Poems
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    Fantastic duo of new age / ambient tunes from Midnight Minds. Room recording for extra haze. 10/10 highest recommendation.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Richard Brautigan – In Watermelon Sugar
    Richard Brautigan – In Watermelon Sugar
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    “iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Natsume Soseki – The Three Cornered World
    Natsume Soseki – The Three Cornered World
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    “An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Title TK
    Title TK
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    “Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Heinz Helle – Superabundance
    Heinz Helle – Superabundance
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    “Alone in New York, separated from his girlfriend by the Atlantic Ocean, the nameless narrator of Heinz Helle’s electric debut novel is sinking slowly into an invisible crisis. He [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Perec – Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
    Georges Perec – Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
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    “Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User’s Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
    Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
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    “For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
    Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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    “‘That’s brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The Invitation
    Claude Simon – The Invitation
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    “This 1987 novel by Nobel Prize-winner Claude Simon is a sardonic look at glasnost Russia, where recent reforms and improvements carry all the conviction of rouge on a corpse. The […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anais Nin – Collages
    Anais Nin – Collages
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    “Collages explores a world of fantasy and dreams through an eccentric young painter. A radical work in its time (1964), Anais Nin dispensed with normal structural convention and allowed her [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
    Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
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    “From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Matthew McNaught – Immanuel
    Matthew McNaught – Immanuel
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    “At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
    Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
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    “Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Samuel Beckett – More Pricks Than Kicks
    Samuel Beckett – More Pricks Than Kicks
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    “Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel Beckett – Endgame: A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words: A Mime for One Player
    Samuel Beckett – Endgame: A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words: A Mime for One Player
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    “Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ricahrd Brautigan – Sombrero Fallout
    Ricahrd Brautigan – Sombrero Fallout
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    “Concerns a writer trying to cope with the break-up of a relationship. Trying to escape his misery, he begins a story about a sombrero that falls out of the sky […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Richard Brautigan – Revenge Of The Lawn
    Richard Brautigan – Revenge Of The Lawn
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    “A collection of 62 very short stories set in 1960s California, particularly around the author’s home town of San Francisco.” Pocket Books, 1972 Mass-Market Paperback edition. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
    Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
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    “You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody’s left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
    Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
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    “The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
    Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
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    “Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau’s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
    Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
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    “The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
    Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
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    “Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
    Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
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    “Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Askold Melnyczuk – Ambassador Of The Dead
    Askold Melnyczuk – Ambassador Of The Dead
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    “One Sunday morning, Nick Blud, a successful Boston physician, is home in bed when he receives a phone call from Ada Kruk, the mother of a boyhood friend. Ada summons […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
    Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
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    “We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
    Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
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    “Stories about young people in the unique concentration-camp ghetto organized by the Nazis in the Czech city of Terezin are based on the author’s own childhood experiences and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
    Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
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    A compilation of 29 percussionists making rhythm, texture & noise to raise funds for the National Network of Abortion Funds. Percussive Resistance is our heeding a call to action. Each […]

    GENRE: Percussion, Beats, Rhythm
  • Kagami Smile – Nostalgia Screen
    Kagami Smile – Nostalgia Screen
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    The prolific and idyllic Kagami Smile comes to Torn Light with a tape of tape hissed electronic music. Wonderful corridors of sound, the walls are covered in tapestries. Low low […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Gettaway
    Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Gettaway
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    Featuring Gotta Gettaway from Nobody’s Heroes, and Bloody Sunday Label: Rough Trade – RT 015 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Name Written on [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
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    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)
    CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)
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    “This is more of a novelty record than a punk record per se. The song gets to the core of British life, both thematically and structurally, since it’s in the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Rock N’ Roll Radio (UK PRESS)
    Ramones – Rock N’ Roll Radio (UK PRESS)
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    Do You Remember Rock N’ Roll Radio from End Of The Century and I Want You Around from the Rock N’ Roll High School Soundtrack, respectively. Label: Sire – SIR […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day
    Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day
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    “I (Steve Lake) wrote ‘More Trouble…’ during the riots that were taking place in London and other English towns at the time. I nicked the title from Frank Zappa (who […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Zounds – Dancing
    Zounds – Dancing
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    “Joseph walked out of the studio half way through when Lawrence had the bright idea of recording all the drums on ‘Dancing’ one at a time. He also hated ‘True […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gism* – Anarchy Violence (white vinyl)
    Gism* – Anarchy Violence (white vinyl)
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    “Originally released as a bootleg in 1991 which was hand-numbered to 100 copies. This reissue is on white vinyl & hand-numbered to 200 copies.” Label: no label/no cat number [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nikki Sudden – Back To The Start
    Nikki Sudden – Back To The Start
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    Back To The Start/Ringing On My Train from the Swell Maps founder’s solo album, Waiting On Egypt. Label: Numero Group – NUM 1229.5 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue Country: US […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • The Feelies ‎– The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness / My Little Red Book
    The Feelies ‎– The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness / My Little Red Book
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    “Exclusive Ork Records: New York, New York bonus 45, featuring two previously unreleased tracks by the Feelies. “The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness” is an unreleased studio cut from [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cabaret Voltaire ‎– Seconds Too Late
    Cabaret Voltaire ‎– Seconds Too Late
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    Cabaret Voltaire’s 5th single for Rough Trade Label: Rough Trade – RT US 003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics