April 26th Newsletter
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  • MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Kick Out The Jams still sounds astonishingly powerful after almost 30 years. Recorded live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom in 1968, this relentless, aggressive set offers the frenzy of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Osmo Lindeman – Electronic Works
    Osmo Lindeman – Electronic Works
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Incredible works from Finnish electronic music composer. Fits right in with the Sahko catalog.” – Alex *includes a CD featuring all tracks from the [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Habitat Ensemble – S/T
    Habitat Ensemble – S/T
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Self-titled debut album of Habitat Ensemble, a new musical collective headed up by musician Marius Houschyar. The collective originates deep in the south of the Czech Republic, on the border […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
    V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Four essential cuts from Ghana & Cape Verde, compiled by Arp Frique… Music is a great connector, bringing people together in many ways. On his journey in music so far, […]

    GENRE: International
  • The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
    The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
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    Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
    Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Nigel Rolfe’s “Island Stories” is a unique record for 80’s Ireland. An unusually experimental electronic and abstract record for the time, it was originally released to little fanfare on Reekus [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stano – Anthology
    Stano – Anthology
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Following on from our 2018 repress of his debut album “Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft “ we’re delighted to present an Anthology of Stano’s productions spanning the start […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Thee Retail Simps – Live On Cool St.
    Thee Retail Simps – Live On Cool St.
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    “After countless hours of data driven market research it was determined that the wild success of the first Retail Simps album, Reverberant Scratch was 82.6% due to the cheeky and […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Harald Voetmann – Sublunar
    Harald Voetmann – Sublunar
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants–a filthy cast of characters– [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Denis Johnson – Angels
    Denis Johnson – Angels
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    The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson’s novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays–a runaway wife toting along two kids–and Bill Houston–ex-Navy man, ex-husband, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
    Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Marjorie Muir Worthington – The Strange World Of Willie Seabrook
    Marjorie Muir Worthington – The Strange World Of Willie Seabrook
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Literary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two writers: Marjorie Worthington and William Seabrook. A renowned writer on the exotic and the occult, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • CoH – Radiant Faults
    CoH – Radiant Faults
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    Ivan Pavlov aka CoH characterizes his latest solo work, ‘Radiant Faults’, as “the recording of a dialogue,” rather than a set of compositions. Crafted using a rare new [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Codeine – What About The Lonely?
    Codeine – What About The Lonely?
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Following on the somnambulant heels of When I See The Sun, our massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely?, an eight-track LP recorded at the group’s live zenith. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Martin Frawley – The Wannabe (Colored Vinyl)
    Martin Frawley – The Wannabe (Colored Vinyl)
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    “Workin’ all day, trying to forget about the old me.” Like most of us, Martin Frawley is busy trying to work himself out. He lives alongside the long shadow of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Blacklight Braille – Electric Canticles Of The Blacklight Braille
    Blacklight Braille – Electric Canticles Of The Blacklight Braille
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Cincinnati Psych/prog rock. 1981 US Pressing on Vetco Records, LP 707 VG/VG Some noticeable light marks & wear

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tent Music – Tent Music
    Tent Music – Tent Music
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    It’s difficult not to feel like everything’s already been discovered and documented, posted, scrolling under our compulsive thumbs; that what we have to look forward to is, at best, only […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Allison Lorenzen – Tender (Baby Blue Vinyl Repress)
    Allison Lorenzen – Tender (Baby Blue Vinyl Repress)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Still reeling from the gut-punch of the distortion filled lead single “Vale” released earlier this year, many of us wondered what a full-length LP by the Denver based artist would […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Magn?s P?lsson ? Enginn Gleypir S_?_lina CD + Book
    Magn?s P?lsson ? Enginn Gleypir S_?_lina CD + Book
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Audio from a Magnus Palsson exhibit. Very Runzelstirn Gurgelstock or Hermann Nitsch energy here. Lots of of grunting, moaning and intimate human sounds. Includes [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Eng?rdetz ? Sillmj?lke
    Eng?rdetz ? Sillmj?lke
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Engürdetz perhaps weren’t a known name to the vast music devouring public – but for a brief period in time & to a scene of chosen few, they were a […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 3
    John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 3
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    This is the third installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—15 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 2
    John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 2
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the second installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—19 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 1 LP
    John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 1 LP
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    This is the first installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—19 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Gong’s first, a previously hard to get album is back in print. Comparatively to the albums they did a few years after, this one […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Magma – Zühn Ẁöhl Ünsaï – Live 1974
    Magma – Zühn Ẁöhl Ünsaï – Live 1974
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Wherever they perform – whether at the legendary hippie Burg Herzberg Festival or at the Leverkusener Jazztage in Germany at the end of the 90s, the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gee Gee Decorator – Gee Gee Decorator
    Gee Gee Decorator – Gee Gee Decorator
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    On the same label that brought us that Pat Metheny “Zero Tolerance for Silence” ‘reissue’ last year…. Insane “private press” ultra-obscurity reissued for [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Desperate Nights 7″ (H2L)
    Desperate Nights 7″ (H2L)
    $7.00 | Add to cart

    H2L007 – Desperate Nights High Tolerance B/w Unclean Machine 7” Lathe Cut/mastered at Str Mastering Center Label Design Luke Yamasaki Cover Design Erektor Korp Layout Assembled Packaged and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Adios Mundo Cruel 7″ (H2L)
    Adios Mundo Cruel 7″ (H2L)
    $7.00 | Add to cart

    H2L008 – Adiós Mundo Cruel En Silencio B/w Estrella De La Mañana 7” Lathe Cut / Mastered at Str Mastering Center Label Design Luke Yamasaki Design Layout Assembled Packaged and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • T.V. Star – Hallucinate Me
    T.V. Star – Hallucinate Me
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Seattle’s TV Star Hallucinate Me is a short but sweet 12″ EP. 6 songs of killer Alt Country Twangy Psych Rock.” – Dan The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sarah Davachi – Selected Works II
    Sarah Davachi – Selected Works II
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Late Music and Disciples are pleased to present the first and second volumes in an archival series of selected electronic and acoustic works by Sarah Davachi, all previously unreleased in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals
    Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Following the star-studded release of Jazz Is Dead’s second series, the venerated label returns with an intimate offering of selected instrumentals from the Series 2 sessions with the legendary [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Koeosaeme ? Obanikeshi
    Koeosaeme ? Obanikeshi
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Koeosaeme is Japanese artist Ryu Yoshizawa, and OBANIKESHI, his second album for Orange Milk, is a master class in how to engineer a compelling sound-design record front to back. Utilizing […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Foodman – Shokuhin
    Foodman – Shokuhin
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released 9/12/2012

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Nico Niquo ? Esperanto
    Nico Niquo ? Esperanto
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Nico Niquo’s ‘Esperanto’ sees the Australian artist return to Orange Milk Records six years since his album ‘In A Silent Way’, and on this new release, Nico builds upon the […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Lauren Bousfield – Salesforce
    Lauren Bousfield – Salesforce
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    An omnivorous composer – gathering inspirations from a wide splattering of genres, styles, and subjects – Lauren Bousfield’s new album Salesforce is the latest creation in her sprawling catalog [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Enemy – Maladjusted
    Enemy – Maladjusted
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Like a rocket from LA to the moon, enemy takes off with their new record Maladjusted. Returning from a split from LA’s Downsided last year, Enemy brings their brand of […]

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  • Aphrodite’s Child – Best Of Aphrodite’s Child
    Aphrodite’s Child – Best Of Aphrodite’s Child
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    A compilation of some of the Vangelis-led prog band’s best tracks German Pressing on Mercury, 6333 002 VG+/VG+ sleeve is VG++, nice copy!

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers (90’s Boot)
    Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers (90’s Boot)
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    Anarcho-punk from Wales. Goes hard. Mortarhate Records – LP MORT 5 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Fan Club Release Country: UK Released: 1996 VG+/VG+ Light marks, some shelf & cornerwear

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
    Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
    $22.00 | 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 […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – green vinyl
    Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – green vinyl
    $25.00 | 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 […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre
    Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    “Hark! DIY sleaze-rock henchpersons, ascend from your cellars and rejoice… Midwestern anti-folk hero Christopher Alan Durham (The Bibs, All Gone Recs) arrives on high horse in [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (White Vinyl)
    Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (White Vinyl)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Born out of a series of studio sessions, LP.8 was created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious. After releasing her sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Woods – Perennial
    Woods – Perennial
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Woods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial. “Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
    S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
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    First solo LP of 2023 by S. Glass of Glands of External Secretion, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, This Is Yvonne Lovejoy and Bananafish Magazine. Numerous practices make up the electro-acoustic sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Holger Czukay – Der Osten Ist Rot
    Holger Czukay – Der Osten Ist Rot
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Protomaryr – Ultimate Success Today
    Protomaryr – Ultimate Success Today
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    There is a sting in the summer blossom of Ultimate Success Today, Protomartyr’ new album. Arriving after Relatives In Descent, Protomartyr’s headlong dive into the morass of American life in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michael Rother – Fernwarme
    Michael Rother – Fernwarme
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    “This is a special guy. Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie. This guy never did. He’s done nothing but superior work just the way […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Holger Czukay – Rome Remains Rome
    Holger Czukay – Rome Remains Rome
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is a tale as old as time. It’s an album. Its songs and music are by and for people together. For listening together. Before it […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative