April 19th Newsletter
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  • Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    Matthew J Rolin – Passing
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    What our staff has to say: “I’m a big fan of Matthew Rolin’s guitar style, and this recent record is stunning. Each track is a dense, glimmering passage of fingerstyle […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
    Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
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    Limited pressing of 300 with riso sleeve. “In the spirit of Dead Moon before them, Green/Blue have wrangled the simplicity of “Worry” and “Gimme Hell” to write some of their […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Smut – How The Light Felt (Transparent Orange Vinyl)
    Smut – How The Light Felt (Transparent Orange Vinyl)
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    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
    Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
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    A lone pair of footsteps meanders down a street in Omaha, into the neighborhood bar and then into a near-imperceptible tangle of conversations – about wars, sleepless nights –  a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tempers – New Meaning
    Tempers – New Meaning
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    The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • People – Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock
    People – Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock
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    Reissue, originally released in 1971. A monster on its own Ceremony-Buddha Meet Rock still is one of the most enigmatic records to have come out of the early seventies Japanese […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fernando Pessoa – The Transformation Book
    Fernando Pessoa – The Transformation Book
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    The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa’s pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
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    Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
    Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
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    Out 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
  • Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
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    It should come as no surprise that ‘deep listening,’ a practice attributed to the late Pauline Oliveros, gestated into a form of ‘music,’ often labelled ‘as ambient, ethereal, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
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    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
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    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smut – How The Light Felt
    Smut – How The Light Felt
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chronophage – S/T
    Chronophage – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Chronophage is one of those bands that I will forever be interested in their output. This most recent record feels like a small departure […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Paul Flaherty & Zach Rowden – As Far As Death
    Paul Flaherty & Zach Rowden – As Far As Death
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    As Far As Death is the cross-generational debut of fire music evangelist and saxophonist Paul Flaherty with double bassist and composer Zach Rowden. The Connecticut natives forge an album of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
    Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
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    On April 2, 1979, Japanese musicians and Fluxus practitioners Takehiosa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki recorded New Sense of Hearing at Tokyo’s Aeolian Hall. Described by Suzuki as the “culmination” of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dickie Landry – Solos
    Dickie Landry – Solos
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    On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert. This ensemble’s […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
    Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
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    Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
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    What 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
  • Private Lives – S/T CS
    Private Lives – S/T CS
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    Five tracks of incredibly vital and hard hitting punk from Montréal! Private Lives morphed from the pandemic bedroom project of husband and wife Chance (guitar) and Jackie (vocals) into a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
    Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
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    Undeniably one of the most prolific punk bands of the moment, Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? are back mere weeks after their debut LP with an eleven song cassette! Just in time […]

    GENRE:
  • Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
    Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
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    Shake the Feeling: B-Sides & Rarities 2015–2021 surveys the sound surrounding Iceage’s last three albums, Plowing Into the Field of Love, Beyondless and Seek Shelter. A study in the powerful [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Waiting and Counting : Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field Material for this release is based around a performance determined by a partial system of cues (max patch) that occur […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ryu Hankil – 3
    Ryu Hankil – 3
    $24.00 | Add to cart

    Released by Incheon Art Platform in Korea. “This is also connected with exorcism. In the ruling system of medieval religion and politics, demons, devils, etc. were treated as viruses that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Various Artists – Ny Dansk Romantik LP
    Various Artists – Ny Dansk Romantik LP
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Iindisputably, one of the most critically acclaimed compilations in 2014. Originally released on cassette by Janushoved on a much sought-after limited edition of 61 copies, now outstandingly [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
    Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
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    What our staff has to say: “Honestly how does a record this good get made??? Sorry Eric – The Problem with fun is the perfect driving the car record, it’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    What 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 […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Spots – Loosey 12″ EP
    Sun Spots – Loosey 12″ EP
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    What our staff has to say: “Sun Spots 3rd EP Loosy hits hard with Tracks like Big Stroke and the title track Loosey heavily influenced by bands like SuperChunk and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Diamond Soul – Maya’mi
    Diamond Soul – Maya’mi
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    Maya’mi is the third release and first LP on Orange Milk from Alex Colombo’s Diamond Soul project. The album continues to experiment with hyper-abstracted electronics and collage aesthetics, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Co La – Sensory Dub Example
    Co La – Sensory Dub Example
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    ‘Sensory Dub Example’ is the newest Co La music since ‘No No’ in 2015, and his first long-form 20 minute piece, presented in digital formats and on a single-sided 12” […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • W00dy – Headhanging…
    W00dy – Headhanging…
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    Headbanging In The Club is an ode to the Pittsburgh underground electronic music community. In a small city with very few recognized club spaces, we make our own clubs in […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Claire Rousay + More Eaze – Never Stop Texting Me
    Claire Rousay + More Eaze – Never Stop Texting Me
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    Never Stop Texting Me by More Eaze and Claire Rousay is a pop record. Melodies and chorus in every track about crushes, collaborating with friends, and the mundane of everyday […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Man Made Hill – Mirage Repair
    Man Made Hill – Mirage Repair
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    Man Made Hill has been festering in the greasy underground of Planet Ontario since the Northeastern blackout of 2003, and currently keeps in the blue-collar stronghold of the Hammer-zone. This [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Seth Graham – Gasp
    Seth Graham – Gasp
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    Gasp is constructed to sound like a digital blob of classical music with no obligation, testing the limits of both classical structure, modern technology, and unconscious obligation to the [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Noah Crehevsky – Reanimator
    Noah Crehevsky – Reanimator
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    Noah Creshevsky is an early pioneer of electronic and collage music who has been composing since 1971. He was trained by Luciano Berio at Juilliard and Nadia Boulanger in Paris, […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
    V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
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    As 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 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V-3 – The Enemy Within LP
    V-3 – The Enemy Within LP
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    As 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 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
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    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Drama/Arthouse
  • Herta Muller – Nadirs
    Herta Muller – Nadirs
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    Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Merzbow – Aqua Necromancer 2LP
    Merzbow – Aqua Necromancer 2LP
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    Masami Akita’s psych-noise mantra originally released on CD in 1998 by Alien8 Recordings. Expanded double LP reissue available now in standard black and limited white vinyl editions. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Karger Traum ? III LP
    Karger Traum ? III LP
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    What our staff has to say: “Great LP from a cool label Fixed Rhythms. Joocha and Das Ende are the standout tracks for me, a great record to grab if […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Similar Shapes – Sites CS
    Similar Shapes – Sites CS
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Ambient soundscapes, environmental noise, all tinged with decay. Listening to this tape feels like library music you heard as a kid appearing in your […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life
    Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life
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    After a decade spent at the height of the music industry, touring solo and with large pop bands, Courtney Marie Andrews realized her desire for a place to come home […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Sea and Cake – Runner (Robin’s Egg Blue Vinyl)
    The Sea and Cake – Runner (Robin’s Egg Blue Vinyl)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    The Sea and Cake deliver an album with the freshness and energy of a new band, and the ease and musicianship that can only come with experience. Runner began as […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Black Pus – All My Relations
    Black Pus – All My Relations
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    Black Pus is Brian Chippendale, who rose to prominence as the drummer of noise rock titans Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer. The first Black Pus CD-R was self released in early […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux – In Plain Speech
    Circuit Des Yeux – In Plain Speech
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    Haley Fohr’s music strikes a unique balance between the personal and universal. As Circuit des Yeux she creates music that embodies the complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing tenderness and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist
    Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist
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    Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker are both known for their creativity and curious spirits. Rumback is a drummer in high demand in Chicago’s free-jazz circles, and a pillar of the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative