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  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
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    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
    Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
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    “Having left Pink Floyd in 1968 after a daily LSD habit had taken its toll, Syd Barrett’s first solo album finally appeared two years later with ex-Floyd sidekicks David Gilmour […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
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    IGGY and The Stooges, ‘METALLIC K.O.’, the Original 1976 Album, the notorious ‘Last Ever Iggy & The Stooges Show’!, ‘METALLIC K.O.’ is the remarkable album [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
    Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
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    The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – Parachute
    Pretty Things – Parachute
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    “The Pretty Things always made ‘The Stones’ look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance” David Gilmour, Pink Floyd The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
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    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
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    The Prisoners, contemporaries of Billy Childish, epitomize the garage punk sound of the Medway Delta. This reissue of their 1982 debut album is re-mastered from the original tapes & is […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Sonics – Boom
    The Sonics – Boom
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    “The Sonics’ second album is every bit as explosive and influential as their debut outing, loaded with gritty Northwest rock & roll. Sandwiched in between the abrasive classics of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Stooges – The Stooges
    The Stooges – The Stooges
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    “Everything the peace and love vibe of the ’60s wasn’t the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop’s monotone [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Sonics – Here Are the Sonics!!!
    The Sonics – Here Are the Sonics!!!
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    The Sonics that Wailers bassist Buck Ormsby took into a small studio and unleashed on the world show a live band at the peak of its power, ready to mow […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – Funhouse
    The Stooges – Funhouse
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    “Of course the Stooges were stupid, that was the whole point. Three chords were okay, two were even better, one or none (the cacophonous “L.A. Blues”) was best of all. […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Moebius & Plank – Material
    Moebius & Plank – Material
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    On their second album Material, originally released on Sky Records in 1981, Moebius & Plank ventured far, far away from the double coordinates of the Harmonia world and pop music […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – Leaving Meaning
    Swans – Leaving Meaning
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    leaving meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Throbbing Gristle – Mission of Dead Souls
    Throbbing Gristle – Mission of Dead Souls
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    Mission of Dead Souls is a recording of the final performance of Throbbing Gristle before their initial breakup. The concert took place at the Kezar Pavilion in Golden Gate Park […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Can – Soundtracks
    Can – Soundtracks
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    First released in 1970, Soundtracks consists of songs written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band’s original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
    Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
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    After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Can – Live in Brighton 1975
    Can – Live in Brighton 1975
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    Can Live Series Vol II.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – The End…
    Nico – The End…
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    Nico’s 1974 album was her third collaboration with producer and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale. The album, highlighted by her definitive interpretation of the Doors’ [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Velvet Underground – Loaded
    The Velvet Underground – Loaded
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    While John Cale certainly gave the first couple of Velvet Underground albums a signature sound, his departure enabled Lou Reed to do exactly what he does best: write kick-ass, stripped-down […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Velvet Underground – The Best of the Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground – The Best of the Velvet Underground
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    The best tracks from their entire career.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – Chelsea Girl
    Nico – Chelsea Girl
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    Beautiful dark folk influenced debut featuring songs by Lou Reed & John Cale pre-Velvet Underground & Jackson Browne

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • John Cale & Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax
    John Cale & Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax
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    This unique collaboration was originally released in 1971 and saw John Cale (fresh from his ground-breaking work as a member of the Velvet Underground and now finding his feet as […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
    Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
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    Vulnicura Strings is the acoustic version of Björk’s Vulnicura, featuring strings, voice and viola organista only – out on CD and vinyl. The original version of Vulnicura layered the boom […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joni Île – Semaphore CS
    Joni Île – Semaphore CS
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    In the age of boredom-less nights I sometimes yearn for times I sat on my bedroom floor listening to the same albums over and over. The first time I heard […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
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    Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
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    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
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    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
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    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
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    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s.From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
    A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
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    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
    Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
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    Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
    New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
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    For nearly 20 years, a group of musicians has been making music in the tradition of pioneers such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and John Coltrane, but which is uniquely […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
    Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
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    From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]

    GENRE:
  • Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
    Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
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    In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
    Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
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    Marjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
    Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
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    First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Penny Rimbaud – The Last Of The Hippies
    Penny Rimbaud – The Last Of The Hippies
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    First published in 1982 as part of the Crass record album Christ: The Album, Penny Rimbaud’s The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
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    Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Greenaway – Eight And A Half Women
    Peter Greenaway – Eight And A Half Women
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    Eight and a Half Women accompanies Peter Greenaway’s latest movie of that name (referring to Fellini’s film), to be released in 1999. A laconic black comedy, the film examines the [...]

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  • The World Of Lucha Libre
    The World Of Lucha Libre
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    The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Speed Limits
    Speed Limits
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    A stunning exhibition catalogue to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Italian futurist movement, whose 1909 manifesto proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
    Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
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    This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon’s work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
    England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
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    This is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
    Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
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    Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema’s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
    Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
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    Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Surrealism At Play
    Surrealism At Play
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    In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Semiotext(e): The German Issue
    Semiotext(e): The German Issue
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    A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
    The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
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    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
    Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
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    An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction