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  • Deef – Real Control
    Deef – Real Control
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    Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken​-​Ichi
    Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken​-​Ichi
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    Die Öwan’s final cassette release, 1983’s Mikawa Ken-Ichi, shows the band at their most focused, crafting a full on album’s worth of music in their trademark style of DIY experimental […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Öwan – Öwannibalism
    Die Öwan – Öwannibalism
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    A cult teenage Japanese punk group which existed from 1979-1983, and during that time managed to release the rarest punk record in Japan, operate their own cassette label, organize house […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Deef – Real Control 1982-1983
    Deef – Real Control 1982-1983
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    A more affordable pro-CD option containing both of the Deef LPs released by General Speech on one CD. Still with the full liner notes in both English and Japanese, some […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Puncture – Mucky Pup / You Can’t Rock And Roll
    Puncture – Mucky Pup / You Can’t Rock And Roll
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    Official reissue of the very first single on the revolutionary Small Wonder Records from 1977. Puncture deliver one of the absolute best, and most unique singles from the 77 punk […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Legion Of Parasites* – Undesirable Guests
    The Legion Of Parasites* – Undesirable Guests
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    Long overdue official reissue of one of the most absolutely raging UK hardcore punk records. The first 12″ from 1984 by this cult band took the ferocity, and raw sound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Swanky’s* – The Very Best Of Hero
    The Swanky’s* – The Very Best Of Hero
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    The first ever official vinyl reissue of this 80s Japanese punk masterpiece. This record defined the “Kyushu Punk” sound, and spawned countless fans and imitators in Japan, and across the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
    Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
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    After working on this book, on and off for over 30 years, trying to gather and piece together the Crass jigsaw puzzle, it finally became time to say ‘it’s finished’. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – The Key To Our Love Vol. 2
    V/A – The Key To Our Love Vol. 2
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    The follow up to last years initial release, The Key To Our Love Vol.2 continues to highlight the rarer side of Sweet Soul by recording artists from the late 60s […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
    Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
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    The first English-language collection focused on the later works of Joyce Mansour, an Arab-Jewish Surrealist poet who was exiled from Egypt in the 1950s and settled in Paris. Mansour’s late […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
    Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
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    This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Matt Longabucco – M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s “La maman et la putain”
    Matt Longabucco – M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s “La maman et la putain”
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    Jean Eustache came of age as a director in the aftermath of the French New Wave, and made La maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) already disillusioned […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
    M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
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    Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and moved to Florida. With the husband she’s grown to hate firmly […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
    Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
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    A brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction A young woman drifts through dimly lit bars and rented rooms, reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford
    Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford
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    Constant Stranger spotlights the accomplishments and enduring influence of the poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). The book comprises a mix of republished and brand-new tributes, translations, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir Of Richard Brautigan
    Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir Of Richard Brautigan
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    In Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
    Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
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    Leopold’s Labyrinth puts the reader at the center of a story where they take shape as a recluse residing in the digitally-constructed environments of the future—the cybergothic landscape of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
    Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
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    Bruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Manon: Feathers
    Manon: Feathers
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    Memories and observations from the five-decade career of feminist installation artist Manon Swiss artist Manon (born 1940) came to prominence in the 1970s with her installation The Salmon [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
    Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
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    Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
    Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
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    A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. “Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion
    The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion
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    The landmark study of world myth and culture Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos of ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. The third edition of this monumental […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Severed + Said – End Time Loop
    Severed + Said – End Time Loop
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    Floridian synthesist John Touchton aka Severed+Said returns with his most cinematic suite yet of witching hour electronics, spidery rhythm, and macabre clockwork: End Time Loop. A 10-track [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving
    David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving
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    Antwerp synthesist David Edren describes his latest solo collection in conceptual terms: a harmony of space and time, elements and environments, perception and impermanence. Conceived in the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Phil Geraldi – AM/FM USA
    Phil Geraldi – AM/FM USA
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    Itinerant journeyman Phil Geraldi has hitched and hustled from Humboldt Bay to Brooklyn to Portlandia and beyond, working in a variety of guises both artistic (cathode noise project Mystics In [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • White Poppy – Ataraxia
    White Poppy – Ataraxia
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    The concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s ‘Paradise Gardens’ trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of “paradise music” combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
    The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
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    New studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees’ David Costa. Dunedin’s finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
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    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
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    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
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      Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
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    Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. It’s [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
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    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
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    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
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    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
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    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Suzanne Doucet – Reflecting Light Vol. II
    Suzanne Doucet – Reflecting Light Vol. II
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    Suzanne Doucet was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • William Wichman – Suzanne Doucet – Brilliance
    William Wichman – Suzanne Doucet – Brilliance
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    Suzanne Doucet was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ike Yard – 1982
    Ike Yard – 1982
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    Dark Entries flashes back to the grimy streets of New York City circa 1982 to bring us an unreleased album from cult outfit Ike Yard. Comprised of Stuart Argabright, Michael […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Nervous Gender – Music From Hell
    Nervous Gender – Music From Hell
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    Nervous Gender’s legendary synthpunk LP Music From Hell burbles up from infernal depths to resurface on Dark Entries! Confrontational, unhinged, and unabashedly queer, Music from Hell is an [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • V/A – Rock Rendez Vous: M​ú​sica Moderna Portuguesa 1985​-​1986
    V/A – Rock Rendez Vous: M​ú​sica Moderna Portuguesa 1985​-​1986
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    The seductive sounds of Portugal swing to Dark Entries on Rock Rendez Vous: Música Moderna Portuguesa 1985-1986, a compilation of vintage Iberian synth, wave, and postpunk gems. The legendary [...]

    GENRE: International, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Eleven Pond – Bas Relief
    Eleven Pond – Bas Relief
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    Dark Entries celebrates its 15th anniversary by returning to where it all started, our initial darkest entry: Eleven Pond’s masterpiece Bas Relief, an ultra-obscure album from 1986 that would [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Ghostwriters – Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear
    Ghostwriters – Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear
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    Dark Entries calls on Philadelphia experimental duo The Ghostwriters to resurrect their 1981 LP of minimalist mayhem, Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear. The late Buchla maestro [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Ghostwriters – Remote Dreaming
    The Ghostwriters – Remote Dreaming
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    Dark Entries summons Philadelphia synthesizer scribes The Ghostwriters to rouse their ambient masterwork Remote Dreaming. The late Buchla maestro Charles Cohen and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cain [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Severed Heads – Ear Bitten
    Severed Heads – Ear Bitten
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    Dark Entries picks up Severed Heads yet again for Ear Bitten, a double LP reissue of some of the band’s earliest material. As originary Aussie industrial legends – although founder […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Teenage Gizzard
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Teenage Gizzard
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo Vol. 6 Music To Burn Money To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo Vol. 6 Music To Burn Money To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo’s 5 Music To Think Existentially To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo’s 5 Music To Think Existentially To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vol. 4 Music To Die To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vol. 4 Music To Die To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo Vol. 3 Music To Eat Pond Scum To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demo Vol. 3 Music To Eat Pond Scum To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vol. 1 Music To Kill Bad People To
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Demos Vol. 1 Music To Kill Bad People To
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    *Part of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Bootlegger series* Limited cassette release – pro-dubbed tapes with full color j-cards & printed labels. Low editions under 30 of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Backup Expediente Tecno Pop
    V/A – Backup Expediente Tecno Pop
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    On Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop, Dark Entries brings us 10 divergent tracks of Mexican electronics from 1980-1989, full of skittering analog drum boxes and saucy synthesizer hooks. 8 of […]

    GENRE: International, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
    Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
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    Deadstock copy with new covers. Glam punk rocker from Cincinnati Ohio circa 1980. Originally released on Shake It!. Rare one to find at all… These were a bit dusty but […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Nu Sire – Human Shield
    Nu Sire – Human Shield
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    Nu Sire is Jason James, who is active between the various underground communities of noise, techno, hardcore and metal in Los Angeles. Human Shield arrives after several years of upstaging […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
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    Seeing the world through a Pratt’s eyes is a surpassingly beautiful thing. But subtly, oh so subtly, and with such sweet flakes of humor falling. Tunes and vibe to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
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    M as in mysterious. A group of sounds recorded in Louisville KY. Smooth blue instrumental guitar music. In the musical alphabet, what comes after rock?

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • King Crimson ? Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (1977 UK)
    King Crimson ? Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (1977 UK)
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    The best prog record of all time. Label: Polydor – 2302 061 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country:UK Released:1977 VG+/VG+. Label has some tearing. Edgewear & general light sleevewear

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Jill Fraser – Earthly Pleasures
    Jill Fraser – Earthly Pleasures
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    Veteran electronic music composer Jill Fraser’s new work takes stock of generations and lifetimes of memory, speculating on how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Matchess – Stena
    Matchess – Stena
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of pyschoacoustic voyager Matchess, crafts an encompassing work of psychoacoustic music with two separate releases. On Hav, an LP under her own name, Whitney [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Whitney Johnson – Hav
    Whitney Johnson – Hav
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of psychoacoustic voyager Matchess, debuts with a new composition that meditates on the duality of the human body. An instrument that collates awesome sensory [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise