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Black Editions Musica Transonic + Mainliner: Solid Static LP

Electrifying heavy sessions recorded in 1997 featuring the classic Mainliner + Musica Transonic lineup of Nanjo Asahito (High Rise), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mother) and Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins) driving into new divergently fried terrain(s). Here, Nanjo and c

Musica Transonic + Mainliner: Solid Static LP

C$44.99

Black Editions Ohkami No Jikan: Black Tape II LP

Black Tape II is only the second widely available release by Ohkami No Jikan (The Time of the Wolf), one of the more esoteric groups of the 1990s Tokyo underground. Recorded in 1992, it illuminates a largely undocumented facet of Nanjo Asahito's psychedel

Ohkami No Jikan: Black Tape II LP

C$44.99

Black Editions Rotting Telepathies: Rotting Tapes II LP

Black Editions presents the first ever vinyl and digital editions of Rotting Tapes II by Rotting Telepathies, the free-punk trip of spectral poet Michio Kadotani and High Rise founder Nanjo Asahito. Recorded live in 1982, and originally issued as a limite

Rotting Telepathies: Rotting Tapes II LP

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Black Editions Nean: Doo Dah Nean LP

A bizarrely entrancing jewel from the depths of the Japanese underground, Doo Dah Nean was originally released in small run of hand assembled cassettes by the La Musica label in the late '90s. The album is the sole release and evidence of Nean, an entirel

Nean: Doo Dah Nean LP

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Black Editions White Heaven: Out LP

White Heaven's debut album Out is one of the greatest psychedelic rock albums ever recorded. First released in 1991 by Tokyo's P.S.F. Records and pressed in an edition of 500 copies the original LP has become a holy grail in underground circles, with only

White Heaven: Out LP

C$39.99

Black Editions High Rise: Disturbance Trip Live LP

Ten blistering performances from Tokyo's legendary High Rise. Recorded live in 1992, Disturbance Trip (BE 016LP) is a previously unreleased, distortion-saturated gem recorded in the same era as their third studio album, Dispersion. Guitarist Munehiro Nari

High Rise: Disturbance Trip Live LP

C$59.99

Black Editions White Heaven: Strange Bedfellows LP

Reissue, originally released in 1993. White Heaven's second album, Strange Bedfellow, is one of the great unsung albums of the '90s Japanese underground. Released two years after their striking debut, Out (BE 005LP), the album reveals the group shifting t

White Heaven: Strange Bedfellows LP

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Black Editions Musica Transonic: s/t LP

Black Editions present a reissue of Musica Transonic's self-titled release, originally released in 1995. Musica Transonic was comprised of three of the most crucial artists to emerge from the 1990s Japanese underground: Nanjo Asahito of High Rise, Makoto

Musica Transonic: s/t LP

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Black Editions High Rise: ll LP

Black Editions present a reissue of High Rise's II, originally released in 1986. High Rise exploded onto Tokyo's underground music scene with the roar and reckless abandon of a motorcycle accelerating headlong into a dead man's curve. Born from the explos

High Rise: ll LP

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Black Editions Asahito, Nanjo: M LP

A collection of intimate songs traced from the spectral darkness by Nanjo Asahito, the notorious leader of some of Japan's key underground psychedelic units (High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Transonic, Toho Sara, etc) Recorded between 1980 and 1988 and previo

Asahito, Nanjo: M LP

C$44.99

Black Editions Haino, Keiji: Watashi Dake LP

Black Editions present the first vinyl reissue of Keiji Haino's stunning debut album Watashi Dake?, originally released in 1981. This first ever edition released outside of Japan features the artist's originally intended metallic gold and silver jacket ar

Haino, Keiji: Watashi Dake LP

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Black Editions Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: s/t LP

Black Editions presents the deluxe, first-ever vinyl edition of Acid Mothers Temple's classic self-titled first album. Over the last 25 years no group has been more prolific or dedicated to pushing psychedelic rock to its limits than Japan's Acid Mothers

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: s/t LP

C$49.99

Black Editions Various: Tokyo Flashback 2LP

Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the his

Various: Tokyo Flashback 2LP

C$54.99

Black Editions Bibiotheca Hermetica: One LP

Anonymous transmissions from a spectral, dead-of-night mystery zone. Recorded in 1996 and originally release by Japan's enigmatic La Musica Records label on limited cassette. A group that deconstructs and liberates the chance nature of contemporary classi

Bibiotheca Hermetica: One LP

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Black Editions Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless s

Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

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Black Editions Go Hirano: Corridor LP

Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Go Hirano's third album, Corridor of Daylights, originally released in 2004. Corridor of Daylights is a quiet work of dreamlike brilliance. A home field recording where fragile piano melodies float al

Go Hirano: Corridor LP

C$34.99

Black Editions Kawashima, Makoto: Homo Sacer LP

Makoto Kawashima was born in Saitama, a prefecture of the Greater Tokyo Area, in 1981. He picked up the alto sax in 2008, and started playing solo in 2010. He is the founder of the Homosacer (Sacredhuman) label. Homo Sacer was originally released in 2015.

Kawashima, Makoto: Homo Sacer LP

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Black Editions Ishihara, You: Passivite LP

Passivité is the entrancingly beautiful debut solo album from You Ishihara, the founder of Japan's legendary White Heaven. Originally released on CD in 1997, it received scant attention. Since then, it has steadily gathered adherents, who, like P.S.F. Rec

Ishihara, You: Passivite LP

C$49.99

Black Editions Kawashima, Makoto: Zoe LP

With each release and performance over the last ten years, saxophonist Makoto Kawashima has continued to stake his claim as one of today's most captivating improvisers. Zoe is Kawashima's first ever studio album and his second with Black Editions. Recorde

Kawashima, Makoto: Zoe LP

C$39.99

Black Editions Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Mass Hysterism in Another Situation LP

Black Editions presents Mass Hysterism in Another Situation remastered and cut to double 45RPM 12" vinyl. Mass Hysterism in Another Situation captures Masayuki Takayanagi's New Direction Unit in its final incarnation, at an apex in its development; it als

Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Mass Hysterism in Another Situation LP

C$54.99

Black Editions Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX

With the cosmic-disco-drenched Burning Feeling, Steve Moore's high-gloss Lovelock project conjured one of the most slept-on albums of last decade. Chunky, neon-lit synths and crashing, spacey guitars ride chugging Italo basslines and smooth-yet-shuddering

Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX

C$89.99

Black Editions Higuchi, Keiko: Vertical Language LP

Heavy tip-on jacket with matte pigment stamping and insert. Based in Tokyo, Keiko Higuchi is a vocalist and instrumentalist internationally renowned both for her solo performances and extensive collaborations in the world of underground improvisation, jaz

Higuchi, Keiko: Vertical Language LP

C$34.99

Black Editions Gayle, Charles / Milford Graves / William Parker: WEBO 3LP

"A legendary concert by one of the great unrecorded bands in free jazz history is here at last. WEBO, the third installment in the Black Editions Archive series of previously unreleased recordings from Milford Graves' private tape library, roars into the

Gayle, Charles / Milford Graves / William Parker: WEBO 3LP

C$99.99

Black Editions High Rise: Dispersion LP

From the moment they emerged in the early days of the '80s Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era. The group's core duo of

High Rise: Dispersion LP

C$64.99

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