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Empire of Signs Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy, Spencer Doran and distributed by L

Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP

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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP

From its release in 1975 to today, Another Green World has been heaped with accolades. At the time, Village Voice described it as "the aural equivalent of a park on the moon" and Rolling Stone called it "a major triumph, an important record - and also a b

Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP

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Dais Coil: Time Machines LP

"4 Tones to facilitate travel through time." So begins the listeners' journey into what has become one of the most treasured and revered pieces of COIL history ever released. Each of the four pieces on Time Machines is named after the chemical compound of

Coil: Time Machines LP

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Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP

Repressed again with liner notes. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to a power station, wailing and screaming, with nervous riffs piled on

Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP

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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Ambient 1 : Music for Airports LP

MEGA ESSENTIAL!!! Ground zero for ambient music, if you don't have this record, stop what you are doing, and come and buy it! Available both as a regular 33rpm LP or as an audiophile double 45rpm. Though not the earliest entry in the genre (which Brian En

Eno, Brian: Ambient 1 : Music for Airports LP

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Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP

Vincent Gallo and Harper Simon with a beautifully recorded suite of songs and instrumentals. " More than two decades since he blew minds with a suite of brilliant releases on Warp, Vincent Gallo returns to the world of music at long last in Butterfly, his

Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP

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Century Media Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere LP

Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as the Denver, Colorado quartet. At roughly 45 minutes, the two compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they

Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere LP

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Numero Tsunami: Loud Is As (5LP-grey vinyl) LP

Sprung from the DC punk and politics that inspired Dischord, TeenBeat and the Riot Grrrl revolution, Washington, DC’s Tsunami crashed into the 90s with wit, distortion and a sharp-tongued feminist spirit. This five LP box set collects eleven 7"s, 4-track

Tsunami: Loud Is As (5LP-grey vinyl) LP

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Warp Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP

Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon. The album also includes two songs discovered by James after Trish’s passing: “Come

Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP

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International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP

In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (moth

Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP

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Ideologic Organ Malone, Kali: The Sacrificial Code LP

2025 edition. Kali Malone’s The Sacrificial Code is the 2019 breakthrough album of the acclaimed composer’s pipe organ pieces. Her temporally informed studies of harmonics and intonation breathed life into a suite of compositions which leaves the heart mo

Malone, Kali: The Sacrificial Code LP

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Third Man Boris: Amplifier Worship (25th Anniversary - Lime Swirl) LP

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Boris’ sonic marvel Amplifier Worship, Third Man Records is thrilled to present a one time pressing of this classic double LP on colored vinyl. Manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit and housed inside a wonderfu

Boris: Amplifier Worship (25th Anniversary - Lime Swirl) LP

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Hands in the Dark Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP

Christian Schoppik aka Läuten der Seele brings his “Water” trilogy to a close with his new album ‘Die Reise zur Monsalwäsche’ (The Journey to Monsalwäsche) following up ‘Die Mariengrotte als Trinkwasseraufbereitungsanlage’ (2022, Hands in the Dark) and ‘E

Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP

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Modern Classics Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP

The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant. The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said.

Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP

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Palto Flats Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kakashi LP

"Originally released in 1982, Kakashi is another high water mark in the 80s Japanese underground. This album, which has gathered cult status in recent years, is the project of musical visionary Yasuaki Shimizu, and considered to be a highlight of his solo

Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kakashi LP

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Superior Viaduct cLOUDDEAD: s/t LP

cLOUDDEAD's debut album, compiling six 10" EPs that appeared between 2000-2001, is aurally dense and obscured. A sprawling mass of miniature beat-suites and Dadaist lyrics, this strange and beautiful 3xLP would influence a myriad of sub-genres (cloud rap,

cLOUDDEAD: s/t LP

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ECM Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP

In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s, Tabula Rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collabor

Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP

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International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah: In Electric Time LP

On June 29th, 2023, Jeremiah Chiu walked into the Vintage Synthesizer Museum (VSM) in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with no plan more specific than “let’s fire this stuff up and see what happens.” Exploring the VSM’s vast collection of classic, rare and sta

Chiu, Jeremiah: In Electric Time LP

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Nor Nordung Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP

"Who Can I Turn To Stereo" by Nurse With Wound for the first time on Vinyl! It will be released as double album (including bonus material), strictly limited and numbered and in different colors (Black, Transparent, Silver and Gold). There will be a speci

Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP

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Dais Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark LP

Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric ind

Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark LP

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Constellation Godspeed You! Black Emperor: f#a# LP

F# A# ∞ was recorded at the original Hotel2Tango in spring 1997 on a rented 16-track tape deck and supplemented with various field recordings. In the preceding year, the band had taken shape as a quasi-orchestral outfit involving most of the players that

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: f#a# LP

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Blue Fog Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) LP

Out of print and unavailable for many years, one of the most memorable Eric’s Trip releases, aside from the “Love Tara” album, is the indie EP that introduced them to the world.

Their youthful energy, catchy songs, and noisy lo-fi recording techniques

Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) LP

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Matador Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches LP

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight

Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches LP

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Cherry Red Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Double Gatefold Green Vinyl) LP

Gatefold; green vinyl. "Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued Green Mind in 1991 as the alternati

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Double Gatefold Green Vinyl) LP

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