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Munster Faust: So Far LP

After the poor sales of their debut album, Faust's So Far (1972) presents the more commercial and accessible side of the legendary German krautrock band without giving up their advanced and experimental personality. It is a perfect album to begin explorin

Faust: So Far LP

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Magical Power Mako: s/t LP

One of the most iconic figures in the Japanese alternative rock scene ever! Originally released in 1973, this was Magical Power Maco's highly visionary debut album. An eccentric mix of psyche, folk, kraut elements wisely filtered with Oriental sensibility

Magical Power Mako: s/t LP

C$39.99

Drag City Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP

Years past the space time of Automaginary, Bitchin Bajas and Natural Infor- mation Society have reported back at last from beyond. If the new title doesn’t clue you, Totality brings good news. Since their first collaboration, the path- ways that lead from

Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality 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

C$44.99

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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Invitation Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP

Deep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ōhashi and the Geinoh Yamashirogumi crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan, 1990, Ecophony Gaia, was supposed to be the stunning, aural centerpiece for a li

Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP

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Discrepant Banha da Cobra: Lava Love LP

Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020 -- amidst the Pandemic, no less -- the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their Mãe D'Água debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's Aqu

Banha da Cobra: Lava Love LP

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Chemikal Underground Mogwai: Come On Die Young (WHITE) LP

Arriving in March 1999 with an album cover that referenced The Exorcist and a title scalped from a well-known Glasgow gang slogan, you'd have expected Mogwai's "Come On Die Young" to be an apocalypse-harbouring, pre-millennial assault on the senses. Inste

Mogwai: Come On Die Young (WHITE) LP

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Mute Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats LP

Mute present a vinyl repress of 20 Jazz Funk Greats, the landmark 1979 album from industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The impetus for the record apparently came about from Genesis P-Orridge's mother's request that the band record something "nice.

Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats 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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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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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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International Anthem SML: Small Medium Large LP

SML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their debut album Small Medium Large began as a collection of long form improvisations recorded

SML: Small Medium Large LP

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Verve Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP

Transferred from Analog Tapes and Remastered on 180g Vinyl LP as Part of the Verve By Request Series. Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode

Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP

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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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Blackened Metallica: Master Of Puppets LP

Following remastered reissues and special deluxe editions of their first two albums on their own Blackened Recordings in 2016, Metallica honors their promise to give that same love to their entire catalog starting with their landmark third album Master of

Metallica: Master Of Puppets LP

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Blackened Metallica: Ride The Lightning LP

1984 Metallica Album Combines Uncompromising Extremes, Refined Tunefulness, Smart Songwriting: Ride the Lightning Sounds Incredible on Remastered LP, Features "Fade to Black"

The first metal album to take the art form to both uncompromising extremes wh

Metallica: Ride The Lightning 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

C$36.99

Good Morning Tapes Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP

Heavenly new age ambient synthesis and 4th world navigations by two leading lights of their field, flocking to a mutual spirit at the behest of Australia’s eternally reliable Good Morning Tapes. RIYL Asa-Chang & Junray, Jon Hassell, Nueen, Enya, David Too

Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ 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

C$119.99

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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Partisan Cymande: Cymande (TRANSLUCENT ORANGE CRUSH) LP

In 1972, with the release of their self-titled debut album, Cymande emerged as innovators of the black British music scene. Taking influences from their Guyanese and Jamaican roots, the band fused reggae bass lines, Afro-tinged Nyabinghi percussion, psych

Cymande: Cymande (TRANSLUCENT ORANGE CRUSH) LP

C$41.99

Numero Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP

Unwound's third album in as many years, 1995's The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia, WA trio's signature sound – grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps – ratchets past the threa

Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP

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