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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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Westbound Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP

Maggot Brain, released in 1971, is Funkadelic's all-out masterpiece. Absolutely no one working in soul and funk at the time had the scope, vision and, let's be honest, sheer lunacy to pull off the kind of record that George Clinton and his collaborators h

Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP

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Schema Group: The Feed-Back LP

The Feed-Back, by Italy’s Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (aka the Group), is a wild ride along the seams of free jazz, 20th century avant-garde classical music, psychedelic rock, and emerging funk. While no members of the unit are credited we

Group: The Feed-Back LP

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Sonor Music Editions Alessandroni, Alessandro: Open Air Parade LP

Alessandro Alessandroni's definitive holy grail, Open Air Parade, reissued on Sonor Music Editions. The very best library record by the cult maestro on the dreams podium alongside Spontaneous (1974), the two Farfalla recordings, and Ritmo Dell'industria t

Alessandroni, Alessandro: Open Air Parade LP

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Touch & Go Big Black: Songs About Fucking LP

Songs About Fucking, the last Big Black studio album, ups the aggression ante on almost every front. The music is more bombastic, the production is harsher, and the lyrics are even more confrontational, delivered even more stridently than before. Rather t

Big Black: Songs About Fucking LP

C$20.99

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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Light in the Attic Various: Kankyo Ongaku LP

Light In The Attic’s Japan Archival Series continues with Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, an unprecedented overview of the country’s vital minimal, ambient, avant-garde, and New Age music – what can collectively b

Various: Kankyo Ongaku LP

C$79.99

Numero Various: Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares LP

As the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz a

Various: Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares LP

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Superior Viaduct Goraguer, Alain: La Planete Sauvage Ost LP

Animated sci-fi masterpiece La Planète Sauvage (a.k.a. Fantastic Planet), winner at Cannes Film Festival in 1973, is a bizarre and beautiful film. Towering blue-skinned figures, tiny humanoids in the midst of revolt, and drug-induced Tantric sex transport

Goraguer, Alain: La Planete Sauvage Ost LP

C$34.99

Recital Davachi, Sarah: Let Night Come On Bells End The Day LP

Recital present the newest record by Canadian composer Sarah Davachi. Currently working on her PhD in Musicology at UCLA, her trajectory has been unorthodox. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, which, if you've never been there, doesn't really scream "avant-ga

Davachi, Sarah: Let Night Come On Bells End The Day LP

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Third Man Captain Beefheart: 2019RSD - Trout Mask Replica (2LP/Stoughton jacket/booklet) LP

A stone cold weirdo classic that for some INSANE reason hasn't been properly reissued until now, and as this write up says, until you've seen this reissue, you might as well have seen a childen's drawing of the cover, this restoration is absolutely incred

Captain Beefheart: 2019RSD - Trout Mask Replica (2LP/Stoughton jacket/booklet) LP

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Fat Possum X: Los Angeles LP

A reissue of X's essential debut album originally released by Slash in 1980, and the first in a series of X reissues on Fat Possum. Ranked # 286 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

X: Los Angeles LP

C$29.99

Cinewax Jodorowsky's Dune OST LP

This is the soundtrack to the story about the greatest film that never was.

Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the tale of cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unsuccessful attempt to adapt Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel, Dune, to the big screen. Composer

Jodorowsky's Dune OST LP

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Numero Megira, Charlie: Tomorrow's Gone LP

Even in this age of near-total Internet accessibility, Charlie Megira is a modern mystery. A casual search turns up little aside from a few cryptic articles. His brief career unfolded during a changing of the guard in the music industry, opening on the de

Megira, Charlie: Tomorrow's Gone LP

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Empire of Signs Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music from Nine Postcards 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 from Nine Postcards 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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Pink Flag Wire: Pink Flag LP

Wire’s first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire’s reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first. It has bee

Wire: Pink Flag LP

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Superior Viaduct Morricone, Ennio: Un Uomo Da Rispettare LP

*Quite possibly the very best Morricone score!* Un Uomo Da Rispettare translates to "A Man to Respect," which can easily be said of Ennio Morricone himself – the unparalleled maestro of the soundtrack. This 1972 crime film stars Kirk Douglas as a master s

Morricone, Ennio: Un Uomo Da Rispettare LP

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Recommended Musci, Roberto & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages on Desert Sand LP

Following up on the material reissued via Music From Memory, here is a reissue of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta's sought after ambient masterpiece from 1987. The album realises sound from electric, acoustic and documentary source, taking ethnic field

Musci, Roberto & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages on Desert Sand LP

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Light in the Attic Gainsbourg, Serge: Historie de Melody Nelson LP

“There’s an ambition, a conceptual depth to Melody Nelson that’s incredibly hard to pull off but which Gainsbourg does completely. It’s very cool and its dynamic is genius…It’s one of the greatest marriages of rock band and orchestra that I’ve ever heard.

Gainsbourg, Serge: Historie de Melody Nelson LP

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Light in the Attic Various: Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 LP

There was something in the air in the urban corners of late ‘60s Japan. Student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for “underground) movement that thrived on subverting traditions of the post-war years. Rejection of the Beat

Various: Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 LP

C$44.99

Light in the Attic Various: (The Microcosm) Visionary Music of Continental Europe 1970-1986 BOX

The follow up to Light In The Attic’s game-changing I Am The Center box set is finally here. The Microcosm: Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 is the first major overview of key works from cosmically-taped in artists needing little introduct

Various: (The Microcosm) Visionary Music of Continental Europe 1970-1986 BOX

C$64.99

Abduction Sun City Girls: Dawn Of The Devi LP

Abduction Records reissue Dawn of the Devi, Sun City Girls' follow up album to Torch of the Mystics (ABDT 055LP). Originally released in 1991 on Majora Records, many who had discovered SCG via the preceding Torch LP were immediately alienated and blindsid

Sun City Girls: Dawn Of The Devi LP

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Finders Keepers Various: Strain, Crack, & Break: NWW Vol 1 LP

After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers as the ideal collaborators to release "the right tracks" from his über-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list

Various: Strain, Crack, & Break: NWW Vol 1 LP

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