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Ndeya Hassell, Jon: Vernal Equinox LP
Vernal Equinox was the first commercially released work by Jon Hassell, originally put out by Lovely Music in 1977. It is also the debut of a pioneering new form of music that would become known as "fourth world": a subtle blend of field recordings, elect
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Hassell, Jon: Vernal Equinox 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
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
C$42.99
Trunk Kirchin, Basil: Worlds Within Worlds LP
Worlds Within Worlds: Part I And II is one of the most important experimental and improvised jazz-based recordings of all time. Released in 1971 it sold just a handful of copies, but has become a keystone in the development of ambient sounds; originals no
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Kirchin, Basil: Worlds Within Worlds 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
C$30.99
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
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Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP
C$31.99
Southern Lord Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
In 2011, Southern Lord was contacted by Sleeps’ Al Cisneros about the possibility of releasing a deluxe version of the classic Sleep recording: Dopesmoker. Cisneros wanted to breathe some new life into the old beast and finally have the original vision of
Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
C$34.99
Bureau B Cluster & Eno: s/t LP
Originally recorded and released in 1977 on Sky Records, the first collaborative album by Brian Eno and Cluster was the first ambient record produced in Germany, and is considered the seminal, defining work of the genre. Brian Eno was certainly instrument
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Cluster & Eno: s/t LP
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Bureau B Cluster: Sowiesoso LP
The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on th
Cluster: Sowiesoso LP
C$40.99
Rotorelief Nurse With Wound: Homotopy To Marie (Silver) 2LP
Silver and black vinyl version. Metalic gatefold sleeve. Rotorelief present a reissue of Homotopy To Marie. the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, originally released in 1982. Music and sleeve created by Steven Stapleton. The album is "a step on from the Da
Nurse With Wound: Homotopy To Marie (Silver) 2LP
C$79.99
Trunk Various: Spider Jazz LP
Subtitled: ... That We Are Not Allowed To Mention For Legal Reasons. Rare and brilliant music as used in the late 1960s amazing animated series we are not allowed to mention for legal reasons. And the same music was used in all the NFL clip shoes througho
Various: Spider Jazz LP
C$44.99
Superior Viaduct Fall, The: Live At The Witch Trials LP
The first full-length album of The Fall, Live At The Witch Trials, is not actually a live album. Emerging out of a two-day studio session at Camden Sound in North West London during a sickly December of 1978, Witch Trials amounts to the sinister foundatio
Fall, The: Live At The Witch Trials LP
C$34.99
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
C$34.99
A&M Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
Don Cherry's 1975 release, Brown Rice is certainly one of the jazz trumpeter's finest and most accessible efforts of the '70s. Produced by Corrado Bacchelli, it finds Cherry taking the tripped-out spacey jazz sound he was pioneering the previous decade an
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Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
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Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: Who Is William Onyeabor? LP?
Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.

Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief o
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Onyeabor, William: Who Is William Onyeabor? LP?
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Important Coil: Ape Of Naples LP
2018 re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters. The Ape Of Naples is Coil's highly celebrated final album completed by Peter Christopherson following the tragic death of Jhonn Balance in 2004. Often noted for being a fan favorite, The Ape
Coil: Ape Of Naples LP
C$54.99
Music on Vinyl Davis, Miles: Big Fun LP
A collection of material recorded between 1969 and 1972, the period just after Bitches Brew, Big Fun was not issued until 1974. By then, Davis had moved on in other directions, so it became a much-neglected album. The compositions are too scattered to mai
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Davis, Miles: Big Fun 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
C$34.99
Goofin' Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
Daydream Nation was Sonic Youth’s sixth full-length, their first double-LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, the album catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie b
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
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Important Barbieri, Caterina: Patterns Of Consciousness LP
Patterns Of Consciousness is the powerful second full-length from analog synth composer Caterina Barbieri. Gorgeous high resolution analog textures and algorithmic melodies unfold under Barbieri's careful control, exploring the basic nature of sound and c
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Barbieri, Caterina: Patterns Of Consciousness LP
C$59.99
Victory Les Rallizes Denudes: Live 77 LP
Les Rallizes Dénudés are one of the earliest and most revolutionary Japanese psychedelic rock bands, and existed off and on through four decades. The band formed in November of 1967 at Kyoto University, inspired by Exploding Plastic Inevitable-era Velvet
Les Rallizes Denudes: Live 77 LP
C$49.99
Superior Viaduct Conrad, Tony with Faust: Outside The Dream Syndicate LP
Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participate
Conrad, Tony with Faust: Outside The Dream Syndicate 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
C$41.99
Modern Classics This Heat: Deceit LP
With their debut album and follow-up maxi single Health & Efficiency, This Heat sowed the seeds of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and post-rock, placing the trio – Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboar
This Heat: Deceit LP
C$29.99