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Panegyric King Crimson: Red LP
King Crimson was conceived in November of 1968 and born on January 13th 1969 in the Fulham Palace Cafe, London (Robert Fripp/Ian McDonald/Greg Lake/Michael Giles/Pete Sinfield), coming to prominence after supporting The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park. Their
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King Crimson: Red LP
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Black Sweat Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and impro
Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
C$39.99
Kompakt Gas: Pop 3LP
Pop -- the album that has become widely recognized as the defining moment in which Wolfgang Voigt brought his listeners into a clearing of his deep, psychedelic forest. A landmark release in the GAS odyssey that drew international attention, Pop was origi
Gas: Pop 3LP
C$49.99
Matador Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP
To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's essential studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP. An indie-rock t
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP
C$29.99
Light in the Attic Various: Native North America Vol. 1 LP
Largely unheard, criminally undocumented, but at their core, utterly revolutionary, the recordings of the diverse North American Aboriginal community will finally take their rightful place in our collective history in the form of Native North America (Vol
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Various: Native North America Vol. 1 LP
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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
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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
Sub Pop Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (deluxe edition) LP
By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after its release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (f
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Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (deluxe edition) LP
C$40.99
Audika Russell, Arthur: World of Echo LP
BACK IN PRINT!!! A remastered and revised artwork edition of the extraordinary World Of Echo album from New York avant-garde cellist, songwriter, composer, and disco visionary ARTHUR RUSSELL. Originally released in 1986, the album is a deeply meditative a
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Russell, Arthur: World of Echo LP
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Light in the Attic Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Green LP
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along
Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Green LP
C$39.99
Domino Wyatt, Robert: Rock Bottom LP
Domino take great pride in reissuing Rock Bottom, originally released in 1974. Defiantly graceful, listening to Rock Bottom is like being invited into another person’s consciousness: fluid, deep, mesmerising and utterly unique.
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Wyatt, Robert: Rock Bottom LP
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Jagjaguwar Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP
By now, you know the story: J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Patrick “Murph” Murphy, meet in Amherst, MA. J, Lou and Murph start a band. Said band goes on to rip through the musical landscape and prove to be the genesis of the “alternative rock” archetype.

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Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me 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
C$31.99
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
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Coil: Time Machines LP
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Phoenix Les Rallizes Denudes: Blind Baby Has It's Mother's Eyes (Blue) LP
Reissue on 180 gram, blue vinyl; hand numbered editions. Legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Dénudés were formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), pla
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Les Rallizes Denudes: Blind Baby Has It's Mother's Eyes (Blue) LP
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Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Zombie LP
The fury stirred up among the Nigerian police and military by Fela’s confrontational Alagbon Close (1974) and Kalakuta Show (1976), and the beatings and harassments Fela and Africa 70 suffered as a consequence, were as nothing compared to the reprisals fo
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Kuti, Fela: Zombie LP
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Daptone Cochemea: Vol. II: Baca Sewa (Daptone Dealer Edition) LP
The Dap-Kings' electro-sax space warrior returns with a groove-heavy sequel to All My Relations, Vol. II: Baca Sewa, an expressive, transcendental voyage through the archives of his indigenous roots and beyond. Drawing on ancestral memories and family his
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Cochemea: Vol. II: Baca Sewa (Daptone Dealer Edition) LP
C$26.99
Rhino Cure: Disintegration LP
The Cure evolved into one of the most visionary, creatively satisfying and influential groups to come of age in the 1980s. From dreamy pop to moody expressionism, the group's signature sound is adventurous, hypnotic, emotionally deep, and beautifully melo
Cure: Disintegration LP
C$44.99
Drag City Death: For The Whole World To LP
“Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The HACKNEY’s were first influenced by soul and funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stoo
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Death: For The Whole World To LP
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Parlophone Bowie; David: Low LP
January 1977 saw the release of the first installment of what came to be known as David Bowie's Berlin trilogy. That album was the Bowie/Tony Visconti produced Low and it was followed later the same year by Heroes with the trilogy completed in 1979 by the
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Bowie; David: Low LP
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Warner Vangelis: Blade Runner OST LP
Armed with the mighty Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, Vangelis conjured up the epic soundscape to Ridley Scott's quintessential cyberpunk film, Blade Runner. The haunting melodies contained within are at the same time nostalgic and futuristic, creating a neo-no
Vangelis: Blade Runner OST LP
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Rhino Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures LP
Factory Records owner Tony Wilson gambled label profits and his life savings on the recording of Joy Division's debut album. With producer Martin Hannett at the helm, the band crafted a stark musical statement that would endure as a milestone. 1979's Un
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Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures 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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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
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
C$34.99