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Black Editions Acid Mothers Temple: s/t LP

Black Editions presents the deluxe, first-ever vinyl edition of Acid Mothers Temple's classic self-titled first album. Over the last 25 years no group has been more prolific or dedicated to pushing psychedelic rock to its limits than Japan's Acid Mothers

Acid Mothers Temple: s/t LP

C$49.99

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

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

C$44.99

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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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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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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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

Black Editions Haino, Keiji: Watashi Dake LP

Black Editions present the first vinyl reissue of Keiji Haino's stunning debut album Watashi Dake?, originally released in 1981. This first ever edition released outside of Japan features the artist's originally intended metallic gold and silver jacket ar

Haino, Keiji: Watashi Dake 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 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

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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

Russell, Arthur: World of Echo LP

C$44.99

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

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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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

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Superior Viaduct Branca, Glenn: The Ascension LP

Glenn Branca's first full-length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all-star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranal

Branca, Glenn: The Ascension 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

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

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Superior Viaduct Battiato, Franco: Fetus LP

Franco Battiato is often heralded as Italy's answer to Brian Eno. A quizzical composer/lyricist, Battiato turned pop music upside down in the early '70s with three classic LPs – Fetus, Pollution and Sulle Corde Di Aries – that formed a confluence of avant

Battiato, Franco: Fetus LP

C$39.99

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

Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP

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WRWTFWW MKWAJU Ensemble: MKWAJU LP

WRWTFWW Records announces the highly anticipated official reissue of holy grail album MKWAJU by acclaimed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's MKWAJU Ensemble, sourced from the original masters and available in two versions: a vinyl LP cut at Emil Berl

MKWAJU Ensemble: MKWAJU LP

C$41.99

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

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

Nonesuch Reich, Steve: Music For 18 Musicians LP

If Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians is simply described in terms of its materials and organization -- 11 chords followed by 11 pieces built on those chords -- then it might seem utterly dry and monotonous. The actual music, though, is far from lacklus

Reich, Steve: Music For 18 Musicians LP

C$74.99

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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