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Time Capsule Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Rinne LP
One of the most innovative and ambitious albums ever made, Genioh Yamashirogumi’s Ecophony Rinne is a sonic masterpiece featuring over 200 musicians that expanded the limits of what music and sound could do.

Beyond the audible realm - World's first Hy
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Rinne LP
C$49.99
RVNG Intl. Visible Cloaks: Paradessence (silver vinyl) LP
Paradessence, Visible Cloak’s third full length, is an album of tension and reassurance. Its thirteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavern-like space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natur
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Visible Cloaks: Paradessence (silver vinyl) LP
C$31.99
Verve Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
Some music is so finely crafted that the genre in which it is conceived becomes irrelevant to the music itself. Such was the case with much of the work of saxophonist John Coltrane – an artist commonly regarded as a jazz composer, but one whose musical vi
Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
C$54.99
Spoon Can: Ege Bamyasi LP
Ege Bamyasi, originally released in 1972, is the fourth album from the German rock experimentalists and follow-up to their critically acclaimed 1971 album Tago Mago. The record finds the band transitioning from the edgy excursions of their earlier albums
Can: Ege Bamyasi LP
C$34.99
Temporal Drift Les Rallizes Dénudés: ‘77 Live LP
Temporal Drift presents the first-ever officially sanctioned reissue of celebrated Japanese cult band Les Rallizes Dénudés’ three albums, originally compiled and released in limited quantities on CD in 1991. These reissues follow the label’s release of Th
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Les Rallizes Dénudés: ‘77 Live LP
C$74.99
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Music for Films LP
Available both as a regular 33rpm LP or as an audiophile double 45rpm. "Arguably the most quietly influential of all his works," according to the BBC, this conceptual 1976 Brian Eno record was intended as a soundtrack for imaginary films, with excerpts la
Eno, Brian: Music for Films LP
C$31.99
Temporary Residence Basinski, William: The Disintegration Loops (Arcadia Archive Edition) (8LP) BOX
Since the turn of this century, perhaps no other modern composition has had a more resonant healing effect than The Disintegration Loops. Composer William Basinski’s deteriorating analog tape loops evolved from melodic symphonies to melancholic silence ov
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Basinski, William: The Disintegration Loops (Arcadia Archive Edition) (8LP) BOX
C$249.99
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
C$49.99
Temporal Drift Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Surround LP
“If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Surround LP
C$44.99
Milan Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
async is Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album in eight years. Taking inspiration from everyday objects, sculpture, and nature, Sakamoto composed and arranged the sounds/music that he most wanted to listen to. Paying close attention to the essence of each t
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Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
C$40.99
We Are Rewind Cassette Player
We Are Rewind offers you its audio cassette players with a modern design. The reinvented cassette player comes in four colors: Blue, Grey, Orange and the limited edition Black & Yellow.


But each one has the same advantages. Our new player retains a
We Are Rewind Cassette Player
C$239.99
Blackened Metallica: Master Of Puppets (Remastered) 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
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Metallica: Master Of Puppets (Remastered) LP
C$34.99
Cherry Red Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind (2LP deluxe edition-green vinyl) LP
Gatefold; green vinyl. "Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued Green Mind in 1991 as the alternati
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Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind (2LP deluxe edition-green vinyl) LP
C$59.99
Legacy Reed, Lou: Transformer LP
An American master and true rock & roller, Lou Reed transformed popular art, music and culture through a body of work that continues to affect the way fans hear and see the world. Reed, who cut his first single as a teenager in the late-50s, began his pro
Reed, Lou: Transformer LP
C$37.99
Funk Night Panfilov Sound Combo, Misha: Days As Echoes LP
In tomorrow.... Some of the greatest work we've ever heard from funky producer/performer Misha Panfilov – a set that really stretches past his early singles, and which almost makes us think that he would have been a giant in the sound library field, had h
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Panfilov Sound Combo, Misha: Days As Echoes LP
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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
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Malone, Kali: The Sacrificial Code LP
C$41.99
Self Release Brick Road: Second Chronicle 2xCS
All four 2023 CDr's by Brick Road remixed into one epic opus. Drop out of life this winter with slow devotionals and working man's drone. Are things gonna get easier? You can atleast take it easier. Listen to Second Chronicles by Brick Road. Dubbed onto
Brick Road: Second Chronicle 2xCS
C$24.99
Third Man Melvins: Houdini (180g/gatefold) LP
Music Industry, 1993: everyone is looking to sign the "next" Nirvana. Atlantic Records found exactly the band they were looking for in the Melvins. Birthed in the Pacific Northwest gloom of Aberdeen that would spawn grunge music and culture, the Melvins w
Melvins: Houdini (180g/gatefold) LP
C$56.99
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$46.99
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
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP
C$39.99
Geffen Sonic Youth: Goo LP
Goo is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released by DGC Records on June 26, 1990; the album was the band's first on a major label after the group left Enigma Records to sign with Geffen. For the album, Sonic
Sonic Youth: Goo LP
C$36.99
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
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Big Black: Songs About Fucking LP
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Trust SNFU: And No One Else Wanted to Play (40th anniversary color vinyl) LP
Exclusive 40th anniversary pressing. Remastered from the original tapes. S.N.F.U.’s debut album, …And No One Else Wanted To Play, is widely recognized as an influential cornerstone in hardcore punk and the skatepunk subgenera. With the twin Belle brother
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SNFU: And No One Else Wanted to Play (40th anniversary color vinyl) LP
C$49.99
Stones Throw J Dilla: Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition) LP
We're celebrating 20 years of J Dilla's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition. The Donuts Audiophile Edition is lacquer cut at Bernie Grundman and manufactured at Fidelity Record Pressing - 2LP 180g vinyl at 45rpm. Deluxe art printed Stou
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J Dilla: Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition) LP
C$54.99