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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.
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Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats LP
C$41.99
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$49.99
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
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We Are Rewind Cassette Player
C$219.99
Universal Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) LP
Classic debut album from The Cramps released in 1980. New pressing on black and purple marbled vinyl. Still sounds absolutely incredible, savage rock and roll sturm und drang from a one-of-a-kind band. Side 1 TV Set Rock On The Moon Garbageman (3:34) I Wa
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Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) LP
C$46.99
Murder Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
Smeared is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released in Canada on October 1, 1992, and in the United States in January, 1993, on Geffen Records. The album was recorded at a low cost of $1,200. The album is ranked 86th in the 200
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Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
C$34.99
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
C$29.99
Superior Viaduct cLOUDDEAD: S/t LP
cLOUDDEAD's debut album, compiling six 10" EPs that appeared between 2000-2001, is aurally dense and obscured. A sprawling mass of miniature beat-suites and Dadaist lyrics, this strange and beautiful 3xLP would influence a myriad of sub-genres (cloud rap,
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cLOUDDEAD: S/t LP
C$84.99
Mute Throbbing Gristle: TGCD1 LP
Throbbing Gristle revisits TGCD1, long out of print, now available on vinyl for the first time ever via Mute. This release includes the original sleeve notes by all the members of the band, uncovering the story and ethos behind TG's independent record lab
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Throbbing Gristle: TGCD1 LP
C$49.99
Superior Viaduct Spacemen 3: Recurring LP
Solid green, 180 gram vinyl. Due to continued demand, the fourth and final Spacemen 3 studio album Recurring; the much-anticipated follow-up to their seminal Playing with Fire album, is being repressed. By the time the album was recorded, relations betwee
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Spacemen 3: Recurring LP
C$44.99
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
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Cure: Disintegration LP
C$56.99
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
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Can: Ege Bamyasi LP
C$36.99
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
C$44.99
Black Editions High Rise: II LP
Black Editions present a reissue of High Rise's II, originally released in 1986. High Rise exploded onto Tokyo's underground music scene with the roar and reckless abandon of a motorcycle accelerating headlong into a dead man's curve. Born from the explos
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High Rise: II LP
C$39.99
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
From its release in 1975 to today, Another Green World has been heaped with accolades. At the time, Village Voice described it as "the aural equivalent of a park on the moon" and Rolling Stone called it "a major triumph, an important record - and also a b
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Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
C$36.99
ECM Reich, Steve: Recordings on ECM LP
Compiling “some of the minimalist composer’s finest works, including the definitive recording of his undisputed masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians,” (Pitchfork), Recordings on ECM comprises the three Steve Reich albums that were released on the label bet
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Reich, Steve: Recordings on ECM LP
C$134.99
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
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
Dark Entries Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
In Friday!
Cybernetic disco maestro Patrick Cowley returns to Dark Entries with From Behind, a collection of grooving and ecstatic covers of 60s garage and soul cuts. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body
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Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
C$34.99
Reprise Mastodon: Crack The Skye (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) LP
Celebrating a landmark body of work, iconic GRAMMY® Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon proudly presents Crack the Skye (15th Anniversary) editions out October 4, 2024. The group have carefully assembled the ultimate vision of their groundbreaking 2009
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Mastodon: Crack The Skye (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) LP
C$56.99
Chemikal Underground Mogwai: Come On Die Young (WHITE VINYL) LP
Arriving in March 1999 with an album cover that referenced The Exorcist and a title scalped from a well-known Glasgow gang slogan, you'd have expected Mogwai's "Come On Die Young" to be an apocalypse-harbouring, pre-millennial assault on the senses. Inste
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Mogwai: Come On Die Young (WHITE VINYL) LP
C$44.99
Black Editions Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX
With the cosmic-disco-drenched Burning Feeling, Steve Moore's high-gloss Lovelock project conjured one of the most slept-on albums of last decade. Chunky, neon-lit synths and crashing, spacey guitars ride chugging Italo basslines and smooth-yet-shuddering
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Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX
C$89.99
Panegyric Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno's timeless 1975 electronic music classic Evening Star on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album's return to the 12" format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight vinyl a
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Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP
C$49.99
Empire of Signs Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards 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
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP
C$34.99
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
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Melvins: Houdini (180g/gatefold) LP
C$56.99