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Time Capsule Geinoh Yamashirogum: Ecophony Rinne LP
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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
Geinoh Yamashirogum: Ecophony Rinne LP
C$44.99
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
Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
Vincent Gallo and Harper Simon with a beautifully recorded suite of songs and instrumentals. " More than two decades since he blew minds with a suite of brilliant releases on Warp, Vincent Gallo returns to the world of music at long last in Butterfly, his
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Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
C$99.99
Paralaxe Editions Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
After many years drifting in and out of each-other’s orbit, ‘Jazz Plates’ finds Ulla and Perila making music in the same room for the first time, exhaling a double album’s worth of gorgeously evocative mood music, gently crackling with a dream-textured ha
Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
C$54.99
Milan Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
Set in the year 2019 in Neo-Tokyo, the world is still recovering from the ravages of World War III. One night, teen delinquent Kaneda has his biker gang hurtle through the busy city. Kaneda’s friend, Tetsuo, is seriously injured during an accident and is
Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
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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
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
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Verve Sanders, Pharoah: Karma (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, Sanders' sound can be as raw and abrasive as it is possible for a saxophonist to produce. Yet, Sanders is highly regarded to
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Sanders, Pharoah: Karma (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
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Superior Viaduct Battiato, Franco: Pollution 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-f
Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP
C$39.99
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
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
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Eno, Brian: Ambient 1 : Music for Airports LP
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International Anthem Parker, Jeff: The Way Out Of Easy LP
The Way Out of Easy is the first album from guitarist Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet—saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Jay Bellerose—since their 2022 debut Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, which Pitchfork named one
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Parker, Jeff: The Way Out Of Easy LP
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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
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Third Man Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
Remastered from Original Tapes with Never-Before-Heard Bonus Studio Track "Hot Lava Man" from the Jerusalem Sessions. Recorded in 1996 and not released (in slightly different edit/mix) until 1999 under the title Jerusalem, the legend and lore behind Dopes
Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
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Strut Astatke, Mulatu: Mulatu of Ethiopia LP
Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatke’s ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles n
Astatke, Mulatu: Mulatu of Ethiopia LP
C$34.99
International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (moth
Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
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Lovely Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing LP
Lovely Music present a reissue of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing, originally released as an LP by Lovely Music in 1979. Over the course of Robert Ashley's career his preoccupation with language and the voice took many forms. He became known in his libr
Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing LP
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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Here Come the Warm Jets LP
The hybrid of glam, prog and art rock on Brian Eno's 1974 debut Here Come The Warm Jets continued in a vein similar to his previous albums with Roxy Music, but further upped the experimental ante. In developing the album's words and music, Eno used unusua
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Eno, Brian: Here Come the Warm Jets LP
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Discrepant Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020 -- amidst the Pandemic, no less -- the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their Mãe D'Água debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's Aqu
Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
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Good Morning Tapes Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
Heavenly new age ambient synthesis and 4th world navigations by two leading lights of their field, flocking to a mutual spirit at the behest of Australia’s eternally reliable Good Morning Tapes. RIYL Asa-Chang & Junray, Jon Hassell, Nueen, Enya, David Too
Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
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Drag City Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP
Years past the space time of Automaginary, Bitchin Bajas and Natural Infor- mation Society have reported back at last from beyond. If the new title doesn’t clue you, Totality brings good news. Since their first collaboration, the path- ways that lead from
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Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP
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We Are Busy Bodies Roos, Kristen: Universal Synthesizer Interface VOL III LP
This third volume of Universal Synthesizer Interface delves further into early MIDI sequencing software for personal computers, focusing on Intelligent Music Software founded by Joel Chadabe in 1984. In a short period of time (1986-1990) Intelligent Music
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Roos, Kristen: Universal Synthesizer Interface VOL III LP
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Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, "Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord" presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally de
Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
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Black Editions Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP
Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless s
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Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP
C$44.99