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Century Media Blood Incantation: Absolute Everywhere LP
Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as the Denver, Colorado quartet. At roughly 45 minutes, the two compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they
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Blood Incantation: Absolute Everywhere LP
C$34.99
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
Republic Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP
Roxy Music's self-titled 1972 debut, one of two with Brian Eno still in the fold, exemplified the band's penchant for glamour, both in the lyrics and with the album cover of model Kari-Ann Muller, kick-starting a tradition of iconic album covers featuring
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Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP
C$49.99
Third Man Boris: Amplifier Worship (25th Anniversary - Lime Swirl) LP
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Boris’ sonic marvel Amplifier Worship, Third Man Records is thrilled to present a one time pressing of this classic double LP on colored vinyl. Manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit and housed inside a wonderfu
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Boris: Amplifier Worship (25th Anniversary - Lime Swirl) LP
C$39.99
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
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
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Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
C$34.99
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
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Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
C$34.99
Telephone Explosion Roach, Steve: Structures From Silence LP
Justifiably one of the greatest ambient albums of all time. It hasn't aged one bit since 1984. Essential.

A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach (born 1955 in La Mesa, California) drew on
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Roach, Steve: Structures From Silence 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
C$46.99
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
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Astatke, Mulatu: Mulatu of Ethiopia LP
C$34.99
Ndeya Hassell, Jon: Vernal Equinox LP
Vernal Equinox was the first commercially released work by Jon Hassell, originally put out by Lovely Music in 1977. It is also the debut of a pioneering new form of music that would become known as "fourth world": a subtle blend of field recordings, elect
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Hassell, Jon: Vernal Equinox LP
C$34.99
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
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Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
C$54.99
Temporal Drift Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
In 1980, Les Rallizes Dénudés welcomed guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi (The Dynamites, Murahachibu, Teardrops) to its fold. The unconventional pairing of inimitable Rallizes frontman Mizutani with Fujio’s unrestrained, bluesier styles ushered in a new era for t
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Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
C$64.99
Subliminal Sounds Pärson Sound: Pärson Sound (DELUXE EDITION) LP
A spectacular archival package of primitive drone and minimalist rock/trance/psych from the Swedish underground, believe the hype as follows; one of the most memorable audio documents ever. For a brief period during 1967-68, Pärson Sound was a frontrunner
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Pärson Sound: Pärson Sound (DELUXE EDITION) LP
C$81.99
MG.Art Ash Ra Tempel: Schwingungen LP
MG.ART announce the authorized 50th anniversary edition of Ash Ra Tempel's Schwingungen, originally released in 1972. One of the most important German krautrock albums. Re-cut carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching himself. Gatefold sleeve with sticker;
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Ash Ra Tempel: Schwingungen LP
C$49.99
Blackened Metallica: Master Of Puppets 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 LP
C$34.99
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
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Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing LP
C$34.99
Parlophone Bowie, David: Low (2017 Remastered Version) 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 (2017 Remastered Version) LP
C$31.99
Jazzman Rendell, Don/Carr, Ian: Dusk Fire LP
Here are the first ever official individual reissues of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet. The five albums; 1965's Shades Of Blues, 1966's Dusk Fire, 1968's Phase III, 1969
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Rendell, Don/Carr, Ian: Dusk Fire LP
C$39.99
Guruguru Brain Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island LP
“The fifth studio album & last euphoric mind-trip to Kikagaku Moyo's imagined island.
Best-suited for counting stars, looking at the ocean, and dancing in one’s daydream.”

In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’ represents the culmination of a journey for Kikaga
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Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island LP
C$44.99
Superior Viaduct Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP
For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by
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Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP
C$39.99
Groenland Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia LP
Few bands match the pastoral beauty and majesty of Harmonia, the short-lived German band that existed from 1973 to 1976. The krautrock supergroup, brought together Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster, and Michael Rother of NEU!, who were
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Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia LP
C$39.99
Mute Frost, Ben: A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Red) LP
--- Out Oct 11, 2024 ---

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost releases a limited edition red vinyl of his studio album, A U R O R A, on Mute.

Limited to just 400 copies in North America, this v
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Frost, Ben: A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Red) LP
C$46.99
Death Is Not The End Death Is Not The End: London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2 CS
The second volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 & 1993.
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Death Is Not The End: London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2 CS
C$19.99