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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
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$239.99
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
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
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
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
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
C$49.99
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
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Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
C$44.99
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
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP
C$49.99
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
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
Glitterbeat Hassell, Jon/Farafina: Flash of the Spirit LP
Tak:Til/Glitterbeat present the first ever reissue and remastering of Jon Hassell and Farafina's prescient, "Fourth World" masterwork, Flash of the Spirit, originally released in 1988. Propulsive Burkinese rhythms meet revelatory, ambient soundscapes. Co-
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Hassell, Jon/Farafina: Flash of the Spirit LP
C$54.99
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
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
C$54.99
Century Media Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere 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 Elsewhere LP
C$44.99
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
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
Parlophone Bowie, David: Low 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 LP
C$34.99
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
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Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
C$49.99
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
Mute Can: Soundtracks LP
Mute presents a colored vinyl LP reissue of Can's Soundtracks, a compilation of songs the band had composed for different movies which was released in 1970 before they started work on their second album. This record said goodbye to the group's original vo
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Can: Soundtracks LP
C$39.99
Light in the Attic Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
Back in stock on yellow vinyl! “Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance
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Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
C$99.99
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
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy) LP
1974's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a loose concept album with topics ranging from espionage to the Chinese Communist revolution. To help guide production of the album, Brian Eno and the album's cover artist Peter Schmidt developed the highly in
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Eno, Brian: Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy) LP
C$36.99