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Music on Vinyl Davis, Miles: Big Fun LP
A collection of material recorded between 1969 and 1972, the period just after Bitches Brew, Big Fun was not issued until 1974. By then, Davis had moved on in other directions, so it became a much-neglected album. The compositions are too scattered to mai
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Davis, Miles: Big Fun LP
C$49.99
Hands in the Dark Tomaga: Futura Grotesk LP
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Tomaga's debut album, 'Futura Grotesk', Hands in the Dark are re-releasing the long sold out record in a limited edition of 500 copies. The reissue will be accompanied by the first-ever vinyl pressing of the band'
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Tomaga: Futura Grotesk LP
C$44.99
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
Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
C$64.99
Warner Flower Traveling Band: Satori LP
Released in 1971, this is the first album produced by a Japanese artist with the overseas market in
mind. It was released simultaneously in the United States, Canada, and Japan, and in particular, the single “SATORI PART 2” reached No. 8 in Canada. There
Flower Traveling Band: Satori LP
C$84.99
Numero Blonde Redhead: Blonde Redhead LP
Forming in 1994, Blonde Redhead were thrown together following a chance meeting in New York between Japanese siren Kazu Makino and Milanese twin brothers, Amedeo and Simone Pace. Taking their name from a song by fellow New York no wave artists DNA, locati
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Blonde Redhead: Blonde Redhead LP
C$24.99
Bureau B Heldon: Allez-Teia LP
Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's second album Allez-Teia, originally released on Disjuncta in 1975. Before making his own music in the early '70s, Richard Pinhas was a King Crimson fan. The British group has buzzed in Pinhas's mind for decades, but
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Heldon: Allez-Teia LP
C$39.99
Feeding Tube Gendron, Myriam: Ma délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found LP
"It has been a while since the release Myriam's acclaimed 2014 debut album, Not So Deep as a Well (FTR 146-4LP). The intervening years have brought a smattering of live performances, a bouquet of children, Trump's Pandemic, and much more . . . Different c
Gendron, Myriam: Ma délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found LP
C$39.99
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
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
Proibito Huerco S: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) LP
What were the clouds like when Huerco S was young? The Kansas-raised, New York-based producer’s absorbing ambient album For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) goes some way to answering The Orb’s fluffy little proposition… Brian Leeds a
Huerco S: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) LP
C$44.99
Nero's Neptune Yonkers, Michael: Grimwood LP
Currently out of print on CD, Michael Yonkers’ Grimwood finally receives its long-overdue vinyl re-release on Nero’s Neptune. Yonkers’ first 4 LPS were released simultaneously in 1973, but it is Grimwood, Michael’s first, which regular commands the bigges
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Yonkers, Michael: Grimwood LP
C$29.99
Kallista Dal Forno, Carla: Look Up Sharp LP
Carla dal Forno announces her second full-length album, Look Up Sharp, on her own Kallista records. Dal Forno beckons a bold new era in her peerless output pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to the limits of flawless dream-pop. In a transformative mov
Dal Forno, Carla: Look Up Sharp LP
C$34.99
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Apollo : Atmospheres & Soundtracks LP
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 spaceflight and moon landing in July 1969, comes this extended edition of Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois' seminal Apollo album. Originally scored to accompany director Al Reinert's landmark fe
Eno, Brian: Apollo : Atmospheres & Soundtracks LP
C$59.99
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
Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
C$36.99
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
Eno, Brian: Here Come the Warm Jets LP
C$39.99
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
Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
C$44.99
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
Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
C$99.99
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
Hands in the Dark Tomaga: Sleepy Jazz for Tired Cats LP
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Tomaga's debut album, 'Futura Grotesk', Hands in the Dark are re-releasing the long sold out record in a limited edition of 500 copies. The reissue will be accompanied by the first-ever vinyl pressing of the band'
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Tomaga: Sleepy Jazz for Tired Cats LP
C$44.99
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
C$43.99
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
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
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
Frost, Ben: A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Red) LP
C$46.99
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
Pärson Sound: Pärson Sound (DELUXE EDITION) LP
C$81.99