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Domino Beat Happening: Beat Happening LP
Produced by Greg Sage (Wipers) & Patrick Maley.
Here’s where it all began…
This expanded double LP version of the “first album” thoroughly (though not completely) documents the band’s first four years of recorded history. Pitchfork calls it “a declarati
Beat Happening: Beat Happening LP
C$44.99
MG. Art Ash Ra Tempel: s/t LP
First-ever official reissue on vinyl since 1975. Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It features guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke. Engineered by Conny Plank,
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Ash Ra Tempel: s/t LP
C$59.99
Milan Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
async is Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album in eight years. Taking inspiration from everyday objects, sculpture, and nature, Sakamoto composed and arranged the sounds/music that he most wanted to listen to. Paying close attention to the essence of each t
Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
C$40.99
Be With Nucleus: Elastic Rock LP
Nucleus's Elastic Rock is undisputedly a milestone in jazz-rock. A beautiful and vital debut album, it was first released on Vertigo in 1970. Genius trumpeter and visionary composer Ian Carr was one of the most respected British musicians of his era. He w
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Nucleus: Elastic Rock LP
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Parallel Series Sunroof: Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 2 LP
Mute founder Daniel Miller and legendary engineer Gareth Jones (Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure, Yann Tiersen) vibe out in enviably well-stocked studios on a 2nd batch of improvisations. The illustrious duo have used the Sunroof moniker for remixes dating
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Sunroof: Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 2 LP
C$44.99
Relapse Poison Ruin: s/t LP
The debut LP from Philadelphia's POISON RUIN. A killer blend of punk, post-punk and dungeon synth. "Philadelphia death rock/dungeon punk band Poison Ruïn consolidate their two EPs into one ten-song, self-titled album. Brained, fleshed, and recorded by Mac
Poison Ruin: s/t LP
C$31.99
Relapse Poison Ruin: Harvest LP
Philadelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest!

Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the p
Poison Ruin: Harvest LP
C$31.99
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
Amateur Hour: Framtiden Tillhor Inte Oss LP
The second album of the absolute which are Amateur Hour!

"The songs talk for themselves, appealing to both the romantic indie-kid to the most elitist avantgardist. My mind ventures to referencing Nico’s The Marble Index and it’s lovechild with a Beat H
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Amateur Hour: Framtiden Tillhor Inte Oss LP
C$39.99
Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners—perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be
Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
C$49.99
1972 Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, cr
Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
C$34.99
Secretly Canadian Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine LP
Molina's concept album is an honest-to-God effort on the part of Magnolia Electric Co. to pay tribute to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell (R.I.P. December 2007), as the ideas for Josephine were being pieced together. Molina said each tun
Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine LP
C$26.99
Thrill Jockey Body: Christs, Redeemers (2LP-coloured vinyl) LP
It has been said by more than a few intrepid listeners that The Body is the most brutal band on the planet. With ravishing grimness and impenetrable walls of noise, the duo of Chip King and Lee Buford create music that goes beyond what is normally conside
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Body: Christs, Redeemers (2LP-coloured vinyl) LP
C$46.99
Numero Duster: Capsule Losing Contact BOX
San Jose’s sonic cure-all for the Y2K hangover that never materialized, Duster emerged from a cloud of lonely bong rips to take indie rock to the moon, and beyond. Scotch-taped guitars toggle between a chorus of brittle winter trees and a blanket of disto
Duster: Capsule Losing Contact BOX
C$104.99
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
Music From Memory Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP
*2022 repress*Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991) and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compi
Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP
C$44.99
Numero Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
This one’s been teased for awhile, decades even. The Hated box set was an idea before Numero was an idea. Today we’re pleased to announce the first of five planned Hated collections that we’ll be rolling out over the next several years. Up first is Best P
Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
C$39.99
Numero Various: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights BOX
Finally available again!!! It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female
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Various: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights BOX
C$89.99
Get Better Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP
FUCKED UP’s second reissue for Get Better Records is cloaked in shades of unconventional aesthetics, symbolic overtones and a self-proclaimed “culture of confusion.” Hidden World, the band’s first full length studio album, marks a turning point for the my
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Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP
C$41.99
Verve Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP
Transferred from Analog Tapes and Remastered on 180g Vinyl LP as Part of the Verve By Request Series. Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode
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Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP
C$39.99
ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
C$36.99
Motown Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
Esteemed hip-hop artist Vince Staples delivers his new self-titled LP via Motown Records. His first full-length release since 2018's critically acclaimed FM!, the 10-track LP delves not only into Staples' upbringing in Long Beach, but his psyche as he l
Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
C$39.99
Mr. Bongo Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!
The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' album with his band the Count Buffaloes. For this offering, originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records, Aki
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Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
C$69.99
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