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Jackpot Wipers: Is This Real? LP
"Unquestionably Portland's most well-loved punk group, the Wipers formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, Is This Real? -- twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. Full of desperation and ye
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Wipers: Is This Real? LP
C$44.99
Cherry Red Dinosaur Jr.: Where You Been (2LP deluxe edition-blue vinyl) LP
Gatefold; Blue vinyl. "Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. Where You Been, their fif
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Dinosaur Jr.: Where You Been (2LP deluxe edition-blue vinyl) LP
C$59.99
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
Dais Tazartès, Ghédalia: Diasporas (clear red) LP
Originally recorded in 1977, following a limited release in 1979, Ghédalia Tazartès debut album, Diasporas, introduced listeners to the surreal, mysterious and truly unclassifiable statement of Tazartès and his out-of-time place in the French avant-garde
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Tazartès, Ghédalia: Diasporas (clear red) LP
C$26.99
Etats Unis Taj Mahal Travellers: July 15, 1972 LP
For over half a century, Takehisa Kosugi was one of the most unique and enduring figures in the Japanese underground. As an art student in Tokyo in the early 1960s, he joined the Fluxus-styled performance unit Hi Re Centre and founded the improvisational
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Taj Mahal Travellers: July 15, 1972 LP
C$44.99
Universal Hollis, Mark: Mark Hollis LP
Mark Hollis: s/t (Universal) LP
Following the sad passing of Mark Hollis earlier this year we all collectively turned back towards the impressive career arc of his band Talk Talk. Lesser referenced was his self-titled solo album released in 1998. It didn
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Hollis, Mark: Mark Hollis LP
C$46.99
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
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Dal Forno, Carla: Look Up Sharp LP
C$34.99
Finders Keepers Various: Strain Crack Break LP
After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers as the ideal collaborators to release "the right tracks" from his über-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list
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Various: Strain Crack Break LP
C$44.99
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
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Eno, Brian: Apollo : Atmospheres & Soundtracks LP
C$59.99
Unseen Worlds Spiegel, Laurie: The Expanding Universe (3LP) LP
The Expanding Universe is the 1980 debut album by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The original album is reissued here as a massively expanded 3LP or 2CD set, containing all four original album tracks plus an additional 15 tracks from t
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Spiegel, Laurie: The Expanding Universe (3LP) LP
C$64.99
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Music for Films LP
Available both as a regular 33rpm LP or as an audiophile double 45rpm. "Arguably the most quietly influential of all his works," according to the BBC, this conceptual 1976 Brian Eno record was intended as a soundtrack for imaginary films, with excerpts la
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Eno, Brian: Music for Films LP
C$31.99
Pink Flag Wire: Pink Flag LP
Wire’s first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire’s reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first. It has bee
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Wire: Pink Flag LP
C$37.99
Goofin' Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
Daydream Nation was Sonic Youth’s sixth full-length, their first double-LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, the album catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie b
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
C$49.99
Goofin' Sonic Youth: Sister LP
“Let’s get something straight. There is no album in the entire corpus of indie rock—not Loveless, not Surfer Rosa, not Psychocandy—that reaches the heights of invention, joy, and magic of Sonic Youth’s sublime fifth album.... The haunted reveries of Siste
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Sonic Youth: Sister LP
C$34.99
Black Editions Various: Tokyo Flashback 2LP
Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the his
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Various: Tokyo Flashback 2LP
C$54.99
Black Editions High Rise: ll LP
Black Editions present a reissue of High Rise's II, originally released in 1986. High Rise exploded onto Tokyo's underground music scene with the roar and reckless abandon of a motorcycle accelerating headlong into a dead man's curve. Born from the explos
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High Rise: ll LP
C$39.99
Superior Viaduct Morricone, Ennio: Un Uomo Da Rispettare LP
*Quite possibly the very best Morricone score!* Un Uomo Da Rispettare translates to "A Man to Respect," which can easily be said of Ennio Morricone himself – the unparalleled maestro of the soundtrack. This 1972 crime film stars Kirk Douglas as a master s
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Morricone, Ennio: Un Uomo Da Rispettare LP
C$34.99
Superior Viaduct Conrad, Tony with Faust: LP
Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participate
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Conrad, Tony with Faust: LP
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Finders Keepers Vannier, Jean-Claude: L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches (FKR 10th Anniversary Edition) LP
To mark the ten years of Finders Keepers we present a lovingly remastered and repackaged release of the album where it all began. Within the last ten years the resurgence of sixties Gallic pop, once known as Ye-Ye music, has escalated beyond an inter-stel
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Vannier, Jean-Claude: L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches (FKR 10th Anniversary Edition) LP
C$49.99
Mississippi Tembo, Chrissy Zebby: My Ancestors LP
"It could be argued that this is one of the greatest rock n' roll records of all time! Straight from Zambia, we have My Ancestors. A tough rock and roll masterpiece like no other. Over-ridden fuzz guitars, pop melodies and even a Black Sabbathesque soundi
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Tembo, Chrissy Zebby: My Ancestors LP
C$29.99
Aguirre Taj Mahal Travellers: August '74 LP
Aguirre Records present a reissue of Taj Mahal Travellers' August 1974, originally released in 1975. A monumental work by the Japanese experimental music ensemble. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As
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Taj Mahal Travellers: August '74 LP
C$54.99
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
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Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
C$36.99
Crammed Zazou/Bikaye/CY1: Noir et Blanc LP
At last, the vinyl reissue of one of the biggest cult albums in the history of Crammed Discs. This record is constantly being (re)discovered by generations of fans, musicians and DJs, who hail it as an unsurpassed Afro/electronic milestone. The album was
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Zazou/Bikaye/CY1: Noir et Blanc LP
C$31.99
RER Musci, Roberto & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages on Desert Sand LP
Following up on the material reissued via Music From Memory, here is a reissue of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta's sought after ambient masterpiece from 1987. The album realises sound from electric, acoustic and documentary source, taking ethnic field
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Musci, Roberto & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages on Desert Sand LP
C$29.99