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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
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
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
Abduction Sun City Girls: Dawn Of The Devi LP
Abduction Records reissue Dawn of the Devi, Sun City Girls' follow up album to Torch of the Mystics (ABDT 055LP). Originally released in 1991 on Majora Records, many who had discovered SCG via the preceding Torch LP were immediately alienated and blindsid
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Sun City Girls: Dawn Of The Devi 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
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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
A&M Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
Don Cherry's 1975 release, Brown Rice is certainly one of the jazz trumpeter's finest and most accessible efforts of the '70s. Produced by Corrado Bacchelli, it finds Cherry taking the tripped-out spacey jazz sound he was pioneering the previous decade an
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Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
C$29.99
Black Editions Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: s/t LP
Black Editions presents the deluxe, first-ever vinyl edition of Acid Mothers Temple's classic self-titled first album. Over the last 25 years no group has been more prolific or dedicated to pushing psychedelic rock to its limits than Japan's Acid Mothers
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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: s/t LP
C$49.99
Fat Possum X: Los Angeles LP
A reissue of X's essential debut album originally released by Slash in 1980, and the first in a series of X reissues on Fat Possum. Ranked # 286 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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X: Los Angeles LP
C$39.99
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
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$54.99
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
Luaka Bop COLTRANE, ALICE: Ecstatic Music of LP
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four-year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death. By 1
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COLTRANE, ALICE: Ecstatic Music of LP
C$39.99
Superior Viaduct Bender, John: Plaster Falling LP
Plaster Falling was recorded at the same time as John Bender's first album, I Don't Remember Now / I Don't Want To Talk About It. Released in 1981 on the artist's own Record Sluts label, copies of Plaster Falling's initial pressing came hermetically seale
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Bender, John: Plaster Falling LP
C$34.99
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
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
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