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Sacred Bones Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP
Black vinyl version. The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth's Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name Ataraxia. Subtitled Electronic Musical Impressions o
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Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP
C$26.99
Black Sweat Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and impro
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Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
C$44.99
Black Editions Musica Transonic: s/t LP
Black Editions present a reissue of Musica Transonic's self-titled release, originally released in 1995. Musica Transonic was comprised of three of the most crucial artists to emerge from the 1990s Japanese underground: Nanjo Asahito of High Rise, Makoto
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Musica Transonic: s/t LP
C$49.99
Seance Centre Museum Of No Art: s/t LP
What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with voice, sampler, synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under t
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Museum Of No Art: s/t LP
C$40.99
Domino Wyatt, Robert: Rock Bottom LP
Domino take great pride in reissuing Rock Bottom, originally released in 1974. Defiantly graceful, listening to Rock Bottom is like being invited into another person’s consciousness: fluid, deep, mesmerising and utterly unique.
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Wyatt, Robert: Rock Bottom LP
C$34.99
Touch & Go Big Black: Atomizer LP
Originally released in 1985, and now remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering, Big Black's first full-length album Atomizer will be re-released in September 2015. To save you having to do the math in your head, yes, that makes this a
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Big Black: Atomizer LP
C$26.99
Stones Throw Jaylib: Champion Sound LP
The original release from the Madlib and J Dilla collaboration, Champion Sound created between Los Angeles and Detroit in 2002-2003. Half of the songs are produced by Madlib and feature J Dilla on vocals and the other half are produced by J Dilla and feat
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Jaylib: Champion Sound LP
C$41.99
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
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
Lovely Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing LP
Lovely Music present a reissue of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing, originally released as an LP by Lovely Music in 1979. Over the course of Robert Ashley's career his preoccupation with language and the voice took many forms. He became known in his libr
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Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing 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
Bureau B Cluster & Eno: s/t LP
Originally recorded and released in 1977 on Sky Records, the first collaborative album by Brian Eno and Cluster was the first ambient record produced in Germany, and is considered the seminal, defining work of the genre. Brian Eno was certainly instrument
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Cluster & Eno: s/t LP
C$44.99
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$44.99
Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor LP
Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.

Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief o
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Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor LP
C$46.99
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Ambient 4: On Land LP
Available both as a regular 33rpm LP or as an audiophile double 45rpm. On 1982's Ambient 4 (On Land) – the final edition in Brian Eno's ambient series – his palate shifted from electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards "non-instruments" like pie
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Eno, Brian: Ambient 4: On Land LP
C$44.99
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
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
Dark Entries Solid Space: Space Museum LP
Dark Entries is honored to finally present the first ever official vinyl reissue of Space Museum by SOLID SPACE. Solid Space was the British duo of DAN GOLDSTEIN (keyboards, vocals) and MATTHEW "MAF" VOSBURGH (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) formed in 1
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Solid Space: Space Museum LP
C$29.99