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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
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ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
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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
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Numero Duster: Together (cigarette smoke coloured) LP
Gather your loved ones, Together is here. Duster's fourth album is a 13-song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, ‘Oh Duster music
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Duster: Together (cigarette smoke coloured) LP
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Tidal Wave Music Home Boy And The C.O.L.: s/t LP
Cecil Johnson Lyde Holden aka “Home Boy” (born 1948) is an artist whose musical talent has been unmistakable since his days as a young boy. Growing up listening to his parents 78 RPM Doo-wop, Blues, Jazz and Gospel records, he started signing in church wh
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Home Boy And The C.O.L.: s/t LP
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Blue Fog Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP
Recorded in autumn 1998 at Chemical Sound in Toronto, with Daryl Smith and mixed by Jack Endino, the "Vague Premonition" LP was Elevator's last album with Sub Pop, and is now fully remastered and sounding better than ever. The second LP in this package fe
Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP
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Numero Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP
Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music. Founder Dick Sutphen worked with tireless devotion to spread a message he b
Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP
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Impatience Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
Tarotplane offers up a new portal of possibility, entitled Light Self All Others, on the Impatience label. An unshackled mind melt of amorphous Berlin School electronics, glistening guitar tones, snatches of disembodied voices and rumblings of percussive
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Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
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Emotional Rescue O Yuki Conjugate: Into Dark Water LP
Emotional Rescue reissue ‘Into Dark Water’, the second album from UK post-industrial ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate (OYC). The willfully obscure OYC formed in Nottingham in 1982 and have had a sporadic career on the outskirts of musical culture ever si
O Yuki Conjugate: Into Dark Water LP
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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
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Important Rolando, Tony: Breakin' is a Memory LP
Tony Rolando's debut Breakin' Is A Memory could be your soundtrack. This worldbuilding album of electronic music leaves room for the listener to make big personal connections through subtly complex music resembling a sonic mobile which, as it spins, revea
Rolando, Tony: Breakin' is a Memory LP
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Dead Oceans Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are "calming hymns for another chaotic time", he says. His influence can be traced through many artist's work, and so
Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
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Century Media Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero LP
Spawned in the Fall of 2011, Cosmic Death Metal initiates BLOOD INCANTATION, spent the past decade establishing a reputation for creating powerful Athmospheric Death Metal with progressive elements, while gradually incorporating more Psychedelic & Ambient
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Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero LP
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Klimt Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP
Originally released as a 2CD set. Easily one of the most prolific film composers of all time, Ennio Morricone enjoys a revered status in the world of eccentric music lovers second to no other. While he is probably best known for his unmistakable music in
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Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP
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Palto Flats Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
Acclaimed saxophonist, producer and composer Yasuaki Shimizu will release Kiren, his unreleased album from 1984, on the Palto Flats record label on February 25, 2022. Liner notes by music historian Chee Shimizu, and credits in both Japanese and English.
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Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
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Light in the Attic Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
Back in stock on yellow vinyl! “Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance
Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
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Sub Pop Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after its release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (f
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Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
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Rhino Stooges: s/t LP
Proto-punk trailblazers The Stooges – Iggy Pop, Ron and Scott Asheton, and Dave Alexander – may have sounded like they were from the Stone Age, but the Ann Arbor quartet predicted the future of rock 'n' roll with the untamable sonic assault of their John
Stooges: s/t LP
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Scat Guided By Voices: Propeller LP
Propeller was the fifth album by Guided By Voices, and was intended to be the group’s last. Released as a limited edition of 500 LPs in 1992, the album featured handmade covers and blank labels to keep expenses as low as possible. Their other albums hadn’
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Guided By Voices: Propeller LP
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Drag City Death: For The Whole World To See LP
“Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The HACKNEY’s were first influenced by soul and funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stoo
Death: For The Whole World To See LP
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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
Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP
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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
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Matador Mission Of Burma: Vs. LP
Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight
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Mission Of Burma: Vs. LP
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Jackpot Wipers: Over The Edge LP
"The bleak, hard-driven third LP by the Wipers (originally released in 1983) offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless, lashing out with sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. While their debut LP provided the blueprint for grun
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Wipers: Over The Edge LP
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