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Infinite Fog Nurse with Wound: Thunder Perfect Mind LP
The original release of Nurse with Wound's gargantuan "Thunder Perfect Mind" in 1992 coincided with that of Current 93's homonymous genre-defining album. Legend has it that the gnostic name initially appeared to Steven Stapleton in a dream as the title of
Nurse with Wound: Thunder Perfect Mind LP
C$99.99
Feel It Drin, The: Today My Friend You Drunk LP
Way out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati - the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. Cold rhythms reverberate through the layers of tape spliced together by Dylan McCartney and his impressive cadre of musical com
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Drin, The: Today My Friend You Drunk LP
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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
Numero Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP
After the Pacific Northwest grunge raids of the early ’90s that saw Nirvana, Mudhoney, and even the Melvins hoisted up the major label flagpole, Unwound’s 1993 debut came as a welcomed reprieve for underground noise-niks everywhere. A pulsing cluster of w
Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP
C$29.99
4AD Breeders: Last Splash LP
In October 2017, The Breeders announced their return to 4AD, along with a new album, All Nerve, released in March 2018. The label is also reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl including Pod (1990), Last Splash (1993), Title TK (2002) and Mountain
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Breeders: Last Splash LP
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Wick Rault, Michael: Michael Rault (galaxy blue/ltd edition) LP
Wick Records presents Michael Rault, the eponymous new album from one of the most talented songwriters in the game. A remarkable re-imagination of '70s pop perfection, the album began to take shape during a time of endings. Michael, on the cusp of turning
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Rault, Michael: Michael Rault (galaxy blue/ltd edition) LP
C$26.99
Touch & Go Blonde Redhead: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons LP
Forming in 1994, Blonde Redhead were thrown together following a chance meeting in New York between Japanese siren Kazu Makino and Milanese twin brothers, Amedeo and Simone Pace. Taking their name from a song by fellow New York no wave artists DNA, locati
Blonde Redhead: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons 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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Soul Jazz Russell, Arthur: The World Of Arthur Russell LP
Acknowledged as an influence by many: founder of the classic eighties label Sleeping Bag, home to Mantronix, T La Rock, Joyce Sims amongst many others: - vocalist and cellist, buddhist - almost joined Talking Heads, instead making two of the biggest Parad
Russell, Arthur: The World Of Arthur Russell LP
C$40.99
Infinite Fog Coil: Love's Secret Domain 3LP
Black vinyl. In 1991, Coil released the third of their early classic full-length albums “Love’s Secret Domain”, seemingly casting aside the gloom and funereal beauty of its predecessors in favour of a painstakingly multi-layered hallucinogenic electronic
Coil: Love's Secret Domain 3LP
C$74.99
Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) LP
The band’s second and, unfortunately, final album, Yank Crime is as worthy and awesome as its predecessor, losing not a jot in the change from independent to major label status. Including some longer, more complex tunes this time around, Drive Like Jehu i
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Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) 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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WRWTFWW Ashikawa, Satoshi: Still Way LP
350gsm sleeve with selected UV high gloss varnish. Liner notes by Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa, and Gareth Quinn Redmond. WRWTFWW Records announce the reissue of Satoshi Ashikawa's Still Way (Wave Notation 2). Initially released in 1982 as part of the
Ashikawa, Satoshi: Still Way LP
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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
Eno, Brian: Music for Films LP
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Invitation Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP
Deep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ōhashi and the Geinoh Yamashirogumi crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan, 1990, Ecophony Gaia, was supposed to be the stunning, aural centerpiece for a li
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP
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Good Morning Tapes Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
Heavenly new age ambient synthesis and 4th world navigations by two leading lights of their field, flocking to a mutual spirit at the behest of Australia’s eternally reliable Good Morning Tapes. RIYL Asa-Chang & Junray, Jon Hassell, Nueen, Enya, David Too
Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
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We Are Busy Bodies Roos, Kristen: Universal Synthesizer Interface VOL III LP
This third volume of Universal Synthesizer Interface delves further into early MIDI sequencing software for personal computers, focusing on Intelligent Music Software founded by Joel Chadabe in 1984. In a short period of time (1986-1990) Intelligent Music
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Roos, Kristen: Universal Synthesizer Interface VOL III LP
C$43.99
Great Unwashed: Clean Out Of Our Minds LP
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REISSUED!!! The Clean broke up (for the first time) in 1982. After a break, the Kilgour brothers pursued a new aesthetic and started recording on a 4 track at home. Poking fun at their past, they called themselves The Great Unwashed. Clean Ou
Great Unwashed: Clean Out Of Our Minds LP
C$39.99
Paralaxe Editions Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
After many years drifting in and out of each-other’s orbit, ‘Jazz Plates’ finds Ulla and Perila making music in the same room for the first time, exhaling a double album’s worth of gorgeously evocative mood music, gently crackling with a dream-textured ha
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Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
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Reprise Mastodon: Crack The Skye (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) LP
Celebrating a landmark body of work, iconic GRAMMY® Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon proudly presents Crack the Skye (15th Anniversary) editions out October 4, 2024. The group have carefully assembled the ultimate vision of their groundbreaking 2009
Mastodon: Crack The Skye (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) LP
C$56.99
International Anthem SML: Small Medium Large LP
SML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their debut album Small Medium Large began as a collection of long form improvisations recorded
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SML: Small Medium Large 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
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
Various: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights BOX
C$89.99
ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
C$36.99