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Soundways Dar Disku: Dar Disku LP
The Bahraini-born, British-based musical duo Dar Disku release their debut self-titled album, weaving their way into both the dancefloor and home environments with irresistibly broad appeal.
A celebration of their Arabic heritage and multicultural influe
Dar Disku: Dar Disku LP
C$44.99
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
Intuition Hassell, Jon: Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound LP
"2024 re-release. The renowned and widely acclaimed music label Intuition, well known since the 1980s, is proud to announce the release of its most important and successful back-catalogue titles on vinyl under the name 'Intuition Master Series'. The Ameri
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Hassell, Jon: Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound LP
C$49.99
Sacred Bones Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled "wa
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Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
C$26.99
SST Black Flag: Damaged LP
Damaged is the classic debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag. SST Records released it December 1981.

Black Flag reached a new level of intensity and raw fury with this release. This could be Henry Rollins' lifetime highpoint.
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Black Flag: Damaged LP
C$34.99
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
Light in the Attic Various: Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980-1988 LP
Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988 hovers vibe–wise between two distinct poles within Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Japan Archival Series—Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music
Various: Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980-1988 LP
C$49.99
Superior Viaduct Flaming Tunes: s/t LP
Flaming Tunes’ sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the ‘80s home recording ethos that you’ve never heard. Originally released in 1985 on cassette (with individually hand-colored covers), this self-titled album grew out of the collaboration between
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Flaming Tunes: s/t LP
C$39.99
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
Jagjaguwar Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP
By now, you know the story: J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Patrick “Murph” Murphy, meet in Amherst, MA. J, Lou and Murph start a band. Said band goes on to rip through the musical landscape and prove to be the genesis of the “alternative rock” archetype.

Ove
Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP
C$29.99
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
Eno, Brian: Music for Films LP
C$31.99
Westbound Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP
Maggot Brain, released in 1971, is Funkadelic's all-out masterpiece. Absolutely no one working in soul and funk at the time had the scope, vision and, let's be honest, sheer lunacy to pull off the kind of record that George Clinton and his collaborators h
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP
C$39.99
Geffen Sonic Youth: Goo LP
Goo is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released by DGC Records on June 26, 1990; the album was the band's first on a major label after the group left Enigma Records to sign with Geffen. For the album, Sonic
Sonic Youth: Goo LP
C$36.99
RVNG Intl. Visible Cloaks: Paradessence (silver vinyl) LP
Paradessence, Visible Cloak’s third full length, is an album of tension and reassurance. Its thirteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavern-like space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natur
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Visible Cloaks: Paradessence (silver vinyl) LP
C$31.99
Partisan Kuti, Fela: Best of the Black President LP
'The Best of the Black President' is the 13 track guide to Fela Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. This is the first time the compilation is available on vinyl. Designed by founder of New York-based clothing and design brand Head of State, Taofe
Kuti, Fela: Best of the Black President LP
C$134.99
Warner Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP
Although it was burdened with the difficult task of following-up what is universally lauded as one of the best albums of the '90s in 1999's Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips struck gold once again with 2002's equally as brilliant Yoshimi Battles The Pink Ro
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Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP
C$39.99
Relapse Boris: Pink (20th Anniversary) LP
Boris' iconic album Pink is now available for the first time in a decade as a 20th Anniversary reissue featuring the original CD sequence as a 2XLP for the first time ever, with an exclusive D side etching on the vinyl.

Pink was Boris' tenth album and
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Boris: Pink (20th Anniversary) LP
C$40.99
Murder Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
Smeared is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released in Canada on October 1, 1992, and in the United States in January, 1993, on Geffen Records. The album was recorded at a low cost of $1,200. The album is ranked 86th in the 200
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Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
C$34.99
Dais Coil: Black Antlers (2LP-clear vinyl) LP
In the late-1990s, after a successful career as an MTV-era music video director, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson moved with Jhonn Balance - his partner in life and in Coil - from London to the rural Weston-super-Mare, creating an environment for all things
Coil: Black Antlers (2LP-clear vinyl) LP
C$39.99
Temporal Drift Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Flora LP
Following their 2024 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic album, Surround, Temporal Drift proudly presents the first-ever reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura’s underappreciated ambient classic.

FLORA was originally recorded and completed in 1987, and remaine
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Flora LP
C$64.99
International Anthem Parker, Jeff: The Way Out Of Easy LP
The Way Out of Easy is the first album from guitarist Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet—saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Jay Bellerose—since their 2022 debut Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, which Pitchfork named one
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Parker, Jeff: The Way Out Of Easy LP
C$54.99
Sacred Bones Carolan, Robin: Nosferatu O.S.T. (2LP-oxblood coloured) LP
Robin Carolan's soundtrack for Robert Eggers' highly anticipated "Nosferatu" is a haunting, gothic-infused and meticulously crafted work that draws from a vast palette of sounds, instruments, and inspirations. Following their successful collaboration on "
Carolan, Robin: Nosferatu O.S.T. (2LP-oxblood coloured) LP
C$39.99
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