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Numero Tsunami: Loud Is As (5LP-grey vinyl) LP
Sprung from the DC punk and politics that inspired Dischord, TeenBeat and the Riot Grrrl revolution, Washington, DC’s Tsunami crashed into the 90s with wit, distortion and a sharp-tongued feminist spirit. This five LP box set collects eleven 7"s, 4-track
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Tsunami: Loud Is As (5LP-grey vinyl) LP
C$119.99
ECM Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP
In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s, Tabula Rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collabor
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Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP
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Partisan Cymande: Cymande (TRANSLUCENT ORANGE CRUSH) LP
In 1972, with the release of their self-titled debut album, Cymande emerged as innovators of the black British music scene. Taking influences from their Guyanese and Jamaican roots, the band fused reggae bass lines, Afro-tinged Nyabinghi percussion, psych
Cymande: Cymande (TRANSLUCENT ORANGE CRUSH) LP
C$41.99
Numero Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
Unwound's third album in as many years, 1995's The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia, WA trio's signature sound – grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps – ratchets past the threa
Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
C$29.99
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
Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
C$26.99
Dais Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark LP
Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric ind
Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark LP
C$40.99
Rhino Cure: Disintegration LP
The Cure evolved into one of the most visionary, creatively satisfying and influential groups to come of age in the 1980s. From dreamy pop to moody expressionism, the group's signature sound is adventurous, hypnotic, emotionally deep, and beautifully melo
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Cure: Disintegration LP
C$56.99
Warner Metallica: ...And Justice For All LP
Metallica's 1988 epic ...And Justice For All served as the thrash giants' commercial breakthrough. The follow-up to 1986's Master Of Puppets and the band's fourth full-length overall, it was Metallica's first album to reach the Top 10 (No. 6), their first
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Metallica: ...And Justice For All 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
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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
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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
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: s/t LP
C$49.99
Bureau B Cluster: Sowiesoso LP
The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on th
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Cluster: Sowiesoso LP
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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
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Relapse Poison Ruin: s/t LP
The debut LP from Philadelphia's POISON RUIN. A killer blend of punk, post-punk and dungeon synth. "Philadelphia death rock/dungeon punk band Poison Ruïn consolidate their two EPs into one ten-song, self-titled album. Brained, fleshed, and recorded by Mac
Poison Ruin: s/t LP
C$31.99
Self Release Nu Genea: Bar Mediterraneo LP
Four years after Nuova Napoli, Nu Genea are back with Bar Mediterraneo, a new album and journey, which projects the sounds of the Neapolitan duo formed by Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina even further. Nu Genea's Bar Mediterraneo is an idea of a shared
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Nu Genea: Bar Mediterraneo LP
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1972 Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, cr
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Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
C$34.99
Mesh-Key Jacks: Vacant World LP
Arriving on the Japanese music scene during the Beatles-inspired cover band boom of the late ’60s, Jacks instantly distinguished themselves from their fluff-peddling, copycat peers with stripped-down, original compositions, nihilistic lyrics and raw perfo
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Jacks: Vacant World LP
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Wichita Ride: Nowhere LP
"Shoegaze legends Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via Wichita Recordings. These will be released on the 4th November and will include the first four EPs ('Ride, 'Play', 'Fall', and 'Today Forever'), plus their
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Ride: Nowhere LP
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ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP
C$36.99
Modern Classics Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant. The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said.
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
C$59.99
Bureau B Heldon: Allez-Teia LP
Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's second album Allez-Teia, originally released on Disjuncta in 1975. Before making his own music in the early '70s, Richard Pinhas was a King Crimson fan. The British group has buzzed in Pinhas's mind for decades, but
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Heldon: Allez-Teia LP
C$39.99
Cleopatra Guru Guru: UFO LP
Guru Guru was formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass), and Eddy Naegeli (guitar) (later replaced by American Jim Kennedy. By the time of Guru Guru's debut in 1970, Ax Genrich had replaced Kennedy to solidify the
Guru Guru: UFO LP
C$44.99
Touch & Go Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered-deluxe edition) LP
Originally released in 1992, the Jesus Lizard’s Liar set a new standard for noisy, visceral indie rock that has yet to be matched. Fronted by powder-keg vocalist David Yow and featuring one of the tautest rhythm sections ever assembled, the Chicago-based
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Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered-deluxe edition) LP
C$29.99
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
C$26.99