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Lion Plastic Cloud: s/t LP

Plastic Cloud recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest underground psychedelic albums ever made: a swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references, swathed in some of the most relentless fuzz guitars you will ever hear. A record with few equals, full o

Plastic Cloud: s/t LP

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Rhino Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures LP

Factory Records owner Tony Wilson gambled label profits and his life savings on the recording of Joy Division's debut album. With producer Martin Hannett at the helm, the band crafted a stark musical statement that would endure as a milestone. 1979's Un

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures LP

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Mute Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats LP

Mute present a vinyl repress of 20 Jazz Funk Greats, the landmark 1979 album from industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The impetus for the record apparently came about from Genesis P-Orridge's mother's request that the band record something "nice.

Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats LP

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Aguirre Taj Mahal Travellers: August '74 LP

Aguirre Records present a reissue of Taj Mahal Travellers' August 1974, originally released in 1975. A monumental work by the Japanese experimental music ensemble. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As

Taj Mahal Travellers: August '74 LP

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Polyvinyl Get Up Kids: Something To Write Home About (2LP-25th anniversary deluxe edition) LP

After 25 years, The Get Up Kids' classic second album, "Something To Write Home About", is still recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band's scen

Get Up Kids: Something To Write Home About (2LP-25th anniversary deluxe edition) LP

C$54.99

Third Man Boris: Amplifier Worship (25th Anniversary - Lime Swirl) LP

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Boris’ sonic marvel Amplifier Worship, Third Man Records is thrilled to present a one time pressing of this classic double LP on colored vinyl. Manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit and housed inside a wonderfu

Boris: Amplifier Worship (25th Anniversary - Lime Swirl) LP

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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

SML: Small Medium Large LP

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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

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Nor Nordung Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP

"Who Can I Turn To Stereo" by Nurse With Wound for the first time on Vinyl! It will be released as double album (including bonus material), strictly limited and numbered and in different colors (Black, Transparent, Silver and Gold). There will be a speci

Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP

C$274.99

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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Black Editions Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless s

Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

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Superior Viaduct Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP

Franco Battiato is often heralded as Italy’s answer to Brian Eno. A quizzical composer / lyricist, Battiato turned pop music upside down in the early ‘70s with three classic LPs—Fetus, Pollution and Sulle Corde Di Aries—that formed a confluence of avant-f

Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP

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International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP

In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (moth

Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP

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Dais Coil: Time Machines LP

"4 Tones to facilitate travel through time." So begins the listeners' journey into what has become one of the most treasured and revered pieces of COIL history ever released. Each of the four pieces on Time Machines is named after the chemical compound of

Coil: Time Machines LP

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Matador Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP

To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's essential studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP. An indie-rock t

Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP

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Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP

Repressed again with liner notes. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to a power station, wailing and screaming, with nervous riffs piled on

Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP

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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

Cure: Disintegration LP

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Groenland Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia LP

Few bands match the pastoral beauty and majesty of Harmonia, the short-lived German band that existed from 1973 to 1976. The krautrock supergroup, brought together Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster, and Michael Rother of NEU!, who were

Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia LP

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Blackened Metallica: Ride The Lightning LP

1984 Metallica Album Combines Uncompromising Extremes, Refined Tunefulness, Smart Songwriting: Ride the Lightning Sounds Incredible on Remastered LP, Features "Fade to Black"

The first metal album to take the art form to both uncompromising extremes wh

Metallica: Ride The Lightning LP

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Matador Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches 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

Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches 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

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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Century Media Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere LP

Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as the Denver, Colorado quartet. At roughly 45 minutes, the two compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they

Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere LP

C$44.99

Hands in the Dark Tomaga: Futura Grotesk LP

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Tomaga's debut album, 'Futura Grotesk', Hands in the Dark are re-releasing the long sold out record in a limited edition of 500 copies. The reissue will be accompanied by the first-ever vinyl pressing of the band'

Tomaga: Futura Grotesk LP

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