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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
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Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
C$49.99
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
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Cymande: Cymande (TRANSLUCENT ORANGE CRUSH) LP
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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
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Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
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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
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Guru Guru: UFO LP
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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
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Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark LP
C$40.99
Blue Fog Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) LP
Out of print and unavailable for many years, one of the most memorable Eric’s Trip releases, aside from the “Love Tara” album, is the indie EP that introduced them to the world.

Their youthful energy, catchy songs, and noisy lo-fi recording techniques
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Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) LP
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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
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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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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Ambient 4: On Land LP
Available both as a regular 33rpm LP or as an audiophile double 45rpm. On 1982's Ambient 4 (On Land) – the final edition in Brian Eno's ambient series – his palate shifted from electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards "non-instruments" like pie
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Eno, Brian: Ambient 4: On Land LP
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Magical Power Mako: s/t LP
One of the most iconic figures in the Japanese alternative rock scene ever! Originally released in 1973, this was Magical Power Maco's highly visionary debut album. An eccentric mix of psyche, folk, kraut elements wisely filtered with Oriental sensibility
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Magical Power Mako: s/t LP
C$39.99
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
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Nurse with Wound: Thunder Perfect Mind LP
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Superior Viaduct cLOUDDEAD: s/t LP
cLOUDDEAD's debut album, compiling six 10" EPs that appeared between 2000-2001, is aurally dense and obscured. A sprawling mass of miniature beat-suites and Dadaist lyrics, this strange and beautiful 3xLP would influence a myriad of sub-genres (cloud rap,
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cLOUDDEAD: s/t LP
C$84.99
Warp Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP
Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon. The album also includes two songs discovered by James after Trish’s passing: “Come
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Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 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
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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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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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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
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Merge Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
A deep dive into the 21-year journey of New Zealand DIY pop pioneers Tall Dwarfs, aka Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox (both previously of Toy Love and The Enemy fame). Designed and painstakingly curated by Bathgate himself, this 55-track collection compris
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Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
C$134.99
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
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Blonde Redhead: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons LP
C$26.99
Dais Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark² 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 indu
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Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark² LP
C$35.99
Bureau B Cluster: Cluster 71 LP
For the 50th anniversary of this influential album, Bureau B release Cluster 71 as a special LP version: 500 copies, numbered, gatefold and 180 gram vinyl. According to The Wire, the British bible of musical excellence, Cluster 71 is one of the "one hundr
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Cluster: Cluster 71 LP
C$44.99
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
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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
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Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP
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