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Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, "Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord" presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally de
Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
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Temporal Drift Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
In 1980, Les Rallizes Dénudés welcomed guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi (The Dynamites, Murahachibu, Teardrops) to its fold. The unconventional pairing of inimitable Rallizes frontman Mizutani with Fujio’s unrestrained, bluesier styles ushered in a new era for t
Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
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Temporal Drift Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Surround LP
“If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Surround LP
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Spoon Can: Tago Mago (Indie Exclusive Orange Vinyl) LP
Can was founded in 1968 by Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit who formed a group which would utilize and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music. Throughout the changing eras of t
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Can: Tago Mago (Indie Exclusive Orange Vinyl) 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
Third Man Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
Remastered from Original Tapes with Never-Before-Heard Bonus Studio Track "Hot Lava Man" from the Jerusalem Sessions. Recorded in 1996 and not released (in slightly different edit/mix) until 1999 under the title Jerusalem, the legend and lore behind Dopes
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Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
C$36.99
Subliminal Sounds Pärson Sound: Pärson Sound (DELUXE EDITION) LP
A spectacular archival package of primitive drone and minimalist rock/trance/psych from the Swedish underground, believe the hype as follows; one of the most memorable audio documents ever. For a brief period during 1967-68, Pärson Sound was a frontrunner
Pärson Sound: Pärson Sound (DELUXE EDITION) LP
C$81.99
Milan Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
Set in the year 2019 in Neo-Tokyo, the world is still recovering from the ravages of World War III. One night, teen delinquent Kaneda has his biker gang hurtle through the busy city. Kaneda’s friend, Tetsuo, is seriously injured during an accident and is
Geinoh Yamashirojumi: Akira (Red Swirl) LP
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Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP
The debut mixtape from Pro Era crew member and Brooklyn MC, Joey Bada$$. Leaning into the golden era sound of hip-hop, Joey Bada$$ garnered widespread acclaim from some of Hip-Hop's most vaunted tastemakers by crafting a project that paid homage to the 90
Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) 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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Noton Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen LP
Originally released in 2005, Insen is the second collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the second installment of V.I.R.U.S.'s five album series. Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album's recordings are acc
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Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen 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
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Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP
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Panegyric Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno's timeless 1975 electronic music classic Evening Star on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album's return to the 12" format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight vinyl a
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Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star 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
Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark 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
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Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP
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Southern Lord Sunn O))): Flight Of the Behemoth LP
2002's Flight of the Behemoth is the third album by Sunn O))). The band collaborated with legendary Japanese noise artist Merzbow, who mixed "O)))Bow 1" and "O)))Bow 2." The first ever use of a drum machine on a Sunn O))) track is heard on "F.W.T.B.T.", a
Sunn O))): Flight Of the Behemoth LP
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Ebalunga!!! Szabo, Gabor: Dreams LP
The long-awaited reissue of rare Eastern and psychedelic Jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist, originally released in 1968. The first time, extended Edition with 2 bonus tracks: radio version of Fire Dance / Ferris Wheel from single 7” 1969. Gatefold
Szabo, Gabor: Dreams LP
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Verve Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
Some music is so finely crafted that the genre in which it is conceived becomes irrelevant to the music itself. Such was the case with much of the work of saxophonist John Coltrane – an artist commonly regarded as a jazz composer, but one whose musical vi
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Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
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Black Editions Musica Transonic: s/t LP
Black Editions present a reissue of Musica Transonic's self-titled release, originally released in 1995. Musica Transonic was comprised of three of the most crucial artists to emerge from the 1990s Japanese underground: Nanjo Asahito of High Rise, Makoto
Musica Transonic: s/t LP
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Audika Russell, Arthur: World Of Echo LP
BACK IN PRINT!!! A remastered and revised artwork edition of the extraordinary World Of Echo album from New York avant-garde cellist, songwriter, composer, and disco visionary ARTHUR RUSSELL. Originally released in 1986, the album is a deeply meditative a
Russell, Arthur: World Of Echo LP
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Panegyric Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: (No Pussyfooting) LP
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno's timeless 1973 electronic music classic No Pussyfooting on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album's return to the 12" format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight viny
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Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: (No Pussyfooting) LP
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Touch & Go Big Black: Atomizer (remastered) LP
Originally released in 1985, and now remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering, Big Black's first full-length album Atomizer will be re-released in September 2015. To save you having to do the math in your head, yes, that makes this a
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Big Black: Atomizer (remastered) LP
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Rhino New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies LP
New Order formed in Manchester, U.K. in 1980, rising from the ashes of Joy Division after lead singer Ian Curtis' tragic suicide. Guitarist Bernard Sumner took over on vocals, and with drummer Stephen Morris, bassist Peter Hook and keyboardist Gillian Gil
New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies LP
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Mute Cave, Nick: From Her to Eternity LP
The fact that Nick Cave opened his new outfit’s first album with a cover of a Leonard Cohen song, the delusional visionary brooding of "Avalanche," was a sign that he had moved in for good to what Cohen would later call ‘the tower of song’. Cohen’s origin
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Cave, Nick: From Her to Eternity LP
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