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Empire of Signs Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP
Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy, Spencer Doran and distributed by L
Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP
C$34.99
ATO Altin Gun: Gece (summer sky colored) LP
Repressed on clear teal wax! Following their 2018 debut album On, Amsterdam-based six-member band Altin Gün returned in 2019 with their sophomore album Gece. The record firmly establishes the band as masterful interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk l
Altin Gun: Gece (summer sky colored) LP
C$29.99
Touch & Go Big Black: Atomizer 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 LP
C$26.99
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
C$39.99
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
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Metallica: Ride The Lightning LP
C$34.99
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
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Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches LP
C$29.99
Jackpot Wipers: Over The Edge LP
"The bleak, hard-driven third LP by the Wipers (originally released in 1983) offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless, lashing out with sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. While their debut LP provided the blueprint for grun
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Wipers: Over The Edge LP
C$44.99
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
Black Editions Various: Tokyo Flashback 2LP
Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the his
Various: Tokyo Flashback 2LP
C$54.99
Superior Viaduct Conrad, Tony with Faust: LP
Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participate
Conrad, Tony with Faust: LP
C$34.99
Elemental Axelrod, David: Song of Innocence LP
Song of Innocence (1968) is the visionary debut solo album by producer, arranger, and composer David Axelrod, released on Capitol Records. Named after William Blake’s poetry collection, the record blends psychedelia, jazz fusion, orchestral textures, and
Axelrod, David: Song of Innocence LP
C$39.99
Drag City O'Rourke, Jim: Insignificance LP
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. Avant-rock's prolific chieftain, Jimbo O, returns with another diamond from the rough. Eleven shiney bits of blackened pop mastery...
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O'Rourke, Jim: Insignificance LP
C$39.99
Universal Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) LP
Classic debut album from The Cramps released in 1980. New pressing on black and purple marbled vinyl. Still sounds absolutely incredible, savage rock and roll sturm und drang from a one-of-a-kind band. Side 1 TV Set Rock On The Moon Garbageman (3:34) I Wa
Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) 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
R&S Aphex Twin: Classics LP
Undoubtedly one of the most important and influential electronic artists to have emerged in popular music, the sonic misfit from Cornwall, the Aphex Twin, released a breathtaking slew of early singles and albums from 1991 onwards (and continues to present
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Aphex Twin: Classics LP
C$49.99
Warp Polygon Window: Surfing On Sine Waves (Expanded Edition) LP
Originally released in 1993, Surfing On Sine Waves is the second album released under the Warp Artificial Intelligence series (the series also includes the two titular compilations, as well as contributions by Autechre, The Black Dog, F.U.S.E. and more).
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Polygon Window: Surfing On Sine Waves (Expanded Edition) LP
C$49.99
EM SAB: Crystallization LP
A beautiful album re-emerges from realms of mystery! The long- awaited vinyl reissue of a Japanese neoclassical/experimental/new age/electronic music classic, originally released in 1978. ”Crystallization” is a work of unwavering perfection, whose sparkle
SAB: Crystallization LP
C$44.99
Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
Vincent Gallo and Harper Simon with a beautifully recorded suite of songs and instrumentals. " More than two decades since he blew minds with a suite of brilliant releases on Warp, Vincent Gallo returns to the world of music at long last in Butterfly, his
Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
C$99.99
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
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
Dark Entries Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
In Friday!
Cybernetic disco maestro Patrick Cowley returns to Dark Entries with From Behind, a collection of grooving and ecstatic covers of 60s garage and soul cuts. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body
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Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
C$34.99
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
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
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
C$64.99