0 Items - C$0.00 My account / Register

Essential Grooves

Home / Essential Grooves

Chemikal Underground Mogwai: Come On Die Young (WHITE) LP

Arriving in March 1999 with an album cover that referenced The Exorcist and a title scalped from a well-known Glasgow gang slogan, you'd have expected Mogwai's "Come On Die Young" to be an apocalypse-harbouring, pre-millennial assault on the senses. Inste

Mogwai: Come On Die Young (WHITE) LP

C$44.99

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

Cymande: Cymande (TRANSLUCENT ORANGE CRUSH) LP

C$41.99

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

C$49.99

Mesh-Key Aunt Sally: s/t LP

Available again! Mesh-Key reissue of a true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. They've spared no expense bringing this classic back to life in a format befitting its brilliance, carefully orchestrating transfers of the origin

Aunt Sally: s/t LP

C$49.99

Mr. Bongo Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP

HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!
The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' album with his band the Count Buffaloes. For this offering, originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records, Aki

Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP

C$69.99

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

Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered-deluxe edition) LP

C$29.99

Emotional Rescue O Yuki Conjugate: Into Dark Water LP

Emotional Rescue reissue ‘Into Dark Water’, the second album from UK post-industrial ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate (OYC). The willfully obscure OYC formed in Nottingham in 1982 and have had a sporadic career on the outskirts of musical culture ever si

O Yuki Conjugate: Into Dark Water LP

C$34.99

Black Editions Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX

With the cosmic-disco-drenched Burning Feeling, Steve Moore's high-gloss Lovelock project conjured one of the most slept-on albums of last decade. Chunky, neon-lit synths and crashing, spacey guitars ride chugging Italo basslines and smooth-yet-shuddering

Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX

C$89.99

Republic Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP

Roxy Music's self-titled 1972 debut, one of two with Brian Eno still in the fold, exemplified the band's penchant for glamour, both in the lyrics and with the album cover of model Kari-Ann Muller, kick-starting a tradition of iconic album covers featuring

Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP

C$49.99

Superior Viaduct Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP

For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by

Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP

C$39.99

Light in the Attic Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX

Back in stock on yellow vinyl! “Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance

Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX

C$99.99

Proibito Huerco S: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) LP

What were the clouds like when Huerco S was young? The Kansas-raised, New York-based producer’s absorbing ambient album For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) goes some way to answering The Orb’s fluffy little proposition… Brian Leeds a

Huerco S: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) LP

C$44.99

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

Infinite Fog Coil: Love's Secret Domain 3LP

Black vinyl. In 1991, Coil released the third of their early classic full-length albums “Love’s Secret Domain”, seemingly casting aside the gloom and funereal beauty of its predecessors in favour of a painstakingly multi-layered hallucinogenic electronic

Coil: Love's Secret Domain 3LP

C$74.99

MG.Art Gottsching, Manuel: Inventions for Electric Guitar LP

Originally released in 1975. Remastered by Manuel Göttsching. Recorded July-August 1974, Inventions for Electric Guitar is Manuel Göttsching's first solo album. Written and performed entirely by Göttsching on electric guitar, with a four-track TEAC A3340,

Gottsching, Manuel: Inventions for Electric Guitar LP

C$44.99

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

C$34.99

Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) LP

The band’s second and, unfortunately, final album, Yank Crime is as worthy and awesome as its predecessor, losing not a jot in the change from independent to major label status. Including some longer, more complex tunes this time around, Drive Like Jehu i

Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) LP

C$44.99

Superior Viaduct Flaming Tunes: s/t LP

Flaming Tunes’ sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the ‘80s home recording ethos that you’ve never heard. Originally released in 1985 on cassette (with individually hand-colored covers), this self-titled album grew out of the collaboration between

Flaming Tunes: s/t LP

C$34.99

Sacred Bones Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP

Black vinyl version. The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth's Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name Ataraxia. Subtitled Electronic Musical Impressions o

Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP

C$26.99

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

C$49.99

Seance Centre Museum Of No Art: s/t LP

What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with voice, sampler, synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under t

Museum Of No Art: s/t LP

C$40.99

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

C$54.99

Matador Mission Of Burma: Vs. 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: Vs. LP

C$29.99

Blackest Ever Black Dal Forno, Carla: You Know What It LP

Carla dal Forno presents her debut solo album You Know What It's Like, following time in cult Melbourne group Mole House and an earlier association with Blackest Ever Black as a member of F ingers and Tarcar. Her voice is an extraordinary instrument: both

Dal Forno, Carla: You Know What It LP

C$34.99

Please accept cookies to help us improve this website Is this OK? Yes No More on cookies »