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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy) LP
1974's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a loose concept album with topics ranging from espionage to the Chinese Communist revolution. To help guide production of the album, Brian Eno and the album's cover artist Peter Schmidt developed the highly in
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Eno, Brian: Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy) LP
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Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor (3LP) LP
Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.

Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief o
Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor (3LP) LP
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Black Editions High Rise: ll LP
Black Editions present a reissue of High Rise's II, originally released in 1986. High Rise exploded onto Tokyo's underground music scene with the roar and reckless abandon of a motorcycle accelerating headlong into a dead man's curve. Born from the explos
High Rise: ll LP
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Bureau B Faust: Faust IV LP
By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. The Faust Tapes, released earlier that year for 49p as a sur
Faust: Faust IV LP
C$44.99
Atomhenge Hawkwind: Space Ritual LP
A deluxe double LP release of Hawkwind's legendary live album ‘Space Ritual’, recorded on the band's UK tour of December 1972, which followed the release of their studio album ‘Doremi Fasol Latido’. The live show was a continuous performance linked by poe
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Hawkwind: Space Ritual LP
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Trad Gras Och Stenar: S/T LP
Legendary and pioneering Träd, Gräs och Stenar is considered Sweden's oldest rock band to play psychedelic underground music. The group originally formed in 1967 as International Harvester, later became Harvester, and eventually evolved into Träd, Gräs oc
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Trad Gras Och Stenar: S/T 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
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w.25th Cindy Lee: Act Of Tenderness LP
Cindy Lee is the diva alter-ego of singer / guitarist Patrick Flegel, the one-time captain of heralded Canadian experimental guitar pop act, Women. In Flegel’s working on / as Cindy Lee exclusively over recent years, their songwriting makes a move toward
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Cindy Lee: Act Of Tenderness 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
C$49.99
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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Drag City Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP
Years past the space time of Automaginary, Bitchin Bajas and Natural Infor- mation Society have reported back at last from beyond. If the new title doesn’t clue you, Totality brings good news. Since their first collaboration, the path- ways that lead from
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Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality LP
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Bureau B Grosskopf, Harold: Synthesist LP
"Harald Grosskopf was in his early twenties when LSD 'blew [his] reality away,' as he recalls. Born in Hildesheim in 1949, he had previously drummed in fairly conventional rock bands, most recently for Wallenstein. Their label-boss Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser was
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Grosskopf, Harold: Synthesist LP
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Hands in the Dark Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP
Christian Schoppik aka Läuten der Seele brings his “Water” trilogy to a close with his new album ‘Die Reise zur Monsalwäsche’ (The Journey to Monsalwäsche) following up ‘Die Mariengrotte als Trinkwasseraufbereitungsanlage’ (2022, Hands in the Dark) and ‘E
Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP
C$39.99
Temporal Drift Les Rallizes Dénudés: ‘77 Live LP
Temporal Drift presents the first-ever officially sanctioned reissue of celebrated Japanese cult band Les Rallizes Dénudés’ three albums, originally compiled and released in limited quantities on CD in 1991. These reissues follow the label’s release of Th
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Les Rallizes Dénudés: ‘77 Live LP
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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
Sleep: Dopesmoker LP
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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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Mesh-Key Jacks: Vacant World LP
Arriving on the Japanese music scene during the Beatles-inspired cover band boom of the late ’60s, Jacks instantly distinguished themselves from their fluff-peddling, copycat peers with stripped-down, original compositions, nihilistic lyrics and raw perfo
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Jacks: Vacant World 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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Sacred Bones Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled "wa
Garson, Mort: Mother Earth's Plantasia LP
C$26.99
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
Guru Guru: UFO LP
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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
Cluster: Cluster 71 LP
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Century Media Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero LP
Spawned in the Fall of 2011, Cosmic Death Metal initiates BLOOD INCANTATION, spent the past decade establishing a reputation for creating powerful Athmospheric Death Metal with progressive elements, while gradually incorporating more Psychedelic & Ambient
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Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero LP
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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
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Warner Mayfield, Curtis: Curtis LP
Curtis Mayfield might best be remembered for producing the Super Fly soundtrack but the incomparable soul singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer never eclipsed the musical and songwriting genius of 1970's groundbreaking Curtis. Released shortly after he de
Mayfield, Curtis: Curtis LP
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