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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
Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
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4AD Breeders: Last Splash LP
In October 2017, The Breeders announced their return to 4AD, along with a new album, All Nerve, released in March 2018. The label is also reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl including Pod (1990), Last Splash (1993), Title TK (2002) and Mountain
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Breeders: Last Splash LP
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Cleopatra Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves LP
Chrome were an experimental rock band formed in San Francisco in 1975. After their first album, the group’s mastermind, Damon Edge, met guitar player Helios Creed and the pair began developing the group’s signature sound collage / acid punk sound. On Half
Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves LP
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DFA Gonzalez, Delia/Gavin Russom: The Days Of Mars LP
Double album of blissed out beatless Krautrock influenced soundscapes on DFA Records. The sounds on these recordings were made by layering live takes of keyboards & other instruments, many of which were designed and built specifically for this album. The
Gonzalez, Delia/Gavin Russom: The Days Of Mars LP
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Kunsthall Paysage D'Hiver: Die Festung LP
It’s a common saying that music takes you somewhere else. Dungeon Synth and Black Metal are no exception when it comes to music's ability to transport the listener from its current surroundings. Misty forests, murky cellars, mighty mountains, star-fille
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Paysage D'Hiver: Die Festung LP
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Mute Leer, Thomas & Robert Rental: The Bridge (white) LP
The Bridge, a seminal electronic album, will now be available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1979! With Robert Rental unfortunately passing away in 2000, this record, Thomas Leer and Rental's one and only album together, stands
Leer, Thomas & Robert Rental: The Bridge (white) LP
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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
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Important Rolando, Tony: Breakin' is a Memory LP
Tony Rolando's debut Breakin' Is A Memory could be your soundtrack. This worldbuilding album of electronic music leaves room for the listener to make big personal connections through subtly complex music resembling a sonic mobile which, as it spins, revea
Rolando, Tony: Breakin' is a Memory LP
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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
Dais Coil: Time Machines LP
"4 Tones to facilitate travel through time." So begins the listeners' journey into what has become one of the most treasured and revered pieces of COIL history ever released. Each of the four pieces on Time Machines is named after the chemical compound of
Coil: Time Machines 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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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
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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,
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Gottsching, Manuel: Inventions for Electric Guitar LP
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Scat Guided By Voices: Propeller LP
Propeller was the fifth album by Guided By Voices, and was intended to be the group’s last. Released as a limited edition of 500 LPs in 1992, the album featured handmade covers and blank labels to keep expenses as low as possible. Their other albums hadn’
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Guided By Voices: Propeller 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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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
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Russell, Arthur: World Of Echo LP
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Jagjaguwar Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP
By now, you know the story: J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Patrick “Murph” Murphy, meet in Amherst, MA. J, Lou and Murph start a band. Said band goes on to rip through the musical landscape and prove to be the genesis of the “alternative rock” archetype.

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Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP
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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
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Jackpot Wipers: Is This Real? LP
"Unquestionably Portland's most well-loved punk group, the Wipers formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, Is This Real? -- twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. Full of desperation and ye
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Wipers: Is This Real? LP
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Jackpot Wipers: Youth Of America LP
Authorized reissue of the 2nd Wipers album, originally issued in 1981. "Simply obliterating any conception of the Wipers as a mere punk band, Greg Sage released this follow-up to Is This Real? in 1981 -- a sophisticated, overwhelming response to the evil
Wipers: Youth Of America LP
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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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Ndeya Hassell, Jon: Vernal Equinox LP
Vernal Equinox was the first commercially released work by Jon Hassell, originally put out by Lovely Music in 1977. It is also the debut of a pioneering new form of music that would become known as "fourth world": a subtle blend of field recordings, elect
Hassell, Jon: Vernal Equinox LP
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Etats Unis Taj Mahal Travellers: July 15, 1972 LP
For over half a century, Takehisa Kosugi was one of the most unique and enduring figures in the Japanese underground. As an art student in Tokyo in the early 1960s, he joined the Fluxus-styled performance unit Hi Re Centre and founded the improvisational
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Taj Mahal Travellers: July 15, 1972 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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