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Parallel Series Sunroof: Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 2 LP

Mute founder Daniel Miller and legendary engineer Gareth Jones (Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure, Yann Tiersen) vibe out in enviably well-stocked studios on a 2nd batch of improvisations. The illustrious duo have used the Sunroof moniker for remixes dating

Sunroof: Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 2 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

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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

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1972 Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP

Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, cr

Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP

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Secretly Canadian Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine LP

Molina's concept album is an honest-to-God effort on the part of Magnolia Electric Co. to pay tribute to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell (R.I.P. December 2007), as the ideas for Josephine were being pieced together. Molina said each tun

Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine LP

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Verve Sanders, Pharoah: Karma (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP

Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, Sanders' sound can be as raw and abrasive as it is possible for a saxophonist to produce. Yet, Sanders is highly regarded to

Sanders, Pharoah: Karma (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP

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Numero Duster: Capsule Losing Contact BOX

San Jose’s sonic cure-all for the Y2K hangover that never materialized, Duster emerged from a cloud of lonely bong rips to take indie rock to the moon, and beyond. Scotch-taped guitars toggle between a chorus of brittle winter trees and a blanket of disto

Duster: Capsule Losing Contact BOX

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Music From Memory Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP

*2022 repress*Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991) and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compi

Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP

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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

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Wichita Ride: Nowhere LP

"Shoegaze legends Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via Wichita Recordings. These will be released on the 4th November and will include the first four EPs ('Ride, 'Play', 'Fall', and 'Today Forever'), plus their

Ride: Nowhere LP

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Ghostly Khotin: Release Spirit LP

Canadian producer Dylan Khotin-Footehas kept his Khotin alias going for the better part of a decade; the impressionistic electronic project shifts with the movements in his life. Sometimes it leads, like when the club-friendly grooves of 2014’s Hello Worl

Khotin: Release Spirit LP

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Telephone Explosion Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools LP

The passionate and unclassifiable work of Calgary-based improviser Jairus Sharif embraces each of these definitions of freedom and others, albeit strictly on its own personal and idiosyncratic terms.

Since early 2020, the 34-year-old autodidact has bee

Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools LP

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Real Gone Honey & The Bees: Love (HONEY) LP

One of the great, lost albums of Philly Soul! And we mean really lost…we had to go to Italy and pay close to 500 euros to snag a copy for artwork. Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, and Cassandra Wooten were known as The Yum-Yums when they auditioned for Arctic lab

Honey & The Bees: Love (HONEY) 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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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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Sub Pop Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP

Founded in Australia by Michigan native, guitarist Deniz Tek and vocalist Rob Younger, Radio Birdman was one of the crucial forebears of underground, high-energy punk. Blending the Motor City sound of bands like The Stooges and MC5 that permeated Tek’s yo

Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP

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Castle Face Osees: A Foul Form LP

Box delayed, in early next week!
“Brain stem cracking scum-punk recorded tersely in the basement of my home. After a notoriously frustrating eon, the knee-jerk song path was aggressive and hooky. This is an homage to the punk bands we grew up on—the weir

Osees: A Foul Form 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

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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

Paysage D'Hiver: Die Festung LP

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Luaka Bop Os Mutantes: World Psychedelic Classics 1: Everything Is Possible - The Best of Os Mutantes (MUTANT ORANGE) LP

The reason that you even know Os Mutantes is because of this album. Back in 1999 when David Byrne originally compiled this retrospective - making it the first in our critically acclaimed psychedelic series - the idea of doing a psychedelic album from outs

Os Mutantes: World Psychedelic Classics 1: Everything Is Possible - The Best of Os Mutantes (MUTANT ORANGE) LP

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Nor Nordung Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP

"Who Can I Turn To Stereo" by Nurse With Wound for the first time on Vinyl! It will be released as double album (including bonus material), strictly limited and numbered and in different colors (Black, Transparent, Silver and Gold). There will be a speci

Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP

C$274.99

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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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

Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

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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

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