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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
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Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP
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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
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Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
C$99.99
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
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Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark LP
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Sargent House Lingua Ignota: SINNER GET READY (Red & Clear) LP
Kristen Hayter, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, and vocalist known as Lingua Ignota has announced her Sargent House debut, SINNER GET READY. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Literar
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Lingua Ignota: SINNER GET READY (Red & Clear) LP
C$49.99
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
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Coil: Love's Secret Domain 3LP
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MG.Art Gottsching, Manuel: E2-E4 (35th) LP
180-gram LP version with embossed chessboard artwork print and printed inner sleeve. In celebration of the 2016 35th anniversary of the December 12, 1981, recording of Manuel Göttsching's legendary E2-E4, one of electronic music's most influential recordi
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Gottsching, Manuel: E2-E4 (35th) LP
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Now Again Witch: Lazy Bones!! (opaque orange vinyl) LP
"Pressed on opaque orange vinyl. This landmark recording from Now-Again's comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-, Afro-rock ensemble WITCH, We Intend To Cause Havoc! is now available in a never before seen color variant.
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Witch: Lazy Bones!! (opaque orange vinyl) LP
C$39.99
Eremite Natural Information Society with Evan Parker: Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) LP
Rich in musical associations yet utterly singular in its voice, joyous with an inner tranquility, the music of Natural Information Society is unlike any other being made today. Their sixth album in eleven years for eremite records, descension (Out of Our
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Natural Information Society with Evan Parker: Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) LP
C$64.99
Rhino Stooges: s/t LP
Proto-punk trailblazers The Stooges – Iggy Pop, Ron and Scott Asheton, and Dave Alexander – may have sounded like they were from the Stone Age, but the Ann Arbor quartet predicted the future of rock 'n' roll with the untamable sonic assault of their John
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Stooges: s/t LP
C$29.99
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
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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
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Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) LP
C$44.99
Blue Fog Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) LP
Out of print and unavailable for many years, one of the most memorable Eric’s Trip releases, aside from the “Love Tara” album, is the indie EP that introduced them to the world.

Their youthful energy, catchy songs, and noisy lo-fi recording techniques
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Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) 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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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
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Musica Transonic: s/t 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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Groenland Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia LP
Few bands match the pastoral beauty and majesty of Harmonia, the short-lived German band that existed from 1973 to 1976. The krautrock supergroup, brought together Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster, and Michael Rother of NEU!, who were
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Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia 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.

Ove
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Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP
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Panegyric King Crimson: Red LP
King Crimson was conceived in November of 1968 and born on January 13th 1969 in the Fulham Palace Cafe, London (Robert Fripp/Ian McDonald/Greg Lake/Michael Giles/Pete Sinfield), coming to prominence after supporting The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park. Their
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King Crimson: Red LP
C$36.99
Island Drake, Nick: Bryter Later LP
After crafting a debut album full of beauteous, somber chamber-folk, Nick Drake proved his low-key singing, gentle folk, and supreme mood-setting were no fluke on Bryter Layter. With a bright, sparkling production and mellow orchestrations, the framework
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Drake, Nick: Bryter Later LP
C$39.99
Glitterbeat Hassell, Jon/Farafina: Flash of the Spirit LP
Tak:Til/Glitterbeat present the first ever reissue and remastering of Jon Hassell and Farafina's prescient, "Fourth World" masterwork, Flash of the Spirit, originally released in 1988. Propulsive Burkinese rhythms meet revelatory, ambient soundscapes. Co-
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Hassell, Jon/Farafina: Flash of the Spirit LP
C$54.99
Lovely Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing LP
Lovely Music present a reissue of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing, originally released as an LP by Lovely Music in 1979. Over the course of Robert Ashley's career his preoccupation with language and the voice took many forms. He became known in his libr
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Ashley, Robert: Automatic Writing LP
C$34.99
A&M Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
Don Cherry's 1975 release, Brown Rice is certainly one of the jazz trumpeter's finest and most accessible efforts of the '70s. Produced by Corrado Bacchelli, it finds Cherry taking the tripped-out spacey jazz sound he was pioneering the previous decade an
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Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
C$29.99
Fat Possum X: Los Angeles LP
A reissue of X's essential debut album originally released by Slash in 1980, and the first in a series of X reissues on Fat Possum. Ranked # 286 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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X: Los Angeles LP
C$44.99
Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor 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
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Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor LP
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