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Groenland Harmonia: Deluxe (50th Anniversary Edition) (ORANGE VINYL) LP
When Harmonia made an album, it was about more than just music. It was about a vision. Deluxe, released in 1975, was the band's second album. Instead of pure sound experiments, this album focused more on structure, melody, and rhythm. Harmonia showed a ne
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Harmonia: Deluxe (50th Anniversary Edition) (ORANGE VINYL) LP
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Cherry Red Fall: Hex Induction Hour (2LP-transparent green vinyl) LP
1982 was a decisive year for The Fall. Their critically acclaimed album ‘Hex Enduction Hour’ was released in March on Kamera Records, closely followed by ‘Room To Live’ in September of that year. ‘Hex Enduction Hour’ was their fourth studio album, buildi
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Fall: Hex Induction Hour (2LP-transparent green vinyl) LP
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Blue Note Hutcherson, Bobby: Montara (Blue Note Tone Poet) LP
A high-water mark of Bobby Hutcherson’s remarkably creative and diverse 1970s Blue Note output, Montara is a feel-good album that found the great vibraphonist conjuring up an intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves. Recorded in Hutcherson’s h
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Hutcherson, Bobby: Montara (Blue Note Tone Poet) LP
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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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Funk Night Panfilov Sound Combo, Misha: Days As Echoes LP
In tomorrow.... Some of the greatest work we've ever heard from funky producer/performer Misha Panfilov – a set that really stretches past his early singles, and which almost makes us think that he would have been a giant in the sound library field, had h
Panfilov Sound Combo, Misha: Days As Echoes LP
C$29.99
Hands in the Dark Tomaga: Sleepy Jazz for Tired Cats LP
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Tomaga's debut album, 'Futura Grotesk', Hands in the Dark are re-releasing the long sold out record in a limited edition of 500 copies. The reissue will be accompanied by the first-ever vinyl pressing of the band'
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Tomaga: Sleepy Jazz for Tired Cats LP
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Great Unwashed: Clean Out Of Our Minds LP
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REISSUED!!! The Clean broke up (for the first time) in 1982. After a break, the Kilgour brothers pursued a new aesthetic and started recording on a 4 track at home. Poking fun at their past, they called themselves The Great Unwashed. Clean Ou
Great Unwashed: Clean Out Of Our Minds LP
C$39.99
Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, "Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord" presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally de
Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
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Mute Throbbing Gristle: TGCD1 LP
Throbbing Gristle revisits TGCD1, long out of print, now available on vinyl for the first time ever via Mute. This release includes the original sleeve notes by all the members of the band, uncovering the story and ethos behind TG's independent record lab
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Throbbing Gristle: TGCD1 LP
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Warp Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP
Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon. The album also includes two songs discovered by James after Trish’s passing: “Come
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Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 LP
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Finders Keepers Ciani, Suzanne: Buchla Concerts 1975 LP
Finders Keepers presents these incredible early Buchla synthesizer concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This record is a triumphant yard
Ciani, Suzanne: Buchla Concerts 1975 LP
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Rotorelief Nurse With Wound: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella LP
Official reissue. New remastering vinyl of the 1979 LP by Colin Potter. Gatefold cover plus complete Nurse With Wound list on gatefold inner. This is the long-awaited vinyl re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by So
Nurse With Wound: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella LP
C$64.99
Spoon Can: Tago Mago (Indie Exclusive Orange Vinyl) LP
Can was founded in 1968 by Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit who formed a group which would utilize and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music. Throughout the changing eras of t
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Can: Tago Mago (Indie Exclusive Orange Vinyl) LP
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Milan Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
async is Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album in eight years. Taking inspiration from everyday objects, sculpture, and nature, Sakamoto composed and arranged the sounds/music that he most wanted to listen to. Paying close attention to the essence of each t
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Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Async LP
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Important Coil: Ape Of Naples 2LP
Re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters. The Ape Of Naples is Coil's highly celebrated final album completed by Peter Christopherson following the tragic death of Jhonn Balance in 2004. Often noted for being a fan favorite, The Ape Of N
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Coil: Ape Of Naples 2LP
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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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Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners—perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be
Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
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Superior Viaduct Contortions: Buy LP
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Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance’s group Contortions had already evolved—getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite
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Lilith Various: No New York LP
One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Island's sub-label Antilles. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground N.Y.C. art and music scene, the
Various: No New York LP
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Impatience Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
Tarotplane offers up a new portal of possibility, entitled Light Self All Others, on the Impatience label. An unshackled mind melt of amorphous Berlin School electronics, glistening guitar tones, snatches of disembodied voices and rumblings of percussive
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Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
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Superior Viaduct Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP
Franco Battiato is often heralded as Italy’s answer to Brian Eno. A quizzical composer / lyricist, Battiato turned pop music upside down in the early ‘70s with three classic LPs—Fetus, Pollution and Sulle Corde Di Aries—that formed a confluence of avant-f
Battiato, Franco: Pollution 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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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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