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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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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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Touch & Go Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered) LP
Originally released in 1992, the Jesus Lizard’s Liar set a new standard for noisy, visceral indie rock that has yet to be matched. Fronted by powder-keg vocalist David Yow and featuring one of the tautest rhythm sections ever assembled, the Chicago-based
Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered) 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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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
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Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP
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Panegyric Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno's timeless 1975 electronic music classic Evening Star on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album's return to the 12" format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight vinyl a
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Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP
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Klimt Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP
Originally released as a 2CD set. Easily one of the most prolific film composers of all time, Ennio Morricone enjoys a revered status in the world of eccentric music lovers second to no other. While he is probably best known for his unmistakable music in
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Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP
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International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (moth
Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
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Numero Clark, Sanford: They Call Me Country (blue) LP
Propelled by his 1956 Lee Hazlewood-produced hit "The Fool," Sanford Clark was already a rockabilly legend in his own right by the time he swapped his hair gel and switchblade for a pair of cowboy boots on They Call Me Country. Recorded between 1965-67 an
Clark, Sanford: They Call Me Country (blue) LP
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Palto Flats Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
Acclaimed saxophonist, producer and composer Yasuaki Shimizu will release Kiren, his unreleased album from 1984, on the Palto Flats record label on February 25, 2022. Liner notes by music historian Chee Shimizu, and credits in both Japanese and English.
Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
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Proibito Huerco S: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) LP
What were the clouds like when Huerco S was young? The Kansas-raised, New York-based producer’s absorbing ambient album For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) goes some way to answering The Orb’s fluffy little proposition… Brian Leeds a
Huerco S: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) 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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Matador Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP
To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's essential studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP. An indie-rock t
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP
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Sub Pop Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after its release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (f
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
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Blue Fog Elevator To Hell: Eerieconsiliation ("Extra" edition/colour) LP
BlueFog brings you a sweet fully remastered double vinyl gatefold reissue of this classic Elevator album. Record one featuring the original 16 song album, record two has 16 more songs from the “Eerie” sessions including original 7 inch only tracks, rariti
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Elevator To Hell: Eerieconsiliation ("Extra" edition/colour) LP
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Drag City Death: For The Whole World To See LP
“Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The HACKNEY’s were first influenced by soul and funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stoo
Death: For The Whole World To See LP
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Pharaway Koray, Erkin: Halimem LP
Pharaway Sounds presents a compilation dedicated to Erkin Koray, the father of Anatolian rock/Turkish psych. Halimem includes rare single and cassette-only tracks (mostly from 1970-72, plus three killer ones from 1987). Expect a fabulous mix of Turkish me
Koray, Erkin: Halimem LP
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Black Sweat Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and impro
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Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP
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Verve Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
Some music is so finely crafted that the genre in which it is conceived becomes irrelevant to the music itself. Such was the case with much of the work of saxophonist John Coltrane – an artist commonly regarded as a jazz composer, but one whose musical vi
Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme (Verve Acoustic Sounds) LP
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Seance Centre Museum Of No Art: s/t LP
What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with voice, sampler, synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under t
Museum Of No Art: s/t LP
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WeWantSound Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Thousand Knives Of Ryuichi Sakamoto LP
Wewantsounds present a reissue of Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album Thousand Knives Of, originally released in 1978 on the sought-after Better Days label. Save for a small-scale release in 1982, this is the first time the album is being released on viny
Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Thousand Knives Of Ryuichi Sakamoto LP
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Domino Wyatt, Robert: Shleep LP
Shleep, originally released in 1997, features long-term collaborators and friends such as Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Annie Whitehead, Evan Parker and newer accomplices such as Paul Weller. It is as exuberating and immediate a record as Wyatt has ever reco
Wyatt, Robert: Shleep LP
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