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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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Republic Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) LP

Roxy Music's self-titled 1972 debut, one of two with Brian Eno still in the fold, exemplified the band's penchant for glamour, both in the lyrics and with the album cover of model Kari-Ann Muller, kick-starting a tradition of iconic album covers featuring

Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) 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

Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP

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Mute Can: Soundtracks LP

Mute presents a colored vinyl LP reissue of Can's Soundtracks, a compilation of songs the band had composed for different movies which was released in 1970 before they started work on their second album. This record said goodbye to the group's original vo

Can: Soundtracks LP

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Dead Oceans Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 1 LP

Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are "calming hymns for another chaotic time," he says. His influence can be traced through many artist's work, and so

Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 1 LP

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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

Plastic Cloud: s/t 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

Metallica: ...And Justice For All LP

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Domino Wyatt, Robert: Rock Bottom LP

Domino take great pride in reissuing Rock Bottom, originally released in 1974. Defiantly graceful, listening to Rock Bottom is like being invited into another person’s consciousness: fluid, deep, mesmerising and utterly unique.

Wyatt, Robert: Rock Bottom 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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Rhino Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures LP

Factory Records owner Tony Wilson gambled label profits and his life savings on the recording of Joy Division's debut album. With producer Martin Hannett at the helm, the band crafted a stark musical statement that would endure as a milestone. 1979's Un

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures LP

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Spoon Can: Ege Bamyasi LP

Ege Bamyasi, originally released in 1972, is the fourth album from the German rock experimentalists and follow-up to their critically acclaimed 1971 album Tago Mago. The record finds the band transitioning from the edgy excursions of their earlier albums

Can: Ege Bamyasi LP

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Matador Mission Of Burma: Vs. LP

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight

Mission Of Burma: Vs. LP

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Matador Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches LP

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight

Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches 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

Wipers: Is This Real? LP

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Jackpot Wipers: Over The Edge LP

"The bleak, hard-driven third LP by the Wipers (originally released in 1983) offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless, lashing out with sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. While their debut LP provided the blueprint for grun

Wipers: Over The Edge LP

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Cherry Red Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind (2LP deluxe edition-green vinyl) LP

Gatefold; green vinyl. "Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued Green Mind in 1991 as the alternati

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind (2LP deluxe edition-green vinyl) LP

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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

Drake, Nick: Bryter Later LP

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Blackest Ever Black Dal Forno, Carla: You Know What It LP

Carla dal Forno presents her debut solo album You Know What It's Like, following time in cult Melbourne group Mole House and an earlier association with Blackest Ever Black as a member of F ingers and Tarcar. Her voice is an extraordinary instrument: both

Dal Forno, Carla: You Know What It LP

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Mute Cave, Nick: From Her to Eternity LP

The fact that Nick Cave opened his new outfit’s first album with a cover of a Leonard Cohen song, the delusional visionary brooding of "Avalanche," was a sign that he had moved in for good to what Cohen would later call ‘the tower of song’. Cohen’s origin

Cave, Nick: From Her to Eternity LP

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Dais Tazartès, Ghédalia: Diasporas (clear red) LP

Originally recorded in 1977, following a limited release in 1979, Ghédalia Tazartès debut album, Diasporas, introduced listeners to the surreal, mysterious and truly unclassifiable statement of Tazartès and his out-of-time place in the French avant-garde

Tazartès, Ghédalia: Diasporas (clear red) LP

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Daptone Olympians, The: The Olympians LP

After repeatedly being visited by a strange messenger in his dreams while on tour in the islands of Greece, Toby Pazner became consumed with a vision to tell the stories of The Olympians through music. Chosen by the gods as a messenger for not only his mu

Olympians, The: The Olympians LP

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Mute Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats LP

Mute present a vinyl repress of 20 Jazz Funk Greats, the landmark 1979 album from industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The impetus for the record apparently came about from Genesis P-Orridge's mother's request that the band record something "nice.

Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats 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

Taj Mahal Travellers: July 15, 1972 LP

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