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Warner Flower Traveling Band: Satori LP

Released in 1971, this is the first album produced by a Japanese artist with the overseas market in
mind. It was released simultaneously in the United States, Canada, and Japan, and in particular, the single “SATORI PART 2” reached No. 8 in Canada. There

Flower Traveling Band: Satori LP

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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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Numero Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP

This one’s been teased for awhile, decades even. The Hated box set was an idea before Numero was an idea. Today we’re pleased to announce the first of five planned Hated collections that we’ll be rolling out over the next several years. Up first is Best P

Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP

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Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP

The debut mixtape from Pro Era crew member and Brooklyn MC, Joey Bada$$. Leaning into the golden era sound of hip-hop, Joey Bada$$ garnered widespread acclaim from some of Hip-Hop's most vaunted tastemakers by crafting a project that paid homage to the 90

Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP

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Get Better Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP

FUCKED UP’s second reissue for Get Better Records is cloaked in shades of unconventional aesthetics, symbolic overtones and a self-proclaimed “culture of confusion.” Hidden World, the band’s first full length studio album, marks a turning point for the my

Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) 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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Numero Karate: Time Expired (5LP-cacophony splatter) LP

At the turn of the century and after three albums, Karate’s tenure within the insular east coast indie rock scene had expired, but the band was just getting started. Collected here is the band’s spacious, adventurous, and sometimes difficult second half p

Karate: Time Expired (5LP-cacophony splatter) LP

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ORG Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP

Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP

Bad Brains: Bad Brains LP

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Mr. Bongo Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP

HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!
The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' album with his band the Count Buffaloes. For this offering, originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records, Aki

Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP

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Numero Blonde Redhead: Blonde Redhead LP

Forming in 1994, Blonde Redhead were thrown together following a chance meeting in New York between Japanese siren Kazu Makino and Milanese twin brothers, Amedeo and Simone Pace. Taking their name from a song by fellow New York no wave artists DNA, locati

Blonde Redhead: Blonde Redhead 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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International Anthem Photay with Carlos Niño: An Offering LP

An Offering is a new work by Photay, under the influence of a special creative partnership with International Anthem recording artist Carlos Niño. IARC followers should know Niño, or at least one of his 3 albums we’ve released in the last 2 years (Chicago

Photay with Carlos Niño: An Offering LP

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Numero Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP

Unwound's third album in as many years, 1995's The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia, WA trio's signature sound – grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps – ratchets past the threa

Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP

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Numero Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP

After the Pacific Northwest grunge raids of the early ’90s that saw Nirvana, Mudhoney, and even the Melvins hoisted up the major label flagpole, Unwound’s 1993 debut came as a welcomed reprieve for underground noise-niks everywhere. A pulsing cluster of w

Unwound: Fake Train (silver) 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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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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Wick Rault, Michael: Michael Rault (galaxy blue/ltd edition) LP

Wick Records presents Michael Rault, the eponymous new album from one of the most talented songwriters in the game. A remarkable re-imagination of '70s pop perfection, the album began to take shape during a time of endings. Michael, on the cusp of turning

Rault, Michael: Michael Rault (galaxy blue/ltd edition) LP

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Blue Fog Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP

Recorded in autumn 1998 at Chemical Sound in Toronto, with Daryl Smith and mixed by Jack Endino, the "Vague Premonition" LP was Elevator's last album with Sub Pop, and is now fully remastered and sounding better than ever. The second LP in this package fe

Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" LP

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Cleopatra Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves LP

Chrome were an experimental rock band formed in San Francisco in 1975. After their first album, the group’s mastermind, Damon Edge, met guitar player Helios Creed and the pair began developing the group’s signature sound collage / acid punk sound. On Half

Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves LP

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Cleopatra Guru Guru: UFO LP

Guru Guru was formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass), and Eddy Naegeli (guitar) (later replaced by American Jim Kennedy. By the time of Guru Guru's debut in 1970, Ax Genrich had replaced Kennedy to solidify the

Guru Guru: UFO LP

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Loris S. Sarid is an ambient composer and artist born in Rome but now resides in Glasgow. His previous release, "Music for Tomato Plants", was a quiet exploration of kalimba, glockenspiel and plucky synths. On his debut LP, "Seabed-Sunbath", Loris submerg

Sarid, Loris S: Seabed-Sunbath LP

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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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Not Not Fun X.Y.R.: Aquarealm LP

The tenth official full-length by St. Petersburg synth savant Vladimir Karpov aka X.Y.R. is a liquid suite of surreal tranquility, divined and designed to soundtrack the shimmering mysteries of underwater life: Aquarealm. Inspired by vintage Soviet cartoo

X.Y.R.: Aquarealm LP

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