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WRWTFWW Kawai, Kenji: Ghost In The Shell O.S.T. LP
We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records present the first ever official vinyl pressing of the soundtrack for Mamoru Oshii's critically acclaimed and all around legendary science fiction anime film Ghost In The Shell (1995), adapted from Masamune Shirow'
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Kawai, Kenji: Ghost In The Shell O.S.T. LP
C$44.99
Goofin' Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
Daydream Nation was Sonic Youth’s sixth full-length, their first double-LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, the album catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie b
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation LP
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Geffen Sonic Youth: Goo LP
Goo is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released by DGC Records on June 26, 1990; the album was the band's first on a major label after the group left Enigma Records to sign with Geffen. For the album, Sonic
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Sonic Youth: Goo LP
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Luaka Bop COLTRANE, ALICE: Ecstatic Music of LP
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four-year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death. By 1
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COLTRANE, ALICE: Ecstatic Music of LP
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Aguirre Taj Mahal Travellers: August '74 LP
Aguirre Records present a reissue of Taj Mahal Travellers' August 1974, originally released in 1975. A monumental work by the Japanese experimental music ensemble. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As
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Taj Mahal Travellers: August '74 LP
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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
From its release in 1975 to today, Another Green World has been heaped with accolades. At the time, Village Voice described it as "the aural equivalent of a park on the moon" and Rolling Stone called it "a major triumph, an important record - and also a b
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Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
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RER Musci, Roberto & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages on Desert Sand LP
Following up on the material reissued via Music From Memory, here is a reissue of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta's sought after ambient masterpiece from 1987. The album realises sound from electric, acoustic and documentary source, taking ethnic field
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Musci, Roberto & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages on Desert Sand LP
C$29.99
Touch & Go Big Black: Songs About Fucking LP
Songs About Fucking, the last Big Black studio album, ups the aggression ante on almost every front. The music is more bombastic, the production is harsher, and the lyrics are even more confrontational, delivered even more stridently than before. Rather t
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Big Black: Songs About Fucking LP
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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Here Come the Warm Jets LP
The hybrid of glam, prog and art rock on Brian Eno's 1974 debut Here Come The Warm Jets continued in a vein similar to his previous albums with Roxy Music, but further upped the experimental ante. In developing the album's words and music, Eno used unusua
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Eno, Brian: Here Come the Warm Jets LP
C$39.99
Glitterbeat AMMAR 808: Club Tounsi LP
Denmark-based Tunisian producer Sofyann Ben Youssef has already created whole new worlds of sound. His startling debut as AMMAR 808 -- 2018's Maghreb United -- fused thumping TR-808 drum machine rhythms and bone-rattling bass with traditional North Africa
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AMMAR 808: Club Tounsi LP
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Vampi Soul Ayers Ubiquity, Roy: Everybody Loves the Sunshine LP
In Everybody Loves the Sunshine (1976), Roy Ayers seamlessly blends genres, creating a timeless sound that continues to influence musicians and DJs around the world. He makes the vibraphone the central instrument, a jazz-funk approach that defines his uni
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Ayers Ubiquity, Roy: Everybody Loves the Sunshine LP
C$54.99
Trust SNFU: And No One Else Wanted to Play (40th anniversary color vinyl) LP
Exclusive 40th anniversary pressing. Remastered from the original tapes. S.N.F.U.’s debut album, …And No One Else Wanted To Play, is widely recognized as an influential cornerstone in hardcore punk and the skatepunk subgenera. With the twin Belle brother
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SNFU: And No One Else Wanted to Play (40th anniversary color vinyl) LP
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Elemental Axelrod, David: Song of Innocence LP
Song of Innocence (1968) is the visionary debut solo album by producer, arranger, and composer David Axelrod, released on Capitol Records. Named after William Blake’s poetry collection, the record blends psychedelia, jazz fusion, orchestral textures, and
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Axelrod, David: Song of Innocence LP
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Warner Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP
Although it was burdened with the difficult task of following-up what is universally lauded as one of the best albums of the '90s in 1999's Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips struck gold once again with 2002's equally as brilliant Yoshimi Battles The Pink Ro
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Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP
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Sundazed Redding, Otis: The Soul Album LP
The aptly titled 1966 release The Soul Album is one of the most beloved LPs in Otis Redding's catalogue, and a powerful evocation of this singular soul icon's massive talent and impressive versatility. While such original tunes as "Cigarettes and Coffee,"
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Redding, Otis: The Soul Album LP
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Universal Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) LP
Classic debut album from The Cramps released in 1980. New pressing on black and purple marbled vinyl. Still sounds absolutely incredible, savage rock and roll sturm und drang from a one-of-a-kind band. Side 1 TV Set Rock On The Moon Garbageman (3:34) I Wa
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Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) LP
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Murder Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
Smeared is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released in Canada on October 1, 1992, and in the United States in January, 1993, on Geffen Records. The album was recorded at a low cost of $1,200. The album is ranked 86th in the 200
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Sloan: Smeared (tip-on sleeve) LP
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R&S Aphex Twin: Classics LP
Undoubtedly one of the most important and influential electronic artists to have emerged in popular music, the sonic misfit from Cornwall, the Aphex Twin, released a breathtaking slew of early singles and albums from 1991 onwards (and continues to present
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Aphex Twin: Classics LP
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Sub Pop Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure (2LP deluxe edition-coloured vinyl) LP
Sub Pop marks the 30th anniversary of Six Finger Satellite's sophomore album, "Severe Exposure", with an expanded double LP edition of the album. In addition to the original album, this deluxe edition includes a bonus 12" of the 1994 "Machine Cuisine" EP,
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Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure (2LP deluxe edition-coloured vinyl) LP
C$69.99
Fire Jackie-o Motherfucker: Flags Of The Sacred Harp (2LP-20th anniversary edition) LP
20th anniversary 2xLP reissue of Flags Of The Sacred Harp, a transcendent masterpiece of free-folk, gospel-drone, and psychedelic Americana. A re-imagining of traditional hymns and anthems from the original American songbook that was first published in 18
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Jackie-o Motherfucker: Flags Of The Sacred Harp (2LP-20th anniversary edition) LP
C$59.99
EM SAB: Crystallization LP
A beautiful album re-emerges from realms of mystery! The long- awaited vinyl reissue of a Japanese neoclassical/experimental/new age/electronic music classic, originally released in 1978. ”Crystallization” is a work of unwavering perfection, whose sparkle
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SAB: Crystallization LP
C$44.99
Dais Coil: Black Antlers (2LP-clear vinyl) LP
In the late-1990s, after a successful career as an MTV-era music video director, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson moved with Jhonn Balance - his partner in life and in Coil - from London to the rural Weston-super-Mare, creating an environment for all things
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Coil: Black Antlers (2LP-clear vinyl) LP
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Discrepant Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020 -- amidst the Pandemic, no less -- the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their Mãe D'Água debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's Aqu
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Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
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Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
Vincent Gallo and Harper Simon with a beautifully recorded suite of songs and instrumentals. " More than two decades since he blew minds with a suite of brilliant releases on Warp, Vincent Gallo returns to the world of music at long last in Butterfly, his
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Butterfly (Vincent Gallo & Harper Simon): The Music of Butterfly LP
C$99.99