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Crammed Zazou/Bikaye/CY1: Noir et Blanc LP
At last, the vinyl reissue of one of the biggest cult albums in the history of Crammed Discs. This record is constantly being (re)discovered by generations of fans, musicians and DJs, who hail it as an unsurpassed Afro/electronic milestone. The album was
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Zazou/Bikaye/CY1: Noir et Blanc LP
C$31.99
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 (remastered) 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 (remastered) LP
C$29.99
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
C$49.99
Numero 90 Day Men: (It (Is) It) Critical Band (2LP-25th anniversary/coke bottle wave vinyl) LP
90 Day Men's (It (Is) It) Critical Band + Reissued for Its Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition on Colored 2LP: Expanded With Unreleased Album Tracked at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio. Atmospheric post-rock from turn of the century Chicago. 90 Day Men's debut f
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90 Day Men: (It (Is) It) Critical Band (2LP-25th anniversary/coke bottle wave vinyl) LP
C$46.99
Stones Throw J Dilla: Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition) LP
We're celebrating 20 years of J Dilla's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition. The Donuts Audiophile Edition is lacquer cut at Bernie Grundman and manufactured at Fidelity Record Pressing - 2LP 180g vinyl at 45rpm. Deluxe art printed Stou
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J Dilla: Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition) LP
C$54.99
London Durutti Column: The Return Of The Durutti Column (45th Anniversary) LP
Alongside Joy Division, The Durutti Column were amongst the first artists to be released by Factory Records. Their debut album, produced by Martin Hannett, showcased the filigree guitar work of Vini Reilly, awash with reverb and early experiments with syn
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Durutti Column: The Return Of The Durutti Column (45th Anniversary) LP
C$59.99
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
C$37.99
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
C$46.99
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
C$41.99
Lakeshore Various: Drive OST LP
Various Artists with Original Motion Picture Score by Cliff Martinez. A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

The soundtrack features original music by Cliff Marti
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Various: Drive OST LP
C$44.99
Darla Budd, Harold: Avalon Sutra LP
Remastered from the original DAT master by Harold Budd's right hand man in the studio for 30 years, award winning Sound Engineer Bradford Ellis, this new edition of Avalon Sutra has all the dynamic range, as well as a few minor digital artifacts, of the o
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Budd, Harold: Avalon Sutra LP
C$64.99
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
C$49.99
Now Again Amanaz: Africa LP
Single LP reissue of the original album (does not include the "Reverb Mix" version found on previous 2LP editions). "Issued in 1975, this is the articulation of Zambia's Zamrock ethos. Its' musicians were anti-colonial freedom fighters, it envelops Zambia
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Amanaz: Africa LP
C$41.99
Magical Power Mako: s/t LP
One of the most iconic figures in the Japanese alternative rock scene ever! Originally released in 1973, this was Magical Power Maco's highly visionary debut album. An eccentric mix of psyche, folk, kraut elements wisely filtered with Oriental sensibility
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Magical Power Mako: s/t LP
C$39.99
Bureau B Faust: So Far LP
After the poor sales of their debut album, Faust's So Far (1972) presents the more commercial and accessible side of the legendary German krautrock band without giving up their advanced and experimental personality. It is a perfect album to begin explorin
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Faust: So Far LP
C$49.99
Polyvinyl Get Up Kids: Something To Write Home About (2LP-25th anniversary deluxe edition) LP
After 25 years, The Get Up Kids' classic second album, "Something To Write Home About", is still recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band's scen
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Get Up Kids: Something To Write Home About (2LP-25th anniversary deluxe edition) LP
C$54.99
Hands in the Dark Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP
Christian Schoppik aka Läuten der Seele brings his “Water” trilogy to a close with his new album ‘Die Reise zur Monsalwäsche’ (The Journey to Monsalwäsche) following up ‘Die Mariengrotte als Trinkwasseraufbereitungsanlage’ (2022, Hands in the Dark) and ‘E
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Lauten Der Seele: Die Reise Zur Monsalwasche LP
C$39.99
Dark Entries Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
In Friday!
Cybernetic disco maestro Patrick Cowley returns to Dark Entries with From Behind, a collection of grooving and ecstatic covers of 60s garage and soul cuts. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body
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Cowley, Patrick: From Behind LP
C$34.99
Keenan, David: England's Hidden Reverse BOOK
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of Coil, Nurse With Wound and Current 93 as well as contemporaries, friends and associates, EHR illuminates a shadowy English underground scene whose work accented peculiarities of Englishness through
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Keenan, David: England's Hidden Reverse BOOK
C$44.99
Paralaxe Editions Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
After many years drifting in and out of each-other’s orbit, ‘Jazz Plates’ finds Ulla and Perila making music in the same room for the first time, exhaling a double album’s worth of gorgeously evocative mood music, gently crackling with a dream-textured ha
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Ulla & Perila: Jazz Plates LP
C$54.99
Soundways Dar Disku: Dar Disku LP
The Bahraini-born, British-based musical duo Dar Disku release their debut self-titled album, weaving their way into both the dancefloor and home environments with irresistibly broad appeal.
A celebration of their Arabic heritage and multicultural influe
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Dar Disku: Dar Disku LP
C$44.99
Temporal Drift Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
In 1980, Les Rallizes Dénudés welcomed guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi (The Dynamites, Murahachibu, Teardrops) to its fold. The unconventional pairing of inimitable Rallizes frontman Mizutani with Fujio’s unrestrained, bluesier styles ushered in a new era for t
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Les Rallizes Denudes: YaneUra Oct. '80 LP
C$64.99
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
C$40.99