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Numero Duster: Together (cigarette smoke coloured) LP

Gather your loved ones, Together is here. Duster's fourth album is a 13-song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, ‘Oh Duster music

Duster: Together (cigarette smoke coloured) LP

C$29.99

Guruguru Brain Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island LP

“The fifth studio album & last euphoric mind-trip to Kikagaku Moyo's imagined island.
Best-suited for counting stars, looking at the ocean, and dancing in one’s daydream.”

In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’ represents the culmination of a journey for Kikaga

Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island LP

C$44.99

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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Sub Pop Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP

Founded in Australia by Michigan native, guitarist Deniz Tek and vocalist Rob Younger, Radio Birdman was one of the crucial forebears of underground, high-energy punk. Blending the Motor City sound of bands like The Stooges and MC5 that permeated Tek’s yo

Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP

C$41.99

Castle Face Osees: A Foul Form LP

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“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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Superior Viaduct Contortions: Buy LP

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Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance’s group Contortions had already evolved—getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite

Contortions: Buy LP

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Tidal Wave Music Home Boy And The C.O.L.: s/t LP

Cecil Johnson Lyde Holden aka “Home Boy” (born 1948) is an artist whose musical talent has been unmistakable since his days as a young boy. Growing up listening to his parents 78 RPM Doo-wop, Blues, Jazz and Gospel records, he started signing in church wh

Home Boy And The C.O.L.: s/t LP

C$39.99

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

C$44.99

Numero Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP

Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music. Founder Dick Sutphen worked with tireless devotion to spread a message he b

Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP

C$39.99

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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SST Black Flag: Damaged LP

Damaged is the classic debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag. SST Records released it December 1981.

Black Flag reached a new level of intensity and raw fury with this release. This could be Henry Rollins' lifetime highpoint.

Black Flag: Damaged LP

C$36.99

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

C$34.99

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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Impatience Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP

Tarotplane offers up a new portal of possibility, entitled Light Self All Others, on the Impatience label. An unshackled mind melt of amorphous Berlin School electronics, glistening guitar tones, snatches of disembodied voices and rumblings of percussive

Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP

C$34.99

Daptone Frightnrs, The: Always (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE SPLATTER) LP

Before Dan Klein's unfortunate passing, The Frightnrs agreed to keep a promise he asked of them - continue making music together. Part of that promise has been made manifest here...Daptone Records is proud to present ALWAYS! - the raw, soulful new long pl

Frightnrs, The: Always (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE SPLATTER) 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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Roundtable D'Silva, Amancio: Sapana LP

It is widely accepted that the recorded musical output of Indian-born British guitarist Amancio D’Silva came to a premature closure with the landmark 1972 albums, Cosmic Eye and the unreleased masterpiece Konkan Dance. The Roundtable are here to prove oth

D'Silva, Amancio: Sapana LP

C$49.99

Dauw Kolar, Jason: Liquid Rhythm LP

Three years after Stroom TV released his debut album Modified Perspectives, Kolàr released, Loops & Pieces, a documentation of sounds he has been working on in the period 2017-2020. According to Kolàr, this tape, also his first release for Dauw, was full

Kolar, Jason: Liquid Rhythm LP

C$29.99

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

C$79.99

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

C$49.99

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

Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP

C$49.99

ATO Altin Gun: Gece (summer sky colored) LP

Repressed on clear teal wax! Following their 2018 debut album On, Amsterdam-based six-member band Altin Gün returned in 2019 with their sophomore album Gece. The record firmly establishes the band as masterful interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk l

Altin Gun: Gece (summer sky colored) LP

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Digital Regress Loopsel: The Spiral LP

Fans of the Swedish underground should be familiar with Elin Engström from her time playing in Monokultur, Skiftande Enheter, and excellent solo recording project Loopsel. Her debut album The Spiral manifests fragmented pieces of shimmering guitar, organ

Loopsel: The Spiral LP

C$34.99

Superior Viaduct Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP

For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by

Budd, Harold: The Pavilion Of Dreams LP

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