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A&M Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
Don Cherry's 1975 release, Brown Rice is certainly one of the jazz trumpeter's finest and most accessible efforts of the '70s. Produced by Corrado Bacchelli, it finds Cherry taking the tripped-out spacey jazz sound he was pioneering the previous decade an
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Cherry, Don: Brown Rice LP
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Pink Flag Wire: Pink Flag (2018 remaster) LP
Wire’s first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire’s reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first. It has bee
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Wire: Pink Flag (2018 remaster) LP
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Goofin' Sonic Youth: Sister LP
“Let’s get something straight. There is no album in the entire corpus of indie rock—not Loveless, not Surfer Rosa, not Psychocandy—that reaches the heights of invention, joy, and magic of Sonic Youth’s sublime fifth album.... The haunted reveries of Siste
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Sonic Youth: Sister 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
COLTRANE, ALICE: Ecstatic Music of LP
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Superior Viaduct Conrad, Tony with Faust: LP
Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participate
Conrad, Tony with Faust: 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
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Atomhenge Hawkwind: Space Ritual LP
A deluxe double LP release of Hawkwind's legendary live album ‘Space Ritual’, recorded on the band's UK tour of December 1972, which followed the release of their studio album ‘Doremi Fasol Latido’. The live show was a continuous performance linked by poe
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Hawkwind: Space Ritual 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
Cramps, The: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Black and Purple Marbled Vinyl) LP
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Blue Note Hutcherson, Bobby: Montara (Blue Note Tone Poet) LP
A high-water mark of Bobby Hutcherson’s remarkably creative and diverse 1970s Blue Note output, Montara is a feel-good album that found the great vibraphonist conjuring up an intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves. Recorded in Hutcherson’s h
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Hutcherson, Bobby: Montara (Blue Note Tone Poet) LP
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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
Budd, Harold: Avalon Sutra LP
C$64.99
Legacy Reed, Lou: Metal Machine Music LP
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music is an album that stands out for its defiance of traditional music norms. Released in 1975 and described by Lester Bangs as “The greatest record ever made in the history of the human eardrum” (Creem, 1975), it challenged list
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Reed, Lou: Metal Machine Music LP
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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
Amanaz: Africa LP
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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
Coil: Black Antlers (2LP-clear vinyl) LP
C$39.99
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
Banha da Cobra: Lava LP
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Invitation Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP
Deep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ōhashi and the Geinoh Yamashirogumi crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan, 1990, Ecophony Gaia, was supposed to be the stunning, aural centerpiece for a li
Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP
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Good Morning Tapes Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
Heavenly new age ambient synthesis and 4th world navigations by two leading lights of their field, flocking to a mutual spirit at the behest of Australia’s eternally reliable Good Morning Tapes. RIYL Asa-Chang & Junray, Jon Hassell, Nueen, Enya, David Too
Kalma, Ariel / Asa Tone: ◯ LP
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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
Get Up Kids: Something To Write Home About (2LP-25th anniversary deluxe edition) LP
C$54.99
We Are Busy Bodies Roos, Kristen: Universal Synthesizer Interface VOL III LP
This third volume of Universal Synthesizer Interface delves further into early MIDI sequencing software for personal computers, focusing on Intelligent Music Software founded by Joel Chadabe in 1984. In a short period of time (1986-1990) Intelligent Music
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Roos, Kristen: Universal Synthesizer Interface VOL III LP
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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
Keenan, David: England's Hidden Reverse BOOK
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Mute Throbbing Gristle: Third Mind Movements LP
Throbbing Gristle unveils a reissue of The Third Mind Movements, released commercially for the first time on vinyl via Mute. Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka Chris Carter, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (1955-2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Genesis Bre
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Throbbing Gristle: Third Mind Movements LP
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ECM Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP
In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s, Tabula Rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collabor
Part, Arvo: Tabula Rasa LP
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Mute Frost, Ben: A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Red) LP
--- Out Oct 11, 2024 ---

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost releases a limited edition red vinyl of his studio album, A U R O R A, on Mute.

Limited to just 400 copies in North America, this v
Frost, Ben: A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Red) LP
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Finders Keepers Ciani, Suzanne: Buchla Concerts 1975 LP
Finders Keepers presents these incredible early Buchla synthesizer concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This record is a triumphant yard
Ciani, Suzanne: Buchla Concerts 1975 LP
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