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Superior Viaduct Spacemen 3: Recurring LP

Solid green, 180 gram vinyl. Due to continued demand, the fourth and final Spacemen 3 studio album Recurring; the much-anticipated follow-up to their seminal Playing with Fire album, is being repressed. By the time the album was recorded, relations betwee

Spacemen 3: Recurring LP

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Telephone Explosion Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools LP

The passionate and unclassifiable work of Calgary-based improviser Jairus Sharif embraces each of these definitions of freedom and others, albeit strictly on its own personal and idiosyncratic terms.

Since early 2020, the 34-year-old autodidact has bee

Sharif, Jairus: Water & Tools 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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Bureau B Heldon: Allez-Teia LP

Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's second album Allez-Teia, originally released on Disjuncta in 1975. Before making his own music in the early '70s, Richard Pinhas was a King Crimson fan. The British group has buzzed in Pinhas's mind for decades, but

Heldon: Allez-Teia 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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Superior Viaduct Contortions: Buy LP

Box delayed, in early next week!
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

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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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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

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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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Kunsthall Paysage D'Hiver: Die Festung LP

It’s a common saying that music takes you somewhere else. Dungeon Synth and Black Metal are no exception when it comes to music's ability to transport the listener from its current surroundings. Misty forests, murky cellars, mighty mountains, star-fille

Paysage D'Hiver: Die Festung LP

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Touch & Go Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered-deluxe edition) LP

Originally released in 1992, the Jesus Lizard’s Liar set a new standard for noisy, visceral indie rock that has yet to be matched. Fronted by powder-keg vocalist David Yow and featuring one of the tautest rhythm sections ever assembled, the Chicago-based

Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered-deluxe edition) 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

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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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Mute Leer, Thomas & Robert Rental: The Bridge (white) LP

The Bridge, a seminal electronic album, will now be available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1979! With Robert Rental unfortunately passing away in 2000, this record, Thomas Leer and Rental's one and only album together, stands

Leer, Thomas & Robert Rental: The Bridge (white) LP

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Feeding Tube Gendron, Myriam: Ma délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found LP

"It has been a while since the release Myriam's acclaimed 2014 debut album, Not So Deep as a Well (FTR 146-4LP). The intervening years have brought a smattering of live performances, a bouquet of children, Trump's Pandemic, and much more . . . Different c

Gendron, Myriam: Ma délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found 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

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Bureau B Cluster: Cluster 71 LP

For the 50th anniversary of this influential album, Bureau B release Cluster 71 as a special LP version: 500 copies, numbered, gatefold and 180 gram vinyl. According to The Wire, the British bible of musical excellence, Cluster 71 is one of the "one hundr

Cluster: Cluster 71 LP

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Black Editions Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless s

Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki: Eclipse LP

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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

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Superior Viaduct Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP

Franco Battiato is often heralded as Italy’s answer to Brian Eno. A quizzical composer / lyricist, Battiato turned pop music upside down in the early ‘70s with three classic LPs—Fetus, Pollution and Sulle Corde Di Aries—that formed a confluence of avant-f

Battiato, Franco: Pollution LP

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Klimt Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP

Originally released as a 2CD set. Easily one of the most prolific film composers of all time, Ennio Morricone enjoys a revered status in the world of eccentric music lovers second to no other. While he is probably best known for his unmistakable music in

Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP

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Mute Can: Soundtracks LP

Mute presents a colored vinyl LP reissue of Can's Soundtracks, a compilation of songs the band had composed for different movies which was released in 1970 before they started work on their second album. This record said goodbye to the group's original vo

Can: Soundtracks LP

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