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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
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Os Mutantes: World Psychedelic Classics 1: Everything Is Possible - The Best of Os Mutantes (MUTANT ORANGE) LP
C$39.99
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
C$29.99
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
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Tarotplane: Light Self All Others LP
C$34.99
Nor Nordung Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP
"Who Can I Turn To Stereo" by Nurse With Wound for the first time on Vinyl! It will be released as double album (including bonus material), strictly limited and numbered and in different colors (Black, Transparent, Silver and Gold). There will be a speci
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Nurse With Wound: Who Can I Turn to Stereo LP
C$104.99
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
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Leer, Thomas & Robert Rental: The Bridge (white) LP
C$44.99
Emotional Rescue O Yuki Conjugate: Into Dark Water LP
Emotional Rescue reissue ‘Into Dark Water’, the second album from UK post-industrial ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate (OYC). The willfully obscure OYC formed in Nottingham in 1982 and have had a sporadic career on the outskirts of musical culture ever si
O Yuki Conjugate: Into Dark Water LP
C$34.99
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
C$39.99
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
C$44.99
Touch & Go Blonde Redhead: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons 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: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons LP
C$26.99
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
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D'Silva, Amancio: Sapana LP
C$49.99
Dead Oceans Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are "calming hymns for another chaotic time", he says. His influence can be traced through many artist's work, and so
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Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
C$34.99
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
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Kolar, Jason: Liquid Rhythm LP
C$29.99
Run Out Groove Speed, Glue & Shinki: Eve (solid red, yellow & orange mixed) 2017 remaster LP
Speed, Glue & Shinki was a Japanese psychedelic rock power trio formed in 1970 by guitarist Shinki Chen and record producer Ikuzo Orita. Orita had previously produced an album featuring Chen; who was considered the Japanese equivalent of Jimi Hendrix. On
Speed, Glue & Shinki: Eve (solid red, yellow & orange mixed) 2017 remaster LP
C$34.99
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
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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
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Takayanagi, Masayuki/New Direction: Station '70: Call in Question/Live Independence BOX
C$79.99
Century Media Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero LP
Spawned in the Fall of 2011, Cosmic Death Metal initiates BLOOD INCANTATION, spent the past decade establishing a reputation for creating powerful Athmospheric Death Metal with progressive elements, while gradually incorporating more Psychedelic & Ambient
Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero LP
C$34.99
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
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Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: Evening Star LP
C$49.99
Klimt Morricone, Ennio: Crime 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
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Morricone, Ennio: Crime LP
C$34.99
Numero Clark, Sanford: They Call Me Country (blue) LP
Propelled by his 1956 Lee Hazlewood-produced hit "The Fool," Sanford Clark was already a rockabilly legend in his own right by the time he swapped his hair gel and switchblade for a pair of cowboy boots on They Call Me Country. Recorded between 1965-67 an
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Clark, Sanford: They Call Me Country (blue) LP
C$29.99
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
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Loopsel: The Spiral LP
C$34.99
Palto Flats Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
Acclaimed saxophonist, producer and composer Yasuaki Shimizu will release Kiren, his unreleased album from 1984, on the Palto Flats record label on February 25, 2022. Liner notes by music historian Chee Shimizu, and credits in both Japanese and English.
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Shimizu, Yasuaki: Kiren LP
C$35.99
Light in the Attic Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
Back in stock on yellow vinyl! “Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance
Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 BOX
C$99.99
Mr. Bongo Cortes, Lula E Ze Ramalho: Paebiru LP
The album is a collaboration between Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho, a wonderfully off-kilter record full of fantastic hooky and strange tunes that range from full-on freakouts to quiet pastoral numbers displaying the entire range of 1970s h
Cortes, Lula E Ze Ramalho: Paebiru LP
C$44.99
Soul Jazz Russell, Arthur: The World Of Arthur Russell LP
Acknowledged as an influence by many: founder of the classic eighties label Sleeping Bag, home to Mantronix, T La Rock, Joyce Sims amongst many others: - vocalist and cellist, buddhist - almost joined Talking Heads, instead making two of the biggest Parad
Russell, Arthur: The World Of Arthur Russell LP
C$40.99