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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
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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
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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
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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
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Elevator Through: Vague Premonition "Extra 2LP edition" 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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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.
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Black Flag: Damaged LP
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Cleopatra Guru Guru: UFO LP
Guru Guru was formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass), and Eddy Naegeli (guitar) (later replaced by American Jim Kennedy. By the time of Guru Guru's debut in 1970, Ax Genrich had replaced Kennedy to solidify the
Guru Guru: UFO LP
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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
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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
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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
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Frightnrs, The: Always (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE SPLATTER) LP
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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
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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
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
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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
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D'Silva, Amancio: Sapana LP
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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
Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 2 LP
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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
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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
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Cluster: Cluster 71 LP
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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
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Roxy Music: Roxy Music (half-speed master) 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
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Morricone, Ennio: Dissonance LP
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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
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International Anthem Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands LP
In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (moth
Chiu, Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings from the Aland Islands 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
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Can: Soundtracks LP
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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
C$29.99
Dead Oceans Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 1 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
Fay, Bill: Still Some Light: Part 1 LP
C$34.99