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Bureau B Schickert, Gunter: Uberfallig LP
Bureau B reissues Günter Schickert's album Überfällig, originally released in 1979 on Sky Records. "No sooner had electronic music broken through in Germany, principally aligned in the two schools of Düsseldorf and Berlin, than Günter Schickert also began
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Schickert, Gunter: Uberfallig LP
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Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor (3LP) LP
Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.

Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief o
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Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor (3LP) LP
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Unseen Worlds Spiegel, Laurie: The Expanding Universe (3LP) LP
The Expanding Universe is the 1980 debut album by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The original album is reissued here as a massively expanded 3LP or 2CD set, containing all four original album tracks plus an additional 15 tracks from t
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Spiegel, Laurie: The Expanding Universe (3LP) LP
C$64.99
Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Ambient 4: On Land LP
Available both as a regular 33rpm LP or as an audiophile double 45rpm. On 1982's Ambient 4 (On Land) – the final edition in Brian Eno's ambient series – his palate shifted from electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards "non-instruments" like pie
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Eno, Brian: Ambient 4: On Land LP
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Westbound Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP
Maggot Brain, released in 1971, is Funkadelic's all-out masterpiece. Absolutely no one working in soul and funk at the time had the scope, vision and, let's be honest, sheer lunacy to pull off the kind of record that George Clinton and his collaborators h
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Funkadelic: Maggot Brain LP
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Geffen Sonic Youth: Goo LP
Goo is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released by DGC Records on June 26, 1990; the album was the band's first on a major label after the group left Enigma Records to sign with Geffen. For the album, Sonic
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Sonic Youth: Goo LP
C$36.99
Mississippi Tembo, Chrissy Zebby: My Ancestors LP
"It could be argued that this is one of the greatest rock n' roll records of all time! Straight from Zambia, we have My Ancestors. A tough rock and roll masterpiece like no other. Over-ridden fuzz guitars, pop melodies and even a Black Sabbathesque soundi
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Tembo, Chrissy Zebby: My Ancestors LP
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Astralwerks Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
From its release in 1975 to today, Another Green World has been heaped with accolades. At the time, Village Voice described it as "the aural equivalent of a park on the moon" and Rolling Stone called it "a major triumph, an important record - and also a b
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Eno, Brian: Another Green World LP
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Dark Entries Solid Space: Space Museum LP
Dark Entries is honored to finally present the first ever official vinyl reissue of Space Museum by SOLID SPACE. Solid Space was the British duo of DAN GOLDSTEIN (keyboards, vocals) and MATTHEW "MAF" VOSBURGH (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) formed in 1
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Solid Space: Space Museum LP
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Glitterbeat AMMAR 808: Club Tounsi LP
Denmark-based Tunisian producer Sofyann Ben Youssef has already created whole new worlds of sound. His startling debut as AMMAR 808 -- 2018's Maghreb United -- fused thumping TR-808 drum machine rhythms and bone-rattling bass with traditional North Africa
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AMMAR 808: Club Tounsi LP
C$49.99
Proper Fay, Bill: Bill Fay LP
Originally issued on Decca’s Deram imprint in 1970, Bill Fay’s debut album is a soulful and introspective folk-rock masterpiece – With its warm, lush arrangements and heartfelt lyrics, it showcases Fay’s poetic storytelling and enduring from-the-heart emo
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Fay, Bill: Bill Fay LP
C$56.99
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
C$37.99
Legacy Reed, Lou: Transformer LP
An American master and true rock & roller, Lou Reed transformed popular art, music and culture through a body of work that continues to affect the way fans hear and see the world. Reed, who cut his first single as a teenager in the late-50s, began his pro
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Reed, Lou: Transformer LP
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Lakeshore Various: Drive OST LP
Various Artists with Original Motion Picture Score by Cliff Martinez. A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

The soundtrack features original music by Cliff Marti
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Various: Drive OST LP
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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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Quarterstick Naked Raygun: Throb Throb (green swirl coloured vinyl) LP
REMASTERED BY BOB WESTON AT CHICAGO MASTERING SERVICE

ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1985 - VINYL REISSUE INCLUDES BONUS TRACK

Naked Raygun were an extraordinary staple in the Chicago music scene - beginning in the early 80's and continuing until their quie
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Naked Raygun: Throb Throb (green swirl coloured vinyl) LP
C$29.99
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
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Amanaz: Africa LP
C$41.99
Sub Pop Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure (2LP deluxe edition-coloured vinyl) LP
Sub Pop marks the 30th anniversary of Six Finger Satellite's sophomore album, "Severe Exposure", with an expanded double LP edition of the album. In addition to the original album, this deluxe edition includes a bonus 12" of the 1994 "Machine Cuisine" EP,
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Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure (2LP deluxe edition-coloured vinyl) LP
C$69.99
Funk Night Panfilov Sound Combo, Misha: Days As Echoes LP
In tomorrow.... Some of the greatest work we've ever heard from funky producer/performer Misha Panfilov – a set that really stretches past his early singles, and which almost makes us think that he would have been a giant in the sound library field, had h
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Panfilov Sound Combo, Misha: Days As Echoes LP
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Magical Power Mako: s/t LP
One of the most iconic figures in the Japanese alternative rock scene ever! Originally released in 1973, this was Magical Power Maco's highly visionary debut album. An eccentric mix of psyche, folk, kraut elements wisely filtered with Oriental sensibility
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Magical Power Mako: s/t LP
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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
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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
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia 2LP
C$49.99
Bureau B Grosskopf, Harold: Synthesist LP
"Harald Grosskopf was in his early twenties when LSD 'blew [his] reality away,' as he recalls. Born in Hildesheim in 1949, he had previously drummed in fairly conventional rock bands, most recently for Wallenstein. Their label-boss Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser was
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Grosskopf, Harold: Synthesist LP
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Universal Cale, John: Fear LP
Fear is the first of John Cale's three studio albums for Island Records, all of which were released in a period of just over a year. During this time Cale was also producing records for other artists, working on albums such as Horses (1975) by Patti Smith
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Cale, John: Fear LP
C$47.99