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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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
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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
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Sub Pop Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after its release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (f
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (2LP deluxe edition) LP
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Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP
Repressed again with liner notes. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to a power station, wailing and screaming, with nervous riffs piled on
Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu (coloured vinyl) LP
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Impulse Coltrane, Alice: Kirtan: Turiya Sings LP
Alice Coltrane is the undeniable godmother of spiritual jazz and an acknowledged influence on everyone from Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington to Solange and Radiohead. Turyia Sings was originally released in 1982 on cassette as a collection of devotional
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Coltrane, Alice: Kirtan: Turiya Sings LP
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Warner Mayfield, Curtis: Curtis LP
Curtis Mayfield might best be remembered for producing the Super Fly soundtrack but the incomparable soul singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer never eclipsed the musical and songwriting genius of 1970's groundbreaking Curtis. Released shortly after he de
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Mayfield, Curtis: Curtis LP
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Finders Keepers Various: Strain, Crack & Break Vol. 2 LP
With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrial music pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts us to lift the veil and expose “the right tracks” from his uber-legendary and oft misinterpreted psych/prog/pun
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Various: Strain, Crack & Break Vol. 2 LP
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Blue Fog Elevator To Hell: Eerieconsiliation ("Extra" edition/colour) LP
BlueFog brings you a sweet fully remastered double vinyl gatefold reissue of this classic Elevator album. Record one featuring the original 16 song album, record two has 16 more songs from the “Eerie” sessions including original 7 inch only tracks, rariti
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Elevator To Hell: Eerieconsiliation ("Extra" edition/colour) LP
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Third Man Melvins: Houdini (180g/gatefold) LP
Music Industry, 1993: everyone is looking to sign the "next" Nirvana. Atlantic Records found exactly the band they were looking for in the Melvins. Birthed in the Pacific Northwest gloom of Aberdeen that would spawn grunge music and culture, the Melvins w
Melvins: Houdini (180g/gatefold) LP
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Scat Guided by Voices: Propeller LP
Propeller was the fifth album by Guided By Voices, and was intended to be the group’s last. Released as a limited edition of 500 LPs in 1992, the album featured handmade covers and blank labels to keep expenses as low as possible. Their other albums hadn’
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Guided by Voices: Propeller LP
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Constellation Godspeed You! Black Emperor: f#a# LP
F# A# ∞ was recorded at the original Hotel2Tango in spring 1997 on a rented 16-track tape deck and supplemented with various field recordings. In the preceding year, the band had taken shape as a quasi-orchestral outfit involving most of the players that
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor: f#a# LP
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Drag City Death: For The Whole World To See LP
“Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The HACKNEY’s were first influenced by soul and funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stoo
Death: For The Whole World To See LP
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