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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

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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

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Matador Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain LP

To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's essential studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP. An indie-rock t

Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 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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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

Coltrane, Alice: Kirtan: Turiya Sings LP

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Daptone Cochemea: Vol. II: Baca Sewa (Daptone Dealer Edition) LP

The Dap-Kings' electro-sax space warrior returns with a groove-heavy sequel to All My Relations, Vol. II: Baca Sewa, an expressive, transcendental voyage through the archives of his indigenous roots and beyond. Drawing on ancestral memories and family his

Cochemea: Vol. II: Baca Sewa (Daptone Dealer Edition) 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

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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Now Again Witch: Lazy Bones!! (opaque orange) LP

"Pressed on opaque orange vinyl. This landmark recording from Now-Again's comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-, Afro-rock ensemble WITCH, We Intend To Cause Havoc! is now available in a never before seen color variant.

Witch: Lazy Bones!! (opaque orange) LP

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Lion Plastic Cloud: s/t LP

Plastic Cloud recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest underground psychedelic albums ever made: a swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references, swathed in some of the most relentless fuzz guitars you will ever hear. A record with few equals, full o

Plastic Cloud: s/t 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’

Guided by Voices: Propeller LP

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Southern Lord Sunn O))): Flight Of the Behemoth LP

2002's Flight of the Behemoth is the third album by Sunn O))). The band collaborated with legendary Japanese noise artist Merzbow, who mixed "O)))Bow 1" and "O)))Bow 2." The first ever use of a drum machine on a Sunn O))) track is heard on "F.W.T.B.T.", a

Sunn O))): Flight Of the Behemoth LP

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Nero's Neptune Yonkers, Michael: Grimwood LP

Currently out of print on CD, Michael Yonkers’ Grimwood finally receives its long-overdue vinyl re-release on Nero’s Neptune. Yonkers’ first 4 LPS were released simultaneously in 1973, but it is Grimwood, Michael’s first, which regular commands the bigges

Yonkers, Michael: Grimwood LP

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Hedhunter Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) LP

The band’s second and, unfortunately, final album, Yank Crime is as worthy and awesome as its predecessor, losing not a jot in the change from independent to major label status. Including some longer, more complex tunes this time around, Drive Like Jehu i

Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (incl. 7-inch) LP

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Ebalunga!!! Szabo, Gabor: Dreams LP

The long-awaited reissue of rare Eastern and psychedelic Jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist, originally released in 1968. The first time, extended Edition with 2 bonus tracks: radio version of Fire Dance / Ferris Wheel from single 7” 1969. Gatefold

Szabo, Gabor: Dreams LP

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Superior Viaduct Flaming Tunes: s/t LP

Flaming Tunes’ sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the ‘80s home recording ethos that you’ve never heard. Originally released in 1985 on cassette (with individually hand-colored covers), this self-titled album grew out of the collaboration between

Flaming Tunes: s/t LP

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Sacred Bones Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP

Black vinyl version. The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth's Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name Ataraxia. Subtitled Electronic Musical Impressions o

Ataraxia (Mort Garson): The Unexplained (orange) LP

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Black Sweat Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP

An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and impro

Cherry, Don: Om Shanti Om LP

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Seance Centre Museum Of No Art: s/t LP

What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with voice, sampler, synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under t

Museum Of No Art: s/t LP

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Panegyric Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: (No Pussyfooting) LP

Robert Fripp & Brian Eno's timeless 1973 electronic music classic No Pussyfooting 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 viny

Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno: (No Pussyfooting) LP

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Domino Wyatt, Robert: Shleep LP

Shleep, originally released in 1997, features long-term collaborators and friends such as Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Annie Whitehead, Evan Parker and newer accomplices such as Paul Weller. It is as exuberating and immediate a record as Wyatt has ever reco

Wyatt, Robert: Shleep LP

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Touch & Go Big Black: Atomizer LP

Originally released in 1985, and now remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering, Big Black's first full-length album Atomizer will be re-released in September 2015. To save you having to do the math in your head, yes, that makes this a

Big Black: Atomizer LP

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Warner Vangelis: Blade Runner OST LP

Armed with the mighty Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, Vangelis conjured up the epic soundscape to Ridley Scott's quintessential cyberpunk film, Blade Runner. The haunting melodies contained within are at the same time nostalgic and futuristic, creating a neo-no

Vangelis: Blade Runner OST LP

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Jagjaguwar Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP

By now, you know the story: J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Patrick “Murph” Murphy, meet in Amherst, MA. J, Lou and Murph start a band. Said band goes on to rip through the musical landscape and prove to be the genesis of the “alternative rock” archetype.

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Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me LP

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