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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

C$31.99

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

C$41.99

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

Mayfield, Curtis: Curtis LP

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MG.Art Gottsching, Manuel: E2-E4 (35th) LP

180-gram LP version with embossed chessboard artwork print and printed inner sleeve. In celebration of the 2016 35th anniversary of the December 12, 1981, recording of Manuel Göttsching's legendary E2-E4, one of electronic music's most influential recordi

Gottsching, Manuel: E2-E4 (35th) 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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Third Man Melvins: Houdini 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 LP

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Rhino Stooges: s/t LP

Proto-punk trailblazers The Stooges – Iggy Pop, Ron and Scott Asheton, and Dave Alexander – may have sounded like they were from the Stone Age, but the Ann Arbor quartet predicted the future of rock 'n' roll with the untamable sonic assault of their John

Stooges: s/t LP

C$29.99

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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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

C$36.99

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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Pharaway Koray, Erkin: Halimem LP

Pharaway Sounds presents a compilation dedicated to Erkin Koray, the father of Anatolian rock/Turkish psych. Halimem includes rare single and cassette-only tracks (mostly from 1970-72, plus three killer ones from 1987). Expect a fabulous mix of Turkish me

Koray, Erkin: Halimem LP

C$39.99

Blue Fog Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) LP

Out of print and unavailable for many years, one of the most memorable Eric’s Trip releases, aside from the “Love Tara” album, is the indie EP that introduced them to the world.

Their youthful energy, catchy songs, and noisy lo-fi recording techniques

Eric's Trip: Peter (colour) 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

C$34.99

Black Editions Musica Transonic: s/t LP

Black Editions present a reissue of Musica Transonic's self-titled release, originally released in 1995. Musica Transonic was comprised of three of the most crucial artists to emerge from the 1990s Japanese underground: Nanjo Asahito of High Rise, Makoto

Musica Transonic: s/t 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

C$40.99

Audika Russell, Arthur: World Of Echo LP

BACK IN PRINT!!! A remastered and revised artwork edition of the extraordinary World Of Echo album from New York avant-garde cellist, songwriter, composer, and disco visionary ARTHUR RUSSELL. Originally released in 1986, the album is a deeply meditative a

Russell, Arthur: World Of Echo LP

C$54.99

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

C$26.99

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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Matador Mission Of Burma: Vs. LP

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight

Mission Of Burma: Vs. LP

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Matador Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches LP

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight

Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, & Marches LP

C$29.99

Cherry Red Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Double Gatefold Green Vinyl) LP

Gatefold; green vinyl. "Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued Green Mind in 1991 as the alternati

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Double Gatefold Green Vinyl) LP

C$49.99

Cherry Red Dinosaur Jr.: Where You Been: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Double Gatefold Blue Vinyl) LP

Gatefold; Blue vinyl. "Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. Where You Been, their fif

Dinosaur Jr.: Where You Been: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Double Gatefold Blue Vinyl) LP

C$49.99

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