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Parlophone Bowie, David: Low (2017 Remaster) LP
January 1977 saw the release of the first installment of what came to be known as David Bowie's Berlin trilogy. That album was the Bowie/Tony Visconti produced Low and it was followed later the same year by Heroes with the trilogy completed in 1979 by the
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Bowie, David: Low (2017 Remaster) LP
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Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners—perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be
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Serfs, The: Primal Matter LP
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1972 Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, cr
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Second Layer: Courts Or Wars LP
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Strut Astatke, Mulatu: Mulatu of Ethiopia LP
Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatke’s ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles n
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Astatke, Mulatu: Mulatu of Ethiopia LP
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Music From Memory Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP
*2022 repress*Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991) and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compi
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Masin, Gigi: Talk to the Sea LP
C$44.99
Mesh-Key Aunt Sally: s/t LP
Available again! Mesh-Key reissue of a true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. They've spared no expense bringing this classic back to life in a format befitting its brilliance, carefully orchestrating transfers of the origin
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Aunt Sally: s/t LP
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Numero Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
This one’s been teased for awhile, decades even. The Hated box set was an idea before Numero was an idea. Today we’re pleased to announce the first of five planned Hated collections that we’ll be rolling out over the next several years. Up first is Best P
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Hated: Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 (white) LP
C$39.99
Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP
The debut mixtape from Pro Era crew member and Brooklyn MC, Joey Bada$$. Leaning into the golden era sound of hip-hop, Joey Bada$$ garnered widespread acclaim from some of Hip-Hop's most vaunted tastemakers by crafting a project that paid homage to the 90
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Bada$$, Joey: 1999 (2LP-purple-in-tan coloured) LP
C$41.99
Wichita Ride: Nowhere LP
"Shoegaze legends Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via Wichita Recordings. These will be released on the 4th November and will include the first four EPs ('Ride, 'Play', 'Fall', and 'Today Forever'), plus their
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Ride: Nowhere LP
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Get Better Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP
FUCKED UP’s second reissue for Get Better Records is cloaked in shades of unconventional aesthetics, symbolic overtones and a self-proclaimed “culture of confusion.” Hidden World, the band’s first full length studio album, marks a turning point for the my
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Fucked Up: Hidden World (MAGENTA) LP
C$41.99
Ghostly Khotin: Release Spirit LP
Canadian producer Dylan Khotin-Footehas kept his Khotin alias going for the better part of a decade; the impressionistic electronic project shifts with the movements in his life. Sometimes it leads, like when the club-friendly grooves of 2014’s Hello Worl
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Khotin: Release Spirit LP
C$29.99
Verve Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP
Transferred from Analog Tapes and Remastered on 180g Vinyl LP as Part of the Verve By Request Series. Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode
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Coltrane, Alice: Ptah The El Daoud (Verve By Request) LP
C$39.99
Motown Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
Esteemed hip-hop artist Vince Staples delivers his new self-titled LP via Motown Records. His first full-length release since 2018's critically acclaimed FM!, the 10-track LP delves not only into Staples' upbringing in Long Beach, but his psyche as he l
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Staples, Vince: Vince Staples LP
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Mr. Bongo Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
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The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' album with his band the Count Buffaloes. For this offering, originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records, Aki
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Ishikawa, Akira & Count Buffalos: Uganda (Dawn Of Rock) (box edition) LP
C$69.99
Superior Viaduct Spacemen 3: Recurring LP
Solid green, 180 gram vinyl. Due to continued demand, the fourth and final Spacemen 3 studio album Recurring; the much-anticipated follow-up to their seminal Playing with Fire album, is being repressed. By the time the album was recorded, relations betwee
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Spacemen 3: Recurring LP
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Real Gone Honey & The Bees: Love (HONEY) LP
One of the great, lost albums of Philly Soul! And we mean really lost…we had to go to Italy and pay close to 500 euros to snag a copy for artwork. Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, and Cassandra Wooten were known as The Yum-Yums when they auditioned for Arctic lab
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Honey & The Bees: Love (HONEY) LP
C$36.99
Numero Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
Unwound's third album in as many years, 1995's The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia, WA trio's signature sound – grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps – ratchets past the threa
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Unwound: The Future Of What (black & white) LP
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Modern Classics Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant. The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said.
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Digable Planets: Blowout Comb LP
C$59.99
Numero Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP
After the Pacific Northwest grunge raids of the early ’90s that saw Nirvana, Mudhoney, and even the Melvins hoisted up the major label flagpole, Unwound’s 1993 debut came as a welcomed reprieve for underground noise-niks everywhere. A pulsing cluster of w
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Unwound: Fake Train (silver) LP
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Merge Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
A deep dive into the 21-year journey of New Zealand DIY pop pioneers Tall Dwarfs, aka Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox (both previously of Toy Love and The Enemy fame). Designed and painstakingly curated by Bathgate himself, this 55-track collection compris
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Tall Dwarfs: Unravelled: 1981-2002 LP
C$134.99
Sub Pop Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP
Founded in Australia by Michigan native, guitarist Deniz Tek and vocalist Rob Younger, Radio Birdman was one of the crucial forebears of underground, high-energy punk. Blending the Motor City sound of bands like The Stooges and MC5 that permeated Tek’s yo
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Radio Birdman: The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978 LP
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Castle Face Osees: A Foul Form LP
Box delayed, in early next week!
“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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4AD Breeders: Last Splash LP
In October 2017, The Breeders announced their return to 4AD, along with a new album, All Nerve, released in March 2018. The label is also reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl including Pod (1990), Last Splash (1993), Title TK (2002) and Mountain
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Breeders: Last Splash LP
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Numero Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP
Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music. Founder Dick Sutphen worked with tireless devotion to spread a message he b
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Various: Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony (coloured) LP
C$39.99