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Deutsche Grammophon Reich, Steve: Drumming; Music for Mallet Instuments, Voices and Organ; Six Pianos LP
In celebration of the composer’s 90th birthday in October this year, Deutsche Grammophon re-presents Steve Reich’s iconic 1974 3-LP set in its original format and in a brand new pure analogue mastering & cutting by Emil Berliner Studios.

Recorded in th
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Reich, Steve: Drumming; Music for Mallet Instuments, Voices and Organ; Six Pianos LP
C$164.99
Deutsche Grammophon Kayn/ Nono: Cybernetics III / Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente (Avant Garde) LP
Luigi Nono (1924–1990) was widely celebrated for his entire career. A central figure in post-war serialism, the Venetian composer emerged during the 1950s as one third of the "avant-garde trinity," alongside Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez.

Con
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Kayn/ Nono: Cybernetics III / Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente (Avant Garde) LP
C$74.99
Deutsche Grammophon Kagel, Mauricio: Exotica (Avant Garde Series) LP
Born in Buenos Aires to Jewish parents who had fled political persecution in Russia following the October Revolution, Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008) came of age during the most dynamic sociopolitical periods in Argentina's history.

While Exotica is remarka
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Kagel, Mauricio: Exotica (Avant Garde Series) LP
C$74.99
Deutsche Grammophon Cardew, Cornelius: The Great Learning (Avant Garde) LP
Among the 24 albums that comprise the original release of DG's Avantgarde series, issued between 1968 and 1971, the Scratch Orchestra's performance of Paragraph 2 & 7 of the English composer Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning remains among the most bel
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Cardew, Cornelius: The Great Learning (Avant Garde) LP
C$74.99
Real Gone Feldman, Morton: New Directions in Music 2 LP
Ignore the “2” in the title; this is Morton Feldman’s 1959 debut album, which by definition means it’s a key release in the history of modern classical music. Feldman’s association with the New York abstract art scene of the time is made explicit with the
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Feldman, Morton: New Directions in Music 2 LP
C$39.99
Faitiche Kubisch, Christina: TUNING LP
Faitiche welcomes a new artist to the label. Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Her practice ranges from performances, concerts, to works with video and visual art, but she is best known for her sound installations and ele
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Kubisch, Christina: TUNING LP
C$59.99
ReGRM Bayle, Francois: Jeîta ou murmure des eaux LP
A major work in François Bayle’s repertoire, Jeîta ou murmure des eaux provides a journey and an immersion into a world of unleashed energies, with the Jeîta cave serving both as a backdrop and a particle accelerator. Here, the cave indeed stands for the
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Bayle, Francois: Jeîta ou murmure des eaux LP
C$34.99
Deutsche Grammophon Ferrari, Luc: Presque Rien No. 1; Societe II LP
Luc Ferrari’s Presque Rien No. 1 and Société II stand among the most radical works of the twentieth-century avant-garde. With Presque Rien No. 1, Ferrari pioneered the use of untreated environmental recordings as complete musical material — capturing the
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Ferrari, Luc: Presque Rien No. 1; Societe II LP
C$59.99
Deutsche Grammophon Takemitsu, Toru: Quatrain: A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden LP
Toru Takemitsu’s Quatrain (1975) and A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (1977) exemplify his synthesis of Western avant-garde techniques and Japanese aesthetics. In Quatrain, scored for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and orchestra, Takemitsu evo
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Takemitsu, Toru: Quatrain: A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden LP
C$74.99
Deutsche Grammophon Kagel, Mauricio: Acustica LP
Mauricio Kagel’s Acustica, composed for experimental sound-producers and loudspeakers, stands among his most ambitious and radical works. Combining electroacoustic tape material created at WDR with acoustic performances on roughly 200 graphic-score cards,
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Kagel, Mauricio: Acustica LP
C$85.99
Superior Viaduct Glass, Philip: Music With Changing Parts LP
Philip Glass, the great American composer, was already in his mid-30s before his first album appeared, and then only because he produced the double LP himself. Music With Changing Parts was the inaugural release on his own Chatham Square imprint in 1971.
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Glass, Philip: Music With Changing Parts LP
C$59.99
We Are Busy Bodies Mimaroglu, Ilhan: Tract: A Composition Of Agitprop Music For Electromagnetic Tape LP
Created by Turkish musician and electronic music composer İlhan Mimaroğlu, Tract is dedicated to fellow countryman Nȃzim Hikmet, whom Mimaroğlu regarded “as the greatest poet of the revolutionary struggles.” Utilizing the voice of Turkish singer Tülay Ger
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Mimaroglu, Ilhan: Tract: A Composition Of Agitprop Music For Electromagnetic Tape LP
C$57.99
Sub Rosa Glass, Philip: Dedalus Ensemble Performing Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts LP
Founding work of minimalism, Music with Changing Parts is a piece with free instrumentation. The musicians choose which part to play among the eight staves of the score. At each indicated cue, the musicians can change part, which produces an abrupt chang
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Glass, Philip: Dedalus Ensemble Performing Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts LP
C$49.99
Nonesuch Reich, Steve: Music For 18 Musicians (2LP-180g) LP
ESSENTIAL! The 1998 Nonesuch recording of the landmark minimalist work of the 20th century, Music for 18 Musicians, available on vinyl for the first time. Pressed at Pallas MFG, Diepholz, Germany on two 180g LPs, with old-style double pocket gatefold jack
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Reich, Steve: Music For 18 Musicians (2LP-180g) LP
C$74.99
Sonambient Bertoia, Harry: Mechanization 1&2 LP
On this new LP, Harry Bertoia shows why he may have been the first industrial musician. Bertoia often referred to his sound sculptures as a "collaboration with industry" and on this new LP Bertoia is intentionally creating heavy, rhythmic music he describ
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Bertoia, Harry: Mechanization 1&2 LP
C$44.99
Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, "Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord" presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally de
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Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
C$34.99
Black Truffle Sonami/Radigue: A Song For Two Mothers/OCCAM IX LP
Black Truffle presents A Song for two Mothers/Occam IX, the first ever solo release from Laetitia Sonami. Born in France in 1957, Sonami studied with Éliane Radigue in Paris before moving to California in 1978 to study electronic music at Mills College. S
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Sonami/Radigue: A Song For Two Mothers/OCCAM IX LP
C$49.99
Superior Viaduct Reich, Steve: Four Organs / Phase Patterns LP
Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Fo
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Reich, Steve: Four Organs / Phase Patterns LP
C$44.99
Superior Viaduct Young, La Monte / Marian Zazeela: Dream House 78'17" LP
--- OUT MAY 17, 2024 ---

Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Z
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Young, La Monte / Marian Zazeela: Dream House 78'17" LP
C$49.99
ReGRM Cahen, Robert: La Nef Des Fous LP
In the 1970s, Robert Cahen turned to the burgeoning field of video art, where he became a pioneering artist. He was originally trained in musique concrète, his creative background, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1972. The pieces on this
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Cahen, Robert: La Nef Des Fous LP
C$44.99
ReGRM Vaggione, Horacio: Schall/Rechant LP
A discreet but essential figure in the field of musical creation, Horacio Vaggione has been crafting an ambitious, precise and highly significant body of work for over the last fifty years, coupled with a demanding research activity. This disc offers four
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Vaggione, Horacio: Schall/Rechant LP
C$44.99
Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Solo For Tamburium LP
"Solo for Tamburium" is legendary minimalist composer Catherine Christer Hennix's first solo recording in nearly 50 years, since her vaunted 1976 record "The Electric Harpsichord". Using a keyboard-controlled suite of eighty-eight electronic tambura, Henn
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Hennix, Catherine Christer: Solo For Tamburium LP
C$40.99
Week-End Eastman, Julius: Stay On It LP
In 1973, Stay On It turned the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head. It is minimal, but un-ashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn't jazz and never slips into the non-committal.
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Eastman, Julius: Stay On It LP
C$64.99
Important Dempster, Stuart: Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel LP
"This is where you have been forever and will always be forever." Stuart Dempster, speaking about what it feels like to be in a cistern where time seems to stop. Stuart Dempster created Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel in the same cistern wher
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Dempster, Stuart: Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel LP
C$64.99