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Moon Glyph Sprout, Parker: Milk in the Sun CS
"Milk in the Sun" is the return of Parker Sprout, an artist with a deep connection and history to Moon Glyph Records. His jangly, dreamy Minneapolis outfit Velvet Davenport was the first band signed to the label, releasing two cassettes and an LP. Returni
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Sprout, Parker: Milk in the Sun CS
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Leaving Dang, Ami: The Living World's Demands CS
“Weaves impressions of ancient stories with modern sounds… Every detail and twist passed down through the generations [with] a deep spiritual resonance” Pitchfork “Like experiencing the glacial lassitude of a one-hour raga compressed into four-minute move
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Dang, Ami: The Living World's Demands CS
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Numero Unwound: Unwound CS
Meeting at the halfway point between Bleach and Damaged, Unwound’s 1995 self-titled album arrived years after the original trio of Vern Rumsey, Justin Trosper, and Brandt Sandeno made their Avast Studios debut. Compiling their EPs for Kill Rock Stars and
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Unwound: Unwound CS
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Numero Unwound: The Future of What CS
Their third album in as many years, 1995’s The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia trio’s signature sound— grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps— ratchets past the thread into a s
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Unwound: The Future of What CS
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Numero Unwound: Repetition CS
Dead-eyed post-punk from Olympia’s reigning noise-niks. Repetition rejects the major label signing spree of the mid-’90s entirely, training its hulking focus on haircut hardcore, white belt Jiujitsu, and frenzied feedback. The soundtrack to a fantasy Hall
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Unwound: Repetition CS
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Numero Unwound: New Plastic Ideas CS
An album Maximum Rock 'N' Roll deemed not punk enough to review, Unwound’s 1994 sophomore effort was a lethal depth charge aimed at major label grunge and independent hardcore alike. From the off-kilter, vertiginous rhythm of “Entirely Different Matters”
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Unwound: New Plastic Ideas CS
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Numero Unwound: Challenge For A Civilized Society CS
Unwound’s paranoid and pulsating sixth album, Challenge For a Civilized Society explores the pre-Y2K technological dread of modern punk living. Producer Steve Fisk threads Justin Trosper’s stabbing, discordant guitar in and around Sara Lund’s consolidated
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Unwound: Challenge For A Civilized Society CS
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Numero Unwound: Fake Train CS
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 CS
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Castles In Space Honer, Dean: Frog Bones & Noodles CS
Frog Bones is the original Frogman music that Dean sent to his mate, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, over which to write a story over in 2015. It was predominantly composed with an EMS Synthi AKS and an Oberheim Two Voice synthesizer, plus some crunky Watkins
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Honer, Dean: Frog Bones & Noodles CS
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Muzan Editions DUP SYS: Madoromi CS
I would like to begin by quoting an artist who said, "Art that is easily understood and appreciated cannot be anything more than that." I would like to quote an artist who said, "Art that is easily understood and appreciated can never be more than that. T
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DUP SYS: Madoromi CS
C$12.99
Constellation Tatsu Aquarius, Andy: La Force Aquarienne CS
Andy Aquarius was in the process of writing another album, the follow up to ‘Chapel’ (Hush Hush, 2021), when multiple voices emerged, each of them holding a distinct energetic signature. Those incantations became ‘La Force Aquarienne,’ a collection of int
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Aquarius, Andy: La Force Aquarienne CS
C$11.99
Death Is Not The End Death Is Not The End: London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 CS
The first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 & 1993.

Many thanks to Wayne Anthony, Simon Reynolds, Stephen Hebditch & The Pirate Radio Archive.
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Death Is Not The End: London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 CS
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Death Is Not The End Various: Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I CS
Shidaiqu literally means "songs of the era", a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks
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Various: Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I CS
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Important Rolando, Tony: Shared System CS
Shared System is Tony Rolando's 2021 entry into the Make Noise Shared System series of releases that included Richard Devine, Alessandro Cortini, Robert AA Lowe, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Surachai. Despite the limited instrumentation, this Shared Syste
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Rolando, Tony: Shared System CS
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Important Pitre, Duane: Varolii Patterns CS
Duane Pitre's Varolii Patterns was made with an eight-voice synthesizer, tuned in Just Intonation. These consonant pieces explore shifting polyrhythms that slip in-and-out of rhythmic focus and "Common Rhythmic Pulses" carry over as the pattern evolves wi
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Pitre, Duane: Varolii Patterns CS
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Death Is Not The End Various: Lamkin: Versions & Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere CS
Folklorist Derek Piotr teams with Death is Not the End for a third outing, this time plumbing the depths of every archive from West Virginia University to the British Library in search of versions of the ballad Lamkin. Following the template set by Charli
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Various: Lamkin: Versions & Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere CS
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Death Is Not The End Various: Come, Let Us Sing CS
What shall we sing? Folklorist Derek Piotr presents the third and final installation in the Bare family trilogy, this time highlighting lesser-known and garbled versions of local folk tunes, and again braiding the past with the present by incorporating hi
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Various: Come, Let Us Sing CS
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Death Is Not The End East of the Valley Blues: Kirkfield Non CS
East of the Valley Blues is Kevin and Patrick Cahill.

Recorded and mixed by KC in Kirkfield and Toronto, ON, January-February 2020.

Mixed and mastered by James A Toth in Toronto. Artwork by Ryan
Waldron.
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East of the Valley Blues: Kirkfield Non CS
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Hotham Sound Fumerolles: Nuit Jaune CS
An illustrator and librarian by day, Montreal artist Fumerolles (Frédérique Duval) uses keyboards, effects boxes and homemade synth modules to craft a uniquely organic and benevolent form of electronic music. 'Nuit jaune' is her debut EP (released digital
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Fumerolles: Nuit Jaune CS
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Pulse Emitter: Dusk LP
Portland-based composer / producer / synthesist Daryl Groetsch creates music under the name Pulse Emitter. Channeling his love and mastery of styles ranging from new age to Berlin school kosmische to drone to progressive electronic music, Groetsch crafts
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Pulse Emitter: Dusk LP
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Muzan Editions Okamura, Yukari: Theory CS
A 2022 work by Japanese writer Yukari Okamura, who is also a DJ and producer, from the Osaka-based ambient label [Muzan Editions].

A work composed of 4 songs, 3 minimal deep techno songs with bass and 1 ambient drone song. DL code included [H Takahashi
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Okamura, Yukari: Theory CS
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Muzan Editions Endurance: Verb CS
From the ambient label [Muzan Editions], which is based in Osaka, the 2022 work by the ambient artist "Endurance" who hosts the label.

Sounds like liquids and papers rubbing against each other, trees colliding, etc. Sound recordings and synthesizer dro
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Endurance: Verb CS
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Muzan Editions Piel, Elin: Satsuma Sunday CS
Born from an intense and tumultuous time in her life, Elin Piel’s Satsuma Sunday is infused with raw emotion that crunches, crackles, and seethes through each track, giving them a life and personality of their own. Recorded on battery of synthesizers, ent
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Piel, Elin: Satsuma Sunday CS
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Muzan Editions Doltz: Asa CS
Shun Watanabe aka Doltz is well known for his masterful deep techno productions, with work out from Oslated, Circular Limited, and Annulled Music. However, his attention in ambient sound design has always been apparent, drawing us in to swirling and expan
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Doltz: Asa CS
C$11.99