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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE
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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 11/16/2009
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 11/16/2009
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
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OLIVA, ANDREA: Arosa/Off The Moment EP 12" (BAO 021EP)
Andrea Oliva strikes back on Be As One, this time with an EP on his own and two tracks of bumping, ass-shaking house music. "Arosa" and "Off The Moment" promise to keep legs moving on the floor with their uplifting vibe and sexy, jazzy grooves. Another valuable release from a label that needs no introduction and an artist that's steadily confirming his artistic reputation as someone to keep an eye on.
$8.39 UPC: 827170299764 ELECTRONIC
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VA: The Bombay Connection: Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers CD (BC 001CD)
...1977-1984, Vol. 1. This is the first volume in a planned series of 6 CDs presenting the best, rarest and most exciting songs from the colorful history of Bollywood music, most of which are still gathering dust in Indian vaults and are unknown to the Western public. Bombay Connection Vol. 1: Funk from Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984 showcases the sound of the Indian action film of the late '70s and early '80s. Under the influence of films like Shaft and Dirty Harry, a new kind of Indian action film came into being in 1970s India. To match the loud fights and fast chases, Indian composers developed an exciting brand of Bollywood funk. Wah-wah guitars, congas and funky Moogs were effortlessly blended with tablas, dhols and Indian melody lines. This album compiles 13 of the best, incredibly original Bollywood funk grooves, painting scenes of frantic chases through the back streets of Bombay, sexy seductive dances by female spies and secret plots conceived in subterranean headquarters by fake-moustached villains. The series is compiled by Bollywood connoisseur, researcher and top collector Edo Bouman, who carefully selected the songs, assuring that each of these tracks is an ear-tantalizing gem, compiled into an enjoyable, consistent listening experience. The Bombay Connection series will cover a multitude of exciting genres from the 1950s to the late '80s, including Bollywood horror, hippie psychedelics, spy flick suspense music, and stomping 1980s Indian disco. The 6-panel digipack comes with a colorful 30-page booklet containing well-researched info and a wealth of pictures. For the very first time, extensive research has been done into the history of Bollywood film music: interviews with composers and musicians have been conducted, and Bombay Connection has spared no energy or expense to locate the original stills and posters of the films. This is also the first Bollywood compilation CD to feature the Hindi song lyrics and English translations. Thus the booklet provides a wealth of information and pictures, sketching the original context in which these songs were made and enjoyed.
$11.79 EAN: 4011760652022 WORLD
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DUSTY KID: Moto Perpetuo 12" (BOXER 075EP)
Dusty Kid presents a 12" of two tracks off of his serious desert-techno dance party debut album A Raver's Diary, plus one previously-unreleased track and a remix by Oblivion. As hot, dry, and smooth as they come.
$8.39 UPC: 880319434815 ELECTRONIC
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AGF/DELAY: Connection Remixes 12" (BPC 203EP)
This is the first 12" release from the AGF/Delay album Symptoms (BPC 193CD), featuring dancefloor-compatible remixes. Heartthrob aka Jesse Siminski can be found on the "Connected" remix controls with high-climate, softly-rendered tech-house atmospheres. Fritz Zander airs out the opening's misty shroud and sets clear contours with saturated colors. Kiki's version is equipped with a strong build-up and soft house chords. CLP aka Chris de Luca and Phon.o shift the gears down, delivering round, wide beats, subtle wobble frequency and vocals.
$8.39 UPC: 880319443411 ELECTRONIC
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DUB TRACTOR: Sorry LP (CCO 045LP)
LP version. This is the third full-length release from Denmark's Anders Remmer aka Dub Tractor for the City Centre Offices label. Formerly a member of Danish supergroups Future 3 and System together with Thomas Knak (aka Opiate) and Jesper Skaaning (aka Acustic), his previous albums More Or Less Mono and Hideout marked a crossroad for Anders, increasingly focusing more and more on his guitar, bass and vocals. As a result, Sorry is a veritable full-blown, one-piece indie band. While his previous releases featured short glimpses of Anders' vocal capabilities, this album unfolds into a confident, lyrics-heavy collection of pure pop. With clear references to the shoegaze movements of the '90s, Anders Remmer merges this heritage with his very own blend of dub-fuelled sound design and prototype electronica. Delicate beats are the foundation for his deep, melancholic, yet uplifting songs. The opening track "And You Are Back" is not only a proper hit, it also shows perfectly what this album is all about, riding in on an anthemic, ascending/descending, washed-out guitar line against heart-tugging, lightly synthesized vocals. Against a backdrop of reliable dub thump, this album takes you under its wings, shifting between sparse arrangements and nodding in the direction of late works from bands like Slowdive to full-on walls of guitars in proper My Bloody Valentine style. Sorry is a musical tour de force through the more contemplative regions of your musical brain with exquisite, dreamy layers of electronics and guitars, and moody bass lines. Guaranteed to slow the pulse while still compelling you to sway.
$10.99 UPC: 880918034515 ROCK
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NURSE WITH WOUND: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine 2LP (DPROM 071LP)
...And An Umbrella. Regular 2LP edition (boxed edition with t-shirt and badge is now deleted), but still excessively limited and not so "available". Three sides of music, 1 side etched, this is the long-awaited re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by Sounds at the time as a record that "makes The Faust Tapes sound like Carousel," nothing has changed to alter this view over the last 30 years, and to say that this work is the "Sgt. Pepper of the avant-garde" would not be hyperbole. 2LP set with the extra track "Strain, Crack, Break" (never previously available on vinyl) on side three and an etching on side four. Printed inner sleeves featuring the famous NWW list.
$20.39 UPC: 823566492528 ROCK
A1. Two Mock Projections
B1. The Six Buttons Of Sex Appeal
C1. Blank Capsules Of Embroidered Cellophane
C2. Strain, Crack, Break
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FROM KARAOKE TO STARDOM: UndEr thE BlaCk FlaG EP 12" (DU 052EP)
Dumb-Unit moves forward by bringing on some fresh blood, this time in the shape of Jeremy Herpe aka From Karaoke To Stardom. Jeremy might be new to DU, but he is no stranger to techno, as he has been a Rrygular on the scene for many years. Jeremy's dark brand of spooky and deep cuts fit perfectly into the Dumb-Unit imprint.
$8.39 UPC: 880319444814 ELECTRONIC
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FUJIEDA, MAMORU: Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 11: Radiated Falling CD (OPA 011CD)
Mamoru Fujieda is a Japanese post-minimalist composer, and Edition Omega Point releases some of his work from the early '80s. Both "Radiated Falling" (1980) and "The Art Of Fugue" (1981) are tape compositions in which sound materials of a prepared piano are electronically-processed and modulated in various ways. "Radiated Falling" is based on "Falling Scale No. 2" for piano (1975). The series of works entitled "Falling Scale" are composed almost entirely of descending scales as their structural elements. In these works, patterns are automatically produced by the difference in the number of scale tones or through the temporal discrepancy made when the tones descend. In "Falling Scale No. 2," a spiral line is successively transformed. The artist piled up the spiral line in several layers with the uneven timbres of the prepared piano producing sound materials for "Radiated Falling." The sound materials were then transformed to layered sonic textures through the ring modulator, the phase shifter, the harmonizer, and various delay processes. "The Art of Fugue" is based on a simple fugue in four voices from the first piece in The Art Of Fugue by J. S. Bach. The four voices were randomly cut into fragments, which were then reassembled to form four new voices. Each of the voices played by a differently prepared-piano was recorded on a multi-track recorder to produce sound materials for the piece. The sound materials for the prepared piano were then electronically-modulated and spatially processed. The randomly cut fragments of the fugue are interwoven at different tempos to make it "The Art Of Fugue" on the brink of collapse.
$18.39 EAN: 4560283218135 EXPERIMENTAL
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COLLINS, NICOLAS: Devil's Music CD/CD-ROM (EM 1086CD)
EM Records presents the CD and vinyl reissue of U.S. experimental electro-acoustic artist/circuit bender Nicolas Collins' live radio sampling masterpiece, Devil's Music, originally released on vinyl in 1986. Born and raised in New York City, Nicolas Collins has been hugely influential in contemporary electronic music, having performed world-wide for many years, collaborating with Christian Marclay, Elliot Sharp, David Shea, David Tudor and John Zorn, composing, recording, modifying circuits and inventing instruments, and spreading the good word through his writing (Handmade Electronic Music -- The Art Of Hardware Hacking 2nd Edition; Routledge, 2009) and teaching (Department of Sound, School of the Art Institute of Chicago). The pieces released here are only part of his ongoing, multifaceted and truly experimental activities. This edition of Devil's Music is served up in all its stuttering glory, a time capsule of the mid-'80s New York City airwaves, acclaimed by Philip Sherburne as "an early template for techno," with a feel somewhat akin to scratching turntablist madness, a block-rocking party put through a blender and re-assembled by body-popping demons. Also included is "Real Landscape," a 1987 "remix" recorded in Europe (originally released on cassette), and (CD-only) "The Spark Heard 'Round The World," a fascinating tape piece sourced from multi-band radio and scanner recordings, plus a video of a live performance of "Devil's Music" from 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama. And if you're still not satisfied, CD purchasers also get a downloadable software version of the original hardware circuitry used for Devil's Music which, a la David Tudor, constitutes the original composition itself. Make your own "Devil's Music!" Devil's Music is available on 2LP vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, and double CD in a triple-gatefold sleeve (with bonus audio track plus CD-Extra and software). 24-bit digitally remastered; containing a booklet with text in English & Japanese, including rare photos.
$16.99 EAN: 4560283210863 ELECTRONIC
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COLLINS, NICOLAS: Devil's Music 2LP (EM 1086LP)
Gatefold double LP version.
$20.99 EAN: 4560283219866 ELECTRONIC
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KZA: Z 12" (EF 019EP)
This 12" is the second single cut from KZA's debut solo album, Dig And Edit (EF 004CD). "Gothenergy" is the artist's preferred style of dark body-music. On the B-side, both tracks are melancholic, cosmic stuff, but KZA said "Capricorn" is his favorite track on the album.
$8.39 UPC: 880319438714 ELECTRONIC
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GEORGIA'S HORSE: The Mammoth Sessions CD (FIRE 128CD)
This is the debut album from Georgia's Horse. Texas is a graveyard and The Lone Star State is full of ghosts. Out on the road to Old El Paso lies the Rattlesnake Bomber Base near a town called Peyote. Once the home of fleets of B29 bombers and the plane called Enola Gay as well as many thousands of military personnel, it now stands empty. The only tenants are lizards and snakes. Even the rusted and rotted hulks of planes have been carted off by junk men and souvenir hunters. The roar of the war effort has been replaced by the whisper of the wind. A gentle absence of action. This is just one of several thousand abandoned settlements or ghost towns in the West Texan desert, but the haunted Americana of Georgia's Horse sounds like it could have come from any of them. Their debut album The Mammoth Sessions is redolent of sun-baked vacant lots, cracked runways, drifting tumble weed and dull orange rust. This collection of songs all sound like the aftermath of some emotionally violent event that has just left stillness and melancholia in its place. There are echoes of the (ex-pat) Americana of The New Pornographers, a light dusting of the folk psychedelia of Smog and the torrid and threatening country death songs of PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love. These 13 songs are anchored round the skewed and magnetic vision of singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado and their brittle and skeletal songs are fleshed out by multi-instrumentalist Tiziano Hernandez (bass/guitars), Brad Thomason (drums) and Melly Rose (cello). One of many stand out tracks, "Snake & Sparrow" creaks and echoes as if recorded in a haunted house, on haunted equipment. And the title track briefly effloresces violently as if the ghost of the Enola Gay were bringing its terrible cargo home, before returning to gentleness once more. From the most basic of set ups, a deeply affecting and subtle beauty is achieved.
$10.39 UPC: 809236112828 ROCK
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GEORGIA'S HORSE: The Mammoth Sessions LP (FIRE 128LP)
LP version.
$15.79 UPC: 809236112811 ROCK
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DRIVER, RYAN: Feeler Of Pure Joy CD (FIRE 129CD)
Ryan Driver is this unstoppable, quietly torrential flow of music, that has been coming out of Toronto, Ontario for a number of years now. He's been a key member of a number of the most interesting ensembles in the city, including Deep Dark United, The Reveries, The Silt (FIRE 127CD), The Guayaveras and The Fake New Age Music Band, and he's worked with Sandro Perri as the duo Double Suicide and Jennifer Castle in Castlemusic, and he has his own mutant jazz standards group, The Ryan Driver Quartet. He plays guitar and sings, but he's also an accomplished improviser, and he can break your heart improvising on a twangy ruler or blowing onto the surface of a rubber balloon. The songs here are mostly folk/country ballads from an imaginary country: they sound like JJ Cale, Joao Gilberto or John Martyn, soft but powerful and precise. But there's also live favorite "Spinning Towers," which is given an anthemic rock treatment, and "Why the Road?," which slowly shifts from folksong to hazy Rock Bottom-period Robert Wyatt mysticism. Toronto's alt-folk queen Jennifer Castle duets with Ryan on the opening "You Are Beside Me." Various members of the Rat-Drifting group, including Eric Chenaux and Martin Arnold, drop in to play some guitar, too. Ryan always sounds like he has come a long way to sing you a song. His voice contains vast North American distances, long cold winters and the endless, ugly monotony of the country, which can be broken and dissipated only by beer, love and music. Even when he sings jazz standards, the music isn't nostalgic or pessimistic; in fact, you can't tell whether he's talking about the past or the future. The fact that he's here now, singing these songs is, for those that need such things, a sign of great hope. And that's why this really is a Feeler Of Pure Joy.
$10.39 UPC: 809236112927 ROCK
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DRIVER, RYAN: Feeler Of Pure Joy LP (FIRE 129LP)
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$15.79 UPC: 809236112910 ROCK
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JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER: Ballads Of The Revolution LP (FIRE 131LP)
LP version. Beginning in Portland, OR in 1994 as a duo, Tom Greenwood and Nester Bucket began Jackie-O Motherfucker as a conceptual/musical project exploring the possibilities of combining tape collage, free improvisation, and folk song structures. Both had played in many bands, and wanted to form a group that could be flexible enough to withstand the failure, and challenges they knew would be coming their way in the future if they were to keep the project alive long enough to achieve their goals. True to their early imaginings, JOMF became the mutable feast of psychedelic art, far exceeding the visions of either of them. Nester departed from the band and Greenwood carried on with JOMF, now functioning as a collective. Ballads Of The Revolution is the band's tenth studio record, and the culmination of 15 years spent defining their unique take on American music. The record begins with an arrangement of a traditional ballad -- "Nightingale" features Greenwood's vocals and guitar with the lush, open accompaniment of Bob Jones' double bass and the pedal steel guitar of Lewi Longmire. "Dark Falcon" is an improvisation and remix of a song written and recorded by the Lucky Dragons. It's built on samples and loops of the original recording, including vocals by Honey Owens. Side one closes with a JOMF original, "Skylight," which has been a part of the band's live set for a few years, and has been beautifully rendered in the studio. "The Corner" begins with the pulsing bass of a Roland keyboard, accompanied by turntable manipulations and the sparse sting of Owens' guitar, its dark minimalism a new classic moment for the band. "The Cryin' Sea" was written in Arhus, Denmark during an amazing live set where an enthusiastic audience pushed the band to bonkersville. Featuring incredible guitar work by Nick Bindeman, and special guest Michael Dustdevil, who fills out the recording with raw fuzz guitar. The closing track, "A Mania," is a rare radio friendly track by the band that perfectly finishes the album.
$15.79 UPC: 809236113115 ROCK
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GARWOOD, DUKE: The Sand That Falls CD (FIRE 132CD)
Duke Garwood has always been a wanderer. His early musical life was spent learning his chops in the then-seedy beach bars of My Lai, Thailand. Returning to the UK in the '90s, Garwood played around and about in squat parties and blues clubs, before releasing his first album, Holy Week, in 2005. This was followed by Emerald Palace in 2007, an album recorded in a lonely hut up on the North Downs. You might also have encountered Garwood adding screeds of brass to Archie Bronson Outfit's live shows, or playing in The Woodsmen -- all part of the nomadic wanderings of a musician and artist who's perfectly content to exist and create on his own terms. Now Garwood returns with his first album for Fire records. Recorded in a vast, deserted house that was as much building site as abode, it's soon apparent that The Sand That Falls is aptly named. For as Garwood picks his blues and murmurs his songs, time vanishes as he transports you to a world soundtracked by sparse plucking, gentle percussion and his deep, thoughtful vocal. Though steeped in the blues and deeply influenced by his hero Thelonious Monk, Garwood never becomes distracted into reverential homage. There's a fractured, lo-fi feel to what he does, an unconcern with rigid adherence to tradition. In the scattered sounds and meditative feel, the space in which The Sand That Falls was recorded almost becomes audible in the music. On the final, title track, made up of hums and the anxious, repeated banging of a drum, Garwood intones "leave no trace... leave no trace..." So Duke Garwood leaves us, yet again wandering forth in search of musical pastures new.
$10.39 UPC: 809236113221 ROCK
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GARWOOD, DUKE: The Sand That Falls LP (FIRE 132LP)
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$15.79 UPC: 809236113214 ROCK
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FOSTER, JOSEPHINE: Graphic As A Star LP (FIRE 136LP)
LP version. This is the first record from U.S. minstrel-folk chanteuse Josephine Foster on Fire Records. Graphic As A Star is based upon the poems of the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson. Josephine lays stair-steppy melodies beneath a collection of Dickinson gems and sings them with a burnished soulfulness like the purple sunsets so often described in the poems. Massachusetts mountains, pearled spider-webs and folk hero William Tell, are all present in this unforgettable meeting of Dickinson's poesy and Foster's music, making a natural and inevitable whole. Ms. Foster is a Colorado-born artist whose songwriting draws from far corners of the musical spectrum to form a truly singular body of work. Her voice is sometimes compared to singers as disparate as Grace Slick, Shirley Collins or Tiny Tim, and it's certainly difficult to pigeonhole her varied music. She says her craft is strongly shaped by "Tin Pan Alley on my maternal side, rock and roll on the paternal side, Western folk music by birth, art-song and classical music via my adolescent passions." A personal introduction to Graphic As A Star from Josephine herself: "As to the source of these interludes, I wrote them this past winter while living in this remote, half-abandoned Spanish mountain village, a deadly quiet place with occasional interruptions of goats' bells, donkey brays, and the church bell announcing the passing of another old neighbor every day or so. I had just a few books with me, and one was the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Her poems proved such good company, that in a few short weeks appeared this 'song cycle.' Whether for the irony of distance and homesickness being 3 years away, or through inevitable kinship with this long-dead lady, these songs seem to veer more towards America than ever before. Back in music school, I heard a few musical settings of Dickinson made by classical composers, but it's my hope to unite some of her poems into more intimate and intuitive musical settings, being so lyrical and transparent as they are.'"
$15.79 UPC: 809236113610 ROCK
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TELEVISION PERSONALITIES: Mummy Your Not Watching Me CD (SFIRE 007CD)
2002 release. The second full-length Television Personalities release adds a full-time bass player to the original trio and sets the Wayback Machine ahead about 18 months from the debut's Swinging Carnaby Street sound. The darker, more psychedelic Mummy Your Not Watching Me is considerably less twee than And Don't the Kids Just Love It, covering Dan Treacy's increasingly self-effacing lyrics in a wash of keyboards and phased guitars. There are a few songs that still show the influence of the earlier Television Personalities sound, including the wistful "Magnificent Dreams" and a remake of the single "Painting By Numbers," originally released under the name the Gifted Children, but the key track is the lengthy "David Hockney's Diaries," an acid rock drone that introduces an entirely different texture into the band's sound that Treacy would explore further on the next several albums.
$10.39 UPC: 802644300726 ROCK
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JARVINEN, ANNA: Man Var Bland Molnen CD (HAPNA 043CD)
This is the second full-length album by Sweden's Anna Järvinen, the follow-up to her debut Jag Fick Feeling. Man Var Bland Molnen ("One Was Among The Clouds") is produced and recorded by Gustav Ejstes (Dungen), who also plays a variety of instruments on the album. Other musicians include Reine Fiske, Fredik Swahn, Johan Holmegard, Leo Svensson, Mattias Bergqvist and Anders Nygårds. The collaboration with Dungen already began on Anna's first record, who participated on the main part of the album. Concerning the choice of Ejstes as producer, Anna says in Sonic magazine (Sweden) that "nobody has like Gustav, silently and immediately, understood my music. I wanted to try and leave the songs with him so he could put his mark on and in them." Seldom has there been such a breakthrough for an artist on a small label in Sweden as with the release of Jag Fick Feeling. Anna was nominated for a Swedish Grammy and P3 Guld prize, awarded Stockholm City's music prize, and was interviewed in virtually every Swedish paper. The record also got a lot of attention in Finland and Anna toured in both countries during fall 2007 and spring/summer 2008. The first single from Man Var Bland Molnen is the track "Äppelöga," ("Apple-Eye"), a song with an almost countrified, Americana swing. All tracks, of course, feature Anna's sweetly breathy voice in Swedish, and a wholesome helping of piano, harmonica, flute, strings, and laid-back acoustic guitar -- lending the whole affair a soft/light rock/California morning sunniness. Once again transcends all pop language barriers through its apple-cheeked charm.
"i wrote some songs
about sex, sorrow
abuse,
falling
in love and
pure summery frustration.
then
i lost my way.
you and i are
the only ones left now
here, among the clouds.
come." --Anna Järvinen
$11.99 EAN: 7350006050435 ROCK
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VA: Africa Boogaloo: The Latinization Of West Africa 2LP (HJR 041LP)
Gatefold 2LP version. Honest Jon's presents a collection of music from '60s and '70s West Africa that is heavily influenced by Latin sounds from the era, representing a mutual cultural exchange that would have a permanent impact on the evolution of each region's trademark sound. Much of what makes modern Latin music so irresistible came from Africa in the first place. When the first waves of African rhythms, reconstituted in the Caribbean, returned home on radios and records, Africans -- especially in West and Central Africa -- received them with great enthusiasm. Staid dance bands that replicated European music soon began to swing as Caribbean accents settled in their rhythm sections. By the 1950s, Africa had produced its own Calypsonians, and more than one African musician changed his name to give it a Latin flavor. Some even composed songs in Spanish, while others wrote nonsense lyrics that only sounded like the real thing. No band mixed local and Latin styles more successfully than Orchestre Baobab and its leader Balla Sidibe. The mesmerizing "On Verra Ca" finds Baobab leaning in the direction of the stuttering mbalax sound that Youssou N'Dour carried to great popularity. Other Senegalese bands followed the trend, like the Rio Band, Orchestre N'Guewel, and Laba Sosseh from Gambia (like his compatriot Amara Toure) who styled himself as a salsa singer after his hero Johnny Pacheco. From Benin, Gnonnas Pedro sang in every pop style imaginable, but he seems especially at home in an Afro-Cuban embrace, as you will hear on the 1977 recording "Adigbedoto." The closing track also comes from Benin, a 1976 recording by the celebrated Orchestre Poly Rythmo -- though the singer, Pierre Tchana, hails from Cameroun. "Quiero Wapacha" features another Camerounian singer, Charles Lembe, and also from Cameroun is legendary African Jazz saxophonist, Manu Dibango, who is featured here alongside Le Grand Calle and Cuban flutist Don Gonzalo. Orchestre OK Jazz recorded any number of Afro-Cuban inspired sides: "Micorrason" is one of the band's earliest songs, recorded soon after their formation in 1956. There is no better evidence of the push-me-pull-you, back-and-forthing between two cultures than the Afro-Latin compilation we have here. All the flow from an unparalleled period of exuberance and creativity after World War II had ended and before homegrown tyranny had yet to descend on the land. It was Africa's moment, optimistic and free. You can hear it in the music. --Adapted from text by Gary Stewart, author of Rumba On The River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos.
$14.39 EAN: 4047179217316 WORLD
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VA: Kompakt Total 1 CD (KOMP 003CD)
1999 release, repressed on its 10th Anniversary! First CD release in the now iconic Kompakt Total series. "There were many different colors. After nine swinging 12 inches over the last two years, Kompakt reaches its first little jubilee. A unique visual style, pretty hard work, and not the smallest amount of passion made Kompakt one of the most respected minimal house and techno platforms in Germany and beyond. The compilation Total 1 looks back with pride and forward with hope. It's a presentation of all the songs to remember, to get to know, or just to spin. The CD format offers you a nice, balanced mix between romantic reviews and some visionary unreleased material. All the excitement ranges from good old mates like Jürgen Paape, M. Mayer, or Reinhard Voigt, up to shooting stars like Olaf Dettinger, Benjamin Wild, and Marco 'Shitkatapult' Haas. Please notice: this is no Cologne compilation. Integrating a bunch of young and restless talents from all over the country we can pretend this system has no frontiers." Different track listing to the vinyl version, 13 tracks in all, including 7 not found on the 2LP.
$10.39 EAN: 4250101400087 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Kompakt Total 6 2CD (KOMP 042CD)
2009 repress, originally released in 2005. In an era of scatter-brained electronic music compilations, Total stands alone. This is not Essential Trance 35, not This Is Hi-NRG Vol. XII, this is Kompakt Total 6, this is Kompakt. The Total series began in 2000, when the Koln label compiled their own 12"s. Since then, every so often, a new Total is born. Because it is Kompakt, because it is carefully crafted electronic sound -- it has a continuity, a purpose, a constant quality. Unlike disposable dance compilations, Total contains music you can only find on Kompakt vinyl, and even some Total exclusives. Each and every Total is special. Kompakt Total 6, however, is by far the biggest. With its orange hue in the simple, traditional Kompakt design, Kompakt Total 6 looks harmless. Until it is opened -- revealed: a full 2-disc selection of some of the hottest sounds from the underground, on CD for the first time. Gems like the debut cut from Baxendale (remixed by Michael Mayer), an unreleased Justus Köhncke track, an unreleased Reinhard Voigt burner. Hard to believe Rex the Dog has never been on CD, the way it has gotten around. Or the landmark nano-trance sound of the MFA. The discerning neo-lounge DJ has had Scsi-9's "Mini" in the record bag for months, here it is for you. The list goes on and on: new Ferenc, new DJ Koze, sheesh. Twenty-four tracks in all. That's two dozen Kompakt gems in one place, in their trademark collectible design: the circle motif, the sans-serif font, the bright colors. In so many ways, Kompakt represents the label of the future. In so many ways, Total represents the Compilation of Today. Kompakt Total 6 is out, it's two CDs... and it's aural dynamite. Blasting Zone Ahead.
$12.39 UPC: 880319020322 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Pop Ambient 2006 CD (KOMP 047CD)
2009 repress, originally released 2005. The sixth edition of Kompakt's highly-anticipated yearly ambient experiment, that includes new tracks specific to this compilation. Pop Ambient is programmed poetry, field data processing -- it is like a sweet way of getting drunk without having a hangover, because Kompakt knows how to slow it down like none other. Pop Ambient is the orchid in the pleasure garden of ambient music. Pop Ambient 2006 features not only well-known heroes like Markus Guentner, The Orb, Ulf Lohmann, Triola, Andrew Thomas and the enchanting Tetsuo Sakae from Japan and his project called Pass Into Silence -- Pop Ambient 2006 also features some hot new entrants, for example jazzy Uli Teichmann who comes up with free piano improvisations over smoothed sound echoes and who, as the names suggests, is the father of the lively Teichmann Brothers. You will also find two Pop Ambient cover versions: Fleetwood Mac's classic hit "Albatross" in a wonderful version produced by Kohncke/Heimermann and already known from Speicher 031. And Klimek's version of Eric Satie's masterpiece "Gymnopedie." In the meantime, the Pop Ambient series enters its sixth year and has become a vital part of Kompakt's label profile. And this year again, it is the perfect Christmas present.
$10.39 UPC: 880319021923 ELECTRONIC
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ZILSKE & DAVE DK (FEAT. RICHARD DAVIES), HOLGER: You Will Find Out 12" (MOOD 080EP)
A bomb in the making, Holger Zilske and Dave DK team up with Richard Davis for a vocal gem that's out of this world. Deep, yet driving smooth house production mixed with Richard's heavenly vocals, this is one hot track. On the remix tip, the ever-reliable Kiki does wonders, keeping the vocal parts intact while turning the techno scale a few notches. Also included is a dub version for all the vocal-shy DJs around.
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MOELLER, BRENDON: Juice 12" (MULE 065EP)
Brendon Moeller is back on Mule Electronic with three deep tracks. Title track "Juice" is dubby and space-y deep house -- already a big favorite of Steve Bug's. "Gonubie" is Afro tech-house which reflects his African roots. "Disco Devil" reflects Brendon's new style, reminiscent of the early Theo Parrish stuff.
$8.39 UPC: 880319440410 ELECTRONIC
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KAISERDISCO: Cocktail 12" (MBF 12061EP)
Kaiserdisco presents Cocktail for My Best Friend. "Amalfino" is a strong, driving percussive track that builds on child-like vocals, creating a bit of a fairy-light atmosphere within a massive production. "Bailetto" is a bit of a continuation of "Amalfino," working with similar vocals but with less of a peak-time formula. With "Carachillo," Kaiserdisco have added a cool and deep, house-y track with Indian vocals and samples, which could be cool for the house community.
$8.39 UPC: 880319445712 ELECTRONIC
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TEJADA & JOSH HUMPHREY, JOHN: Marooned 12" (PAL 058EP)
Presenting Palette's newest collaboration between John Tejada and Josh Humphrey. "Marooned" joins Humphrey's modular synth work with Tejada's beats and soothing pads, the result being a slice of beat-driven melodic techno. "Melodiac" features Humphrey's modular melodies and Tejada's signature stabs and rhythms. "Concrete Safari" focuses on Humphrey's modular fm synth work that slowly evolves into a cluster of tribal sounds, modular birds and grainy goodness.
$8.39 UPC: 827170282063 ELECTRONIC
A1. Marooned
B1. Melodiac
B2. Concrete Safari
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DIE VOGEL: Blaue Moschee 12" (PAMPA 001EP)
Pampa is a new label from DJ Koze and Marcus Fink, dedicated to releasing club music that's seriously danceable. The first release is by Die Vogel, a collaborative project between Jakobus Siebels and Mense Reents. "Blaue Moschee" features oompa-style brass looped over a stripped-back kick-drum. "Petardo" is driven by growling trombones and tubas set to a rolling, tribal drum tattoo with '60s British jazz horns and fiery woodwinds. "Empire" finds exquisitely-arranged brass parts interlocking into a single-minded groove.
$9.79 UPC: 827170314269 ELECTRONIC
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FAR EAST FAMILY BAND: Nipponjin LP (ASH 3009LP)
CD version previously-released on Phoenix Records, now available in a vinyl version. Regarded by many as the first Japanese progressive rock group, the Far East Family Band featured the keyboardist and future new age composer, Kitaro. A keyboard-dominated space rock band, the Far East Family Band played extended compositions that brought comparisons to Tangerine Dream and early Pink Floyd. Nipponjin (1975), the band's second album under their new name (after their Far Out moniker), featured re-recorded material from the previous The Cave Down To Earth (1974) as well as Nihonjin and was produced by Tangerine Dream's Klaus Schultz. One of Japan's earliest prog bands, Far East Family Band became hugely popular in Japan and also achieved considerable attention in Europe. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only.
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VILLALOBOS, RICARDO: Ibiza 99 12" (PLAY 035EP)
2009 repress, originally released 2004. "Ricardo Villalobos, producer and remixer on countless labels, wicked DJ on numerous illegal parties, traveller between South-America, Ibiza and Germany has finally surprised Playhouse with two fresh and brilliant deep House tracks."
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VILLALOBOS, RICARDO: Alcachofa 3LP (PLAY 083LP)
2009 repress on vinyl! Triple vinyl LP version, originally released in 2003. "Alcachofa, an album that, like its namesake -- the humble artichoke -- peels away in layers, stripping back rubbery leaves to reveal a sweet, pulpy interior crowned by a halo of thorns. 'Easy Lee,' the album's opener, is perversely delicious, pure dancefloor introversion. Graced by plangent, computer-modified vocals, the tune -- a staple in Richie Hawtin's afterhours sets -- is at once stark and darkly romantic, surface-bound and curiously hollowed, hyper-sexed and dead to the touch. It expands upon Villalobos' interest in processed vocals, introduced with 'What You Say Is More Than I Can Say' on an earlier 12" Play 62 -- here in an edited version, which offsets rubberized techno stomp with delusional robot groans to produce a uniquely sensual disorientation. Not all of Alcachofa is so introverted, but most of it is marked by the same kind of restraint, not hesitation. 'Theogenese' juggles South American syncopations, minimalist click-tracking, and '80s synth-drums, all suffused in a delicate sunrise aura, until every beat glows golden. 'Bahaha Hahi,' traveling under a name suggesting some tropical imbalance, dresses up subconscious vocals in clicks and gurgles -- the sound of snorkeling while stoned. A simpler rhythmic experiment is 'I Try To Live (Can I Live),' an excursion into flattened-out funk and artificial mouth harp. But the record's crowning glory must be 'Dexter,' which steadily cycles through a series of improbable chord changes like a cat prowling one of M.C. Escher's surreal staircases. Pensive, poignant, moving like water under ice, the track sucks you in and holds you deep in the heart of things -- and in the heart of Alcachofa. This isn't techno as we knew it; it's a biological experiment, a Petri dish of private elation and muttered damnations, a morphology of voices and tones and exhalations rubbed raw with salt and gravel. Alcachofa presents metamorphosis in play: restless, irrevocable. Wrapped in rubber, green and meaty, the world sounds different now."
$15.79 UPC: 661956338311 ELECTRONIC
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LANDSKY, MARTIN: We Are Streaking 12" (PFR 108EP)
Martin Landsky presents "We Are Streaking," a tasty 2-tracker rich in classic Landsky synth-work, deep, moody melodies, and forward-pushing energies. "We Are Streaking" sends a warm, pulsing sonic charge right to the core. Rushing, phasing and dramatic, an insistent synth revolves at the heart of this timeless slice of driving electronic house. The sharp post-electro swagger of "Personal Decay" takes inspiration from those early days of rave, combining modern, finely-tuned electronics with raw, dubbed and funked passages of killer proportions.
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MAREK BOIS: Apples & Oranges 12" (RRY 034EP)
Marek Bois is a constant element on the Rrygular label carousel, and he has been putting out new records on a regular basis since 2006. His first artist album Boissche Untiefen (RRY 022CD/LP) and the compulsory remix record in 2008 has marked the climax of the project thus far. The release of Apples & Oranges shows the new Bois, purposeful as usual, and even more punchy on top.
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METEO, DANIEL: In Club Mood (With Abe Duque) 12" (STRIKE 106EP)
This outstanding record by Berlin's Shitkatapult features the most clubbing hit on Daniel Meteo's house album Working Class, in its original version and also a Chicago/Detroit acid house remix by Abe Duque, who takes "In The Mood" down to the underground with pitched-down vocals, acid chainsaws, Detroit bass drums, strings, keys, etc. Unreleased dance track "Audio Quattro" combines 4-to-the-floor and half-beat to create the future funk of electronic music. Stevie Wonder meets current club music.
$7.79 UPC: 881390480661 ELECTRONIC
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BETKE: The Road/Loose And Blowsy Plumage 12" (SOL 001EP)
Deep, funky and diverse releases for the club on vinyl only -- that's the idea behind Barbara Preisinger's new label Slices Of Life. The first release comes from Berlin-based producer Betke who is a long-time companion of the electronic music scene. These two tracks reveal a whole world of warm and deep-sounding beats that make you move.
$8.39 UPC: 827170305366 ELECTRONIC
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SOULEYMAN, OMAR: Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria CD (SF 049CD)
Repressed again! Sublime Frequencies is pleased to present the second volume of Northeast Syrian dabke music from legendary vocalist Omar Souleyman and his group. This CD was compiled by Mark Gergis to coincide with the Sublime Frequencies UK/European tour in May and June of 2009, featuring live performances by Omar Souleyman himself. Culled from dozens of cassettes recorded in Syria from 1999-2008, the music here is an extension of Omar's Highway to Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria (SF 031CD) release, touching on some previously-unheard angles. Their trademark serpentine synthesizers, electrified bouzok (traditional stringed instrument) and driving rhythms forge a severe form of "new wave dabke" with a live energy and integrity that captures the essence of the Syrian Northeast; one-of-a-kind Syrian dabke party tunes, regional atabat-styled crooners, and unbelievable Iraqi party jams. The CD is packaged in a cardboard sleeve with a paper insert.
$9.99 UPC: 751937352426 WORLD
01. Atabat (A Sung Folk Poetry)
02. I Will Make A Trap
03. Shift Al Mani (I've Seen Her)
04. La Sidounak Sayyada (I Will Prevent The Hunters From Hunting You)
05. Jamila (The Beautiful One)
06. Al Khalub An Nas (People's Hearts)
07. Laqtuf Ward Min Khaddak (I Will Pick A Flower From Your Cheek)
08. Kaset Hanzal (Drinking From The Glass Of Bitterness)
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CHEF & RAMADANMAN: Dubstep Allstars Vol. 07 2CD (TEMPA 015CD)
This is volume 7 of Tempa's original and essential Dubstep Allstars series, previously featuring mixes curated by DJ Hatcha, DJ Youngsta, Kode9, N-Type, and Appleblim. Discovery, not familiarity, has been the key to the success of this series, and this philosophy continues as Chef and Ramadanman take the reigns on this double disc expedition which unearths newfound pleasures aplenty. Chef, much lauded for his main room DJ sets, employs a more show-and-tell technique for this mix. Released from the obligations of moving a peak-time crowd, Chef affords each riddim good time to be absorbed. Rapid-fire mixes are replaced with subtle mixer effects and 1 bar loops. In some cases, tracks are simply cut out to make way for the next. On paper, this style could be almost nonchalant, but upon listening, you realize nothing has been left to chance. The peak-and-trough workout continues in earnest with Ramadanman on the second disc, which reveals an acute sense of rhythm in both production and mixing. Testing a rookie raver's balance, he throws elastic rhythms into the mix and collides sonics to create multi-textured soundscapes. Consistently demonstrating impeccable taste, Ramadanman draws on a school of artists who, like him, favor a clean, considered sound. He throws in dashes of grime with a handful of assured and abrupt riddims as well as the technoid, ethereal and rave-era influenced production which has allowed him to carve his niche as a DJ. Artists on both mixes include: Dub Mechanics, Chefal and Coki, Doctor, G Double E, Von D, Lady Phe Phe, Skream, Kito, DJ 200F and J Kamata, Cyrus, Mala, Mr. Lager, Alys, Distance, Conquest, Benga, Silkie, Noah D, Cotti, Unknown, Ghost, Christine Vaccine, Kito, LD, Trolley Snatcher, Kutz, D1, Cluekid, Untold and D. Franklin, Peverelist, Blawan, Mickey Pearce, Footsie, Pangaea, Scuba, Shortstuff, Martyn, Headhunter, RSD, James Blake, Quest, Joe, Earl 16, Compound One, and Mount Kimbie.
$14.99 UPC: 800071000448 ELECTRONIC
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IMBERNON & SAMUEL KNOB, EDU: Trilopenco 12" (TRAPEZ LTD083)
Edu Imbernon and Samuel Knob present "Trilopenco" and "Cascoporro," two cool, house-y minimal slammers. Relaxed, but at the same time moving very rhythmically, both tracks have a modern way of getting the party going. The pair are best when they do little -- their dynamic rhythm-section is the key element to their success. But with the remix of "Trilopenco" by Uner And Coyu, we get an even stronger house-y feeling, which can be the missing link in DJ sets.
$8.39 UPC: 880319445613 ELECTRONIC
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TATE, DANUEL: Doesn't Like You Back EP 12" (WAG 055EP)
Cobblestone Jazz founding member Danuel Tate is back on the solo tip with the Doesn't Like You Back EP, and this time, he's bringing it harder. Although some familiar elements from his first EP can be found in the horns and synths that form the beds for the quirky vocoder, this release is more direct. This 12" reflects the moment on the dancefloor when you realize the woman next to you is way out of your league.
$8.39 UPC: 827170300460 ELECTRONIC
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AL TOURETTES: Dodgem/Sunken 12" (PIPS 008EP)
"A drop from the mighty Apple Pips, and a chance to introduce 'Al Tourettes' and his debut release. Little is known about this Bristol based producer at the present time but big things are expected as he tackles the tribal minimal bass heavy sound championed by the Skull Disco crew. Appleblim has obviously spotted the potential for this producer and it does not disappoint. Check the Mary Anne Hobbs shows for a recent Al Tourettes showcase mix. Guaranteed sell-out business on this one!"
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INSTRA:MENTAL: Leave It All Behind/Forbidden 12" (PIPS 009EP)
"Instra:mental are fast becoming the success story of the year, radically blurring the lines between drum & bass and dubstep with a distinctly '80s influence. These tracks are no exception, absolutely beautiful sounding music as championed on the hugely popular Autonomic Podcasts, support from Mary Anne Hobbes, dBridge, Appleblim and more."
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SPECTRE FOLK: Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo LP (ARB 003LP)
"As anxiety encroaches with the cold air of winter thank the stars for the whiskey/weed warmth of Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo --- it flows through you like a liquid howl of light." -- Thurston Moore
"For an out-of-it fogie like myself, it's tough to keep up with the many musical hats our boy Peter Nolan sports. There's of course The Magik Markers and then there's Lil Dusty, Spectre Flux, Spectre Folk, Folk Spectre, Cops, etc. I gotta admit I sorta lost the thread on Petes' musical output for awhile there due to the simple fact I couldn't keep up with it all. My chrome dome would literally throb with all the names and phony catalogue numbers that must accompany all these sound whims that must fly off his ginger head like bats from a belfry. Luckily, I put down the Brupenex long enough to catch up with Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo, Nolans' latest expulsion under his Spectre Folk moniker. As expected, the album reeks of the musty homespun psychedelic scent that would make both Al Simones and Uncle Neil Young red as a beet. The tunes are hazy with hope and bobbing audio to spare. Seagulls or rusty bedsprings sound off in the crackly distance on one track and I get a salty taste in my mouth like I licked the third pier boardwalk in Wildwood circa '79. And check out the track 'Burning Bridge' where Petes' voice soars and wavers like a wounded dove flying to the safety of a clean cage and the awaiting name of 'Walter.' The whole thing is a gorgeous, fully conscious stumble into a self made sunset and it just reminds me of something someone never said to me 'It's not over until you declare everyone a loser and paint yourself in a corner'." -- Tony Rettman
$11.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SUN RA: Disco 3000 CD (ARTYARD 101CD)
"Recorded at The Teatro Cilak, 1/23//1978, Milan Italy - Sun Ra: piano, organ, Moog, Crumar Mainman, vocals - John Gilmore: tenor sax, drums, vocals - Luqman Ali: drums, vocals - Michael Ray: trumpet, vocals. In the winter months of 1977-1978, philosopher, pianist and bandleader Sun Ra was in Italy. The Italian tour resulted in releases on Sun Ra's own Saturn label, all of which have long been out of print and all but impossible to find. With the re-release of Disco 3000, one of the most celebrated of these elusive Saturn gems is once more available. This release, and its companion Media Dreams, capture a side of Sun Ra's work - small ensemble, close form, original composition, rather minimal - that is otherwise under-represented. Depending heavily on Ra's electric and electronic keyboards (including the mysterious Crumar Mainman - of which even the company has no record) and, more unusually, on his intelligent use of sequencers and rhythm machines, this is an important window on the evolution of Ra's musical thinking, rendered even more transparent by the economy of its means; a quartet comprising only saxophonist John Gilmore, trumpeter Michael Ray and drummer Luqman Ali." 24 bit (mastered from the original tapes). 6 panel digipack features biographical notes by Michael Ray.
$13.75 UPC: 752725026826 JAZZ
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RESOE: Magnolie EP 12" (BAUM 006EP)
"The labelhead Resoe returns with a 3 track EP that contains a remix of 'Cosmic Blast' by Berghain resident Norman Nodge (MDR/Ostgut Ton). On the A-side Resoe delivers a floor mover with fat moving bass and dusty chords that for sure packs the floor. The first track on the B-side, Norman Nodge gives 'Cosmic Blast' his trademark touch of dirty simple techno. The breakdown in the middle will make your woofers bleed!!!! The second track on the B-side is a dub techno track with lots of elements from a 2 hour field recording Resoe did in his backyard from the studio. The track builds up slowly and ends in a smooth groovy atmosphere."
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FERRARI, LUC: Les Arythmiques CD (BLUE 019CD)
"Les Arythmiques is one of the final works created by electroacoustic composer Luc Ferrari. A starting point for the piece was the challenge to represent in sound the jolt of electricity that had been sent across his heart to treat his arrythmia. The sound that he finally crafted to his satisfaction is the crackling, vaguely terrifying one that jolts Les Arythmiques into life and reappears throughout to interrupt the proceedings at the most unlikely moments. The sound environment that the electrical shocks interrupt is that of the EKG's regular beeps, the distant tolling of a church bell, and even more distant sounds resembling birds. In other words, it's the sound of enforced rest, of a patient immobilized. This relatively small repertoire of concrete sounds is examined with a disorienting repetitiveness that brings to mind the mobile-like quality of many of Ferrari's electroacoustic works. Here that quality is combined with the lightning-quick stabs associated with Erik M and Otomo Yoshihide, two artists with whom Ferrari collaborated in his final years. Les Arythmiques ultimately moves beyond the hospital room by delving into an archive of remembered sounds. Murmurings in Italian give way to the English-language interjection 'Are y'all familiar with the parts of a saddle?' -- the composer's reflection on material gathered in the American Southwest for his Far-West News series. Ferrari's characteristic humor is here, particularly in the superimposition of diverse sound environments. But Les Arythmiques also possesses a nagging unease, a persistent gravity that both listener and composer cannot shake. Les Arythmiques was included as part of the ten-CD box set Luc Ferrari: L'Oeuvre Électronique (Ina GRM). This is the first time that it has appeared as a separate release."
$9.50 UPC: 781484701927 ELECTRONIC
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GRUBBS, DAVID: Hybrid Song Box.4 CD (BLUE 020CD)
"David Grubbs's 26-minute soundtrack to Angela Bulloch's Hybrid Song Box.4 picks up sonically where An Optimist Notes the Dusk left off. Grubbs brings his thick, solid-body electric guitar tone to the most relaxed of tempos, the most spacious of handlings. This instrumental soundtrack is based on a short piece for electric guitar, followed by an interstitial section created with feedback from the last note of the guitar piece. This A/B structure is repeated three times. With each iteration, the guitar composition becomes progressively more scuffed, more degraded. The interstitial section begins at its gentlest and most transparent, and the material gradually becomes stronger and more harmonically distinct over the course of its three iterations. The first composition wanes, the second waxes. Hybrid Song Box.4 is Angela Bulloch's most recent work in a series of 'Pixel Box' sculptural installations. Hybrid Song Box.4 was first shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of the exhibition Theanyspacewhatever."
$9.50 UPC: 781484702023 ROCK
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ST-PLOMB: Escape Run 12" (BRUT 012EP)
"Limited edition of 250 copies on clear vinyl. After having it large with Sweetzerland's Mental Groove, St-Plomb has remained apparently calm for the past few years. But don't be mislead, St-Plomb, better known to friends and family as 'daddy wizard' hasn't spent these years sunbathing and splashing in tanning lotion. Instead he's been hiding in the studio, working on his tricks, refining his magic, distilling the purest and the rawest forms of house to achieve the alchemy of the perfect track The concoction has worked and Brut! is proud to present the results: 'Escape Run' and 'Saturnic Night Access.' Serve piping hot."
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CLOUDS: Spat/Era Of Black Holes Part 2 12" (ZER 001EP)
"Channel Zero is a new label run by Dead-O of Clouds with the aim of pushing new, forward looking music to new sets of ears around the globe, with no boundaries set as to the type of music being released. As anyone who has witnessed a Dead-O DJ set can attest, he is a man who knows how to connect the dots. Look out for more Channel Zero releases coming up this autumn. 'Spat / Era Of Black Holes Part 2' is a new release from Helsinki's Clouds, kicking off Channel Zero with two sides of bass-heavy modern-day electronica. Building on their template based on modern UK forms of bass music, the quirky edits and strong harmonic layers make these tracks yet another item of proof that Clouds are treading a path of their own. Act quickly, this awesome package won't hang around for long."
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MORNING DEW: At Last 1968-1970 CD (CIC 1970CD)
"This is the second release of a two part series covering the history of The Morning Dew (the first release was Morning Dew- No More, 1966-1969). This CD contains The Morning Dew's sought after 1970 Roulette album, At Last, with the original artwork, plus their unreleased second LP masters."
$10.75 UPC: 619981297325 ROCK
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LEMON DROPS, THE: Sunshower Flower Power 2CD (CIC 9842CD)
"The Lemon Drops were pioneers of a psychedelic flower-power sound in and around the Chicago suburbs in 1967. The mastermind behind their music was Rembrandt Records' owner, Reggie Weiss. The first song he wrote for The Lemon Drops was inspired by the effects of a LSD trip and titled 'I Live In The Springtime.' Long recognized as a classic example of psychedelic folk-rock, 'I Live In The Springtime,' has appeared on the Rhino Nuggets box set, Pebbles Volume Eight, Chicago Garage Band Greats, and many other compilations. In addition to the shimmering splendor of 'I Live In The Springtime,' The Lemon Drops left behind a great legacy of music during their brief two-year tenure. Included on this two CD set are many previously unreleased recordings (including two different versions of 'I Live In The Springtime') and a twelve page booklet with extensive liner notes and band memorabilia."
$18.00 UPC: 619981293228 ROCK
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STAR, MATT: Frequencies In My Head Remixed 12" (C1LW 024EP)
"Supported by: Luciano, Loco Dice, Livio & Roby, Italoboyz, Mendo, Karotte, Alex Celler, Kasper, Andrew Grant, Sebastian Roya, Kornel Lemon, Soulrack & Mikel_e, Horacio, Charlez Ramirez, ElTxefA, Nicolas Duvosin. Following on the massive Amor/Discos EP signed by Soulrack & Mikel_e, Cray1 LabWorks starts the new season with the Matt Star Frequencies In My Head Remix EP."
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SILKIE: Head Butt Da Deck/The Horizon 12" (MEDI 020EP)
"Silkie returns to his rightful home of London's Deep Medi Musik for a brand spanking 2 track 12", featuring one of the highlights from his debut album City Limits, 'Head Butt Da Deck,' and backed with brand new beat 'The Horizon.' Act quick!"
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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G-LECTIC: Profundo EP 12" (DEFBLACK 004EP)
"G-lectic, a young talented DJ and producer, entered the world of electronic music in the year 2000, as he started going to his first parties. From the early beginning he became very attracted to the sound of techno. As he started going deeper into the scene, he came to the point where he became a DJ and later on he also started creating his own tracks on PC. This led him to start his own studio, working almost every day on tracks. As a result some very good tracks came out and this way he started to show his talent for production. He creates his tracks with a specific sound and a very positive energy that puts a smile on the face every listener. The quality of his production as well as his performance as a DJ are improving and developing day by day and there is no doubt that the future will bring him great success. A rising DJ star and a producer, with many visions that push him to make the perfect music and to give his peace to the whole electronic music scene."
$8.50 UPC: 807297460810 ELECTRONIC
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FUNK ETHICS: Blues Is Now 12" (DST 008EP)
"3-track debut release from the UK's Funk Ethics, first noticed and permanently represented by London's legendary dubstep label Destructive Records. 'Blues Is Now' is the tune that launched FE into the limelight and was quickly picked up by Mary Anne Hobbs and showcased on her Radio 1 show, it was originally featured on the Destructive CD album (DSTCD001). Two brand new tracks, 'Dub Fluid' and 'Trans Europa Step,' are showcased on the flip, good support and a good buzz on these tracks as the funk-tech sounds of the Funk Ethics roll on into 2010."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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SHEARING PINX: Weaponry LP (D 031LP)
"Divorce was so pleased with how Shearing Pinx delivered on the Haruspex 7" that we decided to up the ante considerably and release a double LP in two parts. In return the Pinx have gone all in with the new material. Weaponry pt. 1 is a mountain that will remain visible in the sea of astounding, bizarre releases Shearing Pinx have been pouring for the last half decade. It is made clear from the first moments of the opening track; the Vancouver trio has been committed here to tape while in rare form. This LP sets up a classic, demento-tuned twin guitar battle where a nonchalant vocal delivery squares off against the drum set's muscular fake jazz-jizz-isms. William S. Burroughs used a shotgun to create paintings. Shearing Pinx use musical instruments to wound and maim. Tunes for the unglued. Artwork by Rick White of Eric's Trip / Elevator / Rick White Album. Edition of 600. RIYL: Harry Pussy, No New York, Sonny Sharrock."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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NOVELLER/AIDAN BAKER: Colorful Disturbances LP (D 032LP)
"Guitars warped so hard they dissolve into pure consciousness! Seriously, this record had to happen because these two are the NOW of transcendental guitar weirdness. In families like ours where deformed music of one kind or another pours out of the speakers all day long, Toronto's Aidan Baker is a household name. He is no doubt one of the most imaginative experimental musicians of the new generation, quickly creating a universe of limitless sound with his bursting discography. He offers this record an extensive piece which mixes drone, texture, and an ever-bowing foundation -- imagine the sound of falling backwards... forever. The new blood on this split is guitarist Sarah Lipstate from Brooklyn, New York (aka Noveller). Sarah's prepared twin guitar works up a slow hypnotic force, gently pulling way out to the furthest deep end of pulses and patterns. Beautiful repetitions effortlessly skirt over a dark undercurrent. A+++ listen. Edition of 600 copies."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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DOG DAY: Elder Schoolhouse 12" (D 033EP)
"These odd duck popsters sound totally sizzled on this new 12 inch 45. Side A is a collection of tunes rolled-up earlier this year at Rick White's Elder Schoolhouse studio. It includes a late night number written by Mr. White especially for his Halifax guests. Flip it over, and the entire B side takes a hazy journey lead by infinite guitar, starting with an ending and answering only to that most distant call. Dig? 5 songs - 26:55 minutes. Edition of 400 copies."
$11.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SUN RA: Medicine For A Nightmare - The Singles LP (DOX 821LP)
"Sun Ra: alien from Saturn or Herman Blount from Alabama? Either way, Sun Ra is one of the most interesting and prolific musicians in the history of jazz. Decades before his time, Sun Ra and his band, calling themselves the 'Arkestra,' began forming their own alternative reality, a new plane of cultural existence in which blacks were all powerful beings, gods from another planet sending their intergalactic message through jazz music. This idea went on to influence everyone from Funkadelic to the Outkast; in fact, when asked about Sun Ra, George Clinton once said, 'Yeah, Sun Ra is out to lunch, same place I eat at.' Do not miss this compilation of Sun Ra's rare early 7"s -- for the first time ever in one collection on vinyl!"
$15.50 EAN: 8013252888212 JAZZ
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WILLIAMS, HANK: The Dixie Cannonball 4LP BOX (DOY 001LP)
"This special limited edition box set contains 4 albums originally released in the years immediately following Hank Williams' tragically premature death in 1953. These albums, which include his most famous singles from the period represent a complete chronological retrospective of his recordings from December 1946 to August 1951. Don't miss this essential collection by the man who revolutionized country music." Collects albums I Saw The Light, Honky Tonkin', Sing Me A Blue Song and Ramblin' Man.
$61.00 UPC: 889397000011 ROCK
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WILLIAMS, HANK: I Saw The Light LP (DOY 618LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. "Once in a great while a truly superlative musical talent comes along, it only happens a handful of times per century, and one of those times 'it' was Hank Williams. Despite his swift and total rise to super stardom by the age 25, by 29 he was dead in the back of his own Cadillac...but it is what happened in the meantime that made all the difference. While America, returning victorious from the War in 1945, attempted to create an image of a invincibility, wealth and power in the face of its citizens and the world, there was a boy with a guitar from a place called 'Wrong Side of the Tracks', Alabama, who had another story to tell, a story that, amid all the propaganda and ticker tape parades, Americans could relate to and, judging from the record sales, obviously wanted to hear, and from 1946 to 1951 Hank Williams recorded enough hits to last country music stations for the following fifty. He dominated the country music charts throughout this period (with 11 number 1 songs and many more in the top ten), and songs like 'Cold Cold Heart', 'Hey Good Lookin'', and 'Your Cheatin' Heart', have become standards in American music. These five albums represent a complete chronological retrospective (1946-1951) of the man who revolutionized not only country music, but pop music as well." Tracks - Side A: 1. Calling You 2. Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) 3. Wealth Won't Save Your Soul 4. When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels 5. I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes) 6. My Love For You (Has Turned To Hate) 7. Pan American 8. Move It On Over 9. I Saw The Light Side B: 1. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep 2. Six More Miles (To The Graveyard) 3. Fly Trouble 4. I'm Satisfied With You 5. On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain 6. Rootie Tootle 7. I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind 8. I'm A Long Gone Daddy 9. Honky Tonkin'
$15.50 EAN: 8013252886188 ROCK
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WILLIAMS, HANK: Honky Tonkin' LP (DOY 619LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. Tracks - Side A: 1. My Sweet Love Ain't Around 2. The Blues Come Around 3. A Mansion On The Hill 4. I'll Be A Bachelor 'Til I Die 5. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight 6. Lovesick Blues 7. Lost On The River 8. I Heard My Mother Praying For Me 9. Lost Highway Side B: 1. May You Never Be Alone 2. Dear Brother 3. Jesus Remembered Me 4. Honky Tonk Blues 5. Mind Your Own Business 6. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) 7. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy 8. Wedding Bells 9. I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
$15.50 EAN: 8013252886195 ROCK
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WILLIAMS, HANK: Sing Me A Blue Song LP (DOY 620LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. Tracks - Side A: 1. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 2. A House Without Love 3. I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living 4. My Bucket's Cot A Hole In It 5. Long Cone Lonesome Blues 6. Why Don't You Love Me 7. Why Should We Try Anymore 8. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy 9. Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals Side B: 1. Beyond The Sunset 2. The Funeral 3. Everything's Okay 4. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me 5. Nobody's Lonesome For Me 6. Moanin' The Blues 7. Help Me Understand 8. No, No Joe 9. Cold, Cold Heart
$15.50 EAN: 8013252886201 ROCK
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WILLIAMS, HANK: Ramblin' Man LP (DOY 621LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. Tracks - Side A: 1. Dear John 2. Just Waitin' 3. Men With Broken Hearts 4. I Can't Help It 5. Howlin' At The Moon 6. Hey, Good Lookin' 7. My Heart Would Know 8. The Pale Horse And His Rider 9. A Home In Heaven Side B: 1. Ramblin' Man 2. Pictures From Life's Other Side 3. I've Been Down That Road Before 4. I Dreamed About Mama Last Night 5. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle 6. Crazy Heart 7. Half As Much 8. I'd Still Want You 9. Baby, We're Really In Love
$15.50 EAN: 8013252886218 ROCK
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JACKSON, WANDA: Wanda Jackson LP (DOY 622LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. "Originally released in 1958, by the time her debut album came out Jackson, only 21 at the time, was already a seasoned performer. Discovered while still in high school singing country for an Oklahoma City radio station, by 1955 she was touring with Elvis Presley, who encouraged her to sing more in the rockabilly style, where she soon gained a huge fan base. However, this first album for Capitol shows just how versatile she could be, able to sing anything from traditional country to pop. She was also, interestingly the first country singer to bring a more glamourous style (one that would soon become standard in the country world) into her stage image, thanks to her mother's handmade flashy stage costumes. Contains 6 bonus tracks from the CD version."
$15.50 EAN: 8013252886225 ROCK
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GUTHRIE, WOODY: Dust Bowl Ballads LP (DOY 623LP)
180 gram vinyl. "This is the first record that 'the Oklahoma cowboy' recorded in NYC after his arrival in 1940 for Alan Lomax as part of his work for the Library of Congress. Originally released as three separate 78 rpm records, these are Guthrie's tales about one of the most dire periods in rural America, the Dust Bowl era (also known as the Dirty Thirties). Repressed by Smithsonian Folkways in 1964 during the American folk revival years, this quintessential work proves that Guthrie was a true minstrel of the other face of America, the one that you can't find in history books: tales of poverty, migration, storms, illness, hunger and harsh criticism of the American government, incapable of committing to equality. Guthrie would become very popular among city radicals and idealists, and thanks to records like this, a true icon of social activism in the cradle of capitalism."
$15.50 EAN: 8013252886232 ROCK
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HENRY & PIERRE SCHAEFFER, PIERRE: Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul/Concerto Des Ambiguites LP (DOZ 401LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. "Electronic / avant-garde music pioneer and founder of the French musique concrète movement, Pierre Schaeffer, a radio engineer, believed that any sound could be music, and was one of the first to experiment with tape looping, splicing and sampling. He was also one of the first to record music on magnetic tape. Drawing inspiration from the Italian Futurists, he emphasized the double meaning of the word 'play', meaning to play an instrument, but also to have fun and enjoy oneself. Pierre Henry, a classically trained musician, was one of Schaeffer's disciples and together they co-wrote the revolutionary Symphonie pour un Homme Seul, recorded in 1950. Despite its title, it is not a symphony in the classical sense, but a kind of suite divided into 12 movements. It is a musical collage featuring vocal fragments, that are at times recorded backwards, accelerated or repeated, and other sounds like whistles, footsteps, doors slamming, metallic sounds, and a prepared piano. However, what is important about this piece is not merely its intrinsic musical value, but its influence on so many future generations of musicians in so many genres. Symphonie pour un Homme Seul, over half a century later, remains a pioneering experiment in the search for new aural horizons. The Concerto side reveals Henry's personal approach to dissonance, with a strong impact of illogical sequences in the piano 'duel': the two instruments seem to collide in a furious rejection of the traditional idea of music, generating a clash of noises that reproduces the sonic pollution of the modern times."
$15.50 UPC: 889397884017 EXPERIMENTAL
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HENRY, PIERRE: Le Microphone Bien Tempéré LP (DOZ 402LP)
On 180 gram vinyl. "Electronic music pioneer, Pierre Henry, was a classically trained French pianist and percussionist, but gained notoriety as one of the driving forces behind the French avante-garde movement 'musique concrète', which attempted make music by using 'real' sounds, like trains on tracks, dogs barking, footsteps, etc., in place of actual instruments and then electronically manipulate them in ways that had never been seen before, effectively redefining the very idea of music itself, and forcing listeners to ask themselves the question, 'what is music?'. Many did, and the many answers to this question went on to inspire scores of artists and musicians, and the ripple effect is still being felt today. The idea that any naturally occurring sound could be music was, to say the least, a new concept at the time, and so it helped that the movement had the backing of someone who, like Henry, was a classically trained, or 'serious'musician, as movement founder Pierre Schaeffer would have defined him. This piece, Le Microphone bien Tempéré, written by Henry in 1951, was the first attempt at notated musique concrete."
$15.50 UPC: 889397884024 EXPERIMENTAL
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CHATMAN, VERNON: Final Flesh DVD (DC 406DVD)
"NEW from Vernon Chatman, a co-creator of some of this millennium's most outre cable television programming (Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel and -- yeah -- Doggy Fizzle Televizzle - !) is a DVD destined to change the way we look at entertainment, pornography and probably the legal system. Final Flesh is a feature film produced in four parts: the script written by Vernon was divided up and submitted to four unique film production companies that work exclusively in the field of customized adult content. The companies' shared charter is to produce a film that explores the writer's chosen fetish -- and with this in mind, Vernon wrote with demented determination, in order to push the definition of fetish into the realm of the cosmically absurd. Then he sat back to see what his charges would deliver. The resulting film is an epic narrative for our time. Final Flesh is a surreal, apocalyptic My Dinner With Andre -- in other words, existential, sublime and ridiculous, featuring unmistakeably porno production values and shudderingly unseasoned porno actors and actresses -- but no actual sex! Chatman's sexworker hirelings applied themselves earnestly to his cerebral text (never suspecting the prank nature of the project). Working in complete isolation from each other, they made Final Flesh a cinematic 'exquisite corpse' whose fervid rottings comprise an insurgency in the field of...well, all the fields that involve people looking at other people for entertainment. Final Flesh isn't just a meta-comedic concept whose time has come -- it 's also a hot evening's entertainment filled with religion, sex, philosophy, fashion, culture and 'reality' (with all the pathos that implies), plus some really amazing dialogue. Few will sit the fence on this. Few should. Final Flesh is a confrontation and a contradiction that deserves its day in (kangaroo) court. Fortunately, it 's the way of the world that the curious and easily influenced will be drawn into the web that is Final Flesh, whether they like it or not -- thus dissolving its concepts of 'avant-garde porn' and 'comedy' into the unsuspecting mainstream, where their questionable merits will have the desired evolutionary impact. If your spirit is willing -- the Flesh will freak you!" Running time: 71 min.; NTSC all-region format.
$12.50 UPC: 781484040699 Misc
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CLUEKID: Chicken Foot/Shifty 12" (EAR 012EP)
"It's been a while now since Cluekid released his debut single here on Earwax -- 'Halogen' and 'Down & Dirty' (2006). We are very pleased to have him back on wax, demonstrating his progressions as he's mastered his art. The lead track 'Chicken Foot' is a one for the clever stepper who likes his wobble to be little more deadly and refined in delivery. It's a banger alright but one with plenty of restraint and fine style. Opening pads chime a deadly warning before the wonky bassline thumps in, heavily grooved and heavily weighted. Sporadic conga riffs cut through on point, adding to the momentum generated by the no-compromise bassline. Hold out for the 2nd drop as it twists a new way round! Flip then for the equally deadly but more stripped down 'Shifty'. Perhaps not the most appropriate title ever conceived but a fine piece of heavy artillery nonetheless. Taking a 2005 Loefah sound (and supported by him for this very reason) and redefining it in a Cluekid style. Excellent quality rhythm and bass music with a dark and unforgiving edge."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MRK1/CYRUS: Last Drop/In The Background 12" (AR 030EP)
"Both MRK1 and Cyrus' records can consistantly be heard all over the world tearing through your local club's subs and blowing up the speakers in your 10 watt radio as you listen to any of the number of electronic DJs on BBC Radio 1, 1xtra, Kiss FM etc. now supporting the bass heavy genre that dominates music's lowest frequencies. For this 12" two of dubstep's most established artists return to Eight:FX for the next in the label's Future:Dubstep series. To coincide with the release of MRK1's Future:Dubstep:03 compilation, him and Cyrus each present two massive chest cavity shattering, club smashes which have received support from some of the biggest names in the scene and the likes of Kiss FM and BBC 1xtra on Crissy Criss' drum & bass show. MRK1 was there from the start. Cyrus is another of dubstep's veterans. Having released on legendary labels including Hyperdub and Tectonic, played all over the globe at the genre's most prestigious events and venues, as well as on BBC Radio 1."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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RODRIGUES, BENNY: Fake Stab 12" (FIGURE 023EP)
"Rotterdam's Benny Rodrigues is already a well known force in the Dutch techno fraternity. His releases on Be As One and Spinclub have cemented his tough, modern-meets old school take on dancefloor techno as some of the grooviest around. 'Fake Stab,' co-produced with Kapuchon, is a spacy roller that revolves around classic Detroit-influenced stab action, floating on top of a bass heavy and pumping bottom end. Tight, crisp and clearly designed for the floor, its a cool trip full of tricky percussion and immense bass pressure (what else would you expect from Figure!) Taking us back into the realms of the masters, 'Woest' is a real burner. Tough, raw and uncompromising, it's a stomping stab-jack like no other. Reminiscent of a certain Mr Hood's punchy warehouse jams, it's filled with the type of purist techno intensity that makes it totally irresistible in the club and beyond."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MEINDL, FLORIAN: Flashmob 12" (FLASH 015EP)
"New Flash 12" Florian Meindl: A-Side called 'Flashmob' is drilling a Daft Punk-like bassline in combination with a hypnotic vocal hook into the dancefloor and your brains. On the flip 'Leaving Home' is digging deeper and could be seen as a logical progression from Florian first release ever called 'Liquid Source' from 2005. B2 always hides the fancy tracks, so does FLASH015 -- 'Use Me' is a sub bass monster with a huge break."
$8.50 EAN: 8014360091549 ELECTRONIC
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SULLY: Reminder/Jackman's Rec 12" (FRJ 005EP)
"Griping about dubstep seems pretty pointless at the moment -- for almost every formulaic record on the shelves, there's another young, creative producer beating a much more interesting path. Norwich's Jack Stevens -- better known as Sully -- is justifiably seen as one of those individuals. Tantalisingly doing the rounds on dub for long enough now, 'Reminder' and 'Jackman's Rec' should usher in Sully's biggest moment yet. Since Blackdown (AKA Martin Clark) included both in his end-of-year dubstep chart for Pitchfork, he and DJ partner Dusk have supported the tunes consistently on Rinse FM and at FWD>>, also featuring 'Jackman's Rec' in their XLR8R magazine podcast. 'Reminder' has subsequently been deployed in sets by Ben UFO, Pangaea and Tomb Crew, the latter including it in their recent contribution to FACT magazine's respected mix series. One of Sully's tricks is that his music never falls into predictable slots. 'Reminder' might be a peak-time, late-summer skanker, but there isn't a clichéd reggae sample in earshot. Instead, it's closer to a translation of pioneering producer Pole's crackly dub abstractions into dancefloor form. 'Jackman's Rec' is a velvety roller that on one level, is the best example so far of how Sully's intuition for swing allows him to nail the dark sensuality of early FWD>> beats. Yet at the same time, it's in no way trapped in nostalgia for that era, simply sounding like the next step for future garage."
$8.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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TREVOR, RYAN: Introducing: Ryan Trevor LP (DC 419LP)
"Wow...we can't seem to figure out the true story of Ryan Trevor - we're not sure he even knows it! Is he an industry guy who pitched songs to Barry Manilow, wrote songs for Sesame Street, and roadied for infamous germaphobe Robin Trower? Is he a sensitive loner-folker who lived in England and all over the globe? Is he an ex-60's Indiana garage band kid who rocked in 'The Blue Glue?' Or did he simply replace his friend Paul McCartney when he 'died' in 1968? It just might be all of the above, though working closely with Trevor (well, as closely as we can get to New Zealand -- it's about eight thousand miles away) has shed remarkably little light on the man - even his exhaustive autobiography ends in the early 70s, just before he started recording music! The usually in-depth Acid Archives has a mere one sentence listed about the man. Is this a conspiracy? What we do know is that he produced one incredibly rare and homespun pop LP in 1977, Introducing: Ryan Trevor. It may have been merely a demo for a never-materialized Warner Brothers album (though we question the veracity of this claim), or a definitive concept album statement (are there any non-concept albums that begin with an 'Overture')...but we'll let the music speak for itself. A privately-pressed bit of psych-pop perfection, Introducing: Ryan Trevor at last answers the question on ALL of our minds: 'What if R. Stevie Moore and Emitt Rhodes recorded an album with Joe Meek's ghost in the late 70s?' Whatever the case, what you have in your hands is a near-exact repro of an insanely catchy song cycle of Macca-melodies, subverted by copious amounts of phase, fuzz, and a bedroom production ambience that would certainly make Bob Pollard, Ariel Pink or The Godz jealous. Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk is proud to get this incredible rarity back into circulation, where it can soon after be filed next to your Rundgren and Brian Wilson records in the 'loner genius' section."
$11.00 UPC: 781484041917 ROCK
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DJ HENY.G: Arena 1/Retro Love 12" (GBMASE 001EP)
"So it is finally here, the ever long delayed wait of DJ Heny.G's very first release on the Gangsta Boogie Music imprint brings you 'Arena 1' & 'Retro Love'. 'Arena 1' has had consistent support from Mala(DMZ), Plastician (Rinse.FM), DJ Scientist (Rinse.FM) & Conquest (Anti Social) just to name a few whilst the more mellowed out ''Retro Love'' has had support from Martyn, Ben UFO (Hessle Audio) and Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1). 'Arena 1' is a track that will not only represent the true sound of the Gangsta Boogie Music, it will also make people dance right across the world with is pure emotional, deep and fwd>> thinking vibe within the term we call Dubstep, a lot more different from the average and the generic, this is a track that will still have people stomping their feet to or listening with pleasure at home in ten years time, timeless music, nothing more, nothing less! 'Retro Love' has got to be one of the more diverse tracks from the man they call Heny.G. Funkadelic and lush sounds on this track and a winner for 2-step fans out there, a breakdown to take you to another planet and then back to that retro GBM Sound. You could play this on a Funktion 1 Sound System or just play this at home, and still feel the same way about it for a lifetime! Another piece of timeless music for all the deep soul brothers and soul sisters out there!"
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VA: Psychedelic States: Mississippi In The 60s CD (GF 239CD)
"We head to the great southern state of Mississippi where we have found over 20 never before compiled tracks and a lot of others that haven't been heard in decades!! Featuring never-before-seen photos of many of these great bands." Artists include Ravin' Blue, Kicks, Soul Shakers, Strags, Lancers, Reets, Kelts, Herdsmen, Continentals, Rick's Continentals, Riviaires, Missing Links, James & The James Gang, One Way Streets, Strags, Substantial Evidence, Phinz, Lancers and Joe Frank & The Knights.
$9.25 UPC: 645270023924 ROCK
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KRAFTWERK: Kraftwerk + Kraftwerk 2 2CD (GERMAN 941001/2)
Restocked, new lower pricing. "Their first two legendary LPs! The 'oscilloscope' gatefold artwork from the rare Vertigo 'swirl' double-LP re-package is used for the first time ever on a compact disc reissue. [The separate CDs of these titles are no longer available]."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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DRONES, THE: Further Temptations 2LP (GET 703LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Punk rock combo formed in Manchester in 1975, the Drones released their debut in 1977. This double LP version also contains 8 bonus tracks from the band's singles. "
$23.50 UPC: 889397007034 ROCK
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EATER: The Album LP (GET 704LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Early British punk rock act formed in London in 1976 by Andy Blade. Eater were influenced by the post glam / pre-punk scene, often playing punk versions of Marc Bolan, The Velvet Underground and David Bowie tunes. They were often headliners for bands that later made the history of punk like Buzzcocks, Damned, Sham 69 and the totally cult icon Johnny Moped. This reissue gives Eater the place they deserve in the history of modern underground music." Includes four bonus tracks not included on the original LP version.
$17.50 UPC: 889397007041 ROCK
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ALTERNATIVE TV: The Image Has Cracked LP (GET 705LP)
180 gram vinyl. "First album by seminal British punk band Alternative TV, originally released in 1978, The Image Has Cracked displays the broad minded Mark Perry's vision of modern music. The album is a crossover between dub, reggae, punk and Krautrock, bringing to life the musical ideas of the author of one of the earliest and most acclaimed punk fanzines, the infamous Sniffin' Glue -- whose last issue also served to launch the band's first single on flexi disc in 1977."
$17.50 UPC: 889397007058 ROCK
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DESTROY ALL MONSTERS: Destroy All Monsters LP (GET 706LP)
180 gram vinyl. "A collection of early stuff from the Detroit-based Destroy All Monsters, formed in 1973 and including Ron Asheton of Stooges fame. Includes their great singles 'Meet The Creeper,' 'Bored' and 'Nobody Knows'."
$17.50 UPC: 889397007065 ROCK
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REED, LES: Girl On The Motorcycle LP (GET 707LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Reissue of the soundtrack to 1968 flick based on the short story La Motocyclette by André Pieyre De Mandiargues and featuring a stunning Marianne Faithfull clad in total leather for an absolute pre-fetish manifesto."
$17.50 UPC: 889397007072 ROCK
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DE MASI, FRANCESCO: Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato/Inglorious Bastards LP+CD (GET 708LP)
180 gram vinyl. "The soundtrack to the original 1978 Italian 'macaroni-war' flick Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (or Inglorious Bastards as it was translated for the American market) by Enzo G. Castellari. Soundtrack composer De Masi's music fits perfectly into Tarantino's fixation for Italian B movies of the '70s. First 250 copies contain the CD of the album as a bonus."
$17.50 UPC: 889397007089 ROCK
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GIRLIE & LAUREL AITKEN: Scandal In A Brixton Market LP (GET 709LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Ultra rare album released in 1969 on Pama now finally back in stock. The Godfather of Ska also definable as Mr. 'I-Have-The-Coolest-Fedora' is featured here at his best teaming with Girlie, a sound system queen of the era, and by Rico Rodriguez himself on trombone. Not to be missed!"
$17.50 UPC: 889397007096 ROCK
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AITKEN, LAUREL: The High Priest Of Reggae LP (GET 710LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Cuban Born Lorenzo Aitken was the absolute and unforgettable King Of Ska. Among the myriad singles and albums released in his 78 years of life, this 1970 rare Pama release is now back in print for a sure successful dance party. Dust off your pork pie hats and fedoras and enjoy the 'madness'."
$17.50 UPC: 889397007102 ROCK
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VA: Munich Disco Tech Volume 5 12" (GSR 091EP)
"The fifth edition of Great Stuff's EP series Munich Disco Tech again features no artists from Munich or even Germany but still the full flavour of that concept. With Juan Sanchez from Amsterdam, the Canadians Sultan & Ned Shepard (Harem Records/Global Underground), Tignino & Leo from Italy's very south island Sicily (featuring Jim Kerr's son on the mic) remixed by Kling Klong artist Oliver Klein. Plus Denis Horvat from Denmark. A very heterogenous mixture of styles and artists from all over the planet, which rocks in different situations."
$8.50 UPC: 807297409017 ELECTRONIC
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YAYS & NAYS: Yays & Nays LP (GROO 021LP)
"Monster rare USA private pressing from 1968, rated with 6 stars in the Hans Pokora 3001 book. The Yays & Nays were a groovy, hip group comprised of three guys and three girls. This is a truly unique sounding album, full of creative songwriting and vocal arrangements and a style that defies any categorization. There's some fab garage folk-rock on it (the opening track 'Gotta Keep Travelling' is really astounding!), and also some tracks in a bizarre crooner-lounge Incredibly Strange Music vein. Reissued for the first time, in collaboration with band members, and with original artwork."
$21.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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FRANKLIN STARBIRD BAND, LEROY: Star Bird 7" (HLR 001EP)
"In 1981, Leroy Franklin went into the San Antonio studio of Manny Guerra with a group of session musicians to record his 2-sided masterpiece, 'Star Bird.' The A-side, a spiritual, funky slice of modern soul, is reason enough for DJs and collectors to put this 45 in their box. The flip, a spontaneous anti-drug rap over Star Bird's instrumental track is a dancefloor filler. Recorded just over a year after 'Rapper's Delight,' 'Star Bird II' is quite possibly, the first rap record ever recorded in Texas."
$5.75 UPC: N/A HIPHOP
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RELATIVES, THE: Don't Let Me Fall LP (HLR 001LP)
"Heavy Light Records was founded by Charisse Kelly and Revenant Records alum Noel Waggener to present obscure and previously unreleased recordings spanning the 1950s -- '80s. This release features lavish silk screened packaging, detailed historical notes and unpublished photos. Call it gospel funk! In truth, the sound of The Relatives is so much more. Brought together by veteran gospel singer Gean West in 1971, their sound bridges the gap between traditional gospel, soul and psychedelia. Over a span of four years, The Relatives recorded three obscure 45s and a session with legendary North Texas engineer Phil York. These powerful, genre-busting recordings stand up alongside the best group soul and funk recordings of the 1970s -- and give praise to the Lord like you've never heard before! Heavy Light Records is proud to bring together all of The Relatives' singles and five previously unreleased tracks for their first-ever full length release, Don't Let Me Fall."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SCUBA: Aesaunic EP 2x12" (HF 024EP)
"Hotflush Recordings presents a new EP from Scuba, following on from the success of his Klinik/Hundreds and Thousands 12" (HF022). Over the five tracks, Scuba covers the full spectrum of his sound, developing the house and techno influenced dubstep that has been such a feature of 2009 and wading into new territory with 'Symbiosis,' a half-time 170bpm excursion that has been supported by DBridge and Instra:mental on their seminal Autonomic podcast."
$14.50 EAN: 5055317201119 ELECTRONIC
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OCTA PUSH: Deixa 12" (IBR 004EP)
"Lisbon-based Octa Push are the newest recruits on the Iberian label and here they come up with the goods on this very distinctive international flavoured 3-tracker - following their debut vinyl release on Soul Jazz Records' Stepper's Delight 2 compilation. Having blown up the Red Bull Stage at this year's Sonar in Barcelona and wowed people at Fabric and the Glade Festival with their unique flow; which sees them combine the Portuguese and African sound spliced with elements of UK garage, dancehall and techno. Both 'Deixa' with Toni Clean, resident in Portugal and from the Cabo Verde Isles, and 'Baila Mundo,' with the legendary MC Zulu and his distinctive randomized dance hall cadence, show Octa Push as accomplished producers - having already remixed the likes of Buraka Som Sistema, Debruit, Mochipet and DJ Znobia, to name a few - and skilled at using original vocals over their bass line driving funky beats; whilst 'Dubshh' is a marvelous bustling and punchy instrumental rub perfectly illustrating their bass and groove style. All three tunes are sure players and seem destined to bring the Portuguese style to a growing fan base and providing Iberian with yet another non-UK produced bass continuum vibe."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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TEAM BRICK: Alogon CD+DVD (INV 080CD)
"Invada Records are very proud to announce the relase of Team Brick's debut album Alogon. Team Brick is vocalist / multi instrumentalist Matt Williams who has over the past couple of years been quietly making a name for himself in the Bristol music scene, not least his involvement on Portishead's '3rd' album. Along with Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller, Williams is also a member of Beak. The initial 'limited' pressing includes a bonus DVD of TB supporting Julian Cope on tour a few years ago. If you haven't heard or seen this man play out or heard any of his music, this is a good a place as any to check him out. The man can't be compared to anybody or anything, but if you're a fan of the following artists... John Zorn, Merzbow, Mr Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Steve Reich, Dalek, Cardiacs etc. etc. you may wish to explore what he has to offer with this album."
$15.25 EAN: 5055300303103 ROCK
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RAINCOATS, THE: The Raincoats LP (KRS 515LP)
$11.50 UPC: 759656051514 ROCK
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BROWN, BARRY: Let's Go To The Blues CD (KING 020CD)
"Barry Brown is one of reggae's vastly overlooked talents. His militant conscious style has over time lost none of its appeal. Truly one of the sweetest roots vocalists to come out of Jamaica. Born in 1962, Kingston, Jamaica,he cut his musical teeth working under producer Bunny Lee. Their first release was a track called 'Girl You're Always on my Mind,' although only a minor hit, Bunny Lee saw his potential and he was rewarded with his 1979 cut 'Step it up Youthman' which became a hit and has become a roots classic, leading to an album of the same name. The late '70s was a great period in Barry Brown's career and it's from this period that we have culled this set of tracks. Straight from the master tapes some of his finest moments and some unreleased gems that we believe should be heard. A great set from his timeless 'Trying Youthman' a tail of struggling times in the heart of Kingston Jamaica. His rastafarian inspired chants 'Stop Them Jah Jah,' 'Give Thanx and Praise,' 'Natty Rootsman' and 'Lead Us Jah' work alongside socially charged cuts as 'Politician,' 'Big Big Pollution' and 'Mr Money Man.' As with all his tales and inspired lyrics they are put across in such a tuneful way that like all the best songs that carry a message can be remembered also through the strength of the song. As with many of his artists Bunny Lee encouraged him to go into self-production, and after a time spent with producer Linval Thompson 'Separation,' and Sugar Minott 'Things & Time,' he did just that and produced his first release 'Cool Pon Your Corner' in 1980 followed in 1981 by 'Problems Get You Down.' We hope this release will find a place in your collection and remind us of the talent of Mr Barry Brown. If some-what overlooked, but certainly now not forgotten. Let's celebrate with the man and go to the blues one more time." Includes two extra tracks not on the LP version.
$12.00 EAN: 5060135760380 ROCK
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BROWN, BARRY: Let's Go To The Blues LP (KING 020LP)
LP version.
$12.00 EAN: 5060135760397 ROCK
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SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER: The Love Quadrant 12" (KGO 002EP)
"Electronic / dubstep label Kinnego Records started by Boxcutter out of Northern Ireland is back! After the success of the first release (by Boxcutter himself) he introduces the masses to a producer named Space Dimension Controller -- the techno funk alias of 19-year-old Jack Hamill. Following on perfectly from Boxcutter and Kinnego Flux's A Familiar Sound on KGO001, it features 2 tracks of deep, loved-up electro. Equally inspired by both the tape warped soundtrack to Garth Merenghi's Darkplace and early Aphex Twin, Jack's all-analogue production gives his tracks a timeless sound that's a mile away from contemporary electro and house. The beats are low slung and funky, and the melodies are addictive and show a natural flair. On 'The Love Quadrant,' a girl / boy vocal exchange sets the scene while the track builds momentum, before the whole thing spaces off on a sweet mini moog solo. On the flip, 'Electropod-250 Collision' has a deep 808 pulse and flanged bass, topped off with Detroit-inspired melodies and blurred out reverbs."
$7.50 EAN: 5055317203113 ELECTRONIC
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FINE, JASON: Future Thought (Part One) 12" (KM 012.1EP)
"The second full length release from Jason Fine, the master of the melodic bassline, the subtle pads and the delicate live feel drum programming, is out on Kontra-Musik. The dance music producer today can, to categorize, be divided into two types. First we have the producer, and this is the majority - who skillfully manipulate sound to satisfy dance floors and clubs. Then there is the musician - a person who transforms human thought and emotion into music. This is the category that best describes Jason. What comes out of his studio is always something very personal and special. The sounds are old school but the outcome is so much Jason's own, that if feels very fresh and new. On Future Thought, the follow up to the much acclaimed album, Our Music Is A Secret Order -- released on Kontra-Musik in 2008, Jason once again sets his mind to spin, this time towards the future, and out comes electronic music full of human presence. Or as Jason Fine puts it: 'I am constantly thinking about the future, future of technology, humanity and the earth. So this series of tracks is an auditory representation of my future thought.' Amplitude modulation gives you an energetic techno track without losing in melody and funk. Broken home is warm electro brings thought to Claro Intelecto masterpiece Peace of Mind."
$8.50 UPC: 807297459517 ELECTRONIC
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MEYER/WAREIKA, MATTHIAS: Infinity/Smiles 12" (LIEBE 029EP)
"Riding the wave of the recent success of tracks like 'Tout Va Bien' and 'Skipper,' Matthias Meyer continues his deep exploration into rolling, uplifting house bombs with 'Infinity.' A classy, hypnotizing vibe is built from the outset, with smooth chords and subtle arrangement tweaks lifting the tension higher as we approach the arrival of a very catchy hook indeed! Teasing and yet fulfilling all the while, this is truly one for those heart-stopping, timeless moments. Meyer once again pulls on our heart strings with an emotionally charged modern house classic. Wareika - 'Smiles': These three deep-afro-house experimentalists are atop a newly cast wave bound for the shores of underground stardom. After their superb debut 'Men Village' on Connaisseur last year, or the recent 'King's Child' on Motivbank, the trio have really built a unique and stand out sound for themselves. 'Smiles' is a typically trippy, wonderfully meandering cut that takes us on a mystic journey through funky jazz licks, smooth piano and synth textures, Arabic undertones and psychedelic waterfalls of richly produced sound. A treat for the ears and for the mind!"
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LITTER, THE: Emerge CD (LR 157CD)
"1969 album by Minneapolis' most popular garage band of the '60s, and their first for a major label. By the time this album was released the band's sound had begun take an interesting new direction and towards psych and hard rock, but unfortunately the band broke up shortly after and the only fame they ever achieved was with fans of the Nuggets series."
$16.50 EAN: 8013252915727 ROCK
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LITTER, THE: Emerge LP (LR 157LP)
Gatefold 180 gram vinyl version.
$17.50 EAN: 8013252915710 ROCK
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WHO, THE: Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 3LP (LR 158LP)
"When the Who performed at 1970's biggest music festival, the band was at it's peak, having just released their ground-breaking and critically acclaimed rock opera Tommy which catapulted the band into the stratosphere of rock stardom. This 3LP includes many of the songs from Tommy, but also many crowd-pleasing classics and a few obscure tracks as well. Great sound quality and band energy! Each LP will be on a different color: red, blue and white."
$33.00 EAN: 8013252915819 ROCK
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DR. JOHN: Anytime, Anyplace LP+CD (LR 301LP)
"Dig-A-Log with Lilith! -- Now with this new line of 180 gram HQ vinyl albums featuring a bonus CD of the same album, you can have the 'analog' and the 'digital' for the price of one: no downloads, no internet connections -- just the big black disc in one hand and the little shiny one in the other so you can have your favorite music on both your turntable and in your car in one shot. For the first release in the series, a rare 1974 album by the incredible wizard of swamp music, Dr. John. Listen to the grooves of this high quality re-release and you will catch some of the finest voodoo freak blues ever to come out of Louisiana. This version contains 6 bonus tracks."
$19.50 UPC: 889397703011 ROCK
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A BOLHA: Um Passo A Frente CD (LION 629CD)
"Brazilian band the Bubbles became the toast of the underground Rio de Janeiro scene, backing Tropicalist singer Gal Costa's residence at the Sucata night club in 1970. They won the 'Best Band of the Festival' award at the VII FIC of 1971 (International Festival of Songs), the same year they appeared on Leno's Vida y obra de Johnny McCartney album. After venturing to England to attend the Isle of Wight Festival, they decided to experiment with a heavier sound, more akin to UK bands of that era (Deep Purple, Cream, King Crimson, Humble Pie, with a little Beatles' White Album in for good measure) than that of their Brazilian cohorts. A name change to A Bolha later, still loaded with verve and swagger, fueled by drugs, they recorded their first album, which has secured a permanent place as one of the best hard psych rock albums to ever emerge from South America. The LP, Um Passo a frente (A step forward), was released in 1973 by the Continental label, in a gatefold cover which was quite luxurious for the era. This masterpiece, now impossibly hard to find as an original, certainly made a name for A Bolha in the pantheon of 1970s Brazilian rock. But success in the early 1970s was not like it had once been in the old Jovem Guarda or Tropicalist days, when bands had weekly TV shows to help them become well-known nationwide -- and eventually, worldwide. In other words, the meager abilities of Continental to promote the album made it a collector's item, not the fate a band would actively seek for their recordings. Luckily, we at Lion Productions are able to present these recordings to the world all over again, with the additional benefit of a 20-page booklet with band history, photos, and comments on the songs by band leader Renato Ledeira. Includes both sides of the band's infamous hard-rocking 1971 single as bonus tracks."
$11.25 UPC: 778578062927 ROCK
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HUNT & TURNER: Magic Landscape CD (LION 630CD)
"Fabulous grooving folk rock sounds with plenty of atmosphere, first released by the much beloved Village Thing label in 1972. Ian Hunt and John Turner first teamed-up in the late summer of 1970, the inevitable collaboration of two of the West Country's most sought-after session musicians. String bassist and guitarist Turner had just left the infamous Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra and Hunt, a wizard guitarist and song writer who was already a 'big-name' on the Bristol scene, was looking for a new vehicle for his talents. Both had been spawned by the legendary Bristol Troubadour Club, which Turner had run for several years, and within months the new duo was picking up fans and followers around the UK and in Europe. This album went straight to number six in the Melody Maker folk charts upon its original release. Years later, Ian Hunt is still making stunning music and is rated amongst the finest guitarists in the land, while John Turner, ever the entertainer and entrepreneur, as well as being in his own words a 'part-time rake and bon viveur,' was until recently one of Britain's most respected BBC radio and television presenters. Crystalline acoustic and electric guitars and delicious vocals, backed with electric and string bass and bongos; imagine if you will British band Magna Carta with a guitarist as skilled as Wizz Jones or John Martyn: acoustic instrumentation and strong songs. Our Lion Productions edition comes with a 16-page booklet printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy, which contains a small dose of band info, album lyrics, histories of the Village Thing and Saydisc labels by co-founder Gef Lucena, as well as a Village Thing label discography."
$11.25 UPC: 778578063023 ROCK
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SUN ALSO RISES, THE: The Sun Also Rises CD (LION 631CD)
"Superb sought-after 1970 British acid folk rarity from the Village Thing label. The Sun Also Rises is another case of a folk/psych duo (we're thinking of Emtidi, whose Saat album we have also reissued) who virtually disappeared in the flesh, once they had left behind a small but fascinating recorded legacy. The sole Sun Also Rises album has been reissued (legally and illegally) on several occasions, a testament to continuing interest in the music contained therein. Who were they? They were Graham and Anne Hemingway from Cardiff, described everywhere as a mystical, magical hippie female and male folk duo, who played guitars, dulcimer, glockenspiel, vibes, bells, kazoo, percussion -- joined throughout by label-mate John Turner (bowed and finger-picked string bass), and Andy Leggett. Their one and only album is very much in the creative style and delivery of the Incredible String Band, with similarities to the work of their contemporaries Dr. Strangely Strange, COB, Comus, Forest and Tir Na Nog, as well as others of the original freak-folk brigade. The results of their efforts were tripped-out, spellbinding, esoteric folk collages -- songs of wizards and dragons, dreams and intentions, love, flickering candlelight, the sweet scent of half-remembered summers, death, jasmine, and suicide. We hope that this album will come as a wonderful surprise for lovers of the Incredible String Band and their ilk, as there were few bands that were able to stray into this much loved and much loathed world of fantasy and folk music, and live to tell the tale. Our Lion Productions edition comes with a 16-page booklet printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy, which contains a small dose of band info, album lyrics, histories of the Village Thing and Saydisc labels by co-founder Gef Lucena, as well as a Village Thing label discography."
$11.25 UPC: 778578063122 ROCK
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TETRAGON: Nature CD (LION 632CD)
"An ecology-inspired Krautrock album (1971) from a short-lived group comprised of German school-chums, some of whom had recorded an LP as Trikolon. Tetragon did not conform to any predetermined musical style: they played whatever they pleased, as long as it included groovy Hammond organ and very trippy, flanged wah-wah guitar, in various taut jamming modes that favored jazz/rock fusion à la Miles Davis with a small dose of classical music (adapting a Bach fugue along the way). The result is a bouquet of lush instrumentals, with elements of Egg or the Nice, and quite a bit of T2 to boot. The album was recorded in a converted barn, using a Revox A77 two-track tape recorder and seven microphones placed judiciously to best capture the sound of each instrument. Re-recording wasn't possible, as the record was mixed live. Yet these challenging conditions inspired the band to great heights: Hendrik Schaper played organ and clavinet simultaneously, with one hand on each keyboard; meanwhile, Jürgen Jaehner unleashed rampaging electric guitar solos, then, in an instant, switched to acoustic guitar for the next musical passage; Schaper didn't own a piano, so he used a pre-amp with a wah-wah pedal to imitate that instrument's sound. A virtuoso effort, from start to finish! Tetragon didn't bother contacting any record labels; they didn't think their music would interest anyone. A mere 400 copies of the album were released on a private label, named Soma after the drug-induced effect described in Alduous Huxley's Brave New World. Our edition includes all of the original pro-environment, anti-industrial pollution gatefold album art, a detailed band history, band photos, and a nearly fifteen-minute bonus track, recorded live in Georgsmarienhütte in 1972."
$11.25 UPC: 778578063221 ROCK
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BRAINSTORM: Smile A While CD (LION 633CD)
"With this record from 1972, Brainstorm, led by future Guru Guru stalwart Roland Schaeffer, established themselves as one of Germany's premier bands. Their complex Krautrock, based on strange harmonics (thanks to Schaeffer's enthusiasm for Jimi Hendrix and the free jazz sounds of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders), and impelled by wild and distorted sax, flute and Vox organ, would later put them smack in the middle of that bible for the intrepid musical adventurer, the revolutionary music reference guide known as the Nurse With Wound list. As NWW themselves said, 'Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden -- step out of the space provided.' What better endorsement of Brainstorm could there be? Brainstorm took only fifteen days including mixing (during the tragic 1972 Munich Olympics, as it happens), to record their favorite numbers, all under the direction of a producer little interested in their music. That's a great shame, for these recordings show Brainstorm to be one of the best of the inventive off-beat bands of the era, along with the likes of Moving Gelatine Plates (France), Pazop (Belgium), and of course, Soft Machine and Caravan. Booklet reproduces all original LP gatefold art; liner-notes tell the band's history up to the completion of this album. Includes all the tracks from Smile A While, plus three heavily grooving bonus tracks originally recorded for SWF radio in 1971 as Fashion Pink."
$11.25 UPC: 778578063320 ROCK
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INVENIO ERGO/SUM: Invenio Ergo/Sum 2CD (MRCD75)
"'Experimental jazz' with Seymour Wright (alto saxophone), Ross Lambert (ele.guitar), Eddie Prevost (drums). Live at Café Oto, 8th February 2009."
$25.50 UPC: 502049207520 JAZZ
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LANGENBERG: Times 12" (MILD 002EP)
"The second chapter in Mild Pitch history reveals the cryptically twinkling gem that is Langenberg's Times, a dark yet sensitive house affair which easily bridges the gap from a rougher 1990s New Jersey kind of feel to the modern takes on house music of today. Filtered stab fragments and deep chordal layers gently slide into each other like watercolour and the shifting frequencies of a sizzling vinyl record contribute to Langenberg's most thrilling work to date. On the flip, Manuel Tur gears up for an atmospheric remix expansion reminiscent of his critically acclaimed 0201 album debut on Freerange. Countless harmonic layers twine around a filtered disco sample, without ever revealing its full sound spectrum while the raw tripping beat keeps stomping relentlessly. Manuel's additional beat-plus-bass dub tool rounds up this intriguing sequel to Ribn's This Feeling, marking another stone in the young mosaic of the Mild Pitch universe."
$8.50 UPC: 807297464412 ELECTRONIC
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VA: 10th 12" (MIND 010.1EP)
"Massive four tracks to celebrate our 10th release. Wouter de Moor & Guideon Bouwens, Lucio Aquilina, Gabriele del Petre, Alex Under, Joe Montana and Andrea Introvigne offer to us four hits for the end of the season. Don't miss 'We Don't Know.' Tip! Big support by Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola, Dustin Zahn, Alexi Delano, Paco Osuna, Alex Under, Christian Smith, Edgar de Ramon, Lucio Aquilina, and many more."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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GOOD GUY MIKESH & FILBURT: Cleaning Up 12" (MIRAU 009EP)
"Who are these guys behind the pseudonyms? Good Guy Mikesh and Filburt are two music lovers: FULL STOP! Two independent acts that met in Leipzig and began to merge their musical creative capacities two years ago. A convolution of disco, pop and house, propagating one of Leipzig's most promising collaborative developments. Good Guy Mikesh has haunted Leipzig's contemporary underground for a long time. From the beginning of his musical career, his singles (published on Lebensfreude Records and Broque.de) have signified an eclectic mix of pop, soul and disco. Filburt - DJ, record store owner and Leipzig club scene veteran, was consequently Good Guy Mikesh's best possible accomplice in the mission to break fresh ground. This mixture of soul, disco and house-pop is IT, charged by the duo's certain something - an energy sought for not only in this town, but throughout the whole scene. Someone Told Me, their latest single, has been causing an outbreak of contagious enthusiasm in the scene since its release on Permanent Vacation. We are proud to release this fine EP, which comes with a remix by one of our UK favorites: Mark E!"
$8.50 UPC: 827102515641 ELECTRONIC
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JAMES, SKIP: Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader LP (MOK 317LP)
"Born in Bentonia, Mississippi in 1902, Skip James began recording for Paramount in Grafton, WI, in the 1930s after showcasing his unmistakable talent in a series of auditions in Jackson, Mississippi. Particularly interesting was his three finger picking technique, his high pitched voice and the rural blues tales that he put in music for a sub genre of blues that was later called the 'Bentonia school.' This LP includes some of his rarest early tunes from those lost 78 RPMs from the Grafton period."
$17.00 EAN: 8013252453175 ROCK
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RAINEY, MA: Those Dogs Of Mine LP (MOK 318LP)
"Ma Rainey or 'The Mother Of The Blues' began recording in 1923 for Paramount, making her one of the first blues artists ever to record. Active since 1896 in vaudeville and minstrel shows, she was an incredible character, shocking the audiences with her odd lyrics and performances, often to the limit of decency and above all very uncommon for a woman of those times. This LP contains some of her greatest songs from those long lost recordings."
$17.00 EAN: 8013252453182 ROCK
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WRUHME, ROBAG: Lampetee 12" (MOVIDA 001EP)
"Movida is Spanish and is the English word for 'moving.' With this first release we have moved something -- nobody else than Mr. Robag Wruhme (Wighnomy Brothers) has produced this first one. This track is really untypical for any production which Gabor ever did, but we liked that 'dubby' track so much that we really wanted to release it. Maybe the one or other will think back to good old Maurizio tracks. 'Lampetee' is a very old Greek 'song' with a pretty nice song-text which Gabor packed in that track with so many emotions. We were also happy as we get the 'o.k.'. from nobody else than Nick Curly to do a remix for us. It has taken a long time, but finally the remix is so lovely, deep and groovy that we think it was good choice to wait so long. Supported by: Ricardo Villalobos, Onur Özer, Shinedoe, Thomas Melchior, Brendon Moeller, Matt Star, Daniel Mehlhart, Nick Curly, Meat, Frank Leicher."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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RUNAWAY: Caprice Drive 12" (MUSIQ 042EP)
"Mule Musiq proudly announced the debut release of Runaway on Mule Musiq! Title track 'Caprice Drive' has an early house sound; it's simple but effective. 'Dirty Cake' is sweet, slow-mo boogie stuff."
$8.50 UPC: 827170311466 ELECTRONIC
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NEWMAN, MIC: Sizzled Sally EP 12" (MUR 013EP)
"Sizzled Sally has caused many a storm on dancefloors this summer, an unforgettable treat of a record from the refreshing palette of Mic Newman. Title track 'Sizzled Sally' is the most requested and hyped murmur release to date, the sound of the past meeting the present in an original and winning recipe. Slices of piano and rapturous vocal screams unite in a sharp evocative atmosphere, forming the heart of the track that stays with you long after the lights come up. B side '5 O'Clock' is another late night burner, stocked with an arsenal of funk and fired out with great velocity. Mic Newman spent his formative years on an olive grove in Australia but has turned his attention to studio spaces over the past 5 years, honing the skills that have begun to be seized upon by a string of notable artists, completing remixes for Mason, Chicken Lips, Dirty South, and Booka Shade and solo releases for Get Physical, 8Bit, Dirt Crew and now for our own murmur family. Many believe Mic Newman's swift rise to prominence to be more remarkable than the day it rained small fish in Denmark, but despite his simple past, Mic's musical voice is layered with innovation and quirk, culminating in a radical sound, one that stands out from the clichéd noise. Phrases like 'technical wizard' and 'emphatic attention to detail' resonate in conversations among his contemporaries, referencing Mic's production proficiency and favourable reputation among his peers. Innovative, unquestionably talented and attitudinally sound -- Mic Newman is one wholesome package soon to be distributed worldwide on murmur."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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BIG ZIS: Suure Räge Remixes Vol. 2 12" (NM 081EP)
"The Swiss black music label has been broadening its musical spectrum over the past years. Just like the artist BIG ZIS, whose music could most likely be labeled 'electro pop alternative punk rap', they don't care about common conventions. While rap becomes more and more pimped out, house loopier and minimal narrow-minded, Big Zis hooks up with a top-class troupe to get it her own way. For her most recent album Und jetz ... ('And now') she worked with Marton di Katz and Valentino Tomasi (both members of Kalabrese's famous 'Rumpelorchester'), who laid the musical foundations for most of the songs. For the impulsive electro on the track 'Suure Räge' ('Acid Rain') however, BIG ZIS collaborated with the techno producer Michal Ho (Tuningspork) at the studio. 'Suure Räge' got remixed by several well-known producers: Robag Wruhme (Freude am Tanzen) and Canson (GS Zürich) are to be found on volume 1 and the soul brothers Lexx (aka Kawabata / Drumpoet) and Kalabrese (Stattmusik) successfully combat boredom on volume 2. The sound scapes of the remixes couldn't be any more diverse and cover a broad variety of styles."
$9.50 UPC: 827170301665 ELECTRONIC
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NGOZI FAMILY: 45,000 Volts LP (NOSMOKE 006LP)
"Stunning, rare as hell album from the rich Zambian 'Zamrock' scene from the '70s -- have you ever heard of this record before? The Ngozi Family (Ngozi means danger, and dangerous is their music indeed!) were also the band backing for Chrissy Tembo on his now well-known My Ancestors album. They released this one in 1977, and you'll be amazed when you hear it if you're somehow into Hendrix, Black Sabbath, heavy psychedelia or Afro psych-rock. Most of the tracks on the LP follow that direction, and the rest enter the Afrobeat sound -- but most of it is fuzzy, heavy psych-rock as you can expect. This release has a surprising high quality sound and is limited to 600 copies only. One of the rarest rock albums of the whole world!!! Get it while you can!!!"
$21.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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NATURAL YOGURT BAND, THE: Away With Melancholy 2x10" (NA 5043LP)
"This gatefold double 10" version comes expanded with three bonus tracks never before issued and comes packaged in a gatefold, thick cardboard 'paste-on' silver foil jacket. This North American version is also limited to 1,000 pieces -- once they're gone, they're gone."
$13.75 UPC: 659457504311 ROCK
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KRYPTIC MINDS: Life Continuum/Wondering Why 12" (OSMUK 007EP)
"Kryptic Minds' first release since their highly anticipated One Of Us album on Loefah's Swamp81 label. Kryptic Minds show they have many strings to their bow in the shape of this killer 2 track 12" on their own Osiris Music UK imprint. 'Life Continuum' shows the guys going in deep with hard synth manipulation, warm pads and haunting choir which glides in and out effortlessly through the mix. Best listened to in a dark room, with a massive sound system, for people who like to feel the bass rattling they're chest! 'Y_Wondering Why' is the yang of the flip, with a different feel altogether, in what only can be described as beautiful! With a skippy half time beat, and the sense of emotion from the off. As soon as the needle hits the edge of the record you know you are in for an emotional six minute journey. With a ghost like female vocal that glides through the track like a hot knife through butter. One for the head phones but also rocks the dance. DJ support: Youngsta, Loefah, Mala, Headhunter, N - Type, Pinch, Distance. Mary Anne Hobbs."
$7.50 EAN: 5055317202901 ELECTRONIC
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RSD: Corner Dub (Blue & Red Mix) 12" (DRUNK 003EP)
2009 repress, originally released 2007. "Classic heavyweight Bristol steppaz vibes from the original Bristol sound Godfather, Rob Smith (Smith & Mighty, More Rockers). Rob's music has dominated, defined and pioneered the Bristol sound from the early days of post-punk, the trip hop and jungle eras and now into the 21st century with his first dubstep offering in his own unique style. These are two definitive Bristol steppaz rhythms to set the dance skankin'. Both tracks are structured as extended mixes, firstly the rhythm & bass roll out, then the RSD dub versions comes through, delays float off the basslines and ricochet from the snares taking you into the chasm of Bristol dub music. 3rd installment on 'Bristol's best new label' (Kid Kameleon), Punch Drunk. Following in the footsteps of Subtext and Tectonic, Punch Drunk is a new label coming out of the UK's second city of Dubstep, Bristol. Echoing the forward thinking ambitions of London's original Dubstep movement, Punch Drunk's own strain of UK post-junglism draws from the influence of Bristol's history of progressive soundsystem culture, from Blue & Red and Smith & Mighty to Independent Dealers, Protocol, More Rockers and Full Cycle."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ATOM TM: Muster CD (RI 065CD)
"Muster, the German word for both 'example/sample' or 'pattern', welcomes us with an artwork that shows baroque garden ornaments, photographed from orbit. This 50 minute piece of permanently evolving structure and sound is a complex, well-thought and thoroughly crafted composition which is in fact inspired by the phenomenon of the ornament itself. Muster in this sense can be understood as a large, meandering ornamental pattern or rhythmical figure that, most of all, does not refer to, or reproduce any musical structure heard so far. On Muster you won't find melodies, harmonies, words, a message or reference to existing musical styles, since the accent was laid upon the development of the musical particle (one may call it 'atom' :) ) itself: rhythm and its sonic elements, being in permanent flow. At the same time this complex block of sonic information may sound 'orbital' to us - a musical structure as conceived by a being not from this planet: an alien observer. While this work can be considered as a leap forward in atomTM's creation, it may resemble some of his earlier works, such as Schnittstelle, The Disk Orchestra, Bund Deutscher Programmierer or CMYK, just to name a few, while it certainly shows that those works where just a step towards a far larger picture, which atomTM has begun to paint now. Matured as a composer, atomTM may indeed quote himself on this masterpiece, while he stands fairly alone in a vast desert called 'electronic music'."
$13.50 UPC: 881005049221 ELECTRONIC
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FRITH, FRED: Nowhere. Sideshow. Thin Air. CD (FRA 007CD)
"Fred's sixth CD of music for dance, featuring three commissions by three different choreographers each sharing, as Fred says ' a certain obsession with melodic deconstruction.' Two of them feature -- and were especially written for -- the remarkable violinist Carla Kihlstedt. Fred and Carla perform one of them (Fred playing a huge array of instruments here as on all pieces), are joined by Fred Guiliano, (samples) and Gail Brand (trombone) on another, while the third features Fred, Hande Erdem (violin) and Threresa Wong (cello). These are complex studio compositions characterised by a deceptive simplicity, layers and plateau, rhythm and colour."
$12.50 UPC: 752725902120 ROCK
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FRITH, FRED: Inpur II CD (RER FRFC2)
"Totally different from Impur I (ReR FRFC1) -- which was a deconstructed, spatialised simultaneity of musical events that could only be heard through open windows or by wandering through rooms -- Impur 2 took the form of an unannounced performance across which audience members had to stumble by chance (and then collect their friends -- or not). Both events formed part of a commission by L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villurbanne in May 1996.This recording, painstakingly edited and re-mastered by Fred, appears as a full-on concert by a large 19 strong ensemble with Fred conducting as well as playing. It's built on rhythm, harmony, rock noise, exotic instrumentation, power, complexity and melodic writing -- with intermittent stretches of chaos, eccentricity and theatre, and fits comfortably into the aesthetic of his earlier performing ensemble projects, like Gravity, Skeleton Crew and Keep the Dog."
$12.50 UPC: 752725902021 ROCK
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MOORE, R. STEVIE: Phonography CD (RER RSM1)
"Phonography was Stevie's first LP release, and an out-of-the-blue masterpiece: terminally idiosyncratic but with all the compositional qualities of great pop. A gifted songwriter, R Stevie (son of Bob Moore, Elvis' bassist) grew up and was steeped in Nashville's countrypolitanism; but, as a recidivist rebel, he inevitably slipped into strange byways, following his own, unique path into celebrated obscurity - as this strange and compelling record attests. Hans Arp said, 'My paintings are like fingernails: they keep growing and I keep cutting them off'. R Stevie's songs seem to follow the same rule. They create worlds, tell stories, trifle wantonly with form, harmony, structure and execution, and throw off passages of casual brilliance on the way. Lo-fi is integral to its purpose. You can't pay to get a sound like that. So, when nobody seemed to want to keep Phonography in print, ReR Megacorp were happy to oblige - it's history. We took the opportunity to re-master and restore it to its original form. Instruments used: Red plastic Hagstrom electric guitar, Gibson SG Junior electric guitar, Fender Precision Bass, Yamaha acoustic guitar, Alvarez classical guitar, Premier snare drum, upside-down cardboard box bass drum, various full drum kits, Fischer grand piano, Franz metronome, Maracas, Tambourine, Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal, Jordan Creator sustain pedal, Korg synthesizer, Elka string synthesizer, Magnus chord organ, Realistic frequency equalizer, Maestro phase shifter, Univox echo chamber, hi-hat cymbals, extra cymbal (old), Panasonic cassette player, Koss and Vanco headphones, Fender Twin Reverb and Eenque amplifiers, Cords, Picks, Voice."
$12.50 UPC: 752725027427 ROCK
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PERE UBU: London Texas CD (RER U01)
"A missing piece of the Ubu jigsaw, and a fine memento of a great band, London Texas is a satisfyingly hi-fi live recording of the sadly short-lived line-up that toured briefly between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. Certainly it's the best recording of the Scott, Cutler, Maimone rhythm section - though the whole band is on lean-back-intense concert form. Coming back to it, this was the end of a particular era, of a certain kind of band: the songs are economical and tightly arranged but harmonically elaborated -- with strongly performative and musical underpinning (there's a new aesthetic in place now); it's an approach that takes no prisoners. Then there's the bonus of that scary live energy. Studio recordings just can't do this. London Texas stings like a bee -- in a beret. Play it loud. Special mention -- guitarist Jim Jones; mind-bogglingly great. Recorded 1989; transcription and file mastering by David Thomas; edited by Chris Cutler; CD re-mastering by Bob Drake."
$12.50 UPC: 752725027328 ROCK
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SHIT AND SHINE: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit 2LP (REPOSE 022LP)
Gatefold 2LP version, limited to 500 copies. "Shit And Shine return with their fourth Riot Season album -- following You're Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (REPOSELP04), Jealous Of Shit And Shine (REPOSECD011) and last year's acclaimed Cherry (REPOSECD017X/LP017) -- after a link-up with the Load Records stable for their last release. Continuing in their usual Riot Season style, what we have on offer here is the bizarre, the puzzling and the downright groovy. The epic, drawn-out single-riff jams that make up their legendary live shows are replaced by their trademark off-the-wall lunacy, making for a fun-packed adventure akin to biking trips with friends, and the local mental as a child. 229-2299 Girls Against Shit could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in the rancid cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend."
$12.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VA: Five - Part One 12" (RC 019EP)
"Five years of Rotary Cocktail Recordings - Part One!" Tracklist:
A1. Marko Fürstenberg - Tatuet
A2. Mod.Civil - Compress
B1. Dreher & Smart - Guten Morgen
B2. Holger Flinsch - Lichtgeister
$8.50 UPC: 827170305762 ELECTRONIC
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PINK SKULL: Endless Bummer LP (RVNGNL 001LP)
"The dystopian frontier is near, but never fear. In the new era of endlessness where we hide ourselves as humans among androids, there is hope. On Endless Bummer, the second album from Pink Skull, the producer duo of Julian Grefe and Justin Geller rip out the tracking chip and jump the grid on a quest for purity among putridity. Lysergic traces from Pink Skull's electro-fried debut Zeppelin 3 LP reappear on Endless Bummer in ghostly tape delays and trigger hits but this album favors the man-made over the machine. Grefe's vocals, both sung and sampled in harmony, humanize lead off track 'Peter Cushing' and 'Oh, Monorail', while the expanded 'live' Pink Skull line up of drums, bass, and guitar animalize the skittish acid tracks 'Chicken Inside Egg' and 'Gonzo's Cointreu'. Where Bummer mellows slightly, Skull's spirit animal Geller takes tracks like 'Wheet' and 'Fired, So Fired' into outer kosmische territories. The result of this balance parallels the Bummer along the various lines of PIL's Metal Box, The Orb's Pomme Fritz EP, the tropicalia Dada-ism of Tom Ze, and Eno & Cluster. Living / breathing electronic music made beyond the computer screen for bigger screens, Bummer could easily soundtrack a remake of Videodrome as well as it could a Kubrickian classic." Includes newspaper insert. Covers come in blue, red or green, each with a unique "bummer" word letterpressed on the front.
$11.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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BUCKFASTER, TAZ: Half Man Half Trout/20 Red 12" (RWINA 004EP)
"The fourth Rwina sees the light of yet another Taz Buckfaster 12 inch that's going down in a true epic vein, one for the anthem horny jocks. So if you are into the grimy synth heavy side of things then better check this one out. Taz is on the case with the A side, 'Half Man Half Trout' has been tearing up various floors for a while now. Meaty synths, a sexy melody, smooth delicate bass stings and a sharp drumbeat to nod your head to. A sure shot production that'll leave and left tons of people wonder what that just was. It seems there ain't no stopping the Taz because again he pulls it off on the flip with his other dancefloor smasher called '20 Red.' 8 bit bleeps and again a brutal squeezy synthline that'll make your mouth water. It's like Snoop Dogg is floating on this orange cloud on his way to Jamaica to fill up his stash. A tune that finishes of this 12 inch in style and cements Taz as one to watch in the future!"
$8.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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KUTI, FELA: Beasts Of No Nation/Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am 12" (CEL 822EP)
"Fela Anikulapo (Ransome) Kuti's life and career were more than anything an attempt to fuse the worlds of music and politics irrevocably. Kuti spearheaded the new fusion of West African originated 'Afrobeat'---a genre of which he was and is the indisputable leader---with a determined militancy inspired by pan African radicalism and to a lesser extent U.S. black nationalism, and, in the process, made him as many enemies as followers; but always carried by the unfettered musical intuitiveness & improvisation that lent his politically abrasive forthrightness an undeniable mass appeal, transcending well beyond his own specific conditions and appealing on a universal musical scale really unmatched by many musical moguls...a true 'empire' that has transcended Kuti's own death and lives on (perhaps unfortunately) in the form of his kin & idolizers alike. His music, that joyous instrument of social change, was his catalyst & albeit integral vessel for radical agitation. It's not that the countless albums stand on their musical merit alone, the truly free method to the relentless and melodically entrancing reiteration of his own Afrobeat---a music that in itself needs no heady articulation to be enjoyed, and it's basically universal popularity testifies to this. But the very volatility of his music at once elevates the songs into something more than relegated culture. On the contrary, you can still sense the urgency in these records, essential battle tools against colonialism and political apathy, igniters of the great fire of agitation while remaining essential and undeniable landmarks of exceptional musical invention. This exclusive 12" pressing of some of Fela's finest work, the undeniably masterful 'Beasts of No Nation' and 'Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am,' presents a formidable example of Fela's finest work, the best possible examples of his own personal unity of theory & practice that has created over 30 full-length albums & an unshakable legacy that lives on with justifiable necessity."
$9.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
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RIOS, TONI: Past & Present CD (SOAP 001CD)
"One of the long lasting members of Germany's techno and house scene, Toni Rios drops this commemorative full length celebrating his 20 years in the business with a long player of new tracks highlighting his long and illustrious history appropriately entitled Past & Present. From Toni Rios time during the mid-nineties at the legendary Frankfurt club Omen, he grew up quickly at an early age being one of the most in demand DJ's around the globe. Now it's fall 2009 and he's taken the time to reflect on the past two decades spent DJing and producing. With his new full length Past & Present, Toni Rios seizes these years of experience and has successfully found a way to reflect his experiences, influences and moments in this momentous full length. Take the tune 'Can See Your Smile' with it's American tinged house flavor that rolls out in the most charming of ways. 'Ocean Drive' spurs the glory of yesterday's techno sound recalling the best moments of the great G-Man (ex-LFO). The soul of Ron Trent swings unconsciously in the midst of 'White Emotions' while Rios dives into his Spanish roots with the insatiable track 'Incapaz de Parar.' Toni Rios isn't all retro mind you, with 'L.A.D.T', 'A Rosa' and the roller 'Laura' he brings us dead center to today's unclassifiable modern state of creativity where techno and house has converged into a solid groove. An essential document of one of Germany's most beloved and longstanding dance producers."
$13.50 UPC: 880319440526 ELECTRONIC
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LOVE: Love Lost CD (SC 11207CD)
"Arthur Lee's seminal work as leader of the '60s band Love is treasured by discerning rock fans around the world. Lee's status as one of his era's preeminent musical cult heroes has grown immensely in recent years, leading to generations of new fans rediscovering the artist's remarkable catalog. Unfortunately, Lee and the band's body of available recordings is relatively small, making Sundazed Music's release of a previously-unheard full-length vintage Arthur Lee and Love album a major musical event. Love Lost was recorded in 1971, during a brief, little-known period during which Love was signed to Columbia Records. Lee and the then-current Love lineup -- bassist Frank Fayad, guitarist Craig Tarwater and drummer Don Poncher -- recorded an album's worth of new material for the label. But after the band left the company, the recordings sat unreleased and unheard until now. The material on Love Lost -- comprised of the unreleased Columbia sessions, plus five unreleased acoustic demos from the same period -- captures Love in a transitional phase, charting the next step in Lee's idiosyncratic musical trajectory, following the lush garage-psychedelia of the classics Da Capo and Forever Changes, and the bluesier direction of the hard-rocking False Start and Out Here. Many of the songs included on Love Lost would resurface, often in radically different form, on subsequent Love releases, and on Lee's fabled solo album Vindicator. But the original versions included on Love Lost boast a playful looseness that's absent from most of Lee's later work, as well as a raw, edgy urgency that underlines his credentials as an early progenitor of punk-rock attitude. Love Lost also features three songs -- 'For a Day,' 'Trippin' & Slippin'' and 'C.F.I. Instrumental' -- that have not previously been released, in any form. With a treasure trove of vintage Love music that has never before been heard by fans, Love Lost is a major addition to Arthur Lee and Love's body of work, and its release is a major event for Lee's fervent fan base."
$13.00 UPC: 090771120724 ROCK
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TRAFFIC: Heaven Is In Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy (Mono Edition) LP (SC 5316LP)
"Traffic was one of the most original and influential British groups of the 1960s, gathering a diverse set of individual talents in vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood, singer/guitarist Dave Mason, drummer Jim Capaldi and reeds player Chris Wood. The foursome's expansive talents and formidable creative chemistry allowed the musicians to integrate an array of folk, jazz, pop and R&B elements, infusing their eclectic stylistic mix with a playfully psychedelic spirit that perfectly captured the experimental sensibility of the times. Traffic's historic 1967 debut LP (produced by noted studio vet Jimmy Miller) was released in the U.K. as Mr. Fantasy, but initially reached U.S. shores in altered form as Heaven Is in Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy. The American edition featured an altered track listing and new cover art with Winwood, Capaldi and Wood but not Mason, who had quit the band prior to the album's release. The U.S. LP added the British singles 'Paper Sun,' 'Hole in My Shoe' and 'Smiling Phases' to the album's running order, along with a short snippet of the U.K. single 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' as a recurring motif between tracks. The American edition also tacked on the short closing track 'We're a Fade, You Missed This,' which is actually the fadeout of an alternate version of 'Paper Sun.' The American LP's title was quickly amended to Mr. Fantasy, and it was under that name that most stateside fans came to know the album, with the original U.S. edition becoming something of a rarity. In any form, and under any title, Heaven Is in Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy ranks as one of the most audacious and inventive rock albums of its time. Such catchy tunes as 'Paper Sun,' 'Hole in My Shoe' and 'Heaven Is in Your Mind' combine stylistic adventurousness with effortless melodic appeal, while more introspective numbers like 'Dear Mr. Fantasy' and 'Coloured Rain' capture early stirrings of prog-rock and jazz-fusion. Sundazed's new vinyl edition of this seminal vintage disc completely restores the album's rare original U.S. cover art. The LP also features the album's incredibly rare mono mix, which differs substantially from the album's more familiar stereo mix. Pressed on pristine high-definition vinyl, Heaven Is in Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy now looks and sounds better than ever."
$14.00 UPC: 090771531612 ROCK
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BLUES PROJECT, THE: Projections (Mono Edition) LP (SC 5317LP)
"The Blues Project was one of the most innovative and influential bands of the 1960s. Rising from the vibrant Greenwich Village music scene, the New York quintet created a visionary fusion of electric blues, folk-rock, jazz and psychedelia, and delivered it with gritty, effortless expertise. Although the Blues Project didn't stay together long enough to cash in on the musical innovations that they pioneered, they served as an inspiration for subsequent generations of roots-conscious rockers, and the band's small but seminal body of work remains beloved by '60s rock aficionados. 1966's Projections is generally regarded as the Blues Project's peak as a recording unit. The only studio album to feature the band's classic lineup of keyboardist Al Kooper, guitarists Danny Kalb and Steve Katz, bassist Andy Kulberg and drummer Roy Blumenfeld, Projections is a potent manifestation of the Blues Project's eclectic approach and a persuasive showcase for the band members' varied talents. At the time of its release, Projections became a fixture on the emerging underground FM album-rock radio format, and such enduring tracks as the garagey Kooper-sung rocker 'Wake Me, Shake Me,' Kalb's epic blues showcase 'Two Trains Running,' Katz's resonant take on Bob Lind's folk-rock standard 'Cheryl's Going Home' and the spacey instrumental 'Flute Thing,' featuring bassist Kulberg on the title instrument. Sundazed's new vinyl edition of this seminal LP features Projections' rare and unique original mono mix, along with complete original cover art, and is pressed on high-definition vinyl for optimum sound quality."
$14.00 UPC: 090771531711 ROCK
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FEVER TREE: Fever Tree LP (SC 5318LP)
"Fever Tree's lone hit single, the haunting 1968 tribal anthem 'San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native),' perfectly captured the spirit of the psychedelic era. Although their signature hit led many to assume that they were a Bay Area band, Fever Tree actually hailed from Houston, Texas. 'San Francisco Girls' quickly emerged as a staple of American underground FM radio, and won the band an international audience after becoming an airplay favorite of influential British DJ John Peel. 'San Francisco Girls' is also the centerpiece of Fever Tree's self-titled first LP, one of the period's most distinctive debut efforts. As the album demonstrates, the quintet was adept at incorporating jazz and classical influences, ambitious song structures and resourceful production touches. Such memorable numbers as 'The Sun Also Rises' and 'Come with Me (Rainsong)' benefit from Dennis Keller's hypnotic vocals, Michael Knust's dynamic guitar work and Rob Landes' inventive keyboard textures. Also included is a memorable medley of the Beatles' 'Day Tripper' and 'We Can Work It Out,' and a unique interpretation of the Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield nugget 'Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing.' Fever Tree's expansive musical settings also feature key contributions from a pair of noted arrangers: David Angel, renowned for his work on Love's Forever Changes and Gene Page, whose resume includes work with the likes of Phil Spector and Marvin Gaye. Fever Tree would release three more well-received albums, before disbanding at the dawn of the 1970s. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the band's vintage work, and this one-of-a-kind debut album remains a deeply compelling sonic artifact. Sundazed's new vinyl edition of this vintage gem is mastered from the original analog tapes, features complete original cover art and is pressed on high-quality, high-definition vinyl, the better to recapture the original magic of this timeless album."
$14.00 UPC: 090771531810 ROCK
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CIRCUIT RIDER: Circuit Rider LP (BOOK 001LP)
Authorized exact replica reissue of this private press LP from approx 1980? or so. Recorded in Norwalk, CT; edition of 800 copies. "...projects visions of a biker high on PCP driving over a cliff at 100 mph, laughing and screaming all the way." -- Patrick Lundborg, The Acid Archives
"This is the ultimate burnout biker-psych masterpiece. Finally repressed directly from tapes to flawlessly restore the cigarette burns, Harley fumes, and cocaine hangovers of the original ride. This is a 40 minute recipe for complete mental breakdown. Included on the Acid Archives' list of Top Ten LPs Most Likely To Be Owned By A Serial Killer. Circuit Rider is lost on the same journey as Kenneth Higney, Nicodemus & Matchez, YaHoWa, Boa, Heitkotter, Dave Lamb & Gye Whiz, Raven, Fraction, and The Doors' L.A. Woman."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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DJ MADD: Why/Sound System 10" (TUBE10 006EP)
On translucent blue-colored vinyl. "DJ Madd finally sees his debut on Tube10 and what a debut this is. His tune 'Why' shows exactly Why! His addictive hi hats and full on chest rattling bass lines flex tremendously, while the groove is so on point you can't sit still on this. A perfect tune to introduce Madd to the Tube10 camp! Flip it over for more subloaded action as Madd teams up with fellow Hungarian Matt-U to show what they can do. Well, if you're on a big rig you'd better watch out; this will rattle everything from your shorts to your girl's bra. 'It Sounded like a bomb was going off.'"
$8.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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SMITH & MIGHTY FEAT. JOHN LAWRENCE: Bass Is Maternal 12" (UNEARTH 002EP)
"Unearthed is a new Punch Drunk affiliated label with a mission to reissue classic Bristollian sound system music remastered and cut LOUD to heavyweight 12" vinyl for the first time. 'Bass Is Maternal' is the title track from the legendary original Smith & Mighty long player, eventually released on their own Three Stripe label in 1994 after lengthy delays. It is the manifestation of Smith & Mighty's proto jungle vision which came to dominate the mid nineties. 'U Dub' is a more traditional dubbed stepper's rhythm building to a break beat / junglist crescendo.This first 12" is fully dubstep compatible and has been recently revived by top selectors such as Pinch, Shortstuff and Ben UFO. Both tracks essential for collectors and crucial to the Bristol sound system continuum jigsaw. More stone cold classics coming soon from the Unearthed series."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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OZRIC TENTACLES: Arborescence LP (VL 900625LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Brilliant 1994 release by these Gong-inspired gods of British ambient space rock, and the last to feature Peplar and Hinton before they permanently abandoned the Ozrics for Eat Static."
$17.50 UPC: 889397900625 ROCK
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FAIRPORT CONVENTION: Maidstone 1970 LP (VL 900809LP)
180 gram vinyl. "Recorded at a family summer fair, the Maidstone gig was a true hippy event where the Convention played its best folk tunes in a happy and cozy atmosphere. This 1970 line up for Richard Thompson's band features Dave Pegg on mandolin and bass, Dave Swarbrick on violin, Simon Nicol on rhythm guitar and Dave Mattacks on drums."
$17.50 UPC: 889397900809 ROCK
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HAWKWIND: Shot Down In The Night (Live U.K. 1979) 2LP (VL 900816LP)
180 gram vinyl. "1979 gig for the space hard rock band that marked the transition between hard rock and the acid psych scene of the '80s. Astounding sounds, amazing music.... classic tunes like 'Spirit of the Age,' PXR5,' 'Silver Machine,' and the obligatory fave 'Brainstorm,' while the sound is aptly applied to material current to the period, like 'Motorway City,' 'World Of Tiers,' and 'Levitation.''
$27.00 UPC: 889397900816 ROCK
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VA: Warp20 (Unheard) CD (WARP 203CD)
"Warp20 (Unheard) is an eleven-track collection of secret treasures rediscovered from the Warp vaults, stretching across the entire 20 year span of the label's history. The unheard and rare pieces include Boards of Canada's near-mythical 'Seven Forty Seven' (the first music Mike and Marcus have let out since Trans Canada Highway), pre-Incunabula era Autechre, Broadcast (a Nico cover, 'Sixty Forty' performed for a John Peel session) and *Nightmares on Wax* (DJ E.A.S.E. and Boy Wonder productions from the time of Dextrous) to name just a few." Also includes tracks by Plaid, Elektroids, Clark, Flying Lotus and Seefeel.
$11.50 UPC: 801061020323 ELECTRONIC
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REAL ESTATE: Real Estate CD (WOODSIST 034CD)
"Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. And with three quarters of the band holding down Garden State roots it's no surprise that a bit of Jersey indie-pop heritage sneaks its way into their sound, lifting the most sun streaked moments from The Feelies and Yo La Tengo and filtering them through the kaleidoscope of memories aimless drives through parched neighborhood streets. Martin Courtney's songwriting has a way of wrapping up the immediacy of youth with the ennui of age for the perfect shade of bittersweet bliss, mind you though, much heavier on the sweet than the bitter. Add to this Mondanile's (Ducktails/ Predator Vision) shimmering guitar strains full of equal parts sea foam and beer foam, pepper in the boardwalk clatter of Duguay's drums Bleeker's staccato low end and the perfect afternoon is just a lawn chair and boom box away." --Andy French/raven sings the blues
$8.75 UPC: 616822087527 ROCK
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REAL ESTATE: Real Estate LP (WOODSIST 034LP)
LP version.
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Repressed. Gatefold 2LP version.
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KIKI: Immortal 12" (BPC 205EP)
Kiki's second hit, "Immortal," from his album, Kaiku (BPC 196CD) is remixed and given an instrumental treatment. A reunion with a cellist from Kiki's hometown of Helsinki enhances the instrumental with a wonderful, intensive atmosphere. Kiki's Venice festival encounter with singer and harpist Pirica is likewise fortuitous as she takes "Immortal" to a whole new, hypnotic dimension. Anja Schneider transforms Kiki's original into a modern-sounding hegemonic, DJ-friendly house track.
$8.39 UPC: 880319443312 ELECTRONIC
A1. Immortal (Anja Schneider Remix) (7:56)
A2. Immortal (Instrumental) (5:56)
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ESTROE: Elemental Assets CD (CNS 003CD)
This is the debut full-length release by hotly-tipped Rotterdam-based Estroe. The CD consists of tracks produced by Estroe over the span of a few years, in which she spent a lot of time enhancing her production techniques and developing her creativity. As the artist herself explains: "Some tracks were made in rough times, while others were made under happy circumstances, and perhaps you can tell. For me, music is an emotional vent allowing me to express my feelings and freeing me of my restlessness. This makes the album very personal and I am terribly excited to share it with the world and with you." Directly inspired by her recent life experiences and passions, "Flirtatious Concubine" was produced right after a particularly-inspiring booking in Tokyo, and "Inspirited Away" came to life thinking about two producers who really inspired Estroe: Steve Rachmad and John Beltran. Elemental Assets is reflective of her DJ-work -- full of versatile techno with room for deep undercurrents as well as pure dancefloor work. Her style is warm, subtle, but at the same time very energetic. Two guest vocalists, Miss Kittin and Sam Leigh-Brown, also help lift these delicately-crafted tech-house tracks to the next level.
$11.99 EAN: 4260185968786 ELECTRONIC
01. Intro (1:32)
02. Late Night Thinking (6:52)
03. Passionate Timidity (6:50)
04. Does It Ring A Bell (6:43)
05. Le Flaneur (vocals by Miss Kittin) (6:21)
06. My Challenge (7:18)
07. Flirtatious Concubine (6:59)
08. High Maintenance (vocals by Sam Leigh-Brown) (6:41)
09. Inspirited Away (7:52)
10. Updraft (7:17)
11. Driven (7:21)
12. Margje Hendrika (6:01)
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GUTI: Las Cosas Que No Se Tocan 2x12" (DESOLAT 009EP)
A classically-trained jazz virtuoso and rock 'n' roll hero in Argentina, Guti's double 12" will leave you in no doubt of his ability to twist a snaking groove into something hypnotic. These tracks are already favorites of Loco Dice, Carl Cox and Marco Carola. "Mr. Good Vibes" was composed in a hotel room after an argument with a friend, while the serious dancefloor vibes of "Sasa," "The Hustler" and "Untitled" were crafted in Martinez' studio. Featuring vocals by Jayson Walker and Guti himself.
$14.39 EAN: 4260148770173 ELECTRONIC
A1. Untitled
B1. Aguanile
B2. Sasa
C1. Mr. Good Vibes
D1. The Hustler
D2. El Campeon
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UMBERTO ECHO: Dub The World CD (EB 074CD)
Umberto Echo is a (music) author, professor, expert in (sound) hermeneutics and multi-instrumentalist from Munich. After collaborating as producer, engineer and musician on over 80 albums, ranging from rock to classical & jazz through to reggae; writing Bavarian reggae history along the way with Jahcoustix, Jamaram and Headcornerstone, and producing for a swathe of international reggae vocalists, including Junior Kelly, Luciano and Luton Fyah, Professor Echo finally revealed his true identity by getting on the Dub Train -- his debut album as sound scientist of the digital echo chambers and analog loops. The successor is Dub The World, featuring 15 versions of dub, roots and dancehall tunes from 13 countries, showing him as a sound manipulator whose virtuoso control of mixing desk, software and outboards is equaled only by his mastery of keyboards, guitar, bass and percussion. The album was mixed at top-notch studios in Berlin, Munich and New York, resulting in a clear, wide sound on this journey through hi-fi dub. The opener comes courtesy of the original Germaican Gentlemen with "Dem Gone." The riddim twins Sly & Robbie, performing here with the Polish band Rastasize, are featured, as are the veterans from Steel Pulse in combination with Damian Marley. Another act from the Motherland is Oneness featuring Buju Banton & Naptali, with "Rise Up!" The UK answers with the Stereo MCs and Up, Bustle & Out from Bristol, featuring Kalaf. The vibes from Katchafire (New Zealand) come from furthest afield, followed by the Australians The Red Eyes and Jiang Liang from China. Cultura Profetica represent Puerto Rico, Dub Inc. (F), Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (CH), Smoke (IT) and the Austrians from Dubblestandart (again with Lee "Scratch" Perry) allow Umberto Echo to pump up their Eurodubs, while German band Seeed featuring Cee Lo Green are featured with one of their classic tracks, "Aufstehn." Dub The World is an exclusive dub-set by one of the great, mysterious men in the background, and an outernational dub conference which emphasizes the power of Marley's universal integration message combined with King Tubby's sonic innovation. From roots to futuristic, from jam-rocking to ethnodelic, from Brooklyn to Sydney over Kreuzberg to Kingston and back.
$11.99 EAN: 4047179425223 ELECTRONIC
01. Gentlemen - Dem Gone (Dub) (Germany)
02. Katchafire - Love Letter (Dub) (New Zealand)
03. Rastasize (feat. Sly & Robbie) - Day By Day (Dub) (Poland/Jam)
04. Steel Pulse (feat. Damian Marley) - Weapons Of Massdistruction (Dub) (USA/Jam)
05. Dub Inc. - Metissage (Dub) (France)
06. Oneness (feat. Buju Banton & Naptali) - Rise Up (Dub) (Jam)
07. Cultura Profetica - Un Deseo (Dub) (Puerto Rico)
08. Up, Bustle & Out (feat. Kalaf) - Breaking Codes (Dub) (UK/Portugal)
09. Dubblestandart (feat. Lee "Scratch" Perry) - I Do Voodoo (Dub (Aus/Jam)
10. Stereo MCs - City Lights (Dub) (UK)
11. Seeed (feat. Cee Loo Green) - Aufstehn (Dub) (Germany/USA)
12. Jiang Liang - Ye Gou Shan (Dub) (China)
13. Smoke - Island (Dub) (Italy)
14. The Red Eyes - Waiting For The Light (Dub) (Australia)
15. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill - Galli Dani (Dub) (Swiss)
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YOUNG, ROLAND P.: Istet Serenade CD (EM 1087CD)
Thirty years since Isophonic Boogie Woogie (EM 1045CD/EM 1045HJ-LP), Em Records proudly presents new music from original underground DJ, horn-master, and producer, Roland P. Young. Istet Serenade is a foray into the area of music space that represents the core of Roland's sound philosophy, "isophonics," the theory of composed improvisation, of stillness in the fluidity of constant change. The thingness of actualized sound in the nothingness of acoustic evaporation and recreation from the source of the in-dwelling presence. This occurs at a speed which defies conscious comprehension, but which reveals abundant revelatory, spiritual aspects. It requires a state of immersion and a freedom to reach toward technical trust and semiconscious execution of the revealed composition. Upon returning to a conscious state, one hears what was created as though it is being presented. The thought then thinks about what was thought and executed as a comprovisation of point, with instantly-mixed and remixed sound devices: breath, posture, devotion, bass clarinet, soprano G and Bb clarinets and saxophone, kalimba, Native American flutes, electronic accoutrements, voice, percussion, Mac Book, family, pen, pencil and the One. As the artist himself explains: "The 10 pieces were chosen from 55 comprovisations created over the past year. My travels to and playing in the atmospheres of Israel, Prague, Rome, London, Paris, Istanbul and Santa Fe, New Mexico, combined with my formative years in Kansas City, Missouri, then my years in the Bay Area of Northern California and my current residence in Brooklyn, New York, inform my music with ever-expanding inspirations and creative possibilities. Istet Serenade is a slice of the possible." This is a sound that is thusly described as spaced acid-drones of intense acoustic chill, embracing electronic, ambient, world, avant garde, cosmic, free and chamber jazz. Deeply engrossing, truly far-out, and emblematic of this groundbreaking composer's commitment to his vision and experience of sound as a physical and spiritual process.
$12.99 EAN: 4560283210870 JAZZ
01. Twirling (6:21)
02. Curls (6:48)
03. Dearest (4:21)
04. Wetness (6:11)
05. Eclipse (5:27)
06. Night Air (6:49)
07. Airlessly (5:14)
08. Dessert Cave (4:26)
09. Chrome (5:27)
10. Tea Bells (5:08)
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YOUNG, ROLAND P.: Istet Serenade LP (EM 1087LP)
LP version.
$15.79 EAN: 4560283219873 JAZZ
A1. Twirling (6:21)
A2. Curls (6:48)
A3. Dearest (4:21)
A4. Wetness (6:11)
A5. Eclipse (5:27)
B1. Night Air (6:49)
B2. Airlessly (5:14)
B3. Dessert Cave (4:26)
B4. Chrome (5:27)
B5. Tea Bells (5:08)
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SCHIBBINZ: Livin' Free CD (GUESS 028CD)
Previously released on vinyl, now available in a CD version. In 1967, a bunch of U.S. and Argentinean kids recorded a magical album which has remained unknown for many years due to its extreme rarity, with less than a handful of copies known to exist. Released in 1968 in Argentina by Phonexa, the Schibbinz album could be regarded as the ultimate teen garage folk-rock album, ever. An album of fragile beauty, full of teen charm, innocent vocals, jangly guitars, charming, lo-fi sound and a lost-in-time atmosphere. Guerssen Records is proud to present this mega-rare album to the world, with the production fully benefitting from the band's involvement and assistance. The original master tapes were lost, but the sound has been carefully-remastered from an original near-mint copy. Extensive, detailed liner-notes and lots of cool pictures from the band's archives are all included in a 4-page insert. Also includes 3 unreleased bonus tracks not available on the vinyl version.
$11.99 EAN: 4040824081195 ROCK
01. Livin' Free
02. In Sunshine And In Shadow
03. Go Softly, Now
04. Ghost Riders In The Sky
05. The Ring Of Bright Water
06. Beneath It, To Be Warm
07. Look At My Friend
08. We're All Here
09. It Ain't So
10. Lady Jane
11. A Summer Song
12. If I Belong Here
13. December Winter
Bonus tracks:
14. Gloria
15. Ringo's Theme (This Boy)
16. Blue Moon
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NOWIK, WILLIAM: Pan Symphony In E Minor CD (GUESS 029CD)
Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available on CD. One of the newest and most surprising discoveries in the '60s & '70s rock rarities field, William Nowik's Pan Symphony In E Minor caused a big hype among collectors. Certainly easy to understand, as it's an ace album no one had heard of before. Guitarist William Nowik recorded this obscure instrumental record back in 1974 somewhere in New York. It has such a deep feeling, and is nothing anyone could have done without really loving it aside of any commercial view. Psychedelic, progressive, very early Floyd-sounding at times, Crimson-esque, and a kind of sound that reminds of the early '70s British underground but with an experimental, trippy touch. Fourteen tracks in total, but played like suites. Seems only 200 copies were pressed and never distributed, so it needed 35 years to be discovered! This wonderful reissue comes with the intended original artwork (it came out in a green and black cover instead of the black and white that William wanted), has nice remastered sound and includes a booklet with rare, unseen photos and extended liner-notes.
$11.99 EAN: 4040824081218 ROCK
01. A Conjuration To Pan
02. Flight From Morocco
03. Dyonisus
04. Tales Of Joujouka
05. Conjuration To Pan / Dirigatur
06. Rolling To Venus Interlude
07. Time To Cry
08. Heaven Help Us All
09. Soma
10. Burnt Offering
11. Pan's Sleep
12. Sky Fire
13. Pan's Return To The Mountains
14. Finale - Conjuration To Pan
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BODINE, TODD: Forms Part One 12" (HIGH 069.1EP)
This is part one of two 12" versions of tracks from Todd Bodine's full-length Forms (HIGH 069CD). On this album, Bodine shows his innate knowledge of the two sides of electronic dance music. This is a meeting of peak-time euphoria with the relaxing bliss of hazy morning light. A meeting of hypnotic, natural rhythms and driving, cut-up sounds. Todd can impress you with dancefloor bombs and also with his sophisticated sound visions.
$8.39 UPC: 827170294561 ELECTRONIC
A1. Space Monkey
A2. Anual Rings
B1. The Walker
B2. Day After
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BODINE, TODD: Forms Part Two 12" (HIGH 069.2EP)
This is part 2 of two 12" versions of tracks from Todd Bodine's full-length Forms (HIGH 069CD). All of the tracks are cleverly designed to work without being overly intellectual. Everything flows and is filled with a subtle density of character that is well known to those familiar with Todd Bodine. This album speaks its own language, a rare and unique form of communication that very few other producers are able to replicate.
$8.39 UPC: 827170305960 ELECTRONIC
C1. Count On It
D2. Next Stop
D1. Stormy Weather
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ILAR, ANDERS: Cellular Memories EP 12" (LVL 016EP)
Anders Ilar is back with the Cellular Memories EP. Its 4 tracks could be regarded as a safe cure for uninspired, strictly-functional DJ sets. From the dubby "Back To Square One," over the minimal, massive 808 kicks in "Hazard Ahead" and the dramatic but blissful clicky and groovy "Ulterior Motives," to the stunning choral epic "Ocean Sonata," the Cellular Memories EP is a musical pleasure, and, of course, a must for fans of Anders Ilar.
$7.79 UPC: 881390199662 ELECTRONIC
A1. Back To Square One
A2. Hazard Ahead
B1. Ulterior Motives
B2. Ocean Sonata
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DELANO & ALEJANDRO SAB, ALEXI: Slipping Through The Cracks EP 12" (PLUS 8108EP)
Alexi Delano and Alejandro Sab's Slipping Through The Cracks EP is a collection of warm, effervescent techno dominated by phat, subsonic bass lines and effects-driven micro-melodies. "Back To One" features a cyclical reverse-scrape spanning the speakers, while the hookline sneaks into the brain. The gradual build-up leads to incremental reverb, wooden percussion, and buzzing synth FX. A strong centrifugal rush dominates the middle section which then briefly slips its skin before regrouping for the lead-out. Sustained tension with zero drama.
$7.79 UPC: 827170315068 ELECTRONIC
A1. Back To One
B1. Holding Patterns
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STEVE BUG: Collaboratory The Remixes Vol. 1 12" (PFR 109A-EP)
The first part of 2 remix packages of Steve Bug's fourth artist album, Collaboratory, volume 1 features remixes from Ribn, Motor City Drum Ensemble and Sven Tasnadi. Ribn aka Manuel Tur and Langenberg produced a deep, dubby and Detroit influenced remix. Unfolding slowly and with great tension, Ribn pay respect to Gigi's sultry vocals with an extended, tripping intro before dropping into a driving, bass line-led jam. Essential.
$8.39 EAN: 4250382401490 ELECTRONIC
A1. Steve Bug - Like It Should Be (feat. Gigi) (Ribn's Translucent Vox Remix)
B1. Steve Bug & Donnacha Costello -
Still Music (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
B2. Steve Bug & Simon Flower -
Passing Clouds (Sven Tasnadi Remix)
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ALEPH-1: Aleph-1 2x12" (R-N 087LP)
2x12" release. Originally released in 2007; a co-release with iDEAL Recordings, Aleph-1 is a project by German sound-sculptor, Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto/Noto. Aside from his sound works under those pseudonyms, Aleph-1 is electronic music with an acoustic sound aesthetic that was especially developed for the iDEAL Recordings label. The concept of Aleph-1 derives from the theories of the mathematician Georg Cantor, who was teaching in Halle, Germany, a city to which Nicolai is deeply connected with through his family. The sound pieces of Aleph-1 deal with the idea of infinity in terms of structure and length. Without actual beginning or end, they fade in and out. The pieces have a very logically-constructed nature of overlapping tracks, which never seem to be the same, thus could be extended into infinity. The album consists of eight rhythmic circles, based upon acoustic material, at first sight very minimal but always carrying pulse and melody. Music you can lose yourself in. For a deeper knowledge of the term "Aleph-1," here's a short definition: in 1884, the term "Aleph-1" was introduced by Georg Cantor into the mathematical world. Since then, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, combined with a number, has been used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets. The Aleph numbers differ from infinity, commonly found in algebra and calculus. Alephs measure the sizes of sets; infinity on the other hand, is commonly defined as an extreme limit of the real number line, or an external point of the extended real number line. While some Alephs are larger than others, infinity is just infinity.
$16.39 EAN: 7320470094167 ELECTRONIC
A1. 1 CA a 01x (7:46)
A2. 1 CA b 05 (2:24)
B1. 1 CA c 08.2.2 (7:56)
B2. 1 CA d 04 (3:36)
C1. 1 CA e 02 (8:50)
C2. 1 CA f 0.2n 1 (5:36)
D1. 1 CA g 08.4s (8:55)
D2. 1 CA h 09 (3:40)
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LARKIN, KENNY: The Chronicles 2CD (RH 104CD)
Originally released in 2008, this CD compilation gathers all of the tracks from Detroit-to-L.A. producer Kenny Larkin's The Chronicles 12" series. All tracks have been re-mastered for this release. This 2CD, which will be released as a limited-edition of 1,000 units, will come in a DVD packaging created by Newsgroup and includes a free download of a DJ-mix by Kenny Larkin himself. This CD gives a great retrospective overview of his work, including both the dancefloor burners and deeper material Kenny Larkin has released under different labels and aliases such as Pod and Dark Comedy. A winner for DJs and collectors alike.
$13.79 EAN: 8717127014941 ELECTRONIC
CD1:
01. Northern Lights (6:36)
02. Lifeforms (8:56)
03. Vanguard (10:02)
04. Myopsis (Dark Comedy Remix) (4:57)
05. Azimuth (4:35)
06. Q (6:26)
07. Track (6:48)
08. Tedra (5:43)
09. Soulman (6:10)
10. Loop 2 (4:29)
11. Nocturnal (5:58)
12. Sympathy (5:23)
CD2:
01. Without Sound (Original Mix) (5:48)
02. Track (Alternative Mix) (5:26)
03. Chasers (5:34)
04. Clavia's North (5:03)
05. Plankton (9:03)
06. The Bar (4:31)
07. Paranoid (8:04)
08. Eclectic (5:15)
09. Dark Disco (6:34)
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WADE, RICK: Presents Harmonie Park Revisited CD (RH 107CD)
Detroit house legend Rick Wade presents a best-of compilation of tracks issued from his very own Harmonie Park Records. This is Detroit house at its best --13 of his best tracks onto one deluxe packaged CD box, which is limited to 1,000 copies. The compilation touches on both his uplifting party grooves as well as his deeper tracks. Hard-to-get and out-of-print classics like "Fade Away," "Prime Time" and "Forgotten Track" are included as well as an exclusive soulful vocal track. Comes with a free download for a Rick Wade DJ mix. One track features a guest appearance by Evasoul. Pure, swirling Detroit house that is masterfully crafted by a living embodiment of the genre. Do not miss this.
$11.99 EAN: 8717127014972 ELECTRONIC
01. Use Me
02. Fade Away
03. Pimp Factor
04. Prime Time
05. Contact
06. I Cant Take It
07. Grimm
08. Forgotten Track
09. Harsh Thoughts
10. Crazy Luv (feat. Evasoul)
11. Long Walk
12. Rome Ext
13. Deep N' Dirty
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RONDENION: Dark Adaption EP 12" (RH R2EP)
Dark Adaption is Rondenion's second EP for Rush Hour. The freestyle disco cut-up "Sun Glare" nicely sets the mood here and is a must-have for Detroit house lovers. "Blue Canal" shows a deeper side of Rondenion; a bluesy, mid-tempo groove that sticks. The title track gives way to, well, Rondenion's darker side -- a hypnotic and mean cut that really builds and reminds of Theo Parrish's rawer tracks. Banging!
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Sun Glare
A2. Blue Canal
B1. Dark Adaption
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GREAVES, LITTLE FRANCISCO: Moving - Grooving 7" (SNDW 7008EP)
This sweet soul-inspired double-header harks back to Panama in the late-'60s, a time when musicians fearlessly combined styles that reflected their multicultural environment. "Moving Grooving" (featured on Panama!3) and exclusive track "Hiko Iko" are both ultra-rare hand-clapping, foot-stomping soul workouts courtesy of the Greaves brothers, Frankie and Franklyn. Both tracks were originally served up on a super-limited 45 on Segraves Records in 1969 and highlight the massive influence of American soul music on musica Panameña during and after the black power cultural movement in the U.S. A reference to the early work of James Brown may seem a tad lazy, but it's accurate.
$6.99 UPC: N/A WORLD
A1. Moving Grooving
B1. Hiko Iko (7" exclusive)
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HEADHUNTER: Prototype (Modeselektor Remix) 12" (TEMPA 046EP)
For the next 12" in the Tempa Ltd. series (numbered, limited-edition vinyl packaged in a deluxe foil-blocked sleeve) Modeselektor reinterpret "Prototype," a choice cut from Headhunter's debut LP Nomad (TEMPA 014CD). Harnessing the driving bass line of the original, Modeselektor fuses Headhunter's ethereal dubstep with a more Berlin techno feel. "Sex At The Prom" features rigid bass stabs incessantly pounding an otherwise sparse soundscape into submission -- Mary Anne Hobbs has already blown-up one sound system with this track.
$9.79 UPC: 800071000387 ELECTRONIC
A1. Prototype (Modeselektor's Broken Handbrake Remix)
B1. Sex At The Prom
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SOULS ON BOARD: Soul On Board Cassette (TTW 007CS)
Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 250 copies. Who on earth are Souls On Board? We know that UK guitarist/former member of Dome and Wire's Bruce Gilbert guests on a track, as does Portland, Oregon sound artist Daniel Menche... but we don't have much more information. Each side is 17 minutes, 45 seconds long. Recorded in Tangiers, Mallorca, London, Lisbon, Lanzarote, and other unknown locations. "Into a Limbo, large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown." --John Milton
$4.99 UPC: N/A ROCK
Sun Down:
A1. The Waiting Room
A2. Hole (with Bruce Gilbert)
A3. Roulette (with Владимир Ильич Ульянов)
Moon Up:
B1. Don't Go Away
B2. The Janitor Announces The Night (with Daniel Menche)
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MELTAOT: First And Second Rites Cassette (TTW 008CS)
Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 250 copies. Meltaot are a bass-heavy, improvised noise duo made up of UK artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX (aka Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey). After recording together at a session for Pestrepeller (the other band they are a part of), they decided to take the project one step further and record as a separate entity. Although black metal, drone and doom would seem to be at the core of what Meltaot are involved with here, the real intention was to paint a series of atmospheric sound pictures (not all of them dark) using voice, bass guitar and other instrumentation/effects as their materials. This is the first release by Meltaot. There will be others. SavX (electric "rooster" guitar); Sharon Gal (electric bass guitar, voice, percussion, feedback). Recorded at the SavLab, 6/17/2009. Illustration by SavX.
$4.99 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. First Rite (11:42)
B1. Second Rite (7:46)
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BARACLOUGH: The Lampshade Is Not A Past Tense Cassette (TTW 009CS)
Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 250 copies only. Baraclough are a London-based trio consisting of a classically-trained musician, a self-taught musician, and a non-musician. With a distinctive palette of woozy electronics, raw and processed recordings, combined with vocals and abstract sounds, Baraclough produce a unique aural aesthetic that is hypnotic yet agitating, intimate yet awkward. Since their inception in 2006, Baraclough have performed in a variety of bizarre locations such as a Kilburn rock pub and a former Turner Prize winner's stock cupboard. In March of 2009, Baraclough released their debut album Hello Animal on Forris, their audio publishing cooperative. Members of Baraclough include: Paul de Casparis, Dale Cornish, and Eddie Nuttall.
$4.99 UPC: N/A ROCK
01. Fire Exit Interior (14:57)
02. Your Physical Health (14:32)
03. What We Did And Didn't (15:24)
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E-MAN: E-Man Cassette (TTW 010CS)
Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 350 copies only. E-Man was the first apparition of Norway's father of chilly ambient electronics, Geir Jenssen -- these days better known as Biosphere. This tape, originally released in 1984 on Likvidér, features contributions from Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive) and Nils Johansen (Bel Canto). All tracks recorded on a Teac 4-track cassette recorder at Elverhøy Studenthjem, Tromsø and Nord-Norsk Studenthjem, Oslo, Norway between 1983-1984. All tracks written by Geir Jenssen except track A1. written by Jenssen/Martinsen, A4. written by Jenssen/Johansen/Larsen, A6. and B4. written by Jenssen/Larsen, B1. written by Jenssen/Høyer/Larsen. Geir Jenssen (electronics), Ragnar Larsen (vocals and bass) (A4., A6., B1., B4.), Frank Jensen (vocals) (A1., B5.), Per Martinsen (electronics) (A1., B7.). Cover illustration by SavX aka Savage Pencil.
$4.99 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. The Difference
A2. De Du Da Da Di
A3. Upland I
A4. Visjoner
A5. Upland II
A6. Great Nations
A7. Hosono
B1. Jeg Er Moderne
B2. Upland III
B3. Nibsy The Newsboy
B4. Heaven & Hell
B5. The Mission
B6. Upland IV
B7. De Du Da Da Di (Original)
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NILSEN, BJ: The Invisible City CD (TO 077CD)
BJ Nilsen is a sound and recording artist born in Sweden. He defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated." He has numerous recordings on Touch and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, and Z'ev. Recorded and mixed during 2008-2009 in Berlin. All tracks composed by BJ Nilsen using tape recorders, computer, organ, acoustic guitar, electronics, viola, Subharchord. Field recordings from: Sweden, Iceland, Norway, UK, Japan, Portugal and Germany. The Subharchord was recorded in the EAM Studio @ Adk, Berlin. Viola played by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir. Track notes: 01. "Gravity Station": Subharchord, pitch-regulated viola, amplified chair dragged across floor, window shutters, grand piano, virtual Hammond organ, steel whistle coffee-pot, acoustic and electric guitar feedback run through B&K Frequency Analyzer Type 2107, Various DSP; 02. "Phase And Amplitude": bumblebees, acoustic guitar, Studer B67, various DSP; 03. "Scientia": birdsong feed-backed and overdriven through a B&K Frequency Analyzer Type 2107, B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, Subharchord, wing-flaps and bird eating. B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, virtual Hammond organ, door slam, glockenspiel, online voice decoder, Studer B67, Various DSP; 04. "Virtual Resistance": Subharchord, acoustic and electric guitar feedback run through B&K Frequency Analyzer Type 2107, cat climbing up door, virtual Hammond organ, broken Fishman parametric EQ, bowed acoustic guitar, footsteps on snow, Studer B67, various DSP; 05. "Meter Reading": virtual Hammond organ, various DSP, Studer B67 tape cut-ups, boat ramp; 06. "Into Its Coloured Rays": wasps run through B&K Frequency Analyser Type 2107, piano, dead trees leaning against each other, crows, Studer B67, various DSP; 07. "Gradient": acoustic guitars, virtual Hammond organ, B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, Studer B67, various DSP; 08. "The Invisible City": amplified chair dragged across floor, feed-backed Ferrograph Series 4, rain, acoustic guitar feedback, tape-loops of found sounds, various DSP.
$10.39 EAN: 5027803147720 ELECTRONIC
01. Gravity Station
02. Phase And Amplitude
03. Scientia
04. Virtual Resistance
05. Meter Reading
06. Into Its Coloured Rays
07. Gradient
08. The Invisible City
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DEWALTA: Nightshade EP 12" (VA 031EP)
Dewalta aka David Koch returns to Vakant with more popping, earnest house. "Move Yo" sits as close to late 1990s Baby Ford as one can get without a time machine and a personal guide to London's underground. "Nightshade" keeps the house-y goosebumps going with a drier and more direct approach. Cheeky bleeps and chunky bass balance dark, space-y vocals. "Angels Trumpet" features melodic elements that push and pull you in multiple directions, resulting in dancefloor catharsis.
$8.39 UPC: 827170310360 ELECTRONIC
A1. Move Yo (7:13)
B1. Nightshade (5:44)
B2. Angels Trumpet (6:27)
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KEZ YM: Butterfly EP 12" (YORE 020EP)
Tokyo's Kez YM opts for a more pronounced party vibe during Butterfly's four deep house tracks, aided by producer Kazuki Yamaguchi. "Inner City Funk" grooves for five blissful minutes, bolstered by a crisp snare, a funky electric guitar, and a synth melody. "Bridge To Bridge" adds a disco-house pulse to a sleepy male vocal, and "Low Tide" chills the pace. The title cut grooves most powerfully, merging a rambunctious drum attack with a driving bass line and manic electric guitar.
$8.39 UPC: 827170301160 ELECTRONIC
A1. Inner City Funk
A2. Bridge To Bridge
B1. Low Tide
B2. Butterfly
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GOBLIN: Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark LP (AMS 012LP)
"Another non-soundtrack album, Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark, from 1978, was the only Goblin album entirely sung (in Italian), the others being instrumental only; it is a concept album about the 'fantastic journey of Mark, the cockroach.' This may sound quite funny and weird, but Il Fantastico Viaggio simply is a great prog album, surely the most symphonic of the Goblin production, it alternates the usual gloomy and scary Goblin sound with some nice acoustic interludes. Goblin also played some live dates to promote the LP, a rather strange thing for a group who didn't have a strong live activity at all! Never reissued on vinyl before, great sounding 180g high quality vinyl!"
$24.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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GOBLIN: Roller LP (AMS 017LP)
"Roller was the second record for Goblin, originally released in 1976, just after the successful score of Profondo Rosso, and is one of the very few Goblin records that was not intended to be a soundtrack. By many considered their best effort, in Roller the band develops their dark, hypnotic and totally instrumental sound, but with an always vivacious and dynamic edge. The record also features new members Agostino Marangolo (from Flea) and Massimo Guarini. 180 gram vinyl."
$24.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SUN RA & HIS MYTH SCIENCE SOLAR ARKESTRA: Antique Blacks CD (ARTYARD 010CD)
"Another much sought after and long unavailable title recorded in 1974 with a smallish ensemble consisting (probably) of stalwarts Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Danny David, James Jacson, Akh Tal Ebah, Clifford Jarvis, Artakatune, and a new electric guitarist, Sly, and released on Saturn in the same year. This sounds like a studio recording and carefully thought out - most of the compositions appear only on this record (apart from versions of 'Nature's God' and 'Space Is The Place'), and include a chain of very interesting accompanied /interpolated) spoken texts: 'There is a Change in the Air,' 'The Antique Blacks,' 'The ridiculous 'I' and the Cosmos 'Me'' as well as a very long and scary coda to 'Space is the Place.' Ra plays Rocksichord and Moog throughout (solo on track 7 and at the end of track 8). Theatrical and political; a fascinating release."
$13.75 UPC: 752725027823 JAZZ
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KRAFTWERK: Autobahn LP (ASW 66014LP)
"Kraftwerk have digitally remastered their Kling Klang masters with the latest studio technology -- these magnificent recordings sound like nothing else in the history of music. Limited edition, European-pressed, heavyweight vinyl LPs featuring large format booklets. An epic ode to the joys of highway travel, Autobahn wraps a mesmerizing beat around a sampled collage of car horns, engine noise, whirring tires and radio crackle so infectious that US pop press at the time declared that Kraftwerk's music does for driving what the Beach Boys had done for surfing! The impact of this album is so strong that Spin magazine included it in their list of the 15 most influential albums not recorded by 'The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis or the Rolling Stones.'"
$15.50 EAN: 5099996601419 ELECTRONIC
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KRAFTWERK: Radio-Activity LP (ASW 66019LP)
"An innovative, all-electronic communication concept album that surfs sine waves and scans the stratosphere for stray radio signals while broadcasting majestic music for a modern world where factories and power stations are the new cathedrals. At the time, Trouser Press magazine noted that the album marked an important step in Kraftwerk's artistic progress, converting the band into 'ultramodern sonic engineers.'"
$15.50 EAN: 5099996601914 ELECTRONIC
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KRAFTWERK: Trans Europe Express LP (ASW 66020LP)
"On Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk celebrates a romantic, retro future of shimmering elegance and glistening decadence where travel and technology merge across infinite sonic vistas. This milestone in avant-pop modernism later became a crucial influence on the early pioneers of hip-hop & sampling, electro and industrial music. 'With Trans Europe Express, they set out to reinvent a different legend: that of Europa itself, in the process they changed pop music forever.' -- Rolling Stone"
$15.50 EAN: 5099996602010 ELECTRONIC
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KRAFTWERK: The Man Machine LP (ASW 66022LP)
"A bold new look, sound and concept as Kraftwerk fully realize their clever use of melody and technology over supple procesed rhythms predating the rise of European techno and trance. Man Machine is so stunningly ahead of its time that 'The model' became a surprise UK #1 chart-topper three years after the album's initial release. 'The album has 'classic' stamped all over it... in time it would acquire the same ageless quality as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper or The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds...' -- Pascal Bussy, Kraftwerk: Man Machine And Music"
$15.50 EAN: 5099996602218 ELECTRONIC
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KRAFTWERK: Tour De France LP (ASW 66109LP)
"The centenary of the Tour De France marks the conceptual starting line for Kraftwerk's first album in over a decade. From the chunky cyber-funk of 'Vitamin' to the restless metallic shimmers of Aero Dynamik,' this is emphatically the sound of 21st century techno visionaries. 'Displays more intellectual rigor, subtle discipline and attention to detail than many of their younger contemporaries can ever dream of attaining.' -- The Wire
$18.50 EAN: 5099996610916 ELECTRONIC
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KRAFTWERK: The Catalogue Box Set 8CD BOX (ASW 67506CD)
"From David Bowie to Daft Punk, Depeche Mode to Radiohead, Dr. Dre to LCD Soundsystem, and even to the likes of the Sex Pistols, The Cars, Nine Inch Nails and almost everyone in between, the influence of Kraftwerk is remarkable. Electro Pioneers, living legends and globally revered masters of electronic sound, Kraftwerk now celebrate the 35th anniversary of their landmark 1974 hit Autobahn by releasing newly remastered editions of their 8 classic albums in a deluxe box set. The first ever complete remastering of Kraftwerk's 8 classic studio albums, covering all their releases on the Capitol, Warner Brothers and Astralwerks labels: Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine, Computer World, Techno Pop, The Mix, Tour De France. In 2009 Kraftwerk have upgraded their Kling Klang masters with the latest studio technology and these eight magnificent recordings still sound like nothing else in the history of music. Kraftwerk are unique, pristine, profound and beautiful. Decades may pass, but their streamlined synthetic symphonies stand outside time, as fresh as tomorrow, transcendent and sublime. The 12" x 12" x 1 1/2" box features all 8 albums, exclusively created just for this box set in mini-LP style album packaging complete with inner sleeves. Restored and newly expanded artwork is presented in the form of 8 large format 12 to 20 page booklets, housed inside a rigid board slipcase portfolio."
$118.00 EAN: 5099996750629 ELECTRONIC
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APSE: Climb Up CD (ATPR 034CD)
"The record is a major departure from the band's most notable predecessor, Spirit - which was completed 4 years prior. Where Spirit explored a dark world of reverberant guitars, ambient passages, and minimal, haunting vocals, Climb Up proves a bold step out of that darkness. The intricacies of this new world are depicted as if staggering from the world of Spirit into a very different, more illuminated place. Not to mention its packed with more grooves, a greater use of electronics, a range of instruments both modern and classical and -- notably -- a much stronger emphasis on voices and melodies. Climb Up is dense, innovative, cinematic. Apse draw from a colourful palette of different genres, techniques, instruments and approaches - and with that have made what is likely to be one of the most curious, and probably largely unexpected albums of the year. Listen, and be immersed."
$10.25 UPC: 666017209821 ROCK
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APSE: Climb Up 2LP (ATPR 034LP)
2LP version.
$14.00 UPC: 666017209814 ROCK
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BIG BOSS MAN: Humanize CD (BU 018CD)
"Debut album now reissued . The Newbury based Big Boss Man's debut album Humanize. The album clearly defines the Big boss man sound -- a hip hammond hybrid of '60s and '70s drenched r'n'b, funk, latin, jazz, soul and pop. The debut single 'Sea Groove,' a 7-inch only release has been an essential 45 for the likes of DJ's Snowboy, Bob Jones, Gary Crowley, Ross Alan and of course, at the Blow up club. Summer/Autumn. Reference points: rock / pop, boogaloo, beat, Latin soul, funky 45s, dancefloor jazz, Hammond grooves."
$12.25 EAN: 5030408001823 ROCK
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SUN OF GREECE: Sun Of Greece LP (BSR 002LP)
"Sun Of Greece is one of the best kept secrets of the early '70s Greek psychedelic era. Their music is perfectly comparable with Socrates and Four Levels Of Existence, with excellent hard psychedelic progressive sound, great fuzz guitars and Hammond organ. The band was formed in Germany by three Greek expatriates and one German in 1972. Original Greek lyrics were written during military service under dictatorship in the early '70s. After the fall of the military junta, the band returned to Greece and released privately one of the rarest Greek singles ever, the holy grail for collectors of '70s Greek psychedelic progressive music. At the same time, they recorded several other songs, which were supposed to become their first album, but remained totally unreleased until today. This compilation presents for the first time ever these songs and their rare single, i.e. everything that has been recorded by Sun Of Greece between 1972 and 1975, 9 tracks in total. 500 limited deluxe hand numbered edition, 180g vinyl, heavy gatefold cover and insert with group history and photos."
$30.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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JAMES, JOSE: Blackmagic (Joy Orbison Remix) 12" (BWOOD 040EP)
"The astonishing baritone returns with a dark and sensual work, remixed by some of the hottest producers du jour. Joy Orbison is man of the moment and Untold is one of the hottest producers on the dubstep scene. The original version of 'Blackmagic' is produced by Flying Lotus and will feature on Jose James' forthcoming album."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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FINN, SIMON: Pass The Distance CD (CT 653CD)
"Legendary SSW from U.K. The original LP was released on Mushroom label on 1970. This album is known as an ultra rare item. Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the original LP. Including 24 page booklet. 2009 digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: Box 1 5CD BOX (CT 658/662CD)
"Great industrial unit from Spain! Deluxe 5CD Box-set version!! Limited edition. Bonus 1: Extend sleeve (reissue LP version of El Acero Del Partido/Heroe Del Trabajo). Bonus 2: Replica sleeve of the first 7 inch Necrosis En La Poya (paper kraft kit)."
Contains these albums: Eg1 (CT 658CD), El Acero Del Partido/Heroe Del Trabajo (CT 659CD), Comisario De La Luz/Blanco De Fuerza (CT 660CD), 1980-1981 (CT 661CD), En Roma (CT 662CD).
$102.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: Eg1 CD (CT 658CD)
"The original was released as cassette album by self-product in 1981. Including bonus tracks (1980-81). 2009 digital remaster version with mini-LP paper sleeve. Limited 700 copies."
$16.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: El Acero Del Partido/Heroe Del Trabajo CD (CT 659CD)
"Their first LP in 1982. Reissue with the original first edition sleeve. including a miniature of insert sheet. 2009 digital remaster version. Limited 700 copies."
$16.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: Comisario De La Luz/Blanco De Fuerza CD (CT 660CD)
"Their second LP in 1985. Including bonus tracks from Bruitiste (compilation 2LP on RRR, 1987) and Conspiraction (compilation LP, 1985). Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the original LP. 2009 digital remaster version, limited 700 copies."
$16.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: 1980-1981 CD (CT 661CD)
"The original was released as cassette in 1986. First release on CD. Including their early demo, first live recordings (both from 1980) and their first 7 inch Necrosis En La Poya and outtakes (1981). 2009 digital remaster version with mini-LP paper sleeve. Limited 700 copies."
$16.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: En Roma CD (CT 662CD)
"Live recording at Aula Magna, Roma University on 24 March 1986. The original was released as cassette album in 1986. First release on CD. 2009 digital remaster version with mini-LP paper sleeve. Limited 700 copies."
$16.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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FLATNER & LOPAZZ, ALEX: Perfect Circles (Reissue) 12" (CIRCLE 018R-EP)
"After the great effort of Alex Flatner's feat Lopazz' Perfect Circles like the Sound Of The 9th Season licensing for Sven Väth's Cocoon compilation series or the The Lab licensing by Loco Dice (Damian Schwartz Remix), Circle Music decided to release a new remix package of the track. We are proud to present you great interpretations by Joey Beltram, Ken Ishii, Cess and Elephants & Lollipops. Joey Beltram, who convinced once more on Harthouse with his Shaking Trees EP and the Lost In New York remix compilation likes it dry psychedelic. With less vocal use he develops his very own Perfect Circles and let them rotate very intensive and thoughtful. Beltram, who has recently signed up to Adam Beyer's label Drumcode, once more concentrates on the real techno sound with this remix."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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TRIBE: Rebirth CD (CMP 007CD)
The Tribe: Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave, Doug Hammond. "Pioneering techno DJ and Grammy-nominated producer Carl Craig has long been weaving a jazz thread through the fabric of his music, including the mid-1990s Innerzone Orchestra and his work as a co-producer on 2003's creatively daring Detroit Experiment that brought together jazz, Motown, hip-hop and electronic musicians. Marcus Belgrave worked on the project along with several other stellar jazz musicians. Belgrave's 'Space Odyssey,' from his Gemini II Tribe release was included on The Detroit Experiment, and Belgrave continued to perform with Craig at concert dates. Belgrave introduced Wendell Harrison to Carl as a result of tour scheduling conflicts that proved to be a fruitful circumstance. The reedman brought his clarinet and wowed Craig and the audience with his nonstop, balls-out blowing. Craig dubbed Harrison's clarinet 'The Charmer.' The concert was recorded and then released as an EP called Paris Live. The Paris concert was the seed that sprouted into a full-blown Tribe revival. Craig gathered Harrison, Fhil Ranelin, Belgrave and Doug Hammond -- McKinney passed away in 2001 -- together in the studio to record new material and remakes of some of their classic works. Musicians old and young came together on the sessions. Guitarist John Arnold, drummers Karriem Riggins and Gayelynn McKinney (Harold's daughter), bassists Ralphe Armstrong, Damon Warmack and Pathe Jassi, keyboardists Kelvin Sholar, Amp Fiddler, Pamela Wise and vocalist Joan Belgrave were all in the mix for this great revival of Tribe. Carl Craig brings a central focus to Tribe as a producer. Tribe in its original birth was created as an umbrella for there collective different projects. Carl's reuniting of Tribe sparked more of a personal interest of his to shape the members as an entity."
$10.75 UPC: 754091531027 JAZZ
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KLOCK, BEN: Red Alert/Viscoplastic 12" (DRH 028EP)
$6.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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DOSHY: Space Attack 10" (DESTPUB 008EP)
"Dubstep label from France. Used to beats & blips, but in fact a new comer in the dubstep scene, Doshy produced here 2 jewels of electrobotik bass which we are delighted to put out on Destpub. Filled with 8 beat sounds and crunchy bass, dis 10" is sure to awake the sleepy bot inside you."
$9.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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CRAIG & MORITZ VON OSWALD, CARL: ReComposed 10" (DG 2724750)
New mixes by Moritz von Oswald and Francois K 10" / 2000 only.
A: Berlin Meets NY (8.07)
B: Development Mix (13.12)
$9.50 EAN: 0602527247502 ELECTRONIC
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DESPER, BOB: New Sounds LP + 7" (DRR 007LP)
"If you haven't heard Bob Desper's New Sounds yet, you may have heard something about it. Originally recorded in 1974, New Sounds is considered to be one of the Pacific Northwest's best-kept secrets, a regional Holy Grail with copies fetching upwards of $1000. Until recently, not much was known about this mysterious blind folk-singer from Oregon. In 2007, Discourage Records located Bob Desper, alive and well, living in Albany, Oregon. After two years of culling materials, Discourage Records is proud and honored to officially reissue this once lost masterpiece. Evoking the melancholy mood of Nick Drake, the fluid improvisation of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, and the intricate instrumentation of Jose Gonzales, New Sounds dark, meditative urgency immediately transcends the thirty-five years marking its original release. This official reissue of New Sounds includes Bob Desper's 1972 debut 7", Dry Up Those Tears (including picture sleeve); an 11 x 17 insert with extensive liner notes and full color photos; and 1970s style tip-on sleeve."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MINGUS, CHARLES: The Jazz Experiments Of Charlie Mingus LP (DOX 801LP)
"Originally released as two 10" records called Jazzical Moods, this is one of Mingus' best records from the 1950s. These 1954 sessions include the work of John LaPorta, Teo Macero, Thad Jones, Jackson Wiley and Clem De Rosa, creating a cool jazz sound that soars over 6 tracks, including a great rendition of 'Stormy Weather.'"
$15.50 EAN: 8013252888014 JAZZ
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MINGUS, CHARLES: East Coasting LP (DOX 802LP)
"Originally released in 1957 on Bethlehem, this is one of Mingus' best works of the period. 6 tracks of hard bop and modernist playing with the help of some top notch players: Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Shafi Hadi (sax), Clarence Shaw (trumpet), Dannie Richmond (drums) and Bill Evans (piano)."
$15.50 EAN: 8013252888021 JAZZ
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DAVIS, MILES: Miles Davis Quartet LP (DOX 803LP)
"This album is composed of three different sessions. The first session (Side A) was recorded at WOR Studios in NYC in May of 1953 and features Miles Davis on trumpet, John Lewis on piano, Charlie Mingus on bass and piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Max Roach on drums, while the second session (all of side B, except for 'I'll Remember April') was recorded at NYC's Beltone studios in March 1954 and features Miles Davis on trumpet, Horace Silver on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Art Blakey on drums. 'I'll Remember April' was recorded on a third session the following month at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, NJ, and features Miles Davis on trumpet, Dave Schildkraut on alto saxophone, Horace Silver on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Kenny Clarke on drums. All three sessions hail from Davis' 'Prestige period' which stretched from 1951-1955 and during which time Davis had developed an addiction to heroin. However, according to some sources it was precisely between the recording of the first two sessions that appear here that Davis went back home to St. Louis to get clean. He was largely successful, and so this album marks a major turning point in Davis' career."
$15.50 EAN: 8013252888038 JAZZ
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DAVIS, MILES: Diggin' With The Miles Davis Sextet LP (DOX 804LP)
"Originally released as the Prestige 10" Dig, it was later reissued as a 12" with additional tracks. The Diggin' title comes from a later reissue, which was supposed to fall in with the 'Cookin',' 'Steamin',' 'Workin',' etc. series. This album actually has nothing to do with that later period, but it is a still a very good representation of an early Miles at his best, forging ahead with his own cool bop style. This sextet features Davis on trumpet, a young Jackie McLean on alto sax (his debut recording), Sonny Rollins on tenor sax, Walter Bishop Jr. on piano, Tommy Potter or Charles Mingus on bass and Art Blakey on drums."
$15.50 EAN: 8013252888045 JAZZ
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COLTRANE, JOHN: Art Blakey's Big Band And Quintet LP (DOX 805LP)
"Recorded in NYC in 1957 and originally released on the small Bethlehem Records, this LP contains 2 amazing sessions: Session B (tracks A1, A2 ? B1, B2, B3, B4 and B5, 'Oasis,' previously unreleased on LP) features a 15-piece big band led by Art Blakey who was in transition with his Jazz Messengers at the time. The band he has put together for this session explores some wilder numbers, like Melba Liston's 'Late Date,' which would not have been out of place with the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra (the horn players are all Gillespie graduates), along with some more conservative material, such as Jerry Valentine's 'Midriff' (which is a nod to Count Basie's post-war orchestra), giving us an interesting look at how Coltrane handles himself playing in this unusual environment. Session C (A3, A4) is also a rare glimpse at a young John Coltrane, this time playing his own music in a quintet format (led by Art Blakey and also featuring Donald Byrd, Walter Bishop, Jr., and Wendell Marshall). Coltrane's highly-praised 'Pristine' would not have been out of place on his landmark Blue Train album."
$15.50 EAN: 8013252888052 JAZZ
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GROSSE ABFAHRT: Vanity CD (EMANEM 5007CD)
"Tom Djll (trumpet, preparations & electronics), Matt Ingalls (clarinet, bass clarinet), Matthieu Werchowski (viola, violin), Theresa Wong (cello), David Chiesa (double bass), John Shiurba (electric guitar), Gtim Perkis (electronics), Gino Robair (energised surfaces & voltage made audible). Tom Djll put this electro-acoustic improvising octet together when Matthieu Werchowski and David Chiesa were visiting the San Francisco area, resulting in some performances that are more about the group than the individuals. A duet by the two visitors is also included. 60 minutes."
$13.50 EAN: 5030243500727 EXPERIMENTAL
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FILTHY DUKES: Fabriclive.48 CD (FABRIC 096CD)
"Having proven their studio ability with Nonsense In The Dark, the Filthy Dukes go back to what they know best -- uproarious, incendiary DJ sets that sizzle through a smorgasboard of genres. Not so much crossing boundaries as erasing them completely, coupling pulsating kick drums, with dreamy melodies, the Dukes meld song-writing sensibilities with an ability to turn a dancefloor upside down. Throw down your preconceptions and discard your notions of the sounds of a fabric main room - this is the Filthy Dukes, and this is how they Kill 'Em All. The mix ducks and dives through styles and sounds without a moment's respite -- setting the pace from the off with their own gloriously synth-laden stomper 'This Rhythm', they move through 'Beat The Clock' by the legendary Sparks, Aeroplane's disgustingly brilliant Italo remix of Sebastian Tellier -- straight out the book of Daft Punk, and even manage to drift in and out of Aphex Twin's classic 'Windowlicker' before the close."
$12.50 UPC: 802560009628 ELECTRONIC
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BOSCO, ROBERTO: D 12" (FIGSPC D)
"The respected Italian producer Roberto Bosco pushes the blurry boundaries of club techno with this edgy, agile and highly functional 4-tracker on Figure SPC. Letting the games begin straight away with 'One,' a bass-loaded pumping groove leads the action as we step into a cavernous hall resonating with classic techno hypnotism. Careful arrangement tweaks, jacking, sharp percussion and knee-trembling sub-frequencies are all present in this well-defined peak time treat for the floor. The twisting, freaking opening bars of 'Circle Dub' quickly evolve into a strange but beautiful beast, utilizing Bosco's trademark solid drum array, but also a drifting, dubbed out scattering of synth lines, taking the focus from our heads to our hearts."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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UNTOLD: Stop What Your Doing (James Blake Remix) 10" (HEK 006EP)
"Hessle Audio co-owner Pangaea and 2009 newcomer James Blake deliver two wildly different but utterly sick remixes on a double A-sided 10". Side a. Untold - 'Stop What You're Doing (James Blake Remix)': James Blake proves why he's one of the most exciting and promising new prospects in UK bass music right now. Taking the bare bones of the Untold original and creating a completely new lick, Blake throws in p-funk synths alongside chipmunk gospel vocals that relentlessly swell to an apocalyptic climax. 'The most utterly next level piece of music I've heard in years.' Ben UFO (Hessle Audio). Side aa. Untold ? 'I Can't Stop This Feeling (Pangaea Remix)': The Hessle Audio co-owner comes with his hypest, rudest most surprising tune to date. A 140bpm, Chicago-style jackin' remix of Untold's Hessle Audio release from earlier this year. Raw house stabs, those trademark swung drums and a breakdown that's a lesson in tension and release --the mix just rules the dancefloor. Huge support worldwide from Joe Nice, Mark Pritchard, Bok Bok, Gilles Peterson, Ben UFO, Ramadanman and many more."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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SQUILLACE & LUCA BACHETTI, DAVIDE: West Side Story/Around The Bay 12" (HO 001EP)
"Now that Davide Squillace's 10 release project Minisketch has been completed, Davide Squillace keeps moving in interesting directions. The next project is called Hideout; here's the first release on the label. Besides Davide Squillace himself, artist that will be participating in the label project include Audiofly, Dubfire, doP, Paul Ritch, Matthias Kaden, Luca Bacchetti, and some even bigger names to come. Like the above, Davide is no stranger to the international dance music circuit. The studied audio engineer is one of the most successful Neapolitan techno DJs worldwide. Also known by his other imprints Sketch and Titbit, and releases on renowned labels like Josh Wink's Ovum, the German label Resopal and Alex Under's CMYK, Davide is part of Circo Loco Ibiza crew, rocking the island with a residency at DC10. Lucca Bacchetti is known for his varied style, from squeaking, jerky minimal to wide-open, percussive techno, to hypnotic, lights-out tracky house. Luca's expertly-produced music has earned him a reputation for producing nothing but quality, dancefloor-devastating tracks. That status was cemented when Beatport nominated him as one the 'Best Artists' in its inaugural BMA 2008. Remixes and original work requests gave Luca Bachetti an international profile: he's remixed and produced for labels like Wagon Repair, Ovum, SCI+TEC, Minisketch, Saw Recordings, Viva Music, Tommy Boy, Meerestief and loads more."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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KING MIDAS SOUND: Waiting For You CD (HDB 003CD)
"After two singles on Hyperdub, and a release on Soul Jazz, King Midas Sound's Waiting For You is the debut album from Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin's new group. In previous collaborations, Roger performed as a highly respected poet, but when he opened his mouth to sing in a fragile falsetto, everything changed and King Midas Sound was born. The signature intensity of their previous solo projects remains, but the mood and feeling is radically different. As opposed to Roger's spoken word pronouncements and The Bug's fierce battleground dancehall, King Midas Sound is more like an opiated after-math."
$13.75 EAN: 5055300303257 ELECTRONIC
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DARKSTAR: Aidy's Girl Is A Computer 12" (HDB 028EP)
"Darkstar's last single on Hyperdub, 'Need You,' released early in the summer of 2008, was Pitchfork's # 1 dubstep single of the year, and turned many towards their developing melancholic sound. Championed by Radiohead, they recently returned the nod of appreciation by recording a version of 'Videotape' for Mary Anne Hobbs' new Planet Mu collection, Wild Angels. On 'Aidy's Girl...', the duo confidently define and refine their catchy melodic sound with a song that's perfectly pop, while at the same time possessed of strange and intriguing bittersweet machine soul. Over at the other side, Detroit teenage wunderkind and Omar S protege Kyle Hall recalibrates the original into a blissful robotic Motor City house opus on his Oats B So Good remix, with a massaging bass line that sounds like sunshine on melting wax."
$9.00 EAN: 5055300303233 ELECTRONIC
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PARKS: Hidden CD (INFX 048CD)
"Parks is Russian ambient/electronic artist Igor Bystrov who has been working on his craft for nearly 15 years. Hidden may be his most accomplished and varied work to date. Sitting somewhere in the midst of the great 90's ambient artists, the (rather) new wave of Russian electronic artists all the while admiring, from a distance, the Kompakt pop-ambient of this decade - Parks seamless blend of it all has culminated in a brilliant finish. 6 panel digipak. Edition of 900."
$10.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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WHINES, THE: Insane OK 7" (JFHI 001EP)
"Upstart label Just For the Hell of It Records (based on one of the greatest films of all time, seriously) has unleashed the debut 4-song 7" EP with their mind-numbing VU-inspired twang and throb that just can't be denied. As a shambolic three-piece with Messthetically-pleasing loose ends sticking out from all sides, The Whines have that careless candor in their songs that proves to be that magical touch that so many other bands lack in their recordings. One of the many trappings most minimalist female-fronted modern bands get stuck with is the all-encompassing Kleenex/Liliput comparison, and despite being partially accurate on quite a few instances, it really can be chalked up to lazy journalism. The Whines effectively break free of this typical reference point, and have emerged with this debut 7" full of atypical song styles ranging from the distilled Velvet Underground ambiance on the title track, to the impeccably addictive innocent toe-curling guitar tones on 'Indian Homewrecker,' and pull it all together with a refreshing nonchalance that reiterates the serious potential this band has going."
$4.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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TALK NORMAL: Secret Cog 12" (JFHI 002EP)
"On this five-song E.P., Brooklyn-based duo Talk Normal -- drummer Andrya Ambro and guitarist Sarah Register -- create a nice racket that does a deft job of splitting the difference between harsh sonics and the essential song-oriented structures required of noise rock. Neither a band in which noise is merely a bi-product of a savage attack nor an overtly experimental outfit steeped in this or that high concept, Talk Normal come off as an organic self-contained unit that extracts as much as they can from their explicitly minimal approach. Sure, there are some obvious touchstones here -- Sonic Youth, Magik Markers, Ut, Teenage Jesus -- but the songs never feel derivative. Though various sorts of processed sounds work their way in and out of the picture, the band's aesthetic is built on a basic foundation of guitars, drums and vocals. The duo are clearly working within a dark, neo-now wave framework, yet there's some variety, too. They can sound both hyper and dirgey, calling to mind heat-soaked basement shows and cold moldy practice spaces alike. 'Grinnin in Your Face' opens the album and establishes the Talk Normal template, squiggling moans of feedback, a simple lurching riff, and a dual vocal attack all buoyed by frenetic drumming. 'Eureka' then uses a Branca-style guitarscape as foundation for a sing-speak vocal monologue direct from early 80s downtown NYC. 'Lemonade' rides a catchy little groove early on, and then builds to a drum-guitar/freak-out zenith. Perhaps the most curious aspect of these tracks, however, is that despite whatever stabs of sound punctuate the atmosphere, or whatever structural shifts might occur, theres always a simple, repetitive pulse present, not so much an anchor as a telltale heart of suppressed aggression. Even on the set's most distinctive track, the stark finale 'Rest With Me,' there's a tension lurking, played out via a subtle, yet insidious throb. Talk Normal are making their music amidst an increasingly cluttered underground landscape, and the duos seeming intrepidness in the face of that fact shines through. They've cultivated their own voice that, when combined with that strange festering energy, should make for solid stuff with each successive release." - Nate Knaebel/Dusted.
$10.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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DRAGON TURTLE: Almanac CD (LSE 015CD)
"Dragon Turtle's Almanac is a heavy trip; a document of transformation, entropy, and causality. Dragon Turtle evokes Morricone landscapes as if painted by Glenn Branca, where dream atmospheres meet brutal realities of nature and relationships. These forces are both beautiful ('Causality', 'Belt of Venus') and destructive ('Moon Fallout', 'Burn the Leaves'). The textures and layers move with a sense of urgency and purpose ('Hometime', 'Hourglass'). The duality of Tom Asselin and Brian Lightbody's musical relationship is also at play, converging an influence of sound spanning from John Cale and Eno to Post-Punk conglomerates of Folk and Kraut Rock. Late night sessions took place into the dawn during the height of dark transformation: post 9/11 America. The recordings began with an M Box and 3 mics in Asselin's Pocono Mountain basement, and over the course of time, acquisition of gear, and massive trial-and-error, the bunker blossomed into One Forest Studio. An empty roller rink was used as a reverb chamber while sampling Brahms' Requiem Mass. Musical recruits were brought in to flesh out ideas with distinct instruments which were effected, layered, chopped, and collaged together."
$9.50 UPC: 859701982487 ROCK
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DRAGON TURTLE: Almanac LP (LSE 015LP)
LP version.
$11.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VA: Family EP 12" (LNZ 030EP)
"Finally we made it! After such a long time of cooperation with Domenico D`Agnelli and several attempts trying to put his ideas on vinyl, levelNONzero is presenting the Family EP. It is not just a special release because Domenico is a very close friend of Pascal & Chris, it is also an important release because we reached the catalogue number 30. Domenico must be known by most of you folks from his work for Partysan, Rave On Snow or Electric Delicate, but also from a lot of parties, where he was acting as a DJ or organizer. In time for the opening of his new club 'Chaca Chaca' in Munich, we will release three tracks from him, which accrued in cooperation with Chris Wood & Pascal Feos. So listen to it and decide for yourselves."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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RIBN: This Feeling: Remixes 12" (MILD 003EP)
"In a holy time of silent reflection and contemplation Mild Pitch burst in with a reckless remix riot of the young label's initial release This Feeling by Ribn, Essen's ever dynamic duo comprised of Langenberg & Manuel Tur. Making one of his very rare appearances outside his world-renowned label empire, no other but Poker Flat & Dessous super-boss Steve Bug delivers a true masterpiece of a remix that elegantly dives into the obscurest emotive depths of the original track and transforms it into a timeless house treasure, raised from the abyss of Steve's legendary studio. On the flip it's Mild Pitch co-founder Dplay making his debut on the label with a rougher take on the original, combining unapologetically stomping beats with a chez-n-trentesque synth groove that is impossible to elude."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LIED DES TEUFELS: Lied Des Teufels LP (MV 007LP)
"Lied des Teufels (songs of the devil) was a post Murphy Blend and Hanuman outfit, that recorded this excellent German progressive Krautrock album on the Kuckuck label in 1973. The lyrics are strongly politically and socially engaged, while it is musically very similar to the first two Out Of Focus albums. This album, is a perfect example of the early '70s German progressive Krautrock scene and should be part of every serious '70s progressive rock collection. Limited edition, deluxe 180g vinyl, heavy cover."
$23.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MURPHY BLEND: First Loss LP (MV 008LP)
"Murphy Blend's (named after a pipe tobacco) only album, is one of the best and rarest early German progressive rock records. Excellent Hammond organ, that delivers a unique heavy psychedelic Krautrock sound. It was originally released on the legendary Kuckuck label in 1970. English lyrics. Limited edition, deluxe 180g vinyl, heavy exact texture cover."
$23.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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ARMAGEDDON: Armageddon LP (MV 009LP)
"Armaggedon was one of the best and rarest early '70s German heavy progressive rock albums. It was originally released on the legendary Kuckuck label in 1970 and nowadays it is regarded as one of the finest heavy rock albums of the early '70s. It contains great originals and an excellent version of Spooky Tooth's 'Better By You, Better Than Me.' This album, is a perfect example of the early '70s German progressive Krautrock scene and should be part of every serious '70s progressive rock collection. English lyrics." Also includes a cover of Jeff Beck's "Rice Pudding."
$23.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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IHRE KINDER: Jeanscover (2357004) LP (MV 010LP)
"Ihre Kinder, formed in 1968, were the pioneers among the politically and socially engaged groups in Germany. Their third album, 2357004 (also known as Jeanscover) was originally released on Kuckuck in 1971 and it is considered to be their best. A great German progressive Krautrock effort, that should be part of every serious '70s progressive rock collection. Limited edition, deluxe 180g vinyl, original jeans cover and insert, exact reproduction of the original first pressing"
$26.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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CRASH COFFIN: Crash Coffin LP (MV 011LP)
"Crash Coffin's eponymous album was originally released privately in 1974 on the Mus-I-Col label. It is very rare and sought after by early '70s US psychedelic collectors worldwide. Not unjustly so, since it contains one of the best psychedelic songs ever recorded ('God Loves the Loser') and a couple of other great moody psych tracks. It contains 2 unreleased bonus tracks from the same period. Limited edition of 500, deluxe 180g vinyl, heavy original cover and insert with group history. Insert also contains a sketch of what the original cover was supposed to become -- if it were not for lack of funds -- that led to an original release with plain white covers -- half of them carrying Crash Coffin's signature."
$21.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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TUMI AND THE VOLUME: Tumi And The Volume CD (MRB 068CD)
"This, ladies and gentlemen, is Tumi and the Volume, arguably South Africa's most electric performers. The group has managed to create a distinct musical accent that includes blends of samba, swing, hip hop, reggae and poetry that speaks to the unique reality of the South African experience and still relates to the world in that universal way that only beauty can. Think 'The Roots' meets 'Common' by way of South Africa. The band has wowed audiences all over the South Africa, impressed fellow musicians Blackalicious (U.S.A), Positive Black Souls (Senegal), Relax (the Netherlands)and has been frequent invitees to world-class music festivals such as Quart Festival in Norway, North Sea Jazz in Cape Town, Montreal Jazz and played throughout Europe."
$13.00 UPC: 711969114027 WORLD
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FEVER RAY: Fever Ray 2CD/DVD (MUTE 9426CD)
"The debut self-titled album from The Kinfe's Karin Dreijer Andersson. Now available as a 3 disc deluxe glossy digipack! Fever Ray is the title, of both project and album, an evocation of the music's sound, intense and anxious, yet luminous,. It's the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out following a handful of incredible live shows. The result is Fever Ray, an album that, while recognizably the work of the same artist, is dramatically different from The Knife. It's still constructed on electronic foundations and embelled with traditional instrumentation (guitar here, congas there)."
$14.00 UPC: 724596942628 ELECTRONIC
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CAN: Soon Over Babaluna CD (SPOON 9424CD)
"Classic Can releases available on standard CD again for the first time in years. Previously only available on SACD. Low list price of only $9.98. Originally released in 1974, Can's fifth album has Schmidt and Karoli taking over vocal duties after the departure of Kenji Suzuki. While a little less intense than previous Can albums, Babaluna displays beautiful, lighter and jazzier rhythms."
$7.25 UPC: 724596942420 ROCK
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CAN: Soundtracks CD (SPOON 9425CD)
"Malcolm Mooney passes the baton to Damo Suzuki for Soundtracks, a collection of film music featuring contributions from both vocalists. The dichotomy between the two singers is readily apparent: Suzuki's odd, strangulated vocals fit far more comfortably into the group's increasingly intricate and subtle sound, allowing for greater variation than that allowed by Mooney's stream-of-consciousness discourse."
$7.25 UPC: 724596942529 ROCK
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ETTINGER & THE HEAT, DYLAN: Smokin' 7" (NNF 177EP)
"We had heard a couple cassette outings by this Bloomington young-bloomer over the last 4-6 months and each one hit us better than the last but nothing had prepped us for Ettinger's most recent evolution into neon skyline chase scene soundtracker and that's part of what makes it so amazing. For Smokin' he wrangled together a small posse of close comrades (enter The Heat) and tracked a sick session of smoky synth themes, Corvette noir moods, echo dystopia, faded voices, and sleazy Miami sax. The A, 'Smokin,'' is the more ballad-y of the pair, sad and smooth, just fired-from-the-force, midnight cruising on the strip, no one to call. The B, 'Miami Heat (The Stakeout),' amps the tension, camera zooming in over palm trees and blue-lit swimming pools, a deco mansion on the coast, the place is surrounded, the heat is on, all that. A cool sleaze-psych vision, sickly executed, by a rad fresh energy from the underground. Fingers are crossed there's more where this came from. Black-vinyl 7 inches, plus a photocopied insert, in full-color sleeves with art by NNF. Edition of 380."
$5.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SEX WORKER: The Labor Of Love LP (NNF 178LP)
"Still waters run deep but wild waters run deeper. Both when fronting San Fran free-punk body-music trio Mi Ami or performing angst-dance psycho-dramas under his solo alias, Sex Worker, Daniel Martin-McCormick always succeeds in generating total motion (and emotion) and breaking the fourth wall. His vision of tranced/anguished rhythm questing hits an apex on The Labor Of Love, his LP debut under the Sex Worker guise, and we've been soaking in its dark arts for months. Pulsing, lo-fi kraut electronics bubble and sputter under hazy arcs of weirdo vocal smear. Escapist disco drum machines cruise into the horizon under a canopy of dubby accents and FX percussion, sometimes peaking in harsh frenzies of echo-scream meltdowns. All three pieces function as anthems or elegies or protest songs articulating Daniel's heavy anti-sex trafficking/enslaved bodies activist agenda but you don't have to know the depths of the ethical framework to grasp the vibe. An intensely unique and hyper-personal statement from one of our favorite West Coast music-dreamers. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by the artist. Edition of 450."
$10.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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QNO: Achtein 12" (OW LTD018EP)
"Qno revived our old childhood dreams with his tune 'Tanz der Zuckerfee' on ltd010. To continue this tale, we have found a proper nutcracker. Mollono.Bass (Acker Rec) and The Glitz (Voltage, Ideal, Pocketgame) have been polishing and sharpening their tools and started off cracking nuts. With so much work bursting with energy, floor-orientated calorie bombs were the only possible result."
$7.50 UPC: 880319442216 ELECTRONIC
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ORCUTT, BILL: A New Way To Pay Old Debts LP (PAL 002LP)
"Solo guitar improvisations by ex-Harry Pussy guitarist Bill Orcutt. 'Crashes styles together with such energy that his guitar sounds in danger of splintering into matchwood... a frenzied maximalism that sounds like no other guitar sound you've ever heard in your life' -- The Wire"
$7.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MARZENIT, MARC: ITS Caracas 12" (PARAD 018EP)
"ITS Caracas (Paradigma 014) returns to Paradigma Musik in a form of three remixes, molding a delightful 12-incher for Paradigma's 18th release. Paul Ritch covers the A-side with a faster paced house version encompassed in a rich background of high intensity and psychedelic notions. His admirable use of loops and tools transforms the track into an attractive DJ-compatible dance floor hit. Ritch, whose musical success took an upward hike in the last two years, released on the likes of Get Physical Music (Fortuna, June), Fumakilla (Back to the Time), Paradigma Musik (Higher) and MiniSketch (Nordbahnhof). In 2007, his tracks were also included in nine internationally prominent Mix Albums such as John Digweed's Transitions, Vol. 3, Gui Boratto's Addicted, Vol. 2, Global Underground: Rio from Layo & Bushwacka! and M.A.N.D.Y.'s Ibiza '07. His attention to detail is carefully characterized in his producing and remix work. The two part, B-sider is shared by Madrid based producers Prompt and Henry Saiz."
$7.50 UPC: 880319441813 ELECTRONIC
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SHAMA, ASEM: Monty 12" (PASO 018EP)
"After co-producing Marc Miroir's hit single Kraft, Asem Shama returns with a new bomb on PASO Music! For 15 years Asem's name has stood for the finest production and DJ sets to heat up the dance floors across the world. After co-founding the label Sportclub and moving to Berlin Asem is ready to head to new horizons. Well known for his huge Queen Remix Flash, he nowadays runs Sportclub and also releases on Highgrade, where he recently dropped 5 tracks. He starts with a banging release on Marc Miroir's and Sebrok's label Paso Music. The three track single is full of delicious and fine minimalistic techno to pleasure your ears."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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GOLDEN RING, THE: Iranian 60's Styled Garage And Other Exotic Sounds CD (PSR 001CD)
"As collectors continue to explore and discover new music from around the world, one country that's starting to gain momentum is Iran. Iran has been a mystery to collectors for many years, and even today it remains a blackbox to most. Within the rubbles of Iran's lost musical history comes Golden Ring, one of the first, and most prominent Iranian garage groups from the '60s. Based in Tehran, Golden Ring recorded and released a series of songs on 7" during the late '60s and early '70s before disbanding. They were one of the first Iranian bands to be influenced by Western music such as The Beatles, combining traditional Iranian instrumentation and melodies with structures found in the UK and North American rock and pop. This combination resulted in an Iranian take on garage music during the genre's climax. One of the members of Golden Ring, Arif, later went on to become a solo artist, and over time became one of the legendary artists within Iran's musical landscape. His solo material spread across 45's, soundtracks and generations of fans. Sadly Golden Ring never recorded or released a full length album, but through a lot of hard work and effort we are pleased to offer a full length compilation of Golden Ring's music for you to enjoy. Limited to 500 copies."
$16.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
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MEHRPOUYA, ABBASS: African Jumbo CD (PSR 002CD)
"Abbass Mehrpouya was one of Iran's top sitarists before passing in 1993. Having released a series of 7" singles that range from psychedelic, pop and even heavy funk, collectors are pushing one another aside in an attempt to obtain his legendary work. While his psychedelic guitars and flutes have collectors drooling at the mouth, his heavy funk moments can be heard rocking dance floors in clubs across the world. This album, his sole LP release African Jumbo, is both the rarest, and most in demand album from Iran, dated sometime in the mid '70s. The 11+ minute track 'African Jumbo' is not only a masterpiece of psychedelic funk, but is also only available on this sole and impossibly hard to find album. A simply wonderful experience full of beautiful sitars and flutes, while heavy drums, horns and percussion help fill out the wonderful melodies. Mehrpouya's talents weren't limited to traditional instruments either. He was known to have invented original instruments from bones and other natural materials, while using pots as a replacement for drums. Truly a magical album from a legendary artist within Iran's musical history, and one that is near impossible to source as an original. A true holy grail of Iranian music for both its rarity and content, this release is enriched with a bonus track, taken from a rare cassette."
$16.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
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OM: Om CD (PICAP 910827CD)
"Rare Catalan experimental progressive jazz-rock. Their sole album, though this was the group backing Pau Riba in his Dioptria album."
$14.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VA: Música Laietana - Zeleste 2CD (PICAP 910873CD)
"Brilliant, new compilation made out of some of the best tracks from the Zeleste label and its own Laietana sound (mediterranean blend of traditional Catalan and Spanish music). This double CD features tracks by bands such as Orquesta Mirasol, Secta Sònica, Barcelona Traction, Oriol Tramvia, Toti Soler, Toni Xuclà, Iceberg, Esqueixada Sniff, Orquesta Plateria, Tropopausa, La Rondalla de la Costa, etc. etc."
$23.00 EAN: 8425845909257 ROCK
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PARKER, EVAN: Set CD (PSI 09.09CD)
"Evan Parker (saxophones), Barry Guy (bass), Paul Lytton (tympani, percussion & live electronics), Furt [Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer] (electronics), Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument), Walter Prati (live processing), Marco Vecchi (sound projection) This music was inspired by Lynn Margulis' serial endosymbiosis theory (Set), and is dedicated to her and her amazing insights into the mechanisms of biological evolution. In inviting Paul Lytton, Barry Guy, Walter Prati, Marco Vecchi, Lawrence Casserley and Furt, I was trading on the pre-existing musical structures that these musicians brought with them: the solo works of Guy, Lytton , Casserley and myself; the duos with Lytton, Guy, Prati and Casserley, the trio with Guy and Lytton, the trio with Guy and Casserley; my asking Furt added a further music with its own history. (Evan Parker). Commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage 2003. Previously unissued."
$13.50 EAN: 5030243090921 CLASSICAL
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BARRETT, RICHARD: Adrift CD (PSI 09.10CD)
"Three live performances of collaborative electroacoustic compositions from 2007-08, recorded in London, Brisbane and Antwerp, each exploring different points of contact between precomposed structures and spontaneous invention: a duo adrift (in memory of Paul Rutherford) with pianist Sarah Nicolls, a nonet codex IX (in memory of Mauricio Kagel) with the Elision ensemble, and a 17-piece group with Ensemble Champ d'Action realising codex VII (to Vinko Globokar)."
$13.50 EAN: 5030243091027 EXPERIMENTAL
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GUIDO: Beautiful Complication 12" (DRUNK 013EP)
"Alongside Joker and Gemmy, Guido completes Bristol's Purple Trinity generation of dubstep producers, whose self titled 'WoW sound' has taken the worldwide underground scene by storm in 2009. Guido has been getting regular plays from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, Sinden and Kode 9. This 12" release is the first full vocal track to appear on Peverelist's Bristol dubstep scene corner stone label, Punch Drunk."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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RADIX, LAVERNE: The L Train EP 12" (RAUM 074EP)
"After almost a year in prison for shoplifting, Laverne is finally out on probation and brings you an EP that moves from threatening messages ('Ass Tosser') to valuable life lessons found in 'Groove On' & 'Deep Moves.' The EP got full support in the penitentiary from the likes of Slick Rick, Lil' Kim and a whole lot of bitches 'n hoes allegedly connected with the Wu-Tang. Watch your back -- The L Train is comin'!"
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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NECKS, THE: Silverwater CD (RER NECKS9)
"Their first studio CD for three years - named after an industrial suburb in Sydney ? famous mainly for its correctional facility - Silverwater ranges further and wider than the Necks' former releases, exploring a more sectional structure that counterposes extremes and contrasts, and possesses a greater sense of forward motion than we are accustomed to with this most economical of bands -- though it still retains the long, hypnotic single-track iterative form for which they have been praised. Layers and skeins of overdubs and shifting textures give way to almost empty stretches as the piece evolves, and there is much play with asynchronous time. Paradoxically, for a band renowned for its slow, cycling, repetitions, the Necks show again that they are a band who try constantly not to repeat themselves."
$12.50 UPC: 752725027625 ROCK
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ELEMENTAL: Messages From The Void 2CD (RUNTIME 001CD)
"Elemental's debut LP Messages From The Void is a collection of work from the last four years, spanning a range of styles, made using a combination of new and old technologies, including Elemental's beloved modular synthesizer. He is proud to be able to present it to the world -- a favour returned for all of the amazing music that has touched him throughout his years as a music listener and raver. Elemental's fresh take on the dubstep sound has got both scene stalwarts and eclectic tastemakers singing his praises. Blending components of acid house, Detroit techno, 'golden age' drum & bass, vintage dubwise and African rhythm, his sound is rich in texture and musical heritage, yet remains eminently danceable. The North London based producer -- Adam Wilson to his friends -- started dabbling with production in 1994 with a Roland D5 and Atari ST while he was still at school. Soon after he invested in an Akai S2000 sampler, bought a PC, and the rest, as they say, is history. In the nineties he predominantly focused on making drum and bass and experimental electronica, eventually putting out his first drum and bass release as a white label off his own back. A few years later, together with schoolmate Dario Swade, they formed the breakbeat garage duo Elemental & 3D, releasing on their own label Runtime Records in 2002. A couple of years later after some time abroad, Elemental caught the likes of Search & Destroy on Rinse FM and instantly found the sound he had been looking for: dark, heavy, syncopated beats and bass. Since 2004, Elemental has been focused on bringing his newly developed sound to the masses. Combining dubbed out dirty bass lines with hypnotising rhythms, he has released on labels such as Destructive, Hotflush, Pitch Black, Halo Beats, and his own imprint Runtime, with his seminal track 'Soulfire' one of the highlights on Tayo's Fabriclive mix CD. He was officially the first person to do a live dubstep performance, mixing up and dubbing components of his productions using Ableton Live to rapturous audiences across the world: no set is ever the same twice."
$12.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ELEMENTAL: Messages From The Void 3x12" (RUNTIME 001LP)
3x12" version.
$21.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LE TEXIER, ARNAUD: Perfumes Of Our Dead Times EP 12" (SAF 040EP)
"Big with: Martinez, Paco Osuna, Cirillo, Okain, Yakine, Italoboyz, Danny Tenaglia, Samuel L Session, Butch, Anthony Collins, John Digweed, Varoslav, Gorge, 2000andOne, Peter Kruder, Slam, Sian, Technasia, Hernan Cattaneo, Einzelkind, Nick Curly, Seuil, Luke Slater, Karotte, Richie Hawtin."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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PANTS, JAMES: Seven Seals CD (STH 2218CD)
"Having given birth to a music career and to a human child within the span of a few months, celebrated percussionist James Pants withdrew into solitude for some weeks in the year 2008. Hermetically ensuring his privacy in his remote cabin in & around Spokane, Washington, Pants spurned the noise and clatter of the globetrotting lifestyle, as he nurtured his seed in the form of beautiful baby girl Olive, and took to penning this concept album, now known as Seven Seals. For the moment, with the exception of his touring of Europe and China, wowing the throngs with his exhilarating live ensemble Royal Zodiac, the reclusive Pants occupies himself almost entirely with his offspring, and the disciplined study of oceanography, astronomy and gourmet Latin cooking. For fans of: Gary Wilson, Mort Garson, Beck, The Doors, Bruce Haack."
$10.75 UPC: 659457221829 ELECTRONIC
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SMITH/NORM TALLEY, DELANO: Constellation/Detroit 2-Step 12" (SUSH 004.4EP)
"Strictly limited x300 vinyl only release by Sushitech new signings and Detroit heroes, Delano Smith and Norm Talley!"
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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FORMER GHOSTS: Fleurs LP (UTR 035LP)
"Former Ghosts is the synthpop inspired band formed and led by Freddy Ruppert (of this song is a mess but so am I) and consisting of Jamie Stewart (of Xiu Xiu) and Nika Roza (of Zola Jesus). The album sweeps through you with it's sweet melodic side, sprinkling in sharp, chaotic, discordant moments -- as if to punish you for having enjoyed yourself, for having let your guard down. 'Dreams' plays through with melodies and textures reminiscent of early synth-pop, kept alive with the warm heart-like thumping of the synthetic kick drum. Freddy's (This Song Is A Mess But So Am I) vocals crawl low through the hallucinatory soundscape, led on by the gentle buttering of Jamie's back-ups in the chorus. Jamie's (Xiu Xiu, etc) influence on the album enters obliquely, buttering some of the albums harder edges, organizing the sometimes disoriented moments of glitch and electro-mania. He plays an unfamiliar role -- softer, more understated (in his particular context) -- but in his familiar style. Starring solo on 'I Wave,' you're drawn into the springy synths, cushioned by his smooth voice--the track is almost a reprieve from heavier textures found elsewhere in the album."
$12.50 UPC: 828887003514 ROCK
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VA: Camp Vidab 2 12" (VIDAB 011EP)
"Here we go with the second part of our Camp Vidab compilation series. On the A-side you find 'Life In The Balance,' the label debut of Ed Davenport. A sunny piece of house music heavily influenced by disco and Detroit. The B-side comes with a track by Oliver Deutschmann. 'PaleRedHead' got a strong touch of Berghain styled techno embedded in melancholic darkness."
$7.50 UPC: 880319447112 ELECTRONIC
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BROWN, EARLE: Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 2 3CD (WER 6931)
"Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs that comprise Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation. Volume two includes music by Luigi Nono (Polifonica - Monodia - Ritmica), Bruno Maderna (Serenata No. 2), Luciano Berio (Différences) Peter Maxwell Davies (Antechrist) Harrison Birtwistle (Ring a Dumb Carillon) David Bedford (Come In Here Child), Richard Orton (Cycle for 2 or 4 Players), Morton Feldman: (Durations I-IV) and Earle Brown (Music for Violin, Cello and Piano, Music for Cello and Piano, and Hodograph I)."
$35.00 EAN: 4010228693126 CLASSICAL
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DJ FABYO: Anatolia Rocks LP (WW 001LP)
Subtitled: A Musical Trip Through Turkey 1968-83. "During the '60s and '70s, the Turkish knew how to blend the exciting sound of pop music coming from United States and Europe with local inspirations and folklore better than anybody. Listen to the electric saz and darbouka mixed with the best fuzz guitar. Worldwild production is proud to present 13 jewels of this interesting and unknown genre called Anatolian rock. Enjoy!"
$16.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
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