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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE
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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 03/08/2010
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 03/08/2010
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
please use catalog numbers (listed after the format in the descriptions) when ordering
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DEAD FADER: Autumn Rot/No Thief 12" (3BY3 004EP)
3BY3 presents Dead Fader, who boast beats heavy as hell, abrasive high-end sonics and fully-wonked bass rhythms, mangled into two phat-ass productions with the most seismic grooves imaginable. "Autumn Rot" sinks its teeth into your arm, refusing to let go. "No Thief" features the sickest drop and reload in ages, and if you don't think so too, we'll come round and smash up your house, all while blasting this 12". Given an exclusive Transition mastering and cutting treatment, especially for this plate.
$7.79 EAN: 5060096474326 ELECTRONIC
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F: Energy Distortion Part 2 2x12" (7EVEN 013EP)
Vinyl version, part 2 of F's debut full-length release for 7Even, Energy Distortion. Part 2 includes a vinyl edition exclusive track. F is the alter ego of French producer and DJ Florent Aupetit. Florent discovered drum and bass as a teenager, an early enthusiasm which pushed him straight out to buy records and a pair of decks. Slowly after this, he set foot on the production path, and began making drum and bass tracks using Fruity Loops. He began to develop a passion for and deepen an interest in the emergent style of UK underground music called dubstep, and eventually started producing dubstep tracks in 2008. His growing love for techno, and other minimal forms of dub led him to combine elements of both styles with stunning results. French dubstep pioneer and 7even Recordings label-head Greg Gouty was immediately captivated by the impeccable levels of production and fresh beats streaming from this talented newcomer.
$14.39 EAN: 5060096474814 ELECTRONIC
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SUICIDE: Live 1977-1978 6CD (PTYT 011CD)
New lower pricing. Limited edition of 3000, 6CD set. Audio verité recordings (mastered by the incomparable Denis Blackham) of Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978. These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, plus their first-ever tour across Europe and the UK, these being their dates outside the USA. As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicide's development as both musicians and performers and their mission to stretch the label of punk rock to the very limit." --Paul Smith, Blastfirstpetite (2008)
$31.59 EAN: 8235664630238 ROCK
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BOYS NOIZE: Transmission RMX Pt. 2 12" (BNR 042EP)
Part 2 in a series of remixes of "Transmission," from Boys Noize's acclaimed album Power (BNR 037LP). Tiga's remix takes the main idea of the original song and turns it into the perfect 4/4 banger, and Untold's remix is presented as an epic dubstep version. Last but not least, you get a real deep techno remix by the techno master himself, James Ruskin.
$8.39 UPC: 827170329669 ELECTRONIC
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ALASKA: It's Just Muzik 12" (CRM 058EP)
The legendary Laurent Garnier enters his fourth decade in music with a new and rare collection of tracks. Returning with his side project, Alaska, It's Just Muzik is pure dancefloor magic, featuring two cuts of epic craftsmanship. The title track is a brooding, ten-minute monster, apocalyptic from the outset. "Stargazing" is its dreamy sister, playing out otherworldly atmospheres to truly cosmic effect. The result is a sincere Garnier package, shamelessly larger-than-life and endlessly impressive.
$8.39 UPC: 880319459313 ELECTRONIC
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SHANNON, MIKE: Under The Radar (feat. Fadila) 2x10" (CYN 040EP)
Cynosure label-head Mike Shannon offers uncompromising dance music both with his DJ sets and with his label. It seems all too fitting after a decade of living in the shadows that Shannon, the master of the piss-take and techno's Prince of Cats, should choose to deliver the label-anthem "Under The Radar." Featuring vocals by singer Fadila, and remixes from Ricardo Villalobos, Deadbeat, and Rozzo of Mountain People, this celebratory anniversary release is one certain to outgrow its cheeky title. File under: crucial. Gatefold sleeve.
$20.99 UPC: 827170315563 ELECTRONIC
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M.IN: Sing And Blow At The Same Time 12" (DESOLAT 006X-EP)
M.in is an artist from the Frankfurt area whose interpretation of house/tech-house is spiced up with jazz, soul and Afrobeat elements, presenting a varied and sophisticated blend. "Sing And Blow At The Same Time" has thus far been every DJ's best-kept secret. Pressed on yellow-colored vinyl, with artwork by Florian Pohl and mastering by Enrico Mercaldi, this record is sure to remain a collector's item -- great sounding and good-looking.
$8.39 UPC: 827170320567 ELECTRONIC
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SHELBY, K'ALEXI: I Can Go (Vol. 1) 12" (DETELE 013EP)
Detelefunk presents DJ/producer K' Alexi Shelby. Kaay is a pioneer of the Chicago sound with several early acid-house classics on Trax, DJ International, Transmat, ACV and Djax-Up-Beats. His unique, smooth blend of techno and house, as Kaay calls "TecSoul," attracted the eye of the Detroit Grand Pubahs. "I Can Go" features Kaay's vocals and heavy female breathing. The "Chicago House Mx1" is deeper and more house-oriented, while the "TecSoul" version leans towards the jackin' techno side. Also includes a mix by Raudive.
$8.39 EAN: 4250382402824 ELECTRONIC
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RUNNERS, THE: Workin' My Nerves 12" (DIRT 040EP)
Dirt Crew presents a cracking, deep EP by The Runners, who are ready to deliver the next dose of classic house grooves that range from deep house to the more tech-y edges of electronic dance music. These four tracks stand out and keep Dirt Crew Recordings headed towards the future of true deepness. But as real purveyors of soulful, rolling beats, they added a remix by Soul Minority. More coolness to follow.
$8.39 UPC: 827170332966 ELECTRONIC
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VA: United EP 12" (DIYNAMIC 035EP)
Diynamic's European dream-team features Paris' Julian Sandre with "Satisfaction." Then we head to the Dutch city of Rotterdam where Furrr & Hazendonk will confirm that the capital is not the only city with the funk phenomena. The next stop is the south of France to find Acumen and the subtle, tribal-tinged deepness of "Nice Victory." Finally in Germany, you hook up with Markus Homm, who rounds out the EP with the mean and moody "Gone To Soon." Choose your weapon(s)!
$8.39 UPC: 827170333468 ELECTRONIC
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ROSE/UPSETTERS, MICHAEL: Obserb Life/Obserbing Dub 7" (DO UP4190)
Raw, stripped funk from the Black Ark, charged with atmosphere and aura. Done over as Zen tutelage, no doubt inspired by Michael Rose's spar Niney, this is the Final Weapon rhythm -- that signature cowbell, tough, scrubby guitar, bass bubbling deep in the pocket, and the Upsetters mixing live on the spot. Adrian Sherwood revisited the song with Ari Up -- but here is the hortical piece.
$6.99 UPC: N/A WORLD
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DIE TODLICHE DORIS: Gehörlose Musik DVD (EK 001DVD)
2006 release. During the years 1980-87, German trio Die Tödliche Doris was absolutely legendary in the Berlin underground music and art scene. Embodying the pure, obscure spirit of "neue deutsche welle," their releases and live shows revealed a raw post-punk sensibility with performance art. Die Todliche Doris are still widely considered one of the most radical, intelligent and influential German avantgarde bands of the last two decades. Now this DVD brings the music of the legendary, long unavailable LP Gehörlose Musik from 1981 back to life -- in the guise of gestures, signs, interaction and movement. Each DVD is hand-numbered and available only in a limited edition of 1,000 -- once gone, will be gone forever. In November 1998, Wolfgang Müller, founder of Die Tödliche Doris, decided to re-release the band's sought-after and long unavailable first vinyl LP. However, not as sound, but as a gesture: sign language interpreters Dina Tabbert and Andrea Schulz translated and reshaped the lyrics and music of the album using nothing but signs and gestures. The result of this transmutation is a "soundless" music, expressed entirely within and through the body. Many hearing-impaired people -- and an equal amount of those who could hear just fine -- made their way to the Prater at the Berliner Volksbühne to witness this process as part of a series of events called Gehörlose Musik (music for the deaf or "soundless music"), initiated by "Freunde guter Musik" (friends of good music). And the result is no dance, no performance, no music -- it constitutes a new form of art defying conventional definition. The DVD can be played in sign language option, or music option and also contains an interview with Wolfgang Müller as well as a 24-page booklet with writing and photographs. Comes encased in a slip-lid box with banderole. Format: DVD 5; Language: German; Subtitle: German/English; Format: NTSC, 4:3, Region: 0; Time: ca. 60 min. Booklet: 48 pages, German/English.
$42.00 UPC: 693723120577 ROCK
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NITSCH, HERMANN: The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present DVD/CD (EK 002DVD)
2006 release. Super deluxe DVD & CD set. The Action art of Hermann Nitsch from past to present Actions, 1962-2003: 1 DVD (this DVD is in European PAL format only and not compatible with some/many DVD players in the US) plus a CD with the recordings from the 2005 Burgtheater performance. Hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies. The packaging consists of a slip lid box with banderole, containing an 80-page book with photos and text. Disputed and celebrated: Hermann Nitsch, Actionist and painter, composer and stage designer. He is one of the most renowned Austrian artists of today and nevertheless still divides the art world as before. Nitsch belongs beside Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler as one of the most important main actors of Viennese Actionism. At the beginning of the '60s he carried out his first "Actions" in Vienna, which involved several trials and three terms of imprisonment. His main work, "Orgy Mystery Theatre," the bloody, sacrilegious meat-play inspired by Greek mythology, Antonin Artaud and Sigmund Freud, was the defining work of his career, and has established and influenced Actionist performance representations in contemporary art ever since. On this DVD there is a 4-hour overview of all of Nitsch's "Actions" from 1962-2003, as well as an interview from 2005. The 80-page book (German/English) which includes text by Florian Schreiner and numerous photos, explains the theoretical basis of Nitsch's work. On the CD are recordings of the 122nd "Action" at the Burgtheater of Vienna in November of 2005. Package: box/book, 80 pages/DVD/CD; Edition: Limited to 1000 copies, hand-numbered; Content: main feature + interview; Running-time: approx. 4 hours; Audio-Language: German; Subtitles: German/English/French; Format: PAL, 4:3, color; Audio-Format: Stereo (MP2/AC3); Region: 0 (all regions).
$74.20 UPC: 693723122977 ELECTRONIC
1. Aktionen (1962-2003)
2. Hermann Nitsch interview from 2005
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FENN O'BERG: In Stereo 2LP (EMEGO 103LP)
Deluxe gatefold double vinyl version, featuring an extra slice of classic Fenn O'Berg magic beauty. After a hiatus of almost 9 years, the legendary trio of Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg aka Fenn O'Berg have returned with a new studio album. Technically, the first studio album as previous releases were edits of live performances. They spent a week in Studio GOK Sound, Tokyo to lay down some stunning electronic works. Whereas previously the emphasis was on a chaotic blend of found samples mangled through their mobile computing systems to create a humorous, oddball sound, In Stereo implements a more wider instrumental palette of analog and digital synthesis, guitar, piano, bass and percussion. What they do maintain is the ability to make a near-psychedelic audio blend, where it's impossible to determine who does what.
$19.79 EAN: 9120020387798 ELECTRONIC
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GURTZ: All The Things EP 12" (EINMAL 052EP)
Gurtz is back on Einmaleins. After great releases for Igloo, LoMidHigh, Adjunct and remixes for Someone Else and David Keno in 2009, Gurtz starts 2010 with two deep and functional movers perfect to push you through the deeper moments and onto the floor.
$8.39 UPC: 827170319066 ELECTRONIC
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KZA: Remixed 12" (EF 023EP)
Endless Flight presents some brilliant remixes of tracks off of KZA's 2009 debut album. The hottest UK producer on the nu disco/house scene The Revenge remixes the A-side. The original was an Italo electro-style house track, which The Revenge upgraded to a deeper and more playful atmospheric deep house sound. KZA's favorite producer Fernando is a member of 2020 Soundsystem and Silver City. His dirty disco house remix is for fans of Prins Thomas or Rub N' Tug.
$8.39 UPC: 880319457616 ELECTRONIC
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LIARS/GERRY MITCHELL & LITTLE SPARTA: Keep Mother Vol. 4 10" (BLAZE 10147EP)
Originally released in 2006, this is the fourth installment of the Keep Mother series by Fire Records. Pressed on 10"s of lovingly-assembled, heavy-duty vinyl, all handsomely packaged in a die-cut card sleeve. Hand-stamped and hand numbered, and limited to just 500 copies. This volume features NYC band Liarsand Glaswegian street-poet Gerry Mitchell -- a rather interesting combination as Gerry's tale of a bummed-out summer combines perfectly with Liars' helium-induced cover of Led Zeppelin's "How Many More Times."
$7.99 UPC: 809236114716 ROCK
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TELLS: Hope Your Wounds Heal CD (FIRE 095CD)
Originally released in 2006, this is the debut album from Scottish duo Tells. Produced at Steadling Studios in Aberdeenshire, Jim Version and Caroline Ross kept themselves busy during their 4-year hiatus as both acclaimed producer (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Alasdair Roberts, Hookers Green No1) and vocalist (Susumo Yokota, Rothko). As previous incarnation Delicate Awol, they made swirls of epic jazz-psychedelia, but since parting ways with their rhythm section, they have been given room to explore a more minimalist approach built around Ross' vocals. Their sound is rooted deeply in their surroundings and wouldn't sound out of place on the soundtrack to the cult horror flick The Wicker Man.
$10.39 UPC: 809236109521 ROCK
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TENEBROUS: Tenebrous CD (FIRE 097CD)
2006 release of Tenebrous, the project by Steve Gullick (aka successful music photographer, creator of Loose Lips Sink Ships and Careless Talk Costs Lives magazines and one third of the critically acclaimed musical troupe ...bender). This eleven track eponymous debut album was recorded and played by Steve in various parts of his East London home. John Webb (Todd/Pre) added guitar to a couple of songs & Steve's kids (Jesse, Sly & Curtis) added piano & backing vocals. Tenebrous has been conceived to evolve without the constraints of a band line-up.
$10.39 UPC: 809236109729 ROCK
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VIKING MOSES: Swollen & Small: The Songs Of Neutral Milk Hotel CD (FIRE 103CD)
2007 release. A special 4-track EP from Missouri-based Jeff Magnum freak Viking Moses, featuring covers of songs by Neutral Milk Hotel. "...those already familiar with the selection here -- 'You've Passed,' 'Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone,' 'Where You'll Find Me Now' and 'Holland 1945' -- and with Viking Moses' quite unique vocal delivery should find a smile beaming from their chops not long after pressing play." --Drowned In Sound
$10.39 UPC: 809236110329 ROCK
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EVERCLEAR: White Trash Hell CD (SFIRE 009CD)
2002 release. Little known Everclear fact: at one point, Art Alexakis established a record label called Shindig, which promoted alt-country. He loves old country music and you can sometimes hear it in his tunes and music, which leans as heavily on the country and rock and roll roots of Creedence Clearwater Revival, as Northwestern three chords crash and burn against punk rage and fury. From the pastoral cow-punk revelations of "Fire Maple Song," to the burned-out nihilism and hollow dreams of "Heroin Girl," Everclear's earliest recordings truly set the moonshine on fire; now fully lodged in people's consciousness and several millions of album sales down the road, with an inimitably affecting grungy pop/rock sound, don't forget where these rockers started out.
$10.39 UPC: 802644300924 ROCK
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NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL: On Avery Island LP (SFIRE 036LP)
Vinyl version. Originally released on Merge Records in 1996, this is the 2007 reissue of Neutral Milk Hotel's debut album. Like their Elephant 6 label mates and kindred spirits Olivia Tremor Control's Music From the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle, Neutral Milk Hotel's debut, On Avery Island, is an inscrutable concept album, a chronicle of an insular world told in a remarkably universal language. A fuzzy masterpiece of experimental lo-fi recording, the album wraps its ragged pop songs in ribbons of loops, marching-band squawks, and Casio noodling; the opener, "Song Against Sex," is as much a manifesto as a kickoff, a self-propelled marvel hopped up on rapid-fire wordplay and a stunningly ramshackle melody punctuated by bloated trombone moans. Throughout the record, Jeff Mangum's wheels threaten to fly off at any time -- his songs are cryptic and crazed, his ideas fast and furious, and together they force the home-recording concept out of the basement and into a brave new world. This reissue includes two bonus tracks taken from the band's 1993 single Everything Is. Deluxe repackaging on 180 gram vinyl.
$16.99 UPC: 809236193636 ROCK
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NIDAM, MAAYAN: A Turnaround EP 12" (FNC 047EP)
Maayan Nidam, previously known as Miss Fitz, presents a collection of three productions that engage the listener on a journey into the heart of this impressive talent. A Turnaround commences with the rolling frequencies and jovial melodies of "Perplexday" before reaching the magnetic pulses of "You Break Me" and culminating with "The Road To Recovery," an eerie yet remarkably charming endeavor. Maayan continues to develop her style with each release and this is yet another collection that marks her as a true talent.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LARSSON: Der Kleine Elefant 12" (FUMALAB 005EP)
Der Kleine Elefant tells the story of a tiny elephant who is on a journey through a magical land. Along the way, the animal meets mystical creatures and sees stunning landscapes. Each track sounds like a modern-day nursery rhyme for the hero, the elephant. The "Original Mix" is a deep, swinging, organic groove, the "Floor Mix" is a heavy-hitting tribal floor-filler, and the "Dub Mix" is a 12-minute long epic that grows like a tree from fertile soil.
$8.39 UPC: 827170267862 ELECTRONIC
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MIKE MONDAY: Yoppul 12" (GDM 011EP)
Seasoned producer, musician and DJ, Mike Monday has always been at the forefront of the UK's electronic music scene. Heavily influenced by the dubstep and funky scene, "Yoppul" has the ethnic sounds of London written all over it. Its warm drums, hefty bass and quirky melodies are a tribute to the sounds ruling his city's streets. "Touch" with one hand harkens the good-old days, while the other hurls it into the now. A pedigree bred with only the best beats.
$8.99 EAN: 4260129251523 ELECTRONIC
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BJORKE, KASPER: Standing On Top Of Utopia LP (HFN 004LP)
LP version. HFN music proudly presents its first artist release with Kasper Bjørke's second long-player, Standing On Top Of Utopia. Two years after his much-applauded solo debut In Gumbo (released on NYC-based Plant Music in 2007), Denmark's Kasper Bjørke is thriving in the heart of the Copenhagen electronic scene. After more than a decade as a busy producer and DJ, Kasper has released his work on labels such as Plant Music, Fine, Thugfucker and V2 Records, and in addition, received a Danish Music Award for "Best Producer" for the project Filur, which he still runs with his old friend Tomas Barfod. This album is an exciting, multi-genre journey through Kasper's mature, extravagant and richly musical mind. Lashings of glittering analog synthesizer jams, warm, throbbing post-disco trips, touching, heart-felt pop songs and dark electronic club tools are all present. Kasper really went to town on this album, and each track literally overflows with first-class studio and musical ability. Bursting with live instrumentation, tape deck overdubs and an unmissable finger-on-the-pulse atmosphere, it's a treat for the ears, and in fact, all the senses. Ten uplifting, melancholic, timeless and life-affirming songs lie in store. A veritable Danish entourage of vocalists including Louise Foo (Giana Factory) and Tomas Höffding (WhoMadeWho) are featured on the album, alongside a wide selection of guest musicians. Jacob Bellens (I Got You On Tape/Murder) wrote the song and contributed the vocals and lyrics on "Young Again," the first single to be lifted from the album, which will be remixed by WhoMadeWho, Tomboy, Serge Santiago, and Lopazz & Zarook. Other remixes will follow from Jimpster, Zombie Disco Squad, and Kenton Slash Demon.
$11.99 EAN: 4250382401094 ELECTRONIC
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KIRBY, LEYLAND: Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was 6LP (HAFTW 001/7LP)
One of 2009's most critically-acclaimed releases, Leyland Kirby's Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was is now available in an extremely limited collector's 6LP edition containing over 4 hours of music, shrink-wrapped and sealed with a custom-made obi-strip. The records themselves are packaged inside three beautiful LP jackets featuring artwork by Ivan Seal. As a document, it's emotional and personal, heartbreaking and gentle, a 6-month fairy tale from the big city complete with heroes and villains, with winners and losers. Only 300 copies of this beautiful set have been made -- we strongly urge you to invest.
[Please note that the three Leyland Kirby LP sleeves are held together with glue spots. Please separate records very gently to avoid any damage to the sleeves.]
$34.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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COLLINS/ERROL BELLOT, SELAH: Pick A Sound/What A Wonderful Feeling 12" (HJU 001EP)
Three scintillating slices of the greatest UK digi there ever was, swingingly remastered and spiffily sleeved, to usher back the celebrated, Watch How The People Dancing, a compilation of cuts from the mid-to-late '80s Northeast London reggae sound system, Unity. The original DJ cut and dub version of Selah Collins's "Pick A Sound" lays down classic reggae chops with an electronic edge. On the flip, you get Errol Bellot's always charming "What A Wonderful Feeling." All brilliantly mastered by Basic Channel's Moritz Von Oswald at Dubplates & Mastering.
$7.79 UPC: N/A WORLD
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DAVIS/MIKEY MURKA, RICHIE: Lean Boot/Ride The Rhythm 12" (HJU 002EP)
Richie Davis' "Lean Boot" and Mikey Murka's "Ride The Rhythm," both with dub versions. Wicked, next-generation cuts, remastered and in spanking new sleeves in honor of the greatest UK digi label there ever was: Unity.
$7.79 UPC: N/A WORLD
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KNOTS/MIKEY MURKA, KENNY: Watch How The People Dancing/We Try 12" (HJU 003EP)
New edition of the first 12" on Honest Jon's, remastered and in a new sleeve. Honest Jon's presents a 12" sampler of London-based Kenny Knots' album, Watch How The People Dancing - Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989. Featuring a version not available on the album, a dub plate version, and tracks by Mikey Murka. Swinging, utterly mellow reggae & dub.
$7.79 UPC: N/A WORLD
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KHAN: Candygirl 12" (IMS 008EP)
I'm Single presents a single by the disco troubadour Khan. "Candygirl" is Adam and Eve, Joseph Fritzl and Angela Merkel. She is German schlager-kitsch but epic, deep-disco-house. Zeki Muren meets David Hockney. DJ Kaos delivers a straight pumping, Chicago jacking-house mix and Japan's Ikuo digs deep into his '80s neon-frosted cookie box. Both sweet and driving. This spinning lollipop is accompanied by cover art from Italian artists Miro Mastropasqua and Onze.
$8.39 UPC: 880319457111 ELECTRONIC
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FM BELFAST: How To Make Friends LP+CD (KRLP 012LP)
LP version with CD. This is the first studio-length album from Iceland's hot-buzz electro-dance band FM Belfast. FM Belfast makes joyful electronic dance music interlaced with fun and good fortune, with an inability to stand still or sit. The band started out as a duo on Christmas 2005 when Arni R. Hlodversson and Loa H. Hjalmtysdottir made a song as a present for their friends. Later that year, Arni Vilhjalmsson and Orvar Th. Smarason joined the band. They initially released this debut album locally in Iceland and have sold 5,000 albums already. This is angular, minimal electro-beats and catchy synths with male and female vocals in abstract, broken English that you will simply not be able to resist on the dancefloor.
$13.79 EAN: 5694110023469 ROCK
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KINK/TOM DEMAC: Bitter Sweet/Draw Me In 12" (LIEBE 030EP)
KiNK presents his debut original track for Liebe*Detail. "Bitter Sweet" really shows off his tender, heartfelt approach to house. Raw, beautiful, melancholic and spine-tingling, this is modern house with a harmonious nod to the pioneers. Tom Demac also debuts on Liebe*Detail with "Draw Me In," taking on a strong and bass-heavy approach, with tight drums and freaky vocal-snippets melting together into a mutant jam of seismic proportions. Reduced, casual and yet deadly cool.
$8.39 UPC: 827170322264 ELECTRONIC
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CONFORCE: Machine Conspiracy 2LP (MEAN 020LP)
2LP version, featuring six tracks from the CD. Tracklist: A1. Sonar Conversation; B1. First Impression; B2. Subtraction; C1. Intimidation; C2. Machine Conspiracy; D1. Rare Education. Meanwhile's second-ever album release presents the work of Netherlands-based Conforce. Opening with an insolent, precise, tightly-wound bass and hats configuration, there's immediate affinity with Carl Craig's myriad shades of impeccable funk. A kinship is established between windy cities, gloom, lakeside living -- a central, if slightly murked connection. A primordial roving bass line wades through the cooled-out density of "Sonar Conversation." "First Impression" typifies this album's marriage of fractured emotion with a heart of soulful belief -- the pulsing but still-functional human wreckage and embers that remain after the machines have moved on, if you like. "Subtraction" doffs its cap to Manchester's own emergent noughties sound: fat, sub-bassed, minimally-conjured, slightly-squeezed, acid-hi-tech-business. Superior stuff that wears it well on a drive at dawn through Babylon. "Intimidation" certainly lives up to its title, a sullen sense of clammy fear and whispered malevolence emanates, while the tune builds up a significant dancefloor momentum, deadly funky even within its coldly insistent patterns. "Machine Conspiracy" warms us back to life with a thrumming Basic Channel surge and a rimshot to die for -- one of those stripped dub destroyers you can return to in any mood for guidance. "Rare Education" jams on it like Magic Juan lording it at a mint bar hosted by Lil Louis -- sheer classic vibes. Machine Conspiracy is a gripping album.
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IRON CURTIS: Way Back Home EP 12" (MULE 067EP)
Iron Curtis is a Berlin-based producer, and this third release contains 3 Detroit-ish house tracks with a unique touch. The title track is reminiscent of old school Detroit house and will be simply effective in the club as a useful DJ tool for any house and techno DJs. "Save The Night" and "80 G" are a little bit more deep house style. Recommended for fans of underground house.
$8.39 UPC: 880319455612 ELECTRONIC
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On-U Sound presents Lee Perry's interpretation of the Black Sabbath classic "Iron Man," complete with heavy boots of lead. With Adrian Sherwood at the controls, and additional input from renowned reggae producer Dennis Bovell, this full-on thumping dub-stepper finds Scratch positioning himself as the "iron man - lion man - lightning man - super man" who "don't drink no booze" while sub-basses throb and wobble the bolts from his joints and the beats hit harder than a rivet gun. The dub mix is by Pempi, who ups the full-of-dread quota with a heavy barrage of drums, stuttering synths and swelling bass, creating a version that has the potential to consume every motor vehicle in the southern hemisphere.
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VA: Get OPSMized 12" (OPSM 025EP)
This record brings you four groovy tracks from Opossum label boss Marcel Jochmann, early label protagonist Rico Henschel, Moritz Piske, and label newcomer Daniel Kampf. This 12" is housed in some unusual packaging, using jute, which first appeared during the '80s eco-movement. This collection of tracks is a big ripper celebrating the awesomeness of the electronic movement.
$8.39 UPC: 827170332669 ELECTRONIC
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LANDSKY, MARTIN: Werkschau EP 12" (PFR 110EP)
The bold and futuristic year of 2010 sees the release of Werkshau, an unmixed compilation that gathers together a hand-picked selection of Martin Landsky's favorite cuts. This special EP captures 3 choice tracks including the seminal "1000 Miles," which is re-interpreted and brought up-to date as "2000 Miles" -- a strong, driving powerhouse of reduced acid signals and hypnotic synth phrases that is the sound of Martin Landsky, future, present and past.
$8.39 EAN: 4250382402916 ELECTRONIC
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OGRIS DEBRIS: Salty Womb 12" (RC 022EP)
Ogris Debris presents "Salty Womb" -- a peak-time monster located somewhere between Radio Slave and Matthew Herbert. On the B-side, you'll find two deep remixes by Brothers Vibe.
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MOTORPSYCHO: Heavy Metal Fruit CD (RCD 2093CD)
This is the third full-length release from Norway's Motorpsycho on the Rune Grammofon label. It's extraordinary when a band 20 years into their career are able to deliver a string of three great albums in under two years, like Motorpsycho have done with Little Lucid Moments (RCD 2073CD/RLP 3073LP), Child Of The Future (RLP 2088LP) and now Heavy Metal Fruit. This record is co-produced by Kåre Vestrheim, the prominent Norwegian producer known from his work with Marit Larsen, Hanne Hukkelberg, Shining and others, and rumor has it that he's had more influence on the finished result than other producers before him. It's a varied and dynamic album and it's fair to say that it encompasses all the well-known aspects that have made Motorpsycho an institution in Norwegian music. We get metal, classic rock, Moogs, mellotrons, prog, psychedelia and jazzy freakouts before it all ends with the 20-minute long, majestic "Gullible's Travails," an obvious candidate to become the finest piece of music they have ever committed to record. There are guest appearances from the above-mentioned singer Hanne Hukkelberg and ace ECM trumpeter Mathias Eick on loan from Jaga Jazzist. Motorpsycho was founded in 1989 in Trondheim, Norway's third biggest city, when mainstays Bent Sæther (bass, vocals) and Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan (guitar, vocals) were joined by drummer Kjell Runar "Killer" Jenssen. The first album, Lobotomizer, was released in 1991 after which Killer quit and Håkon Gebhardt took over the drums for many years to come. Gebhardt left in 2005 before the recording of Black Hole/Blank Canvas where Bent and Snah did most of the drumming themselves. With Little Lucid Moments in 2008, Kenneth Kapstad was recruited as the new drummer and permanent member. Kim Hiorthøy is once again responsible for the artwork.
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MOTORPSYCHO: Heavy Metal Fruit 2LP (RLP 3093LP)
2LP version. Vinyl edition is a three-sided affair, with the first side composed of etched artwork -- quite possibly one of the coolest looking vinyl etchings your bloodshot, stoner eyes will ever have the pleasure of seeing -- all housed in a lavish, triple gatefold sleeve with an embossed cover.
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ELEPHANT9: Walk The Nile LP (RLP 3095LP)
Gatefold LP version. This is the second full-length album by Norway's Elephant9. DodoVoodoo (RCD 2075CD), the debut from this Hammond-driven power trio, received excellent international reviews upon its release in 2008. Already a firm favorite on the Norwegian and European live scene due to top-notch musicianship, a high energy level and very enthusiastically-received concerts, they once again deliver the goods on record with Walk The Nile. Sporting five originals from Storløkken and one from Eilertsen, this is a general improvement on the debut, as good as that one was. Again being an all-analog recording co-produced by Christian Engfelt at Oslo's Grand Sport Studios, it has a gorgeous, organic, late-'60s/early '70s feel, combining elements from rock, jazz, psychedelia, funk and prog. Ståle Storløkken is widely considered to be the most inventive and musically creative keyboard player to spring out of the fertile Norwegian jazz scene, his playing with Supersilent, Humcrush, Terje Rypdal, Nils Petter Molvær and countless others being firm testament to this. Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen, on electric bass, was first known to the Norwegian public through his playing with popular rock group Big Bang, and later chart-topping pop group The National Bank. Torstein Lofthus is an extremely versatile drummer who has done a lot of session work as well as playing in jazz, soul and rock bands, most notably Shining. Includes MP3 download voucher for the whole album.
$16.99 EAN: 7033662030958 ROCK
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VA: Nigeria Special Volume 2: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds CD (SNDW 020CD)
...& Nigerian Blues 1970-6. The Soundway label presents a second volume in their Nigeria Special series. This volume features tracks that have been forgotten or out of print for nearly 35 years, but have since been tracked down and documented by Miles Cleret. The fruits of this arduous labor has taken over 10 years of dedication, research and travel to Nigeria, now culminating in the final part of Soundway's extensive survey of Nigeria's forgotten musical history. The range of styles on Nigeria Special Volume 2 vary from highlife to Juju and Nigerian blues in the languages of Yoruba, Igbo, Bini and Ijaw. With a peppering of "Afro" experimentation, the same musical stew pervades volume 2 as its predecessor -- some artists appear again alongside some new artists as the emphasis continues to focus on the laid-back and mid-tempo feel found on volume 1. It includes the bluesy guitar band style of The Otarus and The Peacocks International Guitar Band, sitting opposite the more uptempo sound of highlife legends Stephen Osita Osadebe (here bringing his Igbo version of the Cuban standard "Peanut Vendor") and Paulson Kalu. Progressive outfits Black Zenith's', The Don Isaac Ezekiel Combination, Tunji Oyelana, The Nkengas, Opotopo and Joy Nwoso remind us that these were indeed experimental times with their fusions of jazz, highlife and in the case of Nwoso, opera! Includes a 24-page booklet with detailed notes and rare photos.
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VA: Nigeria Special Volume 2: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds 3LP (SNDW 020LP)
...& Nigerian Blues 1970-6. Deluxe gatefold triple LP version, featuring three bonus tracks not available on the CD.
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VA: Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound 3LP (SNDW 021LP)
...In 1970s Nigeria. Deluxe gatefold triple LP version, featuring five bonus tracks not available on the CD. This is the fourth addition to the Nigeria Special series, a project initiated in 2004 by Miles Cleret, owner of the Soundway record label. Focusing on the big-band sound dominated by wailing saxophones, brass solos and relentless poly-rhythmic grooves, Nigeria Afrobeat Special delivers a no-nonsense collection of tracks that (bar one) have NEVER been re-issued outside of Nigeria. It was Fela Kuti and his musical and political ideals that formed the core of Afrobeat's message. Fela's highly sought-after version of "Who're You?" lends this set its lead. Originally released on 7" in 1971, it would later be re-recorded at Abbey Road for his album Fela's London Scene and is re-issued here for the first time ever. The collection features Fela's rival and fellow Afrobeat veteran Orlando Julius, represented by the track "Afro-Blues" -- amazing that this has previously managed to escape re-issue. Also featured are tracks by big names on the Nigerian scene -- Eric Akaeze, Bongos Ikwue and Segun Bucknor as well as a Victor Uwaifo-produced cut by previously unknown artist Andrew "Madman" Jaga. The album also features a cut featuring Pax Nicholas, a singer whose album Na Teef Know De Road Of Teef has recently been made available after 30 years. Cleret's ambition to distinguish the blossoming music scenes of 1970s Nigeria has lent to an indispensable series of CD and LP compilations documenting the influence of western blues, rock and disco amongst artists and musicians versed in the local musical styles of highlife and juju.
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CROSSON & GUTI, RYAN: You've Got Me EP 12" (SFR 018EP)
Guy Gerber's Supplement Facts Records presents the You've Got Me EP by Ryan Crosson & Guti. These tracks don't only fit into the label's repertoire superbly, but also capture a unique mood created by sensitive melodies, thick beat lines and a superb vocal performance on "You've Got Me," featuring Don Fuego. "You've Got Me" nourishes the poignant vocal line that really ties the track together. "Marimbaby" bears a funky Latin groove. Both tracks are equally useful on the dancefloor.
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BRAUN, JAMES: Symphonia 12" (TART 010EP)
This is the second release from James Braun on Tartelet. "Symphonia" is a combination of solid house, great production, and experimental sounds. With a Detroit-ish string theme and bass-driven grooves, the original is fun, intriguing yet powerful. Claude VonStroke's remix features many of the original elements but in an updated, very danceable version. Tomas Barfod shows his darker sides on his remix, taking "Symphonia" into the late-night with string pads, dirty drums, space-y synths and deep bass.
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SPARROW, JACK: Terminal/Torment 12" (TEC 037EP)
Jack Sparrow returns to Tectonic in mighty form and is currently unassailable. "Terminal" is utterly killer -- genuine anthem material. A new school flex with some future-proofed funkstep manoeuvres. "Torment" arrives fully basted -- glacial movements and a rockstone bass lay waste as gradual tension and eventual dementia build. Powerplays from Pinch, 2562, Headhunter, etc. Airplay from Mary Anne Hobbs.
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BLIND MINDED: Mr. Propre 12" (TRAPEZ LTD087)
London's Blind Minded presents his third release on Trapez Ltd. "Mr. Propre" is the return of the Detroit sound blended with modern, spontaneous mood changes. "Mr. Propre" is the most technoid of all three tracks, whereas "Jazz 2 Me" is a bass line monster, with lyrics focused on jazz assertions. "The Melting Freak" is the deepest of all three tracks. Here you can hear Blind Minded playing his analog instruments (including a real 808 drum machine). Funky and cool.
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MAETRIK: Paradigm House 12" (TREIB 090EP)
Maetrik delivers another generic for his mutability in sound, combining his typical, futuristic techno with soulful, deep shouts and marching vocals. The structure from the original track invites to be remixed, so the label decided to go for a guy who has been a long time on the remix-wantlist by Treibstoff: Mike Shannon, who delivers a great remix that will equally affect friends from old and new school tech-house.
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CHAUVEAU, SYLVAIN: Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) LP (TYPE 057LP)
LP version. It is hard to believe that five years have passed since French composer Sylvain Chauveau's last "proper" album. Of course, there have been re-issues peppering the years since Down To The Bone, as well as more than a few collaborations and soundtrack appearances, but Sylvain has purposefully waited to allow his ideas to come to fruition. The Depeche Mode songs he had explored on Down To The Bone had given him ideas he felt he needed to explore, and Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is his attempt at an album of "songs." In many ways, this album is constructed the way albums used to be -- it is compact and filled with vocal hooks and melodies, yet Sylvain has deconstructed the musical forms he grew up listening to and reduced them to their base level. Vocal snippets fall through the stereo field and his signature piano motifs splutter and cough through processed digital hiccups. As Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto deconstructed classical music, Sylvain attempts here to study and dissolve the roots of popular music. Each piece feels like it could have started as a 3-minute pop sing-along before the accompaniments were stripped away and the component parts reduced to merely a backbone. Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is a daring and challenging listening experience. The widescreen theatrics of Sylvain's previous work have all but disappeared, leaving an album that is stark and incredibly beautiful. It is an album rooted in a love of art and music, both minimal and mainstream and celebrates Sylvain's influences. One listen might only reveal surface details, but listen again and you will find much, much more.
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ZOMBY: Where Were U In '92? CD (WERK 006CD)
2008 release, repressed. Werkdiscs presents the debut album from Zomby, the emerging UK star of the dubstep and low-frequency community in 2008. Where Were U in '92? is the rave album that was never made in the early '90s, a tumbling anthemic barrage of lost mixtape masterpieces from an artist who has taken the electronic dance scene by storm. However, this is not just some facsimile-style homage to the past, taking a firm grip of the energy and sheer rushing dynamics of early hardcore breakbeat, and placing those sounds and styles smack in the center of right now. If bass rave is the next new twist to the dubstep template, Zomby already has it bent all out of shape.
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MORNING FACTORY: Forgotten Moments 12" (YORE 022EP)
Yore presents a four-tracker from the Dutch duo Morning Factory that's remarkably accomplished for a first release. Netherlands-based Jean-Pierre van der Leeuw and Jozef Lemmens produce a high-octane electronic body music that's timeless and fresh. Replete with drop-outs and epic pulsations, "Runners" sprints in with a midtempo house groove, while "You Gave Up" is no less satisfying in its soulful breeziness. A female singer spreads her bountiful vocal gifts around while the boys polish a sleek funk-house backing to perfection.
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PJUSK: Sval CD (12K 1059CD)
"Pjusk is Rune Sagevik and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik from the west coast of Norway -- both from small villages close to nature. The sound of Pjusk is inspired by the harsh Norwegian weather and wild landscape. At the center point of the collaboration between the two is an old cabin high up in the mountains. This is where most of the music of Pjusk is made -- framed by snowy peaks and the sound of cold streams. Sval is the second full-length release by Pjusk. Their debut album, Sart (12K 1042CD, 2007), came as a very welcome surprise to listeners and was heralded in the press as an incredibly strong, deep, and mature album for a debut artist. Boomkat (UK) called it 'an album which truly stands out, and will no doubt incite the sound of jaws dropping for the rest of the year." While Sart explored a number of the different paths that Pjusk takes -- from deep ambient, to near-IDM rhythmics and back to guitar-twinged experimentations -- Sval is an absolutely focused album that sees Pjusk settle into the style they are most comfortable creating: lush, wet, textured ambience. Restrained and warm, and keeping the barren Norwegian landscape close to heart, Pjusk has quite effectively drawn the connection between the warmly lit cabin in the mountains and the polar environs right outside their door. Deep, deep textures that stretch the horizon, beautiful wisps of ghostly vocals, and murky percolating beats that seem trapped beneath thick layers of ice -- Pjusk have stripped away any excesses from Sart and delivered a wonderfully singular vision with Sval."
$9.25 UPC: 898339000590 ELECTRONIC
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BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, THE: Zero EP CD (AUK 010CD)
"Originally released in 2000. Taking into consideration the last time we heard from the Brian Jonestown Massacre (1999's one-off EP of country-folk ramblings, Bringing It All Back Home Again), longtime fans of the BJM might still be a little taken aback by the songs on this 36-minute EP, somewhat of a departure from what BJM shaman and group leader Anton Newcombe has previously written and recorded with a revolving-door membership of sidemen and women. That is why the title and artwork (with its colorful pinwheel flowers) goes out of its way to imply that there are 'zero' songs from the album Bravery, Repetition And Noise included here."
$6.75 UPC: 689492072827 ROCK
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SUMMED & DOT: Jazzyman EP 12" (ALLINN 003EP)
"The imprint holds true to the commitment of pushing new talent with the Jazzyman EP from Summed & Dot. This dynamic new duo are ones to watch. With tracks already featuring on EPs for Suara and Meerestief, and DJ support in from the likes of Ilario Alicante, Boris Werner, Alex Picone, Livio & Roby, UES, Hector and Massi DL, this pairing are set to take the scene by storm. This EP sees us welcome another guest remixer, and the powers that be have picked well by enlisting the talents of a producer who is currently hotter than the sun: Massimo Di Lena. He reworks 'Jazzyman,' turning the original into a beautifully low-slung, sexual funk-fest. A truly stunning workout."
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COPPER GLOVE: Surviving The Garden Of Hate 7" (ARBOR 130EP)
"Copper Glove, the new project from Baltimore's Door (formerly Earth Crown; who shared splits with Secret Abuse and Kites on past Arbor releases), shows a further progression of his one man industrial-noise synth unit. In opposition to his former work, Copper Glove is more mindful of composition; utilizing tone generators and processed synthesis and vocals, to present a dense cut up analog form of industrial concréte. Door's nihilistic optimism carries itself with a sense of effortlessness; ideological aggression, a pure translation. With focused energy, the noise of the machine continues as man controls it. The city is destroyed but we can still live here, forever. In an edition of 300 7"s with silkscreened covers and printed labels by Door."
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PALE BLUE SKY: Shades Of Grey 12" (ARBOR 137EP)
"Pale Blue Sky is the new project from Mike Pollard (formerly Treetops). Shades Of Grey is the project's genesis; a long considered transition uniting the organic drone-work of the former project with compositional structures. The recordings embody a delicate sense of distance; staring out at the moving landscape obscured by the mediation of the window. Through blurred fidelity the origin of melody is placed under microscopic inquiry; an exploration into the moment of tonal interaction. Pale Blue Sky utilizes repetition and non-linear movements, attempting to reconcile simplicity, form, and sentiment through modes of difference. Placing focus on spatial concerns, as well as emotive potential, the five songs contained within are each different embodiments of the possibility of the transformative decay of remembrance. An ephemeral glimpse; the moment has already passed. For quiet, distanced listening. In an edition of 400 copies with full color glossy jackets, printed inner sleeves, and printed labels."
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GARBES, RYAN: Real Sugar 7" (ARBOR 140EP)
"Ryan Garbes is the drummer of Iowa City bands such as Wet Hair, Dunebuggy, Trash Dog, and formerly Raccoo-oo-oon. His recordings under his own name represent a unique brand of solo multi-track recording with a seamless integrity; through a skillful use of instrumentation and recording technique, Garbes eschews notions of low fidelity for songs reminiscent of traditional American garage rock produced in the haze of an early '90s UK aesthetic. Genuine pop songs, cloaked in a comforting wash of reverb, as if Lou Reed had done a record for Creation; more ecstatic than obstructed, Garbes' voice is a refreshing one outside the continuum of the contemporary four-track bedroom pop. In an edition of 300 copies with full color sleeve and printed labels by Ryan."
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FAUZ'T: From The Frozen South CD (ALP 192CD)
"Faust were certainly among the leaders of Germany's Krautrock movement back in the early '70s. Ensconced in 'The Pantheon' forever as truly visionary artists, their early records still sound light-years ahead of their time 30+ years later. From The Frozen South features original Faust mainman Hans Joachim Irmler joining forces with the iconic 'scape artist/percussionist Z'EV at Faust Studios. The topologically-charged results range from spacious and soothing, through full-on digital brutality; each piece is subtly tinged with both artist's distinct and respective take on the out-rock they helped create. Frozen South offers a glacial essence of the sounds these two legends have created and incorporated over the last 30 years, plus new ideas and experiments -- each distilled through a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration. An incredible sonic journey made by two of the genre's pioneers to be sure; a monument to the avant garde, perhaps... but steadfastly, as always: of and for the People!"
$10.25 UPC: 735286119220 ROCK
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KINK GONG: Electronic World CD (ALP 194CD)
"After recording the indigenous musics of countless Asian villages and releasing over 50 CD-Rs of these documents on his own label, Laurent Jeanneau debuts his own Kink Gong electro project on Atavistic!" "Since 1995 I am involved in 2 complementary activities -- first recording ethnic minority music, mostly in southeast Asia (India, Tanzania, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China); and second, composing electronic music that includes or transforms those recordings. Every country has a different context, so also my approach is different -- depending on how much time I spend, how close I am with the people, the degree of acculturation, how easy it is to find musicians, the political situation, who I am working with. In many cases, I seem to be the first one to record those musicians; I am aware of this exclusive dimension, but this is not essential. I won't pretend that I'm doing it for saving endangered cultures, nowadays everyone is using those words..." -LJ, 2009
$10.25 UPC: 735286119428 ELECTRONIC
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HAZEVOET/HAN BENNINK, KEES: Calling Down The Flevo Spirit CD (ALP 259CD)
"The Unheard Music Series is proud to (finally) reissue 1978's refreshingly unique duo recordings from Kees Hazevoet (The Unlawful Music & Pleasure reissues on UMS), and legendary Dutch percussionist/Dada enthusiast Han Bennink (Nerve Beats, Balls, Fmp144 & much more on the UMS)."
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WARE, DAVID S.: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume 1) CD (AUM 060CD)
"Recorded live in concert at the Abrons Arts Center, NYC on October 15, 2009, Saturnian documents master saxophonist David S. Ware's triumphant return to performance following his kidney transplant in May 2009. This performance prompted features in The New York Times and on NBC Nightly News. Ware, in full peak of form, performed three extended pieces, each one on a different horn. 'Methone' is on the saxello and 'Pallene' features the stritch. David has played these lesser-known members of the saxophone family for many decades and recorded with them in the late 80s, but this was the first time he has performed with them live on stage. The final piece, 'Anthe' is performed on the tenor sax. 'To perform solo saxophone is who I have always been,' writes Ware in the liner notes. 'This is the way I've practiced all of these years, as though I am performing a solo. It is just as satisfying as playing in any other context. The freedom allows you to witness and solidify what is passing through. There's a voice inside each saxophone, expressing different orders of Being. When you listen, learn to open your third ear. Listen for the voice inside the music. It will expand who you think you are.' Listening to this recording of profound solo performances, we decided to put it out as soon as possible. 2009 was David's 50th year of playing saxophone (he started at age 10 and never stopped!) and we planned to celebrate that auspicious fact with a new saxophone-focused trio session featuring him on all his horns. The studio was booked and the record was scheduled for a Fall 2009 release, but, of course, the universe had other plans. When David was well enough to perform again, he wanted to present a solo concert, returning to that idea of celebrating his anniversary by playing all three saxophones. That concert is Saturnian."
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FOSTER, RONNIE: Cheshire Cat LP (BNLA 425LP)
Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1975. Finely-honed, post-Freap organ jazz funk, featuring Joe Beck (guitar), George Benson (guitar, background vocals), William Allen (bass), Gary King (bass), Dennis Davis (drums) and James Mtume (percussion). Tracks include "Like A Child," "Tuesday Heartbreak," "Fly Away," Heartless" and "Funky Motion."
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UNS (Z'EV): What Does The Brain Have To Do With It 2CD (CIP 024CD)
"Z'EV has been exploring and breaking ground in the audio and textual fields since the mid 1970s. Although best-known for his metal-based percussive performances, uns, his electronics and vocal-based whirlwind, was one of the most innovative (and individual) audio experiments of the early 1980s. uns's combination of sound poetics and voice treatments with dense sonic landscapes resulted in challenging, unique, and rewarding audio. A historical testament to the challenge uns presented appears on the first track of this 2 CD set, when some of the audience members -- in addition to repeatedly shouting 'Die!' as the set concluded -- shout out for Flipper. Given the ire Flipper drew from their audiences, the fact that the audience preferred that disconnect to the disconnect uns was creating speaks volumes about the gauntlet uns had thrown down. Even when uns was active (1980-83), recordings were extremely difficult to come by and live performances were infrequent. This new 2 CD set presents four live performances, with only fractional snippets previously released anywhere. For fans of: uns, Z'EV, Lieutenant Caramel, sound poetry, musique concrete."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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KHEMISTRY: Khemistry LP (COL 38215LP)
"One year before Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones created Thriller, there was Khemistry. The Washington, D.C.-based boogie-funk trio only managed one release during their time at Columbia Records, but their self-titled 1982 album remains a revered classic of the genre. Under the guidance of producers Willie Lester and Rodney Brown, Khemistry created a pop masterpiece, powered by infectious dance grooves ('Can You Feel My Love') and soulful ballads ('There's No Me Without You'). A rare and highly sought after record by collectors, Khemistry's landmark album is now available in a fresh, properly licensed pressing."
$11.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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WITHERS, BILL: Greatest Hits LP (P 756987HLP)
180 gram reissue of Bill Withers' second best of collection for Colombia, originally released in 1981. Instantly recognizable, powerful pop soul. Tracklist: A1. Just The Two Of Us; A2. Use Me; A3; Ain't No Sunshine; A4. Lovely Day; A5. I Want To Spend The Night. B1. Soul Shadows; B2. Lean On Me; B3. Grandma's Hands; B4. Hello Like Before; B5. Who Is He What Is He To You.
$10.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MONK, THELONIOUS: Monk's Blues LP (P 757674HLP)
180 gram reissue, originally released in 1969. Arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. "Monk's genius shines through on some of the more sensible and sensitive arrangements, such as 'Reflections,' 'Monk's Point,' and the surprisingly tasteful 'Brilliant Corners.'" -- All Music Guide
$10.50 UPC: N/A JAZZ
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MONK, THELONIOUS: It's Monk's Time LP (P 757675HLP)
180 gram reissue, originally released in 1964. Featuring Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Butch Warren (bass), Ben Riley (drums) and Thelonious Monk (piano). "It's Monk's Time (1964) contains some of the best -- if not arguably the best -- studio sides that the pianist cut during his final years as a recording musician.... From four sessions in early 1964, It's Monk's Time gathers four quartet and two solo sides, presenting the pinnacle of what these musicians offered stylistically as well as from the standpoint of presentation. There is sense of mischievous playfulness in Monk's nimble keyboard work, especially notable on the beautifully off-kilter unaccompanied opening to 'Lulu's Back in Town,' and the same practically impish quality also drives the solo performance on 'Nice Work if You Can Get It.' Both pop standards are prime examples of the bop pioneer's inimitable approach to arranging, and also provide an uncanny insight to his influences." -- All Music Guide
$10.50 UPC: N/A JAZZ
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VA: Secondhand Sureshots DVD/CD (STH 2237DVD)
"Secondhand Sureshots is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab director Bryan 'Morpho' Younce sent some of the world's best beatmakers/DJs (Daedalus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G) on a safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make new music out of five finds while the cameras filmed the whole process. The result is a mini-documentary about putting new life into old vinyl. Over 2 hours of footage, music & bonus material. Accompanying the DVD is a CD of exclusive music created during the process alongside remixes and bonus beats."
$14.50 UPC: 659457223793 ELECTRONIC
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ALBERTINE, VIV: Flesh CD (E#22D)
"Viv Albertine is returning to music after a break of 25 years. Her first band, The Flowers of Romance, was formed with her flatmate Sid Vicious. Sid went on to The Sex Pistols and Viv to become guitarist and main songwriter with The Slits. Viv debuts her solo career with an EP on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Viv's songs are cute and dark with personal, almost confessional lyrics. 'I realised I was living out other people's dreams and expectations, not my own. When I started writing songs again, I couldn't stop the avalanche of pent up feelings pouring out.' The result is beautifully uncomplicated, stripped down and raw. In Viv's own words, 'a collision of twisted lyrics, mindworm melodies and kinky boots!'"
$5.75 UPC: 837654529126 ROCK
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VA: Elevator Music: Vol. 1 CD (FABRIC 1017CD)
"As dubstep splinters and morphs into countless sub-genres, Elevator Music: Volume 1 is the definitive snapshot of bass music in early 2010. Elevator Music is a collation of all variant strains of dubstep; a completely original and exclusive collection of future bumps that reflects the embracive nature of fabric's dance floor music policy. Pooling tracks from established producers like Martyn, Starkey, Untold and Caspa & Rusko with a smattering of producers destined for great things, Elevator Music ticks boxes in categories and niches that don't even fully exist yet; unifying the vision of 16 producers with one simple passion. Bass."
$10.00 EAN: 0802560101728 ELECTRONIC
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ROCK ISLAND: Rock Island CD (GF 243CD)
"Their self-titled debut album from 1970. This Chicago-based rock group provides a lot of hard driving rock, psychedelic, acid and R&B sounds that were so prevalent during the turn of that decade. They would later morph into Rain, who released another LP in 1972. Several members of the band would later go on to play with Paul McCartney!!"
$9.25 UPC: 645270024327 ROCK
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VA: Munich Disco Tech Volume 6 12" (GSR 097EP)
"Diverse but rocking as ever: Munich Disco Tech Volume 6 with a fantastic remake of Kissogram's timeless 'If I Had Known This Before' from Vincent Thomas, a great techhouse floorfiller from Slovenian No. 1 DJ Umek and his mate Jay Lumen and a banging techno track from Par Hammar (Malmö/Sweden)."
$8.50 UPC: 807297409611 ELECTRONIC
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RADIGUE, ELIANE: Vice Versa, Etc... 2CD (IMPREC 259CD)
$11.00 UPC: 793447525921 EXPERIMENTAL
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RADIGUE, ELIANE: Triptych CD (IMPREC 260CD)
$10.00 UPC: 793447526027 EXPERIMENTAL
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NHK: Special LP (IMPREC 283LP)
"300 copies. Pressed at RTI and screen printed at Monoroid. This follows NHK's sold out 12" on Raster-Noton. This is Important's final release in a 4 record series featuring the work of the enigmatic Japanese artist Kouhei Matsunaga. NHK began in Osaka in 2006 between Kouhei and Toshio Munehiro. Their previous work, titled Unununium, can be found on the Raster-Noton label. These experimental electro-rhythmic compositions incorporate beats, noise and a modern aesthetic."
$15.00 UPC: 793447528328 ELECTRONIC
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ASTATKE (FEAT. FEKADE AMDE MASKAL), MULATU: Ethio Jazz LP (LAP 005LP)
2002 release, restocked. "The Ethio Jazz album by Mulatu Astatqé is a jewel of the modern Ethiopian music and a mythical album, since the beginning of Ethiopian music reissues (mainly on Buda Musique). An incredibly groovy Ethiopian record, originally from 1969-1972. Amazing orchestral 'Ethio-groove' filled with US soul, jazz, sometimes Latin and the deepest Eastern rhythms, even including some great nasty and dirty fuzz guitars. A true gem of Ethiopian modern instrumental music, which illustrates perfectly this symbiosis of strong rhythms and quality arrangements of subtle yet deep Ethiopian melodies. A must for all '60s/'70s collectors! In the Ethiopian musical landscape, Mulatu Astatke is a unique musician, composer, arranger. His real contribution consists in his action for instrumental music, in a country where orchestral traditions doesn't exist. For the last 30 years, he is the leading head of the Ethiopian musical scene. First vinyl reissue and definitely one of the most important Ethiopian music albums."
$11.50 EAN: 3700193315123 WORLD
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AHMED, MAHMOUD: Erè Mèla Mèla LP (LAP 007LP)
2003 release, restocked. "The re-release series of original Ethiopian classic vinyl continues -- the finest Ethio jazz by Mahmoud Ahmed and his band from 1975 plus two tracks from 1978. The liner notes: 'Melancholy blues, piercingly minimalist country airs, brassy, danceable urban jazz, heart-wrenching, off-key crooners: a rich and stirring patchwork of sounds, crossing Afro-beat, Latino-swing moves and Eastern arabesques (Anaïs Prosaïc).' Such were the first -- informed and enthusiastic -- opinions of the music press when the first strains of modern Ethiopian music sounded on our shores. This was in 1984-1985. Such a positive note, struck about such a country at such a time, created plenty of reverb. The country had been so thoroughly trashed by the media's feeding-frenzy, which spewed out a mix of horror and pious pity, bitter denunciation and humanitarian appeals, wallet-tickling clichés and refusal of identity. In one brutal swoop, TV-reality transformed Ethiopia into a cursed nation, forsaken by God and by man. In contrast to these tragedies, but in the same hackneyed tones, Mahmoud Ahmed's life resembles an edifying fairy-tale where destiny, talent and achievement combine to triumph over poverty, fate and the evil eye. Biography, history and legend, with the help of God, infallibly weave the lesson of merit rewarded. But who can argue, in spite of the mockery that celebrities invariably draw, when faced with one of the greatest voices in all of Africa? Once upon a time, there was a street urchin in Addis Ababa, who started off as a shoe-shine boy and went on to become one of his country's biggest stars, opening the door to Ethiopian music to Western audiences." --Francis Falceto
$11.50 EAN: 0826596018065 WORLD
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BOND, LOU: Lou Bond CD (LITA 049CD)
"Despite working for some of the biggest names in the music business, Lou Bond is still regarded as an outcast. Early '60s material on landmark label Chess stayed on the shelves. Even 1974's self-titled Lou Bond -- released on the groovy yet little-known Stax imprint We Produce -- was left to languish in cutout bins and vinyl graveyards across the US. Why did this soulful black hippie, troubadour, acoustic guitar slung over his lanky frame, keep on trucking, rocking and rolling after so many professional disappointments? Lou Bond is the street poetry of Sixto Rodriguez and Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul rolled into one. All you need to do is listen to his 10-minute plus 'To The Establishment' to understand. With its hypnotic strings, rock-steady backbeat, and 'tell it to the people' lyrics, you may find insight into the world in which we live. It seems that, thirty-six years after its conception, not much has changed in our socio-political climate. But brothers and sisters, we are ready to make change happen and Lou's debut album is the ideal soundtrack for both living and loving! Without overstatement, Lou Bond is simply a lost masterpiece that, due to music business bullshit, never had its proper chance to shine. Until now! It not only combines a heavy-duty slice of Memphis orchestral soul with a deep dose of '60s protest folk a la Dylan and Richie Havens, but transports the listener via Lou's unique, tender, and impassioned vocal delivery. Light In The Attic Records is proud to announce the first CD release and vinyl reissue for the album which not only features the aforementioned underground classic 'To The Establishment,' widely sampled on platinum hits by such artists as Outkast and Prodigy (Mobb Deep), but never-before-heard bonus material that provides a greater understanding of the mysterious artist himself. Acclaimed Memphis writer Andria Lisle (MOJO) presents a comprehensive and engaging set of liner notes featuring Bond's first interview in decades and a breadth of interviews from key Stax alumni which gets right to the heart of the artist's bittersweet backdrop. This deluxe release includes a beautifully crafted digipak, original art, 32-page full color booklet, full lyrics, unseen photos, and audio re-mastered from the original tapes."
$11.25 UPC: 826853004923 ROCK
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LOVELIESCRUSHING: Crwth (Chorus Redux) CD (LINE 043CD)
"Lovesliescrushing, a seminal group formed in 1991 by Scott Cortez and Melissa Arpin-Duimstra, defies simple categorization by fusing elements of shoegaze, post-rock, ambient, classical, noise, dream pop, and experimental music. Achieving a diverse tonal palette utilizing only guitar and voice, 4 track cassette recorders and classic stomp boxes, they push the boundaries of noise and melody by employing a simple formula which blends swathes of deconstructed guitarwash and glossolalic vocals into densely layered soundscapes. Their compositions range from full on distorted noise blasts, reverb-soaked atmospherics, droning veils of sound, and ambient instrumental passages, that defy traditional song structures. With their penchant for warping the guitar and voice into new timbres, one could make the case that Loveliescrushing predates the current wake of 'new-gazey, lo-fi, and glitchy set' by more than a decade. Ostensibly a 'shoegaze' band, lovesliescrushing quickly set themselves apart in the early 1990s by eschewing drums, bass, and keyboards to concentrate solely on the barest remnants of song. By placing emphasis on minimalist textures through the use of effects pedals, they decidedly departed from standard rock forms and the standard instrumentation of shoegaze music. The original release of Chorus itself was inspired by a challenge... to make a Lovesliescrushing album abandoning Scott Cortez' trademark guitar work and use only the voice. Chorus was created by taking vocal tracks, deconstructing them via minimal processing, and turning them into new compositions. Cortez spliced the voice at the phoneme level using a meticulous cut/paste method, creating a phonetic dust. These particles were treated to create a diverse tonal palette of looped rhythms, low bass registers, warm drones, clicks, siren whoops, birdlike whistles and then arranged to form new delicate figures. The voice becomes indecipherable glossolalia, divorced from meaning and morph into abstract lush tones that envelop the song like a droning, luminous cloud. The 'voice as an instrument' was never truer than on Chorus, because it is the sonic material for the music itself, exploding the songs into ghostly remnants of their origin, the human voice. Highly sought-after, the original very limited edition was released only in Peru. In the process of trying to obtain a copy of this recording, Richard Chartier contacted Cortez directly. After long discussions of the work of Lovesliescrushing, Cortez was asked by Chartier to create something special for a LINe release and came up with an idea to revisit the tracks that comprise Chorus. The concept behind Crwth was to abstract even further upon an abstraction. Crwth is a completely re-edited take on the material, not merely a remix album, but an alternate version of Chorus, a redux. Crwth (Chorus Redux) is even more spectral, spacial, and hushed."
$9.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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ALVA NOTO: For 2 CD (LINE 044CD)
"Four years after the release of his dedicatory for record (LINE_026), Carsten Nicolai as alva noto returned to assemble a second recording of compositions devoted to a number of creative figures including industrial designer Dieter Rams, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and German dramatist Heiner Müller. Opener 'garment', inspired by a translucent textile designed in connecting sections, may serve well as a metaphor for this collection of tracks that take as their source of inspiration shifting zones and in-between places, links in chain-letter music, luminous bubbles, fragments of orchestral strings, and slowly decaying resonances. In 'anthem berlin' alva noto delivers a national anthem for artists Carl Michael von Hausswolf's and Leif Elggren's fictional land of Elgaland-Vargaland. Rather than relying on traditional orchestration, he snaps off a section of a marching band's snare drum roll and lets the percussive rattle reverberate to a tonal hum. 'ans' acknowledges Russian Evgeny Murzin's research into obtaining sound from a visible image and vice versa -- a central aspect of Carsten Nicolai's work as a visual artist. For this recording, alva noto was invited to draw onto the glass plate of the ANS synthesizer, producing the modulating sound heard on the composition. 'interim' and 't3' were composed for a prize-giving ceremony in honor of designer Dieter Rams. Performed live at the event, the background audio layers of 'interim' recalled the alva noto xerrox project in which peripheral sounds are elevated to a conscious composition. In 'villa aurora' we find ourselves among the dying moments of a held chord, until seconds later the lid of the piano is dropped shut, amputating its echo forever." "As we listen we are almost aware of this record having breath, as a watchful vacuum draws in influences before exhaling them back into the music. This ebb and flow marks time over for 2's reference points, reminding us that creativity is perceptive of that which lies at its edges and, similar to language, absorbs it within." -- Andrew Cannon
$9.25 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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BOGNER, URSULA: Pluto Hat Einen Mond 7" (MAAS 032EP)
Limited edition of 300 copies. More unearthed recordings from German pharmacist Ursula Bogner, possibly dating back to 1968. After Jan Jelinek's discovery and reassembly of Bogner's reel-to-reel tapes (released by Faitiche on Recordings 1969-1988), this 7" makes public for the very first time another 4 tracks of fascinating electronic modulations and synth loops.
$10.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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FIELD MUSIC: Field Music (Measure) 2LP (MI 149LP)
"Following a self-imposed three-year hiatus, the UK's Field Music returns with a new 20-track double-album of artful English pop. Powered by brothers and co-frontmen Peter and David Brewis, Field Music's line-up now includes Kev Dosdale (guitar and keys) and Ian Black (bass). The new album (self-titled but identified as Field Music (Measure) to distinguish it from their debut album) is a gloriously rich LP that entwines the brothers' renewed love of the rock music canon with a rediscovery of some of pop's overlooked adventurers. If one listens closely, one might hear echoes of Led Zeppelin, Bela Bartok, Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Bowie, Richard Thompson, PJ Harvey, Crazy Horse, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, The Blue Nile, Pierre Schaeffer, Roxy Music, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Todd Rundgren, and Discipline-era King Crimson. In terms of breadth and quality, it trumps the band's first two well-received albums, 2006's self-titled and 2007's Tones of Town, as well as the brothers' solo efforts -- Peter's The Week That Was and David's School of Language project Sea From Shore." Gatefold sleeve.
$16.00 UPC: 655035014913 ROCK
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TUDOR, DAVID: Bandoneon! (A Combine) DVD (MC 1080DVD)
"In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City. The artists included were John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. Archival material has been assembled into ten films, each of which reconstructs the artists' original work and uses interviews with the artists, engineers and performers in documentaries that illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the work. Bandoneon! (a combine) is David Tudor's first full concert work as a composer. Tudor played the bandoneon as the input into a complex sound and visual modification system that moved sound from speaker to speaker and controlled lights and video images, creating a work that animated the entire Armory space. This DVD documents the performance with film and vintage photographs as well as interviews with the performers, engineers and Tudor's fellow composers. Bandoneon! is the third film in the 9 Evenings series from E.A.T. and ARTPIX. This rare and historical film was produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin of E.A.T. and directed by Julie Martin." Region 0, all region format; 39 minutes.
$15.50 UPC: 880198108098 Misc
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ABRAMOVIC, MARINA: Seven Easy Pieces DVD (MC 1112DVD)
"For Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960s and 70s, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. The project confronted the fact that little documentation exists from this critical early period and one often has to rely upon testimony from witnesses or photographs that show only portions of any given performance. The seven works were performed for seven hours each, over the course of seven consecutive days, November 9 15, 2005 at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York City. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibilities of representing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral." Region 0, all region format; 93 minutes; color.
$25.00 UPC: 880198111296 Misc
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HURLEY, MICHAEL: Hi Fi Snock Uptown LP (MR 048LP)
"Reissue of Hurley's 3rd LP. Originally recorded in 1972, this record finds Hurley exploring the full range of his stylistic canon and features some of his most loved songs such as 'Water Train,' 'The Twilight Zone,' 'Eyes, Eyes' and 'Blue Driver.' Michael Hurley is one of our favourite songwriters of all time and we are very proud to present this first ever vinyl reissue of Hi-Fi Snock. Remastered from the original tapes."
$10.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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GORJI, NIMA: Yesterdays EP 12" (MUR 014EP)
"Nima Gorji returns to the murmur label in the new decade with two dancefloor seducing tracks on Yesterdays EP. A second artist EP for Nima Gorji on murmur, Yesterdays EP unites pure grooves with lashing beats, sedating the dancefloor with 'Forbidden Ritual' and electrifying it with 'Watchin' Out.' On 'Forbidden Ritual,' Nima took inspiration from the Brazilian instrument Berimbau. 'It was used in capoeira,' explains Nima. 'This culture and the its rituals was forbidden in Brazil from 1892 and capoeira was against the law for 20 years until 1918.' These hints of history encapsulate a mysterious aura for the record, and create a spell-binding listen. Taking a more traditional approach for the B side, Nima remarks, ''Watchin' Out' is the kind of a groove I usually work with and pure dancefloor cut.' Nima Gorji has made his mark on the underground dance scene with an array of uniquely mystical productions across many imprints. His productions have now been included on three of murmur's past releases. Based in Ibiza year round, he holds a long-term residency at Space and was nominated as Best Ibiza DJ in the 10th Edition of the DJ Awards."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LIARS: Sisterworld CD (MUTE 9429CD)
"Liars return in 2010 with their fifth studio album; their boldest and most exhilarating record to date. Sisterworld was written and recorded in Los Angeles by Liars and Tom Biller and is an invigorating summation of their career so far. Building on the back-to-basics approach employed by previous album, Liars (2007), Sisterworld is a dense art-pop thrill from start to finish. Sisterworld is Liars' own space, completely devoid of influence, somewhere remote from the false promises and discarded dreams amassed in LA. In it Liars explore the underground support systems created to deal with loss of self to society. According to Liars - Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - 'We're interested in the alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA. Environments where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society.'"
$10.75 UPC: 724596942925 ROCK
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LIARS: Sisterworld 2CD (MUTE 9432CD)
"Limited edition deluxe version, contains album plus bonus CD of remixes and reinterpretations of all 11 tracks on Sisterworld from artists including Thom Yorke, Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter / Atlas Sound), Melvins, Devandra Banhart, Alan Vega (Suicide), Chris & Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and Blonde Redhead, packaged in a special concertina case."
$14.00 UPC: 724596943229 ROCK
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KNIFE, THE: Tomorrow, In A Year 2CD (MUTE 9442CD)
"An opera based on Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. In 2008, Danish theater experimentalists Hotel Pro Forma invited The Knife to write music and libretto for their modern opera, Tomorrow, In a Year . The Knife, Swedish siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer-Andersson (aka Fever Ray), created a studio version of this opera in collaboration with the English musician/singer Planningtorock and the American musician/singer Mt.Sims as creative family members. They engaged with the Danish mezzo soprano Kristina Wahlin Momme, the Danish actress Laerke Winther and the Swedish pop singer Jonathan Johanson for the vocal parts. These 90 minutes of music by The Knife and their collaborators Mt.Sims and Planningtorock are sparked by the pioneer of natural selection Charles Darwin and his revolutionary evolutionary findings and writings in his book On The Origin of The Species. First published in 1859 and based on the discoveries he made on his journey to Galapagos Islands from 1831-1836, aboard the good ship HMS Beagle." "In November 2009, it was precisely 150 years since Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, a work that describes the biological and geological world, as it has come into existence and continues to do so every single day. Our view of the world has been changed forever as a result of the theory of evolution. Tomorrow, In A Year uses Darwin's way of observing and describing the world. Change as a process and the interrelationship of all things is the basic material of the performance." -- Hotel Pro Forma
$13.25 UPC: 724596944424 ROCK
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BLACK SABBATH: Black Sabbath LP (NEL 6002HLP)
180 gram exact repro reissue of the classic debut from 1970 that would go on to permanently realign the DNA of all things rock and roll, guitar tuning, wizardry, good and evil, war and peace, occult imagery, power chords, black clothing and British drug consumption for the rest of history. Absolutely classic, strains of this album's influence have mutated more than the bubonic plague.
$10.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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BLACK SABBATH: Master Of Reality LP (NEL 6004HLP)
180 gram exact repro reissue the 1976 UK pressing on NEMS of Black Sabbath's third album and the first real stoner rock record that counts, originally released in 1971. The song "Lord Of This World" incited waves of disenchanted fast food employees to worship Satan, set churches on fire and commit suicide. Also, "Sweet Leaf" is probably about drugs. Also includes "After Forever," "Children Of The Grave" and "Into The Void." "..."naive, simplistic, repetitive, absolute doggerel" -- Lester Bangs
$10.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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RUZICKA, PETER: Complete Works For String Quartet 2CD/SACD (NEOS 10822/3CD)
Performed by Minguet Quartett: Ulrich Isfort, 1st violin; Annette Reisinger, 2nd violin; Firmian Lermer, viola; Matthias Diener, violoncello; Mojca Erdmann, soprano; Christoph Bantzer & Peter Ruzicka, speakers. "Literary fixed stars spur Peter Ruzicka to continue on to make new musical observations. He reflects in his quartets the verbal scepticism of Celan, Hofmannsthal and Hölderlin, which allows the composer to examine his own thinking and feelings. He remains acute, too, and is therefore able to risk a glimpse into the depths of the human spirit. Heavy emotional outbursts are tempered by an ethos of reasoning, of reflection, and a certain urbanity if one will. In his later works, Ruzicka allows 'the word' to rest on a firm foundation, one no longer mute, but explicit -- what emerges are sensitive speech and music pregnant with meaning." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACDs that can be played on any CD player.
$31.00 UPC: 675754022594 CLASSICAL
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MESSIAEN, OLIVER: Complete Works For Piano Solo Vol. 1 2CD/SACD (NEOS 10907/8CD)
"Markus Bellheim opens the present recording of the piano works of Olivier Messiaen with a major piece, one in which various key elements of the composer's later music come well to the fore: a French sense of mysticism, synesthesia, the ascetic, the love of the voices of nature, and the notion that our senses may be honed if we listen in to foreign musical cultures with their rich hoard of melody and rhythm. In 'Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages,' exotic colours dominate. And in 'Regard de l'Esprit de Joie,' the Oriental source of Gregorian chant is immediately recognizable. The 'Vingt Regards' were written in 1944 in Paris, in the months before the city was freed. They are a document of expectation, of contemporaneity, and are an expression of an unruly era in which life would be defined anew and where a hunger for the future was to exist." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACDs that can be played on any CD player.
$31.00 UPC: 675754022600 CLASSICAL
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VA: Music For Double Bass CD (NEOS 11018CD)
Featured works: Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Nuit: C'est Bien La Nuit & Le Réveil Profound (1972); Isang Yun (1917-1995): Für Aki I (1981), Für Aki II (1981); Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001): Theraps (1976); Hans Manfred Stahnke (1951): Streetmusic III (1995, dedicated to Frank Reinecke); Werner Henze (1926): S. Biagio 9 Agosto Ore 1207, Ricordo Per Un Contrabasso Solo (1977); Bent Lorentzen (1935): Tiefe (1993, dedicated to Frank Reinecke). Performed by Frank Reinecke, double bass. "As Elgin Heuerding remarks in her introduction, Frank Reinecke plays an instrument that one can not 'hear out' from the musical texture but which can only be felt as part of the immense forces involved in orchestral sound. When allotted a solo role, the double bass reveals its otherwise reticent brilliance and is able to display some remarkable colors. In Nuits (1972) by Giacinto Scelsi, it takes on the garb of an Aeolian harp; in For Aki (1981) it sings many a beautiful melody... he was the son of a friend whose life was saved by Isang Yun. From the 'dirty notes' of Streetmusic (1995) by Manfred Stahnke we arrive at the wild and reeling sound world of Iannis Xenakis' Theraps (1976). This is a lonely reminiscence of the bells at midday, heard by Hans Werner Henze in 1977 in the Italian village of San Biagio. Finally we meet Bent Lorentzen, whose Tiefe (1993) gradually sounds out of the depths."
$15.50 UPC: 675754022617 CLASSICAL
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BRASS, NIKOLAUS: Songlines CD (NEOS 11021CD)
Performed by Helge Slaatto, violin; Klaus-Peter Werani, viola; Erik Borgir, violoncello; Frank Reinecke, double bass. "Various moods are encountered here, each strophe of a demonstrably vocal part reaching ever upwards into the jubilant light and descending into the shadows. Helge Slaatto (violin) takes over the line from Klaus- Peter Werani (viola), passes the word back to him and indulges in a little duet with Frank Reinecke (double bass). And then again, right up to the close, the song is sung on its own, by Erik Borgir (violoncello) and finally by the bassist. In a series of short but personal booklet texts, the four interpreters tell us how they feel about the music they play: as a fanfare, as a heady current, as an ocean voyage, into unknown vistas. As an encounter with never-ending pain. And as a glimpse of hope of something that lies beyond, a life after death."
$15.50 UPC: 675754022631 CLASSICAL
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WHITEFIELD BROTHERS, THE: The Gift 7" (NA 7023EP)
"This 7" single contains 'Oh No's Ethiopium Remix' of 'The Gift', the lead off single from The Whitefield Brother's Earthology. The track finds rappers Edan and Mr. Lif riding the producer's stilted sampling of some dirty Ethiopian 70s funk. The influence of Oh No's Ethiopian-based album Dr. No's Ethiopium is clear and this limited release adds another entry in the long line of duets between these Boston reared MCs. The B-side features the instrumental of the remix."
$5.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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KRISHAN, GOPAL: Dhrupad - Khyal CD (OCORA 561078)
"Features a subtle dialogue between two great genres of Indian music, Dhrupad and Khyal, played in raga Mangal-bhaiav and Tilak-Kamod. It is performed by Gopal Krishan on the vichitra veena (a rare instrument) and Anindo Chaterjee on the 'bass' tabla."
$13.75 UPC: 794881953721 WORLD
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LESE, GRIGORE: Lapus Song CD (OCORA 600023)
"Grigore Lese's album carries on the traditional singing of lapus country, in the region of Maramures of Hungary. It features long song, throat singing, Christmas carols and songs connected to agricultural and herding cycles or social life."
$13.75 UPC: 794881931323 WORLD
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FERRARO, JAMES: Last American Hero LP (OESB 037LP)
"Remastered reissue of an obscure tape that came out in a Europe-only edition in late 2008 on Dreamtime Taped Sounds - the label run by Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future. This is a very unique work in the massive Ferraro discography as it employs rock instrumentation in a minimalist fashion to dazzling effect. Features the tracks 'F-150 Night Eros At The Highways End', 'Blacktop Tumble Weed: Empty Monster Energy Drink Can', & 'Headlines (Access Hollywood)'. Limited edition of 450 copies. Includes a download coupon for the mp3 version." "Fantastic new album from James Ferraro - a series of meditations on American concepts of heroism and freedom as refracted via MTV, Hollywood and various black magic marketing strategies. Starts off with an unexpected slow avant blues guitar piece that picks up organ and synth to sound uncannily like early Charalambides before breaking into an electric boogie that serves to conflate notions of authentic outlaw forms and clichéd rebel shorthand while sounding totally fucked up." - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue
$13.75 UPC: N/A ROCK
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RANGERS: Suburban Tours LP (OESB 042LP)
"Rangers is Joe Knight. Suburban Tours is his debut vinyl release after a string of popular cassette albums in 2009 - including Low Cut Fades on Not Not Fun. His sound has been referred to out in blogland as 'elevator psyche' and 'mirrorball funknagogic pop' - and that's not a bad start considering his music is often bass-driven with washes of synth and prog-psych guitar riding over the top. Unlike the extended side-long collages of his cassette releases, Suburban Tours is a collection of eleven concise 'pop' songs that were written and recorded after moving to San Francisco from his native Texas. Not knowing anyone in this new locale, he describes the period after the move as being extremely lonely and plagued with near-constant rainfall. So he holed up and focused his attentions on recording a batch of songs that reflected on his suburban upbringing outside of Dallas and what he calls the 'failed connections with nature' that exist in these suburban zones (fake lighting, cranked-up air conditioning, golf courses, and gated 'communities' where everyone keeps to themselves). But despite the loneliness and melancholic themes there is a remarkable amount of color to his music. Like it's the sound of what he'd want to have playing on his headphones while riding a bike through these neighborhoods -- the sound necessary to make these places seem lively and fun. Music blog Visitation Rites hits the nail on the head when saying 'his music reflects a parallel fixation with the tape reel as a cutting board for the psychic trappings of middle class American youth.' Rangers is drawing from an entirely different set of musical influences than the rest of his peers - combining a passion for Manchester's Northern Soul sound with early '80s rock radio staples like Rush and The Police and the '70s prog-fusion of Weather Report. Plus he's got the chops to pull off this unlikely union -- in fact the cutting engineer for Suburban Tours was utterly baffled and commented that it sounded to him like a lost Steely Dan session recorded onto a mangled microcassette tape. That's a good thing, right? Full color pro-printed covers and insert - also includes a download coupon for the mp3 version."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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FOREST SWORDS: Dagger Paths EP LP (OESB 048LP)
"Wirral's Forest Swords make a textured, gauzy music as indebted to the Liverpool region's rich musical heritage as it is to the bleak-yet-beautiful coastal environment from which it was born. The result is something completely organic, sounding like a dancehall mix of Mogwai's more luscious soundscapes, Burial's sample-strewn claustrophobia, and Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores. The record's sweaty and thunderous dub grooves and cavernous guitar licks rub shoulders with R'n'B shuffles, dread-soaked percussion, and heady drones to create a visceral and epic sound. Dagger Paths consists of specially remastered versions of songs from the out-of-print cassette singles Miarches and Glory Gongs, along with brand new tracks. Full color pro-printed covers and insert - also includes a download coupon for the mp3 version."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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LES RALLIZES DENUDES: Le 12 Mars 1977 a Tachikawa 2CD (OVER 001CD)
Repressed. Double CD -- the most historic Rallizes recording of them all (originally issued by the band in 1991, only very briefly available -- there have been no legitimate Rallizes recordings since). Mastered from CD (presumably), with relatively extravagant die-cut printed sleeve packaging. "Les Rallizes Dénudés, Haddaka No Rallizes in Japanese, and probably 'Les Valises Dénudés' in French, are the most obscure group from Japan. Their guitar-based music began at Kyoto University in late 1967 with their first official gig in 1968. While their self-released recordings from this time are structured in a loose Group Sound ('GS')/Folk Boom-type style, their live shows featured deafening volume, strobe lights and mirrors for maximum disorientation. This, of course, invites comparison with the Velvet Underground's Exploding Plastic Inevitable not to mention Le Stelle de Mario Schifano's art-show happenings in Italy during 1967-68. References could also apply to the Grateful Dead before losing Tom Constantine and Ron 'Pigpen' McKernen. In any case, the volume was too much for others to deal with -- a relationship with a theatre group fell apart due to the band's refusal to turn their amplifiers down. Nothing was going to change for the next 20 years... In the late 1970s the band reappeared, playing their best music. It seemed that punk had allowed Mizutani, with his newly cut hair and leather clothing, one more chance to unleash his over-the-top distortion-laden guitar over their simple melodic rhythms for a supreme Asian form of acid-punk annihilation. In August of 1991 releases were finally made available. Three CDs appeared on the band's own SIXE label. These were 67-69 Studio et Live, Mizutani/Les Rallizes Dénudés, and the 77 Live 2CD set. The only other non-CDR artifacts are a video released in 1992 and a 7" included with the Japanese Etcetera magazine from 1996. It is all rare, sought after and expensive. The 77 Live release (reissued and re-named here with new diecut B&W artwork and photos, mimicking the old Ocora LP sleeve style) is the best, a document of extreme feedback and distressed guitar with Mizutani's detached vocals laid over languid rhythms, unbelievable in intensity."
$18.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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HARLEM UNDERGROUND BAND: Harlem Underground Band CD (TEG 9924CD)
"Here it is! This is the monster lost funk album from 1976 that features Willis Jackson, George Benson, and Ann Winley on a bunch of super-funky, tripped-out, straight-blunted and often-sampled cuts full of breaks. Worth buying for the track 'Smokin' Cheeba-Cheeba' alone (used by Eric B and Rakim, Genius, Medina Green, Smif-N-Wessun and of course Tone-Loc), the album also contains the great breakbeat version of 'Ain't No Sunshine' with a tenor solo by Willis Jackson (used by A Tribe Called Quest, Beatnuts and Ghostface Killah), and the slow bluesy talking cut 'Fed Up,' a baaaad rap about a couple splitting up. Very dope. Another reason to hear this record is the mystery behind it. Little is actually known. The cover says Willis Jackson and George Benson are the Harlem Underground Band along with singer Ann Winley, wife of Paul Winley, label owner and former member of the post-Atlantic Clovers, but many accounts say that there were a few other 'well known' and uncredited people in on the recording and that George Benson never actually played on any of the tracks. So who knows what's really happened back in 1976, but either way, the album has great grooves, whoever the guitar player is!"
$11.25 UPC: 829357992420 ROCK
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POPNONAME: Spaces 12" (POP 002EP)
"Brut! Records baby sister label, POP!, sees its second release with Popnoname's Spaces. An eclectic line-up -- including Joerg Burger, Freund der Familie and Paid for Fame -- remix the original three times over, offering varied perspectives of the same brave track. Revving its engine, 'Spaces' drives you to experience things: it invites you to crack yourself open so that some new future might pour through that voluntary rift. Bold and beautiful and formless, it emerges: a baby nebula, cradled in the spiral arms of a distant galaxy, patiently building mass as it clumps gas and dust together." On clear vinyl.
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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KOHOUTEK: Lossless Loss LP (PM 9990LP)
"LosslessLoss, the second studio album from Mid-Atlantic improv collective Kohoutek, covers most of the dynamic stylistic range Kohoutek is known for: abstract and textural sound, atmospheric rock, harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics, and alien electronics congealing to form a multihued psychedelic extravaganza. Recorded deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in September 2007, the five members embarked on a psilocybic twilight journey, and this 44-minute aural excursion is the result. No overdubs and minimal editing create an experience as close as possible to a Kohoutek performance. With longtime core members Scott Verrastro (percussion, flute), Craig Garrett (bass) and Scott Allison (electronics) augmented by Vic Salazar (electric guitar) and Damian Languell (vocals, harmonica, clarinet, didgeridoo, Space Echo), Kohoutek forge their own path in the improv universe, and Lossless Loss is another burning fragment of this fleeting sonic comet." White & orange-colored vinyl housed in a deluxe, full-color gatefold sleeve.
$17.00 UPC: 760137999010 ROCK
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YA HO WHA 13: Sonic Portation LP (PM 9991LP)
Gatefold LP version; limited, numbered edition of 500 copies on far out blue and white-swirled interdimensional-colored vinyl. "If Oliver Stone decided to make another movie featuring the psychedelic period of the late sixties, Sonic Portation would be the perfect soundtrack" -- Marc Roy, Proggnosis
"...say turn it up loud, close your eyes, and feel the divinity of sound itself." -- Todd Zacharitz, Goatsden
"Seldom has 'religious' music sounded so simultaneously earthy, spacy, guttural and evil. This sure ain't the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.' " -- LA Weekly
$17.00 UPC: 760137999119 ROCK
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MAKOTO & MICHISHITA SHINSUKE, KAWABATA: Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square) LP (PM 9993LP)
"Acid Mothers Temple main man Kawabata Makoto links up with LSD March guitarist Michishita Shinsuke to create another amazing platter of fantastic sounds and vibes. Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square) finds the duo moving on from the electric guitars of their previous duo releases to an all acoustic album featuring ethnic instruments from around the globe. Two side long pieces mesh drone music with an ebb and a flow usually found on soundtracks or the soundtrack in one's head. New psychic territorial landscapes the cosmic cartographer mapped yesterday before tomorrow. Limited to 500 copies on swirled colored vinyl in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve."
$17.00 UPC: 760137999317 ROCK
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DOO SOO, KIM: Evening River 2CD (PSF 8032CD)
Korean acid folk icon Kim Doo Soo returns with a new album of earthbound melancholy and world-weary mysticism. Includes a three-song bonus CD, including a cover of the standard "Danny Boy." Housed in a stylish mini-LP style gatefold package with a 24-page booklet of lyrics in both Japanese and English.
$16.50 EAN: 4988008026641 ROCK
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PAIC, DORIAN: Now And Then EP 12" (RAUM 075EP)
"After his last compelling project together with Chupacabra for our 10 Years Raum compilation, label head Dorian Paic releases his second solo EP on Raum...musik. Support comes from his buddy, the notorious Guillaume Coutu Dumont, who also has released on Raum a few times before. Guillaume turns the title track of this EP into a slowly building and very hypnotic track that is almost 12 minutes long and reaches its peak in the very end of the track. Enjoy!"
$8.50 UPC: 807297475111 ELECTRONIC
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SIMONE, NINA: Black Gold LP (LSP 4248LP)
Exact repro reissue of this 1970 live album, recorded in 1969 at the Philharmonic Hall, New York. Includes her stunning interpretation of the traditional "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair"; other songs include "Ain't Got No; I Got Life," "Westwind," "Who Knows Where The Time Goes," "The Assignment Sequence" and the Civil Rights-anthem "To Be Young, Gifted And Black."
$8.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SHINDIG: Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 15 March-April 2010 MAG (SHIN V2#15)
"Featuring two groups at the polar opposite ends of pop music, The Hollies and Ramones, Shindig! has decided to put them both on the cover... at polar opposites. It's a two-way cover which can be racked either way up. The Hollies: 'We're about as psychedelic as a pint of beer wit' lads!' Maybe so, but their summer of love was one of the brightest; The Ramones: 'We're too real for radio. They play safe stuff that won't upset anybody.' Previously unpublished interviews and 30 years of Rock 'n' Roll High School; The Bosstown Sound: Strange tales from the banks of the River Charles; Giles, Giles and Fripp: The band that became King Crimson; Granny's Intentions: Psychedelic blues from the Emerald Isle; Popol Vuh: Krautrockers who worked with maverick director Werner Herzog on his film soundtracks; Stephen Stills: Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills and Nash, guitar god, what more do you want?" 92 pages.
$6.00 EAN: 9771754361006 ROCK
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SYLVESTER: Over & Over/I Need Somebody To Love Tonight 12" (F 797EP)
"Last night I attended the Manuel Gottsching performance at Club Love NYC. A few minutes into Göttsching's set, in the silence following the enthusiastic applause for his classic 'Shuttlecock' track, a lone individual in the crowd shouted enthusiastically, 'Fuck her in the ass!' As I chuckled to myself, I was surprised to see the young man in question vocally denounced by his surrounding patrons for what they believed was an insulting, inappropriate and immature act. Clearly these attendees felt that the young man's perverse proclamation was an attack on the integrity of the event, an insult to Göttsching's legacy and his appearance that evening. I was surprised and taken aback as well, not with the young man but with the appalling show of conservativism on the part of these patrons, denouncing this young man for what was once the very energy and enthusiasm that fueled the legendary parties and club communities of NYC's underground in years past. I can understand that some people came to the event expecting a conforming, pleasantly civil and relatively tame concert by the legendary Krautrock pioneer (which is disturbing in itself); what I was most worried by was the fact that the majority of those who rose in anger against this youngster were themselves veterans of the party circuits of NYC's legendary past. It seems they've forgotten the fun-loving, unrestrained, youthful energy that made the parties like the Paradise Garage, The Loft, Club Zanzibar & Body & SOUL so free, where the normal formalities and social constraints of everyday routine were washed away and impulsive, pleasure-seeking mania took over. I mean, seriously, think about it: if the flaming transsexuals that used to rule the party scene of the '70s, '80s and '90s were at the event in question, they would've been driven out the second they walked by the very people who are constantly pushing empty slogans like 'It's all about love' and 'Everyone's welcome!' down our throats. In reality, many of these so-called 'party people' are too old (more so in attitude than age), too straight-laced, too concerned with their image and air of 'maturity' and 'sophistication' to even remember what was so free about the 'Loft' all the way up to the not-so-long-gone Body & SOUL parties: these events were free-zones, unsoiled spaces of fraternity and pleasure where individuals were finally able to interact with each other without worrying about what they said, how they looked, who they knew and how cultured or respected they seemed. It never ceases to amaze me how often many of these completely out-of-touch elders of the dance music community talk about being 'free,' about 'love and happiness,' when they can't even find the inner-child within them to let go of their idiotic pretenses and actually have a good time. In reality, their major concern is to ensure that House Music is perceived by the rest of the world as a legitimate and dignified 'culture,' one that can be respected by the rich, the noble, the fashion world, the safeguards of accepted norms and standards for decency and discipline in society: to ensure that they keep their distance from street people, drag-queens and drug-addicts, so that they can finally be respected as discerning, unthreatening, dignified adults who have a place in this increasingly boring and very much UNspontaneous society. Something tells me that Sylvester did not draw his inspiration for the completely unrestrained, wildly energetic vocal belting of 'Over & Over' from a gathering of 40 & 50 somethings who were more concerned with how they dressed and who they knew than having a good time. Equally less likely it seems that Sylvester would've made the brilliant, sex-obsessed 'I Need Somebody To Love Tonight' after attending a party of married couples trying to relive their wilder days in the tamest way imaginable. And yet these brilliant songs are championed by the very same heads that would look at a drunken, lustful gathering of young adults now with patronizing disapproval. Dance music must push forward and stay free if it is to survive. Now is the time to change by recovering the old ways. BE FREE, always. Limited-edition Sylvester classics as brought to you by Slow To Speak..."
$9.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VA: Tropical Soundclash! 12" (SOFR 005EP)
"The Sofrito crew return with four more tropical bangers to heat up the dancefloor! Joining forces with the talented Tropical Treats outfit from Sweden -- responsible for the big Afrikan Rhythms 12" on Gamm -- the Tropical Soundclash! EP covers raw afro funk, heavy cumbia, Caribbean disco and hot carnival rhythms, perfect for your tropical discotheque!"
$10.00 UPC: N/A WORLD
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CAN: Delay 1968 CD (SPOON 9437CD)
2007 remastered release. "Although recorded in the late '60s, the material included on Can's Delay 1968 did not appear commercially until 1981. A collection of cuts featuring early vocalist Malcolm Mooney, these seven songs are among the very first Can tunes ever recorded."
$7.25 UPC: 724596943724 ROCK
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MCGRIFF, JIMMY: I've Got A Woman LP (SUE 1012LP)
Exact repro reissue of Jimmy McGriff's debut album, originally released in 1963. "....mixing the ingredients of the jazz blues and gospel idioms with a refreshing, almost pop-like fervor can be appreciated on such favorites as Hamp's high-flying 'Flying Homes,' Duke's hip-swinging 'Satin Doll' and Lerner & Lowe's finger-snappin' 'On The Street Where You Live.' The moody-blues dept. is intriguingly covered in the 'Round Midnight and 'After Hours' stands. The inviting originals include a shufflin' 'All About My Girl,' a rhythmic, steady beat 'M.G. Blues,' a bright twist-like 'That's The Way I Feel' and as a final, the galloping 'Sermon.'"
$8.00 UPC: N/A JAZZ
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JAVELIN: 2 12" (THR 012.39EP)
"Javelin consists of two cousins, Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford. Together they have amassed a vast catalogue of music, varying in its aesthetic range. Songs resemble the record collection from whence they spring, if not literally as when sampling, then figuratively as when past forms are cited and re-contextualized. Sounds range from broken dance jams to relaxed instrumental cut-ups, created with love on their MPCs. Long forgotten samples are chopped and re-assembled with drums, wooden recorders, old keyboards, handmade thumb pianos or whatever instruments are readily at hand. The result is a kind of mix tape fantasy (residing in the mythical 'dollar bins of the future'), where R & B impresarios, amateur booty bass producers and Andean flautists hold equal sway." Each comes in a unique, paste-on/silkscreened recycled sleeve.
$10.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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GEDDES & MIC NEWMAN: Solaris 12" (TSUBA 039EP)
"Murmur records head man Geddes teams up with rising star Mic Newman on Solaris. The result is seductive and organic deep house with a bottom end that packs serious punch on the dancefloor. Detroit's Anonym strips things back to provide a deeper and more driving take on the original. A stunning 12" featuring two tracks of forward-thinking, club-friendly house music."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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INDEX: Index LP (VALORD 2004LP)
Last copies of this official reissue from 2004 of the first Index LP, originally released in 1967. All copies have a certain amount of edge-warp (as expected, I guess) and are sold as is. "Much has been written about this incredible band. Much of it isn't true. I want to set the record straight. Index was formed in the early spring of 1967 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. I was 18 years old when I met a chain-smoking 16-year-old named Gary Francis. Our conversation soon got around to rock and roll. He told me that he and his friend, John Ford, were forming a band. I told him that I played drums and we arranged a jam session at John's home on Lakeshore Drive. Our first meeting was incredible. Our sound was full and powerful. John's lead guitar techniques were fresh and innovative. After our first sessions we knew we had something special. Index was born. Soon we hit the local 'sock hop' circuit, playing at high schools and teen clubs in the area. We poured our unique sound out at The Hideout, Undercroft and G.P. War Memorial every weekend. One afternoon John pulled out a new album he had been listening to. It was a new band with a mind-shattering sound called 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience.' John played some songs he had written inspired by this 'psychedelic' sound. Over the next few days, 'Fire Eyes,' 'Shock Wave' and 'Feedback' were written. This album was recorded in December of 1967 at the Ford estate. It is recorded in mono sound with literally one microphone and with all instruments and vocals recorded at the same time. The cover photo is of 'Orpheus and Bacus,' founders of a singing group John joined at Yale. The stiff, board-like figures seem to characterize the exact opposite of this musical collection. This reissue is taken from the original recordings. Nothing has been added and all songs are in their original length. Over the years various bootleg copies of this album have surfaced but this is the original work." -- Jim Valice
$15.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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PELT: Techeod CD (VHF 036CD)
2010 repress, originally released in 1997. "Pelt's mix of traditional (acoustic instruments, folk and ethnic music) and contemporary (about one million super-weird noise and avant-garde records) reaches a peak on Techeod (pronounced 'Teyhood'). Using tamboura, guitar, violin, tabla, banjo, flute, lap steel, oscillator, voice, organ and a variety of other instruments both conventional and homemade, Pelt issues forth a massive and extraordinary gust of sound. Recorded both at home and live in Washington, DC, it's a sound extravaganza complete with Indian-inspired modal trance, wall-of-sound layered melodica, and tape-loop exotica in the vein of compositional explorers like Terry Riley and Steve Reich."
$10.75 UPC: 783881003628 ROCK
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GONJASUFI: A Sufi And A Killer CD (WARP 172CD)
"In these recent heady days, hype spreads like digital swine-flu and new artists are subjected to the sea change of an entire career before ever developing their sound. So to exist outside of the spotlight and develop a sound at once ready for the masses online, yet rooted in the fierce individualism of artists past may seem somewhat of a quaint notion until you hear Gonjasufi. At the moment, he stands just outside the spotlight cast on his friends and collaborators Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer, but the sonic brotherhood that exists is implicit rather than as similarities in sound. Drawing from unearthed strains of global psychedelia and merging it with a rejuvenated sense of hip-hop clarity currently distinct to the West Coast, Gonjasufi is more than just a songwriter, MC or performer. His debut album A Sufi And A Killer recalls moments in love as well as trading sinister threats with enemies, sometimes within the same song. Trading in both the murk of lo-fidelity vintage samples and the concentrated crispness of current West Coast production, A Sufi And A Killer is both a roadmap to the riches of the distant past and a signpost to the future."
$11.50 UPC: 801061017224 ELECTRONIC
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GONJASUFI: A Sufi And A Killer 2LP (WARP 172LP)
Gatefold 2LP version.
$14.50 UPC: 801061017217 ELECTRONIC
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DEAR MR. TIME: Grandfather CD (WH 029CD)
"First-ever official reissue of Essex-based band Dear Mr. Time's highly-regarded and much sought-after psych/prog concept album Grandfather. Heavily influenced by the Moody Blues and early King Crimson, Grandfather was recorded in mid-1970 and issued by the tiny Square Records in February 1971, but was only pressed in a total quantity of 1000 copies. This definitive release is taken from the original master tapes, and adds five superb home demos recorded around the same time as the album by guitarist and chief songwriter Chris Baker. It tells the group's story for the first time, and includes many previously unpublished photographs." Includes a 16-page booklet.
$14.00 UPC: 823566498124 ROCK
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WOOFAH: Woofah #4 MAG (WOOFAH 004)
"After more than a year between issues, a welcome return for Woofah magazine. Now weighing in with 92 pages, still no adverts. Features: Untold - interview with this forward looking dubstep producer; Dubplate Cutting Houses - Woofah shines a light on this hidden corner of UK soundsystem culture; Newham Generals - Keeping it grimey; Tony Thorpe - Major interview with this UK Bass legend - from 400 Blows to the KLF to dubstep. Who Killed Michael Smith? - The tragic story of the legendary dub poet, with contributions from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell; Young Warrior and Joe Ariwa - The sons of Jah Shaka and Mad Professor tell us about the next generation of UK Dub; Sci-Fi and Reggae - Rastas in space, reggae producers looking to the stars; Ron Vester - Studio One's official photographer talks to us about the last days of Coxsone Dod; Dubkasm - UK Dub by way of Bristol and Brazil. Hessle Audio - Ramadan Man and Ben UFO step up; YT - In depth look at the Born Inna Babylon album; Hot Gal Commandments / Cartoon / Memories of Eek A Mouse; Reviews."
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SIC ALPS/MAGIK MARKERS: Tour 12" LP (YIKYAK 017LP)
Repress of a December 2009 West Coast tour split 12", with different colored artwork. "Sic Alps give up three tracks with help from Lars Finberg (Intelligence) and Ty Segall, the highlight being a great punched-in guitar solo from Matt Hartman that makes one song reminiscent of a Safe As Milk outtake. Markers show up with a 7ft bass player who throws the band into Guru Guru mode. Great all around. 600 copies."
$8.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VELASQUEZ Y SU CONJUNTO, ANIBAL: Mambo Loco CD (AACD 067CD)
Analog Africa moves its focus to another continent for release number 7: Mambo Loco is a compilation of tracks by Anibal Velasquez, the legendary accordionist from Barranquilla in Colombia. In fact, when not crate-digging in Africa, Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb can often be found in Colombia. Nestled between the Caribbean Sea and the Rio Magdalena, lies the city of Barranquilla. Hailed by its locals as Colombia's "Puerto de Oro" (Golden Gate), Barranquilla has served as a gateway for "Caribbean Tropical Sounds" for almost a century. Home to the country's biggest cultural celebration, El Carnaval, and the birthplace of Colombia's radio and recording industry, Barranquilla has always been a city deeply rooted in musical traditions, and nobody embodies Barranquilla's rich musical heritage more than Anibal Velasquez. Known affectionately by his fans as "El Mago" (the Magician), Anibal has been one of the most prolific musicians of Colombia's Musica Tropical movement. Anibal was born into a musical family in Barranquilla in 1936. His father was an accomplished musician but his biggest influence was his older brother Juan who first introduced him to the secrets of the accordion. One of the turning points was a chance encounter with Robertico Roman, a musician from Cartagena. "It was with Robertico Roman that I formed my first band called Los Vallenatos de Magdalena. I made my first recording with that band in 1952. Four songs were recorded including a track called 'La Gallina,' which became a huge hit and really spread the costal sound toward the interior of the country." Unfortunately soon after, in 1955, band-mate Robertico died and Los Vallenatos de Magdalena had to disband. Without a band, Anibal was forced to take a job as a session musician for Barranquilla-based label Disco Eva working for a group called El Conjunto Colomboy. He remained with Disco Eva until the end of the 1950s, working closely with the great Costeno master Lucho Campilo. Then in 1960, Anibal formed a new group together with his elder brother Juan, a gifted musician in his own right, and his younger brother Jose who would soon become his right hand man, enabling Anibal to add a new dimension to his playing style. Jose himself began experimenting by incorporating new instruments and re-inventing old rhythms. He would break the rules and replaced the traditional bongos used in Cuban guaracha and rumba with a traditional Colombian drum called "La Caja" which he modified by adding "radiografias medicas" (x-ray film) over the drum. This -- combined with Anibal's powerful accordion -- was to become a sensation, generating a much harder and drier sound than the traditional leather skin drums. Anibal's new Guaracha style was infectious, fast and furious, often leading his crowds into a state of frenzy. The interest for Anibal's new innovative sound started growing and recording offers poured in. Anibal began to have an impressive amount of followers, drawing huge crowds wherever he went. By the mid-1960s, music in La Costa began to change drastically. With the onset of the hippie movement in the United States came a craving for marijuana, and Colombia's Caribbean Coast had become a main trafficking hub. A new economy of drugs had emerged and with it a musical style called Vallenato rose to prominence. Its distinct accordion sound and bluesy appeal made it a favorite among drug lords and mafiosos alike, becoming the soundtrack for their feverish life-styles. By the 1970s the level of violence in the coast had grown to unprecedented heights and Vallenato was everywhere. Fed up with this, Anibal decided to move to Caracas, Venezuela, where he remained for 18 years until finally returning back to his beloved Barranquilla in the late '80s. Anibal's contribution to Colombia's Musica Tropical Movement cannot be forgotten. It is said that Anibal Velasquez recorded 300 LPs throughout his remarkable career. His ability to play music that was joyful and percussive, with lyrics right out of everyday life, while at the same time championing a new sound, has made him into one of the few living legends of Colombia's glorious musical past. Includes a 24-page booklet.
$12.99 EAN: 4260126060722 WORLD
01. Carusseles
02. Los Vecinos
03. Cecilia
04. Mi Cumbia
05. Que Paso
06. Vestido Nuevo
07. Mambo Loco
08. Cumbia Bogotana
09. El Pecheche
10. Santo Amor
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VELASQUEZ Y SU CONJUNTO, ANIBAL: Mambo Loco LP (AALP 067LP)
Gatefold LP version on 180 gram vinyl.
$13.79 EAN: 4260126060739 WORLD
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SHKVAL: Slow Death Process LP (ANT 001LP)
Shkval is a Brussels-born duo which first saw the light of day in 2004. They produce a narrative montage using analogical instruments (mainly guitars), groove boxes, subtractive synthesis generators and music samples. Slow Death Process is their first record and delivers the best of 5 years of experimentations. It totals 12 tracks (each side timing in at 20 minutes) recorded during short, deliberately intuitive and almost improvised music sessions (that often featured a third man as guest). With this gross material, Shkval meticulously re-assembled and re-organized what was needed by following a narrative and subjacent frame. This LP should be listened to comfortably seated, with the volume up a little loud and yourself a little drunk (as they did it).
$10.99 EAN: 5411867179993 ROCK
A1. Black Hills (4:10)
A2. Quit Save No (0:48)
A3. Dead Zone (4:06)
A4. Panoptical Skotoma (4:11)
A5. Reoccuring Dream (4:16)
A6. Insert Silence (0:20)
B1. Ancholia (3:25)
B2. The Hidden (2:19)
B3. Pick And Shovel Treatment (2:39)
B4. Seagull (5:08)
B5. Moles Machinery (2:20)
B6. Buzz Meeks Last Stand (3:04)
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ARADO & DEN ISHU: Preacher Man 12" (AREA 019EP)
Area Remote welcomes genius duo Arado & Den Ishu, two local heroes from the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley. Producing in collaboration since the beginning of 2009, their work is influenced by their common experiences and backgrounds in soul, funk, hip-hop and house music. "Preacher Man" is a slamming track with clever snippets all masterfully mashed together -- from preacher-talk to laughter to police sirens -- a mayhem of madness. "Same Thang" gives you a rawer, stripped-down sound for those who just want to keep moving and do their "thang" on the club floor.
$8.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Preacher Man
B1. Same Thang
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FUCKPONY: I'm Burning Inside 12" (BPC 211EP)
Jay Haze aka Fuckpony presents the second single from his Let The Love Flow album, with two remixes of "I'm Burning Inside." Reboot aka Frank Heinrich takes a pleasantly experimental approach, starting with punchy drums, a super-crisp, compressed kick and a growling bass-line. Soon, the wonderful piano and melody fragments from the original provide the dramatic direction, until finally you hear the unmistakable sound of the sun rising. Also features a lovely remix from Paul Ritch.
$8.39 UPC: 880319463617 ELECTRONIC
A1. I'm Burning Inside (Reboot Remix)
B1. I'm Burning Inside (Paul Ritch Remix)
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ALLIEN, ELLEN: Dust CD (BPC 217CD)
Ellen Allien, owner of the BPitch Control label and Fairy Queen of Berlin's more delicately-woven rave music, has been tinkering with the sound of the city for over a decade now. What has remained from all these years -- packed with great releases, highly original remixes and exploratory mix CDs -- are her monolithic albums, each the condensed result of a completely different creative phase. It already seems an eternity since Ellen Allien last remodelled her own sound with the sharp-edged diamond Sool in 2008 -- a release which opened the gates to a far-off parallel world where minimalist artifacts float through the room with a cool elegance and distanced allure. With Dust, Ellen removes the sense of remoteness entirely, and a warm immediacy takes center. On "My Tree" your eyes will be dazzled by the light shining through a canopy of leaves. And while the bleeps prance on by, the introduction of the clarinet, as a classical element, ensures that some order presides over all the endlessness behind the clouds. "Huibuh" feeds off a similar feeling, a perfectly tranquil synth-pop song which pays tribute to the most chilled of all Sunday afternoons. Melodic, sexy and self-content. On "Ever" the plucked synths and glockenspiels float over an unobtrusive beat framework. And despite their rich variety, these sounds are blended into a funky groove of life-affirming bliss. "Dream" makes a more twisted entrance where synths scale the walls while the trailing female vocals float through unconscious depths. Ellen prefers to sing a duet with her pitched-down alter ego under the pleasant glare of the "Flashy Flashy" disco lights -- a house track that trots along with a light and breezy gait. "Our Utopie" is the soundtrack to a sunrise with sounds that ring and reverberate through the air. Beneath the old school analog synth of "Schlumi" is a kick drum and a rave siren that winds its way up to the surface until the walls start to ripple and there are no more right angles in sight. Then there's "You," a completely unexpected indie-pop track with a beguiling guitar loop like something halfway between Zoot Woman and Phoenix, with a Joy Division bass line, and then Ellen's bright voice, singing with a cool fragility. "Sun The Rain" is the second synth-pop song on Dust, and "Should We Go Home" thrills with hushed voices, involuntary rushes of goosebumps and a few melodic fragments, arranged here as ambient phase shifts pile on top of one another. What now? You'd better dust yourself off. It's time to start all over again.
$10.39 UPC: 880319466427 ELECTRONIC
01. Our Utopie
02. Flashy Flashy
03. My Tree
04. Sun The Rain
05. Should We Go Home
06. Ever
07. You
08. Dream
09. Huibuh
10. Schlumi
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ALLIEN, ELLEN: Dust 2LP (BPC 217LP)
Gatefold double vinyl version.
$12.99 UPC: 880319466533 ELECTRONIC
A1. Our Utopie
A2. Flashy Flashy
B1. My Tree
B2. Sun The Rain
B3. You
C1. Ever
C2. Should We Go Home
D1. Dream
D2. Huibuh
D3. Schlumi
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WALKER, STEWART: Scratched Notes 12" (CURLE 026EP)
This is the first Curle from Stewart Walker. He started his career on the mythical Detroit label Matrix, did some stuff for Force Inc, Tresor, Mille Plateaux and M_nus, before founding the amazing Persona imprint. Since then, he has done very few releases on other labels. All three tracks on this Curle EP live and breathe the deep, melodic, minimal sound Stewart Walker is known for, and Scratched Notes is among the very best music he has ever released.
$8.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Scratched Notes
A2. Shipwrecked
B1. Particular People
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ANDREA: You Still Got Me/Got To Forget 12" (DAPHNE 005EP)
Andrea heads out on her own for the first time after a trio of 12"s as one-half of Millie and Andrea. "You Still Got Me" plays on Andrea's love of classic rave structures, squaring off with rugged, hardcore edits and low-end rumbles offset by big house vocals and blue strings. "Got To Forget" unravels around a ghostly vocal and dismembered percussive sequence that opens up to display a whole array of twilight keys and the warmest, most padded bass-line imaginable.
$8.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. You Still Got Me
B1. Got To Forget
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TUMA, SCOTT: Dandelion LP (DIGI 002LP)
LP release. This is Scott Tuma's third release on the Digitalis label. After a five-year hiatus, 2008's Not For Nobody reminded everyone of the subtle force that was lurking in Chicago. He followed that up with an epic collaborative LP with Zelienople's Mike Weis and an underrated gem as part of the Good Stuff House trio. Those ideas and manifestations present on all three albums come to a head with Dandelion. This is Scott Tuma at his most definitive, most vocal, and most devastating. His acoustic vignettes flicker in and out like the specters of long-forgotten greats, showing up just long enough to remind you that once upon a time, they ruled the land of kings. Sparse guitar plucks and banjo strums ache in the thin air. "Red Roses For Me" puts all the pieces in place with hollow, reverberating drones piercing the grey skies in the first half of the song. Quiet recordings of birdsong echo in the background, bouncing off minimally shifting banjo and chimes. But this is when Tuma really starts to mess with you, this is when Dandelion takes one of many unexpected turns. As a siren wails in the background, he is almost playful in the last half of the piece with a chord organ and gently strummed guitar bleeding nostalgia into the streets. It's a sinister joke in the middle of the flood. Dandelion is a hymn to loves won, then lost. Dying on the vine, he bellows "you are so pretty," yearning for something simpler and easier to navigate. "You're always on my mind" reminds us that things come to an end, that even the best things have a shelf-life. It runs head first into the megalith that is "Free Dirt." Mike Weis makes his presence felt as the duo navigates the darkest moments Tuma's ever put to tape. This is "Taradiddle" drowned in the mud. Hope is lost to the darkness as denial turns to acceptance. Winding down into a wall of cymbals and heavy-handed acoustic guitar, it's total catharsis. Eventually this ride, this testament comes to an end. The mournful longing of the final two pieces wraps Dandelion up into a perfect, graceful package. Scott Tuma shows one more time why there's nobody else like him around. This may be an album that asks a lot of questions, but it also answers every single one. Limited vinyl edition of 450 copies only for the world, featuring custom artwork by award-winning artist, Christopher Koelle.
$12.99 UPC: N/A ROCK
01. San Luis Free 2e
02. Old Woman
03. Red Roses For Me
04. Oakum
05. Again And Again
06. Hope Jones (Jason's Song)
07. Free Dirt
08. True History
09. The Roses Are Red
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VA: BalkanBeats Volume 3 CD (EBM 011CD)
2008 release. Eastblok Music presents the third volume in their BalkanBeats compilation series. More Balkan hits from DJ Robert Soko, straight from Berlin's Mudd Club -- again compiled strictly from a dancefloor point of view. Nothing smoothed out, everything fresh and steaming, single-handedly dug up and turned into trans-cultural, genre-crossing hits. Many of these tracks are making it to the West for the first time and are truly Eastern European gems -- a burning amalgamation of Balkan brass, beats, rock, reggae, traditional Balkan stomp, and just about everything else you can imagine. Includes a full color 20-page booklet with pictures and notes on the artists. Artists include: Slavic Soul Party, Magnifico, Kiril (feat. MC Wasp & RUCL), Watcha Clan, Shantel (feat. Boban Marković Orkestar), Friends Of Boban, Goran Bregović, Ot Azoj Klezmer Band, Streamer & MPS Pilot, Max Pashm, Parno Graszt, Slonovski Bal, Damian & Brothers, Äl Jawala, Figli Di Madre Ignota, The No Smoking Orchestra, and Romengo.
$10.99 EAN: 4047179122221 WORLD
01. Slavic Soul Party! - Opa Cupa
02. Magnifico - Ubiću Te
03. Kiril (feat. MC Wasp & RUCL) - Jungle Shadow
04. Watcha Clan - Balkan Qoulou
05. Shantel (feat. Boban Marković Orkestar) - Disko (Friends Of Boban Mix)
06. Goran Bregović - Gas Gas
07. Ot Azoj Klezmer Band - Turkish Honga (Streamer & MPS Pilot Remix)
08. Max Pashm - Manea-K
09. Parno Graszt - Drunk Of Sorrow
10. Slonovski Bal - Moscow Fever
11. Damian & Brothers - Hopai Diri Da (Edit)
12. Äl Jawala - Heymischer Bulga (Garage-Mix 2004)
13. Figli Di Madre Ignota - Nema Problema Tourist
14. The No Smoking Orchestra - Dobrila
15. Romengo - Naj Ma Shela
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VA: BalkanBeats Volume 3 2LP (EBM 011LP)
2LP version.
$14.99 EAN: 4047179122214 WORLD
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FIGLI DI MADRE IGNOTA: Fez Club CD (EBM 013CD)
2008 release. This is the third release from Figli Di Madre Ignota, a band from Milan, Italy who play an energetic mix of Balkan music, evil polkas, and klezmer with a twist. Mean swings and breathless tarantellas are all made up with surf guitars and a compelling horn section. Beginning in the late '90s, they found a natural inspiration in Balkan brass bands and klezmer melodies, and like every good self-declared rootless artist, they picked up the spirit of the dance-or-die and mixed it with a powerful rock combo. The Italian side of Figli draws its inspiration from roots music of their homeland -- music that was played live for the people to dance to -- humorous, funny, and at the same time cool and exciting. Their Balkan side adds spice and powerful brass winds. The occasional sevdah and longing in their timbre unites both cultures. Fez Club contains a cover of the '80s hit single "Paradise," produced by and played with the famous Sicilian trumpeter Roy Paci (Aretuska, Manu Chao, Radio Bemba, Mau Mau, etc.). Fez Club also features a collaboration with Circus Contraption, a dark circus band from Seattle, as well as with Italy's acclaimed parody theater company, Banda Osiris. Their songs here mix different languages (Serbian, English) besides the Italian used by the band. "Figli di madre ignota" literally means "unknown mother's sons," which used to be the legal term in Italy for orphans of women who couldn't or didn't want to recognize them. Such a proud bastard is Italian powerhouse Figli Di Madre Ignota. It's music to dance to wildly to -- a Balkan brass section playing with a cool rock band, ready to make any monkey dance. Figli Di Madre Ignota ask the question, "can a bunch of nutty people raised on fog, pasta and hoaxes in Northern Italy play klezmer/Balkan/polka/swing without having to disown aglio e olio e peperoncino spaghetti?" Listen and find out. Includes two bonus videos, including the video for "Paradise," directed by Cosimo Alemà, already on rotation on MTV Italy and MTV Turkey.
$10.99 EAN: 4047179178525 WORLD
01. Spaghetti Balkan (4:03)
02. Theme From Paradise (2:54)
03. Sadoman (4:25)
04. Daddy Lollo (3:05)
05. Nema Problema Tourist (4:10)
06. Fantasma Del Mattino (4:06)
07. Falafel Express (4:18)
08. Dago Shoes (3:43)
09. Fanfara Močvara (4:00)
10. Olè Olè (3:04)
11. Fantapolitika (3:37)
Bonus videos:
Paradise
Olè Olè
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VA: Balkan Grooves CD (EBM 016CD)
The Balkans groove? Yes, indeed. What started almost 20 years ago with the first releases of mostly Romanian gypsy ensembles, dug up and recorded by Western field researchers behind the just-fallen Iron Curtain, has now turned into a global club movement. Nevermind the disco trash productions of turbo folk and manele starlets in the Balkans, it was mostly Western producers and DJs who, fascinated by the raw energy of the Balkan rhythms and the sweet melancholy and wild passion of Slavic and gypsy melodies, made the whole thing compatible for the dancefloor. Well, those neck-breaking Balkan tunes had always been danceable, as one could witness at concerts of the leading Balkan brass bands. Now it is about putting these speedniks in fancy clubwear, dragging them out of the folklore corner to make it cool for the kids. Those Balkan beats get groovy. Eastern passion meets four-to-the-floor. Chilly dubstep cellars now shine with warm ornaments. Artists include: Kiril, Ras Tweed & Esma, Anima Sound System, Jutasi, Valentino Vallente Balkan Project, Goulasch Exotica, EtnoRom, Shazalakazoo, Leni Kravac, Watcha Clan, Fagget Fairys, Kottarashky, Dobranotch & DJ Click, Riva Starr, Nôze, [dunkelbunt] & Cloud Tissa, Imam Baildi, DJ Panko, Mere Mortals, Mara, La Caravane Electro, Balkantronika, and BASADUB.
$11.99 EAN: 4047179465120 WORLD
CD:
01. Kiril (feat. Ras Tweed & Esma) - Raise Up Your Hand (4:08)
02. Anima Sound System - Trubulek Vorba (Jutasi Remix) (3:28)
03. Valentino Vallente Balkan Project - Sote Khela (4:09)
04. Goulasch Exotica (feat. EtnoRom) - Kotyka (3:17)
05. Shazalakazoo - Sarmageddon (3:58)
06. Leni Kravac - Zajednica (2:41)
07. Watcha Clan - Balkan Qoulou (Shazalakazoo Remix) (4:07)
08. Fagget Fairys - Oci (3:28)
09. Kottarashky - Cheteri (4:33)
10. Dobranotch & DJ Click - Batuta (DJ Click Rmx) (3:38)
11. Riva Starr (feat. Nôze) - I Was Drunk (5:01)
12. [dunkelbunt] & Cloud Tissa - Kebab Connection (4:01)
13. Imam Baildi - Samba Clarina (DJ Panko Remix) (4:27)
14. Mere Mortals (feat. Mara) - Perpetuum (Luna Tahina) (4:31)
15. La Caravane Electro - Rebetiko Song (3:00)
LP:
A1. Kiril (feat. Ras Tweed & Esma) - Raise Up Your Hand (4:08)
A2. Anima Sound System - Trubulek Vorba (Jutasi Remix) (3:28)
A3. Leni Kravac - Zajednica (2:41)
A4. Shazalakazoo - Sarmageddon (3:58)
A5. Watcha Clan - Balkan Qoulou (Shazalakazoo Remix) (4:07)
B1. Dobranotch & DJ Click - Batuta (DJ Click rmx) (3:38)
B2. Riva Starr (feat. Nôze) - I Was Drunk (5:01)
B3. [dunkelbunt] & Cloud Tissa - Kebab Connection (4:01)
B4. Balkantronika - Gypsytronic (Vinyl Bonus Track)
B5. BASADUB - Moog And Slivovia (Vinyl Bonus Track)
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CV313: Infinit-1 12" (ECHOSPACE 010-A)
This is the second single culled from cv313's 2CD album Dimensional Space, featuring two versions of "Infinit-1." Recorded in a live session of over 2 hours, "Infinit-1" refers to an infinite state of being. This project was based on an experiment using a hybrid form of discrete summation to create a new hybrid of both "waveshaping" and "subtractive"-based synthesis ("carriershaping") currently being developed for mass consumption. Features the first remix ever from Stephan Laubner (STL) in one of his deepest moments.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Infinit-1 (Original Mix)(6:10)
A2. Infinit-1 (Remodel) (6:18)
B1. Infinit-1 (STL Remix) (11:22)
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SOUKI: Monkey Sun EP 12" (EINMAL 053EP)
Berlin-based Souki is back on Einmaleins with two deep and cool minimal tracks to lose yourself on the floor. "Monkey Sun" is a groovy, playful and tight, minimal track that just rolls and rolls. "Bijou" is weird and trippy with hypnotic sounds. Yapacc's remix gives "Monkey Sun" a brighter dancefloor sheen.
$8.39 UPC: 827170319165 ELECTRONIC
A1. Monkey Sun
B1. Bijou
B2. Monkey Sun (Yapacc Mix)
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KADEBOSTAN: The Souk EP 10" (FENOU 010EP)
Kadebostan opens up an exotic sound bazaar on Fenou with The Souk EP. On side A, he charms us with a clarinet, like a snake-charmer decoys the hissing reptiles from a basket. Your hips will sway softly and smoothly under this hypnosis, against a beating rhythm and repetitive bass line. On the flip, he lifts the veil on a world of foreign, magical music -- a miraculous mixture of charming vocals, gentle rhythms, unique guitar and piano scales.
$8.39 UPC: 827170316966 ELECTRONIC
A1. The Souk
B1. Les Indes Galantes
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INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, THE: The Incredible String Band CD (FLED 3076CD)
The Incredible String Band was founded in Edinburgh in 1965 when Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron began a journey which would connect traditional folk music, ragtime and the emerging counterculture/psychedelic scene. Their recordings paved the way for what has since become known as "world music." High-profile Incredible String Band fans include Paul McCartney, Billy Connolly, Robert Plant and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Signed by Joe Boyd to the prestigious Elektra label, their early recordings are among the finest and most imaginative of the period. The Incredible String Band -- their 1966 debut LP, is a powerful mix of their many influences. Highlights include "October Song," "When The Music Starts To Play," "Empty Pocket Blues," "Smoke Shovelling Song" and the closing "Everything's Fine Right Now." For many fans, this beguiling album was the first step in a life-long fascination for all things ISB. The band quickly became favorites on John Peel's pirate radio-show "The Perfumed Garden." "Through the incense and the exotic blend of instruments and influences came an original and memorable combination of shining talents destined to outlast their era." Carefully re-mastered by original producer Joe Boyd and engineer John Wood. Housed in a stunning digipack with all elements of the original artwork. New sleevenotes from Clive Palmer and Robyn Hitchcock. Mike Heron (lead vocal), Clive Palmer (vocal, guitar, kazoo and banjo), Robin Williamson (lead vocal, violin, guitar, mandolin and whistle).
$10.99 EAN: 5020393307628 ROCK
01. Maybe Someday
02. October Song
03. When The Music Starts To Play
04. Schaeffer's Jig
05. Womankind
06. The Tree
07. Whistle Tune
08. Dandelion Blues
09. How Happy I Am
10. Empty Pocket Blues
11. Smoke Shovelling Song
12. Can't Keep Me Here
13. Good As Gone
14. Footsteps Of The Heron
15. Niggertown
16. Everything's Fine Right Now
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INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, THE: The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion CD (FLED 3077CD)
The second album by The Incredible String Band, The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion was first released in July 1967. With Clive Palmer having left for India, Mike Heron and Robin Williamson were accompanied by Danny Thompson on double bass and Licorice on vocals and percussion. The album demonstrated the beginnings of what Williamson describes as using the studio as a giant paint box. Standout songs include Heron's "The Hedgehog's Song," Williamson's beautiful "First Girl I Loved" (later recorded by Judy Collins, Jackson Browne and many others) and his "The Mad Hatter's Song." Enthusiastic reviews in the music press were accompanied by appearances at venues such as London's UFO Club (co-owned by Boyd), and Queen Elizabeth Hall. Their exposure on John Peel's "Perfumed Garden" radio show on the pirate ship Radio London, and later on BBC's "Top Gear," made them favorites with the emerging UK underground audience. The album went to #1 on the UK folk chart, and was named by Paul McCartney as one of his favorite records of that year. Carefully re-mastered by original producer Joe Boyd and engineer John Wood. Housed in a stunning digipack with all the elements of the original artwork. New sleevenotes from Mike Heron. Mike Heron (lead vocals, harmonica and guitar), Robin Williamson (lead vocals, bowed and bass gimbri, guitar, flute, Soma sitar, tamboura, drums, rattles, oud and mandolin), Danny Thompson (double bass), Licorice (vocals and finger cymbals), John Hopkins (piano), Nazir Jarazbhoy (sitar, tamboura).
$10.99 EAN: 5020393307727 ROCK
01. Chinese White
02. No Sleep Blues
03. Painting Box
04. The Mad Hatter's Song
05. Little Cloud
06. The Eyes Of Fate
07. Blues For The Muse
08. The Hedgehog's Song
09. The First Girl I Loved
10. You Know What I Could Be
11. My Name Is Death
12. Gently Tender
13. Way Back In The 1960s
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INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, THE: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter CD (FLED 3078CD)
The Incredible String Band's The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, their finest studio work, reached the top 5 on the UK album charts soon after its release in March 1968, and was nominated for a Grammy in the U.S. Robert Plant has said that Led Zeppelin found their own way by playing Hangman's and following the instructions. A departure from the band's previous albums, the set relied heavily on a more layered production, with imaginative use of the then-new multi-track recording techniques. The album's centerpiece is Mike Heron's "A Very Cellular Song," which incorporates a Sikh hymn and the Bahamian spiritual "I Bid You Goodnight" (learned from Joseph Spence). Carefully re-mastered by original producer Joe Boyd and engineer John Wood. Housed in a stunning digipack with all the elements of the original artwork. New sleevenotes from Robin Williamson. Mike Heron (lead vocals, sitar, Hammond organ, guitar, hammer dulcimer, harpsichord), Robin Williamson (lead vocals, guitar, gimbri, whistle, percussion, pan-pipe, piano, oud, mandolin, jew's harp, chahanai, water harp, harmonica), Dolly Collins (flute organ and piano), David Snell (harp), Licorice (vocals and finger cymbals).
$10.99 EAN: 5020393307826 ROCK
01. Koeedaddi There
02. The Minotaur's Song
03. Witches Hat
04. A Very Cellular Song
05. Mercy I Cry City
06. Waltz Of The New Moon
07. The Water Song
08. Three Is A Green Crown
09. Swift As The Wind
10. Nightfall
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INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, THE: Wee Tam & The Big Huge 2CD (FLED 3079CD)
Wee Tam & The Big Huge is the fourth album by The Incredible String Band, and the band's most ambitious album to date, conceived as a double LP. First released in Europe as both a double LP and separate single LPs in November 1968. In the U.S., Elektra released the two albums separately as Wee Tam and The Big Huge, on the same day. The set is considered by many fans to be, along with its predecessor The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, their finest studio work. By the second half of 1968, The Incredible String Band saw their popularity and reputation growing on both sides of the Atlantic, and they began to sell out large concert venues like the Fillmore (East and West) and London's Royal Albert Hall. The album reflected an even wider variety of influences than the previous two releases and was packed to overflowing with classic songs from Mike Heron and Robin Williamson. Deluxe 2CD set for the price of a single album. The Fledg'ling deluxe 2CD digipack edition comes in a choice of two stunning front covers! Carefully remastered by original producer Joe Boyd and engineer John Wood with acclaimed mastering technician Simon Heyworth. The sets incorporate all elements of the original artwork and new sleevenotes from Mr. Boyd. Mike Heron (lead vocals, guitar, sitar, bass, organ, harpsichord, washboard, percussion, harmonica), Robin Williamson (lead vocals, guitar, bass, piano, drums, whistle, organ, violin, Irish harp, gimbri, sarangi, harpsichord, flute, kazoo, bass drum), Rose (violin, percussion), Licorice (Irish harp, percussion).
$10.99 EAN: 5020393307925 ROCK
CD1:
01. Job's Tears
02. Puppies
03. Beyond The See
04. The Yellow Snake
05. Log Cabin Home In The Sky
06. You Get Brighter
07. The Half-Remarkable Question
08. Air
09. Ducks On A Pond
CD2:
01. Maya
02. Greatest Friend
03. The Son Of Noah's Brother
04. Lordly Nightshade
05. The Mountain Of God
06. Cousin Caterpillar
07. The Iron Stone
08. Douglas Traherne Harding
09. The Circle Is Unbroken
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SNUFF CREW: More Fun 12" (GIGOLO 264EP)
Snuff Crew presents a taster of new demos, most of which have found a place in DJ Hell's DJ sets. New vs. old, analog vs. digital, Chi-town takes on Berlin, bring it on! With this in mind, let's meet "More Fun" & "I Like Your Body," two tracks that have been tried and tested at some of the best clubs in the world and made specifically to detonate a dancefloor near you.
$8.39 EAN: 5414165033370 ELECTRONIC
A1. I Like Your Body
B1. More Fun
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TOOG: Goto CD (KK 053CD)
This is the second album on Karaoke Kalk for French musician, poet, blogger and director, Toog. He started his musical career in 1999 when he met the widely-venerated Scottish singer/songwriter Momus. They went on an extensive tour together, playing almost 150 shows. In 2004, Toog released his album Lou Etendue on Karaoke Kalk together with Italian actress and director Asia Argento. Goto is a collection of musical ideas, references, nostalgia and gags -- background noise with coarse exaggerations, where madness and graceful levity go hand-in-hand. Whistles and explicit statements try a balancing act between humor and serious contemplation. A musical diary, reflecting memorable encounters, experiences and oddities. Toog is helped on some tracks by David Fenech and Fashion Flesh, who the artist admired for his work with Matmos, Cornelius and Momus. The artist's wife Florence Manlik, who designed the cover, can also be heard on some songs. As Toog himself explains, "Goto is narrative, meditative. It's travel with an electronic donkey, where the fern tree line at the top of the mountains is nothing but a miniature. Slow is how my heart beats: 56 bpm."
$10.99 UPC: 880918031729 ROCK
01. Traffic Jam
02. Où Va La Vie
03. Goto
04. Ébréché
05. What Did You Say
06. Alabama Gay
07. Are Visages Electric
08. My House
09. La Chambre Noire
10. L'esprit De L'inventeur
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TOOG: Goto LP (KK 057LP)
LP version.
$10.99 UPC: 880918031712 EXPERIMENTAL
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DAEDELUS: Meanwhile... LP (LI 001LP)
2010 repress, 2004 release. LP version.
$14.39 UPC: 880433600165 ELECTRONIC
01. One Breath To Breathe
02. The Brazilianaire
03. Outnumbered
04. A Stiff Drink
05. Just For You
06. Denouncement
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NIKAKOI: Selected 2CD (LI 014CD)
Selected draws upon Tbilisi, Georgia-based Nikakoi's first two albums, but it's not a complete reissue. Instead, Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi has gathered nine tracks from Sestrichka, 11 from Sentimental and 10 all-new recordings. All 30 tracks have been completely re-sequenced, shuffling old with new to create a hybrid album that's far more than the sum of its parts. Over two and a quarter hours long, Selected is a treasure trove, amazingly rich and varied, of almost cinematic proportions. Appropriately for an artist who also directs and edits film and video, on Selected the forces of chance and sentiment play out in a widescreen panorama of chaos-skirting rhythms and heartstring-tugging melodies. There are ample traces of '90s electronica and IDM in Nikakoi's skittering rhythms and melancholic refrains, but it's not mere redux. Tracks like "Krasnagorsky Dream" and "PP" treat the styles established early in their careers by Aphex Twin and Autechre as a kind of folk idiom with infinite potential... rather than bound by the anxiety of influence, they're bursting with innocence and, yes, sincerity. There are moments of unbridled rhythmic and textural experimentation, like the new "HACPYBYXO," which somehow manages to sound soothing despite its punishing, quadruple-time arpeggios. Dub enters the picture on tracks like "Undine 2" and "Minimsss 3," which recall the fluid grooves and expansive sonics of artists like Pole and Burnt Friedman. Tweaked breakbeats and lounge instrumentation drive the '60s-inspired "Surup," while "Cverty 2 For May" is a slow-mo take on minimal techno at its most velvety. And finally, there are the many moments of understated electronic-pop genius: "Tin Soldier For Nika Ono," "City Lights [Tutta 2]," "Petja," "Sentimental" and "Nishan3test," all of them bittersweet and starry-eyed, teenage dreams burnished by the years to a dull shine. Nikakoi is truly a softy at heart, but his music is as complex as any human emotion: both sentimental and sedimentary, Selected is like an architectural survey for a planet where the soil itself is composed of microscopic fragments of memory.
$14.99 UPC: 880433101129 ELECTRONIC
CD1:
01. Cverty 2 For May
02. City Lights [Tutta2]
03. Minimisss 3+
04. PP
05. Shunat
06. Music 2 -- Piano+
07. Teess
08. Krasnagorsky Dream
09. Petja+
10. AdgilCX
11. HACPYBYXO+
12. Bavshwebi
13. Tin Soldier For Nika Ono
14. Undine 2
15. Child+ /
CD2:
01. Surup
02. Something's Moving In My Liquid
03. Sentimental
04. Lul+
05. Manglisi
06. Nishan3test+
07. Uuus-Mine
08. My Right Hand+
09. MZEMF
10. Dzzenn
11. Sestrichka-Bratishka
12. Maia
13. Uxal
14. Maybe+
15. Lullaby For Little GG
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TBA_NATALIE BERIDZE: Pending CD (LI 015CD)
2009 release. After five albums for Thomas Brinkmann's max.ernst label, Tbilisi, Georgia-based producer Natalie Tusia Beridze aka TBA comes aboard Laboratory Instinct with Pending. It's her first album since 2007's Size and Tears (MAXE 014CD), and between its tentative melodies and its astonishingly rich tones, it might be her most emotionally-focused yet. But the record's cohesive feel doesn't mean that she has tempered her ambitions. Quite the opposite: Pending runs a gamut of moods and styles, borrowing bits and pieces from ambient, hip-hop, house, techno and pop. Where so much electronic music pledges itself to a lone technology or a single beat structure, Beridze only takes what she needs from swollen synthesizer patches, jittery drum programming, sampled pianos, even the occasional breakbeat. Beridze's own voice, often stretched like gauze through an array of reverb, lends an extra layer of warmth. "To 'Hell Risers'" opens the album like a calm intake of breath, with acoustic samples pulsing beneath a purring spray of syllables. "Don't Know Why" feels like Underworld on helium, or the Postal Service wearing anti-gravity boots: it's classic electro-pop, and it soars. On "Good Night Tokyo," notes flicker like a time-lapse film of a night-time skyline, but slowly decaying chords and drifting vocals impart a sense of stillness that only deepens with the beatless "X.It (Endo)," three minutes of keys and strings. The classically-inspired sketches "Ice Turns End" and "Isole" suggest excerpts from film scores, which makes sense, given Beridze's own filmmaking work and her multimedia activities with the Goslab collective. One of the album's most powerful tracks, "Cuts vs. Ignorance" fuses Detroit techno's keening synths to stuttery, hip-hop-influenced beats. "Everything Pushes Me Further Away" is even heavier, with an unrelenting spray of metallic scraps abrading a dark, velvety backdrop. Occasionally, Beridze will come clean with relatively straightforward pop songs, but always rendered in her unusually intimate, voices-in-your-head style. At the album's center, there's "Come To Kiss Me," a nine-minute masterpiece of fluttering chords, indebted to Steve Reich and Terry Riley's pulse minimalism. It's a gorgeous, expanding mass, a slow-motion explosion of color as dizzying as its title promises.
$11.99 UPC: 880433101228 ELECTRONIC
01. To "Hell Risers"
02. Don't Know Why
03. Good Night Tokyo
04. X. It (Endno)
05. Cuts vs. Ignorance
06. Come To Kiss Me
07. Fallin Suga
08. Isole
09. Everything Pushes Me Further Away
10. Beside You
11. Legotek
12. Dancing In Love Vox
13. Iced Turns End
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PIKAYA: Levante 12" (MEANDER 006EP)
This release presents three luscious tracks from the meandering-funk supergroup, Pikaya. Levante features crafty signals & grooves, luscious melodies, and warm rhythmic beats finalized with a solid dash of acid. The title-track is a dub-driven odyssey into space, with varying drum patterns and room-engaging beat structures, emphasized by a cavernous bass theme. "Liquid Loop" is a quirly anthem of analog inventions and melodic tone shifts. "Department" boasts a robust kick-drum, atonal swing excursions and a smack synthesizer. Vital and cinematic.
$8.39 UPC: 827170337664 ELECTRONIC
A1. Levante
B1. Liquid Loop
B2. Department
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CLARO INTELECTO: New Life EP 12" (LOVE 061EP)
"Back In The Day" is a slow, compressed house reduction. Making use of submerged strings and heavy kicks, it's a track that employs a filthy New York warehouse aesthetic with that distinctive, modified square bass-line that's become a Claro Intelecto signature, bent out of all recognition. "New Life" is also wired for the floor, yet features skewed and euphoric chord sequences that evoke the hazy nostalgia of Ducktails or Oneohtrix Point Never, driving peak-time activities without ever resorting to cheap thrills.
$8.39 EAN: 5060165480197 ELECTRONIC
A1. Back In The Day
B1. New Life
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VA: Don't Believe The Hype 4x12" (OSLO 016EP)
Always on the lookout for new talented producers, the Oslo family grows larger and larger, surprising their audience again and again with new interpretations of modern dance music. After 3 exciting years, the label presents their compilation Don't Believe The Hype, consisting of 4 12"s, presenting tracks from Damián Schwartz, Minimono, Christian Burkhardt, Massimo Di Lena, DJ W!ld, Laverne Radix, Johnny D, Sascha Dive, Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts, Federico Molinari, Nekes, Ray Okpara, and Vera.
$34.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Damián Schwartz - Ride You On
B1. Minimono - Brake Spring
B2. Christian Burkhardt - Fairy Floss
C1. Massimo Di Lena - He Is The Walrus
D1. DJ W!Ld - Just Can Stand It
D2. Laverne Radix - Strong Legs
E1. Johnny D - Rashaida
F1. Sascha Dive - Suburban Night
F2. Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Blam Blam
G1. Federico Molinari - Gold Teeth
G2. Nekes - Pump It
H1. Ray Okpara - Ngozi
H2. Vera - The Lovers And Demons
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KRAUSE DUO: Up 12" (PHP 044EP)
The infamous Krause Duo is back on Philpot with these soul-grinding pieces of deep swing. Once again, they team up with Large Mäurer, whose minor keys add a certain kind of blues. This is irresistible dance music with an edge.
$8.39 UPC: 829247004400 ELECTRONIC
A1. Up
B1. Spalter
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FRACTION: Moon Blood CD (ASH 3017CD)
Los Angeles-based Fraction's heavy psych classic Moon Blood was originally released on the Angelus record label in 1971. Only 200 copies were pressed, so originals are currently worth a small fortune. Fraction, with vocalist Jim Beach, bearing an uncanny vocal resemblance to Jim Morrison (although he was singing on Sunset Strip long before Morrison took to the stage), were often compared favorably with The Doors, although their quasi-religious message would probably not have found favor with the recently-departed Morrison. Indeed, this rather fine record was once famously described as the album The Doors probably wished they'd made! Underpinned by guitarist Don Swanson's superb Ritchie Blackmore-style guitar work, this is an album full of beautiful psychedelia, acid and hard rock, at once emblematic of the era, but not dated by its association. The five original compositions are consistently of the highest quality and the contribution of Beach's now legendary vocals places a stamp of originality on the recording that endures from beginning to end. Monstrously heavy, howling, epic psych that is basically a must-own. A truly excellent album. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, featuring the original die-cut cover with colored cellophane and printed inner bag.
$11.99 EAN: 5051125301713 ROCK
01. Sancdivided
02. Come Out Of Here
03. Eye Of The Hurricane
04. Sons Come To Birth
05. This Band (Sky High)
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RIPPERTON: Nocturnal Reflection 1# 12" (PLK 021EP)
A 14-minute epic track with ecstatic keyboards, melancholic strings & raw beats. Call it house, techno or what you want, this is an outstanding, soulful piece of music written by the electronic chameleon Ripperton. From analog to analog, dedicated to wax lovers.
$8.39 UPC: 827170333369 ELECTRONIC
A1. Nocturnal Reflection 1#
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MANDRE: 4 LP (RH RSS1-LP)
After three albums on Motown, "the mystery man from outer space" Mandré released his fourth record in the Bay Area on his privately-run Future Groove label in 1980. The story goes that just after the album was shipped, most of the stock was accidentally destroyed in the warehouse. Only a few copies made it to the local stores, thus making this one of the most rare '80s fusion/funk albums, ever. Most fans don't even know that this album exists, and copies on eBay go for hundreds of dollars. This album contains some of Mandré's finest work ever, like the playful "Isle De Joie" and the captivating "Magic Woman" and is now finally available as a limited album, in its original form (pressed on clear vinyl and housed in a clear PVC sleeve). Far-out space-funk far freakier than Parliament and kinkier than Rick James.
$11.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Rain
A2. Isle De Joie
A3. Fantasy
A4. Magic Woman
B1. I'm On Your Frequency
B2. You're Freaky Girl
B3. Freaky Freaky Land Of Freakiness
B4. Freaky Feeling
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NOTIC NASTIC: It's Dark But It's Okay CD (STRIKE 110CD)
Shitkatapult's first album release in 2010 is the exciting debut by New York and Berlin group Notic Nastic. It's Dark But It's Okay tells a story about a girl as she grows up and changes a lot. Not a real coming of age thing, but more a collage of life. The soul of the story is that no one is just one character. We will each be 1,000 different things to 1,000 different people in the world... ID is slippery. The album features a great deal of electronic music, kicking, forward, disturbing, as well as easy, pop music based on fat beats. Right off the bat, the first three songs "Let Go," "Stupid Happy" and "Secret Life" grow an intense mixture of music elements that remind you of some cocktail of Missy Elliot, T.Raumschmiere and the typical Shitkatapult out-of-nowhere style. A perfect picture of a human life that assembles the results of the neverending morphs we all go through. The album also fantasizes about the quiet, inner vision you have of yourself that no other person will ever completely see or understand: "The Secret Life." Notic Nastic draws this riddle in musically-perfect praxis: 13 songs blend fast breaks, variable parts, catchy refrains and disturbing, but always grooving, breaks and bridges. Notic Nastic makes pumping, popped-out, strangely addictive electronic bon-bons where twisted vocals meet freaky beats. Besides this fantastic debut album, Notic Nastic has already drawn great feedback with their live-performances. They wear glowing masks and put out big beats. Their show has a great, energetic output with power, acid and life. No matter how weird or dark things get, there is lots of fun to be had -- so shut up, chill out and shake that ass.
$10.99 UPC: 880918029429 ELECTRONIC
01. Let Go
02. Stupid Happy
03. Secret Life
04. Swifty
05. Kids On Kitten
06. The Luckiest Pig In Albany
07. Das Disk
08. Highend Weirdo
09. Whirlpool Galaxy
10. Digital Crush No.1
11. Banana Hammock
12. Sleeptight
13. Fjord Escort
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ELLE P. & IFTAH: Sick Liar/The Pink Painter 12" (SOUVENIR 024EP)
This duo defines its music as "future-retro-avantgarde-electroacoustic-funky-melancholic-harmonic pop," but for their first proper vinyl release as a duo, Souvenir gives you more. Elle P.'s voice flirts as easily with Dadaism as with profound poetry. Blend it with the edgy and experimental productions of Iftah, add two groundbreaking remixes by dOP and Rüde Hagelstein, and you get dark electro synth waves, jazzy modern pop, and plenty of stomping, cinematic nostalgia.
$8.39 UPC: 827170316768 ELECTRONIC
A1. Sick Liar (dOP Remix)
A2. Sick Liar (Original)
B1. The Pink Painter (Ruede Hagelstein)
B2. The Pink Painter (Original)
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VA: Document CD (SPC 088CD)
When Ghostly International spawned the Spectral Sound imprint nearly a decade ago, Sam Valenti and Matthew Dear conceived the label as the dark, dancefloor-oriented alter-ego of Ghostly's eclectic, album-based sound -- a home for, as Matthew Dear calls it, body music for the mind. Now run by Spectral producer/DJ Ryan Elliott alongside co-founder Dear, the label has solidified its image as Ghostly's leaner, meaner brother. Which brings us to the Elliott-curated Document compilation: it's a calling card, the Detroit-bred Berliner explains, a battle flag carried into a new decade. Document, in other words, is the ultimate Spectral Sound manifesto, mingling Spectral's old guard (Audion, Hieroglyphic Being, James T. Cotton) with new blood (Kate Simko, Seth Troxler, Lee Curtiss) and a few artists who straddle both worlds (Lawrence, Bodycode with Lerato). An overall aesthetic is hard to describe, but the Spectral vision lurks in the music's details: the way the bass-line ricochets between the crackling snares of Lawrence's "Divided" (Kassem Mosse Remix) like a pinball; the skyline-spanning groove of Ryan Crosson's "Don't Look Further"; and the thoughtful organ that hums below the record-closing "She Only Looks At You" by newcomer Gadi Mizrahi. Document captures Spectral Sound circa 2010, at a peak in the label's almost decade-long evolution. And although Spectral Sound's sonic footprint is forever in flux, its mission has been the same since day one: to provide uncompromising, forward-thinking, dancefloor-oriented music that's relevant and cutting-edge on a global scale that also reflects their Midwestern roots. As a compilation of all things Spectral, Document does just that. Other artists include Mike Parker and Martinez.
$10.99 UPC: 804297998824 ELECTRONIC
01. Hieroglyphic Being - Got No Place To Go
02. Lawrence - Divided (Kassem Mosse Remix)
03. Ryan Crosson - Don't Look Further
04. Bodycode (feat. Lerato) - I'm Holdin' On
05. Kate Simko - Zhivago
06. James T. Cotton - On Time
07. Mike Parker - Protolanguage
08. Lee Curtiss - Life Lessons
09. Audion - Just Me
10. Seth Troxler (feat. Matthew Dear) - Hurt (Martinez Dark Soul Remix)
11. Gadi Mizrahi - She Only Looks At You
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SHANE, BILLY: Runner 12" (SFV 005EP)
Brooklyn's Billy Shane presents a release that is firmly rooted in raw techno. From the chunky dub-tech funk of "Runner" to the lush, beautifully-orchestrated "Hole" and "Fach," Billy's attention to detail as well as his instincts as a DJ are clearly apparent. With a big thumbs-up from Ben Klock already, this release should put Shane firmly on the map. Steadfast owner Brendon Moeller offers up a solid rework of "Runner" under his Echologist guise.
$8.39 UPC: 880319458415 ELECTRONIC
A1. Runner
A2. Hole
B1. Fach
B2. Runner (Echologist Rmx)
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VA: Musik Oblik: Musics In The Margin 2 CD (SR 299CD)
This is the second volume of the Musics in the Margin compilation series. Like volume 1 in 2006 (SR 254CD), this new production mixes visual arts with music, focusing on the affinities existing between three visual art fields considered on equal terms: modern art, contemporary art, and outsider art. Decompartmentalization is the key word, and this record offers unique approaches transcending the simple question of the insider/outsider classification. Based in Berlin, Klaus Beyer is mostly known for his unusual performances of Beatles songs, but this musician's talent is larger than that, as he also writes his own songs, makes short films and animated films, and works as an actor. Normand Cournoyer launched his music career around the age of 70. Self-taught, he has since written an incredible number of songs (more than 1,500 in over 75 languages) using a piece of random composition software. Installation artist, performer, illustrator, sculptor, sound collector, and globe-trotter Baudouin Oosterlynck expands listening capabilities by creating prostheses and musical objects to multiply and increase our ears. The Wild Classical Music Ensemble is headed by musician/audio artist/experimentalist Damien Magnette and four artists with learning disabilities. Othin Spake is an improvisatory project between drummer Teun Verbruggen (Flat Earth Society), guitarist Mauro Pawlowski (dEUS) and Rhodes pianist Jozef Dumoulin (Magic Malik). A major representative of the Italian madrigal style of the Renaissance, Gesualdo's position in music history has been largely re-assessed in the 20th century. Once seen as a marginal, unbalanced composer, Gesualdo is hailed by some as a visionary. The first composer, 300 years before Wagner and the post-Romantics, to make significant use of chromatism and dissonance, and a precursor of the Moderns in his use of extreme contrasts and unusual rhythmical breaks. A composer, violinist, and teacher, Baudouin de Jaer created multidisciplinary works adapted to a complete space. A major artist of the 20th century, Adolf Wölfli was committed to the Waldau Mental Asylum, near Bern, in 1899. Wölfli started drawing, writing, and composing music at the age of 35, working all day long on a colossal body of work, comprising 25,000 pages of graphic compositions, collages, literary works, and music scores. Jacques Brodier, artist and researcher, is the inventor of the "Filtre de Réalité" ("Reality Filter"), whose antennae, using the ionosphere's reflection, receives the electromagnetic noise broadcasted by Earth in deep space. This airwave noise consists of radio signals from everywhere, music and voices in multiple languages lost in a sea of cosmic noise, distorted by untraceable causes or the mishaps of dissemination.
$10.99 EAN: 5411867112990 ROCK
01. Klaus Beyer - Immer Geld (1:49)
02. Klaus Beyer - He Jude (3:42)
03. Klaus Beyer - R Die Glatze (1:49)
04. Normand L'amour - Y'a Lâchait Pas (4:04)
05. Normand L'amour - Dans La Cuisine (4:36)
06. Baudouin Oosterlynck - Oratorio (7:16)
07. Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Soufflé (4:48)
08. Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Dragon Draak (2:45)
09. Othin Spake - The Nethack Dictionary (7:49)
10. Gesualdo - I Prima Parte: Caro, Amoroso (Tasso) By The Kassiopia Quintet (1:42)
Inspired by the music of Adolf Wölfli's paintings by Baudouin De Jaer:
11. Pandulen Wasser Fall, 1911 (0:45)
12. Cahier Géographique n 11 page 837, 1912-1913 (1:14)
13. Die Oberste Regenttschaft Von San Maria St. Hall, AW 1914 (0:54)
14. Second Folio March, 1913 (0:59)
Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wölfli paintings by Baudouin De Jaer, 2010:
15. "Le Cygne" Pandulen Wasser Fall, AW 1911 (3:06)
16. "St Eugène Ysaïe" Die Oberste Regenttschaft Von San Maria St.Hall, AW 1914 (1:23)
Created by Baudouin De Jaer in 1993 for choreographer Pierre Droulers:
17. Tablas/Jamais de l'Abîme (2:15)
18. Jacques Brodier extract from Cordes 11000270102 (15:42)
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LISA O PIU: Behind The Bend LP (SUBL 071LP)
LP version. Limited edition of 500 copies worldwide.
$14.39 EAN: 7320470128817 ROCK
A1. Was It The Moon
A2. Simplicity
A3. Dreams Of Goats
A4. World Falling Down
B1. Child Of Trees
B2. Gong For Hours (Jupiter's Under The Moon)
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LISA O PIU: Behind The Bend CD (SUBL 072CD)
This is the second album from Swedish folk siren Lisa Isaakson and her band Lisa o Piu. This is the follow-up to 2009's critically-acclaimed debut album When This Was The Future. To get inspiration for the creation of Behind The Bend, Lisa spent time in a small cottage located deep in the vast woods of Vastmanland, Sweden, where she enjoyed the last breath of the summer. Every evening she and David Svedmyr walked further into the woods to an old rowing boat that lay on the edge of a forest lake. In the light of the magically ever-glowing Swedish summer midnight sun they paddled across the lake and then further along a forest creek with lush green trees that hung down over the fresh running water and water lilies. This is the kind of set and setting where you travel into another world... and they did. The initial recordings were made under a vaulted blue ceiling with gold stars in the old 15th century timber church of Hjulsjö, Sweden. The new album is filled with delicious and bewitching watery woodland folk hymnals -- eloquent yet eerie. The harp has been given more space, the violin plays a greater role, the 12-stringed guitar plays graceful melodies and all is led by Lisa's gossamer vocals, as delicate as a wavering candle flame. Come along for the ride.
$9.79 EAN: 7320470128824 ROCK
01. Was It The Moon
02. Simplicity
03. Dreams Of Goats
04. World Falling Down
05. Child Of Trees
06. Gong For Hours (Jupiter's Under The Moon)
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HRDVSION: Where Did You Just Go? CD (WAG 064CD)
This is the second full-length release from Canadian Nathan Jonson aka Hrdvsion. Where Did You Just Go? takes the listener to a variety of places, at least some of which will doubtless be new to many ears. A non-compromising creator of glitch-heavy electronic music for the last decade or so, Hrdvsion has finally matched his esoteric vision to the more formal structures of house, techno and electro/breakbeat. As Jonson himself states, "The production, the way it's mixed, is similar to my older stuff as I've always liked loud and punchy music. In general, this album is a bit subtler. I focused on letting ideas evolve more slowly and let the grooves go on for longer." Jonson's prior releases are known for their scattered, Squarepusher-esque energy, their bleep-drenched melodies and sense of twisted urgency. Where Did You Just Go? retains these circuit-busting tendencies yet aims more directly for the dancefloor. "842 Colours" blends off-kilter beats with Hrdvsion's trademark skittish sounds, while cuts like "Captivated Heart," "City Girls," "Closed Eyes" and "Making It Home" cultivate and simultaneously subvert "traditional" house and breakbeat riddims via buzzing synths and serrated melodies. The deep and resonant "Cause I Love You" (influenced by the DJ sets of his friends and fellow Berlin residents Dirt Crew) are, he admits, among the "softest I've ever written." Don't go thinking this is a predictable techno album though -- plenty of songs hark back to his earlier, more chaotic work. "Betrayed," "Bonker Brainss," "Kiss Yesterday Goodbye" and "Claustraneonia" are wild-eyed forays into acid-addled glitchtronica, replete with distended diodes and screaming capacitors. Nathan ends the album with a couple of nostalgic visits to his ambient days, namely "Amsterdam at 4:47" and the lush closer "I Wish I Could Directly Effect." This album was started when Hrdvsion moved to Berlin in 2009. During a period of insecurity born of being broke in an alien city, he opened up his laptop and sorted through hundreds of finished and half-finished songs, creating what were ostensibly remixes of the originals. More or less by definition, Where Did You Just Go? represents a brand new era for Hrdvsion and his unique sound.
$11.99 UPC: 827170107823 ELECTRONIC
01. Orange Juice
02. 842 Colours
03. Captivated Heart
04. Betrayed
05. City Girls
06. Bonker Brainss
07. Closed Eyes
08. Making It Home
09. Kiss Yesterday Goodbye
10. Cause I Love You
11. Own Risk (TT Mix)
12. Claustraneonia
13. Summer's Beds
14. Home
15. Before Than After
16. Amsterdam at 4:47
17. I Wish I Could Directly Effect
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TRUTH, READE: Let's Go To Heaven 12" (WET 1010EP)
Long-time techno vet Reade Truth -- he of Strictly Rhythm and Sonic Groove pedigree -- turns in some heady offerings on his debut for Wurst Music. "Let's Go To Heaven" is a brooding, electro-fueled, sleazy affair, perfect for building the night up or taking it down. "Folie À Deux" takes a different approach with its relentless, infectious bounce. Brennan Green presents a startlingly tough house remix. Label-support from Carl Craig, James Murphy, Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Luke Solomon, Ewan Pearson, etc.
$8.39 UPC: 880319457814 ELECTRONIC
A1. Let's Go To Heaven
A2. Folie À Deux
B1. Let's Go To New York Instead (Brennan Green Version)
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MARTYN: Remixes 2/2 12" (3024 007EP)
"The second half of the Great Lengths remixes package offers 3 more vividly contrasting interpretations of the album's tracks .Almost a year on from the release of his debut album One and with 'Saviour of Techno' plaudits still bouncing off concrete walls, Berghain lynchpin Ben Klock turns in a remix of 'Is This Insanity' that distills everything inspirational about both the club and city he calls home. Spaceape's cracked vocal is welded to a sort of cavernous piston driven groove while traces of the original's melody fractured into the briefest of shards fight their way to the surface only to sink back into the percussive smog. Located well outside of the heavily scrutinized UK hype centres, Manchester's rising star Illum Sphere continues to hone his already distinct sound on the flipside's 'Brilliant Orange' reworking. A clanking off kilter groove rubs up against an extended mutation of the original melody that pushes the track towards a poignant climax, evoking all the ache of reaching for the stars and landing squarely on one's face."
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MARSHALL, PETER: Channel One Revisited CD (ACLAR 002CD)
"All tracks have been re-mastered. New and fully revised art work. Showcase style album. The vocal track is followed by the dub. All vocal tracks voiced early 1990s. 16 track CD, all original 1970s Channel One JA recorded rhythms. Featuring The Revolutionaries (Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare etc.). Produced by: Martin Campbell."
$12.00 UPC: 667209300425 WORLD
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INFINITY: Collected Works 1969-70 CD (ACLN 1013CD)
"Legendary UK psych outfit Infinity formed in 1969 from the ashes of 'Chocolate Soup' psych faves the Flies and Cymbaline. The mission: to develop a heavy psychedelic/pop sound, and express it through complex original songs. Thanks to some funky Hammond organ, punchy guitars, and the band's unique harmonies, Infinity was no run of the mill outfit. Upon their return to mainland England from a residency in Jersey, they joined the high-profile NEMS agency, alongside heavy hitters like Pink Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Soft Machine, and Pretty Things. In late 1969 and early 1970, following support slots with The Searchers and Marmalade, Infinity recorded original material for a proposed album, which was meant to explore 'time, space, matter, energy and chicken phal, said in some circles to be so hot in a culinary sense that it's temperature approached infinity,' or so they have said, with tongue-in-cheek, we have to believe. Sadly, they broke up soon after the sessions. The good news is that the band left behind the recordings presented on this disc, which can now be enjoyed in the digital format after the passage of more than four decades! Comes with a 24-page booklet which includes band history, photos, and more, printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy."
$11.25 UPC: 778578101329 ROCK
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FURSAXA: Mycorrhizae Realm CD (ATPR 038CD)
"Fursaxa is Tara Burke. Formerly a member of the Silbreeze band UN, Tara started her Fursaxa project in 1999 after UN disbanded. Since then Fursaxa has released six full length albums on the Acid Mothers Temple label, Ecstatic Peace, Time Lag, Eclipse, Last Visible Dog, and ATP. In addition there have been 3 self released CD-Rs and a CD on her own Sylph recordings. In the summer of 2008 Fursaxa started recording her seventh full length record Mycorrhizae Realm at Hexham Head studio in Philadelphia. This studio recording is a first, as all of the previous releases have been recorded at home on a four track. In addition to recording, Fursaxa has played live music at venues in the US, UK, and Europe, touring with Bardo Pond, Black Forest/Black Sea, Christina Carter, Jack Rose, Spires That in The Sunset Rise, and Brightblack Morning Light to name a few. Over the last couple of years Fursaxa has been collaborating more and more with other musicians as well. Espers member Helena Espvall and Tara have a duo called Anahita, and Sharron Kraus and Tara have the duo Tau Emerald. And in September of 2006 Fursaxa became part of The Valerie Project, which was a live soundtrack for the 1970 Czech film Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders. Tara really enjoyed playing with these musicians and decided to engage Greg Weeks, Mary Lattimore, and Helena Espvall, all fellow Valerians, for her next album. Greg recorded the album at his studio, Mary played harp on 4 songs and also co-wrote 2 of the songs, and Helena played cello on 3 songs. It is an exercise in symbiosis."
$9.50 UPC: 666017218021 ROCK
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FURSAXA: Mycorrhizae Realm LP (ATPR 038LP)
LP version.
$12.50 UPC: 666017218014 ROCK
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BOK BOK/BRACKLES & SHORTSTUFF: Citizens Dub/Pipey D 12" (BLR 003EP)
"Blunted Robots celebrate their third single with a great big cake, stuffed full of sound. The first slice features Bok Bok, serving up his underground anthem 'Citizens Dub' -- the UK's answer to a question nobody asked. Then, for those of you greedy enough to ask for more, Brackles & Shortstuff have enlisted the help of Bootsy's record collection to bring you 'Pipey D' -- a detailed look at the UK Funky blueprint through x-ray specs. Now tuck in. DJs showing love include Sinden, Mark Pritchard, Oneman, Ben UFO, Daedelus, Untold..."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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DASTAN ENSEMBLE & SALAR AGHILI: In The Name Of The Red Rose CD (CH 13300CD)
The Iranian ensemble performs a rendition of Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani's poem. "Listening to the music of such artists as Mahjoubi or Banan and becoming familiar with the writings of great minds like Shafi'i Kadkani built the foundation of my future artistic life which I could further develop by expanding my knowledge in specialized art schools. Today, this foundation gives me passion and courage to present my very own rendition of In The Name Of The Red Rose in music and song. The words of Shafi'i Kadkani connect your heart with the other side of the world; they do not recognize borders, and they belong to all human beings. It was pure joy to hear the music played by the members of the Dastan Ensemble and the guest musicians; the beautiful voice of Salar Aghili joins me in this melody so that we all can sing In The Name Of The Red Rose with love." -- Hamid Motebassem
$10.50 UPC: 013711330021 WORLD
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BLUE THINGS, THE: The Blue Things Story Volume One LP (CIC 975LP)
"The Blue Things Story Volume One is back, originally issued in 1987, it has been out of print since 1989, now in a limited edition blue vinyl pressing of 600 copies. Also expanded to include a whooping nineteen tracks."
$17.50 UPC: 837654932339 ROCK
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LEMON DROPS, THE: Sunshower Flower Power LP (CIC 984LP)
"The Lemon Drops Sunshower Flower Power is now available in a limited edition yellow vinyl pressing of 600 copies. Includes six songs in versions previously unavailable on vinyl and two unreleased versions available for the first time 'Flowers On The Hillside' and 'Dream.'"
$17.50 UPC: 837654932346 ROCK
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DONAE'O: Riot Music 12" (SBOY 027EP)
"Donae'o aka Ian Greenidge was always destined to make a career out of music after growing up in a house where melodies were a major force. During his teens Donae'o would release a few singles, most notably Fallin' and Bounce on various imprints. Both singles made an impact on the underground, with Bounce winning an award for Best Live P.A at the People' Choi Awards in 2003. All of this set the foundations for Donae'o's future success. A few years later an older, wiser and more business savy Donae'o penned a tune called 'Devil In A Blue Dress,' and was to kick-start his career once again and have a major impact on the UK underground. From 'Devil In A Blue Dress,' came his critically acclaimed Party Hard album, an mixture of beats, rich with his trademark heavy soulless and killer choruses. The lead single off the album, also called 'Party Hard,' became a massive hit in the clubs and on specialist radio, winning him champions across the board and throughout the British music press. 'Riot Music' was never released as a single, but in Novemer 2009, Zane Lowe surprisingly picked up on the track, making it his 'Hottest Record In The Universe' and continuing to support it over the following months. The interest and buzz has continued to build, and in early Dec 2009, 'Riot Music' was pulled from the digital bundle of the Party Hard album and signed to Shy FX's Digital Soundboy label. Since then, Shy has tweaked the radio mix and also roped in none other than Skream and The Nextmen for some remix pressure. Already a favourite with Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Mista Jam, and continuing to win supports across the board, 'Riot Music' is set to be one of THE big records for 2010!"
$6.50 UPC: 666017218762 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Flex Your Head LP (DIS 007LP)
"Flex Your Head was first released in January 1982 and was the first full-length album released by Dischord Records. The compilation features 32 songs by 11 DC area bands and went a long way towards 'putting DC on the map' as one of the era's great punk scenes. This album has remained in print, first on LP and later on CD, and has remained a perennial must-have for each new generation of kids looking to re-trace the roots and ethos of DIY punk. One of the unique features of the album over the years has been its revolving front cover image. The first pressing featured a generic stock cover with a classical music theme chosen from the pressing plant's catalog. Over the years there have been 4 different covers, the violin, the wheat field, the DC Flag and the blurry man. This new edition, which has been re-cut and includes a free MP3 download coupon, features the DC Flag stars and bars (on a red field), an image so associated with DC punk that many mistake it for a made-up symbol for straight edge. This cover image was also used (on a black field) for an edition of the album briefly pressed in conjunction with Alternative Tentacles in the '80s."
$12.50 UPC: 643859007013 ROCK
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BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG: The Wonder Show Of The World CD (DC 2012CD)
For this new album of songs, Bonny Billy and The Cairo Gang together have built a bridge forward, assembled with riffs and bits from Emmett Kelly's guitar and the lyricism of Bonny's heart. But mostly, The Wonder Show Of The World was, in its making, about trust. It's a record made eye-to-eye in a room, close and careful, by and for a few men who wanted to be together, who wanted to make music that sounds as good to listen to as it did to make, and who in doing so forged something new in space, the wonder of you and of them.
$9.50 UPC: 781484201229 ROCK
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BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG: The Wonder Show Of The World LP (DC 2012LP)
LP version.
$12.50 UPC: 781484201212 ROCK
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GINZ & KOOL MONEY KWAME: Wetwipe Riddim 12" (EAR 013EP)
"2009 saw the world taken by storm as the Bristol born sound of Purple w0w! infiltrated sound systems and radio stations with its catchy synth lines and bold approach. Focus so far has mainly been on Joker, who ripped up the rule book and laughed hard at it, but a number of the big floor filler productions that helped make his name, such as the anthem 'Purple City', were co-produced by the more mysterious Ginz. Exclusively for Earwax, Ginz unleashes a plate of bouncing, messed up wonky-synth-hopdubstep- purple-whizzle with help on the buttons this time from the even more mysterious Kool Money Kwame. 'Wetwipe Riddim' is a Hennessy-hugging monster of a beat, showcasing Ginz's superb production ethic and musical mastery -- it's both demented and catchy in equal measures! 'Oreo' sees further experiments in bendy beats that leaving you on constant catch up, complete with ankle flapping bass and more psychedelic synth work. Support from: Pinch, Joker, Mary Anne-Hobbs, Plastician, N-Type, MRK1, Cotti and many more."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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HE3 PROJECT: Chapter One CD (FG 3000CD)
"Few have had the opportunity to hear the brilliant music of virtuoso pianist, arranger, and songwriter, Herman Eberitzsch Jr. III. Known to his peers as 'funky knuckles,' Eberitzsch crafted an inimitable brand of psychedelic soul and funky jazz during San Francisco's much-fabled artistic and political awakening in the 60s and 70s. Yet, his boldly experimental music missed the ears of the right A&R man and never saw commercial release. The studio tapes found their way to Eberitzsch's basement where they remained for 35 years until a chance encounter with Family Groove Records. Over one decade's worth of Eberitzsch's original recordings will be mastered and released, resulting in a four-part compilation entitled the HE3 Project. Still reeling from the idealism of the 1960s civil rights movement, social protests, and in the midst of three major political assassinations and a devastating war abroad in Vietnam, San Francisco would forge an inspired social and artistic renaissance. 'The music had a totally inventive feeling,' says Eberitzsch. 'It was totally fresh and completely psychedelic.' And Eberitzsch was part of that movement. His work embodied the impassioned zeitgeist, both a fearless exploration of the cosmos and a raw form of self-expression immersed in the grass roots. The first chapter of the HE3 Project features Eberitzsch's trailblazing efforts from three distinct recording sessions spanning 1971 to '74. He brought a loose-knit quartet together in '71 to record a decidedly expressionistic approach to jazz and funk that they had cultivated in the city's avant-garde clubs and cafes. In '73, Eberitzsch joined members of Coke Escovedo's Latin group, Azteca, at Wally Heider and CBS studios to arrange and write demos for Coke's seminal, self-titled debut. And in '74, he brought in a full band, Motion, to record at Wally Heider -- with songstress Linda Tillery (The Loading Zone) an unknown soul singer named Johnny Lovett on lead vocals and a Tower-Of-Power strength horn section. 'The music was very innocent,' Eberitzsch says. 'We worked from a standpoint not so much of knowledge but of an ignorance of where we were going.' By forsaking formula, Eberitzsch was able to create a unique outsider sound, reminiscent of private press albums of that era. He preferred an explorative aesthetic to convention and favored improvisation while still keeping the music in the pocket. Ebullient songs like 'Funk Punk' and 'Rapture of the Deep' manage to retain a solid foundation while traveling to uncharted fringes of sonic territory. 'We invented as we went along,' Eberitzsch explains. 'We shook the bag of formulas and saw what came out.' Eberitzsch brought this experimental ethos to the studio where he played around with recording techniques. With a child's amusement, he used an old fashioned Fender Echoplex in 'Rapture' and applied a screwdriver to his Hammond keyboard in 'Massage' to create wobbling effects. He then manipulated the tape loop, searching loosely for weird sounds that would produce warped textures. The strange, idiosyncratic sounds created in the process helped to shape the psychedelic quality of the music. Yet it never smothers itself in abstraction. 'It's still earthy because it was manipulated not by machines,' he explains while laughing, 'but by the hands of the monkey man!' Inspired to write, Eberitzsch also cultivated a poignant lyrical ability. His empowering messages evoke a heartfelt idealism that does not shy away from understanding life's unending struggles. It is just this sort of tension between hope and despair that frame Eberitzsch's meditations on life as more than just a two-sided coin. The HE3 Project, emerging nearly four decades after its inception, is as strikingly moving and fresh as ever."
$10.00 UPC: 705105713458 JAZZ
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HE3 PROJECT: Chapter One LP (FG 3000LP)
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$16.50 UPC: N/A JAZZ
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MUTANT CLAN: We Are/I Feel Sense 12" (FIGSPC F)
"Mutant Clan is the mysterious alter-ego of long serving electronic music veterans Timo Maas and Santos. After a small handful of heavyweight EPs on labels like Connaisseur and SCI + TEC, its time for this undoubtedly talented duo to unleash their next batch of weapons on Figure SPC. The considerably epic 'We Are' fuses classic elements of tweaking acid, bright jacking drums and an extended, open-ended arrangement that floats atop a choir of celestial rave angels?! Built for cavernous techno meccas, or up-close and personal basement sweat-boxes alike. In comparison the deephouse tones of 'I Feel The Sense' retain the excellent production values that we've come to expect from this pair, and take a trip down a dubbed and shuffling melodious path. Uplifting, summery and full of clever, climbing effects, it's a lighter, yet by no means lesser, trip!"
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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GOLDIELOCKS: I'm Not Her 12" (GUT 001EP)
"A co-production with Benga - the brilliantly sparse, bleepy 'Green Eyes' - is going to grab people's attention, but the other three tracks here are easily as good. Sarah 'Goldielocks' Akwisombe makes outstanding modernist electro-pop with dark, emotionally intense lyrical themes and a hefty DJ-friendly dubstep wallop, and is without question a talent who is here to stay. The EP is overall inspired by London, underground music scenes - 2step / garage / grime and dubstep, paranoia, relationships and concealed emotions."
$8.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LEKEBUSCH, CARI: Merry Go Round 12" (HHMA 030EP)
"Swedish institution in techno music Cari Lekebush is no stranger to Harthouse Records. In 2008 he released his single Absorb and his album Mind Over Matter on Harthouse Mannheim. Moreover he produced his track 'Stimuli' under his alias Braincell together with Jola Bola aka Joel Stefansson, appearing on the Mirror Of The Future compilation. Furthermore, he had several releases in the mid and late nineties at our label. With his own label H. Productions and his own studio HP HQ he is one of Swedish DJs and producers who characterized and spread out the sound into the world that was famous later as Swedish techno (beside Adam Beyer, Joel Mull or Per Grindvik). Now he is coming around with his new release Merry Go Round on Harthouse."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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BLAKE, JAMES: The Bells Sketch 12" (HES 011EP)
"Hessle Audio's eleventh release comes from James Blake, a 21-year-old from London, who has previously released for Hemlock Recordings, as well as having an EP in the pipeline for R&S. This three track EP exclusively features his own warped and manipulated vocals. James also joins Mount Kimbie for their live shows, singing as well as playing keyboard. " "James Blake's mongrelised, pitch-bent production style finds kinship with dubstep's Joker and Untold, but his secret weapon is his voice: Blake sings with a sweet, honey-soaked coo that betrays his traditional background in music: one that knew the Family Stone long before it'd heard of FWD>>." - Fact Magazine .
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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BOURSIER-MOUGENOT, CELESTE: Overlap - Recouvrement LP (DISCR 001)
"I Dischi Della Casa Rossa proudly presents this LP record art multiple by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, produced on the occasion of the artist's new sound installation at La Maison Rouge in Paris. The LP features two identical sides of unmanipulated fire cocrete recording, investigating the relationships between pattern and background. The work of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot must be seen first and foremost as that of a musician who, for the past twelve years, has shown his work exclusively in contemporary art venues. From 1985 to 1994, he composed for Pascal Rambert's Side One Posthume Theatre company. Following this he began to give his work an autonomous existence through sound installations. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot succeeds in drawing out the musical potential of multiple and diverse objects and situations. He extends the notion of musical score to the unorthodox combinations of miscellaneous materials and media which he uses to generate, usually live, what he describes as living sound forms. Each device functions in relation to the surrounding architecture or environment, where the process behind the music is laid bare for the visitor to see and comprehend. Edition limited to 50 signed and numbered copies presented in a back-on-back silk-screened linen cover. Conceived specifically for La Maison Rouge Appreication Society and sold out before been produced. Only a handful of copies are available for distribution. Attention! This is probably your only chance to include this edition, which in short time will surely proof to be a top investment, in your art record archive."
$260.00 UPC: N/A EXPERIMENTAL
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JACOBS, HENRY: The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs CD/DVD (IMPREC 054CD)
"We are happy to announce the reissue of this out-of-print CD/DVD set. Henry Jacobs is a sound artist and improviser par excellence. His influential recordings as well as collaborative projects resonate with an irreverent sense of humor and a love for musics of the world. From the early 1950s into the 1970s, Jacobs experimented with tape music, staged the early surround sound and visual spectacle Vortex (with artist Jordan Belson), and developed an array of absurd characters that would pop up as crank callers, relaxation coaches, or upside-down smiling instructors. A contemporary of Ken Nordine and Lenny Bruce, Jacobs honed an individual style that was droll and laid-back but winked at you at the same time. On his recordings for Folkways, World Pacific, and Fantasy, as well as on his private label MEA, the world of Jacobs is an audio collage that embraces many cultures and sensibilities. This CD/DVD collection pays homage to Jacobs' creative play, presenting recovered and restored audio as well as rare animated films that will give you a taste of this man's special talents."
$11.25 UPC: 793447505428 ROCK
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MUGSTAR: ...Sun, Broken... CD (IMPREC 286CD)
Mugstar hover in the realm of Oneida and Sonic Youth and fit well beside such Important records as Cave and A Place To Bury Strangers. Since 2003, they've issued a few full lengths, a split with Mudhoney, an etched 10" and most famously, recorded the last ever Peel Session with the late John Peel. Mugstar are the sound of 10,000 exploding suns, pulsing with repetitive beauty and pounding like a supersonic mantra. ...Sun, Broken..., Mugstar's second full-length album, recalls Saucerful... era-Floyd and echoes vintage Neu! alongside the more contemporary sounds of Oneida and Sonic Youth. Mugstar take the sonics of heavy psychedelia and Krautrock, drag it through the lenses of punk and post-rock and jettisons the results into something of propulsive originality. ...Sun, Broken... delivers a range of power, textures and soundscapes, from the turbo-charged openers of 'Technical Knowledge As A Weapon' and 'Ouroboros,' the eerie other-worldly atmospherics of 'Labrador Hatchet' and 'She Ran Away With My Medicine,' through the Krautrocking 'Today Is The Wrong Shape' to the expansive voyage of closing track 'Furklausundbo.' It is a forceful and compelling album. Mugstar's origins begin with drummer Steve Ashton wanting a band who could play as loud as he could. Neil Murphy, from an improv. background, joined next, providing noise and subtlety. Peter Smyth then answered the call, bringing guitar, keyboards, vocals, and an intense stage persona. Jason Stoll came on board with his dirty bass tones. Finally Sam Wiehl arrived, adding projections to the live shows, making Mugstar a full assault on the senses both sonically and visually. Steve found the band he wanted."
$10.00 UPC: 793447528625 ROCK
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KID 606: Songs About Fucking Steve Albini CD (IMPREC 291CD)
"A collection of psychedelic love songs paying tribute to all things analog. Similar to older Kid606 releases like PS I Love You, GQ on the EQ, The Soccergirl EP and Why I Love Life. This album was carefully constructed to be the soundtrack for the peak 72 minutes of your next trip. The songs all linger on to long but just long enough, you hear voices you can't understand, but you will know what they're saying. Every track has its distinct identity and direction to completely throw you from one headspace to another. There are only a few things connecting the tracks. All the songs on this album were created with analog source material, none have beats or percussion to weigh you down, and they are all love songs. It was all composed over many years in many different places. Each song represents a phase of indulgent musical composition that only deserved to have its best parts represented on this album. After compiling and editing all the songs on a computer, they were mixed down and mastered through all analog equipment to two track analog tape."
$10.00 UPC: 793447529127 ROCK
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ROBEDOOR: Burners LP (IMPREC 292LP)
"Limited edition of 500 copies. Mastered by James Plotkin. Recorded and mixed from April-September of '09 at the same East L.A. hillside studio ('Green Machine') where Raiders was tracked. The goal with Burners was to make a record fusing the recent-ish song-based structures of Raiders and the Pagan Drugs 7" into some of the older-style Robedoor drone-sprawl architectures. All songs were written/sculpted over the course of constant live shows ('Burning Man' in particular was an '09 live staple)."
$13.75 UPC: 793447529226 ROCK
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VA: We Are All One, In The Sun CD (IMPREC 295CD)
"In Robbie Basho's lifetime he set out to champion the steel string guitar as an expressive and dignified concert instrument. His guitar playing was first brought to light in 1965, when John Fahey released Basho's debut The Seal Of The Blue Lotus on Fahey's own Takoma Records. Armed with a unique and powerful singing voice, his 6 & 12 string guitar and a collection of special guitar tunings that he created (even originating a unique chart titled 'The Esoteric Doctrine of Color and Mood,' denoting a color and mood for each of his special tunings). Basho's output was prodigious, but after three decades of recordings and touring, this unique American musical voice went largely unnoticed and in 1986 his voice was forever silenced by a tragic accident. Basho's music, which displays an intense passion for different cultures from around the world, was heavily influenced by Japanese (his self-chosen last name was even inspired by the Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho), Persian, Classical Indian, and a culture much closer to home, Native Americans. Forty-five years later, his recording legacy displays an emotional depth and pure vision that few musicians have ever achieved, and now his music is influencing a whole new generation of acoustic musicians around the world. We Are All One, In The Sun: A Tribute To Robbie Basho, represents a humble tribute to this truly original and passionate American guitarist, musician and composer. This labor of love was curated and realized by musician, producer, and acoustic guitar maker Buck Curran (along with his wife Shanti performs as the duo Arborea), who after first hearing Basho, many moons ago, instantaneously felt Kindred Spirit to his music. This tribute (a collection of both original compositions and new interpretations of Basho songs) befittingly begins and ends with German guitarist and painter Steffen Basho Junghans, who has devoted almost 20 years to composing guitar music in the spirit of Robbie Basho, and whose own compositions reflect a spiraling poetic universe like Basho's, creations of majestic musical vistas. In addition to Junghans', there is a gorgeous composition by Glenn Jones, a friend of Basho's, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jones is another musician who has dedicated his life to proliferated music composed on the Steel String guitar. There is also the young Irish guitarist Cian Nugent...who represents a new generation of guitarist-composers who are carrying on the torch. Meg Baird, Arborea and Fern Knight all represent beautiful female led vocal tributes to Robbie Basho compositions that feature his passionate and evocative singing. Curran's choice of female led vocal performances is a tribute honoring Basho's own profound spiritual reverence and fantastical love for women. Basho's own singing was said to have been first inspired by the beautiful and powerful voice of Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac. The choice of involving instrumentalists Rahim Alhaj and Helena Espvall in this project was simple, in that Curran feels Basho would have appreciated their roots, virtuosity, and passion and in their sound; he also hears a kindred spirit linking all three musicians. Rahim AlHaj is a Grammy-nominated, Iraqi-born master of the Persian Oud. AlHaj, a student of the great Munir Bashir, exhibits great technique and a pure emotional style. Cellist Helena Espvall, a native of Sweden, represents a musician (whose first instrument was guitar) with a deep connection to her instrument, a musician who conjures up mysterious and emotionally charged improvisational music from bow and cello, music that is an amalgamation of sounds and textures from her travels all over the world. Robbie Basho was a true American Original, a free thinking passionate intellectual and a musical pioneer whose body of works deserves the kind of recognition and glorious platform that will enable generations of young musicians from around the world to draw inspiration from. We are All One, In the Sun represents the first of hopefully many tributes and works inspired by the life and music of Robbie Basho. In Basho's own words 'Don't be afraid to feel anything' and his credo 'Soul first, technique later.' We arrive at simple Zen like mantras by which all of us can live."
$10.00 UPC: 793447529523 ROCK
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.: In O To OO CD (IMPREC 297CD)
"Acid Mothers Temple follow up their classic cover of Terry Riley's 'In C.' This is also the first Acid Mothers Temple record in a long time to feature the voice of Cotton Casino. Beginning with their cover of Terry Riley's 'In C,' AMT went on to create 'In E' and 'In D,' as well as their collaboration with Ultrasound on 'In G.' Now they return to the concept, with four new tracks -- 'In A,' 'In Z,' 'In 0' and 'In 8.' As far as music is concerned, a scale could be anything. The names of the scales from A to G are no more than conventions, decided on through human logic. However, beginnings and endings, nothingness and the infinite are not conventions or human creations. Rather they are part of the cosmos and they can be applied to all things that exist. On these pieces they follow their belief in this truth, journeying from beginning to end, from end to beginning, from nothingness to the infinite, and from the infinite to nothingness..."
$10.00 UPC: 793447529721 ROCK
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.: In O To OO 2LP (IMPREC 297LP)
Double LP is limited to 1000 copies and is pressed on heavy duty virgin vinyl and packaged in a tip-on style jacket.
$17.50 UPC: 793447529714 ROCK
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JACOBS, HENRY: Around The World With Henry Jacobs 2CD (IMPREC 299CD)
"Absurd folklorist Henry Jacobs returns with a selection of rare interviews, odd loops, sales pitches, early synthesizer demos, an ether-infused evening, and more! Produced in San Francisco and New York City, Around The World With Henry Jacobs is a travelogue that continues the story begun with The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs, mixing archival material from the 1950s with recent improvisations by Jacobs. Guests include Stan Freberg and Dr. Irwin Corey, with Alan Watts returning for a visit, too. Also included is special bonus disc -- First Night, one of the true gems from the collection. Recorded in February 1957 by Henry Jacobs on the opening night of the Poetry/Jazz Series at The Cellar in San Francisco, this unique document captures the first time Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti read their poetry to jazz in this very intimate setting. In contrast to Fantasy Records' Poetry Readings in the Cellar, you feel yourself a part of the audience here, moments punctuated with a register ringing, muted conversations, laughter, and clinking glasses. Includes Rexroth reading 'Between Myself And Death' and 'She Is Away', and Ferlinghetti reading 'The World is A Beautiful Place.'"
$11.25 UPC: 793447529929 ROCK
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RODRIGUEZ: Inner City Blues/I'm Gonna Live Till I Die 7" (LITA 018EP)
"If you don't already know, let us fill you in on a little secret: Rodriguez is kind of a big deal. After a lengthy departure from the music business, this pioneering Detroit-born folk singing soul brother came back with a 'BANG' in 2008-9 after Light In The Attic's re-release of his psychedelic opus Cold Fact (LITA 036), followed by the beautifully Donovan-esque Coming From Reality (LITA 038). Since headlining his first proper US show ever at the historic Joe's Pub in NYC on September 3rd, 2008, Rodriguez hit the road, playing to curious and captivated crowds all over North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Underground for so long, and equally content pouring over books and newspapers at the Detroit Public Library, the politically minded Rodriguez is clearly not clamoring for a quick buck or interested in playing the rock star game. After a glance at the fabricated pop charts, this is refreshing realness. Just ask the youngbloods (his young fans, as Rodriguez calls them) who sat with their hero after each show, getting not only autographs, but sage advice and warm encouragement from the now veteran musician. Even in our wildest dreams, we couldn't be happier. So in celebration of Record Store Day, we bring you a taste of the legendary singer-songwriter's LIVE experience. The self-penned 'Inner City Blues' b/w Sinatra's 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die' (LITA 45-018) catches Rodriguez in perfect form, channeling the type of soul and creativity that puts today's younger generation breed of retro-minded pop-rock mavens to shame. Armed with guitar in tow, Rodriguez acknowledges his own mortality, the inevitable struggles of life, and every single break he's ever received. He simply doesn't take his music career for granted. And in turn, we simply can't resist his hard-working life's story, his music, his stage banter, or his omnipresent charm; for every tune he's written, each brick he's laid, every political step he's made, has been done with LOVE. He is nothing but the real deal. So before our time here is up, remember that the stereo is on, candles lit, and the fine wine poured. Come listen with us! Through a captivating world of song, Rodriguez has already changed our lives. Now let him change yours."
$4.50 UPC: 826853451871 ROCK
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CAMPBELL/ALIEN DREAD, MARTIN: Cosmic Dub Clash CD (LOG 005CD)
"Album CD re-issue. All tracks have been fully re-mastered. All Alien Dread tracks have been re-mixed. New and fully revised art work. 13 track CD original 1990s and contemporary dubs, recorded at Channel One UK & Phat Dubz UK."
$12.00 UPC: 667209300029 WORLD
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VON SEIN & TIGERSKIN, TILL: The Sein Of The Tiger 12" (MORRIS 067EP)
"After a lil break, Morris Audio is back! We were not chilling, but preparing everything for our 10th anniversary year! Yes, holy shit, 10 years of Morris Audio! The first release in this jubilee year presents Berlin buddies and long term Morris Audio activists Till von Sein and Tigerskin with some fierce club tunes. Till's 'Sister O Dissey' is a cool percussive tool with a slight disco feel, whereas Tigerskin's 'Polio' has this oldschool house flavour. And you know we love dis!"
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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CENTIPEDE EEST: Metal Moon 7" (NURU 004EP)
"The careful listener will recognize the main riff of 'Metal Moon' as a brief snippet from the full length, but here Centipede Eest has developed the motif into a full length song. The B-side, 'Ow'ls Nest,' showcases the bands interest with ethnic music and instrumentation. Initially an improvisation utilizing steel drum and trap set, the band added overdubs and the result is something that could easily fit in the Sun City Girls or Sublime Frequencies catalog. Centipede Eest is a group of five musicians from Pittsburgh, PA who play hybrid rock music born of a collective and sprawling mind. Throughout the course of five years, the band have released two albums, a 12" EP, a split 7" (limited to national record store day), and have toured the US. Live shows encompass everything from instant improvisation to chaotic rock riffs, sometimes with visual accompaniment. The band have found inspiration in Lagos, Bangkok, choogle, Dusseldorf, Tokyo, the Sahara, the Sun City and everywhere in between."
$5.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET & NELS CLINE SINGERS: The Celestial Septet CD (NW 80708CD)
Featuring: Bruce Ackley, soprano, tenor saxophones; Steve Adams, alto, sopranino saxophones; Scott Amendola, drums; Nels Cline, guitars; Devin Hoff, bass; Larry Ochs, tenor, sopranino saxophones; Jon Raskin, baritone, alto, sopranino saxophones.
"[The Celestial Septet] sounds a cosmic death knell for fixed ideas about musical protocol and decorum, and a round trip through its 68 minutes leaves no horizon intact." -- Derk Richardson
"The story of the Celestial Septet is that of two bands becoming one. On their own, the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet have established themselves as the most forward-looking groups not only in their respective formats--a trio of guitar, bass, and drums, and a quartet of saxophones ranging from baritone to sopranino--but also in the area of music that has variously and inadequately been called 'free,' 'avant-garde,' 'creative,' and 'improvised.' The Septet is a vehicle for time and space travel through dense, narrow thickets and airy, wide expanses of boundary-blurred extrapolations of jazz, rock, late-20th-century European modernism and American minimalism, and 21st-century postmodern fusions. The trip is challenging, but the open-minded listener/traveler cannot help but come through the experience with new perspectives on sound and music. Perhaps most significantly, separately and conjoined, these units defy categorization by taking composition as seriously as they take improvisation, and by taking neither so seriously as to let one get in the way of the other."
$10.75 UPC: N/A JAZZ
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SUN ARAW: On Patrol CD (NNF 187CD)
Heavier than Heavy Deeds and hotter than a stolen trunkload of skunk weed stopped at the border.
$8.75 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SUN ARAW: On Patrol 2LP (NNF 187LP)
Massive 2LP version.
$18.75 UPC: N/A ROCK
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POCAHAUNTED: Make It Real CD (NNF 188CD)
Blissed-out psych dwellers Pocahaunted have now expanded their line-up to include members of Sun Araw and BlackBlack. Make It Real features the song "Save Yourself (It's Nice)," which is already beaming giant shafts of light directly into the internet hivemind.
$8.75 UPC: N/A ROCK
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POCAHAUNTED: Make It Real LP (NNF 188LP)
LP version.
$10.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MILLERI & THE SELPH, MATTEO: Moods EP 12" (OFF 015EP)
"Milan-based friends Matteo MIlleri & The Selph present their debut EP for Off Recordings. And it's a debut to watch as those guys may be young in age but very talented. Remembrance is a peaktime house tool with an anthemic organ line, uplifting vocals, a tight groove and an epic arrangement, perfect for rocking the dancefloor in the middle of the night. Mobilee's Marcin Czubala delivers a more laidback interpretation in his unique style, building a deep groove and combining elements of the original with great new samples to create a quirky track perfect for the earlier or later hours of the night. 'Midnight Rims' is a completely different affair, a techhouse-tool stripped down to the essence for all lovers of minimalistic groovebombs. The EP is completed by 'Mornin' Mist,' an atmospheric deephouse groover based on soulful chords and vocals."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VA: Collected Works 1 12" (OFFSPIN 001EP)
"Following OFF's big success, it's time for expanding the label concept with a sublabel: Off Spin. While Off itself will be slightly repositioned as an outlet for full artist EPs with timeless and deep house music, often by names already well-known on the scene, Off Spin will be mainly used for various artist EP's, but also for full EPs by Off newcomers. For OFF SPIN 001 we made a special effort to collect some really outstanding tracks by some of our favourite artists, some of them already around for a long time, some of them more fresh to the scene, but all very talented. French underground legends Chris Carrier & Phil Weeks team up to deliver a deep disco-infected house groover in their unique style; classy, timeless and with some of the sweetest samples you might have heard in a while. Ukrainian friends Drive D & Goshva & WestBoy have made a name for themselves with some outstanding releases on labels like Diynamic or their own Mulen imprint and deliver a modern house groover with some killer sample breaks. Off labelowner Andre Crom and Martin Dawson (who with Giles Smith also forms 2 Armadillos) present the first track of their new collaboration, a rough and driving house tool with some really freaky vocal samples, perfect for the later hours. And Cecille's Jacuzzi Boys team up with Bastian Schuster to deliver a really cool deephouse-hitech-groover with a unique and minimalistic fresh sound design."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MAQUINA!: Let's Get Smashed CD (PICAP 910897CD)
"Stunning compilation with all the singles by Barcelona's legendary psychedelic-progressive group, including potential hits such as 'Lands Of Perfection', 'Let's Get Smashed' or 'Look Away Our Happiness'. Also included a couple 10+ minute songs from their En Directo album."
$14.00 EAN: 8425845909554 ROCK
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EPPLAY/SAMON TAKAHASHI, VINCENT: Soundtracks For The Movies Of Pierre Clementi LP (PLANAM ETC)
"First performed at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux in March 2009, Soundtracks For The Movies Of Pierre Clemanti is an electronic concrete music including many references to psychedelia, Krautrock, spontaneous sound creation of the 1960s-'70s, building an intense dialogue with the specific universe of Pierre Clementi. Even if psychedelia and electroacoustic music seem to have little in common, they got intersected in the work of some advanced artists. On one side electronics entered rock and free jazz, on the other electric guitar and drums have been manipulated by adventurous modern composers. We could take Joseph Byrd, Friendsound, Faust, Supersister or Brainticket as a reference as well as Luc Ferrari, Jacques Lejeune, Bernard Parmegiani or Pierre Henry. A complete list of exchanges and collaborations would be too long to compile. Their common background could be defined as the need to enter our unexplored inner consciousness, either through the use of drugs and lysergic substances, or through mysticism or esthetic explorations. Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashi's music as pure experience and sonic-energy is the perfect soundtrack to the three movies by Pierre Clementi. The first two movies Positano - Bobine 30B01 (1969) and La Deuxième femme - Bobine J (1967-78) are the documentation of an intense period of experiences shared with Nico, Philippe Garrel, Frédéric Pardo, Tina Aumont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Marc O', Viva and many others. The third movie, La révolution n'est qu'un début: continuons le combat (1968), is a true hymn to freedom and is based around the May '68 events. Like a hallucinatory flux, the images of these three movies have been used by Epplay and Takahashi as the starting point for creating a unique sound experience. Edition limited to 300 copies with full-color sleeve, inner sleeve and insert, reproducing some very inspired scenes from the movies of Pierre Clementi."
$19.50 UPC: N/A EXPERIMENTAL
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INSTANT COFFEE!: Instant Coffee! LP (PLANAM FFE)
"A bizarre love triangle strung between the Baltimore noise scene, contemporary electronics and the New York jazz world, Instant Coffee play improvised music which spontaneously assembles itself into 'song' shapes that blossom, catch fire, explode and distort in ways that are unpredictable and disorienting. A trio comprised of Lisle Ellis, M. C., Schmidt and Jason Willett, the band members boast some unusually chequered pasts. Lisle Ellis is one of the foremost bassists in modern jazz, and having played with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Fred Frith and John Zorn, he's now exploring the electroacoustic combination of traditional jazz techniques with realtime computer processing. M. C. Schmidt has been one half of the conceptually oriented electronic provocateurs Matmos since 1997, and has made music with Bjork, the Kronos Quartet, Terry Riley and Zeena Parkins; in this band he plays a perverse array of percussive objects and many recalcitrant synthesizers. Jason Willett is a Baltimore veteran of avant and 'out' music both on the fringes of rock and noise; he has been in too many bands to mention, but was a longtime member of Half Japanese and collaborator with Jad Fair, and also plays in harsh free noise ensembles such as Leprechaun Catering. In these sessions, Jason plays contact-mic-ed rubber band and an improbable cluster of custom electronics created by noted Baltimore instrument maker Peter B. You would expect the results to fall into a Bermuda Triangle between jazz, electronic music and noise, but in fact Instant Coffee's sound rages further afield: unexpectedly lovely ambience, murky Italian movie soundtracks, humid mirages of drone that take sharp turns towards rhythm, and a closing brush with mittel-European mournful lyricism. There are no noodly solos and no tedious, predictably looped 'grooves': this music stakes itself on a casually surreal series of 'dissolves' from one form to another."
$19.50 UPC: N/A EXPERIMENTAL
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RODER, KLAUS: Kristallisationen 2 LP (PLANAM KRK2)
"Planam proudly presents the second LP production by Klaus Röder featuring two more pieces from the electronic Kristallisationen series, or Kristallisation 5 (1993) for microphone recordings of children chimes (played by children), Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer and EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer, Kristallisation 7 (1997) for microphone recordings and computer sounds, as well as Frozen Sounds (2002) for electric guitar sounds and computer sounds and the more concrete Life-Music 1 (1999) for microphone recordings in the zoo of Wuppertal, computer sounds and Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer. Klaus Röder is the archetype of the challenging challenger -- the perfect outsider. Nothing bad about it -- true geniuses often are hiding behind their uncompromising ethic. 'Ethic in the attic' would define the home-studio work of this ex-Kraftwerk banned banned banned auf Die Autobahn. The independent, time-stretching composer Klaus Röder is by necessity an inventor. Systems, machines, treatments, everything is (hand)made to provoke, to induce a musical result not only technically superb but loaded with the author's intimacy: humour, sound elements of a private life, a kid giggling... indeed a highly emotional and poetical approach. Klaus Röder mixes and plays with outside influences -- cut-up, musique concrète, psychedelia, plunderphonics, pop, even blues! -- in order to create a patchwork-like but coherent corpus over nearly 40 years of compositional activity. His music blends the warmth of strings and of humanity with the icy matter of electrical components and seems to have just one borderline: that of our ears. Edition limited to 420 copies with full-color sleeve."
$19.50 UPC: N/A EXPERIMENTAL
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ZU: The Way Of The Animal Powers LP (PG 020LP)
"Zu, the Roman metal/math/no-wave/free noise/punk/jazz trio, is perhaps best known in the US as a band who have had an unbelievable line-up of recording partners which includes The Stooges' Steve Mackay, Fugazi's Joe Lally and Guy Picciotto, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Can's Damo Suzuki, jazz masters Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson, percussionists Han Bennink and Hamid Drake, improvisationalist Eugene Chadbourne and the like-minded Nobukazu Takemura. The Italian trio of Jacopo Battaglia (drums), Massimo Pupillo (bass) and Luca T. Mai (saxophone) formed in 1999 after having worked together in local theater. Driven by a punk rock work ethic, Zu have played an astounding number of over 1,000 gigs worldwide including Europe, North America, Asia, Russia, and even Africa. The have released fourteen albums to date."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MILLS, JEFF: The Drummer Pt. 3 12" (PM 024EP)
"Jeff Mills concludes The Drummer project with this final part 3. Saving his most influential for the last, these selected Drumming Masters range from classic to fusion jazz. Such as: Art Blakey, Alphonse Mouzon, Elvin Jones and Bill Bruford. Chosen for their complex rudiments and hand control, The Drummer Pt. 3 is the most profound in terms of human ability and control. If you've collected the previous 2 parts (PM 022EP and PM 023EP), we hoped you enjoyed this project as much as we do. Thanks for listening."
$6.25 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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CALLAHAN, BILL: Rough Travel For A Rare Thing 2LP (SN 016LP)
"Finally! The Smog live album everyone always wanted for years and years has finally reached the public just in time to be a Bill Callahan record instead. Doesn't make a bit of difference -- Smog classics ride alongside Callahan hits with the same unforgettable gait. Rough Travel For A Rare Thing was recorded in Melbourne, Australia on November 8, 2007, at a club called The Toff. Which I think is a slang term for snob. Like, 'that bleedin' toff is a poofta.' In fact, the club was called The Poofta in the '80s. Australia's been good to Bill. They like him and he likes the ocean that surrounds them. Oh, and he likes them too, of course. And of course, they like the ocean, too. They are water people and he's a water person. It makes for good touring and killer live show recordings, as you will soon see. The show sold out in a matter of hours, which Bill's minders delightedly reported to their star, in order to get his spirits up for the show. They needn't have bothered -- Bill loves playing live, whether in front of sold-out houses or almost sold-out houses. In any case, it was a moment to remember when the band walked into the venue for the first time. Bill was like, 'Cool! There's a bar in my dressing room. Which way to the stage?' Then he found out he was standing on the stage. The place was small, I tell ya. Small. When Bill makes his records, he has a certain sound in his head which we hope can be extracted by the time the budget is maxed. The same thing happens on tour but we pay a lot less money for it to happen. For the sold-out tour all across Australia that this recording was taken from, the line-up was: three fiddle players who also sang back up, a drummer without cymbals and a bass player who also played harmonica. The idea was to have a strong, simple foundation with a lot of space left on top to be filled by the mystical strings and voice. And that's what came to pass. Rough Travel For A Rare Thing features Kate Connor, Lara Goodridge, Pria Schwall, Tim Rogers and Lawrence Pike and an audience of probably a hundred. But they were packed in there. And there were lots more out on the sidewalk in front -- honest!"
$13.75 UPC: 781484601616 ROCK
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STEELY DAN: Peg/Caves Of Altamira/Do It Again 12" (ABCD 9541EP)
"Peg" from 1977's Aja, "Caves Of Altamira" from 1976's The Royal Scam and "Do It Again" from 1972's Can't Buy A Thrill.
$7.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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YORKE, THOM: The Eraser 12" (MARCELLA 022EP)
"Thom Yorke is the pen, voice and soul of the rock group Radiohead -- he has released a solo album The Eraser and that is where this story begins. Abandoning his guitar get-along gang for the cold warmth of his computer and under-hyping an album that should be plastering the walls and buses of your local city, the anxiety ridden and morose Yorke cuts to the core of the dark state of humanity, unapologetically commenting on the zombies that were once humans. On this extremely limited 12", the album title track 'The Eraser' gets remixed by Slow To Speak. On the flip is various acapella's of Thom speaking on the current state of society and commerce and the Radiohead song 'Climbing Up the Walls,' which in some strange dysfunctional way is married lyrically to 'The Eraser.' Comes in a hand made silk-screened jacket."
$6.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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INNER CITY: Pennies From Heaven 12" (TRS 016EP)
"The latest song to join the Slow To Speak remix repertoire hails from the glory years of quality dance records, a track which for the most part has faded away into the dark corners of house music's subconscious. 'Pennies From Heaven' is one of those records that epitomizes 'party jam' whilst doubling as an intelligent, honest piece of cathartic escapism in its most sincere and innocent form, and for that, this record had to be honored and brought back into this world with care -- protected with vigilance against the hordes of mediocre, lazy and pointless vocal house records of the modern era. The latter of these do not speak to us, they fail to stay with us and shape our essence... and so they must be rejected. Fear not, though, for here it is, 'Pennies From Heaven,' reborn and in its most fit shape ever, having re-strengthened 10 fold its former powers of party rockage and ready to once again shine its light in these new days of darkness."
$6.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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SMITH, SEAN: Eternal CD (SAAH 059CD)
"Eternal finds Sean Smith in peak compositional form, coaxing sensory-enhancing textures from an ensemble of players. His erstwhile acoustic guitar providing the anchor, Smith provides common links with Eastern and Middle Eastern folk music, folk-rock, Appalachian stomp, and Robbie Basho-esque American Raga that bobs and weaves but never ribbons itself away from its common tether. Especially reminiscent of the tilaka-adorned works of Sandy Bull and Peter Walker, with nods towards the Eastern influenced albums of John Fahey (The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party, Fare Forward Voyagers), Smith has arrived with an elaborately adorned and introspective offering. Softly psychedelic, spiritual, beautiful. Eternal is eternal."
$8.75 UPC: 789856305926 ROCK
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MY EDUCATION: Sunrise CD (SAAH 060CD)
"Comprised of pieces from the band's original score for F.W. Murnau's 1927 silent masterpiece Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, My Education has discovered the perfect forum for which to flex their compositional muscles, achieving ever-transcendent musical heights in the process. This original score was perfected over the last two years through live scoring to the film, performed at sold out shows from coast-to-coast throughout the USA. Just as the music provides new context to the film as a live accompaniment, Sunrise flashes brightly from the speakers, sparking vivid and lush imagery for the listener. Finding parallels to the timeless soundtracks-as-albums Popol Vuh composed for a number of Werner Herzog's films - music with such visual distinction that it went on to become both synonymous with the screen and the band's legacy - Sunrise leaps onto celluloid with confident grace, distinguishing itself as My Education's most diverse and mature release yet."
$8.75 UPC: 789856306022 ROCK
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MY EDUCATION: Sunrise LP (SAAH 060LP)
LP version.
$12.00 UPC: 789856306015 ROCK
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COTTI: Real Hustler 12" (STN 001EP)
"It's Cotti back with the first release on the well-anticipated Sumting New label, set up and managed by Cotti, featuring a stable of fresh new vocalist and up-and-coming producers. As the name suggests, Sumting New is all about new and innovative music. 'Real Hustler' with a co- production on the B-side from Cotti and DJ Chef. Both tracks have been supported around the world by DJs such as Scream, Benga, Dmz, N-type, Joker, Caspa and Rusko to name a few. Side A (Real hustler) is a ragga vocal style track with hard hitting dub bassline accompanied with the trademark guitar stabbs and strong brass section Cotti is very well known for. Side B Cotti vs Chefal - This track lays down some serious sub bass with a crazy mid range bass that keep your head straight nodding for the whole track. Not to mention da cheeky sample at the drop."
$8.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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HEADHUNTER & DJUNYA: El Presidente 12" (SFS 002EP)
"Surefire Sound's second single release features four heavyweight producers representing the UK and North America. This innovative tag-team set brings together dub-tech pioneers collaborating on a pair of earth-moving tracks. Leading off the release is the UK's Tony Williams, a.k.a. Headhunter, a veteran Bristol producer with numerous releases on Tempa, alongside Joseph S. Hanks Jr, -- Djunya to his mates -- a stalwart SF artist whose tracks on Narco Hz, Lo Dubs and Eight FX have established him as a major player. Combing the best of their respective spacious and spacey sounds, 'El Presidente' is a luminous, rolling track, equipped with pulsating bass and reverberating synth stabs. It's truly King Tubby-style dub for the 21st century. The track is getting massive advance play from artists like Jus Wan, F and Mary Anne Hobbs, to name a few. SF's Dean J. Grenier, a.k.a. DJG has risen quickly in the electronic ranks via singles on Tube 10, Subway and Narco Hz that showcase his potent techy tracks. He links up with Toronto, Canada's XI, whose releases on Formant and Immerse have lead to mixes for Sonic Router and a growing international following. 'Putney Says' features an intricate, percussive rhythm that lumbers like a giant, each step punctuated by mountainous bass thumps. Sizzling analog synths, vaporous filtered pads and well-timed drops round out this effective and tension-building work. "
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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URICK, JASON: Fussing & Fighting 12" (THR 012.40EP)
"The three tracks on Fussing & Fighting were spawned during the period just after Urick completed his work on Husbands. After not listening to little else as he finished that album, Urick dove deep into some old faves, including Pita's Get Out and the Gas catalog, and also became obsessed with videos of London reggae linchpin Jah Shaka. The three compositions included on this 12" are experiments in trying to combine these influences into Urick's working methods established for Husbands. Unlike Husbands' gentle washes of ambience, the songs on Fussing & Fighting are Urick's first in a very long time to incorporate any sort of rhythmic element, however simple. This time Urick made a conscious effort to slowly steer away from the experiments with density on display on Husbands, opening up his music sonically and allowing things to breathe. As with Husbands, all three of the original tracks were recorded by Urick himself at Floristree."
$8.75 UPC: 790377124019 ROCK
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FUTURE ISLANDS: In The Fall 12" (THR 012.41EP)
"Too many bands in the era of buzz and the blog are taken before their time. The spotlight hits hard and finds a group who has not yet developed, not yet put in the work to find their sound and hone it and make themselves better, and just as quickly they're gone. Future Islands are not one of those bands."
$8.75 UPC: 790377124118 ROCK
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TRANS AM: Things CD (THR 236CD)
"Most bands are too afraid to step up to the bat. They are scared that life is going to throw them different kinds of curve balls. But for more than fifteen years, Trans Am has fearlessly stepped up, taken their swings and thrown a few curve balls of their own. Few bands can say they've toured the Canadian mountains with Tool, and fewer still can say they played their first tour opening for Tortoise. Trans Am a-la 2010 is a band of veterans unafraid to contradict themselves, confident in their identity even as confounding as that identity has been for their fans over the years. Thing is a wreckage of sorts. The project was originally commissioned as a sci-fi, horror adaptation of Romeo And Juliet. When funding for that project fell apart, Trans Am forged on with their own album."
$10.25 UPC: 790377023626 ROCK
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TRANS AM: Things LP (THR 236LP)
LP version.
$11.50 UPC: 790377023619 ROCK
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MI AMI: Steal Your Face CD (THR 237CD)
"Mi Ami is committed to their own particular joyful noise, to the intersection of vicious high-energy playing with ebullient communal experience. In this climate, when pretty much every band has some dub records at home and a myriad of musical influences have been rendered mundane, Mi Ami defines itself by turning inward. Where before, melodies had been suggested, here they are fully developed. Where structure had previously meandered, here each song uses a minimum of means to 'get to there,' allowing the playing to fly free. And, where lyrics had been left unprinted, here they are laid out completely, an integral part of the music. Technically, there are four components to Mi Ami's music: Drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals. And yet, essentially there is only one: the unified sound, more than the sum of its parts, each individual component coming from and returning to the singular whole. Anyone interested in understanding what Mi Ami is about would do well to start with this album. More concise than Watersports , more confident than their other pre-Thrill Jockey releases and better sounding than anything else they have done, Steal Your Face marks their arrival as a fully-formed, organically mature band."
$10.25 UPC: 790377023725 ROCK
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MI AMI: Steal Your Face LP (THR 237LP)
LP version.
$10.25 UPC: 790377023718 ROCK
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TUNNG: ...And Then We Saw Land CD (THR 242CD)
"In the spirit of all their travel and experimentation, they decided to call their new album ...And Then We Saw Land, and it's full of adventurous spirit. Three songs contain what the band describe as The Mega Chorus, a 15-strong group of collaborators and drinking buddies who lent their voices to the album one rainy night in an abandoned school hall in Old Street. The intimacy and domesticity of previous songs is replaced by a grand sweep, a feeling of a wide world being explored and alien experiences being processed and drawn into the band's lives. And yet it's still Tunng, still with that bucolic oddness and modernist gleam that made those very first basement recordings so intriguing seven long, strange years ago. They were different then, and they remain very different now; still different, but still the same. That's Tunng."
$10.25 UPC: 790377024227 ROCK
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TUNNG: ...And Then We Saw Land LP (THR 242LP)
Gatefold LP version.
$10.25 UPC: 790377024210 ROCK
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DUB TAYLOR: Clicktrap 10" (TWOBIRDS 002EP)
"Roast the pine nuts slowly without oil or fat in a pan till their color becomes golden brown. Skin the cucumbers, cut in halves and deseed them with a little spoon. Then slice the halves with a grater. Cut the cocktail tomatoes into halves too. Take a bowl and put the yoghurt inside, add two good dash of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Add all chopped herbs, the grated cucumbers, the halved cocktail tomatoes, the roasted pine nuts, the halved and chopped spring onions and chili. Mix it with a spoon and season it with salt, pepper and a bit of honey."
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VERSE, BEN: Flip The Coin 12" (WHEELY 005EP)
"Wheel & Deal Records presents two fresh cuts from the man otherwise known as the MC of drum & bass outfit Pendulum: Ben Verse. Having been a vocalist for the past fourteen years, and a producer for the past six, this year Ben delivers a pair of futuristic, energized dubstep tracks with distinct character. 'Flip The Coin' is a dark, head-nodding half stepper that packs a weighty punch, utilizing fat percussive patterns with tribal undertones. Twisting, ghostly soundscapes drift in and out from above, with morphing pulses of subbass underneath. On the flipside, 'Inhale' brings dubbed out, future-jungle vibes with irresistible energy and hints of mystical allure."
$7.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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