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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE
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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 03/18/2013
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 03/18/2013
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
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COHEN, RENATO: Suddenly Funk 12" (PURE 088EP)
Renato Cohen has almost single-handedly put the Brazilian dance music scene on the map. With his own unique way of mixing styles, from house to techno and influences of funk and jazz, he has built up a clear Brazilian electronic music identity. Including a remix by 2000 And One, the Suddenly Funk EP is a true musical gem.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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SUN CITY GIRLS: Eye Mohini: Sun City Girls Singles Vol. 3 CD (ABDT 049CD)
Volume 3 in the series of Sun City Girls singles, compilations, and rare tracks, consists of material recorded between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Much of this collection reflects the Arabic guitar instrumental and acoustic pseudo-Asian vocal folk styles of the band from the period when they recorded relentlessly. The 14 cuts vary wildly in scope yet maintain a consistent listening experience throughout, bridging a wide gap between the band's second full-length LP Grotto of Miracles (Track 3 -- "Gum Arabic" -- being the only true outtake from that recording session) in 1986 and the 1993 launch of the group's Abduction label after the band relocated from Phoenix to Seattle. All four tracks from the Eye Mohini single as well as all six tracks from the Borungku Si Derita double single are included here, the latter featuring a vicious rehearsal version of Esoterica of Abyssynia with a rare captured occurrence of both Bishop brothers playing electric guitars. The remaining two tracks from Three Fake Female Orgasms double single not included on Volume 2 of this series are present with the extremely rare studio version of "Kickin' the Dragon" from a triple 7" box set released by an obscure Bay Area label in 1994. The disc is rounded out by a 10-minute live track from the Heinz Afterworld Lounge in Oakland from 1992 where SCG closed the show with a heavy and ecstatic version of "The Flower" from their Torch of the Mystics LP. As in the previous two volumes of this series, this CD is sequenced to play as a full album and is an excellent entry point for the non-initiated into a band that produced as diverse and intimidating a back catalog as any other entity in modern music.
$10.99 UPC: 616892113843 ROCK
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INVISIBLE HANDS, THE: The Invisible Hands CD (ABDT 050CD)
The Invisible Hands is the English translation of the band's original Egyptian Arabic name: El Ayadi El Khafeyya. Taking almost two years to create amidst an unusual and challenging backdrop, this is the brand new project of Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls). Eleven highly-crafted new songs projected through his typically dark lens of songwriting and a band of brilliant musicians from Cairo, the premier, self-titled CD version of this album is the English language vocals edition (see below) delivered in AB's patented sinister style; drenched in lovely psychedelic folk arrangements and vocal choruses with a nod to what could have potentially been an album that surfaced decades ago but instead found its way into the future superimposed over historic and tumultuous times in the center of the Arab world. The group was established during the summer of 2011 and the album was recorded in Cairo in May of 2012. Band members include Cherif El Masri and Aya Hemeda (both former members of popular Egyptian group Eskenderella) with drummer Magued Nagati. On a handful of songs, several other players from the Cairo scene are featured including Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect/Land Of Kush) on oud and Mohamed Medhat on violin and viola. All tracks written and sung by Alvarius B. in English. Note: This is the English language CD version of the album. An Arabic language CD version will only be available to purchase in the Middle East. Both English and Arabic language versions will be available for digital download and both versions together will be available as a limited edition 2LP in the very near future.
$10.99 UPC: 616892113942 ROCK
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COUTO, HECTOR: Take Me Away 12" (AREA 043EP)
Hector Couto was featured in Resident Advisor's Top 100 most charted producers of 2011 and he returns with an EP that will blow your mind. "Take Me Away" has the pumping beat, bubbling melody, and appealing vocals that take you away to a place and time when DJs brought flight cases full of wax to their gigs. "Underground Feeling" features a deep and dark melody fused together with slick percussions and seductive vocals, setting a secretive tone.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LEONHARD + ALVINA RED, LARS: Seasons - Les quatre saisons CD (BINE 029CD)
It's been 287 years since Antonio Vivaldi wrote his popular masterpiece "The Four Seasons." Following in these musical footsteps, Lars Leonhard now takes on the idea of molding the distinct characteristics of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter into 12 pieces of electronic music. After the previous, purely instrumental releases by the Düsseldorf artist -- the remix EP No Comment (2012) and his debut album 1549 (2011) -- his new 12-track album Seasons - Les quatre saison features singer Alvina Red lending her voice to the first of each four seasons' three tracks in pure French -- a language whose natural melody is tailor-made for Leonhard's synthetic yet warming sounds. Living in Stockholm, Alvina Red is no newcomer either, gaining her first professional experience at the age of ten as a background singer for Agnetha Fältskog: the blonde Abba singer was looking for beautiful children's voices for her song "Take Good Care of Your Children" (the B-side of her hit single "The Heat Is On"). Following further engagements in professional choirs and as a singer, songwriter and keyboard player for several band projects, Alvina and Lars Leonhard get together on this joint release. With all tracks written in their respective season to add authenticity, production of Seasons - Les quatre saison took almost exactly one year. Leonhard starts the awakening of nature in Spring with the sleepy minimalistic "Le Printemps," a digital spring of tiny and frail sound-flowers on whose meadow Alvina's voice flies like a soft breeze. Following its soft doze are spheric ambient landscapes, deep house rhythms and dubby chords like on the feather-light "L'éte," and by "Dancing in the Noonday Sun" the dancefloor is open -- Leonhard's signature grooving dub-techno flows like a tequila sunrise at the Café del Mar. Just as the seasons' influence on our lives gets more or less intense, songs like the cryptic then rhythmic "Colors of Autumn" enter the listener's soul both wittingly or unwittingly before unfolding their energy. And once Winter's last frozen sound dies away with "Frozen Landscape," you can look forward to the next seasonal cycle.
$11.99 UPC: 880319607028 ELECTRONIC
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PRURIENT: Through the Window CD (BLACKEST 002CD)
Through the Window is the new album by Prurient, his first for Blackest Ever Black. It is, in a sense, both the conclusion and the climax of the journey that Dominick Fernow began with 2011's Many Jewels Surround the Crown 7" and continued with that year's Bermuda Drain LP and Time's Arrow EP. It was recorded before the Hospital Productions founder's move to Los Angeles, but in tone, subject matter, and scale it firmly anticipates his current stint navigating the desert city's "hall of mirrors, sycophants, fair-weather friends and social vampires." The three pieces featured on Through the Window, including the 18-minute title-track, also represent the ultimate expression of Fernow's affection for European techno forms, and his ability to apply them to his own uniquely lacerating purpose. Unlike his claustrophobic, inward-looking recordings as Vatican Shadow, this material is widescreen, open, expansive. Nonetheless, the goal is exorcism and self-knowledge, not ecstasy. Through the Window is, at bottom, a work of true SM electronics. Music to listen to at night, in the hills, watching as headlights approach.
$11.79 EAN: 5055300357243 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Blank Slate 001 12" (SLATE 001EP)
A brand-new house label from the B-Tracks camp, harsher and more bad-boy than Supply, with a killer four-track showcase to get the ball rolling. Fresh and diverse, exceptionally good. Artists include: North Lake, Arnaldo, Mirko, and QY.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL: The Perennials LP (BKEDIT 003LP)
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel makes fuzzy eyes for the dancefloor on her sublime debut for Boomkat Editions. The Perennials is Rachel Evans' eagerly-awaited follow-up to her eponymous LP for Spectrum Spools, channeling her celestial energies into concise and emotive ambient-pop arrangements on the cusp of progressive '90s trance. Taking in a handful of gorgeous songs ranging from pastoral instrumentals to strobing arpeggio surfers and sweeping mini bleep symphonies, she isolates a feeling or vibe hovering between the alien horizons of Tangerine Dream and Laurie Spiegel and the heart-aching cinematic yearn of Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise at their best for David Lynch. From the Icarus-like trance ascension of opener "Efflorescence," she makes a deeply endearing virtue of divining unresolved tension between cosmic ambition and lo-fi willpower, defying its teasing gravity to ride pockets of thermal energy with siren-like chicanery on the radiant "The Reynard and the Vixen," while the neo-tantrik positivism of "Foggy Morning" consolidates the compatible dimensions of Laurel Halo and Suzanne Ciani with bittersweet effect beside the lushly heightened sensuality of "The Chord and the Centre." Ultimately it's as close as we've seen MSOTT get to the dancefloor, a direction we reckon she should continue to explore. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alechemy. Limited to 500 individually-numbered copies.
$15.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LAS: Zaikedelic/Preaching 10" (BOXCL 016EP)
Helsinki-based producer LAS has cut a unique path through contemporary bass music, infusing foundation dubstep vibes with a sense of the wild natural spaces of his homeland. "Zaikedelic" is a 80/160 bpm juked hip-hop piece, with furious bongos, filtered breaks and wild piano licks swirling around the tough b-boy roots. LAS goes mad deep on "Preaching," with lo-fi atmospherics and dub sensibilities underpinned by restless bass and tough tribal halfstep.
$7.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ALLIEN, ELLEN: LISm CD (BPC 264CD)
Ellen Allien's new work LISm is already being referred to as a milestone in the label's history: rarely has an LP from the circle of BPC artists deviated so far from the club context as this one. The label boss has radically disposed of all established musical templates and created space for 45 minutes of sonic experiments that lie well beyond any functional paradigm -- a highly emotional soundtrack for one's "inner cinema," but also a creative process with a considerable fun factor. The starting point for LISm came in 2010. Ellen was approached by two choreographers and dancers to compose music for their dance performance "Drama per Musica." Under the direction of Alexandre Roccoli and Sevérine Rième, the performance took place on March 7th, 2011 as part of the Spectacles Vivants Festival at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Drawing from the genre-spanning structure of her DJ sets, Ellen invites the listener to experience the piece as a musical journey with constantly-shifting scenes and impressions. After the successful performance, Ellen initially leaves the music resting on her hard drive before deciding, in early 2012, to revive and rework the stage music for her next album. With this in mind, she invited her label-mate of many years, Thomas Muller, and the Berlin-based DJ and producer Bruno Pronsato aka Steven Ford, to her studio in Berlin. As could be expected from this constellation, LISm offers up a considerable breadth and openness of style: rhythmic slivers and fragments are arranged like pieces of a jigsaw until they eventually form a recognizable whole and take shape in the mind of the listener. Instead of focusing on beats and melodies, Ellen works over song phrases with parameters such as volume and tonal density. Swing loops, piano motifs and vocal fragments recited like mantras are just a few of the associative elements that pass before the inner eye, until they too are finally merged into the rhythmic flow of a timelessly-serene, perfectly danceable down-tempo electronica track. At this point the musical elements, connected by an overarching melody, paint a coherent and memorable picture -- a very spiritual picture, as Ellen stresses, which in turn offers a profound insight into one's own emotional world. LISm, originally created in the context of the performing arts, thus generates its own images and associations with their own content in its second phase of conception. The extremely unique and challenging nature of this work also opens the door to intriguing conjecture about BPC's stylistic orientation as the label moves into the future.
$10.39 UPC: 673790029393 ELECTRONIC
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BARTOS, KARL: Off the Record CD (BB 079CD)
Well-known as one-quarter of the "classic" Kraftwerk line-up, Karl Bartos' new album is an audio-visual sensation. Lost for many years, some of his early music has been re-conceived and re-contextualized in a thrilling modern setting. Here's the story: during Kraftwerk's heyday, Karl Bartos wrote -- off the record -- a secret acoustic diary. Based on his musical jottings (rhythms, riffs, hooks, sounds, chords, and melodies) this is what he has come up with today -- 12 brand-new, exciting, timeless songs. Many of Kraftwerk's most influential rhythms and memorable melodies were actually conceived in his home studio. They would later be used on an unstoppable succession of hits from the Düsseldorf band as they ascended to the lofty heights of popular music culture. As a major contributor to The Man-Machine (1978) and Computer World (1981), Bartos has had a decisive influence on Kraftwerk's music. Rolling Stone author Mike Rubin says of these years: "there's something timeless and universal about their songwriting of this period." The Kraftwerk team went on to achieve worldwide success and cult status: in 1982 "The Model" went to the UK's number one spot. The track has become a classic in the history of music, along with "The Robots," "Metropolis," "Neon Lights," "Numbers," "Pocket Calculator," "Home Computer," "Tour de France," "Musique Non-Stop," and "The Telephone Call." Kraftwerk have been one of the most sampled artists of all time, and there have been countless cover versions of their songs. In 2012, Kraftwerk performed a retrospective of this repertoire in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Karl Bartos left the band in 1990. Subsequently, he became an independent producer and writer -- for his project Electric Music as a solo artist, and also together with fellow friends and musicians -- Bernard Sumner (New Order), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), and Andy McCluskey (OMD). In 2004 he co-founded the Master of Arts course "Sound Studies -- Acoustic Communication" at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where he was a visiting professor, teaching Auditory Media Design up until 2009. For Off the Record, Karl Bartos has opened up his music archive for the very first time. He rediscovered and analyzed hundreds of tapes, piles of sheet music, and years of digital media. Inspired by his acoustic diary and adding his experience as a composer and producer, he has created 12 brand new songs -- written and performed with masterful skill. It took him two years to accomplish this original Bartos album: iron crystal music, vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms. Rhythms of brutal, minimalistic impact as found on the much-sampled "Numbers" recorded three decades ago and described by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance as "the secret code of electronic funk."
$11.99 EAN: 4047179742825 ELECTRONIC
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BARTOS, KARL: Off the Record LP+CD (BB 079LP)
180 gram vinyl version with CD.
$15.79 EAN: 4047179742818 ELECTRONIC
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ROEDELIUS: Selbstportrait Vol. III/Reise durch Arcadien LP (BB 126LP)
LP version on 180 gram vinyl. "The long overdue reissue of Selbstporträt III/Reise durch Arcadien closes a gap in the Roedelius oeuvre which his followers have long since had their eyes on. Those who found the self-portrait series irresistible had to endure a lengthy, impatient wait for the Journey Through Arcadia. As on the other releases in this series, the pieces on Reise durch Arcadien are musical sketches, fleeting ideas and aphorisms of a musician whose exuberant imagination assumes tonal form in almost every moment of his life. Created between 1973 and 1978 and recorded with decidedly modest technical equipment, this music reflects Roedelius' most intimate, wholly undisguised vision of humane music. Almost casually, Roedelius offers us as listeners direct access to his artistic riches. Neither seeking to impose himself upon us, nor setting out to impress, he simply wishes to share with us something he could barely put into words. Utterly detached from time, stylistically unique, these tracks could easily be contemporary creations. Only the questionable recording quality (common to the majority of the self-portrait pieces) hints at a bygone age. This in no way diminishes the musical quality, however. On the contrary, it serves to emphasize the spontaneity and authenticity of the sketches. Roedelius was not interested in creating smoothly polished, perfect electronic music productions. His artistry lies in capturing musical ideas which appear like flashes of lightning and developing them through improvisation. With this in mind, he always pressed record on his tape machine when he sat down at the keyboard, channeling his thoughts, feelings and moods into music. In such moments of inspiration, there was simply no space to consider sound quality, dynamics, tonal balance or special sound effects. Music was born in Roedelius, it flowed out of him in real time, unfiltered, and was caught on tape by the assiduous recording device." --Asmus Tietchens (from the liner notes)
$14.99 EAN: 4047179741811 ELECTRONIC
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ARGY & ANDREA OLIVA: Vagabundos 2013 2CD (CADENZA 011CD)
Vagabundos, the DJ, club and event collective from Luciano's Cadenza stable, returns for its biggest year yet. Holding fort every Sunday at Ibiza's Pacha club in recent years, as well as hugely successful events in London, Chile, Bucharest, New York, Tokyo, Naples, and more, the Vagabundos parties have become the stuff of legend, earning them numerous accolades of "Best Ibiza Night" and most recently (jointly with Richie Hawtin's Enter parties) by the Ibiza DJ Awards 2012. And so the collective re-group for what promises to be a huge 12 months, and kickstarting it all is this double mix album from two of the Vagabundos DJs; Andrea Oliva and Argy, joining together to mix a superb two hours plus of Vagabundos vibes. Taking a disc each, Argy gets straight down to business, maintaining the energy already set by Oliva. A short intro from Richie Hawtin's Plastikman project paves the way for a bumpin' selection of music from the likes of Nathan Baratto, DJ Sneak and Radio Slave, always mixed with the assured, quick style that makes an Argy DJ set well worth the investment. As the mixes flow, the music gets decidedly tougher, showing Argy's techno sensibilities with tracks and remixes from heavyweights like Kink (the blissful breakbeats of his collaboration with Marc Romboy), Christian Smith, Robert Hood, Technasia, and Argy himself, culminating in the rather beautiful DJ Sprinkles remix of June's "Lost Area," before a "one last tune" effort from the original '90s house of Harmony Funk. Oliva's mix starts lightly with the deeper sounds of Shlomi Aber and quickly locks into a groove with some of the finest house music on the block from artists like Nick Curly, Dan Ghenacia, Todd Terry (under his House Of Gypsies guise), and Loco Dice. The pace doesn't drop for one minute, showcasing Oliva's always on-point style and dedication to a good groove. The mix builds to a crescendo of Oliva's own remix of Luciano's "Rise of Angel" and into one of electronic music's most classic contemporary pieces, the classic "Knights of the Jaguar" by DJ Rolando. Other artists include: YMC, Per Hammar, Andrade, Bjorn Wolf & Youri Donatz, Mike Dunn, Sante, The Deepshakerz, DJ Jesus, Butch, Jordan Peak, Jay Lumen, Coyu, Boys Noize, Franck Roger, Andrea Oliva & Egal 3, Kodac, Julian Perex, Waff, Mark Henning, George Fitzgerald, Deetron, and Ian Pooley.
$14.39 UPC: 827170129924 ELECTRONIC
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TIETJEN, CHRIS: Acht CD (CORMIX 043CD)
Cocoon presents the eighth edition of the Cocoon in-house mix CD series. Just as with its predecessors, Chris Tietjen was responsible for selecting and mixing the tracks, being deeply ingrained in Cocoon since his teenage days. And even more than with its predecessors, Tietjen manages to draw a big line and to reconcile the sometimes very heterogeneous Cocoon Recordings releases. The great gap that techno fans might see between tracks by Stefanik, Ambivalent, and Secret Cinema is skillfully bridged in the mix by Tietjen's combination of tracks, and is even beneficial for the flow of the mix. This diversion is typical for Cocoon: a lot of variety within the set, using only musical material from one single label, without ever losing the tension. Of course, Stefanik's contributions and the tracks by Mark Broom or Maetrik stand out a little bit, but this is also a sign of a good mix: to find the right proportion between a fluent passage and similar styles on the hand and variety on the other. To stay in the flow but never become monotonous. That's why the eighth edition of this in-house mix CD series is fully dedicated to the label's philosophy and to all the Cocoon DJs' philosophy who defy all these "Style-DJs" and their loop techno and Ableton monotony, but rather bring in their sets great variety and a wide range of music. These sets all have a special stamp and bear the hallmarks of their DJs, but they still manage -- just as the other Cocoon mix CDs -- to bring different styles together and this is probably why they appear so timeless... when you listen to them again, many years later. Other artists include: Sawlin, Ilario Alicante & Todd Bodine, André Galluzzi & Dana Ruh, Christian Burkhardt, Sian, Secret Cinema & Peter Horrevorts, Ambivalent, Doomwork, Markus Fix, and Ricardo Villalobos.
$11.99 UPC: 827170129627 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Correspondant Compilation 01 CD (CORR 001CD)
Correspondant label-head Jennifer Cardini presents the very first Correspondant label compilation. "Jimmy After is a newcomer on Correspondant and delivers with 'The Dedicated' -- the perfect atmospheric and deeply melodic opening track. After their slick, urban remix of Enola, we can name Darabi 'the Pope of 99 bpm.' Their contribution to the compilation, 'Pistolero,' carries their distinctive signature: obsessive minimal slowness. Daniel Avery present 'Tunnel,' a cinematographic road trip. Cora Novoa's track 'The Sphinx' is beautiful and elegant. Pulp Disco & The Outcast present their version of psychedelic disco with "Over Midnight." Clement Meyer of 'Get the Curse' is all about carving his way into insanity. His track 'High Tek Snuff' follows the direction he took on his first EP. Javi Redondo's 'The Cave of Gold' triggers the Joy Division fan inside me. Michel Amato aka The Hacker bridges John Carpenter with Dopplereffekt to a resounding effect with his track 'Enter.' Philip Gorbachev teams up with Cologne's rising star Barnt for dangerous stuff. The second collaboration is with Daniel Maloso and 'Like a Vampire' will make you want to stay up all night. Rework evokes some wonderful energy and Nhar delivers a very special version of 'Thelema.' As the closing track for the compilation I picked one of my own tracks."
$11.99 UPC: 880319595820 ELECTRONIC
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DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL: In Dub Remixed by Victor Rice LP (EB 093LP)
LP version. Features additional Victor Rice remixes of Live in Dub not on the CD. Limited to 999 copies. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill are back with a bang and in their favorite place: on stage. This is a blast of sheer live energy that slips down as nicely as Jamaican honey. The tracks on this album were recorded at various concerts in 2012. Each track is so catchy, you'll struggle to stop humming it. It pulses in your stomach, it breathes under your skin and it glitters in your ears. The Swiss musicians have worked with the Hamburg-based dub label Echo Beach since 2006, and to date the collaboration has produced five albums. Another equally prominent protagonist on this project is the Munich sound and dub specialist Umberto Echo, who for the past two years has regularly accompanied the band on tour and who also performs on the mixing desk as a fifth instrumentalist. Umberto Echo recorded and produced the tracks on this album, magnifying Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's space. The nine live tracks are supplemented by six remixes by the acclaimed dub technician Victor Rice. The New York-born artist, who played bass for The Scofflaws Ska, has lived in São Paulo since 2002. Here, in 2004, he recorded his debut album In America, which explores and refines dub techniques. Unlike the old school pioneers King Tubby or Augustus Pablo, the influence of ska is very noticeable in his remixes. Live in Dub bears the unmistakable hallmark of Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, glowing with irresistible grooves, languorous depth, melodious beauty, and cool soundscapes. Far removed from purism, these tracks open the hatches in the dubby twilight and flood the horizon with breathtaking keyboards and silvery guitar solos. Live in Dub gets the masses moving their feet and nodding their heads, as the groove rumbles deeply on and on.
$15.79 EAN: 4047179754415 ELECTRONIC
A1. Dub Cup
A2. When I Fall in Love (feat. Ken Boothe)
A3. A Fistful of Dub
A4. London Calling
A5. Smoke On the Water (feat. William White)
A6. The World Is Dub Enough
B1. Dub Cup (Chapter 2 Version)
B2. When I Fall in Love (feat. Ken Boothe) (Chapter 2 Version)
B3. A Fistful of Dub (Chapter 2 Version)
B4. London Calling (Chapter 2 Version)
B5. Smoke On the Water (feat. William White) (Chapter 2 Version)
B6. The World Is Dub Enough (Chapter 2 Version)
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DEHNERT, MIKE: Roulement EP 12" (ECHOCOL 023EP)
This bomb on Echocord Colour comes from Mike Dehnert. This one contains two powerful techno tracks with the stripped-down Dehnert sound, perfect for the peak-time dancefloor. The remix comes from Mike's colleague Sascha Rydell -- a monster, flowing, powerful track. Mike Dehnert is mostly known from his own imprint, the raw techno label Fachwerk, which he has been running since 2007. He is also releasing on other respected labels like Delsin, Clone Basement Series, and Deeply Rooted House.
$8.99 UPC: 880319616617 ELECTRONIC
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REUDENBACH, MICHAEL: Szenen, Standbilder Werke 1991-2009 2CD (RZ 10021-22CD)
"It has become taken for granted that nothing concerned with art is self-evident any more, neither in it nor in its relationship with the whole -- not even its right to exist." It is with these words that Theodor Adorno begins his Aesthetic Theory. Edition RZ presents works circa 1991-2009 by German composer Michael Reudenbach. Housed in a six-panel digipak with a 22-page booklet of notes in English and German.
$27.59 EAN: 4029455100222 CLASSICAL
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ULLMANN, JAKOB: Fremde Zeit Addendum 4 CD (RZ 1029CD)
An addition to the Fremde Zeit Addendum box. Available separately. "Hush! Hush! Hath not the world now become perfect? What hath happened unto me? As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so -- danceth sleep upon me. No eye doth it close to me, it leaveth my soul awake. Light is it, verily, feather-light. It persuadeth me, I know not how, it toucheth me inwardly with a caressing hand, it constraineth me. Yea, it constraineth me, so that my soul stretcheth itself out: -- How long and weary it becometh, my strange soul! Hath a seventh-day evening come to it precisely at noontide? Hath it already wandered too long, blissfully, among good and ripe things? It stretcheth itself out, long -- longer! It lieth still, my strange soul. Too many good things hath it already tasted; this golden sadness oppresseth it, it distorteth its mouth. -- As a ship that putteth into the calmest cove: -- it now draweth up to the land, weary of long voyages and uncertain seas. Is not the land more faithful? As such a ship huggeth the shore, tuggeth the shore: -- then it sufficeth for a spider to spin its thread from the ship to the land. No stronger ropes are required there. As such a weary ship in the calmest cove, so do I also now repose, nigh to the earth, faithful, trusting, waiting, bound to it with the lightest threads. O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth his pipe. Take care! Hot noontide sleepeth on the fields. Do not sing! Hush! The world is perfect." --from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, vierter und letzter Teil, Mittags | LXX. Noontide.
$14.39 EAN: 4029455102912 CLASSICAL
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MAIN: Ablation LP (EMEGO 160LP)
LP version. There has been a recent surge in activity from Robert Hampson, with all manner of solo recordings and performances popping up. It's only logical that he reactivates his beloved Main project. As we all know, Main laid the foundations during the 1990s for much of the love of abstract guitar treatments in electronic music throughout the 2000s. Hampson has teamed up with Stephan Mathieu to create a stunning new album. On Ablation, Mathieu adds extra tonal color and an obscure rhythmic palette to Hampson's exacting treatments and detailed use of layered concrète sounds to create an emotionally-charged and fascinating work. Old fans of Main will not be disappointed, and neither will new followers of experimental audio. Packaged with images by Grebo Gray with layout by Dave Coppenhall, and expertly mastered and cut by Rashad Becker, Ablation is a highlight for the spring 2013 season. Robert Hampson (analogue electronics, concrète sounds, guitar, piano-treatments) and Stephan Mathieu (Farfisa VIP 233, e-bowed phonoharp, radio, percussion-treatment).
$14.39 EAN: 9120020389570 ELECTRONIC
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IELASI & KASSEL JAEGER, GIUSEPPE: Parallel/Grayscale LP (EMEGO 161LP)
Parallel/Grayscale is the first collaborative work between Italian guitarist and composer Giuseppe Ielasi and French-Swiss composer and electroacoustic musician Kassel Jaeger. It is comprised of two different improvisation sessions. The first one took place in Paris, in October of 2011. The second happened in Oreno, in June of 2012, after the first concert Ielasi and Jaeger performed together. The first session was a pure analog device improvisation, whereas the second one was more laptop-oriented. These two moments have been melted together, forming two different subtracts of the same material. Gratitude to Fabio Carboni and Sara Serighelli from O', Milano.
$14.39 EAN: 9120020389549 ELECTRONIC
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LOCUST: You'll Be Safe Forever LP (EMEGO 162LP)
LP version. You'll Be Safe Forever marks the first release from Locust in 12 years. Mark Van Hoen, who made a string of influential releases as Locust on R&S records in the 1990s, all but retired the alias at the end of that decade. In May 2012, Van Hoen was invited to perform a live set on WFMU radio. In order to make the set more spontaneous and add a further dimension, he asked friend and fellow musician Louis Sherman to collaborate. While improvising new material in Sherman's Brooklyn rehearsal studio, it swiftly became obvious that the material sounded like Locust. Inspired by joint explorations with found sound sources and ambient textures, and sharing a pan-dimensional immersion in the length and breadth of analog and digital recording, the duo performed a series of tracks live. This material, combined with previously-recorded tape tracks dating back to 2006 form the bulk of the album. The melancholic depths of electronic music explored in those improvisations, expanded further through subsequent sessions at Van Hoen's Woodstock, NY studio, have resulted in this latest entry in Locust's impressive discography. The record showcases prime examples of Van Hoen's compulsively hypnotic beats and abstracted pop vocals -- already hallmarks of his collected work since 1993 -- manipulating a global variety of samples in Celemony's Melodyne software to weave a unique sonic tapestry, as inviting as it is intricate. Paired with Sherman's evocative synth improvisations -- an immediately visceral element new to Locust -- these collaborators have crafted a shattered landscape that bridges two perspectives of progressive movement in electronic music under a single name. Sherman, an American from Baltimore, comes to the band armed with a vast knowledge of the history of electronic music. This, combined with Londoner Mark Van Hoen's known musical pedigree, maps the complete topography of a landscape -- its shadow and light, depth and height, mesmerizing complexity and ethereal simplicity -- with a break-beating heart and alchemical ear.
$14.39 EAN: 9120020389556 ELECTRONIC
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HAYNES, JIM: The Wires Cracked LP (EMEGO 171LP)
The recordings for The Wires Cracked were completed in a frenzied two week period in October of 2012. I had mentioned in discussing a previous album's construction that I prefer to forget how I build any particular electro-acoustic amalgam. This is so that I don't get to precious with them, so that I could refine them further, so that the sounds themselves speak beyond their aggregate parts. With the album being relatively fresh in my mind, I can still recall various components to "The Wires Cracked" -- the desolate howl of a metal screen activated by a desert wind, the hissing air compression from the cooling apparatus for a laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory operated by Stanford University, and the tremolo rhythms from a thin wire that still get me thinking fondly of Günter Schickert -- but much of the caustic drone, thrumming reverberation, and tactile grit thoroughly escapes me. That's probably for the best, since these various parts speak to an existential rupturing, the collapse of the self, the aftershocks of dark energy, and a belief in the hope for renewal. Describing his work through the pithy phrase "I rust things," Jim Haynes is an artist who has developed a vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, video, installation, and sound. Haynes' sound work draws from shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings, manifesting broken minimalism of magnetic drones and volatile tactility. This engineering of disparate materials and media seeks to evince the unpredictability of decay, to manifest its potential for a rough hewn beauty, and to bare witness to its inevitability. He has exhibited internationally at Electric Works (San Francisco), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the Bekerley Art Museum, The Exploratorium (SanFrancisco), WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Diapason (New York), and The Lab (San Francisco). Haynes has published his work through the Helen Scarsdale Agency, 23five Incorporated, Intransitive, Observatoire, and ElevatorBath. He has collaborated with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), M.S. Waldron (irr. app.(ext.)), Keith Evans, Allison Holt, and Loren Chasse. Haynes is one of the directors for 23five Incorporated and is the sole occupant at the Helen Scarsdale Agency.
$14.39 EAN: 9120020389600 ELECTRONIC
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DJ VAS: Re-Edits & More Vol. 1 10" (EDR 017EP)
DJ Vas is primarily known as a member of pioneering '90s French house band, Kojak. When the 1.0 French Touch wave hit, Kojak was one of the most popular acts in France alongside Daft Punk, Air, and Cassius. For this project, DJ Vas practices the very special game of soul-funk and disco edits, delivering four tracks made for the dancefloor, finely cut and re-produced in complete new versions. With their new fixed tempo, these forgotten treasures find a new life next to modern productions.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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GIORDANI, MARCELLO: Into My Life 12" (EF 053EP)
This is the second single cut from Marcello Giordani's debut album Respect Yourself (EF 010CD). The title-track is old school New York house style, and his friend Nicholas provides a more clubby version. It brings to mind the production of Kenlou or House Syndicate. The Nicholas remix is for all house DJs.
$10.39 UPC: 880319615719 ELECTRONIC
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TREVOR & LISA: Clap 'n' Hustle CD (FVR 075CD)
Created in 2005, Trevor & Lisa is a Parisian funk band founded by Sébastien Despicht (guitars, talk box) and Mikael Prignot (programming). With Stéphane Ugolini (keyboards) who joined them later on, they formed the core production trio of the group. Built for live shows, Trevor & Lisa have toured the Parisian gigs scenes, appearing on numerous radio shows (Nova, Generations, Le Mouv) and TV shows (France 4). Additionally, they developed several collaborations, such as with famous soul diva Gwen McCrae (as her backing band) and with French singer Mounam (from The Dynamics) on the What Needs Mama single. Meanwhile, Trevor & Lisa also produced two punchy 7" singles released on Favorite Recordings. This album is filled with the same contagious energy they gave off on their previous records and live shows. Clap 'N' Hustle is a call to dance, filled by a deep groove and boosted with relentless breakbeats and percussion. With an ambitious production, this first album has involved many talented musicians and many guest singers such as Jehro, U.S. underground rappers Rita J, Raashan Ahmad, and Clyde King Rap (Real Fake MC), his long-time mate DJ Suspect (The Funk League) at turntables, and Julien Tekeyan on percussion. Clap 'n' Hustle features instrumentals spiced up with burning breaks, old-school rap influences, a taste of Californian blue-eyed soul, some talk-box and vocoder embellished with an incisive brass section, all of it punctuated with interludes made of finely-selected samples. Finally, Liza Rose and Yann Kesz have brought their personal touch for visuals, artwork, and videos.
$10.99 EAN: 3760179352115 ROCK
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TREVOR & LISA: Clap 'n' Hustle LP (FVR 075LP)
LP version.
$14.99 EAN: 3760179351927 ROCK
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ARRUDA, LUCAS: Sambadi 7" (FVR 077EP)
Lucas Arruda was born in 1983, in a Brazilian state called Espírito Santo, near Rio de Janeiro. Two years after he launched his home-studio, here comes Sambadi, the eponymous first single from his upcoming first solo LP. Inspired by Rio, the album almost sounds like a tribute to his longtime heroes, with tasty influences from Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Marcos Valle, Azymuth, Robson Jorge, and Lincoln Olivetti, amongst many others. Includes a remix by Patchworks.
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BANANE, BONNIE: Muscles 7" (FVR 078EP)
"Muscles" is a banging '90s-beat flavored tune extracted from Bonnie Banane's first EP, Greatest Hits. Favorite fattens the sound thanks to a new mastering made at Carvery Studio (UK). Distilling intuitively psychedelic/suave and hypnotic/tropical vocals, with post-feminist lyrics, sometimes explicit, sometimes inarticulate, Bonnie Banane has delivered her first EP called Greatest Hits in collaboration with Walter Mecca.
$6.39 EAN: 3760179352092 ROCK
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MOORYC: Simply 10" (FENOU 018EP)
Mooryc's "Simply" was the opening track of the Fenou Bouquet Vol. 2 mix compilation in 2012. His track is lovingly arranged and embedded in a harmonious sound collage and the underlaid beats try to permeate everyone with their massive drums. Dapayk conjures from the dreamy original a floor-compatible remix. Said and done, he does it with his relaxed manner and without sacrificing the essential elements. As usual, the 10" vinyl release is a limited, numbered edition.
$9.79 UPC: 827170478961 ELECTRONIC
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GREED, DOUGLAS: Masked Up and Messed Up 12" (FREUDE 062EP)
Over the last few years, Douglas Greed has been twisting heads at festivals with his live band. What has developed on the stage as a stout Twister session for adults is now presented as a music release. The title-track is a bass-bellied house rocker along with vocals that wink an eye with a snot-nosed chorus added. With "5000 Ansi Lumen" the lights roll on and off with a flick. "The Rainfall" is a groovy stop-and-go -- dissolved into a supplication for rain and salvation.
$8.39 UPC: 880319620812 ELECTRONIC
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HOMER: Grown in U.S.A. 2LP (GUESS 109LP)
With their roots traced in two legendary '60s garage bands, The Outcasts and The Stoics, Homer were without doubt one of the best psychedelic/hard-rock outfits from Texas. Grown in U.S.A. was their only album, released as a private pressing in 1970. Rural psychedelic rock with early prog hints fuelled by stunning lead/dual guitar, melodic vocals and occasional mellotron. Presented in a 2LP expanded edition including their early singles, which are prime examples of '60s Texan garage-psych, plus previously-unreleased studio demo tracks recorded at the same time as the album. Newly remastered sound especially for this vinyl release, housed in a gatefold sleeve with detailed liner notes and rare pictures. 180 gram vinyl. "A Texas private press classic that spans several early '70s genres but still manages to sound like a coherent, personal work. A strongly played melodic rock trip somewhat like Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck." --Patrick Lundborg, Acid Archives
$23.79 EAN: 4040824083052 ROCK
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ATHANOR: Flashback LP (GUESS 110LP)
Chicago, early '70s. Greg Herriges is obsessed with Lennon, 12-string guitars, and far-out psychedelic sounds. Rick Vittenson is a Beach Boys-Hollies-Who fanatic who writes for Crawdaddy! magazine. Both had previously played in several garage college bands during the '60s. Combining their mutual love for '60s music, Athanor was born. With the help of top studio musicians, they recorded and self-released three 45s between 1973 and 1975 (the first one produced by Mark Breyer, with whom Rick had played in pre-Skooshny band Brevity) which are now highly sought-after by fans of obscure psychedelic pop. All of them are featured here in stellar sound taken from the master tapes along with previously-unreleased studio tracks and superb-sounding home demos (1973-1981), plus a new song recorded in 2006 in the same vein as their vintage recordings. Athanor's music features impressive songwriting and musicianship, a collision of Beatlesque harmony vocals, Rickenbacker and Guild 12-string guitars, occasional fuzz-wah leads, Fender Rhodes, and studio effects. Psychedelic proto power-pop highly recommended to anyone into Lazy Smoke, Badfinger, Only Ones, Emitt Rhodes, Rockin' Horse, or Creme Soda. Remastered sound from the original master tapes, insert with rare pictures and liner notes by Mark Breyer from cult psych power-pop band Skooshny. 180 gram vinyl.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824083069 ROCK
01. Graveyard
02. Inner Space - Urizen (Your Reason) - I Don't Mind
03. Habits
04. Read Me
05. Rock Me, Roll Me
06. Hidden Monsters - Memory (Don't Fail Me)
07. Wonder Why I'm Sick
08. Like a River Flows
09. Inner Space (previously-unreleased mix)
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SETENTA (FEAT. ORLANDO JULIUS): Ijo Soul 7" (HC 023EP)
Setenta consists of seven musicians from Paris who use their musical upbringing, taste, backgrounds and unstoppable eagerness to produce a unique mix of Latin, soul, and boogaloo with a touch of Caribbean influences. After playing live in 2011 with Orlando Julius, Setenta decided to rearrange his famous classic "Ijo Soul," taken from his Super Afro Soul album recorded in 1966 for Philips. "Guapeta" was influenced by the Nuyorican maestros from the '70s, creating a futuristic Latin soul-sound.
$8.39 EAN: 3760179352023 WORLD
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VA: Spiritual Jazz 4: Americans in Europe 2CD (JMAN 057CD)
Jazzman Records presents the fourth volume in their Spiritual Jazz compilation series. It's well-known that throughout the 20th century, fed up with poor working conditions and racism in their home country, many American jazz musicians chose to leave the U.S. in order to live and work in Europe. What's less well-known is how their music developed and evolved during their time on the continent, and how the experience of being a musician in Europe was to shape their lives. Over the years, countless jazz concerts, festivals and recordings featuring American jazz musicians have taken place all over Europe, yet it's remarkable how few of these musical artifacts have been evaluated by the jazz community. Jazzman seeks to assess the European experiences of the American jazzman, with a specific focus on the progressive sounds of modal jazz and the avant garde. We examine the recordings made by those who crossed the Atlantic just to take in a short tour, as well as those who made more frequent trips, and of course, those for whom Europe ultimately became their permanent place of residence. Radical new jazz sounds were created as renowned ex-pat American jazzmen mingled with the crème de la crème of their European counterparts. Early developments in world music inspired by trans-global cultural excursions to Asia, Africa and beyond. Exchanges of ideas and a cultural meeting of minds happened as revolutionary jazz festivals took place behind the Iron Curtain. Advances in rhythm and sound where modal jazz and the prophetic music of John Coltrane merged with European folk traditions. This is Spiritual Jazz -- as played by Americans in Europe. All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes. Includes a 16-page color CD booklet featuring comprehensive liner notes with individual notes on each track and original stories direct from the artists, as well as album cover scans and previously-unpublished photographs. Artist include: Sahib Shihab & Pierre Cavalli, Johnny Hawksworth & Hampton Hawes, Clarence Peters, Sahib Shihab, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Billy Gault, Frank Wright Sextet, Grachan Moncur III, Don Cherry & The New Eternal Rhythm, Lee Konitz, Noah Howard Group, Bobby Hutcherson/Harold Land Sextet, and Eric Dolphy.
$16.99 EAN: 5036468200572 JAZZ
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KOHNCKE, JUSTUS: Timecode Remixe 12" (KOM 270EP)
A true Kompakt staple since the ground-breaking Was Ist Musik? album in 2002, Justus Köhncke never fails to impress his audience, sporting an obscene amount of revered classics in his repertoire. A well-known connoisseur of exquisite house and deep disco, he weaves an intricate web of vintage references and contemporary club aesthetics... a method coming to full fruition with 2004's mythical dancefloor hit "Timecode," now accompanied by two stunning remixes from Tyree Cooper and Axel Boman.
$8.39 UPC: 880319074615 ELECTRONIC
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WEICHHOLD & NAMITO PRESENT HICKHACK: Speicher 74 12" (KOM EX074EP)
For Speicher 74 Rainer Weichhold and Namito unite under new moniker Hick Hack to bring you two compelling cuts sure to beef up even the most demanding DJ set. You'll find all the audiophile finesse and spirited deepness you come to expect from the two producers, embedded in two exuberant tracks already pawing the ground in anticipation of their deployment. As two sides of the same coin, both tracks depict perfect club chemistry and will level any playing field in a matter of nanoseconds.
$8.39 UPC: 880319074219 ELECTRONIC
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VA: 20 Jahre Kompakt/Kollektion 1 2CD (KOMP 105CD)
On March 1st, 1993, Kompakt opened the blue doors on Gladbacher Straße 36 for the very first time and thus, a new record store was born. Two moves, a name change, almost exactly 500 publications and a staggering 20 years later, Kompakt is still here and stronger than ever. That's why throughout 2013, Kompakt will celebrate 20 years of Kompakt in all shapes and colors, including this exciting jubilee 2CD release jam-packed with floor favorites, towering chart-toppers and secret weapons from the rich history of one of Germany's most-loved labels. Carefully pulled from Kompakt's extensive archives, this first entry in the 20 Jahre Kompakt Kollektion series is in no way meant to be a "best of": that would indeed be a task larger than life. Rather than just going through the motions and assembling sales numbers, Kompakt took a different road, simply compiling their proudest moments instead, classic records that defined their sound today. The label considers each track in this selection an electronic masterpiece, regardless of whether it reached out for the floor like Justus Köhncke's "After 909" or catered to the home-listening crowd like Pluxus' "Transient." The massive bangers included in Kollektion 1 range from Matias Aguayo's unmistakable bass slinger "Walter Neff" to the highly emotional ravecore of Rex The Dog's "Prototype," dropping in on Voigt & Voigt's timeless anthem "Vision 03" or Lawrence's brilliant remix of Superpitcher's legendary "Happiness." You'll hear rare goodies and underground hits such as Mayer/Voigt's "Transparenza" or Heiko Voss' "I Think About You" alongside long-standing contributors like The Field, SCSI-9, Kaito and many, many more, making for an expertly-crafted listening experience and an enticing trip to the past. Other artists include: DJ Koze, Dorau/Köhncke, Geiger, Leandro Fresco, Michael Mayer, Wighnomy Bros., Dettinger, Jonas Bering, Gus Gus, Thomas Fehlmann, Gui Boratto, John Tejada, Partial Arts and The Rice Twins.
$10.99 UPC: 880319074820 ELECTRONIC
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DUMP: Superpowerless CD (MORR 115CD)
Morr Music reissues the legendary first album by the solo project of James McNew (Yo La Tengo) from 1993. "Some people complain that friends today are made with mouse-clicks. As if it was more personal in the '90s. James McNew, for example, became a good friend of mine in 1994. Never mind I hadn't even talked to the guy -- hell, he covered Jandek AND Silver Apples. We had so much in common! James McNew is a fan boy. If the name-drop list ranging from Albert Ayler to Young Marble Giants included with his first 45 didn't tell you that, the blazing in his eyes when a name like The Shaggs was uttered, certainly did. Yet McNew is not obsessed with obscurity but with music. When his debut album Superpowerless appeared in 1993, the choice of covers ranged from Sun Ra to that tune Audrey Hepburn serenaded to millions of movie watchers, "Moon River." While McNew's high, sexy voice might be "superpowerless," his ears certainly are not. It's been the intimate sound of a 4-track recorder that tied these different angles of his eclectic taste together. Yes, Dump was part of the lo-fi generation. Nothing makes that clearer than the bonus tracks on his follow-up album I Can Hear Music. Recorded during the infamous Dutch Fast Forward Festival in 1994 in -- naturally -- a living room, it contains all that was great about the few short moons of tape-hiss: collaborations triggered not even remotely by virtuosity (had Chris Knox ever played trumpet before that afternoon?); cardboard boxes as bass-drums; the victory of enthusiasm over perfection (have Half-Japanese been covered with more empathy?). The only thing that wasn't quite right about these first two Dump albums, was the format. But as justice doesn't know age, it's good to see these CDs finally being pressed on vinyl! They deserve it. After all, James is a friend. Did I mention he's playing bass in Yo La Tengo?" --Gregor Kessler, Hamburg, December 2012; Remastered by Bob Weston (Shellac, Mission Of Burma). Contains bonus material.
$10.99 UPC: 880918811529 ROCK
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DJ SPRINKLES: Where Dancefloors Stand Still CD (MUSIQ 041CD)
It seems like young people in Japan can't dance like crazy anymore because of the growing threats of the strange Fuzoku law -- one of the most surreal in Japan's legal system, the origins of which go back to 1948. The law deals with restrictions concerning the sale of sex and businesses of similar type. Due to the ambiguous way of reading it, the law also deals with nightclubs and related establishments that allow customers to dance. Especially in the last two years, clubs all over Japan have suffered under the authorities who often strictly enforce a 1 AM curfew deducted from an archaic adult entertainment law. Instead of moaning and stopping the dance, Mule Musiq is ready to raise a protest with DJ Sprinkles. Today, dancing is one of the most perfect ways to express emotion, social interaction, and spiritual communication and Where Dancefloors Stand Still spreads music to devoted dancers who will love to share all they have to reveal. Who knows better about revealing emotions on the dancefloor than Terre Thaemlitz -- internationally-acclaimed writer, public speaker, multimedia producer, DJ, audio producer, and head honcho of Comatonse Recordings. His deep house alias DJ Sprinkles has been beloved ever since he first started playing in the gay clubs of midtown Manhattan and New Jersey in the late '80s and early '90s -- a time when deep house began to take shape. After the scene got famous and landed hard, DJ Sprinkles embarked to Japan where he held a three-year residency at Tokyo's Club Module from 2003 till 2006. In January 2009, he released his album Midtown 120 Blues (MUSIQ 009CD), which was hailed as one of the most essential house albums of the last few years. His new DJ mix intends to free Japan's clubs from the Fuzoku law restrictions and to move your hips, too. The mix takes off with a Chicago deep house classic from 1992: Braxton Holmes' debut EP "12 Inches of Pleasure" -- here rendered in Ron Trent's super-sweet foreplay mix. His deepness merges gently into Alex Danilov's house hug "Deep S," and then dives deep into house science and swings between the decades without losing the flow. Then there are classics such as "I Can't Forget" from Sound Mechanix, "The Dip" by The Rude Awakening, and legendary trio Fingers Inc. with "Never No More Lonely." In between, are soulful arrangements like "Forestfunk I" from Understars, "Everybody's Talkin'" by Mymy, and "The Deep" from Manoo & François. The mix grooves with DJ Sprinkles' trippy mixing signature that playfully melts tracks that are built from flying piano notes, tactile bass lines, kicking drums, and layered samples. If your dancefloor stands still, too, here comes about 80 minutes of house deepness that will make it swing. The album artwork comes from Emi Winter -- an artist from Oaxaca, Mexico. Other artists include: The Rhythm Slaves, Trentemøller, Lectroluv, Classic Man, Gene Farris, The Rude Awakening, Choo-Ables and Keys & Tronics Ensemble.
$14.39 UPC: 880319612725 ELECTRONIC
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DJ SPRINKLES: Where Dancefloors Stand Still Vinyl Sampler 2LP (MUSIQ 158LP)
2LP sampler, featuring 9 tracks from the CD: A1. Braxton Holmes - 12 Inches of Pleasure (Ron's Foreplay); A2. Fingers Inc. - Never No More Lonely; B1. Sound Mechanix - I Can't Forget; B2. Classic Man - Rapid Winds; B3. Gene Farris - Good Feeling; C1. Choo-Ables - Hard to Get (B.T.'S Massive Groove); C2. Understars - Forest Funk 1 Nodamkkb Mix; D1. Lectroluv - If We Try (Ambient Dub); D2. Keys And Tronics Ensemble - Calypso of House (Paradise Version)
$18.39 UPC: 880319612817 ELECTRONIC
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LYRES: A Promise Is a Promise CD (MR 327CD)
Munster reissues the third Lyres LP, originally released on Ace of Hearts, from 1988. "Anyone following the career of Lyres for any length of time throughout that mid-to-late '80s period would doubtless be interested in the ongoing personnel shuffles that were taking place around this time. 'What really happened,' Jeff Conolly explains, 'is that we had to totally re-group the line-up with each LP because people instantly discovered that it was nearly impossible to go professional and maintain a living and do the kind of not-sell-out music we did at the same time. Our special Murphy drummer would leave and then re-join many, many times, and then we started getting robbed on tour a lot, and many nice things were lost to us... After the tour van got busted into in Amsterdam in May 1987 we had to get a new guitar guy to go along with our new rhythm section. At this point there was very little 'connection' with the original concept or sound of the 1979 group which had been founded on being aspiring amateur musicians.' Although one or two of USA's then modern garage-type bands were beginning to make some inroads beyond a cult-only success, particularly overseas, it was nearly always accepted as a given that playing this type of unfashionable music could only ever result in rather limited dividends, commercially speaking. But successful or otherwise, Lyres can be seen as purveyors of a rich stream of powerful music, distilled from an amalgam of influences, injected with unusual verve and vitality, and presented in a wholly authentic, provocatively different way from all other groups. Of the many startling 'Conolloid' creations, self-penned, or imaginatively reinvestigated, one wonders often how Lyres came up with such radical reinterpretations of songs such as Dave Dee and company's life-affirming piano ballad 'Here's a Heart.' 'I started buying original UK freakbeat records beginning in the early 1980s when they were still relatively affordable,' states Conolly. 'I liked that weirdo USA Fontana Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich LP that had a ton of their hits on it, and I finally realized that their recording of 'Here's a Heart' had the special charming majick. On one of our trips to Paris I crashed with Carolyn and Stiv [Bators -- ex of U.S. punks The Dead Boys] and we discovered that we were both nuts about 'Here's a Heart.' I had bought myself a nice and reasonable DDDBM&T EP souvenir that afternoon at USA Records and we played it at Carolyn's and me and Stiv sang with it a lot. We kinda agreed to record it in one way or another, and later in January 1988 Stiv was in NYC and he came down to sing it with me live for the album #3.' With any kind of success, whether musical or otherwise, there also comes with it a certain degree of pressure, and so it was no different for Conolly and Lyres. 'All of a sudden I had to figure out a 'new' kind of Lyres sound and matching style/material to go with it,' says Conolly. 'And I had to do it real fast, so I started coming up with junk that was sort of like the very expensive but cool records I had been acquiring and sort of investigating, these freakbeaty records, which accounts for our trying to sort of figure out John's Children in 1987 and 1988.'" --Lenny Helsing
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FUNCTION: Incubation 2x12" (OSTGUT 012LP)
2x12" version. An original electronic disciple hailing from New York, Sandwell District's David Sumner aka Function presents his debut album Incubation on Ostgut Ton. Like the soundtrack to a suspenseful techno-thriller, or retro-futurist sci-fi tale, it's a modern sound journey heavy on imagery. Over nine tracks we are guided through the varying moods and scenes of Function's musical temperament. Be it through writhing layered club tracks, soaring string-led atmospheres, or melodic pieces founded on classic electronic traditions, Incubation marks a new level of maturity for the Berlin-based producer. What begins as a lush and blossoming lesson in ambient synth arrangements, with the beautiful arpeggios and waveforms of "Voiceprint," quickly drops off the apex and into the depths of Function's filtering acid world as "Against the Wall" unfolds. This metallic, acidic concept is explored further too, in the final moments of the album with the chilling "Psychic Warfare." A spiraling, organic surge of warm synth tones and other-worldly arpeggios unravels itself in "Counterpoint," acting as an early bridge between some of the drum-led studies that follow. And thus, the pressure increases. "Modifier" presents itself with tight, snaking drum patterns and tense, late '90s kinetic warehouse energy. Opening a path into an alternate, yet not-too distant dimension then, "Incubation (Ritual)" takes form; its haunting and graceful waves of synths continue the sci-fi theme, while the tough modulating bass undercurrent reminds us of Function's big-room techno appeal. The final moments of "Incubation (Ritual)" glide effortlessly into the album version of "Inter," where ethereal melodies and snippets of spoken word surround a classic IDM-deep-house core. "Voiceprint" returns as a (Reprise) version, in what could become the crossover club track of the year. Coming on like a classic R&S or Soma release circa '95, the undulating synths are now caught in a rapturous groove, urged on by a perfect 909 drum pattern. "Psychic Warfare" brings the voyage to a close, its overlapping, ebbing metallic acid tones inducing equal measures of tension and elation. In the CD version of the album, "Gradient I" concludes the voyage. Earthy, modulating bass and 808 patterns merge as a cyclic, audio resolution occurs. In the final mixing stages of the album, Function brought the material to cult engineer and producer Tobias Freund (NSI). Incubation is a bold and powerful album from one of modern techno's key players. Inclined to hold back, rather than release too much, Function has let his sound develop and mature, fusing analog synths and drums with modern production techniques to create something unique and timeless.
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FUNCTION: Gradient EP 12" (OSTGUT 063EP)
Sandwell District's David Sumner aka Function, announces his first 12'' on Ostgut Ton. Opening with the mood-setting "Gradient (Intro)," with its spatial ambience and sci-fi dramatics, we are launched into the earthy, modulating "Gradient I." "Gradient II" snakes its way through a filtering sequence, building on strong foundations. "Incubation (Prologue)," brings this bold EP to a conclusion, its pulsing acid bass and foreboding strings offering a suggestion of what might lie ahead.
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GAMBLE, LEE: Diversions 1994-1996 LP (PAN 033LP)
Limited 2013 repress. The 30-minute Diversions 1994-1996 EP is made up entirely from samples from the collection of Lee Gamble's jungle cassette mix-tapes. The audio has been subjected to analog and digital deformations, while trying to extract, expand upon, and convey particular qualities emblematic of the original music. The effect is that of a musical body scan, all that is solid melts into air. Sounds are unearthed, dissected on the operating table, melted and unlocked , evoking sonics not unlike the heavy dub processes of Jah Shaka and Scion in an INA GRM frame of mind or bearing a similar methodological approach with what Mark Leckey explored in his piece "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore." It can be heard as a "memory" of a period of music and for some could work as a "cued recall," which is a form of memory retrieval. Lee Gamble started out as a teenager DJing on pirate radio and on the emerging jungle scene; however, his own approach to music has taken a more experimental direction. Exploring the outer realms of abstraction through digital synthesis/resynthesis, Lee has described his current compositional process as "the configuration of material (ex nihilo) via various digital synthesis methods, prompts further disfigurations and reconfigurations. What you then have left is often the detritus or debris of an idea. Phantasms of both previous and current musical, pseudo-scientific and sculptural influences are manifest as new material abstractions, created from the digital blank canvas. This abstraction allows several interests to appear in the works simultaneously." He is also a founding member of the UK-based CYRK collective and has curated/co-curated several CYRK events. He has also produced and curated three radio series for London-based radio station Resonance 104.4 FM and he continues to DJ. Lee has released his computer compositions on the Entr'acte label and has collaborated with composer John Wall and artists Yutaka Makino and Bryan Lewis Saunders. Diversions 1994-1996 is the beginning of a longer-term collaboration with Pan. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Pressed on 140 gram white vinyl housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas.
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BOHMAN, ADAM: Music and Words CD (PD 009CD)
2013 repress, originally released in 1999. When did you last hear a laugh-out-loud avant garde album? Paradigm Discs is hard-pressed to think of any. Roland Topor's Panic is a goodie, or some of the antics of the Selten Gehörte Musik gang, but this is funnier, and the label's own personal favorite Paradigm release. Bohman's personal approach to music has always shown a preference for the raw and unprocessed, although his three releases on Paradigm with Morphogenesis often use signal processing. On his first solo recording for Paradigm all the played music (except for one piece that uses slowed down and backwards sounds), consist of unprocessed sounds from the surfaces of a wide variety of objects that utilize a broken violin at its core. This CD attempts to cover the full variety of his different working practices which have been slowly evolving since the mid-'80s. In particular there is a total of over 30 minutes taken from one of his many "talking tapes," previously only heard by the few as audio letters, and much treasured by their recipients (there is also an example featured on the first London compilation on Paradigm Discs). These tapes consist of on-the-spot lo-fi cassette recordings of his observations, both humorous, mundane and personal. Special attention is given to colors, signage and vernacular architectural detail, and favored locations include: overseas visits, public toilets, restaurants and public transport, but it is the unpretentious wit and dedication that make these tapes so enduring. The sounds of the environment, the faulty recording mechanism and the frequent use of the pause button give these pieces an almost concrète, sound text feel. This "talking tape" dates from Christmas, 1994. There are also three "pause pieces" dating from 1990, which are multi-tracked, rapid collages of pre-recorded sound material, also recorded on cassette recorders. This uses a similar technique (although independently developed), as that used by Anton Bruhin on his InOut CD on Alga Marghen. Finally there are four multi-tracked studio recordings, and one live concert recording. Crucial to all these pieces is the element of improvisation. Bohman has collaborated with a diverse cross-section of improvisers, from Lol Coxhill to Joseph Hammer, and is one-half of the ongoing theater/improv duo The Bohman Brothers.
$10.99 UPC: 769791903005 EXPERIMENTAL
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VA: A Gathering of the Tribes Volumes 1-5 5CD BOX (PARTBOX 003CD)
Collecting 68 of the rarest and trippiest tracks to emerge from North America during rock's golden age (on both 45 and LP), these essential compilations are presented together here for the first time, together with a previously-unissued fifth volume. Originally available in tiny vinyl-only runs in the 1980s, they're essential for all fans of the further reaches of U.S. psych and garage, and make their long-overdue CD debut here, together with a detailed booklet, incorporating rare photos and background notes. Artists include: Josefus, The Unrelated Segments, Larry & The Blue Notes, The Deep, The Chants, The Plague, The Bards, Indian Puddin' & Pipe, Music Emporium, Macabre, The Headstones, The Mystic Tide, The Humane Society, The Grains Of Sand, The Trolls, The Malibus, The Buck Rogers Movement, The Crystal Chandelier, The Missing Lynx, Jefferson Lee, D.R. Hooker, The London Fog, Canterbury Fair, Charolette Wood, The Escapades, The Bad Seeds, The Lyrics, It's All Meat, Talula Babies, Fraction, Mary Butterworth, Jeff Liberman, The Savages, Mystic Siva, Circus 2000, West Coast Natural Gas, John Wonderling, The David, Onion, Hartford Baby Grande, Neighb'rhood Childr'n, Perth County Conspiracy, Kak, The New Dawn, and Peter Tessier.
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DEXTER, DANIEL: Focus On CD (PFR 033CD)
Daniel Dexter's reputation as party-starter extraordinaire keeps on growing -- a result of his punishing touring schedule and consistently exceptional output of some of Europe's top electronic labels. But it's fair to say that Berlin-based Dexter's most rewarding and boundary-pushing work so far has been courtesy of Poker Flat Recordings -- which makes this edition of the Berlin imprint's Focus On series very timely. Daniel Dexter aka Dex is one of the up-and-coming DJs and producers from Berlin. Over a couple of releases on labels like Mother, Off, Semester, and Poker Flat, Daniel managed to develop his own signature sound -- a deep, yet jacking shade of modern house with a touch of dark and soul. His latest single on Poker Flat ("Strom" and "No House for Old Men") gained him top positions in club charts across the globe. In the tradition of previous Focus On albums on Poker Flat, Dex's includes seven brand-new exclusive tracks, alongside some key releases and distinct high points of his sound. The album is also being released on CD as an exclusive mix made by Dexter himself, showcasing not only his expertly-crafted tracks but his unique and highly sought-after mixing skills. Featured artists on the album are singer Geraldine Roth as well as Zombie Disco Squad and Gender Bombs in yet-unreleased Daniel Dexter remixes.
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TEMBO & NGOZI FAMILY, CHRISSY ZEBBY: My Ancestors CD (QDK 056CD)
This might be the final chapter of QDK Media's releases from Zambia (unless they find an unknown album which is as good as this one). Chrissy Zebby Tembo is the drummer of the Ngozi family. This time, the album is under his name and Paul Ngozi is his guitarist. This album is so great, QDK left the best for the last zam-rock release. Wild fuzz guitars all over, African beats and extra-cool vocals -- completely stoned music. People say it is easily one of the best African psychedelic rock albums ever recorded -- raw, rough, with a gaping charm and tons of front-and-center fuzz guitar over basic, ultra-catchy rock/pop tunes reminiscent in style to The Velvet Underground. The songs are sung in English. Original albums on Chris Edition are rare as gold dust.
$10.99 EAN: 4047179759120 WORLD
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WARE & QUADRON, LEON: Orchids for the Sun/Hold Tight 12" (QC 1001EP)
Quieres Chicle is a boutique L.A. record label conceived by KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer, focusing on releasing honest soul music. Leon Ware is a soul music singer, songwriter, and producer, best-known for crafting the album I Want You, which was taken up by Marvin Gaye in 1976. He also penned the Top 5 R&B single, "I Wanna Be Where You Are" for a young Michael Jackson in 1972. Ware's music is continually sampled and has influenced many contemporary music icons including Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, Tupac, etc.
$8.39 EAN: 3760179351392 ROCK
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VA: Thank You Freaks (Part 2) 12" (QUINTESSE 033EP)
With the second part of Thank You Freaks, Quintessentials slow down the bpms and invite some freaks from around the globe to present their essential tracks, such as quality German duo Paskal & Urban Absolutes, Melbourne's finest Andy Hart, the ever-hot Ben Sun, and legend Toby Tobias.
$8.99 UPC: 827170443563 ELECTRONIC
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CLOUDS: USB Islands CD (RAMP 054CD)
Clouds return to RAMP after a long hiatus in the studio to deliver their USB Islands mini-album. From the orchestral opener "Cannibal Generals," to the tapped auto-tuned euphoria of "I'll Be Broke," to the loose and rattling dubstep of "You Go to My Head," Finland's Clouds are very much back on form. The CD features remixes from LHF's Amen Ra, Tomutonttu, and a very twisted house version from Gerry Read.
$8.99 UPC: 666017258126 ELECTRONIC
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SYCLOPS: A Blink of an Eye CD (RB 006CD)
Syclops is trio Sven Kortehisto, Hanna Sarkari, and Jukka Kantonen. First to appear on a Bubble Tease 12" in 2001, followed by two singles for Tirk and finally with the debut album I've Got My Eye On You on DFA in 2008. A Blink of an Eye is the long-awaited successor with 10 tracks of future-funk. Ranging from the nastiness of "Jump Bugs" to the fragile beauty "Ray & Claire," it's classic Syclops all the way. Available on CD, and double LP via Running Back. Produced by Maurice Fulton.
$11.99 UPC: 827170129825 ELECTRONIC
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BEAT 4: Habia Una Vez... CD (SHAD 140CD)
Shadoks has tried for a long time to release this album, since their releases from Chile (Embrujo, Kissing Spell, Blobs, Sacros, and others) are incomplete without this beauty from 1968. This is the last of four albums Beat 4 recorded (plus a later soundtrack) and it's their most sophisticated LP. On it, they could create their own sounds and ideas for the first time without RCA telling them what to do. Beat 4 was one of the most popular bands in Chile, who created strong albums as good and as successful as The Beatles. Habi Una Vez... (trans. "Once Upon a Time") was influenced by member Willy Benitez' theater experience after a long trip to the south of Chile (Patagonia). The album has a strong emotional touch and it is very well-composed and played (as most other releases from Chile). If you prefer the sound of Blops, Embrujo and Kissing Spell over hard psych from Mexico, you will love this one very much. Transparent, fluid, wide open spaces, emotionally composed, with poetic lyrics and lots of humor.
$11.99 UPC: 801670014027 ROCK
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MICAH: I'm Only One Man CD (SHAD 150CD)
Micah is a very little-known American underground rock band from the early '70s. Their music is a great blend of American hard/psychedelic rock and British art/symphonic rock. I'm Only One Man was created as a suite, each track very well composed and played with immense high standards with great Hammond organ, amazing fuzz guitars, powerful drums, driven bass lines and great vocals. You would expect this type of album from a major release on labels such as Epic/CBS. Micah is Gary Ohlson on organ and vocals, George Wolff on percussion and vocals, Martin Horne is the lead guitarist, Gus Hernandez is the bass guitarist, and Bob Rowe is the lead vocalist. If you like the early albums of Quatermass, If, Cressida, Beggar's Opera, Arcadium, and Deep Purple, you will love this one. It is way more sophisticated than other major label releases of the same period. This album makes the fuzz-guitar aficionados happy as well as those into great Hammond sounds. Extra cool, extra heavy, and extra psychedelic with a progressive touch.
$11.99 UPC: 801670015024 ROCK
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SILICONE SOUL: Darkroom Dubs Vol. 3 CD (SOMA 102CD)
Darkroom Dubs marks its 10th year with a specially-compiled, retrospective mix of the label by renowned duo Craig Morrison and Graeme Reedie aka Silicone Soul. Artists include: Of Norway, Frisvold & Lindbaek, Robag Wruhme, Extrawelt, Soukie & Windish, Kellerkind, Terje Saether, Malin Pettersen, Gregorythme, Tim Paris, AFFKT, Los Suruba, Danza Macabra, Patlac, Luc Ringeisen, Alex Niggemann & Marc Poppcke, and Freska.
$10.99 UPC: 502485610229 ELECTRONIC
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FENNESZ: 17.02.12 2LP/CD/DVD (SONG 170212LP)
Song Cycle is a label dedicated to box sets and multimedia limited editions. This limited box set presents a full retrospective of the artist's performance at Museo Marini in Florence on February 17, 2012 with additional features and bonus content: a DVD, photo albums and more. A strictly limited edition of 500 copies. Christian Fennesz is an Austrian electronic musician active since the late '90s and influenced by artists like Fripp and Eno and guitar-synth pioneer, Chuck Hammer. Fennesz uses guitar and laptops to created "multilayered compositions that blend melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise." Over the years, Fennesz has played and collaborated with a number of artists, including Mike Patton, Jim O'Rourke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), and David Sylvian. In 2012 Fennesz also wrote the original soundtrack to the independent Austrian film, Aun, directed by Edgar Honetschläger, and based on the writings of Claude Levi-Strauss. On this double LP Fennesz can be heard performing in front of a live audience at the beautiful Marino Marini Museum (located in a medieval church) in Florence, Italy in February of 2012. In addition to the 2LP and CD of the performance, this deluxe box set includes a 12-page photographic book, a CD-ROM with a virtual gallery of the museum and a DVD featuring a 1927 silent film by German filmmaker Walter Ruttmann Berlin called Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Symphony of a Great City). DVD is NTSC region-free format.
$108.40 UPC: 889397101220 ELECTRONIC
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MUSLIMGAUZE: Al Jar Zia Audio CD (ARCHIVE 006CD)
If Satyajit Eye (originally released in 1993, reissued by Staalplaat) only blinks at Indian culture, the album Al Jar Zia Audio stares at it with both eyes wide open. It is known that Jones looked further than the Palestinian conflict, and also borrowed extensively from the rhythms of India, Pakistan, and other Eastern cultures. Like crossing borders in the bigger Islamic region, Jones takes whatever comes to hand, and moulds it into his own trademark sound -- often imitated, never surpassed. The tribal bang of the drums, the sampled voices of the radio, combined with a strong sense of melody, makes the music of Muslimgauze stand out a mile from the rest. Whereas others fell into the traps of commercialism, Muslimgauze remained faithful to his own principals and methods. Even in digging through the vaults of his recordings, it's hard to find material that is of a weaker nature -- as Al Jar Zia Audio will prove. There is the uplifting dance rhythms of "We Have Shafika Habibi On Our Bus" (which incorporates the chirping of crickets), the bubble-bass of "Arvinada Jewel Box," and the endless crackles of sunburned vinyl; but there are also curiosity pieces such as the highly experimental "All I Have Is Sand," and the "stop-start" approach of "Brotherhood of Tikrit." Bryn Jones was not just a master who refined the art of sampling, he also knew how to create a fine piece of music out of it, and more often then not displayed a very strong sense of melody. Al Jar Zia Audio offers 15 tracks in over an hour of exciting Muslimgauze music, and is of a rather varied nature. Less mysterious, more open -- this is the melting pot of many cultures from sunnier parts of the world, but all served up from a rainy UK city.
$12.99 UPC: 753907541328 ELECTRONIC
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MUSLIMGAUZE: Satyajit Eye CD (ARCHIVE 011CD)
It has been said that if we mere mortals attempted to write down everything that Mozart ever composed, it would take us 80 years to do so -- but Mozart himself only lived to be 35. Something similar could be said, too, about the work of Bryn Jones - also known as Muslimgauze. Jones died in 1999, at the age of 38 -- but produced an incredible body of work, much of which remains unreleased. From the ultra-creative period that brought us Hamas Arc (1993) and Vote Hezbollah (1993) -- and also the lost album Shekel of Israeli Occupation (the master of which was returned to Jones -- who regarded the peace treaty signed in 1993 by the PLO, the original dedicatees of the album, as a betrayal -- and the music was subsequently erased) -- were the first signs that Jones had a wealth of unreleased material -- so much so, in fact, that Staalplaat decided to give fans a "free" release in exchange for sacrificing a part of the cover of Hamas Arc: if you cut out the insert from the CD cover and sent it in with a blank DAT, you'd eventually have your DAT sent back to you, but now as a free six-song DAT-only release (the severed part of the Hamas Arc cover would become the j-card cover for this new release - named Satyajit Eye -- and please note that xeroxed copies of the original CD inlay were not accepted...) Hamas Arc turned out to be one of the most successful releases from Muslimgauze, and endless amounts of these DATs have been copied. The DAT consisted of three original pieces, and three remixes from Vote Hezbollah; but there were also three pieces that were on the original master which, for reasons we may never know, were not used on the final release. Unsurprisingly enough, Satyajit Eye was eventually bootlegged -- but not until this year. This expanded version, however, completes the whole picture of this album -- showing us the first signs of Jones looking towards Indian music for inspiration; but also with breezy, desert-like rhythms and sounds (such as the intense "Zion Poison" -- which reminds us of O Yuki Conjugate), or the way-out music of the title-track. Satyajit Eye is a mysterious album, full of hidden layers; and evokes a lonely yet warm feeling of sun-covered sand dunes.
$12.99 UPC: 753907541229 ELECTRONIC
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GROUPSHOW: Live At Skymall LP (STAUB 122LP)
Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler have formed a trio that can truly be called a supergroup. As solo artists, all three members are among the most renowned of Berlin's electronic musicians. When playing together as Groupshow, the three instrumentalists -- themselves largely informed by minimalist sensibilities -- engage with the idiom of free-form collective improvisation, which has a long tradition in Germany dating back to the days of Fluxus and Krautrock. Consequentially, the individual members' roles are not entirely fixed. Jelinek uses a sampler, effects and a mixer. Leichtmann plays drums, cymbals and synthetic drum pads. Pekler manipulates a tabletop guitar, synthesizer and effects pedals. The results are at once radical, otherworldly and intensely hypnotic. Groupshow performances do not recreate previously rehearsed or recorded music; instead, they attempt to make an open-ended aesthetic process both audible and tangible. Wherever possible, Groupshow position themselves and their equipment in the middle of the performance space, avoiding the use of a stage, risers or any kind of spatial separation between performer and audience. The lighting remains static and clinical throughout the performance while real-time video, filming from directly above the musicians and projected onto a wall or screen, shows the three members playing and manipulating their tangled pile of equipment. Whenever possible, Groupshow begin playing before any audience members enter, thus deliberately avoiding the dramaturgical imperative of an opening from which the rest of the musical narrative is expected to unfold. As the intensity of the music and degree of the audience's attention are both subject to flux, Groupshow set no time limit to their performances and members of the audience are free to come and go, engage and disengage with the music as they please. Live At Skymall was recorded live in Berlin and Lisbon in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
$10.99 EAN: 4050486089538 ELECTRONIC
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HVOB: HVOB CD (SVT 098CD)
This is the eponymous debut album by the phenomenal Vienna duo HVOB -- a lesson in how versatile, intelligent, and creative electronic music can be. Since the first snippets appeared on Soundcloud, the young electronic duo HVOB (short for "Her Voice Over Boys") have been causing a real stir throughout Europe. HVOB have been a hit with the most influential music blogs and with the public: acclaimed appearances at the likes of Germany's MELT! Festival, landing at #4 in the Beatport deep house charts with their debut EP Dogs, rated at #10 in the "Top Live Acts of the Year" and #11 in the "Best Singles of 2012" in De:bug's readers' poll. At the end of 2012, leading Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab used HVOB's music for the soundtrack to his collection video. Vienna-born Anna Müller (composition, production, vocals) and Paul Wallner (composition and final production) are kicking off the second year of their collaborative project with another release, only this time with more than just tantalizing snippets: this eagerly-anticipated debut LP contains 12 tracks that showcase the duo's distinctive sound -- intelligent and sophisticated, emotive and melodic. The opening track "Hold Your Horses" could be a signature tune for HVOB: organic beats, soft piano sounds, and Anna Müller's stunning voice give way to compelling deep house. Further highlights of the album: the single "Jack" with its emotive beats, the complex electronic ballad "Fog Machine," and "Always Like This," HVOB's interpretation of the track by British indie-rock band Bombay Bicycle Club.
$11.99 UPC: 827170129528 ELECTRONIC
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FANTA DAMBA: Accompagnee a la Cora par Batourou Sekou Kouyate CD (TEM 8103CD)
The incomparable Fanta Damba, otherwise known as La Grand Vedette Malienne, was cherished for the sensitivity and emotion that she would bring to all of her work. She was also known as a griot -- a West African storyteller and historian who preserves ancient stories and traditions through song -- and was among the first female griots to achieve international fame. This superb album, recorded in 1979, and digitally remastered for the first time, has a guest appearance by the legendary kora player Batourou Sekou Kouyaté. It is a vintage slice of West African traditional music, lovingly created by the masters of their craft.
$11.99 EAN: 5291103810329 WORLD
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SKREAM: Skreamizm Vol. 7 3x12" (TEMPA 072LP)
The seventh volume of Skream's seminal Skreamizm series sees the producer not only expanding his range dramatically, but inviting a true global pop-star along for the ride as well. "Copy Cat," the lead track from this latest installment, features a near-whispered vocal by Kelis over a sensual and minimal fusion of R&B and house, driven by an anxious and bounding groove that ensures the track will remain firmly lodged within the brain upon listening. Elsewhere, Skream takes much the same attitude he took with his recent Skreamizm tour -- a means of exploring broader avenues while still remaining connected to the essence of his sound. "Vacillate" and "Inhumane" are both immediately recognizable as Skream's own, pairing roaring metallic dissonance with welts of sub-bass, and the deep halfstep of "Junkyard Dispute" and "Scrooge's Revenge" stretch back to the dread pressure of early dubstep. Along with "Copy Cat," "Sticky" is another curveball that forms strong links with the techno/house-driven sets he's been playing recently, and is one of the most restless and driving things he's ever put his name to. Both are potent reminders of Skream's versatility as a producer, and add up to his most varied and exploratory Skreamizm to date.
$16.39 UPC: 800071002053 ELECTRONIC
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KIRKEGAARD, JACOB: Conversion LP (TONE 047LP)
In collaboration with Danish ensemble Scenatet, Jacob Kirkegaard's two pieces "Labyrinthitis" and "Church" are here interpreted by classical instruments. The intention of this transformation into an instrumental score is to explore the musical dimension and potential of the sounds that were used in creating the original works. "Church" from 4 Rooms (TONE 026CD) originally consists of ambient recordings of an abandoned church inside the radioactive zone in Chernobyl. "Labyrinthitis" from Labyrinthitis (TONE 035CD) is a canon of oto-acoustic tones generated by the artist's own ears. Like most of Kirkegaard's sound works, both pieces are characterized by a strong focus on methodology, and by the artist's wish to omit any deliberate emotional or "musical" intention. Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist focusing on scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. His installations, compositions and performances deal with acoustic spaces or phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox methods for recording, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments: a geyser, a sand dune, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself. Based in Berlin, Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. Since 1995, Kirkegaard has presented his works at exhibitions and at festivals and conferences throughout the world. He has released five albums (mostly on the British label Touch) and is a member of the sound art collective freq_out.
$10.39 EAN: 5027803904712 ELECTRONIC
A1. Labyrinthitis ll (17:24)
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INFINITI (JUAN ATKINS): The Remixes--Part 1 12" (TRESOR 250A-EP)
2013 repress. Infiniti - The Remixes is a trilogy of classic cuts and new reworks from one of its original Detroit lynchpins, Juan Atkins. Dubbed as his "pure techno" project, Atkins produced two full-length albums under the Infiniti moniker in 1996 and 1998. Now, they are brought further up-to-date with a series of fresh takes from some of techno's pioneering figures. On part one, The Orb's Thomas Fehlmann picked two tracks, one from each album, to form a very special combo-mix. TV Victor presents a hypnotic take on "Thought Process." On red vinyl.
$7.79 UPC: 666017248967 ELECTRONIC
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HUCKABY, MIKE: The Tresor EP 12" (TRESOR 252EP)
2013 repress. Following the club and label's 20th anniversary back in 2011, Tresor released an exclusive mix from one of its esteemed Detroit connections, Mike Huckaby. On that mix, Mike Huckaby included an exclusive production of his, the first one to be released on Tresor Records. This is the pressing of "The Tresor Track" on wax, making for a massive A-side cut at 45 RPM. On the flip, Huckaby explores dark and twisted corners with "Basement Trax," and surprises with some rhythmic patterns on "The Upstairs Lounge."
$7.79 UPC: 666017252063 ELECTRONIC
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PROXY: Music from the Eastblock Jungles 2CD (TURBO 035CD)
After years of anticipation, Proxy at last presents his debut album, Music from the Eastblock Jungles, to showcase the prolific underground rave-czar's awe-inspiring body of work. Beloved by top DJs and stadium crowds the world over, the undisputed master of the "Turn It Up to 11" movement has created a work that harnesses the spirit of pure rave culture, with over 20 tracks that span and elevate countless genres without regard for trends or ephemeral influences. Music from the Eastblock Jungles is the product of an artist who forged a sound in complete isolation, with Visa problems leading him to entrench himself in the middle of nowhere in his native Russia, continuing in the UK rave tradition of his Essex-spawned idols, The Prodigy. Years in the making, it features a massive stockpile of new material, as well as Proxy classics both renowned ("Raven") and unreleased ("Abyss"). CD1 opens the siege with flag-bearing marches ("Raja Ganja"), imperial air-raid bangers ("Raw"), and unhinged breakbeat madness ("Junk"). CD2 forces an unconditional surrender with a mix of acid ("Audio 15"), ambient ("Nanomed"), Eastern-flavored pop ("Coke"), and hip-hop inflected head-nodders ("9000"). The disparate pieces converge like enormous tectonics recombining into a monolithic nation-statement, one worthy of one of the most talented producers of his generation.
$11.99 EAN: 4250382413257 ELECTRONIC
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AZARI & III: The Lost Versions 12" (TURBO 143EP)
Turbo presents a remix package of tracks by Azari & III. Locked Groove turns "Manhooker" out under a strobing streetlight with a killer acid bassline. Konrad Black cuts open "Indigo" and excises the dark heart of house, leaving it throbbing mechanically on the warehouse floor. Luca C's mix of "Manic" is somehow even more lifestyle-friendly than the original. Finally, Maceo Plex's enduringly popular remix of "Manic" slows down the BPM while pumping out a bumping tom groove.
$8.99 EAN: 4250382413615 ELECTRONIC
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BLACK DOG, THE: Darkhaus Vol. 01 12" (UTON 004EP)
The Black Dog presents a new sound somewhere between house and techno that they call Darkhaus. The original version of "Council Flat Emptiness" is a futuristic, disco-tinged version of a progressive dancefloor workout bathed in strings, mellow melancholia and heavy bass. This is preceded by a stripped-down version that multiplies the hypnotic elements of the original. On the B-side, a nine-minute remix from Luke Slater's L.B.Dub Corp project drives the original into classic Slater territory where techno and groove marry and electrify each other.
$8.99 UPC: 880319608711 ELECTRONIC
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SEVEN: Walter White/MediEvil 12" (UA 003EP)
UA003 is Seven's first release on his own imprint Uprise Audio. "'Walter White" is simply breathtaking. Every element of it from start to finish is perfectly crafted like a Swiss timepiece, blowing the listener away with its powerful weight and dynamics. "'MediEvil" instantly submerges the listener into a dark abyss with haunting leads and scales reinforced by intelligent beat structure. "MediEvil" is packed full of structured bass weight and grungy mids, making it effortless to blend.
$7.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Walter White
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VA: Back to Peru: The Most Complete Compilation of Peruvian Underground '64-74 2LP (VAMPI 001LP)
2013 repress, originally released in 2002. A collection of truly rare grooves from Peru. Vampisoul has come up with the rarest of rare and the strangest of strange. You'll find crazy garage stompers (Los Saicos, Los Shain's, Pina & Sus Estrellas), space-drugged-rock (Pax, El Opio, Holy's), Latin-funk (Black Sugar, Zulu, EL Polen), groovin'& soul movin' hits (Golden Stars, Mutables, Los 007) and even Chicha-sound (from Los Mirlos) -- the new "old" sound everybody's gonna be dancing to all over the world. Housed in a gatefold sleeve.
$18.39 EAN: 8435008860011 WORLD
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ORQUESTA EL MACABEO: Salsa Bestial CD (VAMPI 149CD)
Salsa Bestial is the international presentation of Puerto Rico's Orquesta el Macabeo. Formed in 2008, the veteran backgrounds in punk, rock, hardcore, ska and reggae of its 12 members have combined in an irresistible new take on salsa gorda or heavy salsa. Those varied influences have allowed them to reach not only the traditional salsa fan but also a wider public interested in a more diverse style within a genre which can at times seem reluctant to try new formulas. For the last four years, the orquesta has played all over Puerto Rico, and their thrilling shows and honest and straightforward approach to their sound and lyrics have gathered support across all kinds of audiences. Vampisoul is very proud to release this collection of tracks from their two self-released albums (Salsa macabra and El entierro), plus a new, exclusive recording.
$11.79 EAN: 8435008862749 WORLD
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ORQUESTA EL MACABEO: Salsa Bestial LP (VAMPI 149LP)
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$11.79 EAN: 8435008862756 WORLD
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COX, KENNY: Clap Clap! The Joyful Noise CD (OEP 1001CD)
"Lorin 1974, Strata Records Inc. was well known in Detroit for their art gallery, live music venue and record label, turning out records by artists like Kenny Cox and Lyman Woodard. In 2012, nearly four decades later, Scion commissioned DJ Amir Abdullah to research and create an exhibit based on lost youth culture in Detroit for a new online museum. Familiar with the history of Strata Inc., Amir decided the best way to define the era was through the lens of the labels brief but potent influence on the city's culture. Inspired by this project, Amir set out to re-introduce the world to Strata Inc. through his own label, 180 Proof Records. The Lyman Woodard Organization's Saturday Night Special (1975) is perhaps the jewel of the label, but the LP that was to follow -- Cox's unreleased Clap Clap! The Joyful Noise -- is at the same time radical and sublime. It's a visionary work, inspired by both the innocence and zeal of his three-year-old son, Philip, and also the culture of Latin America and Caribbean lands Cox admits in the album's original liner notes that, 'Oddly enough... I've never seen.' This previously unreleased masterpiece by Kenny Cox has been remastered from the original reel to reel masters, along with the artwork, which has been restored."
$11.00 UPC: 659123027120 JAZZ
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BEDLAM: Demos Anthology 1968-70 (The Cozy Powell Beginnings) LP (ANM 008LP)
"Bedlam and it's earlier incarnations (Ideal Milk, Big Bertha, etc.) were a hotbed for launching the career of superstar drummer Cozy Powell (RIP), who later played with such major Hard Rock acts as Whitesnake, Rainbow, and Black Sabbath. In this earlier stage, we can hear the fantastic guitar playing of Dave Ball very influenced by Cream/Clapton, his brother Denny on bass and Cozy on drums. In fact this early incarnation of Bedlam called Ideal Milk was almost a tribute to Cream. Moving on later, singer Ace Kefford enters the picture for a short stint with the band where they change the band name to Ace Kefford Stand. Ace was the ex-bass player of the Move. The B-side of the record has the Big Bertha demos which had different singers including Denny Ball which also sang on Ideal Milk. The style is still similar to Cream/Jeff Beck Group, sometimes with an heavier edge predicting what was going to come after 2 years (meanwhile Cozy was with The Jeff Beck Group and Dave Ball joined Procol Harum). Reissue limited to 400 copies with insert that includes detailed song liner notes written by Denny Ball and rare pics. Remastered from the master tapes for best sound quality possible."
$21.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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DUR-DUR BAND: Volume 5 CD (ATFA 004CD)
"Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980s, during a time when Somalia's contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was visible and abundant. Seeking inspiration outside the impressive array of Somali traditional music that was encouraged at the time, everyone from Michael Jackson and Phil Collins to Bob Marley and Santana were fair game. This recording, which was remastered from a cassette copy source, is a document of Dur-Dur Band after establishing itself as one of the most popular bands in Mogadishu. The challenge of locating a complete long-player from this era is evidenced by the fidelity of this recording. However, the complex, soulful music penetrates the hiss. In a country that has been disrupted by civil war, heated clan divisions and security concerns, music and the arts has suffered from stagnation in recent years. Incidentally, more than ten years after Volume 5 (1987) was recorded at Radio Mogadishu, the state-run broadcaster was the only station in Somalia to resist the ban on music briefly enacted by Al-Shabab. Dur-Dur Band is a powerful and illustrative lens through which to appreciate the incredible sounds in Somalia before the country's stability took a turn."
$10.00 UPC: 656605560212 WORLD
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DUR-DUR BAND: Volume 5 2LP (ATFA 004LP)
Double LP version with download code.
$14.50 UPC: 656605560229 WORLD
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JERUSALEM IN MY HEART: Mo7it Al-Mo7it CD (CST 093CD)
"Jerusalem in My Heart (JIMH) has been a live audio-visual happening since 2005, with Montréal-based producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at its core. Moumneh is a Lebanese national who has spent a large part of his adult life in Canada and has been a fixture of the Montréal independent music community from his early days as guitarist in various notable '90s hardcore bands to his tireless activity as a sound engineer and producer over the last decade. With performances occurring one to three times per year, no two JIMH events have ever been the same, with Moumneh's vocals and purposefully blown-out sonic sensibility as the single constant. JIMH has always been an immersive sonic and visual live experience; on the musical side, an evolving effort to forge a modern experimental Arabic music that weds melismatic singing in classical Arabic modes to electronic compositions with a punk-rock production sensibility. Mo7it Al-Mo7it, a unique and profoundly emotive album of contemporary Arabic music, captures and conveys all of this."
$10.75 UPC: 666561009328 ROCK
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JERUSALEM IN MY HEART: Mo7it Al-Mo7it LP (CST 093LP)
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$16.50 UPC: 666561009311 ROCK
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COCHRAN, EDDIE: Eddie Cochran LP+CD (DOX 324LP)
"Rockabilly icon, Eddie Cochran, best known for his 'Summertime Blues,' embodied the rebellious spirit of American teens, who in the 1950s were in the middle of a cultural revolution. Cochran, a teenager himself when his first hit, 'Sittin' in the Balcony', was released in 1956, was an extremely talented (and good-looking) musician, on the cusp of major stardom when he was suddenly killed in a car accident at the age of 21. Despite his early demise, this collection of hits only confirms Cochran's role as one of rock music's greatest architects." On 180 gram vinyl with a CD version of the album.
$19.00 EAN: 8013252883248 ROCK
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HARDY, FRANCOISE: Francoise Hardy LP (DOY 677LP)
"A seminal album of the French ye-ye era, Françoise Hardy's self-titled debut (known in the US as The 'Yeh-Yeh' Girl From Paris!) was released shortly after her debut single 'Oh Oh Chéri' in 1962. The success of this album, along with its hit 'Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles', made the eighteen-year-old French bombshell a huge star in Europe and an icon of the French fashion and music industries. Along with other ye-ye girls of the sixties, like Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, France Gall, and Sylvie Vartan, Hardy exuded a kind of sexy innocence that made French women the most liberated and the most desired in the world."
$17.00 EAN: 8013252886775 ROCK
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PURLING HISS: Water on Mars CD (DC 533CD)
"With Water on Mars, Purling Hiss have broken out of the basement, run through the bedroom and are out in the streets, blasting one of the great guitar albums in the past couple minutes. It's a tumble of hits and ragers, sewing together nine new Purling Hiss celebration laments out of their usual patches of distortion, singing melodies and unexpected production hoohah -- but this time the unexpected par t is how the guitars gleam so precisely as they pile upon each other, how they work alongside of the rhythm section rather than avalanching it. Water on Mars is Purling Hiss's first recording outside the fuzzy confines of Mike Polizze's inner rock utopia, where the first three albums and EP were constructed in solitude with a home-recording setup. Over the past couple years, Mike's been working with a band and fine-tuning new songwriting ideas while playing shows all over the place. Now, Purling Hiss projects their sounds and ideas onto a new platform, with a visceral and soulful presence, and there is a center to the Hiss maelstrom, with Polizze's guitars slugging, sizzling and spiraling their way around the rhythmic throb."
$9.50 UPC: 781484053323 ROCK
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PURLING HISS: Water on Mars Cassette (DC 533CS)
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$6.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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PURLING HISS: Water on Mars LP (DC 533LP)
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$13.00 UPC: 781484053316 ROCK
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ENSEMBLE PEARL: Ensemble Pearl CD (DC 544CD)
"Cosmic, heavy amplified rock drops and ripples, auras radiate and expand into cloud forms, through which lightning bolts. Tides rise, the moons wax upon a place somewhere between Link Wray, Hex-era Earth and early Tangerine Dream. The echoes return, leaving a trail that blows and drifts, creating a separate piece. Ensemble Pearl are Atsuo, William Herzog, Michio Kurihara and Stephen O'Malley. Their debut album also features the elemental forces of Eyvind Kang and Timba Harris. These players have all moved air and earth in many other projects and can create monolith and river alike on their own -- but for Ensemble Pearl they give and take, knowing and understanding each other's strengths and lack of weakness. Rather than blast sheets of air-filling sound, their contributions float the space with positive and negative dynamics. There are no borders being patrolled, allowing Ensemble Pearl to move from place to place unhindered. Over the course of six sides of music (and four sides of vinyl) they ride the jet stream as the world revolves slowly below, static almost, shimmering imperceptibly, mostly water. In and amongst the sprays of foam, there's a wash of twin-lead psych-proggery, a raft of tribal-beat sun worship, a passing rumble of neck-stretching, some delicate noise-blowing, a bit of float-and-drone and finally, a majestic drift into the deep waters of dub atmosphere. Ensemble Pearl was recorded by Masato Suzuki, mixed by Randall Dunn and mastered by Bob Weston. The album features artwork from Simon Fowler and Michał Mozolewski that extends and enhances the music in integral fashion, helping to make Ensemble Pearl a complete experience for the aspirant listener, a full-spectrum sensory bath."
$9.50 UPC: 781484054429 ROCK
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ENSEMBLE PEARL: Ensemble Pearl 2LP (DC 544LP)
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$16.50 UPC: 781484054412 ROCK
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OM: Addis Dubplate 12" (DC 550EP)
"Two dub versions of 'Addis' from Om's Advaitic Songs, mixed by Alpha & Omega."
$8.25 UPC: 781484055013 ELECTRONIC
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DOPE BODY: Saturday 7" (DC 554EP)
"Refocusing on the sonic principles that they were striving for when they got their tight-ass sloppy shit together in the first place, the Saturday single is a snapped shot of a band taking care of business in lean, road dog stance, ready to fuck or run, whatever happens first. A feculent mist hangs in the air, obscuring fine details and taking a bit of edge from things -- which is good because the power-trio-plus-singer that makes Dope Body is like, mostly all elbows and nails and split ends and bone shards and narrow-eyed sideways shades that cut like a knife, scoring the skin and hurting at the things underneath. Even the bass, rumblous and low as it is, is delineated with a serration that punches through the smoke from the guitar amplifier, the drums and screaming."
$4.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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CYPRESS HILL: Cypress Hill LP (GET 51293LP)
2013 repress. "Somewhere in between the rock-star mischief of the Beastie Boys and the slow-creeping funk of Dr. Dre, Cypress Hill introduced their hazy-eyed sound to the world on their self-titled 1991 debut and things have never quite been the same since. The original Cypress Hill album captures the group at their risk-taking best, mixing gangster posturing, LA street politics, Latin flavor and warped humor to-gether under a thick cloud of weed smoke and innovative beats. Nasal-voiced rapper B-Real and his partner Sen Dog, backed by the adventurous production styles of DJ Muggs, produce classics records like 'How I Could Just Kill a Man,' 'Pigs,' 'Stoned is the Way of the Walk' and 'Hand on the Pump.' Since its release, the album has won acclaim as one of Rolling Stone's 'Essential Recordings of the 90s' and 'Top 100 Best Rap Albums' by The Source magazine. Get On Down is proud to present one of the most influential and important hip-hop albums ever, Cypress Hill, in this special red vinyl release, featuring audio remastered from the original source tapes."
$15.50 UPC: 664425129311 HIPHOP
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OL' DIRTY BASTARD: Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version 2LP (GET 52716LP)
2013 repress. "It's safe to say that hip-hop has never seen an album like Ol' Dirty Bastard's 1995 solo debut Return to the 36 Chambers. The brief glimpses of ODB's unhinged genius provided by Wu-Tang Clan's landmark Enter the Wu-Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hip-hop history. With his raspy, drunken flow and dark sense of humor, Dirty fearlessly attacks from all angles, throwing himself fearlessly into punchy rhyme attacks ('Damage,' with GZA), drugged-out party jams (the monster singles 'Brooklyn Zoo' and 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya') and bizarre, grimly hilarious fantasies of sex and violence ('Don't U Know' and the R&B-tinged 'Sweet Sugar Pie'). Backed by RZA's appropriately gritty, dissonant beats and appearances from the Clan, Return became an instant hit, selling over 1 million copies and earning a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album in 1996. The album stands as a high water mark in the Wu Tang Clan's collective creative output and was selected as one of the Best 100 Rap Albums by The Source magazine in 1998. In honoring the legacy of one of hip-hop's most innovative releases, Get On Down is proud to present this incredible and unique special edition of Ol' Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers as a double LP which contains the complete original album, remastered for optimal sound quality." Includes 18"x24" poster.
$17.00 UPC: 664425271614 HIPHOP
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KRALLICE: Years Past Matter 2LP (RELIC 043LP)
"Krallice seem to be aiming for a greater level of obscurity in their work, from production to lyrics and song titles, which have not been published prior to the release of this vinyl edition. Within the mix itself you can hear a stark difference from past albums, a move towards greater cohesiveness in their sound. This is particularly apparent in the vocals, which appear to be lower in the mix, helping to drive home the aforementioned hypnotic feel. And although Nick McMaster's metal growls are still as prominent here as they were on Diotima, the music itself has less of the up front 'metal' feel than it has in the past when Nick's vocals were present alongside Mick Barr's signature screams." Comes on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with lyric sheet and download code.
$18.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VULGAR FASHION: Vulgar Fashion CD (HB 051CD)
"Visceral, dark, analogue, night pop duo from Denton, TX. Vulgar Fashion uncovers what heterosexual men think about when they see sexually provocative advertising (hint: it isn't their girlfriends)... Mmmmmagic ice cream. Maerc eci cigammmmM? and stokes the flames of public panic and profit on paranoia over global contagions, extreme weather events, and food contamination scares, while mining our digital footprints to target us with ads and offers that appeal to our psychological profiles."
$8.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VULGAR FASHION: Vulgar Fashion 10" (HB 051LP)
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$13.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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OVERHANG PARTY: Complete Studio Recordings 4CD (IMPREC 347CD)
"The Complete Studio Recordings of Overhang Party includes each of their studio albums (each with a bonus track) and their unreleased final recording sessions. While this four CD set is sure to please aficionados of Japanese underground rock , the biggest surprise will be for the uninitiated who can finally confront the groups emotional depth and stylistic breadth head on. Japan's Overhang Party were always one of their country's most interesting, multifaceted, and imaginative musical units, able to weave crawling rhythms and blown out psych feedback into full on rock anthems. Absolutely essential listening for fans of LSD March, Miminokoto, Les Rallizes Denudes, Damon & Naomi/G500, Ghost, PSF/Tokyo Flashback, and Japanese underground rock."
$22.50 UPC: 793447534725 ROCK
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HENNIX, CATHERINE CHRISTER: Live At The Grimm Museum Vol. 1 CD (IMPREC 354CD)
2013 repress. "Blues Dhikr Al-Salam (Blues Al Maqam) for voice, brass, computer and live electronics in the mixed-media environment Nur/Soliton(E) Star. The world premiere of the infinitary computer animation NUR and the accompanying infinitary computer sound composition Soliton(E) Star were given at Diapason Gallery (NYC) for the celebration of La Monte Young's 70th birthday in 2005. Catherine Christer Hennix has now extended this installation in the venerable tradition of the pentatonic blues for a live-electronic ensemble. Recorded live on Sunday August 14, 2011 at the Grimm Museum, Berlin."
$12.50 UPC: 793447535425 EXPERIMENTAL
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DINOSAUR JR.: Now the Fall/Ricochet 7" (JAG 229EP)
"Limited edition 7" featuring two previously unreleased songs recorded during the sessions for Dinosaur Jr.'s 10th album, I Bet on Sky."
$4.50 UPC: 656605222974 ROCK
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DAPHNI: Ne Noya/Yes, I Know/Jiao 12" (JIAOLONG 001EP)
2013 limited repress. First release from Daphni's (aka Dan Snaith/Caribou) new label. The A-side is a remix of Cos-Ber-Zam's "Ne Noya" from Analog Africa's Afro-Beat Airways compilation.
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MONOTONIX: Now 7" (JNR 125-3EP)
"The March installment of the Joyful Noise 2013 Flexi Disc Series features an exclusive track from Monotonix. From the city of Tel Aviv, Israel, Monotonix are the most insane motherfuckers in their geographic region. Which is saying a lot. Known for their chaotic, beer-saturating live shows (which typically end with the band being forcibly removed from the venue) Monotonix released their first two albums on the fantastic Drag City label. With their contribution to the Joyful Noise 2013 Flexi Disc series, Monotonix have thrown us a curveball. Their contribution 'Now' is a 6-minute balls to the wall experiment. A far cry from their almost grunge-leaning studio albums, 'Now' is a mostly-instrumental, free-jazz-ish piece -- showing that they are as opposed to musical convention as they are to dive bar security. 'Now' is limited to just 1000 copies on 7" Flexi-Disc."
$4.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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HICKORY WIND: Hickory Wind LP (MJJ 360LP)
"Before morphing into the excellent psych trio, B.F. Trike, Hickory Wind (from Evansville, Indiana), released one brilliant, and extremely rare, country psych album in 1969. Just 100 copies were pressed for the Gigantic label, and originals have been known to change hands for a small fortune. The album features excellent vocals, plus an interesting mix of fuzz guitar, and droning organ, as well as some wonderfully melodic songs. This reissue also features four bonus tracks from the B.F. Trike album session, recorded for RCA Records in Nashville, Tennessee in 1971. The B.F. Trike album, however, remained in the vaults for 25 years, before it was finally uncovered and given its just recognition in the mid-nineties."
$17.00 UPC: 889397836016 ROCK
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DAVIS, BETTY: Betty Davis LP (LITA 026LP)
2013 repress, deluxe vinyl pressing housed in an old school tip-on jacket. "First official Betty Davis reissues. Mastered from the original tapes (First time since the '70s!). Betty recorded some of the finest punk-funk of all time, introduced Miles to Hendrix, and inspired generations."
$13.75 UPC: 826853002615 ROCK
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HAZLEWOOD, LEE: Trouble Is A Lonesome Town CD (LITA 096CD)
"Light In The Attic's Lee Hazlewood Archive Series continues with an expanded reissue of Lee Hazlewood's debut album. Re-mastered from the original tapes, this is the first time Trouble Is a Lonesome Town has been available in its original mono mix since the 1960s. This is an essential purchase for Hazlewood fans or anyone curious about the man before the mustache. Originally released in 1963, Trouble... finds the bohemian cowboy sketching out a vivid picture of a backwater place named Trouble, where trouble with a small 't' is never far away. 'Trouble is little and it's lonesome,' he says, on the title track, 'you won't find it on any map, but you can take three steps in any direction and you're there.' Lee says plenty on the album. The first voice you hear is Hazlewood's spoken-word narration. It's a format the singer-songwriter would revisit frequently, introducing his stirring songs with a touch fireside storytelling in the rich, Texan drawl he'd tried hard to lose during years he was struggling to make it as an aspiring radio DJ. Each mini, pre-song poem seems to impart unexpected wisdom. Indeed, if the record sounds remarkably wise and mature for a debut album, Hazlewood was, of course, no spring chicken on making this debut. 34 years old at the time of the album's release, he was already a seasoned producer, writer and publisher with dozens of hits under his belt and a few singles under his own name and more under the pseudonym 'Mark Robinson' -- all of which are included here in this reissue."
$11.25 UPC: 826853009621 ROCK
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HAZLEWOOD, LEE: Trouble Is A Lonesome Town 2LP (LITA 096LP)
Gatefold double LP version with an 8-page booklet.
$18.75 UPC: 826853009614 ROCK
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BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER, WILLIAM: Aurora Liminalis CD (LINE 060CD)
"Line is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the second highly anticipated collaboration from renowned composer William Basinski and sound artist Richard Chartier. Aurora Liminalis is a rich and nebulous soundtrack, the aural equivalent of undulating trails of light. Disintegrating spatial shifts incorporating the two artists' distinct sonic palettes mesh to create a slow, deep ebb and flow, like some melting spectral transmission. The work has a distinct complex presence, difficult to resist its pull. Befitting cover image by visual artist James Elaine."
$9.25 UPC: 881626959725 ELECTRONIC
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AGF: Source Voice CD (LINESEG 002CD)
"Line is pleased to announce the release of the second in the Line Segments series. Source Voice is a rich and jarring new work of unexpected contrasts by German musician AGF, an artist much admired by Line's Richard Chartier. The voice is the human instrument. Almost everyone has a voice, unique and custom built within them. A voice is personal, political and controllable. Some voices are heard more than others. In expanding the meaning of voice, listening to and deconstructing it, we learn about our body, our kind. We grow and gain awareness through this process. Inspired by the ancient folk practice of yoik, AGF started to imitate and voice along with her surrounding wind and weather. Yoik is a mostly wordless form of singing/vocalization by the Sami tribe of northern Scandinavia and considered one of the longest living music traditions in Europe. All sounds on Source Voice are derived from AGF's voice and the room around her. While only the composition 'Kaamos' is pure untreated voice, digital processing was used to bend our imagination of what our voice is and can become. Through her careful study and work with pioneering composer Eliane Radigue for the past 10 years, AGF further experiments with highly contained and organized sound in the wide field of vocal expression. AGF has worked with Radigue while performing Elemental 3 as The Lappetites, and has now created OCCAM 7, a new composition by Radigue for solo voice."
$9.25 UPC: 881626959824 ELECTRONIC
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SCHULZE AND GUNTER SCHICKERT, KLAUS: The Schulze-Schickert Session CD (MIR 100704CD)
"For the first time, from the vaults of electronic music guru, Klaus Schulze, comes The Schulze-Schickert Session, a rare and previously unreleased private session featuring echo-guitar pioneer Günter Schickert. Recorded on 26 September 1975 in Klaus Schulze's home studio in Hambuehren, Germany, Schulze can be heard playing an EMS Synthi A, as well as keyboards, and a Syntanorma, while Schickert plays a 12-string Framus with metal strings and also sings on a few tracks. Although Schickert's name is little-known outside of a very select circle of krautrock fans, he was a key member of the Berlin free jazz scene of the 1960s and a pioneer of the echo-guitar. Just prior to the recording of this informal session, Schickert's first LP, Samtvogel, was released on the seminal Brain label. On the two bonus tracks, found only on theCD version, Schickert's playing ebbs, as Schulze takes on the more dominant role."
$14.50 UPC: 889397101398 ELECTRONIC
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SCHULZE AND GUNTER SCHICKERT, KLAUS: The Schulze-Schickert Session LP (MIR 100704LP)
180 gram vinyl version.
$19.00 UPC: 889397101374 ELECTRONIC
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.: Cometary Orbital Drive to 2199 CD (MVD 5677CD)
"Acid Mothers Temple revisit some of their older sounds for this new album, their first on Nod and Smile Records. Cometary Orbital Drive to 2199 contains three new versions of the AMT live staple 'Cometary Orbital Drive,' all of which maintain the same deceptively simple riff, but each version takes the song to new stretches of space, including as close as AMT ever got to dance/trance music. CD version limited to 500 copies."
$9.75 UPC: 760137567721 ROCK
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STARK REALITY, THE: Acting, Thinking, Feeling 6LP BOX/7" (NA 5094LP)
"Six LP set of psychedelic jazz, restored and remastered from the original tapes. This marks the first time that all of Stark Reality's music will be available on vinyl. Included is the entirety of their AJP-issued album The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, their out-of-print 1969 LP (first issued on this label in 2003), the two sides of their Big Yellow 7″ single, the three part song 'Acting, Thinking, Feeling,' and a series of unreleased tracks discovered by Porter Records' Luke Mosling -- issued here for the first time." Includes 16-page booklet with digital download card.
$48.50 UPC: 659457509415 ROCK
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WITCH: Lazy Bones!! LP (NA 5105LP)
"Our comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage, psych, prog, funk, afro-rock ensemble Witch... The band's third album, Lazy Bones!!, is the band's masterpiece -- a dark, brooding psychedelic opus that makes equal use of wah-wah and fuzz guitars, that relies as heavily on the stomping feel of hard rock as it does the syncopation of funk."
$15.50 UPC: 659457510510 ROCK
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WITCH: Lukombo Vibes LP (NA 5106LP)
"The band's fourth album -- recorded after the band toured with Osibisa -- makes use of traditional Zambian rhythms and folk melodies alongside progressive rock movements. It is the most 'afro-rock' of Witch's oeuvre."
$15.50 UPC: 659457510619 ROCK
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HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER: Haw LP (POB 006LP)
"LP version. Comes in a tip-on jacket with full color inner sleeve and digital download coupon. Haw, herein, is an album of eleven songs about family, faith, and an ill-prophesied future, an artifact almost as archaic, lovely and seldom heard today as directional commands for beasts of burden. M.C. Taylor, who wrote these songs, once lived hard by the Haw with his wife Abigail and their son Elijah ? 'Well I come from the bottom of the river Haw,' he sings -- but he doesn't live there anymore. Having followed the slipstream to the relative bustle of nearby Durham, North Carolina, he has composed a new clutch of tunes that conjure the half-remembered dreams of peace promised by our pasts. Taylor's writing and singing here achieve a tenebrous clarity, invoking -- and occasionally challenging -- a intermingling cast of prophetic characters both sacred and profane: Daniel, Elijah, the Apostles, and the Son of Man, sure, but also the Peacock Fiddle Band, Mississippi John Hurt, and by implication, Lew Welch, Waylon Jennings, Michael Hurley, and our friend Jefferson Currie II. 'Say whatever prayer you want: to Jehovah or Yahowah, or Red Rose Nantahala.' More than ever before, the supporting players of Hiss Golden Messenger feature as tellers of the tale. Each episode earns a meticulously turned ensemble statement."
$15.50 UPC: 616892104643 ROCK
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SUPREMES, THE: Meet The Supremes LP (RUM 2011041LP)
"The debut album by Diana Ross' Supremes originally came out in late 1962, right after Motown's boss Berry Gordy signed them and changed their name (the group was previously referred to as 'The Primettes') and immediately before Barbara Martin left the band (which cost her being cut from the legendary '3 on the barstools' cover, and the loss of any royalties from the album). Mainly a collection of their early singles, Meet The Supremes features pure soul gems like 'I Want A Guy', 'Buttered Popcorn', '(He's) Seventeen' and many more little classics recorded by this quartet of seventeen year-olds who, although still far from the international star status they would soon achieve, helped pave the road to the definition of the classic 'Motown Sound'."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101152 ROCK
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MARVELETTES, THE: Please Mr. Postman LP (RUM 2011042LP)
"The Marvelettes' debut album from 1961 was the sixth release on Motown and the first big success for the company after the Miracles. Released too early to picture four African American schoolmates on the cover (which did not become customary before late 1962), Please Mr. Postman was released on the wave of the popular success of the album's title track, the first Motown number-one single and one of the first recorded by an all girl group. Despite their early success, the group was eclipsed in popularity by long-term opponents the Supremes, with whom they shared an intense rivalry that caused the girls' mental breakdowns and illnesses of all kinds, until their definitive disbanding. The Marvelettes were Motown's first successful girl group as well as the most underrated: while the Supremes and the Vandellas have been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since the late 80's, the Marvelettes' nomination for induction arrived in 2012."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101169 ROCK
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TURNER, IKE & TINA: The Soul Of Ike & Tina LP (RUM 2011043LP)
"Well-known for her trademark legs, throaty voice, and boundless stage energy, Tina Turner was one of the sexiest and most popular international performers of the 20th century. Ike Turner, a well established seminal figure in the early years of rock & roll as both a performer and talent scout, met her one night in St. Louis while he was performing with his 'Kings Of Rhythm': she just grabbed the microphone and sang a B.B. King song, impressing Ike so immediately and overwhelmingly that he asked her to perform regularly with them. The rest is history: Ike's slick managing skills and songwriting, along with Tina's intensely energetic lead voice, three back-up 'Ikettes' and a technically airtight eight-piece band produced a combination of country blues, rock and roll, ghetto rhythm and gospel passion that created a legend lasting 50 years. 'It's Gonna Work Out Fine, ' 'I Pity the Fool, ' 'I Idolize You, and 'Tra La La La La.' are just some of the R&B gems included in their 1960 astonishing debut album."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101176 ROCK
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OLD MAN & THE SEA, THE: The Old Man & The Sea LP (SHAD 153LP)
Numbered limited edition of 500; 180 gram pressing housed in a heavy gatefold sleeve with insert. "This rare and sophisticated heavy rock album was released in a limited run of 500 copies by Sonet in Denmark. Heavy organ and guitars, with rough English vocals, great songs, very well composed and performed with a bluesy feel and influenced by the 'Vertigo' UK sound with a great mix of heavy guitar and hammond organ. Only a very few albums from Scandinavia are produced that well, recorded at Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen. One of the best underground albums from Scandinavia and among Moses, Culpeper's Orchard and Terje, Jesper & Joachim the top wanted album from Denmark. We are releasing this album with 2 long bonus tracks."
$32.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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FARM: Farm LP (SHAD 154LP)
Numbered edition of 500 copies; 180 gram pressing housed in a heavy sleeve with insert "Farm recorded this wonderful album in 1971 in Southern Illinois, USA and the band is: Del Herbert - guitars, Gary Gordon - guitars & vocals, Jim Elwyn - bass & vocals, Steve Evanchik - percussion & harp, Roger Greenwalt - organ & piano, Mike Young - drums. Of cause there are many good albums from that time who need to be released again, but this album really stands out. We would vote this album by FARM as one of the best US releases on our label right next to jewels like BRIGADE (also from 1971). Killer dual fuzz guitar in every track, fantastic underground rock songs with an Allman Brothers vibe and Canned Heat boogie, speed driven rhythm, with music roots in west coast & blues rock and guitar-propelled numbers ála Santana."
$30.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SPEAKERS, THE: En El Maravilloso Mundo De Ingeson LP (SHAD 155LP)
Limited edition of 500; 180 gram vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with 12-page insert. "Before Los Speakers from Columbia recorded this album in 1968 they have already released 4 other albums for a major label. This final album (In The Wonderful World Of Ingeson which was the name of the recording studio) was recorded and produced entirely by the band with no restrictions from major label producers. What they have produced in 1968 was a musical statement and a piece of art...going in the same direction as early Mothers Of Invention but with a sweeter musical touch of band like Kissing Spell / Embrujo to it. This masterpiece is loaded with psychedelic ideas, stoned effects, backwards loops, fuzz guitar, Latin beat's, great vocals and amazing lyrics. Perhaps the first Os Mutantes album might suit this direction a bit as well. We have never heard an album like this before. Here we have the rare stereo version with 12 page LP size book and gatefold sleeve. A psychedelic masterpiece and one of the best albums from Latin Americana. If you want to have your album perfect as the original pressing, attach a tiny piece of chewing gum inside the gatefold top left corner (looked like an acid trip on the original cover) and spray it with rose perfume, which they did as well."
$32.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VILLAIN, CARMEN: Sleeper CD (STS 238CD)
"Let's get this out of the way 1st -- Carmen Villain used to be a very successful model. Her face has appeared on the covers of Vogue & Nylon, & high profile cosmetic ad campaigns. It turns out Carmen Hillestad (Carmen Villain) has been a spy in the house of fashion. Behind the scenes, she was channeling her frustrations into a set of songs with a defiantly DIY underground free-rock sound. Now at last, she's stepping off the glossy page & emerging as a major new songwriting voice & multi-instrumentalist. Behind the angelic face lurks a villain. With acid in her airbrush, she reminds us of This Heat, Bikini Kill, Sonic Youth, and Royal Trux."
$12.25 UPC: 600116083821 ROCK
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AZAMA, ETHEL: Exotic Dreams LP (OUT 5003LP)
"Produced by Martin Denny and arranged by pianist Paul Conrad, 1958's Exotic Dreams put this fairly unknown Hawaiian jazz singer in the spotlight, to rival Peruvian chantress Yma Sumac for the title of first lady of "exotica". Exotic Dreams is one of those superb records that live up to the hype due to both the beautiful voice of the singer and its exotic arrangements, causing the listener to execrate the missed opportunities, as Azama faded into obscurity shortly thereafter, despite her obvious talent and various gigs in Hawaiian and Australian night clubs and her recurring role in the '70s TV series Hawaii Five-0. Twelve songs are featured on Exotic Dreams, and the style ranges from far eastern mystique over Hawaiian snugness to faux-Polynesian exhilaration. Ethel Azama feels always at home, regardless of the tempo, style or mood, and once the listener is growing tired of the occasionally jazzy nature, the next song around the corner is totally different, yet cohesive enough to not tear the concept of dreaminess apart."
$18.50 UPC: 889397101206 JAZZ
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BAXTER, LES: Jungle Jazz LP (OUT 5004LP)
"Groundbreaking 1959 album by the widely and enthusiastically acclaimed 'godfather' of the exotica movement (a variation of easy listening that conjures up visions of ancient gods, coral reefs, jungle flowers and enchanting seas, bringing it all to living rooms around the world using a unique blending of chorus and orchestra), Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz captured the teeming, steaming excitement of South America's jungles in twelve original compositions. His vivid orchestrations present the wild, exotic sounds of the primitive forest in striking contrast to breathtaking jazz interpretations that feature the great Plas Johnson alternating on tenor sax and alto flute, and throughout these varied moods and tempos is heard the constant fire of Latin rhythm, resulting in an exciting blend. A rare and highly sought-after milestone for the whole 'lounge' subculture." Comes on 180 gram vinyl.
$18.50 UPC: 889397101213 JAZZ
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RZA PRESENTS, THE: Shaolin Soul Selection Vol. 1 3LP (STE 108LP)
"Dug out from the archives of Stax Records, this collection of deep soul has been personally curated by The RZA himself. Containing heavy cuts from such legends as Isaac Hayes, Booker T & The MGs, Albert King, The Emotions, and many more, it's not hard to see the genius and ideas these songs and artists inspire, and their influence on the very history of The Wu-Tang Clan. A pinnacle as both a compilation of classic soul music, and a must-have for any Wu-Tang completist, this is an LP set not to be missed."
$18.00 UPC: 819376010816 ROCK
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JAYLIB: Champion Sound 2LP (STH 2062LP)
2007 release. "Two of hip hop's best kept secrets, Jay Dee aka J Dilla and Madlib... The two craft beats that can either revel in the grit of the underground or swing with the blingest of them. They're the only producers in the game who successfully get props from the backpack crowd while also working the boards amongst the most influential names in popular urban music. "
$13.00 UPC: 659457206215 HIPHOP
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J DILLA: Donuts 2LP (STH 2126LP)
2011 release. "Donuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full-length release, and has since became a classic hip-hop album, one of the defining works of the artist's life. Announced in fall 2005, the concept of a 'rap album without rappers' struck some as minor novelty, but Donuts would prove to transcend the rigid definitions of what a hip-hop album could be. It plays part like a DJ mix, part like a hip-hop beat maker at work, its songs starting and stopping unexpectedly, like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station. But it's an unmistakably modern album, and one which perfectly encapsulated the artist's reputation among his peers and fans as a top-rated architect of soulful hip-hop."
$13.00 UPC: 659457212612 HIPHOP
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J DILLA: Wild 12" (STH 2154EP)
"One of the more 'wild' tracks J Dilla ever created. In 2007 this was found on the master tapes for Ruff Draft and chosen -- by Ma Dukes, us here at Stones Throw and various other Dilla associates -- as the perfect way to lead off the reissue of Ruff Draft that followed. Back in '07 we didn't have the time to press this sleeve, so the single was originally issued in a plain white jacket. Better late than never. These tracks were made by J Deezy in Dearborn MI, late 2002. Mixed and mastered by Dave Cooley and Kelly Hibbert from the original master tapes in 2007. Sleeve by Jeff Jank."
$6.25 UPC: 659457215415 HIPHOP
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LIONS, THE: This Generation 7" BOX (STH 2264EP)
"Brand new reggae/dub group from Stones Throw Records. Album is packaged in a limited edition 45 box set, including 7 45s plus a Stones Throw bonus fan club 45. Produced by Connie Price. Features members of the legendary ska band Hepcat. Deston Berry and Alex Désert form half of the vocal team, and the latter also has a successful career on screen, including roles in the films Swingers and High Fidelity. The other half is the sweet falsetto of Malik Moore and DJ stylings of Black Shakespeare, the charismatic cousin of Robbie Shakespeare (of Sly & Robbie fame) and corunner of the i&i Sound System, a customized ice cream sound system van, featured on the album cover."
$36.00 UPC: 659457226411 WORLD
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VA: Dual Form 2LP (STH 2306LP)
"Collaborative release by Stones Throw and Leaving Records. Leaving Records is one of Los Angeles' best, a hand-curated cassette label whose international reach belies its boutique status and DIY style. Naturally, Dual Form reflects the brightly burning light guiding Leaving's doings: an elevated level of experimentation combined with the twinning beliefs that art is sacred and music is magic. In a way, avant chanteuse Julia Holter provides this set's mantra with her haunting cover of Arthur Russell's 'You and Me Both' when she sings, 'Want to keep on doing.' To that end, Anticon founder Odd Nosdam delivers the booming but elegiac 'Sisters,' Postal Service electrician Dntel gets playful with 'Windy Windy,' psychedelic blueser Sun Araw discovers transcendence for 'Right Off,' and Serengeti teams with Matthewdavid for the far-out rap of 'Into the Night.' Dual Form could've easily been a retrospective of Leaving Records' 'greatest hits,' but that'd be a disingenuous introduction to a label that's always looking forward. All of the tracks on the album are new, original recordings. If the names gathered here look unfamiliar, it'd be a good time to start studying them." Housed in a gatefold sleeve with digital download card.
$15.50 UPC: 659457230616 ELECTRONIC
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DRUM BREAKS: Original Break Beats 10" (TBD 002EP)
56 drum breaks and 2 drum solos. "...drum break record featuring original raw drum loops."
$10.00 UPC: 659123029919 ELECTRONIC
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WIRE, THE: #350 April 2013 MAG (WIRE 350)
"Attached to the front cover of issue 350:The Wire Tapper 31, the latest in our ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. On the cover: Jakob Ullmann (Stasi interrogation methods and transcendent world religions inform the austere minimalism of this German composer); Ashley Paul (The jazz-trained New Yorker breathes delicate life into skeletal, digitally distressed song forms); Storyboard P (Greg Tate meets the New York street dancer and Flying Lotus collaborator whose animatronic motion-blur is a choreographed form of bullet time); Invisible Jukebox: Mika Vainio (The Wire's mystery record selection... it eats you up, as the Pan Sonic founder discovers); Cross Platform: Vicky Langan (Daniel Spicer follows the visceral trail leading to this Irish artist's extreme rituals and actions); Global Ear: Tuscaloosa (Kevin Nutt reports from Alabama's Sonic Frontiers series, where Improv meets homegrown 'pataphysics); Epiphanies (Patrick Lundborg finds Blakeian overtones in children's songs by psychedelic pied piper Donovan)."
$6.75 EAN: 9770952068090 Misc
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BLACK PUS: All My Relations CD (THR 322CD)
"Black Pus is Brian Chippendale, who rose to prominence as the drummer of noise rock titans Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer. All My Relations is constant forward motion and audible physicality. Chippendale's furious drumming style is ever present and instantly recognizable, but the pop element, which Chippendale explored in more contained ways on earlier Black Pus releases, is more fully integrated. Tracks like '1000 Years' and 'Hear No Evil' bear a snarl and a smile, the sound of wild abandon that is both aggressive and inviting. Chippendale creates maximalist music out of the simple elements of drums, vocals, and an oscillator triggered by the kick drum, looping and repeating phrases, and rhythms in a way that can only be called meditative."
$10.25 UPC: 790377032222 ROCK
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BLACK PUS: All My Relations LP (THR 322LP)
LP version.
$12.50 UPC: 790377032215 ROCK
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ZEDEK BAND, THALIA: Via CD (THR 325CD)
"Zedek's fourth solo album (and third on Thrill Jockey). It further cements Zedek's position as a bandleader, a songwriter, and as a pioneer who, like Kim Gordon, Kim Deal, Lydia Lunch, and Patti Smith, paved the way for so many others. On Via, Zedek presents a collection of songs that range from the harrowing to the heartfelt. The opener 'Walk Away' is a triumphantly melancholic exploration of living with ghosts, with Zedek's richly emotive voice augmented by David Michael Curry's gravelly viola and Mel Lederman's measured piano. Via also features some of Zedek's noisiest material in some time. Halfway through 'Want You To Know,' Zedek's guitar erupts into a wash of fuzz, foreshadowing the climax of pounding drums and psychedelic soloing. Via is an album about recovery, loyalty, chance, and gratitude: universal themes that become stirring in Zedek's hands."
$10.25 UPC: 790377032529 ROCK
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ZEDEK BAND, THALIA: Via LP (THR 325LP)
LP version.
$12.50 UPC: 790377032512 ROCK
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STYGIAN STRIDE: Stygian Stride CD (THR 327CD)
"Stygian Stride is Jimy SeiTang, a New York based musician in the No Neck Blues Band axis who, as a member of Psychic Ills and most currently with Rhyton, was brought up in the midst of the groundswell of avant-garde and improvised psychedlic music in New York City over the past decade. On this, his debut solo release, SeiTang has moved away from rock music completely, instead turning his attention to gauzy electronic music reminiscent of Gas and the classic era of Mille Plateaux and Chain Reaction, with nods to Manuel Göttsching and Tangerine Dream."
$10.25 UPC: 790377032727 ROCK
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STYGIAN STRIDE: Stygian Stride LP (THR 327LP)
LP version.
$12.50 UPC: 790377032710 ROCK
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BARRETT, SYD: The Madcap Laughs LP (MRSSS 504LP)
2013 repress. Not much introduction needed for this magic album. Vinilísssimo proudly presents one of the most important cult albums of the 20th century. "I wanted it to be a whole thing that people would listen to all the way through with everything related and balanced, the tempos and moods off-setting each other, and I hope that's what it sounds like," Syd Barrett, 1971.
"Listening to the long-player four decades on, there's no doubt that, for all of its fractured fragility, it does indeed possess a unified quality. In fact, The Madcap Laughs is an immersive experience, dragging the listener into a world of tangled emotions and battered sound. Hope and fear, joy and dread, loathing and longing, whimsy and reality -- all of these contrasting sentiments and emotions manifest themselves, animating an album that continues to be felt." --Phil Alexander / MOJO. On 180 gram vinyl; housed in a gatefold sleeve.
$17.79 EAN: 8435008875046 ROCK
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ORIGINAL BINGO CLUB: Little Paul/Crystal Needles 7" (WWR 7001EP)
"To say that The Original Bingo Club is a band or a team or a traveling circus is misleading. The constituency is always in motion, evolving to the rhythm of whatever faces, ideas, and environs surround it. The summery, surf-inspired atmospheres that reverberate from this 7"s two tracks are easygoing but tinged with melancholy: equally suited for a midnight peace pipe or a Coney Island carousel. Above all The Original Bingo Club is anchored in honesty, both to its respective selves and to its communal aspirations."
$6.25 UPC: 659123026611 ROCK
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SOLO HIT: Imoikeme/Ododo 7" (AADE 003EP)
Solo Hit's real name is Ohieirme and he was born in 1954 in Avbiosi, Western Nigeria. The two tracks presented here were released on an earlier LP he did in 1981 when he was still a member of Victor Uwaifo And The Titibitis. Recorded at Uwaifo's Joromi studio, this unique sound was dubbed "Oba Afro Funk," a mixture of Ekassa music and pop sung in the Ora dialect of the Edo language.
$9.79 UPC: N/A WORLD
A1. Imoikeme
B1. Ododo
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AUDISION: Chimes EP 12" (AND 017EP)
Audision return with a slab of colored vinyl. They produced "Chimes 1" for live performance and their new synth Roland JD 800 sounded crystal clear in their studio, but when they practiced for their live set, it played a different sound. "Chimes 2" lets the machines do the talking. "Away" was the beat-less track from their last 12" Up & Away, and Gez Varley aka G-Man created a dancefloor monster out of it. Lastly is a rough and deep house mix from Christopher Rau.
$8.39 UPC: 880319607813 ELECTRONIC
A1. Chimes 1
A2. Chimes 2
B1. Away (G-Man Remix)
B2. Chimes (Christopher Rau Remix)
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DUSKY: Nobody Else EP 12" (AUS 1345EP)
Dusky re-emerge with another four-track EP. The profile of dynamic duo Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman has continued to rise considerably through a series of strong EPs and remixes for artists including Justin Martin and Hot Chip. Their distinctive brand of off-kilter and purposefully cross-pollinated house-garage-techno has been championed by everyone from Seth Troxler to Loefah to Pete Tong to Paul Woolford. Here, their masterful weaving of subtle, slow-rising vocal clips with penetrating bass lines and scattered percussion can be appreciated by any dancefloor.
$8.39 UPC: 827170486164 ELECTRONIC
A1. Nobody Else
B1. What I Never Knew
A2. Alone
B2. Dummy
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COSMONAUTS: If You Wanna Die Then I Wanna Die LP (AS 001LP)
Reissue of the Cosmonauts (Fullerton CA, USA) second LP, originally released in 2012 by Burger Records. Punk, rock'n'roll, and psychedelic music, reminding the contemporary big names of the style, such as Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Moon Duo, or The Growlers. When Ayo Silver! heard Cosmonauts' sophomore LP If You Wanna Die Then I Wanna Die, it was clear to them it was a contemporary masterpiece. When they found out it was soon to be sold-out, they realized they had to do something about it. Now, the label proudly presents the reissue of this must-have LP. After various 7" releases, one LP and mini-LP cassette, Cosmonauts have synthesized the perfect recipe in If You Wanna Die Then I Wanna Die. What you will find in this album is a combination of rock and roll beats, psychedelic vibes and punk attitude that transcends those genres. In a field where bands are usually subscribed to the same clichés, Cosmonauts drown them. Their music arises from the stomach, it's as real as a punch full of anger, like a cold shower or sweaty pogo-dancing in first row. Despite their significant charisma, Cosmonauts are a perfect example of this generation; a new scene full of bands reading the past but writing the future, but they also reference The Velvet Underground, Silver Apples, or SST bands. Cosmonauts take us on a psychedelic field-trip empowered by amphetaminic punk nerve on this album, and on other tunes they dig atmospheric loops with minimalistic structures while maintaining a pop heart.
$12.39 EAN: 8435008881054 ROCK
A1. Motorcycle #1
A2. Please Don't Make Me Blue
A3. Flowerbomb
A4. Super Reverb
A5. Gillian
A6. Caroline
B1. California Dreamin'
B2. Psychic Denim
B3. Dreamboat
B4. Two Dollars & Fifty Cents
B5. Emerald Green
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ITO, AKIRO: Japanesque LP (BAM 7007LP)
Keyboardist and former member of the Far East Family Band, Akira Ito embarked on a solo career making what has been described as "floating electronics," using a medley of analog synths, guitar, bass, drums, and choral vocals. He released Japanesque in 1981; an album considered to be illusionary mind music at its finest and rarest. It's a gorgeous, mellow, floating, cosmic album, perhaps like a more organic Kitaro. Ito lends his sonic signature sounds of cosmic rock to full effect on Japanesque, reminding us why the Far East Family Band were considered to be the foremost innovators of early electronica. Digitally-remastered and presented on 180 gram vinyl for the first time.
$15.79 EAN: 4752817700722 ELECTRONIC
A1. Source of Life
A2. Daybreak
A3. Birth (Prophet)
A4. Love
A5. Cultivate the Teachings & Meditate Upon Them
A6. Synchrotron Radiation - For the Children
B1. Epigram
B2. The Six Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Air, (Material) Consciousness (Mind)
B3. Land of Fire
B4. Self-Awareness
B5. Lord
B6. To the Travelers
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METRONOMY: Nights Out LP (BEC 5772370)
Re-released for the U.S. in light of Metronomy's 2011 Mercury Prize Nomination (for their third album The English Riviera). This is the LP version of Metronomy's second studio album, 2008's Nights Out. This album is a timely, thrilling pop album -- a future electro-pop classic, comprising a wholly original mash-up of electronic and falsetto-laden brilliance. A thoroughly modern, freakishly danceable record to be listened to from start to finish. Includes the singles "Radio Ladio," "My Heart Rate Rapid," "Heartbreaker" and "Holiday."
$16.39 EAN: 5060107723702 ROCK
01. Nights Intro
02. The End of You Too
03. Radio Ladio
04. My Heart Rate Rapid
05. Heartbreaker
06. On the Motorway
07. Holiday
08. A Thing for Me
09. Back on the Motorway
10. On Dancefloors
11. Nights Outro
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BEDROOM COMMUNITY: Everything Everywhere All the Time/The Whale Watching Tour 2DVD (HVALUR 014DVD)
Pierre-Alain Giraud's documentary film Everything Everywhere All the Time follows Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, and Valgeir Sigurðsson on their collective tour, showcasing the music they've collaborated on and released individually under the Bedroom Community umbrella. We witness Giraud's fly-on-the-wall perspective through rare footage of recordings at Greenhouse Studios in Iceland, backstage and tour-bus activity, volcanic disruption and interviews with the artists. In 60 minutes Everything Everywhere All the Time explores the dynamic between these four highly individual artists. It provides a fantastic insight into the inner workings of a small artist-run label and a collective that has been hailed as "the best record label in the whole of Iceland and maybe even the entire world" (Drowned in Sound). The Whale Watching Tour is a 115-minute concert film focused around the grand finale of their 2010 tour, as they are joined on stage by violist Nadia Sirota, violinist Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, bassist Borgar Magnason, and trombonist/singer Helgi Hrafn Jónsson. The concert was filmed at the National Theatre of Iceland and features performances from many Bedroom Community classics. A concert by Daníel Bjarnason and his ensemble is the exclusive bonus feature on this double DVD disc. DVD1: 61 minutes. DVD2: 115 minutes. Language: English. Double-sided NTSC/PAL format DVDs for worldwide use, region free.
$24.39 UPC: 880319605925 ELECTRONIC
01. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Dreamland
02. Nico Muhly - Music Under Pressure II
03. Nico Muhly - Honest Music
04. Ben Frost - Leo Needs a New Pair of Shoes
05. Sam Amidon - Saro
06. Sam Amidon - I See the Sign
07. Sam Amidon - Way Go Lily
08. Ben Frost - Theory of Machines
09. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Focal Point
10. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Baby Architect
11. Nico Muhly - Keep in Touch
12. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Before Nine
13. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Kin
14. Ben Frost - Híbakúsja
15. Nico Muhly - The Only Tune
16. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Past Tundra
17. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Grýlukvæði
18. Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood
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CLOTHILDE: Queen of the French Swinging Mademoiselle 1967 CD (BORNBAD 047CD)
Clothilde, queen of the "Swingin' Mademoiselles." Why Clothilde? Why not that more star-worthy, internationally-acclaimed Françoise Hardy, or the more akin to the sub-genre, France Gall? Because she's the most characteristic, archtypical French mademoiselle, that's why! Christine Pilzer, even Jacqueline Taïeb before her, both may have been rediscovered first in this style unique to French '60s pop, and Stella also may have been the most out and out "anti-ye-ye" with her slightly anti-establishment and derisive lyrics countering the pop system and establishment, but Cleo's all about text, not that much as a whole production. As such, Clothilde takes the crown. Not only has Clothilde the most natural (albeit unknowingly) disposition as a chanteuse, singing such subversive lyrics with as much second degree detachment as possible but also, the music itself is highly original: inventive arrangements including French horn, musical saw, church bells, barrel organ, marimba, brass fiddle, woodwinds, and busy fuzz guitar amidst all that slapstick comedy-like audio bric-à-brac. Almost avant-garde in concept, it was imagined and produced by Clothilde's impresario, manager and indeed creator, legendary Disques Vogue A.D. Germinal Tenas. This could've only come out of France.
$10.99 EAN: 3521383423103 ROCK
01. Fallait pas ecraser la queue du chat (3:10)
02. Je t'ai voulu et je t'ai bien eu (2:17)
03. La chanson bete et mechante (2:27)
04. Le boa (2:19)
05. Saperlipopette (2:38)
06. La ballade du bossu (3:04)
07. 102 - 103 (2:55)
08. La verite toute la verite (2:58)
09. Des garçons faciles (feat. Les Charlots) (2:00)
10. A ora sos'e (3:06)
11. Qualcosa che non va (2:38)
12. Fallait pas ecraser la queue du chat (Stereo bonus track) (3:16)
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CLOTHILDE: Queen of the French Swinging Mademoiselle 1967 LP (BORNBAD 047LP)
LP version. Comes with a four-page insert.
$12.99 EAN: 3521381523119 ROCK
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CATHOLIC SPRAY: Earth Slime LP (BORNBAD 048LP)
In the days of conscious jazz (music done by those who know way too much about it) and pale idols (Bon Iver, James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, people nobody wants to look like), sorting through the new releases is a dirty job. Then comes the day you stumble upon Amazon Hunt, Catholic Spray's first album, and everything suddenly gets faster, louder, and weirder. The year was 2011, the record label was Teenage Menopause, and the record sounded like one of those days made of nothing but raw, naked truth when you wake up shirtless at 5 a.m., stuck in a building devastated by flames, slowly remembering the atrocious rumble between two transsexuals in the lobby hall that started it all. You know that kind of record. You also know the kind of band who makes such records: their story usually ends in ugly fights after six or eight months and you're left with rage, regrets and infinite blabbering. Well, it appeared Catholic Spray wasn't one of those bands. Reminding the indie peasants they are the band responsible for making the 18th district of Paris cool again ("Hustling In Barbès"), Catholic Spray charges right on with an array of mongoloid hooks thrown at maximum speed ("Masterchief of the Foxes," "Drift with Satan"), hitting harder and meaner when necessary ("Black Cat"), just to remind they definitely own the race, even though they still drive with eyes closed, guided only by Pierre and Cyprien's voices, both singing like rats fighting against the wind, screaming for a smoke and a piece of ass, legal or not. The kind of guys who, when you meet them face to face, pass their whole life on to you, just like a disease. And with a record like Earth Slime, that shit could spread faster than rabies.
$12.99 EAN: 3521381523232 ROCK
01. Hustling in Barbes (2:39)
02. Masterchief of the Foxes (2:39)
03. Plane Crash (1:39)
04. # Black Cat (3:03)
05. Krokodile Dandies (2:17)
06. UPN 160 (3:03)
07. Youth Can Suck My Dick (2:57)
08. Bet That Song Sounds Cool On TV (3:38)
09. Drift with Satan (1:45)
10. I Stand Still (2:44)
11. Roam No Sea (2:27)
12. Silver Castle Pope (3:10)
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FEELING OF LOVE, THE: Reward Your Grace CD (BORNBAD 050CD)
Since its beginning, The Feeling Of Love evolved from a one-man-band playing minimal and nihilist garage-blues with a no wave leaning, to a trio still in the garage vibe but with more complexity and strong Krautrock and psychedelic influences. The band, mostly based in Metz (France), comes from the mind of Guillaume Marietta, who was joined by Seb Normal and Sebastien Joly for their first studio album released through Born Bad Records in April 2011. Dissolve Me is the band's Kraut space garage manifesto. Songs stretch out, the drums go more tribal, the synth hammers out his keys on an infinite highway, and the guitar gets lost in delay pedal's fog. One thinks Suicide, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground, Can, Syd Barrett. The record has enabled the band to reach a larger audience, to hit the stage of big festivals like Rock en Seine in Paris and to be critically-acclaimed by the French media (front page of Telerama, press articles in Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, Noise, Magic, Grazia, etc.) and had many reviews on U.S. and European blogs. Nosey/Vice also shot a documentary about the band. After countless shows all over Europe and two tours in U.S.A., sharing the stage with bands such as Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, White Fence, The Intelligence, Girls, Strange Boys, etc., The Feeling of Love now present Reward Your Grace. Even if the songs keep their psychedelic and melancholic garage essence, the band re-think their music by exploring shoegaze and pop territories. Reward Your Grace is a much more light record yet even more accomplished. Something between psych-pop ballads and long trance soundtracks disturbed by sonic blasts.
$10.99 EAN: 3521383423158 ROCK
01. Julee Cruise (5:43)
02. I Could Be Better Than You but I Won't Wanna Change (4:04)
03. Girl Your Mother Is Your Best Friend (3:10)
04. I'm Leaving You Today (4:03)
05. I Want You (Just Like an Ambulance) (3:18)
06. Mostly Pet Semen Unit (5:18)
07. Castration's Fields (7:12)
08. Jealous Guy (4:23)
09. You're My Lullaby (2:55)
10. I Want to Be the Last Song You Hear Before You Die (2:51)
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FEELING OF LOVE, THE: Reward Your Grace LP (BORNBAD 050LP)
LP version.
$12.99 EAN: 3521381523164 ROCK
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AUDIONITE: No Good 12" (BNR 099EP)
Audionite releases his first EP since his debut album Adjustment Path. No Good features two remixes by Jon Convex -- who has released on the highly-respected 3024 label (Martyn), followed by high quality output with Nonplus, Disfigured Dubz (Skream), Hotflush and his own imprint Convex Industries -- and producer J. Tijn from London.
$8.99 EAN: 4018939238636 ELECTRONIC
A1. No Good
A2. No Good (Jon Convex Remix)
B1. Concentration of Authority
B2. Concentration of Authority (J. Tijn Remix)
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ALLIEN, ELLEN: The Kiss/Need Remixes 12" (BPC 265EP)
Jesse's talents are no secret, especially in his home country. His tech-house sets and contributions for MTV are legendary in the States. His releases on labels such as Stereo Productions have regularly landed in the upper echelons of the house charts. The Germany-based Snuff Crew takes a noticeably less extrovert approach, but their credits speak for themselves: two albums on Gigolo, plus releases on Killekill and their own label Snuff Trax, founded in 2010. They have appeared as remixers for artists including Alex Vazquez and BPC's own Dance Disorder. Their trademark crunchy, old-school acid sound leaves a clear impression on their version of "The Kiss" and creates an intense, atmospheric after-party hit. The man with the red mask, Redshape, cuts an altogether more mysterious figure. Redshape's musical affinity with the best of Detroit techno is exhibited on his two superb albums on the Frankfurt label Running Back as well as his numerous tracks on Music Man, Delsin and Styrax Leaves. Yet his identity remained the subject of speculation for a long time. These days we can say with at least some certainty that Redshape is officially known as Sebastian Kramer and resides in Berlin. He sets the playful "Need" original on its way very gradually and carefully before bringing frenzied tribal drums into play and transforming the track into a kind of "evil twin" of the original.
$8.39 UPC: 673790029522 ELECTRONIC
1. A1 Ellen Allien "The Kiss" (Jesse Perez Remix)
2. A2 Ellen Allien "The Kiss" (Snuff Crew Remix)
3. B1 Ellen Allien "Need" (Redshape Remix)
4. B2 Ellen Allien "The Kiss" (Extended Version)
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LOWTEC: Port Carbon 2x10" (MATH 012EP)
BRAiNMATH presents something quite special, a new mini-album by Lowtec. Since his releases for Playhouse in the mid '90s defining micro/minimal house, through to his involvement in the current renaissance of leftfield deep house with his own Workshop label and releases on Boddika's NonPlus label, Lowtec (aka Jens Kuhn) is a true innovator who has unquestionably elevated house music throughout his 17-year career.
$14.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Carbon Copy
B2. Drone One
C3. Silver
D4. Joni
D5. Oni Nake
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ARGY: Vagabundos 2013 Sampler Part 1 12" (CADENZA 011SAEP)
Vagabundos, the DJ, club, and event collective from Luciano's Cadenza stable, returns for what promises to be a huge year, and kick-starting it all is this double mix album from two of the Vagabundos DJs: Andrea Oliva and Argy. These two 12" vinyl samplers include full length mixes of six of the tracks featured on the upcoming compilation. Argy's selection includes the awesome Robert Hood remix of Boys Noize, and two late 1990s house cuts from Harmony Funk and YMC, long since out-of-print.
$8.39 UPC: 827170491762 ELECTRONIC
A1. Boys Noize - Trooper (Robert Hood Remix)
B1. Harmony Funk - Happy Feelings
B2. YMC - Man in the Green Shirt
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OLIVA, ANDREA: Vagabundos 2013 Sampler Part 2 12" (CADENZA 011SBEP)
This is the second volume of the Vagabundos 2013 Sampler from two of the Vagabundos DJs: Andrea Oliva and Argy. These two 12" vinyl samplers include full-length mixes of six of the tracks featured on the upcoming compilation. The second disc includes the Andrea Oliva remix of Luciano's "Rise of Angel" (first time here on vinyl) plus the DC10 anthem "The Night Train," remixed by Julian Perez, and a bit of classic Todd Terry, under his House Of Gypsies guise.
$8.39 UPC: 827170491861 ELECTRONIC
A1. Luciano - Rise of Angel (Andrea Oliva Remix)
B1. Kadoc - The Night Train (Julian Perez Remix)
B2. House Of Gypsies - Ways of My Life
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UNKNOWN: In the Spirit 12" (CEDI 004EP)
C-Edits: a limited series of vinyl-only, DJ-friendly versions of songs from the past and present. Straight out of a debut on Wolf + Lamb covering "Fade to Grey," C-Edits is back with the fourth in the series. From slo-house to breaks and disco, this is another great addition to the catalog.
$9.79 UPC: 827170492561 ELECTRONIC
A1. In the Spirit
B1. Keep On Movin'
B2. I Want You
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MOIRE PATTERNS: The Roots Anthems Sampler Pack 12" (CLAAP 011EP)
Moire Patterns presents his debut sampler pack of his upcoming album titled The Roots Anthems. Includes a remix from Santonio Echols. Moire Patterns effortlessly combines disco, house and techno elements with a punk production attitude. Powerful, dancefloor-focused and yet airy and deep, the record showcases Moire Patterns' different moods and directions. The remix on the same side comes from Detroit's own Santonio Echols who notches up the mood of the original for a classy, techy mix keeping the energy high all around.
$8.39 UPC: 827170492462 ELECTRONIC
A1. Deep Down
B1. Music 89 (Santonio Echols Remix)
B2. It Could Only Happen with You
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MINILOGUE: Blomma 2CD (COR 033CD)
Since their foundation in the year 1997, Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue emerged to one of the most respected and hard to pigeonhole electronic music acts world-wide. House, techno, ambient, trance, and lately jazz, are equal parts in their creations. The most effective proof for their musical universalism was marked in 2008 with the release of their debut album Animals (COR 016CD/LP) on Cocoon. Since then, a string of EPs on labels like Mule, Wagon Repair, Traum Schallplatten, and their own imprint Minilogue continued their story in sound in which everything is made out of the present moment. Also the jazz-infused album Bring Out the Imps that they recorded under the alias IMPS with two jazz musicians and a heartfelt collaboration album with the Japanese producer Kuniyuki entered their discography. And between all their work they constantly performed their intense improvised live shows all around the globe. Privately they formed themselves a life far beyond the big city lights, out in the Swedish woods in the north of Malmö. In the past five years they meet every now and then when they felt like hooking up in the studio, jamming on their equipment without a clear goal in mind and recording each unique moment that was guided by the experience of the single day of life that marked their souls when they came together. They went through the archives from these sessions and their second album Blomma emerged. The Swedish word "blomma" represents two meanings in one: to bloom and the flower -- this heterogeneous album does not work like a regularly formatted club music album. It comes in two parts that both have two faces that are constantly shifting: dance-oriented rhythm parts and airy, layered ambient atmospheres -- always intensely tuneful, musical, and shapely. No ego can be heard and all grooves, melodies, field-recordings, samples, and chords work like a single color of a musical painting that is full of versatile electric elements and unnatural sounds. Nothing you hear on the album is edited or post produced -- it all sounds exactly like it was when the atoms of these two individuals danced together. The result is a record with no real beginning or end.
$14.39 UPC: 827170129320 ELECTRONIC
CD1:
01. Everything Is All You've Got
02. Atoms with Curiosity That Looks at Itself and Wonder Why It Wonders
03. Forgotten Memories
04. Existensberättigande
05. Nor Coming Nor Going
CD2:
01. E de nån hemma?
02. Mellan Landet
03. Evaporerar ut från sitt gömställe
LP (LP includes CD2):
A1. Everything Is All You've Got
B1. Atoms with Curiosity That Looks at Itself and Wonder Why It Wonders
C1. Existensberättigande
D1. Forgotten Memories
D2. Nor Coming Nor Going
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MINILOGUE: Blomma 2LP+CD (COR 033LP)
Double LP version. Includes a copy of CD2 from the CD version of the album.
$15.79 UPC: 827170485761 ELECTRONIC
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PAGANINI, SAM: Body to Body 12" (COR 102EP)
Sam Paganini reaches a new height with his Cocoon Recordings debut. Compared to other releases, Paganini's Body to Body EP draws quite an exceptional line. The title-track downright breathes the late air of electronic body music and lives on elements which would have also fit into "The House of God" by DHS or into some of the more minimal works of Front 242. "Fire in My Arms" is more loop-based, but still a little gloomy "Polyester" features old-school snare rolls and a kicking acid feeling.
$8.99 UPC: 827170488267 ELECTRONIC
A1. Body to Body
A2. Fire in My Arms
B1. Polyester
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PROSTITUTES: Crushed Interior LP (DIGI 052LP)
Jim Donadio's debut Psychedelic Black album as Prostitutes came out in 2012 and ended up on many year-end lists, fitting in somewhere between the post-noise abrasive techno of Pete Swanson, Container, Nate Young, etc., the roughened post-punk hues of Powell and the more precision-built constructions of the Raster-Noton label. Donadio's follow-up, Crushed Interior, arrives via Digitalis and picks up where he last left us, taking us through to the next, blackened layer of re-formulated techno templates. Opener "Coming Down Here with Human Needs" lifts slowly but eventually gets sucked down a filtered rabbit-hole before crashing out the other side on top of minimal, crushing rhythms, while "Dial Tone Degradation" pummels you into submission with a no-holds-barred assembly of industrial machinery pounding out massive rhythms that build in intensity until there's no room for the growling bass lines to maneuver. Where Prostitutes really excels, though, is in Donadio's ability to know when to pull it back and let the listener breathe for a minute. The middle duo of "Through Their Hungry Lips" and "Spiders in My Eyelids" sound like the leftovers of a strip-mining operation. The former bounces cryptically with only the vaguest hint of a beat while the latter would be meditative if it wasn't so dense, that sense of unease permeating through to the end of this excellent album.
$14.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Coming Down Here with Human Needs
A2. A Pack of Dogs
A3. Dial Tone Degradation
A4. Through Their Hungry Lips
B1. Spiders in My Eyelids
B2. Lots of Scars
B3. Make a Hole, Look Out
B4. Jungle Wine
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JUNKO AND KYLIE MINOISE: Nature CD (DPROM 102CD)
Recorded live in a studio in Glasgow, Scotland with no overdubs, Nature sees legendary Hijokaidan high priestess of transcendental shriek Junko go head-to-head with UK harsh noise and feedback mangler Kylie Minoise. Nature throws out wave after wave of gigantic, blistering sonic fractal obliteration with unrelentingly joyous convulsions of searing euphoria. The sound of reality repeatedly collapsing in on itself and then exploding outwards, shattering into white hot shards of screaming bliss. Higher consciousness through exquisite frequency overload. The CD is packaged in a beautiful six panel fold-out cockpack and finished in a non-scratch laminate coating. Limited to 500 copies.
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01. Nature
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DEEPCHORD: "10/11/12" [REMASTERED] 3x12" (ARC 002LP)
Echospace is pleased to introduce the second edition of Echospace [Detroit] archival editions, a special edition series focused on the rare, historical works of Deepchord. The long out-of-print Deepchord catalog has since been remastered and will finally be available again on this gorgeous triple LP set. The release includes photography by Rod Modell and a 12"x12" (frame-able) photograph emphasizing the creative eye and instincts of the artist. It's been a lengthy and timely process restoring old analog tape, DAT and cassette recordings (some dating back to 1994) all of which have been carefully resurrected from the vault of Detroit's revered NSC Studio. The long out-of-print catalog has been remastered, mixed, and once again bounced down to tape to ensure the best possible listening experience. Great measures, focus and time were spent to preserve the analog warmth and sonic integrity of the original masters. For those who don't know, these releases are considered by many to be some of the most inspired and influential sounds to emerge from Detroit well over 10 years ago -- a blue-print was set here for many artists to come, a step in the evolution. Expect gorgeous plumes of sound deeper than the ocean floor, a rich analog tapestry made in the heart of Detroit, techno city.
$41.00 UPC: 711623406819 ELECTRONIC
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MENCHE, DANIEL: Marriage of Metals LP (EMEGO 174LP)
In its history throughout millennia it is fair to say the Gamelan has never had an encounter quite like this. Marriage of Metals is a devastating extension of the harmonic properties found in the instruments of Indonesia. Daniel Menche was granted access to a remarkable Gamelan studio where he was given full privilege to record any and all of these rare and ancient gongs -- most notably, the gigantic "Gong Ageng," that contains the deepest of deep acoustic bass. Menche took the raw source material from this Gamelan gong session and launched into a heavily-processed yet surprisingly sympathetic 21st century take on this unique instrument. Marriage of Metals comprises two side-long works where the purity of the sound source exists amongst the entire din. Metallic rhythms bounce alongside synthetic pops swaying from reality to fantasy, from pure acoustic tonality to fuzzed-out distorted clatter. A distant feedback squall is teased amongst the foreground, creating a clamorous din. Equal parts curious, engaging, and groundbreaking. Menche, like Philip Corner before him, extends the language of the Gamelan into brave new worlds. Out of the extensive discography of Daniel Menche, Marriage of Metals stands out as his most elegant and graceful recording, yet still staying within the grit and grime of his sonic garden. This recording would not exist without the generosity of The Venerable Showers Of Beauty Gamelan ensemble, located at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.
$14.39 EAN: 9120020389655 ELECTRONIC
A1. Marriage of Metals 1 (17:13)
B1. Marriage of Metals 1 (18:49)
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FINIS AFRICAE: A Last Discovery: The Essential Collection, 1984-2001 CD (EM 1113CD)
Finis Africæ (or Finis Africae): words redolent of mystery and myth, of Europe looking out to new lands, new worlds, new times. And so it is with A Last Discovery, the work of Spaniard Juan Alberto Arteche Guel, and his musical co-adventurers, recorded between 1984 and 2001. After 15 years of musical success in Spain with his band Nuestro Pequeño Mundo, Arteche was ready to experiment with new ideas, and with the purchase of a four-track reel-to-reel recorder he did so, exploring imaginary global music-worlds with a core of like-minded explorers. The group, dubbed Finis Africæ by JAA after reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where the term refers to forbidden books and hidden knowledge, released seven recordings over an 18-year period, the best of which are compiled here. Finis Africæ was part of the "new wave" of Spanish music which gradually emerged after the end of the Francoist regime. Using modern electric instruments and traditional acoustic instruments from many cultures blended together via studio alchemy, a magic which grew even stronger with the acquisition of a 16-track recorder after their second release, Finis Africæ created an outward-looking musical multiverse, an unclassifiable amalgam encompassing elements of folk traditions from all over the world, skillfully and lovingly shaped into an inclusive pan-global whole. Deeply influenced by African music, the group's reverberant, organic minimal funk will appeal to DJs as well as all who yearn for the loving warmth that comes with the embrace of global possibilities. With liner notes in Spanish, English and Japanese by JAA, A Last Discovery, is the first release by Finis Africae outside of their native Spain. Come take a retrospective journey of discovery where new worlds await.
$14.39 EAN: 4560283211136 WORLD
A1. Radio Tarifa (Tarifa Radio)
A2. Zoo Zulu (Zulu Zoo)
A3. Triciclos en La Chopera (La Chopera Tricycles)
A4. Pirulo, cambia cromos (Pirulo Exchange Trading Cards)
A5. Segundos, segundos, segundos (Seconds Seconds Seconds)
A6. Luna (Moon)
B1. Los pobres del mundo tocan el bombo (Poor People of the World Play the Bass Drum)
B2. El abrazo de la selva (The Jungle Hug)
B3. Los colores de mis botas (The Colors of My Boots)
B4. Juana y Rosalía (Juana and Rosalia) (LP-only)
B5. Hybla (Hybla)
C1. Suite Amazónica (Amazonian Suite)
C2. Dança do corpo (Dance of Body)
C3. Remontando El Purus (Going Up the Purus River) (LP-only)
C4. Hassell, el oso hormiguero (Hassell the Anteater)
D1. El baile de Sara (Sara's Dance)
D2. Masai Mara (Mara Masai)
D3. Bahía de los Genoveses (The Bay of Genoa)
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FINIS AFRICAE: A Last Discovery: The Essential Collection, 1984-2001 2LP (EM 1113LP)
Double LP version. Contains two bonus tracks not found on the CD version.
$19.79 EAN: 4560283217138 WORLD
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INFRA: Inside the Cold Mountain 12" (F4TV 004EP)
Known for his leading role in the German dubstep scene and his deep, powerful music, Berlin-based producer Infra delivers the Inside the Cold Mountain EP on F4TMusic. Combining artefacts from long-lost technologies, with a sonic mastery to produce amazing pieces of electronic music, the EP is a culmination of seven years of relentless musical exploration and refinement. Already garnering support from the likes of Von D, Phaeleh, DFRNT, Crises, and Bunzer0, as well as plays on Rinse FM, this is not one to be missed.
$7.79 EAN: 4025858066264 ELECTRONIC
A1. Inside the Cold Mountain
B1. Propulsion
B2. Rogue
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PATCHWORKS: The Collected Sounds of Patchworks Vol. 1 12" (FVR 079EP)
This collection focuses on Bruno "Patchworks" Hovart's best hard-to-find productions and collabs. This first volume includes: nu-jazz classic anthem, "Yunowhatthislifeez (2003 Motorcity Mix)" by Metropolitan Jazz Affair (unreleased on vinyl), an exclusive extended version of "The Best Is Yet to Come" by Mr. President, a rare remix of the deep and soulful "Sugar" song by Detroit funkster Amp Fiddler (Stillmusic, 2004), and the brilliant timeless Brazilian-electro hit, "Summertime" (Q-Tape, 2003).
$8.99 EAN: 3760179352108 ELECTRONIC
A1. Metropolitan Jazz Affair - Yunowhatthislifeez (2003 Motorcity Mix) (4:44)
A2. Mr. President - The Best Is Yet to Come (Exclusive Extended Mix) (6:40)
B1. Patchworks - Sugar (Amp Fiddler Remix) (6:02)
B2. Patchworks - Summertime (4:50)
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ARRUDA, LUCAS: Sambadi CD (FVR 080CD)
Lucas Arruda was born in 1983 in a Brazilian state called Espírito Santo, near Rio de Janeiro. Coming from a musical family he started playing and listening to music at a very young age. At the age of 13, he was also already playing professionally. After studying electric guitar and playing in various bands, Lucas' passion quickly turned to Rhodes and keyboards, expanding his musical range of skills. At the same time he started a project called Du Black with his older brother Thiago, quickly receiving various local support from people such as Ed Motta, William Magalhães (Banda Black Rio), Robert Lamm (Chicago), and Brazilian soul legend Hyldon. From their growing notoriety, the band began to work with various other artists and singers such as Tamy Macedo and boss nova legend, Leila Pinheiro, leading Lucas to build a recording studio with Thiago in 2011. Now two years later, here comes Sambadi, the first solo album by Lucas Arruda. On this recording he also teamed up with Fabricio di Monaco (Modo Solar), who clearly became a fundamental member. Sambadi is highly-inspired by Rio de Janeiro. As for the musical side, the album almost sounds like a tribute to long-time heroes like Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Marcos Valle, Azymuth, or Robson Jorge and Lincoln Olivetti. Comes as a deluxe 180 gram vinyl LP housed in an old-school tip-on jacket and as a digipack limited CD edition.
$10.99 EAN: 3760179352269 ROCK
A1. Physis
A2. Tamba Part 1
A3. Batuque
A4. Who's That Lady
A5. Rio Afternoon
B1. Na Feira
B2. Sambadi
B3. Carnival
B4. Alma Nova
B5. Tamba Part 2
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ARRUDA, LUCAS: Sambadi LP (FVR 080LP)
LP version. Comes on 180 gram vinyl in an old-school tip-on jacket.
$16.99 EAN: 3760179352009 ROCK
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FACTORY FLOOR: Untitled 10"/DVD (FFR 001EP)
2013 RSD release. Limited repress on green vinyl on Factory Floors own imprint FFR recordings especially for record store day. "More in tune with industrial funkateers such as 23 Skidoo, the electro drive of Giorgio Moroder or the creeping unrest of NY madmen Liars. 'Solid Sound' actually sounds quite like Plastikman, Richie Hawtin's best known minimal electronic nom-de-plume and pounds metronomically for 12 blissful minutes. More bubbling technoid shenanigans open side two of this enigmatic slab of clear wax - 'Lyin' features stunning live percussive elements and some seriously beastly noises, the occasional downbeat, muffled vocals are intoned in pace with the relatively frantic rhythm, the whole song climaxing in a burst of industrial noise." -- Norman Records. NME - Live Section - 6th Feb 2010: "An ancient arpeggiator blasts out a two note refrain... colossal bursts of guitar noise teased out by (a) violin bow means it already sounds like Giorgio Moroder having a massive coronary by the time the the metronomic drum tattoo starts. And then it becomes really intense. Their absence of compromise and a sound so brutally propulsive it would deny any attempts at dilution, recontextualisation or polish." NME - What's On The NME Stereo - Lyin' - 16th Jan 2010: "Never before has disco sounded so beautifully cruel." Artrocker - Live Section - Nov 2009: "People have born witness to something unconventional indeed: a set where voilin bows violently attack guitar strings. Where tribal rythmns ride along a storm of chanted vocals and drones, all processed through effects that make them sound drark and unearthly."
$10.39 UPC: 823566500926 ELECTRONIC
A1. A Wooden Box (8.22)
A2. Solid Sound (12: 33)
B1. Lyin' (4:57)
B2. 16-16-9-20-1-1-14-9-7 (17:49)
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Solid Sound (a short experimental film by Factory Floor, 9/2009)
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ULTRADEMON: Seapunk CD (FFE 002CD)
Formed the band Josephine Collective at 16. Signed to Warner Bros. Records at 17 and left to take off on his own at 18. That's the banging credit openings of music producer and DJ, formerly known as Fire For Effect, now Ultrademon; real name Albert Redwine. Now working at The Center for the Advancement of Transmodern Awareness and studying at Vocaloid School prior to that, Redwine is musically trained in piano and the Kansas-born and now Chicago-based Ultrademon is leading the current and controversial "Seapunk" movement, which emerged from a dream his friend once had. There's no concrete evidence of piracy but pop culture has indeed seen recent splashes of aquamarine: Nicki Minaj painted her skin blue for a Vogue shoot; Katy Perry wore a turquoise bob, Rihanna adopted the design aesthetic and a Google Image search of "seapunk" pulls up a photo of Lady Gaga with a neon blue wig. Seapunk is a mostly internet-based phenomenon, featuring a sort of cyber-punk meets futuristic Mad-Max-on-water attitude meant for those who can surf the gnarliest swells of the world wide wave. Music-wise, Seapunk is a style of electronic music that incorporates bits of '90s house and techno, the past 15 years or so of pop and R&B, and the latest in southern trap rap -- all overlaid with a twinkly, narcotic energy that recalls new-age music, 16-bit-era video games and chopped-and-screwed hip-hop mix tapes in roughly equal measure. Over the years and in rapid fashion, the front man's positive vision of trans-humanism and heightening awareness through music via seapunk has amassed a loyal and cult legion of followers both online and in real life. As a producer, Ultrademon excels in liquid house, techno and bass music drenched in a myriad sea of textures, with liberal drops of acid, anime, 8-bit, conscious referential samples and an unmistakable, individualistic positivity.
$10.99 UPC: 666908022126 ELECTRONIC
01. Chatroom with Enya
02. Rare
03. Dreamo
04. Dolphin
05. From Birth
06. The Bayou
07. Post Solstice
08. Yr Own Personal Demon
09. Shoved
10. Bahrain
11. Spun
12. Beached Marauder
13. 1996
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WILLIAMS/BABY JANE & THE ROCKABYES, ANNIE: I Got a Man/My Boy John 7" (FRY 019EP)
Annie Williams, practically unknown apart from within the deep soul record collector circuit, presents "I Got a Man," a play on the Ray Charles original "I Got a Woman." With a rawkus R'n'B-style vocal, it smashes any dancefloor. On the flip we have Bronx-born girl group Baby Jane & The Rockabyes (Madelyn "Baby Jane" Moore, Yolanda Robinson, Yvonne DeMunn, Estelle McEwan) doing their girl-pop interpretation of another classic from Ray.
$5.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Annie Williams - I Got a Man
B1. Baby Jane & The Rockabyes - My Boy John
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WADSWORTH, KRIS: Death 12" (GPM 216EP)
Kris Wadsworth released his debut album Life & Death on Get Physical Music in 2012 to much acclaim. The release marked a milestone in the artist's career, pushing him under the spotlight and into the welcoming arms of new fans. Now Get Physical proudly presents Death, the second vinyl-only release from the album, completing the package. As you should know, this limited pressing carries Kris' signature analog sound and his unique approach to music in general; favoring originality over conformation, warm dirt over superficial plastic shine.
$8.39 UPC: 844216021608 ELECTRONIC
A1. Ivory 313 (with Jimmy Edgar)
A2. Showtime
B1. The Boring People
B2. Life & Death
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MAYER, MICHAEL: Mantasy Remixe 2 12" (KOM 272EP)
After releasing his highly-praised sophomore full-length Mantasy (KOMP 100CD/KOM 250LP) last year, Kompakt honcho Michael Mayer signed on some of his favorite artists to rework the album material to their liking. The second entry in a series of three, Mantasy Remixe 2 features grandiose remixes from accomplished producers Agoria, Robag Wruhme, and Will Saul & October markedly picking up on the originals' thirst for adventure.
$8.39 UPC: 880319075315 ELECTRONIC
A1. Good Times (Agoria Sunlune Mix)
B1. Baumhaus (Robag's Paavo And Veita Rehand)
B2. Mantasy (Will Saul & October Mix)
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PAAPE, JURGEN: Triumph 12" (KOMRSD 001EP)
RSD 2013 release. A label-defining masterpiece sold out for the longest time, Jürgen Paape's aptly-titled Triumph is not only one of the best records ever put out by Kompakt, but also the first one. Exclusively for Record Store Day 2013, Kompakt decided to polish up the old original DAT tapes and re-release this indispensable classic to fresh ears, while also throwing in a surprise remix by Mike Ink. An early highlight of a scene that went on to spawn a new breed of electronics.
$8.39 UPC: 880319076510 ELECTRONIC
A1. Triumph 1
A2. Triumph 2
B1. Triumph (The Best of Mike Ink Is Dead Mix)
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CLOCKWORK: B.O.A.T.S. (Based on a True Story) CD (LAD 009CD)
Italian duo Clockwork release their first full-length album on the highly-acclaimed label, Life And Death. B.O.A.T.S. (Based on a True Story) is an album that surpasses their already quality releases while accomplishing the rare task of actually telling a story as you ride through it from beginning to end. With a maturing production style and an ever-eclectic taste, Clockwork have done some serious work and made a techno album with both a modern sound and an old soul. Featuring some guest appearances by friends and label-mates Chasing Kurt, Avatism, Clarian North and Tale Of Us, as well as a some top quality mixing work by Francis Harris and beautiful album artwork by artist David Terranova, this album is an impressive debut that certainly lives up to the high standards Life And Death has set for itself from its very beginnings. Tracks such as "Places" are filled with shuffled breakbeats and emotional synths, others are more textured soundscapes energized by drums. There are tracks that set the urban jungle is its landscape where the dancefloor dominates. Other tracks such as "False Matters" launch us even higher into the techno stratosphere, with nods to Detroit and Underground Resistance, but never losing the unique sonic footprint that Clockwork have created throughout the voyage. This is a varied and unique record, filled with solid grooves and raw energy that strikes a deep emotional chord.
$11.99 UPC: 880319617829 ELECTRONIC
01. First Floor
02. Places
03. Running Searching (feat. Chasing Kurt)
04. Subterfuge
05. The Quiet Hour (feat. Avatism)
06. Prisms
07. Second Floor
08. This World Is Not Designed for Us (feat. Clarian)
09. Oblique
10. Hidden Spectator
11. False Matters
12. Lost Keys (feat. Tale Of Us)
13. One Way Ticket
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DENSELAND: Like Likes Like CD (MINIMAL 021CD)
There is a certain type of music that echoes the feeling of a dark promise. It triggers anxiety, and it is precisely this effect that makes it appealing and as fascinating as a Cronenberg film. Denseland's music oscillates precisely within this suspense. Hanno Leichtmann, Hannes Strobl, and David Moss have already released an album titled Chunk (2010). Now they bring us Like Likes Like with the Berlin label M=minimal and seek to combine everything that belongs together. Rhythmic textures, rudimentary melodies and a clear renunciation of harmonies develop into a lesson on the subject of minimalism. The songs produce a deep and chilly effect, and beyond the rhythmic structures appears David Moss' magical "sprechgesang" (a vocal technique somewhere between speaking and singing). His voice seems to whisper directly in one's ear. It creaks, it grumbles. It then expands and shapes into a sort of singing as ghostly voices breathe in the air. It is precisely this vocal that widely contributes to a feeling of discomfort on Like Likes Like. Almost all repetitive music operates on the principle of hypnosis through repetition. Sometimes a song needs a few minutes to unfold its hypnotic effect; on the contrary, Denseland needs only a few seconds. The centrifugal force in its downbeat repetitions becomes practically unavoidable. Denseland's members depict mastery in opening new frontiers, employing minimal resources with maximum efficiency. Descriptors such as "slow-motion funk" or "minimal spoken-word noise techno" do not live up to the trio's dark and energetic tracks.
$13.79 EAN: 4260065629776 ELECTRONIC
01. Transfer Desk
02. Big White Circle
03. Connected
04. Glass Jar
05. More They Say
06. Hum of Sonic
07. Membrane
08. Horse of Your Dreams
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DENSELAND: Like Likes Like LP (MINIMAL 021LP)
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$15.79 UPC: TBA ELECTRONIC
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GOLDMANN, STEFAN: Ghost Hemiola 2x12" (MACROM 022R-EP)
Ghost Hemiola is a double vinyl set of empty locked grooves that contains nothing but its very own surface noise -- and physical structure. It is a sculptural revision of Stefan Goldmann's earlier locked groove-based double vinyl The Grand Hemiola, but it also serves as a genuine hauntological vinyl surface noise tool-kit. Pulling a knife or other tool to its grooves allows for cutting your literally uniquely own beats directly into the record. A total of 132 empty grooves allows for as many individual patterns to be created.
$10.99 UPC: 827170481565 ELECTRONIC
Record 1 (single sided): 66 empty locked grooves
Record 2 (single sided): 66 empty locked grooves
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SIBA: Avante CD (MAIS 009CD)
Mixing northeastern Brazilian rhythms, rock 'n' roll, and romantic Brazilian "brega" music with African influences such as '70s Senegalese guitar music and Congotronics, Siba is a man who joins the dots between his life, his culture and the rest of the world. Marrying his well-crafted and hard-earned lyricality with both new and old influences, Avante sees Siba's languorous vocal and sinuous guitar playing intertwine beautifully with tuba, vibraphone, and drums to create a dynamic album of experimental "alt-tropical" folk-rock. He was a pioneer in the mangue-beat revolution of the late '90s that took Chico Science and Siba's own band, Mestre Ambrosio -- previously signed to Sony Music Brazil -- across the globe; he's lived the life of a struggling Maracatu poet singing improvised verses long into the night in the harsh Brazilian interior of Zona da mata and redefined contemporary Brazilian roots music with his folk orchestra Siba e a Fuloresta, and now, turns a new page as a tropical rocker with a collection of songs hailed by Brazilian critics as one of the Brazilian albums of 2012. Avante documents a very personal journey -- "In Nazare da Mata I began to feel the need to connect other stuff that was in my mind. I could not see myself as only a poet there and I had to deal with other things happening in my life" -- so he left the interior to travel to the megalopolis of São Paulo and begin work on what would become Avante.
$10.99 EAN: 5060091552753 ROCK
01. Blues Via Satellite
02. Pra parar de vez
03. Desencontro
04. Farewell Love Song
05. Desdenha
06. Desmantelado
07. Inverno
08. Nesse instante só
09. Lindo toque
10. Rua a
11. Canção para um cão qualquer
12. Kg de pão
13. Babulina's
14. O cão e a ciência
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GRAVEOLA: Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador (I Need a Food Processor) CD (MAIS 013CD)
Post-tropical polyphonic populists from Minas Gerais in Brazil, Graveola draw influence from kitsch pop radio and dusty classical vinyl to create a sound they call "carnival-cannibalism." On Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador, Graveola mix the canon of 20th century Brazilian music -- in particular samba, bossa, tropicalia and the folk stylings of Minas Gerais' most famous son Milton Nascimento -- with folk, jazz, funk, Latin, baroque and blues influences to create a joyfully exuberant set which brings to mind the playful psychedelic pop of the legendary Os Mutantes. Graveola combine these influences within arresting arrangements, while swooning harmonies, buzzing melodies and hooks-a-plenty ensure that this is a "pop" album of the quirkiest order. The band emerged from Belo Horizonte University in 2004, originally as a trio mixing classics of Brazilian music with pop songs and, according to founder Luiz Gabriel Lopes, finding inspiration in "lyricism, debauchery and TV jingles." At that time, their lack of instruments and musical training led them to incorporate household goods and toy instruments into their sound, hence their full name Graveola e o Lixo Polifônico ("Graveola and the Polyphonic Garbage.) Around 2005 and 2006, new members joined, their numbers swelled and their sound blossomed, and by 2008 they were ready to record their debut album. Eagerly welcomed by the Brazilian music press, the band performed many shows around Brazil and went to Europe for shows in autumn 2012. Mais Um Gringo, the head of Mais Um Discos, recalls seeing Graveola for the first time in Belo Horizonte in 2010: "Their performance blew me away -- a perfect storm of chaos and groove, with six, seven, maybe eight members on stage performing pop vignettes that morphed into baroque jazz pieces then rock freak-outs -- intoxicating stuff."
$10.99 EAN: 5060091552418 WORLD
01. Blues via satélite
02. Pra parar de vez
03. Desencontro
04. Farewell Love Song
05. Desdenha
06. Desmantelado
07. Inverno
08. Nesse instante só
09. Lindo toque
10. Rua A
11. Canção para um cão qualquer
12. Kg de pão
13. Babulina's Trip
14. O cão e a ciência
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K-X-P: K-X-P II CD (MELO 084CD)
Finland's finest are back with something truly epic. Where K-X-P's 2010 debut was an exercise in Kraut-tronica, K-X-P II finds the band unleashing their inner pop deviance. This is an album full of rock 'n' roll shamanism, glam-punk madness, grinding dance music, electronic Motörhead techno -- and a bit of Krautrock, too. K-X-P comprises frontman Timo Kaukolampi (electronics, vocals and the "K" in the band's name) plus Tuomo Puranen (bass, keyboards and the "P" in the band's name) and drummers Tomi Leppänen and Anssi Nykänen (the "X" -- for the mystery). While Tomi is a permanent feature of the band and the two drummer line-up is a studio-only affair -- it has been known to happen live on rare occasions. Born from the ashes of seminal Finnish groups Op:l Bastards and And The Lefthanded. This record was written in Berlin and completed in Helsinki. Timo travelled to the German capital in search of solitude. "In Berlin I was totally alone, a nobody in the shadows of this city. It offered new challenges for me to break through; a jungle of concrete and, the antithesis of myself: absolute hedonism," he says. The band recorded in converted cinemas and traditional studios, surrounding themselves with vintage equipment, analog electronics and -- for the first time -- analog step sequencers. Before K-X-P, Timo worked in the Xenomania pop factory, where he composed for -- among others -- Annie, who appears as a guest vocalist on K-X-P II. While The Misfits' early recordings, devotional chants, PiL and Bad Brains have been added to the band's list of musical influences, lyrical influence still comes from a dreaming place. Housed in a digipak.
$10.99 EAN: 5060168040565 ROCK
01. Ydolem
02. Melody
03. Staring At the Moon
04. RBJTEV
05. Magnetic North
06. EKMVIV
07. In the Valley
08. Tears (Extended Interlude)
09. Flags & Crosses
10. Reel Ghosts
11. Easy (Infinity Waits)
12. Dark Satellite
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K-X-P: K-X-P II LP (MELO 084LP)
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ADSUM: Efemore EP 12" (MINI 029EP)
Heavily influenced by the early works of Zoltar, Adsum got into electronic music at an early age. Then some years ago, when he had to move to earth, things got more serious. Spending his time between loops he learned their language, being able to blend in like one of them. So here we go.
$8.99 UPC: 827170464964 ELECTRONIC
A1. Miradores
B1. Efemore
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BUILDING, THE: Reginac 12" (MIR 002EP)
Limited edition with Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt's remix. Slow-rave, trance-pop, and wave -- with their second release, RSS Disco's label Mireia introduces you to the mysterious band The Building. While their original songs "Reginac" and "Youth" explore the dark side of pop, Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt's remix forces your hands up in the air. Building up slowly but irresistibly, you will find yourself on a sweaty '80s dancefloor. The vinyl comes in a beautiful screen-printed special edition sleeve.
$9.79 UPC: 827170493667 ELECTRONIC
A1. Reginac (Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt's Trancepop Mix)
B1. Reginac
B2. Youth
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RODRIGUEZ JR.: Hartwood 12" (MOBILEE 109EP)
Mobilee presents this double-track treat from Rodriguez. "Hartwood" is Rodriguez Jr.'s biggest hit to date. With a series of alternating and repetitive keyboard strokes and soulful lyrics bouncing on a thick velvet cushion of rich background base, this number is guaranteed to appeal to the industry's most respected players. Already landing on the hard drives of Pete Tong, Laurent Garnier, and Simian Mobile Disco. The B-side features Anja Schneider with a full-on female power vocal number ironically titled "Henry & Lars."
$9.79 UPC: 827170473263 ELECTRONIC
A1. Rodriguez Jr. - Hartwood
B1. Rodriguez Jr. & Anja Schneider - Henry & Lars
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MILES: Faint Hearted 2LP (LOVE 081LP)
Miles has been releasing material on Modern Love for a decade, first as one-half of Pendle Coven, then on his own as MLZ, and eventually pairing up with Sean Canty to record as Demdike Stare. In between he's also pursued more experimental terrain under the Suum Cuique moniker, produced jungle for the HATE project and (together with Andy Stott) taken on the occasional release as Millie & Andrea for Modern Love sub-label Daphne. He is also an admired, exhilarating DJ, and his sets have been known to span a broad spectrum of electronic music, from the obscure UK techno of labels like Radioactive Lamb and Irdial, to classic Chicago house, Detroit techno and -- most importantly -- early '90s jungle and breakbeat, feeding into his love of the most uncompromising end of the Italian experimental movement, musique concrète, synthwave, and contemporary noise. After more than 10 years of producing, Faint Hearted is his debut solo album -- an exposition of Miles' love of electronic music in all its shapes, harnessing his fidgety production style into one expansive, restless set of tracks. The album opens with the filtered and looped jungle mutation of "Lebensform," through to the minimal, barely-noticeable bass-shifts of "Irreligious," the classic Plastikman-infused looped ruffage of "Status Narcissism" and the padded bliss of "Sense Data," coming across like a lost Move D production from the classic Studio Pankow era. The second half opens with "Rejoice," a slowly-unfurling 4/4 variant that sounds like a more technofied and electric take on his work with Demdike Stare, while "Archaic Thought Pattern 1" invades a sequence of strings and bass notes with blasts of white noise, sounding like something off Aphex Twin's Donkey Rhubarb EP rebuilt by Mika Vainio. The set ends with the evocative field-recorded sequence "Queuing" and the ambient futurism of "Loran Dreams," in some respects the straightest, most affecting nine-minute stretch yet from a producer who is seemingly unable to settle or stand still. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton, pressed at Pallas.
$18.39 EAN: 5060165480371 ELECTRONIC
A1. Lebensform
A2. Irreligious
B1. Status Narcissism
B2. Sense Data
C1. Rejoice
C2. Archaic Thought Pattern 1
D1. Queuing
D2. Loran Dreams
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RIP + ESKORBUTO: Zona Especial Norte LP+MAG (MR 288LP)
Zona Especial Norte (this was the code denomination that Spanish Guardia Civil and police gave the conflictive Basque region back in the 1980s) was a split album shared by RIP and Eskorbuto, two of the wildest and more radical punk bands from the Basque Country. The original record, released in 1983, was out-of-print for two decades and is one of the most sought-after LPs of the era. Munster Record's 2008 reissue quickly sold out, and now 30 years after its original release, the label (together with Spansuls/Lollipop, owner of the masters and rights) brings back in print this influential record -- a true sonic reflection of those difficult, tense, crude and rough years. This special reissue consists of a colored vinyl 12" accompanied by a 20-page fanzine full of pictures (many unseen), with fantastic liner notes by Roberto Moso, singer of Zarama, written in Spanish and English.
$15.79 EAN: 8435008828813 ROCK
A1. Eskorbuto - Ratas de Bizkaia
A2. Eskorbuto - Dios, Patria y Rey
A3. Eskorbuto - A la Mierda el Pais Vasco
A4. Eskorbuto - Soldados
B1. RIP - Kaos
B2. RIP - Brigada Militar
B3. RIP - No Hay Futuro
B4. RIP - Antimilitar
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NILMMNS, CARLOS: Cupid and Psyche EP 12" (ORN 025EP)
Atmospheric and raw analog cuts between classical composition and old school deep house.
$9.79 UPC: 827170492769 ELECTRONIC
A1. Voyager (2:12)
A2. Bumpin' (3:02)
A3. The Longer We Wait (feat. Sandra Boumezer) (6:32)
A4. Love Triumphant (3:47)
B1. Light and Shadow (feat. Keter Darker) (5:19)
B2. Walking the Spirits (6:12)
B3. Voyager 2 (1:47)
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VIRGINIA: Loch & Hill EP 12" (OSTGUT 065EP)
Virginia releases her first solo 12'' for Ostgut Ton, featuring four tactile, pushing and lovingly-produced tracks, exploring some of the different zones that she explores while DJing. A DJ for many years, with her roots in the Munich scene, Virginia is now a resident at Panorama Bar, and continues to bring her soulful, expressive sound to clubs around the world, often layering live vocals over tracks as she plays. This is upfront music with heart, clarity, and longevity.
$8.99 UPC: 880319609114 ELECTRONIC
A1. Neurosis
A2. Shifter
B1. Loch & Hill
B2. Tangish
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ALVAREZ, ALIX: Elixr EP 12" (OVM 228EP)
Since his remix of Shlomi Aber's "NY Dreamer," which hit the top of the Beatport deep house sales chart, Alix Alvarez has been working on his debut release for Ovum, the Elixr EP. This release shows the diversity of Alix's amazing production skills and the end result is a spectacular four-tracker that effortlessly glides from the deep and warm vibes of "No Loss" to the jittery vocal skills of "Treat Me," via the analog gem "BDRK" and Josh Wink favorite "Champion Sound."
$9.79 UPC: 678414002288 ELECTRONIC
A1. No Loss
A2. BDRK
B1. Champion Sound
B2. Treat Me
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DJ KOZE: La Duquesa 12" (PAMPA 014EP)
"La Duquesa" is the most tender and refined piece on DJ Koze's album Amygdala (PAMPA 007CD/LP). Perfectly casual and euphoric all at the same time, this track is dedicated to the Spanish Duquesa de Alba, who, as holder of 46 titles of nobility, is even more highly decorated than Queen Elizabeth. She is the most pictured woman in Spain and a pop phenomenon. "Burn With Me" is a fucked up, schizophrenic brainfood bouncer with legato bass and hi-hats way out of time.
$8.99 UPC: 827170489462 ELECTRONIC
A1. La Duquesa
B1. Burn with Me
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MOHAMMAD: Som Sakrifis LP (PAN 037LP)
Based in Greece, Mohammad make long-form drone works that explore the lower end of the frequency spectrum while retaining an intense emotional capacity. The results are monumental, slow-moving blocks of sound, both daunting and musical. The sheer weight of these recordings is impressive, the interplay of the musicians and instruments staggering, this end result being an album rich with harmonious abstraction which highlights years of dedication to their unique path. Following on from their previous releases (the highly-regarded Roto Vildblomma CD and the Spiriti 3LP box, both on Antifrost) Som Sakrifis follows the trio through three tracks of deep space experimentation where the acoustic and electronic blend together as a monumental whole. Listening to Som Sakrifis takes the listener on an expansive journey through the netherworld of the low range while retaining distinct traces of musicality. The time and space in these works have a logic more akin to that of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr than any contemporary music references. Monumental monochromatic movement is the order of the day. Sit back, strap in and let these fine explorers take you way out into the nether world. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas.
$18.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Sakrifis (6:50)
A2. Lapli Tero (8:13)
B1. Liberig Min (17:00)
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WANKELMUT & EMMA LOUISE: My Head Is a Jungle - Part 2 12" (POESIE 005EP)
After Poesie Musik brought forth a fantastic joint effort from Australia's Emma Louise and Wankelmut, My Head Is a Jungle - Part 1, here comes two remixes from Gui Boratto. The "Extended Vocal Mix" by Wankelmut himself adds not only length but also the sweet vocal sounds of Emma Louise. This mix adds depth to the original, making the dancefloor even hotter than before. The dub mix deepens the whole track, taking it into underground territory.
$8.39 EAN: 4260129259581 ELECTRONIC
A1. My Head Is a Jungle (Extended Vocal Mix)
B1. My Head Is a Jungle (Gui Boratto Remix)
B2. My Head Is a Jungle (Gui Boratto Dub Mix)
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FYNN MCCOOL: Fynn McCool CD (PT 8007CD)
Named after a mythical Irish warrior, this quartet arose from the ashes of beat band the Shake Spears in 1968. Their sole album showcases their distinctive blend of organ-driven prog, hard rock, and country-rock over 11 tracks. It appeared in July 1970, apparently without their consent, and sank without trace. It has gone on to become a considerable rarity, making this reissue especially welcome.
$11.99 EAN: 4753314800717 ROCK
01. U.S. Thumbstyle
02. Hopeless Prescription
03. Hey Ho
04. Diamond Lil
05. Great Change Coming On
06. The Road to Wisdom
07. The Only Way to Feel Is Free
08. Faith of Clay
09. Coming On Stronger
10. Shattered (Part I)
11. Shattered (Part II)
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AMAZING BLONDEL, THE: And a Few Faces CD (PT 8008CD)
This renowned UK folk band are known for playing a multitude of medieval and Elizabethan instruments, but their rare debut features a more stripped-down sound. Made by the duo of John Gladwin and Terry Wincott shortly after heavy rockers Methuselah disintegrated in 1969, it appeared in the UK only in April 1970, and makes its long-awaited return to CD here, together with background notes.
$11.99 EAN: 4753314800816 ROCK
01. Saxon Lady
02. Bethel Town Mission
03. Season of the Year
04. Canaan
05. Shepherd's Song
06. You Don't Want My Love
07. Love Sonnet
08. Spanish Lace
09. Minstrel's Song
10. Bastard Love
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TELLIER AND CAROLINE POLACHECK, SEBASTIEN: In the Crew of Tea Time 7" (REC 088EP)
RSD 2013 release. "In the Crew of Tea Time" is a duet between Sebastien Tellier and Caroline Polachek (singer of the band Chairlift) singing for the first time together. Air France fell in love with this magical collaboration and featured the video of this song on their website for their Air France Music campaign. Now released for the first time on a 7'' including a dub by Mr. Dan. Make sure to order your copy.
$8.39 EAN: 3516628223273 ELECTRONIC
A1. In the Crew of Tea Time
B1. In the Crew of Tea Time (Mr. Dan's Wunderground Dub)
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KRYSTAL KLEAR: Addiction (feat. Jenna G) 12" (RINSE 022EP)
Dublin-born and Manchester-based Krystal Klear presents his Addiction EP on Rinse. The title-track is a funky slice of modern boogie driven by a fat analog bass line and swirling strings, all capped off with a towering vocal performance from Jenna G. It is joined by an extended instrumental edit that blasts the original into deep space. "No Sweat," meanwhile, is a slinkier and more romantic companion to the bombast of the title-track, with chimes and synthetic strings picking out woozy melodies above a strutting bass line.
$7.79 UPC: 800071002688 ELECTRONIC
A1. Addiction (Full Mix)
A2. Addiction (Radio Edit)
B1. Addiction (Extended Instrumental)
B2. No Sweat
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GOAT: Run to Your Mama Remixes Vol. 1 12" (LAUNCH 055EP)
2013 RSD release. Rocket Records presents volume 1 in two limited edition 12"s containing exclusive remixes of Goat's "Run to Your Mama." Goat's 2012 debut World Music (LAUNCH 048CD/LP) gathered rave reviews across the globe, making it one of the underground albums of the year. "Run to Your Mama" was given to a selection of artists to explore Goat's voodoo grooves. Remixes by Thought Forms, High Wolf, Redg Weeks, Tom Furse, and Teeth Of The Sea. Limited to 2,000 copies on blue vinyl and will not be repressed.
$9.79 EAN: 5055300373014 ELECTRONIC
01. Run to Your Mama (Thought Forms "Mountain Thumbs Mix")
02. Run to Your Mama (High Wolf "Run Duo Mix")
03. Run to Your Mama (Redg Weeks "Re-Work Mix")
04. Run to Your Mama (Tom Furse [The Horrors] "Extrapolation Mix")
05. Run to Your Mama (Teeth Of The Sea "Greatest of All Time Mix")
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GOAT: Run to Your Mama Remixes Vol. 2 12" (LAUNCH 056EP)
2013 RSD release. Rocket Records presents volume 2 in two limited edition 12"s containing exclusive remixes of Goat's "Run to Your Mama." Goat's 2012 debut World Music (LAUNCH 048CD/LP) gathered rave reviews across the globe, making it one of the underground albums of the year. "Run to Your Mama" was given to a selection of artists to explore Goat's voodoo grooves. Remixes by Gnod & Raikes Parade, Cherrystones, Hookworms, and Cage & Aviary. Limited to 2,000 copies on blue vinyl and will not be repressed.
$9.79 EAN: 5055300373021 ELECTRONIC
01. Run to Your Mama (Gnod & Raikes Parade "Mama Sky Mix")
02. Run to Your Mama (Cherrystones "Other Worlds Mix")
03. Run to Your Mama (Hookworms "Radio Tokyo Mix")
04. Run to Your Mama (Cage & Aviary "Swamp Out Mix")
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HVAL, JENNY: Innocence is Kinky CD (RCD 2142CD)
Jenny Hval is known in her native Norway both as a musician (both under her own name, the moniker Rockettothesky, and with the duo Nude On Sand) and as a published novelist and media commentator. Her songs -- featuring frequently explicit language -- explore subjectivity and sensuality and experiment with male perspectives and voices. But don't call her music "confessional," as that implies guilt and sinfulness, and Jenny makes no apology for who she is or what she's thinking. Hval's previous, acclaimed Rune Grammofon album Viscera (RCD 2108CD/RLP 3108LP), recorded with her own free rock trio, overflowed with intimate detail and surrealistic bodily imagery. Innocence Is Kinky -- which also features a string section led by avant-garde composer Ole-Henrik Moe -- was produced in Bristol, England by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, who helped bring out the intimate qualities of her lyrics and sharpened her improvisational tendencies. Like contemporaries such as Julia Holter and Laurel Halo, she's weaving spellbinding new forms of intelligent, experimental pop with injections from mythology, theory, gender politics and improvisation. You can also trace her no-holds-barred streams of consciousness and unorthodox subject matter back to earlier heroes such as Einstürzende Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld (her title puns on their LP Silence Is Sexy), Patti Smith, Michael Gira, Nick Cave and Kate Bush. Writing music, for Jenny, is closely linked to fiction. Her latest book, Inn i ansiktet (trans. "Sings with Her Eyes," 2012), is connected to Innocence Is Kinky through its explorations of subjectivity, and in references to Renée Falconetti, the French actress responsible for one of the most unforgettable cinematic portrayals of persecution and suffering, as the lead in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent movie The Passion of Joan of Arc. Born in 1980, Jenny lived for a while in Australia, but on tracks like "Oslo Oedipus," her hometown becomes the backdrop to Innocence Is Kinky -- a city which, unlike New York or London, has rarely been hymned in song. As she states, "'Oslo Oedipus' is the boarded-up windows after the bomb explosion in July 2011, but it's also the eye that refuses to look back at its own reflection." And that paradoxical "kinky innocence?" "It could be the manifesto of the mass-produced image, and the consumer mainstream industry -- fetishizing and selling every human quality. There's so much mysticism about innocence." Musicians include: Jenny Hval (vocals, guitars, sampling, drum machine, keys, variophon), Håvard Reite Volden (electric and acoustic guitars, drum machine, keys, iPad), Kyrre Geithus Laastad (drums, perc, keys, drum machine), John Parish (guitars, bass, detuned drums, banjo, variophon, keys, trombone), Ole-Henrik Moe (violin, viola, wine glass, saw), Kari Rønnekleiv (violin), and Espen Reinertsen (saxophone).
$11.99 EAN: 7033662021420 ROCK
01. Innocence Is Kinky
02. Mephisto in the Water
03. I Called
04. Oslo Oedipus
05. Renée Falconetti of Orléans
06. Give Me That Sound
07. I Got No Strings
08. Is There Anything On Me That Doesn't Speak?
09. Amphibious
10. Androgynous
11. Death of the Author
12. The Seer
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HVAL, JENNY: Innocence is Kinky LP (RLP 3142LP)
LP version.
$15.79 EAN: 7033660031421 ROCK
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TAZ & AKKA: Synergy EP 12" (RWINA 021EP)
Rwina Records present the Synergy EP, a collaborative release from Taz & Akka. "Illusory" combines a trap-inspired beat with euphoric synths, a flair for hooks and hands-in-the-air escapism. "Mobius" takes its inspiration from video games, grime, cartoons, and hip-hop, throwing everything into a blender and pouring the results all over the dancefloor. "Paul Is Dead" switches up the tempo for a deeper take on the footwork sound, and "Trapped In '82" celebrates the musical excesses of the 1980s. Early support from DJ Shadow, Mary Anne Hobbs, and Starkey.
$7.79 EAN: 5055300369505 ELECTRONIC
A1. Illusory
A2. Mobius
B1. Paul Is Dead
B2. Trapped In '82
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DIXON, TERRENCE: Minimalism Remixes Part 2 12" (SINO 027EP)
Native Detroiter Terrence Dixon's long-time alliance with godfather of techno Juan Atkins has helped forge his own powerful sound in the world of minimal techno. Originally released on Claude Young's Utensil Records in 1995. Both Sino (Hong-Kong) and Thema (New-York) join hands to re-release this classic which many consider as one of the early foundations in the minimal techno movement. Sino presents part 2 featuring two remixes by Ben Klock and one by Edwin Oosterwal (Rejected).
$8.99 UPC: 827170491663 ELECTRONIC
A1. Minimalism (Ben Klock Remix)
B1. Minimalism (Edwin Oosterwal Remix)
B2. Minimalism (Ben Klock's Bonus Dub)
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VA: Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s 2CD (SNDW 046CD)
Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s -- a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP set, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed liner notes, original artwork and photographs. It follows on from Soundway's much-acclaimed African "Special" series that to date has focused on the highlife and Afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria and Ghana. Kenya Special is a collection of 32 recordings (most of which were only ever released on small-run 45rpm 7" singles) that stand out as being different or unique as well as some classic genre standards. From Kikuyu language "liquid soul," Luo benga and Swahili Afrobeat, to genre-bending Congolese and Tanzanian tracks recorded in Nairobi, Kenya Special sees Soundway yet again taking the less-trodden path. Many of the tracks featured here are peppered with innovation and experimentation, highlighting how diverse the music scene in Kenya was at the time. In 1970s Kenya the two threads of rumba and benga loosely dominated the music scene. Benga quickly became Kenya's unique contribution to Afro-pop; spreading like wildfire through the interior countryside with its fast, 4/4 machine-gun beat and intricate electric guitar layers. The Congolese take on Afro-Cuban rumba was introduced by touring bands, many of whom settled in East Africa -- influencing bands from Kenya and Tanzania to come up with their own take on this popular style. Alongside these styles were small ensembles and hotel-sponsored bands, playing a blend of music that often included rock 'n' roll riffs, elements of "Afro" music (influenced by West African musicians like Fela Kuti), and multiple other combinations from South African and Zambian guitar styles to disco, funk and Swahili coastal rhythms like chakacha. Painstakingly compiled, assembled and researched over two years by a team of five people from five countries (Kenya included), Kenya Special is a collection that looks beyond the mainstream and brings new life and recognition to some little-known gems and forgotten classics of Kenya's past.
$13.79 EAN: 5060091552838 WORLD
CD1:
01. The Loi-Toki-Tok - Ware - Wa
02. The Rift Valley Brothers - Mu-Africa
03. Slim Ali & The Famous Hodi Boys - Watoto Nyara
04. The Mombasa Vikings - Mama Matotoya
05. The Lulus Band - Ngwendeire Guita
06. Mbiri Young Stars - Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe
07. Gatanga Boys Band - Wendo Ti Mbia
08. Orchestre Vévé Star - Nitarudia
09. Hafusa Abasi & Slim Ali with The Kikulacho Yahoos Band - Sina Raha
10. DO 7 Band - H.O. Ochiri
11. New Gatanga Sound - Thoni Na Caki
12. The Lulus Band - Naka Part 2
13. Nashil Pichen & The Eagles Lupopo - Ng'ong'a Wa Mwanjalo
14. Orchestre Baba National - Sweet Sweet Mbombo
15. Afro '70 - Cha-Umheja
16. Peter Tsotsi Juma & The Eagles Lupopo - Kajo Golo - Weka
CD2:
01. The Lulus Band - Mutumia Muriu
02. Sophia Ben & The Eagles Lupopo - See Serere
03. The Loi-Toki-Tok Band - Leta Ngoma
04. Orchestre Super Volcano - Mngeni Mali Yare Yore
05. The Rift Valley Brothers - Tiga Kurira
06. Kalambya Boys - Kivelenge
07. Huruma Boys Band - Theresia
08. Gatanga Boys Band - Keep Change Kairitu
09. The Famous Nyahururu Boys - Mwendwa
10. The Eagles Lupopo - Pelekani
11. Ndalani 77 Brohters - Nzaumi
12. Afro 70 - Afrousa (Move On)
13. Nairobi Matata Jazz - Tamba Tamba
14. Kiratu And His Group - Yanagiria Kayo
15. Afro 70 - Week End
16. The Mombasa Vikings - Kibe Kibe
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A1. The Loi-Toki-Tok - Ware - Wa
A2. Slim Ali & The Famous Hodi Boys - Watoto Nyara
A3. Orchestre Baba National - Sweet Sweet Mbombo
B1. Gatanga Boys Band - Wendo Ti Mbia
B2. Hafusa Abasi & Slim Ali with The Yahoos Band - Sina Raha
B3. Nashil Pichen & The Eagles Lupopo - Ng'ong'a Wa Mwanjalo
B4. Nairobi Matata Jazz - Tamba Tamba
C1. The Lulus Band - Ngwendeire Guita
C2. Mbiri Young Stars - Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe
C3. The Lulus Band - Nana
C4. Afro 70 - Week End
D1. The Rift Valley Brothers - Mu-Africa
D2. DO 7 Band - H.O. Ochiri
D3. Afro '70 - Cha-Umheja
D4. Peter Tsotsi Juma & The Eagles Lupopo - Kajo Golo - Weka
E1. New Gatanga Sound - Thonia Ni Caki
E2. Sophia Ben & The Eagles Lupopo - See Serere
E3. Kalambya Boys - Kivelenge
E4. The Loi-Toki-Tok Band - Leta Ngoma
F1. Huruma Boys Band - Theresia
F2. Orchestre Veve Star - Nitarudia
F3. The Mombasa Vikings - Mama Matotoya
Bonus 7":
A1. The Lulus Band - Mutumia Muriu
B1. Ndalani 77 Brothers - Nzaumi
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VA: Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s 3LP/7" (SNDW 046LP)
Triple LP version. Comes with a bonus 7" and free MP3 download.
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S.A.M.: Nangijala/Nangilima 12" (SUBWAX 1202EP)
Mysterious producer S.A.M. delivers yet another top quality release. After releases on Fathers and Sons Productions, here he shows a slightly different approach with two tracks of dubbed-out techno heaven in the veins of Maurizio, Basic Channel, etc. Watch out for this one, folks.
$8.99 UPC: 827170485563 ELECTRONIC
A1. Nangijala
B1. Nangilima
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ELEH: Homage 3LP BOX (TAIGA 025LP)
Presenting a unified whole, the Homage 3LP boxed set contains Homage to the Square Wave, ...Sine Wave and ...Pointed Waveforms, all out-of-print until now. Initially released separately in 2008, 2009 and 2012 respectively with custom letterpress jackets, this collection includes new retrospective artwork by John Brien. Each disc comes in its own one-color silkscreen jacket using the same blue, orange and green from the original editions; all housed in a rigid white satin-coated slipcase with spot varnish printing, hand-numbered out of 800. Eleh, an artist who flourishes in restraint, uses a reduced sonic vocabulary to highlight delicate intricacies in a logical path toward harmonious satisfaction. The organization of hypnotic square waves, rippling sine waves and triangle/saw tooth waveforms is a discourse in the infinity, rather than the limits, of reduction. By employing a natural practice of balanced interpretation, Eleh enables an individual reaction free of the clutter of white noise.
$42.00 UPC: 819162011430 ELECTRONIC
A1. Black
B2. Blue & White
C1. Together We Are One
C2. Beneath the Silver Sun
D1. Madrid
F1. Reflection 1
F2. Reflection 2
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HERO & LEANDER: Tumble CD (TR 260CD)
Pop music should be honest, should have melodies that linger, and lyrics that don't read like bad poems. Hero & Leander try to follow these rules, and it seems to be working. The band has attracted comparisons to Belle And Sebastian, Squeeze, Camera Obscura, The xx and Arcade Fire. Their lyrics range in topic from philosophy to snogging, particle accelerators to police tactics, beauty, to life being a pain in the rump. It started online, in 2010. All of them from Essex, four of Hero & Leander's six members had written songs together for a while, and wanted a pianist, because pianos are lush. So they posted an advert. Along came Andrew, from Reading. The band's indie-pop became more "musical" and better crafted. Then, they wanted a female singer, because female singers are lush. So they posted an advert. Along came Emily, from Liverpool. Initially, she thought the band might be internet killers, and she would only meet them in public places. Over two years they played gigs and had fun, self-released an EP and got their hands round the baton of great British pop music. The band has countless influences, but it's worth mentioning that they borrowed a Beatles song-title for their debut record, Tumble. So they must like the Beatles a lot. "Here Comes the Sun," along with the rest of the album, was largely recorded in band members' bedrooms, in London and Essex. Tumble's songs were designed to sound good no matter who performs them. It's about the personality of the song, not the personality of the band. Substance over style.
$11.99 EAN: 4047179749626 ROCK
01. Soul to Soul
02. Collider
03. Kiss Me by the Water Cooler
04. Tickle
05. Everything Will Be
06. Light of My Night
07. One Three Four
08. The Infinite
09. Kettle
10. Here Comes the Sun
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HERO & LEANDER: Tumble LP+CD (TR 260LP)
LP version. Includes a CD copy of the album.
$15.79 EAN: 4047179749619 ROCK
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HELLSONGS: Iron Man 7" (TR 265EP)
2013 RSD release. "Iron Man" is the first single taken from the forthcoming Hellsongs album, These Are Evil Times.... Never before have Hellsongs sounded so happy, and never before have they been accompanied by a drummer urging your feet to stomp, a bass that invites you to dance and an organ that commands your lips to smile. So get your yeah-yeahs out in the air -- it's time to celebrate, it's time to dance, it's time to put this rascal on repeat.
$4.99 EAN: 4047179766470 ROCK
A1. Iron Man (Single Version)
B1. Stand Up and Shout
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LX ONE AND YOUNGSTA: Responsibility/No Cure 12" (TEMPA 074EP)
Youngsta returns with a two-track 12" through Rinse in collaboration with LX ONE. Together, LX ONE and Youngsta have created some of the leanest and deadliest tracks in the Tempa back catalog. "Responsibility" stands as an exceptionally minimalist cut: little more than metallic percussion, flickering dub chords and a hulking bass line that tears through the mix like a wrecking ball. "No Cure" heads off on a techno-leaning flex, matching plunging subs with rolling percussion, offering an entirely more propulsive companion the A-side's crushing weight.
$7.79 UPC: 800071002701 ELECTRONIC
A1. Responsibility
B1. No Cure
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DIEUF-DIEUL DE THIES: Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 CD (TBCD 017CD)
RSD 2013 release. Teranga Beat proudly presents Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès in their first-ever edition. Three singers Assane Camara, Bassirou Sarr, and Gora Mbaye, together with their chef d'orchestre and guitar player Pape Seck (an ex-member of Guelewar) compose traditional rhythms from all the regions of Senegal, with fuzz guitars, horn sections and hallucinatory percussion. The result is an explosive mixture of an electric psychedelic sound with the wisdom and superiority of the musical traditions of the region, a crossover of Afro-manding and Afro-jazz, in which each singer guides the 13-member band in a different direction. Even today, this 32 year-old recording sounds futuristic and it is really rather weird that Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès never had the chance to release an actual album. Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 includes the biggest part of their second recording and the double LP comes in a special edition with a silkscreen print cover with a large poster and included in the CD version is a booklet with photos and liner notes outlining the group members' careers. There was no other group in Senegal with such a variety of cultural background and a strong identity. Senegalese music at its best.
$13.79 EAN: 5213000760040 WORLD
01. Na Binta (8:27)
02. Mariama Yayou Salam (8:58)
03. Sibaye (10:47)
04. Demba Saly Madior (10:08)
05. Aling Na Djimbe (10:50)
06. Ndiguele (10:13)
07. Hommage à Cheikhou Oumar Foutiyou (10:25)
08. Yandé (12:10)
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DIEUF-DIEUL DE THIES: Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 2LP (TBLP 017LP)
RSD 2013 release. Double LP version, comes in a special edition with a silkscreen print cover with a large poster.
$20.39 EAN: 5213000760057 WORLD
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HILL, DAVID: Overdose of the Holy Ghost 2CD (ZEDD 028CD)
Z Records returns with a long overdue gospel album compiled by David Hill. The album leads with a track from The Clark Sisters, who are without doubt one of the most successful and prolific family gospel groups of the last 40 years. Originally released on S.O.G. Records (Sounds of Gospel), Overdose of the Holy Ghost was recorded in 1981 and would go on to become the group's biggest crossover hit after being licensed to Elektra Records and released internationally in 1983. The "Queen of Gospel Music," Shirley Caesar turns in a smoldering, socially-conscious, Philadelphia International inspired groover with "Message to the People." Gospel artists are well-known for taking popular secular songs -- or riffs from them -- and adapting the lyrics to take the song in a spiritual direction. Kristle uses The Emotions' "Best of My Love" as its foundation, and builds from a slow intro, gradually turning up the heat until it's the dancefloor burner that is "I'll Go." Further highlighting gospel music's influence on current music production, we have Norman Weeks & The Revelations' "Hold On" which first appeared on an obscure, and rare, 12" on Rent productions. Rahni Harris is primarily known for "Six Million Steps," which became a classic on the early UK jazz-funk scene, but what most don't realize is that "Six Million Steps" is actually the instrumental B-side of the 1977 vocal gospel song originally released on the Inspirational Sounds label. It was only when the track was licensed by Mercury in 1978 that the B-side became the A-side and made its way onto the dancefloors of Essex. "He's My Friend" was recorded a couple of years earlier, when young Rahni was just 21. With further disco and funk-induced soul provided by BeBe & CeCe Winans, Gloster Williams & Master Control, D.J. Rogers, James Moore, The Dynamic Clark Sisters with Mattie Moss Clark, Sharon Johnson and many more gospel luminaries, plus exclusive edits from David Hill and Z Records' Joey Negro, Overdose of the Holy Ghost is a shining example of church music that has been influenced by secular soul that was built for the dancefloor. David Hill began his music career in 1994 as a member of the Ballistic Brothers, together with Ashley Beedle and Rocky & Diesel of X-Press 2. In 1994 he co-founded the Nuphonic record label that also produced the Sony award-winning London Xpress radio show for Xfm. He continues to work as a music consultant to several record companies and on personal projects such as "Rootikal," the monthly roots reggae night, and has a number of reissue and compilation projects currently in production. He is also currently overseeing the production of a book and an accompanying touring exhibition that will showcase Bill Bernstein's photographs of New York nightlife in the late '70s.
$11.99 EAN: 5060162572062 ROCK
CD1:
01. The Clark Sisters - Overdose of the Holy Ghost
02. Shirley Caesar - Heavenly Father
03. Ricky Womack & Christian Essence - I Need You (Joey Negro Edit)
04. Dan Greer - Love Is the Message (Joey Negro Edit)
05. Kristle - I'll Go
06. D.J. Rogers - All I Gave Him Was My Heart
07. The Young Delegation - I'll Keep Holdin On
08. Linda Evans - I Am Gold
09. Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark - Awake O Zion
10. Tommy T & Company - Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
11. Truth & Devotion - I Must See My Lord
12. Norman Weeks & The Revelations - Hold On
CD2:
01. The Clark Sisters - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Joey Negro Edit)
02. Gloster Williams & Master Control - No Cross, No Crown
03. Roslyn & Charles - Was Not Intended (David Hill Edit)
04. The Dynamic Clark Sisters with Mattie Moss Clark - Ha Ya (Eternal Life)
05. The Young Delegation - He Lives
06. Sharon Johnson - A Better Day
07. BeBe & CeCe Winans - I Really Love You (David Hill Edit)
08. The Fannie Clark Singers - Use Me Lord
09. Shirley Caesar - Message to the People
10. Ronia La Vee - Lead Me
11. Rahni Harris & Family Love - He's My Friend
12. James Moore - As a Nation (David Hill Edit)
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HILL, DAVID: Overdose of the Holy Ghost 2LP (ZEDD 028LP)
Double LP version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve.
$22.39 EAN: 5060162572147 ROCK
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JOHNSON, CHUCK: Crows in the Basilica LP (3LOBED 099LP)
"At first glance, the titles on Chuck Johnson's Crows in the Basilica suggest an artist both aware of and in touch with his surroundings. There are mountains, creeks, sand; towns, streets, basilica; crows, geese. Skim Johnson's liner notes and this sense of outward attention expands. Songs are based on raga improvisations and Chinese melodies, the Piedmont blues of Carolina pioneer Elizabeth Cotten and the mountain guitar of Appalachian legend Roscoe Holcomb.
But despite how conscious Johnson is of what's going on outside -- both outside his window and outside our borders -- his journey on Crows in the Basilica is as much internal as external. Johnson's references to the elements around him and the art that inspires him are launching points toward the wider realms of nature and music, but they also propel him inward, toward introspection and self-reflection. In fact, for much of these eight masterful tunes, inside and outside are mirror images, each influencing and guiding the other in a recursive loop of creativity."
$13.75 UPC: 711574753215 ROCK
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JOY DIVISION: YMCA 2-8-79 LP (AD 1099LP)
"First time official issue of this previously unissued classic and historical London live performance from 1979. Recorded live in August 1979 as part of a series of four legendary post punk gigs that included Throbbing Gristle, Echo & The Bunnymen, Red Crayola, and Cabaret Voltaire. Limited edition 180 gram vinyl comes complete with textured sleeve and a poster insert."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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CHERRY, DON: Live in Paris, April 22, 1971 LP (B 191LP)
Clear red vinyl in PVC sleeve. Limited edition 500 copies. "In 1971, jazz trumpet player Don Cherry was living in an artists' colony in Sweden (where he met his wife, Moki) and becoming deeply interested in world music, which would mark a deep shift in his music from this point onward. In spring of 1971, Cherry traveled to Paris with his avant-garde jazz trio, made up of the great South African bassist, Johnny Dyani, and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz (who would also appear on his Organic Music Society) to perform live for an audience of French jazz fans."
$20.00 UPC: 889397419110 JAZZ
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DAVIS, MILES: Live at the Plugged Nickel, December 22, 1965 Part One LP (B 192LP)
White vinyl in PVC sleeve. Limited edition 500 copies. "Miles Davis' second great quintet, featuring Wayne Shorter on tenor, Herbie Hancock (age 25) on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, is the last of Miles' true acoustic jazz bands. Formed in 1964, the legendary quintet can be heard playing at Chicago's Plugged Nickel jazz club on 22 December 1965, one of their earliest recordings. For these performances, Miles played almost no material from their studio albums, focusing instead on Miles' favorite jazz standards. However, it is precisely because he is playing the standards that listeners are able to hear just how groundbreaking this quintet was at the time. The music found here was so pioneering and influential that it still sounds new after over four decades."
$20.00 UPC: 889397419219 JAZZ
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DAVIS, MILES: Live at the Plugged Nickel, December 22, 1965 Part Two LP (B 193LP)
Yellow vinyl in PVC sleeve. Limited edition 500 copies. "Miles Davis' second great quintet, featuring Wayne Shorter on tenor, Herbie Hancock (age 25) on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, is the last of Miles' true acoustic jazz bands. Formed in 1964, the legendary quintet can be heard playing at Chicago's Plugged Nickel jazz club on 22 December 1965, one of their earliest recordings. For these performances, Miles played almost no material from their studio albums, focusing instead on Miles' favorite jazz standards. However, it is precisely because he is playing the standards that listeners are able to hear just how groundbreaking this quintet was at the time. The music found here was so pioneering and influential that it still sounds new after over four decades."
$20.00 UPC: 889397419318 JAZZ
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VAN ZANDT, TOWNES: Live at the Whole Coffeehouse, Minneapolis MN, November 1973 LP (B 194LP)
Clear vinyl in PVC sleeve. Limited edition 500 copies. "American singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt released a string of classic albums in the early seventies, marking what has been called his most prolific and creative period. However, Van Zandt notoriously often had difficulty getting the right sound in studio, and his voice was often overshadowed by elaborate production work that sometimes missed the mark. Therefore, this LP, recorded at the University of Michigan's coffeehouse in 1973, is an essential addition to the Van Zandt discography because it allows listeners to hear Townes the way he was meant to be heard: playing to a few dozen college students with nothing but his acoustic guitar and his own voice. Beautiful."
$20.00 UPC: 889397419417 ROCK
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CALE & FRIENDS, JOHN: Live at the Ocean Club in New York, July 21, 1976 LP (B 195LP)
Clear yellow vinyl in PVC sleeve. Limited edition 500 copies. "The night of July 21, 1976 was a star-studded and memorable one for downtown NYC music fans, as John Cale, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, David Byrne (of the Talking Heads), Allen Lanier (of Blue Oyster Cult), Mick Ronson (David Bowie), and guitar guru Chris Spedding regaled fans with a slew of Cale classics like 'Guts,' 'Buffalo Ballet,' and 'I Keep a Close Watch' as well as the Velvets' 'I'm Waiting for the Man,' and the Modern Lovers' 'Pablo Picasso' (which was produced by John Cale for the Modern Lovers' 1976 LP). And as if all this weren't already enough, recording the performance was Andy Warhol himself. Do not miss this slice of music history."
$20.00 UPC: 889397419516 ROCK
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C.S. CREW: Funky Pack CD (COS 006CD)
"The C.S. Crew's Funky Pack can be best described as Nigeria's own blend of Kool & the Gang, Mandrill, and the Ohio Players with a Moog synthesizer thrown in for good measure. Reissued for the first time this late '70s Nigerian raw funk masterpiece album includes bonus tracks from the related group Youths of the Universe and liner notes written by Comb and Razor label owner and Nigerian record collector extraordinaire, Uchenna Ikonne. Funky Pack features nine cuts of rare Nigerian funk."
$11.75 UPC: 820250000625 WORLD
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C.S. CREW: Funky Pack LP (COS 006LP)
LP version.
$14.50 UPC: 820250000618 WORLD
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ONES, THE: Volume One CD (GF 265CD)
"Finally, we have uncovered a copy of this rare gem (R4) from back in 1966. Although these guys originated from Connecticut, they became one of the hottest opening acts in Boston in 1967, playing many of the city's best and most popular venues. Their renditions of the day's cover tunes are even better than the original songs."
$9.25 UPC: 645270026529 ROCK
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PANOPTICON: Kentucky CD (HB 039CD)
"Panopticon's Kentucky was released last year as a limited gatefold 2LP and sold out upon release. There is now a CD edition of the album with alternate cover art. This was selected as one of the Top 10 Metal Albums of 2012 by NPR. From one of the most prolific and innovative minds in metal comes a seminal work, a milestone, reinventing the parameters of metal to include threads of bluegrass and lyrical themes centered around Kentucky and its rich history embedded in coal mining struggle. This is by far the standout work by an artist who has already delivered such personal and revolutionary work as On the Subject of Morality. Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston, this is also Panopticon's most sonically blistering release to date."
$8.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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LES SINS: Grind/Prelims 12" (JIAOLONG 088EP)
Two new songs from Chaz Bundick's (Toro Y Moi) Les Sins moniker.
$8.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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TILSTON, STEVE: An Acoustic Confusion CD (LION 662CD)
"An instantly captivating, all-original acoustic album of great depth and incredible maturity, the debut album (1971) by acoustic guitarist and songwriter, Steve Tilston. As for the making of the album: 'It was Ralph McTell who very kindly contacted Ian Anderson of Village Thing on my behalf,' Tilston explained. 'I followed it up and secured a meeting with Ian and a gig at the Troubadour Folk Club. I'd met Ralph through Wizz Jones at Les Cousins in Soho, and he'd been very complimentary about my playing and writing.' One hears echoes of Tilston's mentors and contemporaries in England's vibrant folk scene of the time: Bert Jansch (the fifth track, 'Train Time,' sounds to these ears eerily like early Jansch), John Renbourn, Ralph McTell, Wizz Jones, Davey Graham, and Nick Drake. Solo guitar and vocals, all recorded without over-dubbing, plus group performances with Village Thing label-mates Dave Evans, John Turner (Hunt & Turner), and others. The end result was an important piece of Britain's folk tapestry, which launched Tilston into the limelight, and onto Transatlantic Records, just in time for their implosion. This deluxe edition of An Acoustic Confusion includes five bonus tracks, including three not included on any previous editions, in-depth notes by Tilston himself, lyrics, excerpts from Mark Jones' fascinating Bristol Folk book, plus a mini-history of Village Thing by label co-founder Gef Lucena; there's also a Village Thing discography to round out the twenty-eight pages of information."
$11.25 UPC: 778578066222 ROCK
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FRUMPY: All Will Be Changed LP (LOST 71001LP)
"Vinyl reissue of 1970 German progressive classic. Regarded as the perfect '70s sounding prog album with a bluesy edge, burning Hammond organ sounds, lengthy tracks, and bluesy vocals."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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TITUS GROAN: Titus Groan LP (LOST 71009LP)
"Classic 1971 UK progressive rarity. Comes in a gatefold sleeve, just like the original LP. Lengthy tracks mix with flutes, seering guitars, Beatles-esque harmonies and a psych edge. Limited edition, 180 gram vinyl."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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LANSING-DREIDEN: The Incomplete Triangle LP (MEX 110LP)
"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. The company's 2003 The Incomplete Triangle LP, which was described as 'dreamy space rock... with a psychedelic metal twist" by Spin Magazine, has been expanded with a previously unreleased ambient section. The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike."
$20.00 UPC: 184923111019 ROCK
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LANSING-DREIDEN: A Sectioned Beam LP (MEX 111LP)
"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. A Sectioned Beam, an EP originally released in 2004 has been expanded with a previously unreleased, swirling 15 minute track called 'Seaside.' The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike."
$17.00 UPC: 184923111118 ROCK
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LANSING-DREIDEN: The Dividing Island LP (MEX 112LP)
"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. The final reissue is 2006's dense and ambitious The Dividing Island which was lauded by Pitchfork for morphing from 'nighttime neon new-wave, replete with spitting drums, Caucasoid-funk breakdowns' into 'mellow soul... and watery drone.' The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike."
$17.00 UPC: 184923111217 ROCK
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VA: Musica Viva Festival Munich 2008 2DVD (NEOS 5090910DVD)
"Ten films by Peider A. Defilla covering the most important concerts of the festival Adriana Holszky - Countdown; Conlon Nancarrow - Study No. 41; Michael Lentz/Uli Winters - Doxgesang uber 12 Runden; Hands Zender - Logos-Fragmente; Oliver Messiaen - Un Sourire; Enno Poppe - Keilschrift; Younghi Pagh-Paan - In Luce ambulemus; Iannis Xenakis - Antikhthon; Beat Furrer - Konzert fur kalvier und Orchester; Gerard Pesson - Aggravations et Final." Total running time: 148 minutes. Picture format: 16:9. Dolgy Digital Stereo 2.0. Notes in German, Spanish, English, French, and Italian. NTSC format.
$33.50 UPC: 675754044855 CLASSICAL
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DEATH IN JUNE: The Snow Bunker Tapes 2x10" (BAD VC56)
Double 10" version. Comes on clear vinyl, packaged in a deluxe glossy embossed gatefold cover.
$29.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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DEATH IN JUNE: The Snow Bunker Tapes CD (BAD VCCD56)
"The Snow Bunker Tapes are the original guitar/totenpop versions of the thirteen songs that became the Peaceful Snow album. Although these songs were recorded in a studio setting, no track is as sonically 'built' as most Death In June songs are. There are no samples, multi-tracked vocals, effects, or even percussion, and studio editing has been kept to a minimum so you can hear talking between some tracks. Douglas P, in describing the material, said 'To paraphrase one of Alan McGee's favourite lines - It's pure (toten) pop!' The CD and vinyl editions are packaged in deluxe glossy embossed gatefold covers."
$11.75 UPC: 753907235029 ROCK
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HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS, KARL: Ngunga Yeti Fofa LP (NA 5101LP)
"For all intents and purposes, Karl Hector might as well be another nom-de-plume of Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers) who, along with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founded Karl Hector and The Malcouns in the early 2000s. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich-based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija crafted nearly twenty tracks for their debut, Sahara Swing, an album that swung with influences from across the African diaspora. The trio are releasing a series of vinyl-only EPs -- of which Ngunga Yeti Fofa is the second -- that will culminate in their second album. Ngunga Yeti Fofa's five songs demonstrate The Malcouns' deft handling of musics from both Eastern and Western Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk; the title track - a swinging horn-lead highlife jam that would sound perfect next to the Ghanaian classics by the likes of K.Frimpong and Ebo Taylor-is a great representation."
$15.50 UPC: 659457510114 ROCK
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J DILLA: Anthem/Trucks 12" (PJ 001EP)
"Pay Jay Productions, Inc. was the company James Dewitt 'J Dilla' Yancey founded in 2001 to house his production company and his publishing company. The estate of James Yancey has revived Pay Jay as a functioning imprint, and is announcing its release of J Dilla's long lost vocal album, The Diary. The first single features 'Anthem' and 'Trucks' -- two of the songs J Dilla recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 as he put the finishing touches on what was supposed to be an album featuring his raps over production by the likes of Madlib, Pete Rock, Nottz, House Shoes, Karriem Riggins, and others. These two tracks, however, were produced by Dilla himself and come straight from multi-track masters found on 2" tape shortly after Dilla's passing in 2006. These songs have been mixed by engineer Dave Cooley, who worked extensively with Dilla during his years in Los Angeles. Using his original demo mixes as his guide, Cooley attempted to finalize Dilla's vision for these tracks, while keeping all of the elements that Dilla had in place in his original demos present. Rounding out this 12" is Dilla's original mix of 'Trucks,' discovered as a two-track demo mix. We've included this mix as it features an alternate version of Dilla's vocals and a third verse not found on Dilla's final sessions for this song."
$9.50 UPC: 706091107214 HIPHOP
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PERMANENT RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
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CUNTZ: Aloha LP (PERM 032LP)
2013 RSD release. "The Australian pressing of Aloha on Homeless sold out immediately upon release. Permanent Records is honored to offer up the first domestic pressing of this Australian noise punk group's debut LP for Record Store Day 2013. 'I hear Flipper-esque barbs in the lead singer Ben Mackie's delivery, whilst the sounds remind me of '80s Melbourne noise miscreants Venom P. Stinger. These young guys that make up Cuntz were not even born when these two bands were (originally) around. Topping it off, and my personal favourite distinguishing feature is the understated guitar shards behind it all, never over-bearing, but traces of the The Birthday Party abound. There's also some synth parts played on a few tracks, which only adds to the feelings of a down-trodden existence...'" -- Snapstruly/Rate Your Music
$13.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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WATCHOUT!: Flashbacker LP (PERM 035LP)
2013 RSD release. "Domestic reissue of Chilean group's debut LP, previously available only on CD and an uber-limited lathe-cut import LP; WatchOut! is the lovechild proof that Os Mutantes and Popol Vuh had an elicit rendezvous in mid-70's Santiago. This Chilean rock group blends krauty synth textures with a tropicalian style not so successfully crafted since the '70s. Latin rhythms, fuzzy, wah-wah guitar leads, and melodic organ patterns are sewn sweetly together to create a quilt of psychedelic pop that would comfort even the coldest Brazilian psych aficionado. This LP was one of the best unheard and under‐released records of 2011. Flashbacker includes seven tracks of '60s Brazilian psych, '70s German hypnotism, '80s UK fuzz pop, and Indian raga influenced jams all seamlessly and brilliantly woven together."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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BEACH BOYS, THE: Surfin' Safari LP (RUM 2011044LP)
"Formed in 1961 when Dennis Wilson, the only Beach Boy to regularly visit the beach, asked his brother Brian to write a song about the sport of surfing. The Beach Boys reached number 75 in national charts with their first single (the resultant song 'Surfin'') and were immediately signed to a major label. Though many debut albums in the early '60s were mainly built around a few smash-hits, the Beach Boys' 1962 full length debut on Capitol (featuring such hits as 'Surfin' Safari,' '409' and their version of the Eddie Cochran classic 'Summertime Blues') remains one of the greatest first steps in American pop culture, and a mandatory chapter in the history of rock and roll."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101527 ROCK
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WELLS, MARY: Bye Bye Baby LP (RUM 2011045LP)
"Released in August 1961, Mary Wells' debut album was the very first LP on the legendary Motown label. To hear Mary Wells' rich-throated belting of the lyrics on 'Bye Bye Baby' is a reminder of the even greater artistic career that might have been had Motown mogul Barry Gordy and producer Smokey Robinson not opted to soften and commercialize Wells sound. The raw power in Wells' voice is evident much more so than on her later and better-known hits. While the song is entirely secular and romantic in its R&B riffs, Wells' gospel choir training is amply evident. It's more reminiscent of the type of recordings for which Aretha Franklin would later become known than of the smooth pop sound prominent on most of Wells' other hits. Not only an incredibly underrated R&B album, filled with a quantity of killer dancefloor-fillers, but an important insight into an artist and her record company both taking their first steps toward what would be the eventual enduring legacy of each."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101589 ROCK
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GAYE, MARVIN: The Soulful Moods Of... LP (RUM 2011046LP)
"The very first album by one the greatest and most influential singers in the fields of soul and R&B came out in 1961 on the Motown label and sees Marvin singing, playing drums, and piano on an album of mainly rearranged jazz and pop standards, inspired by his passion for Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. Though this is not Gaye with a fully developed style, and it is hardly the innovative legend of Let's Get It On or What's Going On this is still top notch jazzy-soul that reveals traces of what would soon become a legend. The studio musicians come up with nice arrangements of the material, sometimes even with hints of the punch they would bring to his later, chart-topping material. Though a little before Marvin got his 'groove on,' this is still the first of four albums of jazz covers he recorded and an important look at the early days of the Motown-sound."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101596 ROCK
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PRICE, LLOYD: The Exciting Lloyd Price LP (RUM 2011047LP)
"Born in Kenner, Louisiana and growing up in the suburbs of New Orleans, Lloyd Price knew massive success very early when Art Rupe of Specialty Records visited New Orleans searching for new talents and heard his 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' and wanted to record it. Price had no band back then, so Rupe hired Dave Bartholomew and his band (which included Fats Domino on piano) to back Price up in the session. The resulting single was a total chart-smasher and it took a long long time for poor Lloyd to equal such an achievement. In 1954 he was drafted and ended up in Korea, when he returned not only did he find that he had been replaced by Little Richard, but his precious chaffeur, Larry Williams, had also become a Specialty recording artist. But between 1957 and 1959, first under his own KRC records and then after he signed to ABC-Paramount, Price recorded a series of national hits most of which ended up on his astonishing 1959 debut album."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101602 ROCK
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LITTLE EVA: L-L-L-L-Loco Motion LP (RUM 2011048LP)
"Perhaps no babysitter in history got a bigger break than Eva Narcissus Boyd, who babysat for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. It was early 1962 when they were inspired by a dance Little Eva was doing around the house and wrote a song called 'The Locomotion.' Originally meant for Dee Dee Sharp, returning home one day Carole and Gerry found their babysitter singing it. They liked what they heard, so they rushed her into the studio, with King doing the backing vocals. Little Eva was only sixteen when 'The Locomotion' hit number one. Her salary as the Goffins' babysitter was $35 dollars a week. Her earnings from 'The Locomotion' were reported to be around thirty thousand dollars. She appeared on television shows and in numerous magazines. She performed live in the U.S. and did several tours of England. Remembered by most as a one hit wonder Little Eva was more than that and her debut album on the Dimension label reveals one of the funniest yet talented artists of the 'girl groups' era. Also features her second chart smasher 'Keep Your Hands Off My Baby,' later covered on stage by the Beatles."
$16.00 UPC: 889397101619 ROCK
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SHINDIG: Shindig! No. 32 MAG (SHIN 032)
"Broadcast: How '60s psychedelia, avant-garde cinema, and the supernatural redefined a modern generation of pop people; Jokers Wild: Cambridge's hottest beat group featuring a young Dave Gilmour; Sweet: Their pre-glam early years revisited Plus Giallo Movies, Kim Fowley, Children's Film Foundation, Emerald Web, Donovan, David Wiffen, and Ghost Box Records."
$6.00 UPC: TBA ROCK
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MULDROW, GEORGIA ANNE: Seeds 2LP (SOS 002LP)
"SomeOthaShip Connect presents Georgia Anne Muldrow's Seeds. Seeds not only marks Georgia's first album as a vocalist on an outside producer's instrumentation, it also marks the first full-length project Madlib has produced exclusively for a female vocalist."
$14.50 UPC: 810101000218 ROCK
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GHOSTFACE KILLAH: 12 Reasons to Die LP (STE 110LP)
"The sounds of classic 36 Chambers-era RZA meld with Portishead and the Italian film music of Ennio Morricone on 12 Reasons to Die, the new album from Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge. This project is a daring, full-length Crime/Horror concept album. 12 Reasons' executive producer and Ghostface's longtime Wu-Tang Clan collaborator The RZA, refers to the album as 'groundbreaking' in the hip-hop genre. Ghostface Killah's prominence in hip hop has grown steadily over his 20-plus year career -- including recent high-profile appearances on Kanye West's Cruel Summer, RZA's The Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack, and the new Wu-Block album -- 12 Reasons catches the gifted MC at the height of his lyrical prowess."
$15.50 UPC: 819376011011 HIPHOP
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GHOSTFACE KILLAH: 12 Reasons to Die - Instrumentals LP (STE 112LP)
Instrumental version of 12 Reasons to Die.
$15.50 UPC: 819376011219 HIPHOP
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SUN DIAL: Reflecter LP (MM 018LP)
"First time vinyl reissue from the masters of this classic 1992 psych album, now long out of print. This was the band's second album release, but was in fact their third album after Return Journey (which wasn't issued until 1994) that went top five in the UK Indie charts at the time. Comes complete with a poster insert."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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NAPLES, ANTHONY: El Portal 12" (TRILOGY 008EP)
New four-song EP from New York house producer Anthony Naples.
$14.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LIFE COACH: Alphawaves CD (THR 329CD)
"Life Coach is Phil Manley (Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, Oneida, Jonas Reinhardt) and Jon Theodore (Mars Volta, One Day as a Lion) with guest appearances from Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless, Golden Void) and Michael Elrod (Date Palms, The Alps). Alphawaves was written as a singular piece, each song flowing into the next, forming a dynamic musical narrative. The record is propulsive with a sense of forward motion never receding; it is telling that when performing live, Life Coach plays the album to completion."
$10.25 UPC: 790377032925 ROCK
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LIFE COACH: Alphawaves LP (THR 329LP)
LP version.
$13.00 UPC: 790377032918 ROCK
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HAWTHORNE, MAYER: How Do You Do 7" BOX (FB 5160EP)
"Universal Republic Records has teamed up with Fat Beats Records to reissue How Do You Do in a stunning 7" vinyl box set featuring the entire album and it's previously unreleased instrumentals. Housed in a hard case 'black on black' box set, this collection features 12 pieces of 7" wax in 12 picture jackets, along with a custom plastic display sheet which holds each of the 12 sleeves in a 4x3 collective mosaic. Snoop Dogg once heralded Hawthorne as his new favorite artist, praise shared via Twitter by other stars such as Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, and John Mayer. With this re-release of How Do You Do, such sentiment is sure to grow, just as Hawthorne himself continues to grow as an artist and performer. It was soul music from which he came, and those roots will never be left behind. But there is more to this artist than just soul music."
$57.00 UPC: 659123516013 ROCK
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