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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE
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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 10/14/2013
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 10/14/2013
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
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REFERENCE: Ghetto Nebula 12" (200BLACK 002EP)
200 Black is a new vinyl series focusing on organic and analog techno. Their second release comes from Detroit's Reference (Brian Kage and Luke Hess). Reference has released on Planet E and Beretta Music before -- and now here are two superb tracks on 200 Black to you.
$9.79 UPC: 880319642616 ELECTRONIC
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BORBETOMAGUS: Zurich CD (AGARIC 1984CD)
Recorded on October 13, 1984 at Rote Fabrik in Zurich, Switzerland. Originally released in 1985 as a double LP. "What is best about Sauter, Dietrich and Miller is that they are playing what jazz should be and not just emptying the tradition through some plastic-sounding fusion of jazz as a 'universal language.' They expand the frontiers of the trance-state without resorting to formulaic repetition and take the expressiveness so natural to jazz to new heights, turning over the conventions common to European improvised music. In short, they are a cleansing experience and force us to readjust our ears to a new sonic landscape. Borbetomagus is one of the best things to come out of the United States in a long time" --Gustave Cerutti, Editor; Jazz 360 No. 73, November 1984. Borbetomagus is: Donald Miller (guitar, alto saxophone), Jim Sauter (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone), and Don Dietrich (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, guitar).
$10.99 UPC: 786497042555 JAZZ
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RIDGLEY, TOMMY: Jam Up/Jam Up Twist 7" (RB 104EP)
Classic R&B house-rocker from New Orleans born and raised bandleader, Tommy Ridgley. He started out as a featured vocalist for various bands, including a four-year stint with Dave Bartholomew, with whom he recorded his debut releases for Imperial Records. Finally forming his own band, Ridgley cut two discs for Atlantic in 1953, Jam Up being the second. A sure-fire way to get any party going, the uptempo, raucous "Jam Up" proved to be a popular number in its day, even so much that it was reissued and repackaged with over-dubbed lyrics and an alternate sax solo in 1962 as "Jam Up Twist," in an effort to cash in on the twist dance craze of that year. Sixty years on, in 2013, "Jam Up" continues to have much the same effect on the dancefloor.
$7.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Jam Up
B1. Jam Up Twist
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AVERY, DANIEL: Drone Logic 2LP (BEC 5161627)
Double LP version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes download card. This 12-track album by Daniel Avery was written and produced since the turn of 2013 and mixed with Erol Alkan at The Phantasy Sound studio in London. Like Carl Craig's More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art, Plastikman's Consumed or more recently, the work of Four Tet, this album works as a cohesive whole rather than a disparate collection of tracks. Innovative and forward-thinking, Drone Logic manages to draw influences from beyond the dancefloor via My Bloody Valentine, NEU!, and Chris Carter, while still having the techno pulse to scale the walls of any club. The wide array of plaudits and early adopters of Avery's music is proof of this, ranging from acid house legends like The Chemical Brothers, Andrew Weatherall and Richie Hawtin to the best of the new breed in Maya Jane Coles, James Holden, and Factory Floor. Firmly established as one of the UK's most exciting new DJ/producers, having cut his teeth in Weatherall's Shoreditch studio bunker, Drone Logic follows up Avery's universally-acclaimed mix CD for London clubbing institution Fabric where he remains a resident, recent remixes for Primal Scream, The Horrors, and Django Django and 2012's Need Electric and Water Jump EPs on Alkan's Phantasy label.
$18.99 EAN: 5060281616272 ELECTRONIC
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TILBURY & OREN AMBARCHI, JOHN: The Just Reproach LP (BT 010LP)
The Just Reproach documents the second concert given by John Tilbury and Oren Ambarchi as a duo. When they first performed together in Reykjavik, Iceland in March 2012, the aptness of the pairing was evident. When they reprised the duo at London's Cafe OTO in September the same year in the concert presented here, the city was in the midst of a heatwave. With the air-conditioning turned off to accommodate the low volume of the performance, the uncomfortable squirming of the audience members in their sweaty chairs becomes, alongside the occasional dropped glass and cough, an additional sonic element in the duo's performance, providing a randomized accompaniment to the duo's careful exploration of tonal and textural minutiae. As always, Tilbury displays a remarkable sensitivity and inquisitiveness, investigating the unique character of specific harmonic intervals through iteration and slight variation in a way that displays the same remarkable care for the individual sonic event that he found many years ago in Webern's Variations for piano. In Webern, Tilbury found a freedom from harmonic context that allowed normally jarring dissonances to appear "warm, even sensuous" because they were transformed into timbres, into pure sounds rather than relational harmonic values. This same concentration on every individual sound allows Tilbury to breathe new life into a tap on the piano's strings, a simple sequence of descending notes or even a commonplace consonance.
Indeed, there are moments of simple beauty in The Just Reproach that remind us that, in addition to his devotion to the work of Morton Feldman, Tilbury is also the major interpreter of the piano music of Howard Skepton, with its reduced folk-forms and static airs. Ambarchi's guitar does not simply provide the steady backdrop for Tilbury's articulations that we might expect, but rather engages in a more complex interaction. Gentle swells of tones, sometimes supporting Tilbury's iterations, at other times complicating them, alternate with occasional bursts of abstract electricity. Ambarchi constantly moves his sounds around between multiple amplifiers and a Leslie cabinet to produce a subtle yet environmental whole, interacting both with Tilbury and the sound of the room, edging forwards into a clear sonic presence before dispersing back into silence. Despite the hushed nature of the performance, Ambarchi's signature sub-bass tones are not absent, but in fact form an essential part of the texture woven by the two musicians, taking on an ominous quality like the distant rumblings of a helicopter through the night sky. Far from a simple exercise in reductionism, the reduced volume of the duo's performance acts like a microscope focusing the audience on an incredibly rich palette of sonic details. As in the late works of Morton Feldman, a seeming homogeneity to the proceedings reveals itself on closer inspection to be a ceaseless investigation and reconfiguration of sonic events, allowing the listener to move freely between the lushness and warmth of the sounds themselves and the questioning, non-linear forms Tilbury and Ambarchi spontaneously construct from them. Deluxe limited edition vinyl designed by Stephen O'Malley with stunning artwork by Shunichiro Okada.
$14.39 UPC: 880319641718 ELECTRONIC
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SKULLFLOWER/MASTERY: Skullflower/Mastery LP (CSR 165LP)
Skullflower presents a trinity of sombre meditations evoking Europe after the rain, drowned ruins, sunken dreams: spiders run across harpsichords in deserted schlosses and chateaux, doors slam and phantom demon choirs are summoned at séances by Blavatskian crones, whose impenetrable china blue doll's eyes open onto Tibetan vistas, terrible, ancient, and remote. Mastery is improvised one-man cosm(ag)ick. Total berzerker black metal, rooted in the tradition of true grim blackness, but filtered through Mastery's cracked perception, transforming this into something beyond true; a droned-out and damaged, outsider blackness that sounds pretty much unlike almost any other black metal.
$18.39 EAN: 5060174955419 ROCK
A1. Skullflower - Wolf Age (7:13)
A2. Skullflower - Red Crystal Serpent (7:50)
A3. Skullflower - Black Sunshine (9:15)
B1. Mastery - Blood Electric (17:40)
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ELEKFANTZ: Diggin' On You 12" (DOC 001EP)
Elekfantz presents Diggin' On You on the new Kompakt-distributed label outfit D.O.C. Daniel and Leo first met 20 years ago, when they played together in a blues band. After two decades, they met up again and created "Wish." Gui Boratto heard it first, deciding that not only was this music he'd love to see released, but also a talented duo he wanted to work with, becoming their manager and collaborator. Thus, a new label was born: D.O.C., Gui's very own label imprint. Remixes by Boratto and Solomun.
$10.99 UPC: 880319637414 ELECTRONIC
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RATIER, RENATO: Black Belt CD (DEDGE 012CD)
D-Edge Records are proud to present Black Belt, the debut album from Brazilian DJ, producer, club, and D-Edge Records label boss, Renato Ratier. After emerging with some already impressive EPs, the time has now come for a full artistic statement that spans 17 tracks of slo-mo electronics, deep house ambiance, and tripped-out, disco-inflected grooves. Rather than this being a collection of dancefloor tracks, it's more a carefully programmed journey that takes you up and down through many different moods and grooves, but all of them united by Ratier's analog textures, unfamiliar hooks and futuristic melodies. Opening with the found sound recordings and muffled ambiance of "Love Me Tokyo," the album goes through the funky licks of "Jamaicanese," the well-sampled "Midnight Sun" and freewheeling deep house and ethereal melodies of "Teatime." The latter half of the album points more towards the dancefloor with the title-track's knotted bass line, the deep and spaced-out house hypnosis of "Fetisshu," and plenty more besides. It's a stunning debut from one of Brazil's most important figures.
$11.99 UPC: 880319638329 ELECTRONIC
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RATIER, RENATO: Black Belt 2LP (DEDGE 012LP)
Gatefold double LP version.
$16.99 UPC: 880319640438 ELECTRONIC
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CURRENT 93: Like Swallowing Eclipses (Dreamt By Andrew Liles) 6LP BOX (DPROM 076BOX)
New lower pricing; originally released in 2010. For the first time on vinyl, the complete, highly-acclaimed Andrew Liles remixes of the first five classic Current 93 albums. Andrew Liles has re-imagined Nature Unveiled (1984), Dogs Blood Rising (1984), In Menstrual Night (1986), Dawn (1987) and Live at Bar Maldoror (1985). Also exclusive to this set is a sixth LP, Haunt Invocation (Apadno), which is a remixed version of Faust (2000) and A Special Plan (2000). These influential albums by Current 93 are regarded by many as ground-breaking and innovative -- building upon this, Andrew Liles has re-dreamt and re-imagined these pieces with the flare and vision that he is renowned and respected for. All the records in this 6LP set come in individual covers in a beautiful spot-varnished box and are adorned with astounding artwork by David Tibet and photographs by Simona Dalla Valle.
$27.59 UPC: 823566500025 ROCK
LP1: Dogs Blood Ascending -- A Remix By Andrew Liles
LP2: Dusk -- A Remix By Andrew Liles
LP3: Dead At Bar Maldoror -- A Remix By Andrew Liles
LP4: Nature Revealed -- A Remix By Andrew Liles
LP5: The End Of Red Dreams -- A Remix By Andrew Liles
LP6: Haunt Invocation (Apadno)
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PSICOMAGIA: Psicomagia CD (EPR 014CD)
Despite the rumors, pre-fusion acid jazz-rock is alive and well, living it up in Southern California. Psicomagia is the joint forces of leading members of noted prog and stoner-rock outfits Astra and Radio Moscow. The band serves up a mixture of the same essence that Soft Machine, Tony Williams Lifetime, and Magma pioneered during that magical period just seconds before progressive electric jazz was grabbed by the institutional jazz scene. A formula thought lost until this day, when seemingly out of the blue, the relentless force of Psicomagia appeared. Spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist and producer Brian Ellis' roaring saxophone, constantly interplaying Tyler Daughn's franticly screaming organs and synthesizers, the soul of Psicomagia is in the endlessly permutated bursts of energy of the two. The relentless heart, however, is kept going by drummer Paul Marrow (Radio Moscow), who carves out a constantly brooding and shifting rhythmic base along with the heavy, travelling bass of Trevor Mast. Together they balance a line between an insanely tight and rhythmic notion of progress, as well as transgressing each instrument's carved path on this cataclysmic journey of musical events. Imagine, on top of that, two poets, repeating obscured mantras, rumbling bells and gongs, and you're getting closer to playing your own Jodorowsky-does-jazz movie playing in your head via Psicomagia. If Psicomagia sounds like a thing of the past, it's simply because they have inherited a unique quality lost in music today: grabbing onto a wide array of genres, and permuting them into their own distinct musical landscape. Roaring with the same neverending energy of SoCal brothers Earthless, Psicomagia opens up a dimension thought lost in music, reshaping a new possible outcome of progressive rock, building their own present time. It is beyond doubt that Psicomagia is not a pastiche retro band -- they are the real deal. True to original formula, the album is produced with a grace and warmth, maintaining a full dynamic range. Mastered on analog tape by Causa Sui's Jonas Munk.
$11.79 EAN: 5060195515265 ROCK
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DARE, DOUGLAS: Seven Hours CD (ERATP 051CD)
London-based singer-songwriter Douglas Dare releases his debut EP Seven Hours as the newest artist on Erased Tapes. The EP was recorded in various spaces, including drummer/producer Fabian Prynn's home-studio in South London. The four tracks are the first recordings the musicians have made together and with all songs written by Dare and all tracks engineered, mixed and produced by Prynn, it is a true collaboration. With the songs beginning as poems and short prose, Dare later improvises melodies and piano parts. This process was continued by Prynn with all the percussive rhythms coming from improvising to the original pieces. The performances were captured using a cassette recorder, keeping recording fresh as full takes had to be committed to at the recording stage. This process led to unexpected parts and ideas that now are integral to the sound and feel of the EP.
$9.79 EAN: 4050486102800 ROCK
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FRICTION: Fabriclive 70 CD (FABRIC 140CD)
BBC Radio 1's voice of drum 'n' bass, stalwart of the scene, and figurehead of the seminal Shogun Audio label, Friction presents Fabriclive. 70. Dedicating this mix to "the heads," the mix showcases not only his outstanding technical ability, but also his musical breadth, as he seamlessly moves from deep grooves through hands-in-the-air euphoria and heads-down, tech-edged power -- usually with at least two tracks in the mix at any one time. Artists include: Optiv & BTK (feat. Sam Wills), DC Breaks, Enei & Emperor, Joe Ford, InsideInfo & Mefjus, Nymfo, Badmarsh & Shri, Calibre, Technimatic, Alix Perez (feat. D.Ablo), Villem & McLeod, AI, Total Science, Dramatic, Kove, NZShapeshifter, Break, Kasra, Icicle (feat. SP:MC), Ulterior Motive & Judda, Friction & K Tee, Icicle, Rockwell, Usual Suspects, Donny & Audio, Phace & Misanthrop, and Noisia.
$11.39 UPC: 802560014028 ELECTRONIC
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CASSY: Fabric 71 CD (FABRIC 141CD)
Cassy has effortlessly managed to garner almost universal respect and admiration from the house music community, holding residencies at four of the world's leading venues; Panoramabar in Berlin, Trouw in Amsterdam, Rex Club in Paris, and Output in NYC. Following up acclaimed compilations for Cocoon and Panoramabar, Fabric 71 provides a snapshot of Cassy's raw, unadulterated sound; that unashamedly intricate mix of stripped-back hedonism and an all-encompassing warm sincerity. Artists include Arttu (feat. Diamondancer), Kuumba Project, Livio Improta, Norm Talley, ItaloJohnson, Alex Cortex, Freestyle Man, Basic Soul Unit, John Talabot, Pachanga Boys, Basic Soul Unit, Affie Yusuf, Losoul, Marco Zenker, Emptyset, Benjamin Damage, Adam Marshall, Todd Sines, and Duster Valentine.
$11.39 UPC: 802560014127 ELECTRONIC
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DJ EZ: Fabriclive 71 CD (FABRIC 142CD)
One of the UK's finest, DJ EZ delivers Fabriclive 71 -- a journey into the past, present and future sounds of UK garage and beyond. Showcasing his legendary DJ technique, EZ combines fast cuts, volume manipulation, loops, effects and drops with longer blends to not only contemporize classic records, but ultimately bring dancefloor devastation. Switching effortlessly between styles and eras, Fabriclive. 71 demands respect from the original heads, while showing the kids exactly how it's done. Artists include: Artful Dodger (feat. Zoe Kypri), Disclosure, Moony, Cleptomaniacs, Jammin, Sia, Exemen, Jook 10, SBTRKT (feat. Sampha), Lil' Silva, Cause & Affect, Shystie, N'n'G, Mike Delinquent Project (feat. KCAT), Dem 2, Majestic, Royal-T, Nativ, DJ Q pres. Classified, Todd Edwards, Once Waz Nice, Wideboys, Ed Case (feat. Shelley Nelson), Smokin Beats, Issac Christopher, Kerri Chandler, MD X-Spress, Cause & Affect, RiP Productions, MJ Cole, and Jess Mills.
$11.39 UPC: 802560014226 ELECTRONIC
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AEBELOE: Manon 12" (FARV 006EP)
Natal Zaks is the 21 year-old hyper-talented Danish wunderkind behind a multitude of monikers and projects that can each be easily classified as state-of-the-art music. He is so various and multifarious, that he can single-handedly sustain a concert with a few clicks if he doesn't have his whole arsenal at hand. Yet his Aebeloe handle is the only one that truly does justice to his ample taste-range and personality. A modern prodigy in the very classical sense, Aebeloe transpires raw talent layered upon years of exploration, schooling and constant curiosity. His Manon EP will become an instant classic, given its elaborate and super-relatable sound.
$10.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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YOUNG TRADITION, THE: Oberlin 1968 CD (FLED 3094CD)
The live reputation of the mighty Young Tradition lives long in the memories of all who heard them during their brief career. Live recordings were thought not to exist until, 45 years later, an American fan remembered the reel-to-reel recording he'd made at Oberlin College on November 17th, 1968. Carefully restored, these tapes are now released by Fledg'ling Records on CD. The Young Tradition formed on April 18th, 1965 by Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood, and Heather Wood -- with a repertoire from the British folk tradition, style from Carnaby Street and lashings of attitude, they soon firmly established themselves on the folk scene. They recorded for Transatlantic Records and international tours soon followed. Record companies will always make extravagant claims for their releases, but Oberlin 1968 really is a rare and truly wonderful historical release.
$10.99 EAN: 5020393309424 ROCK
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MURDOCH, CHARLES: Weathered Straight 10" (FCL 091EP)
Charles Murdoch, Future Classic's latest signing, caught the attention of the Future Classic group with his remix of Flume's "Sleepless" for Beatport's remix comp. Already having success in Mitzi, the Brisbane indie-dance 4-piece, Murdoch's solo work exhibits his masterful knack for sophisticated, cerebral bass and house music. Features Oscar Key-Sung and Steffaloo.
$8.99 EAN: 3610153029154 ELECTRONIC
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO: Ultraphoon 2LP (GR 2130LP)
Double LP version. The double vinyl version master sees the collaboration of Teho Teardo, the prestigious Italian musician, composer and sound designer. The double vinyl is comprised of 13 tracks, three of them exclusive for this format. Recorded in Madrid and Rome during 2013, this is the new album by the influential Spanish cult electronic duo ranked as industrial music pioneers, Esplendor Geométrico. Ultraphoon is a leap ahead in production and sound quality, with a stunning and brutal outcome, richly detailed nonetheless. Rhythms, noises and processed voices from different sources come together in hypnotic -- bordering on trance -- soundscapes along the lines of previous releases such as Pulsión (2009) and Desarrollos Geométricos (GR 2123CD/LP, 2011).
$18.39 EAN: 8435008882044 ELECTRONIC
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THESE HIDDEN HANDS: These Hidden Hands 2LP (HH 002LP)
Over half a decade since their creative partnership was first brought to the public's attention, Tommy Four Seven and Alain reconvene after time spent establishing themselves within their own respective fields to present These Hidden Hands; a musical album that exemplifies the pair's unique approach to production. If the Strix EP saw them channel their energy solely towards the dancefloor, this project sees them at their most visceral, refreshingly embracing the extended format with a vigor akin to that first demonstrated on Tommy Four Seven's debut album for CLR, Primate. From the confrontational textures of opener "Trelesire," to the sonically abrasive "Severed," it's clear that THH are far from just indebted to the innovators of old. The engulfing drama of "When Told" and harrowing tension of "Kheium" showcase their singular approach to sound design and their adept versatility in utilizing both industrial tones and ethereal melodies. "Laika," is a case in point. Scattered rhythms, gauzy synths and rugged atmospheres conjure a distressed nostalgia. "Diesel," which was offered by the pair as the first tantalizing glimpse into the project, melds sparse beats with a soaring, creature-like drone before the ghostly motifs of "Hidden" bring the body of work to a natural close. Edition of 380 copies pressed on 180 gram double vinyl. Includes a download voucher.
$16.99 EAN: 5060165481200 ELECTRONIC
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RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT: The Plant with Many Faces LP (HOS 395LP)
Now available on vinyl for the first time, following on from an excellent LP for Blackest Ever Black and a 12" for Bed of Nails. The project has become one of Dominick Fernow's most intriguing, offering an artificial, unnerving take on both ambient and more propulsive electronic music, in turns reminding us of everything from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. II to John Carpenter, Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack, Leyland Kirby, classic Chain Reaction, Demdike Stare and, of course, Fernow's own myriad productions under various aliases (Prurient, Vatican Shadow, etc.). Spread across 40 minutes, The Plant With Many Faces develops from Carpenter/Frizzi-esque bass arpeggios and abandoned cabin vibes on "Abaxial Masks...," to the petrifying Killer Bob themes in "Out of the Mess..." and the gloaming drones of "Complex Rituals...," finally brought to a close with the miasmatic clamminess of "Poisonous Spirit Species."
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RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT: Folklore Venom LP (HOS 396LP)
Now available on vinyl for the first time, following on from an excellent LP for Blackest Ever Black and a 12" for Bed Of Nails. The project has become one of Dominick Fernow's most intriguing, offering an artificial, unnerving take on both ambient and more propulsive electronic music, in turns reminding us of everything from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. II to John Carpenter, Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack, Leyland Kirby, classic Chain Reaction, Demdike Stare and, of course, Fernow's own myriad productions under various aliases (Prurient, Vatican Shadow, etc.). For the most part, the project has been an experiment in tonal dread and dankest atmospheres, but on Folklore Venom rhythms play a more prominent role, pacing anxiously below the dense murk of "Upside Down Left Eye," or as a stodgy techno bedrock to the inclement conditions of "The Spirit Wore the Shoes of the Boy," or a sputtering, diesel-powered chug to the noxious vibes of "Black Magic Originated in Nature." Factor the petrifying gloom of "Spirit Companion Sick-Bed" and the unheimlich, exotic sonic ciphers of "Malaysia Yellow Herbs," and you have one of the strongest releases on Hospital Productions yet.
$15.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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SPECIAL REQUEST: Soul Music 3LP (HTH 012LP)
Triple LP version. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Following a run of four incendiary 12"s on his own imprint that drew attention from right across the dance music community, UK producer and DJ Paul Woolford delivers Soul Music, his debut full-length album as Special Request -- diving even deeper into the raw energy of UK pirate radio influences that informed his previous EPs. Using a studio built almost exclusively from vintage hardware and boosted by industrial-strength EQ and an FM transmitter, Woolford constructs what he refers to as "false memories" -- broadcasting his material in order to sample and re-incorporate it in a myriad of different ways. The outcome of this unorthodox method is an album of considerable weight. Presented in bespoke PVC sleeve with spot varnish pattern.
$23.79 UPC: 802560201213 ELECTRONIC
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DALT, LUCRECIA: Syzygy CD (HEMK 032CD)
For her follow-up album to 2012's Commotus (HEM 019CD/LP), Lucrecia Dalt treats listeners to a perilously brief, intricately conceived meditation. At times rich and cinematic, and at other times, delicate and fragile, Syzygy is a journey into a kind of Ursprung of beautiful distress. Another stylistic leap for Dalt, Syzygy eschews her quietly textured, bass-guitar-driven method of song craft for a more direct approach to production. Syzygy furthers her previous album's raison d'être, being never simply easy to get, but never forbidding or inaccessible. Composed in a whirling interstitial moment between Barcelona and her recent relocation to Berlin, Syzygy brims with uncertainty and suspense. Fluttering arpeggios, unexpected bursts of tone, surrealistic tropical interludes, and deep, contrapuntal sub-bass drones are the language of Syzygy. It's hard not to make a comparison to the zoo of elementary particles, or a space age sound library; Except the album advances forward with such inexorable cohesiveness that its brevity comes as the most electric shock of all. Dalt's trilingual vocals (Spanish, English, Catalan) ride the edge between psychological drama and philosophical reverie, swirling complex themes sourced from texts by Walter Benjamin, Italo Calvino and films by Antonioni and Bergman, into a freeform confessional fabric. Dalt let these classic films run straight through while she worked on the album, allowing the films' sudden changes of mood and tempo to push her music in new directions, as if these cinematic moments were simply stems in the mix. The end result is a listen more tempting, and yet more mystifying than ever. Syzygy encourages repeat listens and addictive contemplation, and represents Dalt's most definitive statement yet. Cover image by Tonje Thilesen. Vinyl color: deep, deep midnight blue.
$10.99 UPC: 616316618091 ROCK
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CABARET VOLTAIRE: Archive #828285 Live 3CD (INTONE 008CD)
The Intone label was originally founded back in 1992 as a vehicle for Richard H. Kirk's Sandoz project, initially a series of three 12" singles. Richard H. Kirk is perhaps best-known as co-founder and now sole member of the hugely influential Cabaret Voltaire. The Intone label is now re-launched with a 3CD boxed set of Cabaret Voltaire live recordings from 1982 and 1985: Live in Liverpool (1982), Live in Sheffield (1982), and Live in Toronto (1985). Further releases are planned for 2014, including a new album by Kirk and also a 3CD boxed set of previously-unreleased Kirk recordings from the mid-'90s. Cabaret Voltaire circa 1982 was kind of post-Rough Trade, pre-Some Bizarre/Virgin. Following on from and with the same line-up as the successful dates in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), resulting in the live album Hai, the two live recordings from 1982 on these CDs come from what was referred to as the "2x45" tour. The performances here are unique in that they show Cabaret Voltaire in a period of transition, following the departure of co-founder Chris Watson, and had more studio recordings been made of this phase (see record 2 of "2x45"), it could have well developed into something very different from the subsequent albums made during the Some Bizarre/Virgin period of 1983-1985. The recording from Toronto was the next-to-last date of a North American tour from April/May 1985. The Cabaret Voltaire live concerts of the '83-'85 period were much more anarchic than the studio recordings and arguably just as interesting in their own way, like some kind of soundclash going on in real time. This release will be a good primer for the forthcoming Cabaret Voltaire boxed set, #8385 (Collected Works 1983-1985) out on Mute in November 2013.
$24.39 EAN: 5060174956010 ELECTRONIC
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TAMMYS, THE: Egyptian Shumba 7" (JM 096EP)
With their insane party-rocker "Egyptian Shumba," laden with wild shrieks and minor-key garage groove, The Tammys were not just another '60s girl group. When the teenage Owens sisters were thrown out of a posh restaurant in 1962 for singing along to the jukebox, they vowed that one day they'd have a record on that jukebox. So they teamed up with a girlfriend and the trio performed as The Tammys at school dances and around the Pittsburgh area. With its raucous, demented shrieks and screams over an incessant, primitive beat, "Egyptian Shumba" may never have made it onto that jukebox, but with Jazzman's reissue 45, it can now annoy grown-ups forevermore.
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GLASS COFFEE: Eclettica CD (KL 081CD)
Following the success of his compilation Singita Miracle Beach 10th Anniversary together with the legendary Jose Padilla, Glass Coffee is back with his second compilation for Klik Records, Eclettica. A man of great taste, a crowdpleaser behind the decks, a true music lover, Glass Coffee handpicks 14 tracks of contemporary electronic, creating a unique soundtrack for these times when the sun meets the sea and hearts and minds feel like floating. Tracks by Nosaj Thing, Kasper Bjørke, Cayetano, Haraket, Chris Coco, and Pedestrian will accompany us all through a magnificent summer. Other artists include: Allone, Serafim Tsotsonis, Alex Dimou, Lee Burton, Synkro, Mano Le Tough, Nils Frahm, Essay, Mono Filter, and DJ Orion/J.Shore.
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GESAFFELSTEIN: I Love Techno 2013 CD (LL 012CD)
Taking place on the 9th of November, 2013's I Love Techno is held at the Flanders Expo in Ghent and, as ever, is expected to attract some 35,000 people across five rooms, making it Europe's leading indoor dance event. Gesaffelstein is one of the headliners this year, next to other hot acts such as Disclosure, Nina Kraviz, Baauer, Laurent Garnier, Len Faki, The Bloody Beetroots, and many, many more. Gesaffelstein is a DJ and producer from France. He has released EPs on Bromance and Turbo, amongst others, and is set to release his debut album later this year. Gesaffelstein had the honor of remixing big names such as Depeche Mode, Laurent Garnier, Justice, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, Lana Del Rey, Moby, and Cassius, just to name a few. He also recently co-produced, alongside Brodinski, two tracks on Kanye West's new album, Yeezus. Lektroluv is very proud to present you his debut mix CD. Artists include: Creepy Autograph, Rebolledo, Djedjotronic, Daniel Avery, Maelstrom, Boys Noize, Jimmy Edgar, Jeremy Greenspan & Borys, The Hacker, Bobmo, Adam X, MPIA3, I-F (feat. Helga La Blaque), Luke Eargoggle & Johan Inkinen.
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MELIAN, MICHAELA: Monaco CD (MONIKA 079CD)
Following her previous albums, Baden-Baden (MONIKA 039CD/LP) and Los Angeles (MONIKA 059CD) on Monika, F.S.K. bassist Michaela Melián now continues the theme of geographically-titled albums with Monaco. Again, the record is rich in hypnotically-woven sounds with a resolute mood reminiscent of film music. In keeping with the previous two albums, the instrumentation is made up of largely classical acoustic instruments which are layered in loops to create mesmerizing soundscapes. In addition to the traditional instruments such as violoncello, Spanish and electric guitar, and banjo all played by Melián herself, the album also features synthesizer and even a mellophonium played by guest instrumentalist Ching Ying Hsieh. Once again, Michaela has been assisted on the production by fellow Freiwillige Selbskontrolle band member (namely the drummer) Carl Oesterhelt. And as with her former albums on Monika, Melián plays tribute to a musical hero -- this time David Bowie, in the form of a cover song with her rendition of "Scary Monsters." This rendition at the end of side one is the only lyrical relief on an otherwise instrumental album. Otherwise, the compositions explore the realm of sound art and ambience, drifting pieces with a dark and melancholy beauty. The music is atmospheric, brooding, and contemplative -- such are the conceptual similarities between this and Melián's work. In any case, Monaco now takes its place with the earlier LPs to form a powerful trilogy.
$10.99 UPC: 880918215228 ELECTRONIC
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KK NULL + THE NOISER: KK Null + The Noiser CD (MONO 054CD)
For a few years now, KK Null and The Noiser have been playing together throughout Europe, giving their best version of a new noise and contemporary music mixing critical beats, electroacoustic composition combined with improvised sound poetry and extreme post-punk. This first album of their collaboration, released by Monotype Records, is a glimpse of their live act and studio recordings, as it has been composed and played in both situations. KK Null (computer, Kaoss Pad, voice - Japan - member of Zeni Geva); The Noiser (machines, Kaoss Pad, voice - France - member of Formanex).
$11.79 EAN: 5908310927725 ELECTRONIC
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CHARRIER, CHARLES-ERIC: C6 GIG CD (MONO 059CD)
Charles-Eric Charrier is one of those musicians for whom it is difficult to sum up the career process with just a few lines; there are curves, digressions, great jumps, doubts, daring. Since his beginnings with Dreta Lorelie, he has never ceased to explore new horizons, to open up to the world, to look behind the scenes, to question his music, and music in general -- and thanks to all this, he has drawn the map of his inner world. We will avoid talking about rock, jazz, ambient, contemporary music, post this and that, we would be worried to lack certain labels. Charles-Eric is not an instrumentalist in the strict sense of the term. Obviously, the bass is central in his music, but neither in terms of a display of technical skills, nor in terms of musical theory, or through notes in excessive quantities; he rather searches for the perfect line between improvisation and composed music; depending on the context.
$11.79 EAN: 5908310927664 ROCK
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DAPAYK & PADBERG: Smoke CD (MFP 067CD)
Change, transformation, development -- these have always been the motor behind Berlin electronic duo Dapayk & Padberg. On their fourth album, they have made, perhaps, the most uncompromising step during their 10-year career, in which they have become one of Europe's most fascinating club acts. Their magic formula? Looking for alternatives. With Smoke, they bid a temporary farewell to the dancefloor. They are taking new paths, searching, trying new, never-before-seen patterns. These paths led the duo from the golden hills of Provence to the dark, autumnal lowlands at the border between Scotland and England. The influence of those places is felt throughout the whole record with its atmospheric hybrid tracks. After their album Sweet Nothings (SVT 073CD), with its summery/ funky sound, Dapayk & Padberg now open the door to a gloomy, melancholic world. While Sweet Nothings was a balancing act between the club and home-listening electronic, the duo now turns their back on the dancefloor to take the listener on an acoustic tour through their personal Amber Room. With their chamber-electro mix, containing characteristics of dubstep, catchy pop-elements, classical string arrangements and a singer/songwriter-like intimacy, they create new sound-rooms. Dapayk & Padberg's albums have always been snapshots of their current emotional world -- with Smoke they created their most consistent and self-contained collection of songs to date. Against all expectations, sometimes even against their own natures as artists, they let go of all-too familiar and comfortable structures. Smoke is all about overcoming those lines between different genres, letting go, opening their mind to the new, without worrying about fitting into a certain niche or having to compromise. "Silent Fireworks," with its song-like structure, brings to mind the hymns of Lamb, Jamie Woon or James Blake. Eva's voice delivers a broken intimacy which is carried by Niklas' adventurous and sophisticated sound structures. The hypnotic "No Words" starts out with Eva's ethereal, fragile vocals spun around a dry, blurred electronic track which then explodes into a huge, unknown universe of sounds. "Headless Queen" was inspired by the imprisonment and execution of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587. The inspiration for the album title came not only from those cold days spent in Scotland but also has its historic routes in Niklas' family tree. "My grandmother is a true well of inspiration. She told me that she was faintly related to the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka, so I decided to name one of my projects Kokoschka. But also, that there was a blood relative on her side of the family who came from England by the name of Smoke. The name has been spooking around in my head for years and I always wanted to name an EP or track after it. We thought that it was an excellent title for the album." CD is housed in a digipak and includes a photo booklet.
$11.99 UPC: 827170133228 ELECTRONIC
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DIRTY DUBSTERS (FEAT. CHIP FU & SCREECHY DAN): Chant Down Babylon 12" (NUP 010EP)
Dublin's other finest export, the Dirty Dubsters, make their first team debut on Nice Up! following a selection of brilliant tunes on their own Irish Moss imprint. Teaming up with rap innovator and member of the legendary Fu-Schnickens (responsible for dabbling with reggae and hip-hop very early on with tunes such as the classic "Ring the Alarm"), Chip Fu delivers his trademark fast-chat over a skanking reggae beat. Another legend of the '90s NY hip-hop/reggae scene Screechy Dan also jumps on the track to make this a killer old-meets-new collaboration. Remixes come from Chopstick Dubplate (aka Jacky Murda and Aries), who drop a killer ragga jungle refix that will destroy any dancefloor, plus label head-honcho Shepdog flexes his studio muscles with a '90s dancehall-inspired rework.
$6.99 EAN: 5055300377913 ELECTRONIC
A1. Chant Down Babylon (Chopstick Dubplate Remix)
A2. Chant Down Babylon (DJ Shepdog Remix)
B1. Chant Down Babylon (Original)
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L.B. DUB CORP: Turner's House 12" (OSTGUT 071EP)
Luke Slater's L.B. Dub Corp alias makes a welcome return to Ostgut Ton. After 2010's Take It Down (In Dub) EP, this second 12" also announces the release of the Unknown Origin album. On the three tracks for this EP, L.B. Dub Corp digs deep into the history of dance music. The euphoric early days of house make themselves apparent on "Turner's House" and are combined with tribal dub elements on "Nearly Africa Dub." Benjamin Zephaniah, arguably the UK's premier wordsmith, lends his wit and wordplay to "I Have a Dream," together with L.B. Dub Corp's treatments, they catch the listener unawares.
$8.99 UPC: 880319642319 ELECTRONIC
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HARVEY: Any Way You Wanta/She Loves Me So 7" (POPC 126EP)
A bona fide classic early soul/R&B sure-shot here from Detroit legend Harvey Fuqua, a man who began his career singing with vocal group the Moonglows before going on to become a pivotal behind-the-scenes figure in the formative days of the Motown empire. Originally cut in 1962, the catchy, Latin-edge mover "Any Way You Wanta" has a 50-year history of packing out dancefloors, and who would be brave enough to say it won't still be getting people moving 50 years from now?
$5.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MILL, OLAN: Hiraeth CD (PRE 038CD)
The Preservation label presents Hiraeth, the fourth album from Hampshire, UK's Olan Mill. The work of composer and instrumentalist Alex Smalley and following on from 2012's much-acclaimed Home, Olan Mill continues to seek a higher plane of consciousness through grand and textured composition. Variously compared to the likes of Richard Skelton, Maurice Jarre and Vangelis, where Home sought to essay the life-affirming, worldly joy of travel, Hiraeth is a movingly yearning work for a lost sense of place. A Welsh word with no direct translation in English, Hiraeth is defined as homesickness for a home to which you cannot return. This is a beautiful meditation on nature irretrievably lost over time and as The Liminal wrote on Home: "Smalley can rightly be added to the list of successful composers who've managed to not only be inspired by nature, but accurately communicate it as well." With the resonance of folk melody through lilting piano and guitar and the symphonic reach of strings and soprano voice, the deep focus of Hiraeth is revealed through both intimate detail and sweeping revelations of sound. Whether through a pursuit of travel or the changing face of his native surrounds, Smalley conveys the momentum of transition through the surge and flow of his music with unerring force. Hiraeth is released in both vinyl and CD editions with each having different cover art.
$10.99 EAN: 9332727027055 ROCK
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IORI: Antimonit EP 12" (PRG 033EP)
Thrilling deepness from Iori, who comes back with his second vinyl release. He has fulfilled the mission with a masterpiece of pure techno. Three deep, energetic, driving tracks and a typically hypnotic bass line, based on Iori's unique style.
$9.79 UPC: 827170523265 ELECTRONIC
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BORROWED IDENTITY: Love for Sale 12" (QUINTESSE 035EP)
Growing up in the deep south of Germany with multi-ethnic friends and a big interest in many different music genres of the world, Borrowed Identity built his wide knowledge of music. This variety in his musical taste is also the reason why he is working under different aliases, producing a variety of sound from ambient to house to experimental music and everything in-between. Borrowed Identity's debut EP on Quintessentials is another great example of his multi-style approach. You'll find elements of house, disco, techno, ambient and more -- always stamped with a love for music.
$8.99 UPC: 827170520264 ELECTRONIC
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SENKING: Capsize Recovery CD (R-N 152CD)
Capsize Recovery takes the listener on a ride through a very dark universe of gloomy sounds and atmospheres. The eight rather longish tracks of the album are characterized by Senking's epic signature sounds -- creepy hovering bass lines, clean and slowed-down drums, paired with oscillating and sometimes fierce synth melodies and shots. With his extremely deep and dubby arrangements that explore the depths and abysses of bass heavy music, he again is able to create soundscapes that convey a subtle sense of unease or even fear, as if they were the soundtrack to a mysterious and disturbing film. Already the opener "Chainsawfish" reflects this perfectly. A minimalistic composition of droning basses and synth pad sounds is decorated by scary voice snippets that seem to be taken from a horror movie, which eventually evokes the uncanny feeling of being haunted. The track "Tiefenstop" -- a truly telling title -- is a continuation of this theme and can be seen as the lowest point of the journey where the bass is reaching ever deeper spheres. Again, voice snippets are used that intensify the hectic and stressful impression of the track, but here they are juxtaposed with rather positive and balancing melody lines. Besides the omnipresent mysterious atmosphere, the overall sound of Jens Massel's new record is organic and possesses a certain live character that can also be discovered in the last track. Senking, by the way, is also one of the few artists who creates his music without the use of a computer. "Enduro Bones" starts with a monotone beat to which single elements like echoes, synth sounds, and fragments of melodies are added. By means of repetitions and extensions, the track gradually becomes more dense and complex, and therefore it seems to be a song that is being created at this very moment. Senking's new record is an excursion into the depths of the human psyche. It's like the record is reflecting a difficult situation one can get into, as well as the struggle of getting out of it again -- hence the title Capsize Recovery.
$11.99 EAN: 4260115991525 ELECTRONIC
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ULTRAMARINE: This Time Last Year CD (RSOON 024CD)
This is the sixth album by UK electronic duo Ultramarine (Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond), and their first full-length release in 15 years. Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band's isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analog synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass and heavily-treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper & Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic and electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel; leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band's previous work.
$11.99 UPC: 827170131620 ELECTRONIC
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ULTRAMARINE: This Time Last Year LP (RSOON 024LP)
LP version on 180 gram vinyl with download card. Sleeve printed in three Pantone colors.
$11.99 UPC: 827170506367 ELECTRONIC
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BUDD, HAROLD: Perhaps CD (RS 096CD)
Recorded live on December 8, 2006 at a memorial event for James Tenney at California Institute of the Arts, Perhaps is Harold Budd sublimely distilled. Striking in its restraint and simplicity yet profoundly resonant in its depth and message, it is both eulogy to a departed friend and defining statement from an artist at the apotheosis of his career. Originally available only digitally (and only from Samadhisound's web site), Perhaps sees its first-ever and much-deserved physical release, mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. Engineered by Justin Jones (at CalArts), Clay Chaplin and Aaron Drake. Edited by Justin Jones. Layout by Vicky Fong. "Some 35 years ago, Jim Tenney and I were half of the composition faculty at the brand new California Institute of the Arts -- CalArts. He was in those five years (1970-1975) my best friend. We lived in an out-of-the-way rural area at the fringes of the Mojave Desert and were often to be found drinking beer and playing pool in one of a number of local cowboy bars. We never agreed about music. Jim was a champion of early 20th century modernism; I was an anti-vanguard sensualist, at least in music. In the early 70s, Jim set about writing a series of 'Post Card Pieces' -- short aphorisms for dozens of friends. The one for me was called '(night)', as I recall: asking for something that's 'very long ... nearly white' ... My performance, in Jim's memory (75-minutes, non-stop and improvised) was, thus, not a composition but a provocation, and one I whole-heartedly addressed: I loved every moment. The 'titles' were conjured a month after the performance. Mostly, they don't refer to any aspect of the music they're joined to. The final task was to edit out some (but not all) extraneous noise and to shorten some gaps (as I pondered very quickly what to do next)." --Harold Budd, January 31, 2007
$10.99 UPC: 880918213729 ELECTRONIC
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DEEPCHORD: 20 Electrostatic Soundfields CD (SOMA 104CD)
The third Deepchord (Rod Modell) full-length on Soma explores the ambient realm. With this album, Deepchord veers even farther away from the current trends in dance music with an assemblage of conceptual audioscapes culled from video-soundtrack and installation works made between 2008 and 2012. This highly unusual collection contains immersive, introspective audio-sculptures more akin to musique concrète or electroacoustic music rather than dance, and exemplifies Modell's importance of developing a new sound in lieu of following popular trends. With some tracks clocking in at only 60-90 seconds, and practically nothing being dancefloor accessible, this album represents a truly unique electronica offering amongst the oceans of artists following a similar formulaic sound. Much of the album has an otherworldly, nocturnal feeling that would sit well in a David Lynch soundtrack. Sound collages comprised of alien-radio transmissions and earth tones melded with lush electronic sounds and underwater atmosphere. Modell's usual arsenal of studio hardware supplies the tonal food, but much of that is further processed with granular synthesis and arranged with generative-music techniques. Pieces like "Prayer Wheel" and "Seaweed" are set into motion and left to unfold organically without interference. "De Wallen" is from the Hash Bar Loops (SOMA 091CD) period and is a night-time soundtrack for Amsterdam's Red Light District. It audibly mimics this area's quiet uneasiness... beautiful with undercurrents of activity not visible to the casual passer-through. "Trompettersteeg" is similar in feeling, with its late-night field recordings made in the streets surrounding Amsterdam's Oude Kerk. "Raval," "Barcelona," and "Rooftop" contain atmospheric recordings made around Barcelona's El Raval district (a rooftop terrace on a rainy Barcelona night, recording sounds of traffic below and raindrops on an umbrella -- in "Rooftop").
$10.99 EAN: 0502485610427 ELECTRONIC
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NISHIMOTO, TAKESHI: Lavandula CD (SONIC 018CD)
Takeshi Nishimoto comes from a background as a guitarist, receiving classical training from some of the world´s premier guitar players, while on the other hand, he has been steadily growing into the more electronic music scene with a bunch of albums on CCO as I'm Not A Gun alongside John Tejada. Takeshi appeared solo on record first in 2007 through CCO offset label Büro and returns now with his second album, this time for sonic pieces. Although you could say Lavandula is a guitar solo record -- that really does not do it justice if you dive deeper into the sounds that resonate within it. At times, Takeshi uses some really fine electronic methods to bend and shape the guitar and background atmospheres, like the beautifully perceived "Strassenlaterne." Other times it feels like you are in the middle of a still picture from a forest lake in the Japanese countryside, slowly waking up together with the sun. The track "Tone Water," on the other hand, sounds like Squarepusher's classic acoustic masterpiece Music Is Rotted One Note played on the guitar instead of bass and comes off as a fresh change of direction in the middle of the album. Lavandula is a very personal and beautiful album that brings to mind the film music of Gustavo Santaolalla (21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful) or Tape's classic albums for Häpna, but traveling through Japanese, North American, and European traditions. A great record to bring while traveling, wake up to in the morning, or simply enjoy on a quiet evening.
$12.99 UPC: 880918216720 ELECTRONIC
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SHAKE: Lost in Space/Music Is the Only Way I Can Communicate 7" (SLSP 015EP)
Two overlooked rare disco masterpieces produced by soul legend Lenis Guess. When Soul Spectrum met Lenis in New York this year, the super-rare Shake LP Music Is the Only Way We Can Communicate was lying overlooked and forgotten on a dusty shelf. Lenis had the tapes there too, so it wasn't long before the label picked two of their favorite tracks for this killer 45. One for the rare disco and boogie-heads, and never before on 45, these won't be around long.
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BURTON INC.: L.A. Will Make You Pay/Why Don't You Let Me Know 7" (SLSP 016EP)
Superb, soulful disco boogie 45 -- rare disco, boogie, and funk collectors will know this LP soon to be reissued on Jazzman's highly-collectible Holy Grail series. As a prelude to the main event, Jazzman thought it only right to drop the two strongest disco smashers on one 45. Neither issued as a single before and as always, no repress. What else to say? Loud, rare, and totally essential.
$7.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
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NICONE: Let Love Begin CD (SVT 112CD)
Niconé presents his first solo full-length, Let Love Begin on Stil vor Talent. Over the course of 11 tracks, Niconé showcases a versatile and distinct vision of contemporary house music that is produced beautifully but, more importantly, isn't afraid to surprise with maturity and playfulness. The title-track opens the album with style: brooding and mysterious, Niconé teases us into a deep sonic landscape of enveloping bass, moody piano keys, and epic synth pads. Malonda, who lent her voice to H.O.S.H.'s Life is Music is Life EP, acts as a shining light to guide us through the atmospheric first seven minutes. "Hysterminia" is equally subtle with its delayed chords and a classy deep house bass-line, until wild claps and a dominant piano melody eventually open fire. After the success of "Caje," a new collaboration with Narra was an absolute must. She bedazzles us next on "Candelaria." Here, the melancholic melodies of a Spanish guitar propel the track forward, while a bouncy beat seems made with the summer in mind. "You Are My Best Meowfucker" then pushes us into the club as a techy rhythm and repeated vocal hook draw us to the floor. The track's twist offers itself in the form of a string loop. Spicy and addictive. A lesser producer would have perhaps placed the following track, "Heroiné," at the album's end but Niconé and Braemer hand us the antidote with "Wish U.," with a break so big it might just be inescapable. On the last two tracks, Niconé moves away from the organic sounds that make up most of Let Love Begin as "All Right" and "Arr" are distinctly techier. On the former, Melonda compliments the techno bass-line and old-school sample stabs beautifully, making for an unexpected highlight. On the latter -- a collaboration with Gunjah -- spherical, almost operatic synths float over a sleek bass bed, thus ending an epic journey on a dazzling high. At the center of Let Love Begin, it acts as a beautiful break, as eight minutes of pure endorphin-inducing bliss. On "Burnhain" classic house sounds such as driving high-hats and '90s rave stabs offer a nod to the past, while hitting the zeitgeist. "Querido," which features Sascha Braemer and the newly discovered vocal talent Yvy, initially drops the energy before exploding with Mediterranean life, castanets included for good measure. Next, "Keep It Deep" does what it promises as Niconé leads us through an arrangement of aquatic depth with powerful bass hits vibrating underneath dub chords and Benjamin Franklin's emotional voice: hypnotic, magical and toxic.
$11.99 UPC: 827170132726 ELECTRONIC
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TWINK AND THE TECHNICOLOUR DREAM: You Reached for the Stars CD (SBR 5098CD)
Having played with Tomorrow, the Pretty Things and the Pink Fairies, Twink should need no introduction to fans of underground rock. Following the ecstatic reception of Sunbeam's release of his legendary 1969 album Think Pink (SBR 5095CD/LP), the label is delighted to announce a brand-new Twink record -- the mind-expanding You Reached for the Stars, which finds him collaborating with highly-regarded Italian psychedelic outfit the Technicolour Dream. Recorded in Rome and mastered at Abbey Road in the summer of 2013, it comes complete with eight superb bonus tracks, and is sure to delight all lovers of psychedelic rock.
$11.99 EAN: 5051125509812 ROCK
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SKREAM: Skream! 3LP (TEMPA 008LP)
2013 repress on vinyl, originally released 2006. Triple LP version. This is the debut album from Skream, Croydon's musical wonderkid. At 15 he discovered making music, and 5 years after, he helped to change the course of UK urban music, building the foundations of dubstep, the UK's most talked-about musical genre. Skream's clipped, techy minimal style has quickly become his trademark. Long before grime existed, it reflected dark, murky streets and sinister nights, the sound of decaying London and its frustrated communities, stuck out in satellite towns and sink estates with nothing but a PC and freely-available software to channel their frustration into. His signature tune, the scene's anthem "Midnight Request Line" is an explosion of electro arpeggios and dub sub-bass.
$16.39 UPC: 666017151717 ELECTRONIC
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YSATIS, SAVVAS: Archiv # 08 2x12" (TRESOR 263EP)
The Archiv series is back, staying true to its mission, examining the always-surprising and neverending Tresor Records catalog. This time around, the spotlight is placed on Greek producer Savvas Ysatis. After his move from Athens to New York City in '93, Ysatis released a string of collaborative works with his production partner Taylor Deupree, before returning to Greece five years later in order to help develop the local scene. Two albums came out in 1999 (Highrise) and 2001 (Select) on Tresor Records. Genuine pioneering works, both of Ysatis' LP efforts still sound as relevant today as they did nearly 15 years ago. The four classics and two original remixes present on this Archiv #08 reissue have been carefully selected by Savvas Ysatis and Tresor, to be re-mastered and cut in a new configuration for your listening pleasure and playing comfort. Remixes by Blake Baxter and Surgeon.
$13.79 UPC: 666017266268 ELECTRONIC
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DKV TRIO: Schl8hof CD (TROST 125CD)
Trost presents Chicago's premier live band, DKV Trio: Hamid Drake (drums), Kent Kessler (bass) and Ken Vandermark (clarinet and tenor sax), plus Mats Gustafsson (tenor and baritone sax), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), and Massimo Pupillo (electric bass).
$11.99 EAN: 9120036681347 JAZZ
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SAMMES AND THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS, MIKE: Music For Biscuits CD (JBH 019CD)
2013 repress. Subtitled: Lost Advertising & Rare Film Sounds by Mike Sammes & The Mike Sammes Singers. A few years ago the Trunk label founder, Jonny Trunk was invited to a dead man's house. That dead man was Mike Sammes, from the legendary vocal harmony group "The Mike Sammes Singers." The Mike Sammes Singers are legends. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s they were the backing singers for everyone -- Frank Sinatra, Streisand, Sammy Davis, Bacharach, they sing on The White Album, they are even the evil vocal moaners on Krzysztof Komeda's infamous Rosemary's Baby soundtrack. After Sammes' death, the contents of his house were to be destroyed, and in amongst the debris destined for the furnace was a box of old advertising jingle reels. They were saved from destruction, brought to Trunk HQ, and over the last few years have been carefully restored and together they now form the heart of this brand new and quite extraordinary release. In short these are hugely entertaining skits, scats and vocal delights from the world of 1960s and 1970s advertising. Biscuits, banks, brassieres, motorbikes and cigarettes are all represented here -- there are even vocal tracks for tractors and paint! Mixed in is the lost score from Youth, a rare film about adolescence -- the master tape of this was rescued that same day from Mike's belongings. It's jazzy and surprisingly groovy, and of course, none of this music has ever been released before. Music For Biscuits is catchy, weird, slightly kitsch and very entertaining in a mad fashion, but watch out -- this a strangely addictive release. You'll be singing some of these advertising scats for years to come. One final note -- these recordings have never been released before, ever, on any format!!
$10.99 UPC: 666017145822 ROCK
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VA: Classroom Projects: Incredible Music Made by Children in Schools CD (JBH 049CD)
Trunk presents a beautiful compilation of rare and brilliant music made by children in schools. The album features some incredible sounds -- from charming folk songs to full blown avant-garde experiments. Many of these recordings are exceptionally scarce (some selling for close to £1000 these days) and it's unlikely anyone will have heard any of these since they were first recorded. Recordings made by British children are hardly ever heard. Over the last few decades some schools went to the trouble of privately pressing their own LPs for plays, concerts or celebration -- and with very mixed results. Jonny Trunk has collected these scarce UK recordings and compiled the very best ones for Classroom Projects, the first collection of its kind, presenting recordings made between 1959 and 1981. As well as excellent small group versions of traditional songs, there are specially written instrumentals, covers of Italian composer Scarlatti and even songs about drunk driving. Also, we have work encouraged by John Paynter, a free-thinker, educator and true maverick. Part of the University Of York music department, he not only believed that music lessons at school were of the upmost importance, but he also introduced pupils to the modern composers of the post-war period (such as Stockhausen). So instead of music lessons with a group of pupils all blowing the same basic tune on recorders, he encouraged experimentation with tape machines, haiku and creative thought. As a result, some of the recordings on this album sound like conceptual music from Paris in the late '50s, and not from secondary schools in Bedford in 1969. Overall the compilation brings together some inspired musical moments, some unexpected oddness as well as a warm rush of nostalgia as the small choir from St. Brandon's School (now closed) sing "Bright Eyes." The CD comes with extensive notes and images of the original albums in an 8-page full-color booklet.
$10.99 UPC: 666017264523 ROCK
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VA: Classroom Projects: Incredible Music Made by Children in Schools LP (JBH 049LP)
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$12.99 UPC: 666017264516 ROCK
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ELLIOTT, VERNON: The Clangers: Original Television Music CD (SOUP 001CD)
2013 repress. Both beautiful and charming, this is the long-lost music from one of the UK's most popular and important children's TV shows. Started in 1969 and produced by Smallfilms, The Clangers is a series about a small planet and the little woolen creatures who inhabit it. It ran for just 26 episodes, and grew organically as a show, with the little eco-friendly Clangers discovering music on "Music Trees," learning how to make flying machines and being aware of any space junk crashing into their planet. The music was written (like most of the Smallfilms productions) by Vernon Elliott, a composer and established bassoonist. His pastoral space music is at times slightly abstract, and builds throughout the album from small passages to larger, more complex musical sequences. On its original release (in 2001), the album gained a stunning 10 out of 10 from the NME: "Created in 1969 by Oliver Postgate, the genius who also made landmark kids TV like Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine, The Clangers was an enchanting animated program about a gang of pink alien mice who lived on a blue planet and had friends called the Soup Dragon, the Froglets and the Skymoos. Even now, it's a joy to watch. Fuck The Magic Roundabout and Pigeon Street. One of the best things about the series was the music, and this lovingly packaged collection of original material collects it and revels in its slightly sinister, otherworldly, even free jazz, feel. Sure, there's cute little oboe flourishes and sweet, clinky clanky noises, but underneath all that, there's a definite sense of being lost and alone in a vast, awesome universe, with only pink mice and a flying metal chicken for company. There's 47 minutes and 22 tracks of undiluted Clangers magic on this CD as well as some excellent, illuminating sleeve notes and the cutest 'behind the camera' picture of The Clangers you're ever likely to see. Like the best things in life, it's warm, fuzzy and makes you feel slightly nauseous." The CD version comes with a 12-page full-color booklet with archive extracts, pictures from the TV series and more.
$8.99 EAN: 5060033500224 ROCK
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THOMPSON/DEL VALAROS, RON: Switchblade/Pedro 7" (TTSHAKE 115EP)
Two contrasting shakers from the Minneapolis-based Soma label. Nebraska outfit Ron Thompson and the Broughams give us "Switchblade" on the top side -- a wild and savage, high-octane stomper, led by a brutal guitar riff, garnished with blood-curdling screams and snarled vocal interjections. A longstanding in-demander amongst those who like their instros rare and bloody like a steak. On the flip, a rather more languid but no less engaging affair as teen outfit the Del Valaros give us a cool riff on "Tequila."
$5.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Ron Thompson - Switchblade
B1. The Escorts - Main Drag
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ORQUESTA EL MACABEO/BIO RITMO: Perico/Carnaval 7" (VAMPI 45058EP)
Vampisoul's series Saoco Now! presents contemporary covers of classics of Puerto Rican dance music. On this first release, two of the most innovative salsa bands working today join forces to pay homage to percussionist and bandleader Rafael Cortijo. Orquesta El Macabeo recovers the island's salsa tradition with new ideas and the energy of its 12 musicians, with backgrounds in punk rock, ska, and reggae. "Perico" was originally released in 1959. Bio Ritmo combines '70s-style salsa with eclectic influences. Latin funk instrumental "Carnaval" first came out in 1974.
$5.79 EAN: 8435008869588 WORLD
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LOS BICHOS: Color Hits LP (MRSSS 036LP)
Color Hits, released in the summer of 1989, was a declaration of principles by the band Los Bichos, formed around the unique, eccentric and excessive Josetxo Ezponda (Pamplona, 1963-2013). This record represented the debut of a young man influenced by the first wave of punk, who in 1978 had started his band Tensión; an idea they developed over the years until 1987, when they found the genre and name that would fit them like a glove: Los Bichos (trans. "The Critters"). Josetxo was accompanied at all times by a legion of loyal and unique comrades, each of them with their own input. Asio, bass and vocals, was ever-present in all the Bicho-tales. Charly, lead guitar, played the role of surgeon in the weave of licks, solos and arpeggios, like Mick Ronson with Bowie. And lastly Fermín, drummer, who banged on the instrument in a manner befitting his alias. The important thing about Color Hits is that it's a totally unconditional declaration of love to icons, sounds, and aesthetics which were forgotten at the time: Bosch, Jack Vance, Wim Wenders, Dali, Tolkien, occultism, Egypt, glam-rock, blues, Latin music, Motown, black music, and noise. At the end of the '80s, some local independent labels started to release truly alternative options to the whole post-Movida Madrileña hangover. Due to that weariness of the music scene, Color Hits was embraced by a community of fans willing to get into universes born out of inspired and self-taught minds such as Josetxo's. In its purest essence, Los Bichos combine sweetness and emotion with rage and tension. And without any sort of complex, they lay down a bolero-ranchera ("Mezcalito," "Me gustaría llorar") or a delicate Temptations cover ("My Girl"). There are also nods to Captain Beefheart, with inspired and intuitive crossing of The Stooges and Bo Diddley, where they found the DNA behind all this matter. The sleeve and inner feature collages and texts painstakingly handwritten by Josetxo. A series of concerts and launch shows here and there supporting the release of the record was all the band scraped up from having an LP out. However, they managed to connect with a committed bunch of fans. This is another serious case of oblivion and injustice. But it's never too late for Los Bichos. Liner notes by Iñigo Munster. On 180 gram vinyl.
$17.79 EAN: 8435008870362 ROCK
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KADEN, MATHIAS: Watergate 14 CD (WG 014CD)
The soul behind the new Watergate compilation belongs to a dedicated DJ and house-enthusiast: Mathias Kaden attends to number 14 and gives proof not only of his technical finesse but also of his ability to combine contemporary releases with evergreen classics. He is always confident in his intuition and ability to freak out any crowd, no matter what time or location he plays. All the same with his own productions. He released his debut album Studio 10 on the Berlin-based label Vakant in 2009, alongside EPs on Freude Am Tanzen and recently also Desolat. That Kaden has a lot of love to spread is also being reflected in the compilation's dreamy prelude for which he elected one of this summer's ear-catchers: DJ Koze's and Apparat's "Nices Wölkchen." After some minutes, a relentless old-school vibe sneaks in, which finds an early peak in Ron Trent's "Kids at Play." Between two exclusive tracks from Rodriguez Jr. and Marco Resmann, Kaden proves that there must be a rhythm-machine beating behind his chest. In the middle, the mix rattles with Alejandro Paz' "El House" against its proper destination: house music without compromises. The last third develops an endearing atmosphere, to which Watergate contributes two more exclusive tracks. Mathias Kaden's personal farewell is named "Fin" -- but before he keeps silent, Daniel Stefanik with "Distillery" delivers the closing remarks in an exclusive edit for this CD. With this Watergate comp Kaden has achieved an energetic and elegant mix with repeat potential. Other artists include: Merveille & Crosson, Alix Alvarez, Audio Werner, Daze Maxim, Ricardo Villalobos, Emanuel Satie, Motorcity Drum Ensemble, Moodymann, Christian Burkhardt, The Mole, DJ Sprinkles, Tapesh & Maximiljan, Roman Flügel, Todd Terry & Simone Vitullo, Vjuan Allure, and Kink & Marc Romboy.
$11.99 UPC: 827170133129 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Young Turks 2013/1 12" (YT 2013-1EP)
Young Turks are set to release a series of uniquely artworked limited edition 12"s. Each vinyl will feature two exclusive new tracks by artists affiliated with the label in 2013. At the end of the year fans will be able to purchase a box set designed to house all of the 2013 series releases. The first of these will be the debut release from Lost Scripts (John Talabot and Pional) split with a brand-new track from Koreless.
$9.79 UPC: 880319624414 ELECTRONIC
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ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, YOKO: Take Me to the Land of Hell LP (CHIM 019LP)
Gatefold LP version. "The 13 tracks on Take Me to the Land of Hell were recorded in NYC and produced by Yoko, Sean Lennon, and Yuka Honda. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus special guests for this album: tUnEyArDs, ?uestlove, Lenny Kravitz, Nels Cline, and Andrew Wyatt. The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo 'Cornelius' Oyamada."
$11.75 UPC: 616892150343 ROCK
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SEMI-COLON, THE: Ndia Egbuo Nida (Afro-Jigida) 2CD (CRZR 1002CD)
"The long-lost masterpiece of Afro-rock n' roll. Reissued for the first time on two compact discs. Ndia Egbuo Ndia (Afro-Jigida), recorded by the Nigerian rock group Semi Colon in 1976, was an experimental response to Fela Kuti's then-dominant afrobeat sound, substituting Fela's sophisticated horn charts and jazz leanings with wiry electric guitar work and a passion for vintage rock 'n' roll. Long fabled and coveted amongst collectors and DJs alike, the album has remained one of the rarest of the Nigerian 1970s 'afro' cycle. Comb & Razor Sound is proud to be reissuing this lost gem of Afro-rock for a new audience. The original LP reissue was the second release from Comb & Razor Sound, following up the success of its inaugural offering, 2011's Nigerian disco and boogie compilation Brand New Wayo, which was spotlighted on NPR's All Things Considered and received favorable mention on its 'Song of the Day.' This new edition of Afro-Jigida continues Comb & Razor's exploration of rare, cutting-edge popular music produced in Nigeria in the 1970s and '80s, now for the first time on compact disc, bundled in a deluxe book with assorted photos, liner notes, and lyrical translations."
$15.50 UPC: 112437100229 WORLD
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PLEASURE: Glide: The Essential Selection 1975-1982 3LP (DEC 1102LP)
"Pleasure originated from the ashes of two local Portland, Oregon bands - The Soul Masters and Franchise - to become veritable monsters of funk, soul, and jazz. Their sound is often compared to Earth, Wind and Fire or Kool and the Gang. They had an inspired run of seven albums, six for Fantasy Records and one for RCA, from 1975 through 1982. The group was discovered by Grover Washington Jr.; he passed their demos on to Wayne Henderson of The Crusaders who signed them to his production company, At Home Productions. Tracks from all seven Pleasure albums are featured on this multi-LP set, Glide: The Essential Collection 1975-1982, many of which have never been reissued on LP before, including an extended disco/dance remix of 'Foxy Lady' which was lost in tape vaults for 35 years. Rounding out this deluxe package are many rarely seen group photos, along with extensive liner notes featuring newly-commissioned interviews with original band members by veteran Urban music critic and historian A. Scott Galloway."
$20.50 UPC: 819376110219 ROCK
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YANCEY BOYS: Quicksand/The Fisherman 12" (DV 9071EP)
First single from Delicious Vinyl's "Sunset Blvd., the all new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John 'Illa J' Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J's brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt's standing as J Dilla Music Catalog curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd. originate from The Lost Scrolls -- the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind. The first official single from Sunset Blvd. is 'Quicksand' with features Common and Dezi Paige. And the B-Side is no sleeper; 'The Fisherman' is a full-court press featuring a chorus from Vice and blistering rhymes from Detroit Serious and cuts by J.Rocc of Beat Junkies."
$9.50 UPC: 829357907110 HIPHOP
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J.T. IV: Cosmic Lightning LP/DVD (DC 378LP)
"Like a flash, Cosmic Lightning is back among us. The sounds of J.T. IV were barely heard to begin with, and the 2000 or so that we made back in 2008?2009 didn't sate the pubic appetite, so here we are again. For the official third version of the album (the second Galactic Zoo Disks / Drag City pressing), further research from Robert Manis (the sonic voyager who brought us Death, as well as J.T. IV) has led to the cover artwork being changed and, additionally, the enclosed DVD contains the entirety of John Henry Timmis IV's 1985 splatter-core opus, Cannibal Orgy. Additionally, a new insert has been created out of additional archival materials, including a brief excerpt from his as-yet unpublished memoir, From The Inside and the cover sleeve for the Cannibal Orgy VHS tape."
$15.00 UPC: 781484037811 ROCK
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CAVE: Threace CD (DC 552CD)
"There are no words. Ha! That's funny because Cave play mostly songs without singing in them -- but it means something else again after you hear Threace, you actually are speechless. Threace might just bring an end to your party, too -- no more dancing, no more talking, just people listening to every last clang, tweet and honk of a band really getting after it. Threace is an album that appeals on all levels: animal, abstract and alien, and all at once; one multi-colored-circa-2013 grab-bang. Threace was a real 'back to the lab' kind of album for Cave -- with a few more guitars and a few less keyboards on board, the band were energized and ready to try things in a new way. All Cave music grabs at your ears and the soft tissue within, and yet this time, it's just so much more super-crystalline, bottom- booting and all-spacious than ever before."
$9.50 UPC: 781484055228 ROCK
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CAVE: Threace Cassette (DC 552CS)
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$6.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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CAVE: Threace LP (DC 552LP)
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$12.50 UPC: 781484055211 ROCK
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ST. JUDE, FREDERICK MICHAEL: Here Am I LP (DC 562LP)
"Here Am I isn't just the expression of a working-class hero's musical fantasy circa 1976: it's also a marvelous mashup of outsider-insider production styles, the best evidence of which is the synth-laden robot-rock of 'Love You Anyway.' But how did it come about? Today, Frederick is an archeologist who managed to hang on to his own tapes from the now long-ago adventures of F.M. St. Jude -- thus allowing us to present a pristine reproduction of the wild sounds of Here Am I. Freddy's vigorous delivery, sensitive-man lyrics, and the moogy synth touches make the album an unique and notable entry from its era. Faithful reproduction of the album artwork and an exhaustive essay from Brandan Kearney complete the experience with all thrills intact."
$15.00 UPC: 781484056218 ROCK
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DONOVAN, MIKE: WOT CD (DC 563CD)
"WOT's the name of this bolt from weed-ridden left field, the most hands-down, top-up debut album rolling 'round in 2013. Rife with riffing tunes. Of course, Donovan's debut comes following a distinguished run of tune-smithing for noise-popster poster boyz Sic Alps, so he's well prepared to go the solo route with a sac fulla songs. But shedding Sic skin so cleanly while still retaining the thing called 'essence,' how's he do it? WOT's the secret?"
$9.50 UPC: 781484056324 ROCK
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DONOVAN, MIKE: WOT Cassette (DC 563CS)
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$6.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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DONOVAN, MIKE: WOT LP (DC 563LP)
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$13.00 UPC: 781484056317 ROCK
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MURO, DON: It's Time LP (FGR 033LP)
"Originally self-released in 1977, synthesizer pioneer Don Muro's It's Time is the singular work of one man combining his skills as a trained musician with a truly creative spirit and the somewhat unmarketable insistence that all of these different styles of music would make up his debut album. While this kind of genre hopping can often take away from an album's coherence, It's Time works as a whole because these are such well-crafted and interesting songs. At times playfully fun, at times beautifully earnest, It's Time is consistently engaging for its entire 42 minutes. Muro's sincere love of what he is creating shines through whether it's a catchy, triumphant rock anthem, a subtly emotive instrumental synthesizer piece or an intense fusion dance jam. 'This album was released 36 years ago. Listening to it now brings fond memories of an intensely creative period in my life. There was time to explore many styles of music, and there was time to experiment with new instruments and equipment. No computers, no MIDI - only a room crammed with guitars, drums, keyboards, and an 8-track tape recorder. I didn't have a specific audience for the album, hence the variety of styles. Back then people would actually sit and listen to albums as a total experience. I started and ended the album with aggressive synthesizer music, but in between those songs I was inviting listeners to go for a ride. Looking back, I would say that the variety of styles is both the strongest and weakest aspect of the album. But that's who I was and, to a degree, who I still am.' - Don Muro, 2013"
$16.50 UPC: 700220870123 ELECTRONIC
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LOS MOCKERS: The Original Recordings 1965-1967 CD (GHAS 5065CD)
"This album collects the entirety of Los Mockers' original recordings, including an LP, several singles, and a cover of the Rolling Stones' seminal 'Paint It Black.' The record is presented by Get Hip Recordings in gorgeous hi-fi, pressed on durable 180 gram vinyl and compact disc. Los Mockers are widely regarded as one of the best Latin American bands to emerge from the Uruguayan Invasion of the '60s. Formed in 1963 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the young group relocated to Argentina in 1966 after winning a contract with EMI Argentina. Los Mockers modeled themselves heavily on the Rolling Stones, covering many of their songs (in English). Vocalist Polo Pereira (with a slight accent) emulates Mick Jagger's early snarl more accurately than anyone else from the time."
$10.75 UPC: 751707506523 ROCK
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TOOTS & THE MAYTALS: Funky Kingston LP (GET 54056LP)
"Though originally released in 1970, the US wouldn't get to experience 'Pressure Drop' until 1975, when it was released on the US version of their album Funky Kingston, easily considered one of the strongest albums in Toots & The Maytals' catalog, not to mention one of the greatest in reggae history. Upon its release in the States it received massive critical applause (even warming the cold, icy heart of Robert Christgau) for its infectious melodies and rhythms on tracks like 'Sailing On,' 'Time Tough,' and the eponymous title track, quirky Jamaica-infused covers of tracks by John Denver and Ike Turner, and of course the influential 'Pressure Drop.' Reissued in a lovingly re-printed version of the original LP sleeve, Get on Down now presents a superb reissue of a legendary piece of music history."
$15.50 UPC: 664425405613 WORLD
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NOVICK, DAVID: David Novick LP (GODRECORDS 004)
"God? Records re-presents the debut of David Novick. His self-titled album is officially a reissue, though the original was pressed in a short edition, for only one hundred souls. David and his bandmates in San Francisco Water Cooler put it out as the third release on their Sun Sneeze Records, and the copies were sold or handed out at shows. Braid twisted with folk and experimental and psychedelic artifacts that come on with a distinct aroma. If you've enjoyed hanging around the San Francisco Water Cooler, this here is a bit more lo-key than those songs. Busting out of the gate fleetly, like Lindsey Buckingham of the no-budget (and no-Nicks!) set, David Novick flashes through seven ambitiously built songs recorded in his Santa Cruz bedroom a few years ago, using Tascam four-track and eight-track cassette machines."
$12.50 UPC: 781484200413 ROCK
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RADIGUE, ELIANE: Adnos I-III 3CD (IMPREC 028CD)
"Eliane Radigue's Adnos trilogy was composed between 1973 and 1980 and is among her finest compositions. Adnos is a deeply meditative work of infinite depth and sensitivity; one of the high points of modern minimal electronic composition. Packaged in a heavy duty 3CD jacket much like the recent Eleh releases and containing extensive archival materials."
$25.00 UPC: 793447502823 EXPERIMENTAL
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TOTAL LIFE: Radiator LP (IMPREC 388LP)
"Beautiful new work from Kevin Doria (Growing). Radiator's companion piece, titled Burner. Deluxe LP edition housed in thick screen printed jackets and pressed in an edition of 500. Recorded and mixed at home in the winter of 2012, Radiator represents the first proper full length release by Total Life for Important Records. Radiator is inspired by standing on the gas and pushing forward by any means necessary in a fog of high volume and hazy memories, true love and terminal velocity. Intended for high volume playback. Kevin Doria plays the Endangered Audio Research AD4096 analog delay pedal modulated and tweaked by the GRIZLA Gristleizer through Ampeg Amplification as loud as possible with the aid of Ninkasi Brewing Company India Pale Ales."
$15.00 UPC: 793447538815 ROCK
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HECKER, TIM: Virgins CD (KRANK 183CD)
"Virgins was recorded during three periods in 2012, mostly in Reykjavik, Montreal and Seattle, using ensembles in live performance. The sound palette of this work is wider, almost 'percussive' and tighter sounding than previous works. While this album remains committed to a painterly form of musical abstraction, it is also a record of restrained composition recorded live primarily in intimate studio rooms. This record employs woodwinds, piano and synthesizers towards an effort at doing what digital music does not do naturally--making music that is out of time, out of tune and out of phase. This follow-up to his Juno-awarded Ravedeath, 1972 album exchanges gristled distortion and cavernous sound in favour of a close, airy, more defined palette. At times it points to the theological aspirations of early minimalist music. But it is not 'fake church music' for a secular age, rather something like an attempt at the sound of frankincense in slow-motion, or of a pulsing, flickering fluorescence in the grotto. Some pieces go off the rails before forming into anything, others eschew crescendo compositional structures or bombastic density while going sideways instead. It points to the ongoing development of Hecker's work. It suggests illusory memories of drug- hazed jams or communal music performance that may have never been performed or been heard. These are mp3s that give confusing accounts either of sound's glowing physicality or of its prismatic evasiveness. It is an offering of music into the void, a gift of digital filler between distractions. Yet hopefully it also stands as a document of the enduring faith in the narcotic, enigmatic function of music as long-form expression."
$9.50 UPC: 796441818327 ROCK
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HECKER, TIM: Virgins 2LP (KRANK 183LP)
Gatefold double LP version.
$14.00 UPC: 796441818310 ROCK
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LEGIONAIRE'S DISEASE: Catch the Disease: Un-Re-Leased CD (ALLC 18002CD)
"Jerry Anomie was born in Tennessee but moved to Houston as a young child. Music never appealed to him growing up until a friend of his who worked at a record store played him the Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop. He ended up meeting Iggy soon after that, which helped give him a new outlook on life. Having recently spent five and a half years in prison, he started realizing he didn't have to be a criminal. He could be in a band. Great 1977 Texas punk mayhem, issued for the first time by Lunar Lab."
$8.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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LEGIONAIRE'S DISEASE: Catch the Disease: Un-Re-Leased 10" (ALLC 18002EP)
10" version.
$8.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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NEO BOYS: Sooner or Later 2LP (MRP 055LP)
"At last! A comprehensive double LP featuring one of the most important bands of the Northwest punk scene - The Neo Boys. Active for five years (1978 - '83) teenage sisters KT (bass) and Kim Kincaid (vocals), Pat Baum (drums), and guitarists Jennifer Labianco and Meg Hengtes created some of the most melodic, creative, and daring punk music of the period and helped forge a place for women in the growing pink music scene. Calvin Johnson has been working with band members to track down the missing tapes of their recordings through the rabbit hole of Northwest basements and closets, and after 20 years of effort, the results are this LP. These recordings span from 1977 - 1982, including the long out of print 1980 7" EP (released on Trap Records) and 1982 self released EP Crumbling Myths. Sooner or Later also contains many early demos and live sessions that have never been released until now. Includes liner notes. A must for fans of the Wipers, Slits, Raincoats, and Dead Moon. Co-release with K Records."
$14.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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KIVEL, MATT: Double Exposure LP (OESB 077LP)
"The debut solo album by Los Angeles based musician Matt Kivel. Double Exposure was recorded over the span of a year and a half in various L.A. locations with the assistance of Mark Nieto and it was mixed by Paul Oldham. The album art features original paintings by Max Markowitz. 'Most of the record was done at this rehearsal space that Mark had moved into above Solutions Audio in Los Feliz. He was living there and there was no shower. It was pretty gnarly. We would meet at night, drink whiskey, and talk about music... I was watching a lot of movies -- I have this ambitious program where I'm trying to watch the entire Criterion Collection. A lot of those films influenced the work on this record: Kurosawa's Ran and Pasolini's Salo left a big impression on me. Salo is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. Other things that I was into at the time of this record: John Renbourn The Lady and the Unicorn, Saul Bellow's Herzog, Broadcast Tender Buttons, Fennesz Endless Summer, John Woo's The Killer, Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock, Steve McQueen's Hunger, Bert Jansch Lucky 13, and lots of Nick Drake.' -- Matt Kivel."
$13.00 UPC: 655035027715 ROCK
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MOORE & MATS GUSTAFSSON, THURSTON: Vi Ar Alla Guds Slavar LP (ROKU 007LP)
"Vi Ar Alla Guds Slavar is the latest missive from the long-running duo pairing of Mats Gustafsson (The Thing, Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, etc) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, Chelsea Light Moving, Dream/Aktion Unit, etc). The recordings presented here are continuous excerpts taken from the heavyweight, high volume duo sets that topped off each night of their two day residency at Cafe OTO in September 2012. Mats mostly plays a selection of amplified table-top electronics as well as some knotty soprano saxophone at the beginning of the second side whilst Thurston offers a fine example of the kind of liminal intensity he is capable of generating from his guitar complete with the low frequency/octave doubling dive-bombs that have had us replace the speakers in our fender twin twice since he relocated to London last year. The title Vi Ar Alla Guds Slavar translates as 'We Are All Slaves Under God' and is taken from the painting by Edward Jarvis that also serves as the three colour screenprint for the LP sleeve. Printing by Patrick Wells at Heavyrock on archival quality card stock. Mixed by Robert Harder. Mastered by Andreas 'LUPO' Lubich @ Calyx. Pressed on high quality 180 gram vinyl at Record Industry in The Netherlands. First pressing of 1000."
$20.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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NO NECK BLUES BAND: Gitanjali 10" (OQEBAL 004EP)
"Long delayed, this 10" is one of two vinyl releases from recording sessions at the Chummery late in 2006. The Chummery was the Seattle home to Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies, Abduction, and The Sea Donkeys. In fact it was the last residence of Charles Gocher who passed away in there only a few months after this session. Making full use of the Girls' diverse collection of instruments, including an upright piano and Alan Bishop's gamelan, NNCK improvised throughout one day and night, with all proceedings being documented by a custom 16 channel mobile unit assembled by Ri Bi Xibalba. Together with live concerts in Vancouver, BC and Seattle the previous evenings, the recordings total over five hours. Distilled from this are the best of the Chummery recordings split onto two separate releases. The first is this 10", mastered at 45 RPM for the best fidelity, and pressed on 110 gram of vinyl. Using sundry stringed instruments from SCG's world travels as well as their own traveling set of instruments, the music has an air of delicate yet mysterious Javanese court music - a contrast to what SCG did with many of those same instruments. Of particular prominence on this record are the plaintive sounds of the erhu gliding through. Made up of seven members, NNCK's sound is never crowded and comes off like a well-oiled machine moving with one group mind. When they put aside their individual selves and enter the music, the result switches over into organic creation."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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OLD MAN & THE SEA, THE: Second LP (SHAD 158LP)
"'Most of the recordings were done in our own studio facility at the Traevarehuset. The equipment consisted of two Revox tape recorders and a self made mixing board. First stage was to record the band, playing live all together. Everything had to be made in one go, and if too many mistakes happened, we had to do the whole thing from scratch. Hard conditions, but we managed.' The Old Man & The Sea produced a second album in 1974 which was never released. For sure as good as the first but with more musical skills and the production was right on the spot. Every track just perfect, great organ, guitars and vocals, a very sophisticated heavy rock album with a progressive touch. One of the best albums recorded in Denmark. 500 numbered copies on 180 gram vinyl, in a gatefold heavy sleeve."
$32.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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JOKERS WILD: Liquid Giraffe LP (SHAD 159LP)
"Jokers Wild recorded three singles between 1967 and 1969 in Minnesota but the complete album Liquid Giraffe was never released. Starting as a five man band most of the material was recorded by the three main members: Lonnie Knight, Denny Johnson, and Pete Huber. Later Lonnie Knight became guitarist of The Litter for a while but he returned to Jokers Wild. What a powerful band this is. Huge amp stacks guaranteed a wall of sound on stage. Double bass drum, cool outfits, they must have been been great on stage. Damin Eih, A.L.K., and Brother Clark wrote: 'In '67 I saw two local bands that again amped up the juice, The Litter and Jokers Wild. Both bands played original music and had excellent psychedelic-raved guitar players, Zippy Caplan (Litter) and Lonnie Knight (Jokers Wild). That brought everything to a new level.' Heavy underground rock with great composed songs, fuzz guitars, speedy drums and tight bass lines. If you think The Litter is the one you should listen to Jokers Wild. 500 numbered copies on 180 gram vinyl, in a heavy sleeve."
$30.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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CHARLIES: Buttocks LP (SHAD 160LP)
"We always thought Elonkorjuu was the heaviest album in the early '70s from Finland. But Charlies' album features loud and wild guitars, screaming vocals, and can easily be described as the most outrageous Finnish album of the '70s not far away from Jimi Hendrix and Cream. Buttocks is a heavy, hypnotic and progressive with amazing guitar work from Eero Ravi, the musical soul of the band. So the Finnish scene had much more to offer back in the early '70s beside Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidenti. They have recorded Buttocks for Love Records. Mika Kaurismäki (film director/producer) wrote: 'I had already started to discover blues music, John Mayall, Jimi Hendrix, Cream and others, so it was quite logical, that I became of a fan of Charlies. In Lahti, we thought Charlies was the best band in Finland.' Charlies played the famous Ruisrock festival in 1970. What a great band this is. Their first album Musiikkia elokuvasta Julisteiden liimaajat will be released early next year. Buttocks is so good and rare that is deserves a good reissue. The album comes with many extras such as photos and extensive liner notes. Dave Lindholm (musician) wrote: 'Charlies was the first big Finnish rock band for me. They played loud and rough. They looked like men, not popstars. They played the music I love. Could I ask for more? Well, I didn't!' 500 numbered copies on 180 gram vinyl, in a heavy sleeve."
$30.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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BACHMAN, DANIEL: Jesus I'm a Sinner LP (TSQ 2950LP)
LP version. "Jesus I'm a Sinner is the fourth LP by Daniel Bachman. The album was recorded in Rappahannock County Virginia at Forrest Marquisee's studio inside his father's woodshop in May of 2013 after spending just around eight months on the road. The first song 'Sarah Anne' is a song for one of his best friends and sister Sarah Anne Bachman, and is also his first full song for the lap guitar. 'Honeysuckle Reel' is a springtime tune. For that first day when the heat and humidity sets in and the smell of the honeysuckle bloom creeps in your open windows driving. 'Happy One Step' is a guitar/fiddle duet with Sally Morgan of the Black Twig Pickers/The Freight Hoppers. It is a Cajun tune by Dennis McGee. 'Jesus I'm a Sinner' is for cutting loose. 'Variation on Goose Chase' is a version of Virgil Anderson's 'Goose Chase.' Although he attempted to adapt this song to the guitar, playing it on the banjo was the only way to keep the feel of the original version. 'Under the Shade of the Trees' has the undertone and drone of the 17 year cicada hatch that hit Virginia summer of 2013. The title is taken from Stonewall Jackson's last words on his deathbed: 'Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.' 'Chattanooga' is played by Sally Anne Morgan (fiddle) and Charlie Devine (banjo). This version was taken from Blaine Smith. 'Blenheim' is the name of the Latané family's property in Westmorland Co. Virginia. It's a song for good food, drinks and solid company nestled on the banks of the Potomac River. 'Leaving Istanbul (4 AM)' is a frustration song and the feeling of being very tired thousands and thousands of miles away from home."
$11.50 UPC: 894807002950 ROCK
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REACTIONARIES, THE: 1979 LP (WUB 001LP)
2013 repress -- on gold vinyl. "The precursor to The Minutemen. Side one documents a 10-song practice tape recorded in 1979, plus a 'bonus side' of mostly knuckleheaded San Pedro people doing their renditions of the same ten songs. 12-inch vinyl-only release brought to you by Water Under The Bridge and 45 rpm Records. Practice tape recorded in San Pedro, CA at the shed in back of George's house on 17th Street, across the street from San Pedro High School, January 1979. Bonus side features ten Reactionaries songs from Side A covered by 38 members of different San Pedro-affiliated bands, both past and present. Cover art by Joe Baiza. The Reactionaries: Martin Tamburovich - singing, D. Boon - guitar, Mike Watt - bass and back-up, George Hurley - drums."
$11.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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HARRISON, JOHN: Day of the Dead Original Score 2LP (WAXWORK 003LP)
"Waxwork Records is excited to announce their second release, George A. Romero's Day of the Dead. This double 180 gram vinyl release features, for the first time ever, John Harrison's complete score to the zombie horror classic including every musical cue used in the film (over an hour's worth of music). The original 1985 master tapes were restored and remixed by the composer, and re-mastered for vinyl by former White Zombie guitarist, J. Yuenger. This limited release will be pressed on cream yellow marble vinyl (Sides A and B) and military green marble vinyl (Sides C and D). All housed in a heavyweight old-school tip-on matte varnish gatefold jacket with spot UV gloss. The full LP package artwork has been created by artist Jay Shaw. Included are essay length liner notes from the 'Godfather of Zombies' himself, George A. Romero. The LP package includes an 11x22 replica of 'THE DEAD WALK!' newspaper article from the opening credits of the film featuring essay length composer notes from John Harrison."
$27.50 UPC: 728028303988 ROCK
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COSMIN TRG: Terminus Abrupt EP 12" (50WRMX 008EP)
Cosmin TRG's sophomore album Gordian (50 013CD/LP) is a great example of an artist continuously pushing his own boundaries and denying genre limitations of any kind. Not easy listening material, but a delightful listen, packed with plenty of rewarding oddities. 50 Weapons is preparing a series of remix singles to highlight the DJ aspects of the album. Legowelt's remix of "Terminus Abrupt" is a timeless, superlative techno monster. Miles Whittaker's (one-half of Pendle Coven and Demdike Stare) remix of "Noise Code" is exactly the superb demonstration of deep drone techno dub epicness you would expect. Only it's even better.
$9.79 UPC: 817231011558 ELECTRONIC
A1. Terminus Abrupt (Legowelt Remix)
B1. Noise Code (Miles Remix)
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PLANTMAN: Closer to the Snow CD (ARLEN 006CD)
Arlen's second Plantman release, following January 2013's extremely well-received Whispering Trees. The project of former Beatglider man Matt Randall, this represents his early Plantman recordings, put together on a four-track at home and with band member Adam Radmall at John Hannon's NO recording studios. The songs reflect the mood upon the conclusion of the last Beatglider album Witches, as Randall was getting into The Go-Betweens and their simpler production values, and as a result found himself moving away from the sprawling seven-minute Beatglider offerings. Instead, what emerged was a 17-track album with shorter songs and more of a mixtape feel, influenced by bands such as Sebadoh, East River Pipe and Trembling Blue Stars. Closer to the Snow was originally released in a 35-copy CD-R run on the Cathedral Transmissions label, with available copies predictably hard to come by and commanding sizable fees since.
$10.99 UPC: 666017267029 ROCK
01. In the Night
02. Flame
03. Closer to the Snow
04. Silver Stream
05. Magic Wood No. 1
06. Sad Eyed
07. Passing Ships
08. Paper Boats
09. The Tide
10. Idle Brave
11. Your Faraway Blues
12. Leave a Window
13. Ancient Grey
14. Blues My Religion
15. Amelanchier
16. Magic Wood No. 2
17. Mountains
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DUSKY: Careless EP 12" (AUS 1351EP)
As Dusky, the British duo of Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman have asserted their position amongst the top producers working in electronic music right now. Their Careless EP on Aus has a relaxed flair, melding a diverse range of classic house, techno and garage influences with a wholly modern energy here, marking yet another step forward in their technique and approach. The four tracks are crackling and expansive with just the right amount of dancefloor-centric coloration, detailing a more roughed-up and rugged example of Dusky's deft ability to rethink and reshape their sound for the modern club context.
$9.79 UPC: 827170522060 ELECTRONIC
A1. Careless
B1. Esperanto Juggler
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SHIFTED: Under a Single Banner CD (NAIL 007CD)
It's been a busy couple of years for the producer behind the Shifted project. On top of an extremely well-received album for the Mote Evolver label, the producer has edged further out into the fringes of electronic music under a number of aliases, taking in noise/ambient variants as Covered In Sand, as well as more distorted, technofied productions under the Alexander Lewis moniker, a sound described by the Blackest Ever Black label as "S-M techno." His new album as Shifted, Under a Single Banner, finds the producer converging these strands into a lucid re-imagining of techno, starting off from the toughened, purist templates honed down by the likes of Sandwell District and Marcel Dettmann, and stretching out into more textured, sometimes noisy, often introverted and melancholy signatures. It's a perfect fit for Bed Of Nails, a label that's given a platform for the more direct dancefloor mutations of Dominick Fernow's own productions as Vatican Shadow, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, and Christian Cosmos, as well as familiar Hospital Productions affiliates such as Kris Lapke under the Bronze Age guise. There's a rich and earthy warmth to Under a Single Banner that's perhaps at odds with the puerile fixation on all things noisy at the fringes of techno these days, but for the most part, the tension and momentum keeps the album definitively aimed at the floor without ever resting on its laurels. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
$11.79 EAN: 5060165481293 ELECTRONIC
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SHIFTED: Under a Single Banner 2LP (NAIL 007LP)
Double LP version.
$18.39 EAN: 5060165481286 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Bermuda 2013 Presents City Sound Berlin 2CD (BERMUDA 004CD)
Berlin is multi-colored, multi-cultural, and loud. Berlin is everything you want, if you want it. It's a city that satisfies the autonomic needs of its citizens by offering enough space to drift away. You can find big love here, and you can get lost in the endless nights -- nights which dictate a communal 4/4-heartbeat and let you forget about everything. This untouched romance is one of the reasons why Berlin evolved into a world-wide hotspot for electronic music in the last 20 years. The world's best DJs shake hands at the airport, the most interesting releases are recorded in the local studios and the very well-known booking agencies, clubs and labels are only a few steps away from each other. Thanks to this network, Bermuda can host the Berlin Music Days (BerMuDa) for the fifth time. To bear this international festival in mind, the label prepared a 2CD compilation which shines a light on every facet of Berlin. The CD1 "Day" edition underlines every pre- or after-hour with atmospheric tracks from DJ Koze, Fritz Kalkbrenner, Sascha Braemer, Oliver Koletzki, and many more. The CD2 "Night" edition unfolds the dark pull of Berlin's clubs with sounds from Pan-Pot, Ellen Allien, Marcel Dettmann, Mathias Kaden, and many other heroes. Never mind which companion you choose -- all of them act as one's best. Other artists include: Finnebassen, Herbert, DJ Koze, Lee Jones, Matthias Meyer, Mano Le Tough, Dixon, Ruede Hagelstein, Black Rose, Subb-an & Tom Trago (feat. Seth Troxler), Siriusmo, Tale Of Us, Hot Since 82, Ten Walls, Mind Against, Daniel Stefanik, Francys, Adam Port, Marco Resmann, Jesse Perez, Sons Of Tiki, KiNK & Sierra Sam (feat. Hollis P. Monroe & Overnite), KiNk, La Fleur, and Kenny Larkin.
$14.39 UPC: 827170134621 ELECTRONIC
CD1: Day
01. Sascha Braemer (feat. Anna Müller) - You (Finnebassen Remix)
02. Herbert - It's Only (DJ Koze Remix)
03. Lee Jones - A Perfect Kick (Matthias Meyer Remix)
04. Fritz Kalkbrenner - Hear Me Roar
05. Oliver Koletzki - Childhood Basslines
06. Mano Le Tough - Everything You've Done Before (Dixon Remix)
07. Ruede Hagelstein - Detuned
08. Black Rose - Sky
09. Subb-an & Tom Trago (feat. Seth Troxler) - Time
10. Siriusmo - Itchy
11. Tale Of Us - Another Earth
12. Hot Since 82 - Like You
CD2: Night
01. Ten Walls - Gotham
02. Mind Against - Atlant
03. Daniel Stefanik - Confidance (Adam Port Remix)
04. Francys - Memories (Marco Resmann Remix)
05. Ellen Allien - The Kiss (Jesse Perez Remix)
06. Sons Of Tiki - Seven Changes (Mathias Kaden Remix)
07. Pan-Pot - White Fiction
08. Marcel Dettmann - Linux
09. KiNK & Sierra Sam - My Space (feat. Hollis P. Monroe & Overnite) (KiNk's Hardcore Mix)
10. La Fleur - Nightflow (Kenny Larkin Drama Mix)
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MIRKO: Bergstrom EP 12" (SLATE 004EP)
"Bergstrom" cuts to the chase: cavernous, reverbed chords, slicing hi-hats and steely snares, strapped to a sinewy 909 kick, with a siren droning faintly in the background. Four-to-the-floor "Ekaterina" is the fever-dream of funky house: icy hats and reverbs trick out a heavily-filtered synth and a heaving sample of vintage polka. "State and Revolution" skirmishes between razor sharp hats and muted claps, blanketed by echoing synth stabs. Finally, "Damperhof" draws the curtains and departs the dancefloor: a mournful, impressionistic cello, a slow throb, a little acid, and somber chords bouncing around the ruins. This is Mirko at his most expressive.
$10.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Bergstrom
A2. Ekaterina
B1. State and Revolution
B2. Damperhof
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VA: Mobilisation Generale: Protest and Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976 CD (BORNBAD 057CD)
1968. France, Incorporated. The entire building was being consumed by flames and was slowly collapsing. Nothing would survive. Out of the rubble of the old world jumped the children of Marx and Coca-Cola, ripping the white and blue stripes off the French flag. Yet, the socialist revolution was more mythic than real and music did nothing to mitigate people's behavior. It was time for innovation. While singles from The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and MC5 provided an incendiary soundtrack for the revolution, it was Black Americans who truly blew the world from its foundations in the '60s. Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, and Archie Shepp left behind the jazz of their fathers' generation, liberating the notes, trashing the structures, diving headfirst into furious improvisations, inventing a new land without boundaries -- neither spiritual nor political. Free jazz endowed the saxophone with the power to destroy the established order. In 1969, the Art Ensemble Of Chicago arrived at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in Paris and a new fuse was lit. Their multi-instrumentalism made use of a varied multiplicity of "little instruments" (including bicycle bells, wind chimes, steel drums, vibraphone and djembe: they left no stone unturned), which they employed according to their inspirations. The group's stage appearance shocked as well. They wore boubous (traditional African robes) and war paint to venerate the power of their free, hypnotic music, directly linked to their African roots. They were predestined to meet up with the Saravah record label (founded in 1965 by Pierre Barouh), already at the vanguard of as-yet unnamed world music. Brigitte Fontaine's album Comme à la radio, recorded in 1970 after a series of concerts at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, substantiated the union of this heiress to the poetic and politically-committed chanson française with the Art Ensemble Of Chicago's voodoo jazz and the Arab tradition perpetuated by her companion Areski Belkacem. A UFO had landed on the turntables of French teens, who were discovering underground culture via publications like Actuel, Libération, Charlie Hebdo, Rock & Folk and a vigorous free press. For 20 year-olds in the early 1970s, making music was a political act; they grabbed a microphone to advance a cause, not to become rock stars. While the price of oil skyrocketed and Pompidou went overboard building horrible concrete apartment buildings for public housing and "adapting the city for the automobile," some took refuge in the countryside. Alternative communities formed all across France, giving rise to groups (or rather, collectives) with open-minded structures, cheerfully mixing music, theatrical happenings and agitprop, along with a good dose of acid. Projects bordering on the ridiculous were often tolerated (progressive rock was one of the primary banalities the era produced), while those who followed the route paved by spiritual jazz often ended up elsewhere. The vehemence (if not grandiloquence) of their declarations was carried and transcended by the finesse and brilliance of their musicianship. Simultaneously spatial, pastoral and tribal, the tracks in this collection represent an ideal intersection between a sort of psychedelic legacy, the space jazz of Sun Ra and Afro Beat (then being created by Fela in Lagos): they are as much incantations (often driven by the spoken-word), war cries or poems as they are polemics. 1978. Giscard was at the helm. Punk and disco were busily decapitating the last remaining hippies. Peoples' blood was still boiling, but it was already too late. The war was over, lost without anyone noticing. Nevertheless, people still tilted at windmills or talked tough in dead-end struggles; a dream is not so far from a nightmare. We knew that an enchanted era had ended, the hope for a brighter future was now behind us and that we would leave behind nothing for our children but a few records. Indeed, ghosts may still crackle from our speakers, as the 45 spins and Brigitte Fontaine asks Areski: "Hé mais je pense à un truc, on ne va pas mourir dans une minute?" (trans. "Hey, I was just thinking, aren't we going to die in a minute?"). Features artists such as Alfred Panou & Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem, Atarpop 73 & Le Collectif Le Temps Des Cerises, RK Nagati, Frédéric Rufin & Raphaël Lecomte, François Tusques, Mahjun (Mouvement Anarcho Héroïque des Joyeux Utopistes Nébuleux), Full Moon Ensemble, Baroque Jazz Trio, Michel Roques, Chêne Noir, and Beatrice Arnac.
$10.99 EAN: 3521383427507 JAZZ
01. Alfred Panou & Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Je suis un sauvage
02. Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - C'est normal
03. Atarpop 73 & Le Collectif Le Temps Des Cerises - Attention... L'Armée
04. RK Nagati - De l'orient à l'orion
05. Frédéric Rufin & Raphaël Lecomte - Les Elephants
06. François Tusques - Nous allons vous conter... (Intercommunal Blues)
07. Mahjun (Mouvement Anarcho Héroïque des Joyeux Utopistes Nébuleux) - Nous ouvrirons les casernes
08. Full Moon Ensemble - Samba Miaou
09. Baroque Jazz Trio - Orientasie
10. Michel Roques - Le Cri
11. Chêne Noir - Hey
12. Beatrice Arnac - Athee ou ate
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VA: Mobilisation Generale: Protest and Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976 2LP (BORNBAD 057LP)
Double LP version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve.
$18.99 EAN: 3521381527513 JAZZ
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LAID BACK: Uptimistic Music 2CD (BM 006CD)
Earlier in 2013, Danish electronic pioneers Laid Back released Uptimistic Music Vol. 1 (a digital download-only release), their first studio album since 2004. The duo's long-awaited comeback was followed by critical acclaim and a series of live performances. While playing festivals in Ibiza, Georgia, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands in the summer of 2013, John Guldberg and Tim Stahl took the time to put the finishing touches on this release: Uptimistic Music, a double album featuring volume one and a second record of unreleased material. "Brother" was the album's first single: "The track originates from the mid-'80s and it talks about the brotherly feeling in us," explains Stahl. "Its lyrics are even more relevant today: 'Brother, time is running out.' We are well-aware of the fact that we are some old music industry geezers," says Guldberg jokingly. "Uptimistic Music is a combination of some old songs we had lying around -- that are still alive and kicking! -- and new songs we composed since our last album Happy Dreamer. Anything less than a double album wouldn't have been enough. The positive and timeless message that pervades our music is deeply-rooted in the way we think and express ourselves. A song should be judged on its longevity rather than its novelty," agree the two musicians, who have been friends for over 40 years.
$11.99 UPC: 827170133624 ELECTRONIC
CD1:
01. Clear Your Mind
02. Make Your Day
03. Oochi Gucci
04. Don't Step on the Grass
05. Rocketship to Mars
06. Uptimistic Music
07. Around the Park
08. Let the Music Do the Talking
09. Supercool Funky Lady
10. Time to Live
CD2:
01. Don't Shoot the Sun Down
02. Pitter Patter
03. Feel the Way You Do
04. Interconti
05. Brother
06. We Don't Need No Bad Vibrations
07. Fuck
08. Going Where Living Is Easy
09. Cool Down Lover (Simple Life)
10. Up 2you
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LAID BACK: Uptimistic Music 2LP (BM 006LP)
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$20.39 UPC: 827170520660 ELECTRONIC
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INFORMATION GHETTO: Inspiration 12" (BRK 007EP)
Russian producer Denis Korsunskiy aka Information Ghetto explains his latest EP: "'Inspiration' is one of my favorite works so far. It's a unique composition which I envisioned and later managed to accurately replicate in the world of sound waves. I create my music in constant dialogue with my instruments and often they show me the limit of my creative processes, but with 'Inspiration' it turned out to be totally the opposite with me pushing my equipment to new levels and I believe I managed to consciously integrate into it the energy of when I was first introduced to electronic music. For me, those far-away days in the '90s were the period I remember fondly and love so much." Remixes from Chicago's masters of the deep, Specter, and techno pioneer Aubrey.
$9.79 UPC: 827170521261 ELECTRONIC
A1. Inspiration
B1. Inspiration (Specter Remix)
B2. Inspiration (Aubrey Dark Remix)
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YAMASHITA, YAKUYA: Daybreak (Mirko Loko Remixes) 12" (CADENZA 089EP)
Long-serving Cadenza recording artist, Mirko Loko, has always worn his Detroit musical influences on his sleeve, counting pioneer Carl Craig as his mentor, and having worked with the likes of Derrick May and Stacey Pullen in the studio. And on Daybreak, Mirko fully indulges in the one genre that seems never to get tarnished, mechanical and industrial beats working off deep and soulful strings and melancholic pads, a true hallmark of the classic sounds of the Motor City. The original mix of "Daybreak" by Takuya Yamashita gets three new versions from Mirko.
$8.99 UPC: 827170509467 ELECTRONIC
A1. Daybreak (Mirko Loko Mūn Version)
B1. Daybreak (Mirko Loko Taiyō Version)
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AJU, DAVE: Maybeso 12" (CCS 081EP)
Dave Aju is back for a focused two-track release that finds the San Franciscan enchanter summoning up his finest deep house powers. As ever, there is a wistful, sun-kissed quality to the music, as Blue Note keys wrap themselves around the nagging beats, side-stepping the frantic urgency of so much dance music to focus on a more sensual kind of body movement. From the pitched-down surreality of his tones on "Maybeso" with its hopeful lyrical refrain, to the catchy rap-singing alternation that runs through "Inmahed," Aju's voice is his music and his music is his voice, the two perfectly intertwined like no one else could step to.
$8.99 UPC: 827170516168 ELECTRONIC
A1. Maybeso
B1. Inmahed
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MCKAY, HARVEY: Cinnamon Kiss 12" (COR 108EP)
Harvey McKay is back and stronger and harder than ever before. His last release for Cocoon climbed to the top position in the Beatport charts and stayed there for quite some time and it was about time that the Drumcode- and Soma recordings producers return to Cocoon. Cinnamon Kiss brings us spicy cinnamon flavor for the colder days and nights. A massive tech-house-tune with cool oldskool house chords and cool breakdowns that will put raver hands up in the air. "Push It" does what the names says and pushes the beat even higher -- a pumping techno monster that even features a little D-Shake sample.
$9.79 UPC: 827170522664 ELECTRONIC
A1. Cinnamon Kiss
B1. Push It
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VATH, SVEN: In the Mix: The Sound of the Fourteenth Season 2CD (CORMIX 045CD)
Sven Väth is co-founder of the Cocoon label, and this is The Sound of the Fourteenth Season. For 14 years, the island Ibiza has been haunted by Sven Väth and his high-spirited tribe. In 2013, Cocoon turned the beloved Amnesia club into a tropical jungle. The jungle seduced with lush colors and intriguing sounds, and the creator of this groove was techno ambassador Sven Väth, who hosted the whole event, using music, dance, performance, pyrotechnics and set design to create an integral experience. As a keepsake of these amazing nights and days, Väth assembled the most memorable tracks into a mix-album. This time, the approach is different. Instead of creating two mixes representing each night and day, he produced one continuous set. As the sun lowers dazzlingly over the Mediterranean Sea, the astonishingly beautiful yet inaccessibly distant chords of "Allowance" by Isolée leave no doubt: everything is said, everything is done. Yet this is only the beginning of the set. The chords of Lusine's "Lucky" translate the thoughtful mood into a celebratory energy. Remixing "Lockdown Party" by The Mole, DJ Sprinkle fuses the joy of a block party with heartfelt deep house chords and harsh cross-fader effects, adding an unlikely twist. Cocoon hero Ricardo Villalobos creates an unlikely encounter between a driving bass line and restrained beats topped by intangible strings. This contradictory tension is dissolved by the sweet piano riff of Marcus Fix's "I Wanna Let You Go." With his dry, tense groove, Losoul bundles the dancefloor's playful energy into one focused kick. With its beseeching vocal, Viktor Shan's "How You Want It" adds new emotional layers to the set. John Heckel's marching grooves and nagging acid sounds drive the night further towards its peak. Adam Port's remix of Daniel Stefanik's "Confidence" is all about the bass line prowling around the dancefloor like a hungry animal. Soy Mustafa's "Bug in the Bassbin" picks up the bassy energy, grounding Carl Craig's classic with the same title in London's contemporary bass music. Losoul returns with another one of his subtle yet powerful grooves. The Third Man picks up the Detroit vibe, turning glistening chords into an ecstatic anthem, calling 2013's most intense moments back to the mind. The second part sets on a slightly different, mellow note. Henrik Schwarz's keen house sounds explore inert, gloomy indie-rock sensibilities, fusing perfectly into Ten Walls' "Gotham." The contrast of its alluring melodies and the heavy bass put the crowds of this season consistently under their spell. The restrained choir of DJ Yellow & Flowers And Sea Creatures has a sacral quality, recalling the sublime voices of medieval music. Matt John's "The Keys" dissolves this withdrawn energy in a playful vibe, his cool voice reminding of the hard-boiled crooning of '80s-era David Bowie. Butch clears these conflicting emotions, creating space for Roman Flügel's unique way of carving out the fun and joy of quirky electronic sounds. Makam releases the raw immediate energy of his emotionally versatile house style. At this moment, wAFF only need very little to finally push the crowd into the abyss of pure ecstasy. Nihad Tule drops fierce electronic sounds barely heard before, and Psyk creates a multilayered sound sculpture full of movement and life. Bursting with energy yet controlled and subtle, Developer's marching electro riff creates an intriguing psychedelic effect. Len Faki and Johannes Heil suggest a certain seriousness. A horn call seems to ask the dancers to persist for a moment and remember the smiles and sweat and everything else that counted in the summer of 2013.
$16.39 UPC: 827170134126 ELECTRONIC
CD1:
01. Isolée - Allowance
02. Lusine - Lucky (Jeremy Greenspan Remix)
03. The Mole - Lockdown Party (Sprinkles' Crossfaderama)
04. Ricardo Villalobos - Arild
05. Markus Fix - Wanna Let You Go
06. Renato Figoli - Underpool (Losoul Remix)
07. Viktor Shan - How You Want It
08. The Superior Inferior - Echelon XIII (John Heckle's Interpretation 1)
09. Daniel Stefanik - Confidence (Adam Port Remix)
10. Soy Mustafa - Bug in the Bassbin
11. Gebruder Teichmann (feat. Foremost Poets) - Time's Almost Up (Losoul's Altered Poetry Version)
12. The Third Man - Double Dawn
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01. Henrik Schwarz - Take Words in Return (Return Version)
02. Ten Walls - Gotham
03. DJ Yellow & Flowers And Sea Creatures - No One Gets Left Behind (Konstantin Sibold Remix)
04. Matt John - The Keys
05. Butch - Desert Storm
06. Roman Flügel - More Is Not Enough (Heaven or Hell?)
07. Makam - Lion King
08. wAFF - BeatMakerZ
09. Nihad Tule - Shatter
10. Psyk - Arcade
11. Developer - Drive Themes
12. Len Faki & Johannes Heil - The Octopuss
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GROOVE ARMADA/BRODANSE/CARI GOLDEN: Sweat EP 12" (DCR 008EP)
Brodanse team up with vocalist Cari Golden and resurgent beatsmiths Groove Armada for a huge new track that has already been road-tested in Ibiza and has drawn all the right reactions. "Sweat (Club)" is a big bouncy house track with neon synth stabs, raw and thumping kick drums and icy hi-hats that all coalesce into a barnstorming peak-time track designed for maximum destruction. It's simple but effective, economic but efficient in terms of design and keeps your attention locked for seven minutes of inescapable house tension. The deep version is less rigid and regimented, there is more swing in the drums and percussion and a golden glow of warmth radiates from within. The vocal here is also smoother and creamier, making its way into your heart as the waify chords add more layers of sonic richness. This is one for sun-down rather than hands-up moments and perfectly encapsulates the forward-facing house vibe the Danse Club label embodies.
$9.79 UPC: 827170523166 ELECTRONIC
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TUFF CITY KIDS: Roby Tease 12" (DSR H7-EP)
Running Back boss Gerd Janson and fellow German Phillip Lauer are Tuff City Kids and are the next pairing to contribute to Delsin's house-leaning series. Their only previous EP came on Ostgut sub-label Unterton and the tracks they offer up here continue in a similarly raw and analog house vein. "HFS" is a louche and laid-back affair. It's a spacious track with plenty of ambient textures as well as hollow-sounding melodies and more grating percussive stabs. "Wendy (Girlfriend 43 Piano Mix)" is underpinned by a rasping, hiccupping bass line and is built on heavy rubber kicks while a lead melody brings a sense of brightness to the otherwise murky mix. "Reeze" is a sketchy slo-jam that will work crowds into a stupor with ease.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. HFS
A2. Wendy (Girlfriend 43 Piano Mix)
B1. Reeze
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TCB: Monogamie 12" (ORKL 001EP)
TCB prophesizes unborn futures and fates with a little magic by Kassem Mosse and Mix Mup.
$9.79 UPC: 827170519961 ELECTRONIC
A1. Monogamie
B1. Unchained (MM/KM Remix)
B2. Unchained
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AMO: Outside the Box EP 12" (DISS 018EP)
Dissonant is proud to present Andrew M. Oritz, a producer and DJ who has spent his life immersed in DJ culture. Having earned his stripes as a DJ across countless clubs in New Jersey and New York, as well as further afield in Florida, his explorations into production have fed into this first release. "Outside the Box," featuring Zay De Mello, is the perfect club track, full of hypnotic percussion that pushes forwards with an unstoppable energy, while the well-selected vocal samples add an extra layer. "Doctor Who" takes a more subtle approach, using minimal rhythms and space to create an unpredictable feeling.
$8.99 UPC: 827170515468 ELECTRONIC
A1. Outside the Box (feat. Zay de Mello)
B1. Doctor Who
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UNKNOWN: I Love the Way/So Special 12" (DW 001EP)
From the Kid housing on Dopeness Galore.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. I Love the Way
B1. So Special
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TAKEMATSU, RYO: Six-O-Seven Blues CD (EM 1117CD)
Tokyo's Ryo Takematsu proves the universality and timelessness of the blues on his debut solo release Six-O-Seven Blues. Recorded mainly in a Japanese bedroom, Takematsu's heartfelt and sincere acoustic guitar-playing filters his love of pre-war American country blues through the more relatively recent influences of John Fahey and Backwards Sam Firk; the seven pieces here, on three 7" records, slingshot these influences through space and time, from America in a previous century to 21st-century Japan and on to the wider world. Bookended by opening and closing collaborative tracks, Takematsu, one of the founding members of EM Records stalwarts Noahlewis' Mahlon Taits, rides solo for the bulk of the tracks, sounding relaxed and focused. The opening title-track, by Takematsu, features some guest percussion from his bandmates, and the final track is a remix, by Tomoki Kanda, of John Fahey's "On Doing an Evil Deed Blues." Two more tracks by Fahey appear, plus songs by Skip James and William Moore. Released on CD and 7" vinyl, this time-travelling set is a charm.
$11.79 EAN: 4560283211174 ROCK
01. Six-O-Seven Blues (Ryo Takematsu) (6:07)
02. Old Country Rock (William Moore) (3:33)
03. In Christ There Is No East Or West (John Fahey) (3:29)
04. I'm So Glad (Skip James) (2:17)
05. On Doing an Evil Deed Blues (John Fahey) (5:10)
06. Requiem for John Hurt (John Fahey) (5:50)
07. On Doing an Evil Deed Blues (Tomoki Kanda Re-Edit) (5:40)
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TAKEMATSU, RYO: Six-O-Seven Blues 3x7" (EM 1117LP)
Triple 7" version, packaged in a special slipcase.
$15.79 EAN: 4560283217176 ROCK
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SHERIFF LINDO AND THE HAMMER: Ten Dubs That Shook the World CD (EM 1119CD)
There are certain albums which shake the world immediately upon release, and others which come from far underground and whose shocks and aftershocks rise to the surface gradually over the years, gaining momentum and power. Ten Dubs That Shook the World is of the latter type. Since its original vinyl release in 1988, the prescient impact of this Australian homemade dubwise solo massive by Anthony Maher aka Sheriff Lindo has become ever-more apparent and influential. With its dual island combination of Jamaican dub and UK industrial and post-punk, and the twinning of spaced electronic drums and effects with some very fine, superbly-rooted bass lines, the tectonic Ten Dubs has proven to be a durable, doubly-solid shaker. This 2013 repress is dedicated to the original producer John Blades, founder of the Endless Recordings label, who along with Maher and Richard Fielding constituted The Loop Orchestra. The CD version features three previously-unissued recordings as bonus tracks. EM Records is also pleased to announce that they are preparing Lindo's first release since Ten Dubs was launched 25 years ago. From deep underground in Australia, rising, reverberating and resonating across the globe, Ten Dubs That Shook the World vibrates on. Newly remastered. Includes a 12-page booklet with liner-notes written by A. Maher, R. Fielding and J. Blades. English & Japanese text.
$14.39 EAN: 4560283211198 ELECTRONIC
01. Dub House of Horrors
02. ! (Dub)
03. Grossly Overweight Dub
04. Fatal Dub
05. Dub Express
06. Dread-ging the River
07. And on the Seventh Day...Dub
08. Eastern Bloc
CD bonus tracks:
09. Bumper Dub
10. Bury Dem Dub
11. Smart Fear Dub
12. Untitled track from Hell, Yes! cassette tape
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SHERIFF LINDO AND THE HAMMER: Ten Dubs That Shook the World LP (EM 1119LP)
LP version, with a printed inner sleeve, liner notes, and photos.
$15.79 EAN: 4560283217190 ELECTRONIC
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READ, GERRY: Jummy 2x12" (4TH 007LP)
UK-based producer Gerry Read has turned into a worldwide house phenomenon in an incredibly short amount of time. His raw-edged EPs for the RAMP Recordings sub-label Fourth Wave in 2011 were hard to categorize, and even harder to forget. 2012 was even more rewarding for the young producer, with the peak-time disco-house throwback track "90's Prostitution Racket" and the ridiculous "Demolition Man" collaboration with Kevin McPhee cementing his reputation as a hit machine. Gerry followed this by releasing his rough and tumble Yeah Come Dance with techno institution Delsin, to similar global effect. It may be hard to believe that this is all the work of a cheeky laptop-wielding producer in his early 20s sitting in his bedroom in the sleepy market town of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, but it's what makes it all the more intriguing.
$18.99 EAN: 5025425197420 ELECTRONIC
A1. Four Miles
A2. Evidence
A3. Give Myself to You
B1. Be Pushin (She)
B2. Moving Forward
B3. Crawl
C1. Idiot
C2. Turn
C3. Purple Fire
C4. Gibbon
D1. Let's Make It Deeper
D2. Make a Move
D3. Sidecar
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FLIGHT FACILITIES: Claire de Lune 12" (FCL 090EP)
The innocence of Christine Hoberg's vocal on "Clair De Lune" slowly but quietly crept its way into a lot of people's lives. The Claude Debussy-inspired track could only demand equally tasteful remixes. Starting with Norwegian disco god Prins Thomas; the seemingly quiet tastemaker goes about his work with effortless ease, and puts his sophisticated take on the Flight Facilities eight-minute journey. Crazy P, known for their fun stage shows and infectious original music, apply the combined skills of Hot Toddy and Ron Basejam. It's a slow-burning ear-worm that becomes more addictive with each listen.
$9.79 EAN: 3610153541090 ELECTRONIC
A1. Claire de Lune (Original Version)
A2. Claire de Lune (Instrumental)
B1. Claire de Lune (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
B2. Claire de Lune (Crazy P Remix)
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MCSWEENEY, NEIL: Cargo CD (HSR 004CD)
This is the third solo album release from Neil McSweeney following Remember to Smile (2006) and Shoreline (2009). Neil has also released singles though London-based Kids Records and earlier in 2013 he released The Seventeen EP through his own January Records label. This album features a range of musicians, including BBC Folk award-winners Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead) and Lucy Farrell, label-mate Matt Boulter, as well as double-bass master and ace producer Andy Seward (Kate Rusby, Phil Selway of Radiohead). McSweeney has garnered previously good reviews for his work, including four-star reviews in The Guardian and Q Magazine as well as recent praise for The Seventeen EP from online magazines such as Fatea. His songs have been featured on mainstream and specialist BBC Radio across Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music.
$10.99 UPC: 700461049968 ROCK
01. Bulldozer
02. Be Your Own Dog
03. Happiness
04. San Miniato
05. New Year's Day
06. Sapling Bough
07. Snow Blind
08. Into the Sound
09. Slowly Sets the Sun
10. Cargo
11. Stop Digging
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GRAEF, MAX: Broken Keyboard EP 12" (HEIST 002EP)
Max Graef's track "Jungle" (with multi-talented pen-pal Andy Hart) is probably the most sought-after track of Heist's sets lately and has caused quite a flow of emails ("what the hell is this??"). It's got that ass-shaking groove without being a regular four-to-the-floor banger. "Ignorance is Bliss" has a rough warehouse vibe on the lows, a hint of disco and a set of Rhodes-y keys running through the track to set the mood. "Zitze" features layers and layers of vocals, textures and keys taking turns and a great shuffle that runs through the track that makes it just as much a good listen as a dancefloor jam.
$8.99 UPC: 827170508460 ELECTRONIC
A1. Jungle (feat. Andy Hart)
B1. Ignorance is Bliss
B2. Zitz
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MUMDANCE & LOGOS: Genesis EP 12" (LDN 041EP)
Going both forwards and backwards comes naturally to production duo Mumdance & Logos, as demonstrated by the EP's lead cut "In Reverse PIV." This track dares to go in two directions at once: synths and bass heading forwards, vocals and drums in, well, reverse. The result is shocking: with its glowing lava-like synths, cavernous Reese bass, caustic second drop and rhythmic vortices, it's genuinely unclear what exactly "In Reverse PIV" is. The rest of the Genesis EP is similarly headstrong. "Turrican 2" finds the gap between 909 funk and 8bar grime in a 130 bpm context. "Wut It Do (12" mix)" has jungle's rhythmic chaos, dubstep's bass pressure and Baltimore club's-nagging vocal infectiousness. Finally "Truth," a collaboration between Mumdance and Mao, brings an emotional end, '92 warehouse rave-style.
$8.99 EAN: 5055300378569 ELECTRONIC
A1. In Reverse PIV
A2. Turrican 2
B1. Wut It Do (12" Mix)
B2. Truth (Mumdance & Mao)
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RAGAB AND THE CAIRO JAZZ BAND, SALAH: Egyptian Jazz (Standard Edition) LP (KSAY 002LP)
This record represents The Cairo Jazz Band responding to the American jazz scene of the '60s and '70s, with influences from Mongo Santamaria to Randy Weston and Sun Ra. These tracks were first presented by The Ministry of Culture in Cairo as a Prism Music Production and released with an additional disk by the composer Soliman Gamil. The release of this music marks the first time Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band's definitive works have been presented to the West.
$12.99 EAN: 8717127015481 JAZZ
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KINK: Lost & Found EP 12" (LDS 019EP)
Liebe Detail proudly presents a selection of three re-interpretations by the mighty KiNK. These tracks are available now for the first time on vinyl and have been specially remastered. Strictly limited edition of only 500 vinyl copies. No one does it like KiNK. You'll notice this best while listening to his remix of the 2011 two-step/house classic "Almost Invisible" by Leif. "Bitter Sweet" in this special dub version really shows off his tender, heartfelt approach to house. Raw, beautiful, melancholic and spine-tingling, this is modern house with a harmonious nod to the pioneers. The record ends with Kink's 2007 remix of classic "Eyespeak" by Ed Davenport.
$8.99 UPC: 880319646713 ELECTRONIC
A1. Leif - Almost Invisible (KiNK Live Dub)
B1. Bitter Sweet (Special Dub)
B2. Ed Davenport - Eyespeak (KiNK Remix)
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TINDERSTICKS: Across Six Leap Years CD (LUCKYDOG 015CD)
2013 is a landmark year for Tindersticks, who turn 21. In this time they have recorded nine studio albums, composed music for films, museums, fashion shows and installations, have toured the world, played with various orchestras, collaborated with many great singers and musicians, lost their desire, split up, rearranged, reformed, re-kindled their musical passion and in 2012 made what they, and many critics consider to be one of their finest albums, The Something Rain. Tindersticks wanted to mark this special anniversary year in some way, to connect this history with what they have become. After much discussion, they entered the legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road and between the 6th and 9th of April 2013 recorded Across Six Leap Years, their 10th studio album; 10 new versions of songs from throughout their history. Across the years some songs were "lost along the way." For one reason or another, they never became how they were imagined to be in their recorded form, until now. Across Six Leap Years brings together these previously-unrealized tracks as part-celebration, part-reinvention. "Recording these songs again was not so much about righting past mistakes or inadequacies, but more about the power of now. It's something that's been growing since the film shows, something that made us recognize how we feel now, and connecting that to our past feels important. Walking up to Abbey Road, it could easily have overcome us. But it had nothing to do with its past. We weren't there to take photos on the crossing. I didn't think about playing the 'Lady Madonna' piano. I'd like to say it was just another studio, but sadly, that's not true anymore. It's one of the only studios of its kind left. And it wasn't about our past either. These songs feel like cover versions. Someone else's music we feel we had something new to bring to." --David Boulter, 2013
$10.99 EAN: 4250506807269 ROCK
01. Friday Night
02. Marseilles Sunshine
03. She's Gone
04. Dying Slowly
05. If You're Looking for a Way Out
06. Say Goodbye to the City
07. Sleepy Song
08. A Night In
09. I Know That Loving
10. What Are You Fighting For?
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TINDERSTICKS: Across Six Leap Years LP (LUCKYDOG 015LP)
Limited LP version, on 180 gram vinyl. Includes download coupon.
$18.99 EAN: 4250506807276 ROCK
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BRECHT, JOHANNES: Freedom Walks 12" (MUSIQ 166EP)
Mule Musiq announces the debut release of the brightest hope in the German deep house scene, Johannes Brecht. His real debut 12" on Henrik Schwarz's Sunday Music was highly-acclaimed and he is a member of the Henrik Schwarz Band. Here, Johannes delivers a killer vocal tune. It was a secret weapon on the Mule summer 2012 tour, and when this track was dropped, people went crazy even though nobody knew what it was. The original version is definitely a peak-time tune and the dub version is a cool DJ tool.
$10.39 UPC: 880319642913 ELECTRONIC
A1. Freedom Walks (Original Version (feat. Fetsum)
B1. Freedom Walks (Dub Version)
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ISAACS, GREGORY: Report 12" (NMREC 1208EP)
"Report" is the second single to be lifted from the Gregory Isaacs Remixed (NECMAY 007CD/LP) album. This is one of the most played and requested tracks and Necessary Mayhem have added an exclusive new "Vocal & Dub" mix as well as including the "Vocal & Dub" mix from the album. That makes this a huge, four-track dancehall killer. As with the last 12", this is a limited one-time pressing.
$10.39 EAN: 5055300367433 ELECTRONIC
A1. Gregory Isaacs - Report (Take 6 Mix)
A2. Da Grynch - Report 12" (Dub)
B1. Gregory Isaacs - Report (Album Mix)
B2. Da Grynch - Report Dub
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DMX KREW: Reith Tracks 12" (RHD 011DMX-LP)
Ed DMX drops this brilliant mini-LP of electronics that he recorded on an old farm in Reith, Austria. Emotive stuff that destroys. Big Sound. "Man, this project sounds good. (It also) sounds clean, 'analog-y', fat and all those things. I will be playing a few of these cuts in my sets. You got a winner here." --Anthony "Shake" Shakir
$12.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
01. Hammock Yard
02. Trees Are Dancing
03. Trees Are Dancing 2
04. Rain Catcher
05. Guest House
06. Woodpile
07. Hayloft
08. Kitchen Bench
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CIRCUIT, BURNS & HAWK: From the Legal Pad Of... 12" (RHD 012LE-EP)
Secret Circuit, Willie Burns, and Torn Hawk hooked up in L.A. and jammed out these two sun-touched rollers.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Track 1
B1. Track 2
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TOHUWABOHU: Tohuwabohu 12" (NON 036EP)
Tohuwabohu are Saam Schlamminger (aka Chronomad) and Burnt Friedman. The first joint four-track EP was produced in Friedman's studio in summer 2013. Saam Schlamminger (aka Chronomad) learned to play numerous instruments such as frame drums and lutes in various regions of the world. He is an expert in rhythms and tunings and repetitive contemporary electronic dance music and in styles that are disappearing from the cultural sonic memory. Burnt Friedman -- Nonplace owner, producer, sound and drum machinist -- is fascinated by rhythm and meter, by straight and odd time signatures. Together, Schlamminger and Friedman create spaces of resonance and dissect takes of sonic memory with origins lying in drums and flutes.
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HIGH WATER: The Beautiful Moon 12" (OP 002EP)
High Water makes golden noise for the back of your heart. Will Epstein sings and screams and bangs on the boards --writing spells for a secret high. The wizard Sekret Khipu is a contributing producer and he lacerates the wind with his fist. Summoning a group of shifting incantations for its first release, High Water carves a path through the cracks in your consciousness and into the valley beyond. So at night, when the sounds begin to drip down from the stars and fall to the earth, lie back into a sweet coma and let the water rise up around you.
$9.79 UPC: 827170510661 ELECTRONIC
A1. Railroad Song
A2. Lord of Light
B1. Forest Eyes
B2. Someday My Prince Will Come
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WBEEZA: Perfect High/I Like It 12" (PFLY 001EP)
Wbeeza's first release on his own label, P Fly Music. Two cuts. A-side "Perfect High" is a deep jam that kicks. B-side "I Like It" is a hard and heavy jacking groove with a delicious vocal sample. Killer cuts.
$9.79 UPC: 827170513860 ELECTRONIC
A1. Perfect High
B1. I Like It
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ALBA: Knokke/Law 12" (PWRLD 001EP)
Alba (formerly Albatross), have combined an immaculate eye for detail and warmth with their brand-new release, Knokke/Law. A-side "Knokke" comes out strong with the dogged drive of 909 hats and kick, over deep, ominous noise and re-pitched vocals. "Law" treads in similar territory with its percussive rustles and scrapes, which build into a melodic, arpeggiated corker. The EP features remixes from two of Detroit's finest: Rick Wade and Jimmy Edgar.
$9.79 UPC: 827170507463 ELECTRONIC
A1. Knokke
A2. Law
B1. Knokke (Jimmy Edgar Remix)
B2. Knokke (Rick Wade Remix)
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LIGHT, HARRY: Straight from the Heart 12" (PROTEZ 033EP)
Warm, hazy and driving deep house from Pro-Tez features a bright young hope, Harry Light. It is a vital bit of modern house magic with a blend of Detroit-influenced chords and neatly-padded kicks arranged with that cool, grooving finish. The vibe is deep and punchy, also taking in classic Chicago house elements from Mr. Fingers, disco from Loose Joints, and dub from Rhythm & Sound. Modern but vintage-sounding house from Harry Light. Limited to 300 vinyl copies.
$8.99 UPC: 880319642210 ELECTRONIC
A1. Forever Old (6:37)
B1. Paradise Garage (6:42)
B2 Straight from the Heart (6:24)
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IKEDA, RYOJI: Supercodex CD (R-N 150CD)
Supercodex is the final album in Ryoji Ikeda's trilogy on Raster-Noton that began in 2005 with Dataplex (R-N 068CD) and continued with 2008's Test Pattern (R-N 093CD) that has been exploring the potentials between "data of sound" and "sound of data." Ikeda integrated, differentiated and re/de/meta-constructed the music of the previous two albums and that of his other art installations/projects. Supercodex is also inter-related with Ikeda's new long-term project "Superposition," that, since 2012, has focused on quantum information. It consists of performance pieces (two performers on stage) and forthcoming installation works. The new live set of Supercodex will be premiered in Tokyo in November 2013 and will be toured internationally after then.
$11.99 EAN: 4260115991501 ELECTRONIC
01. Supercodex 01
02. Supercodex 02
03. Supercodex 03
04. Supercodex 04
05. Supercodex 05
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DJOKO, WILLIAM KOUAM: Deflourished EP 12" (RH VD11-EP)
William Kouam Djoko returns with Deflourished. After a year with a lot of high highs and some deep lows, William found himself on the dancefloor listening to a set by Chicago footwork specialists DJ Rashaad and DJ Spinn. William experienced what religious people might call a divine moment. All the experiences, emotions, and soul-searching from the previous year came together in one emotional, energetic moment. William tried to recapture all of this in his studio the next day and within hours, Deflourished was created. A pure form of energy shared by William for everyone to enjoy, hopefully as much as he enjoyed creating it.
$8.99 EAN: 8717127023622 ELECTRONIC
A1. Deflourished
B1. Behind Closed Doors
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PLASTER: Circular Mechanism 12" (SONUOS 003EP)
Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri and Giuseppe Carlini formed the group Plaster in Rome, Italy in 2008 and have released EPs, albums, and been on compilations with their sharp-edged sounds, deep beats and funky syncopations since 2010 on labels such as Kvitnu, Crazy Language, Stroboscopic Artefacts, and Touchin' Bass. "Circular Mechanism" starts off with a dark vibe with drippy notes flickering in the soundscape, just before one of the bass lines kicks in teamed with the bass drum in syncopated perfection. The Substance remix, meanwhile, is saturated deep in dub.
$9.79 UPC: 827170520165 ELECTRONIC
A1. Circular Mechanism
B1. Circular Mechanism (Substance Remix)
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CLANCY: What You Do EP 12" (SPIEL 001EP)
Dirt Crew sub-label Spiel presents brand-new artist Clancy, who presents here his debut EP. You'll not only find your deep house here, but also some more genre-crossing styles of music in the indie dance and nu-disco field. Clancy is a young producer from Manchester now living in London that only just started to break through. He already did a remix for Little Dragon that got a lot of praise and is close to reaching 100K plays on his Soundcloud page. His music is very uplifting and a great mix of UK house and more nu-disco-like flavors. There's also a remix by Norwegian disco master Prins Thomas who transformed the original into a stellar space anthem.
$8.99 UPC: 827170523562 ELECTRONIC
A1. What You Do (Original Mix)
A2. Nobody Else
B1. What You Do (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
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HARRIS, DAVID: Small Path Music (with Laurent Jeanneau) DVD (SF 082DVD)
Small Path Music was shot on location in Southeast Asia in 2010 with Laurent Jeanneau on his relentless quest to capture audio recordings of vanishing indigenous music from ethnic groups of this vast region. The documentary (shot over a period of eight months) takes us travelling with Laurent in the field through remote northern Laos and Yunnan Province of Southwest China and invites us into the world of the folk artists he explores. From shamanic rituals to love songs, historical epics to lamentations, his microphones document what he discovers there. Laurent tells us of the state he finds these artists in today, how this music speaks to him, and we learn what drives the urgency of his work. As perhaps the most committed and accomplished procurer of rare and threatened music from this part of the world, Laurent recounts experiences from a decade of recording in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and China, and we gauge his perspective on the musical traditions of the area. We see how he relates to them and how his work has led his life in new directions. Along this journey he met his wife, Tanding and together they established a recording label (Kink Gong) to release their field recordings. Sublime Frequencies is pleased to present this unique story shot by filmmaker David Harris about the man behind the Ethnic Minority Music album series. 56 minutes, 16:9 NTSC DVD all regions, English with Mandarin subtitles.
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GUIDO: Moods of Future Joy CD (TEC 017CD)
Bristol, UK-born producer Guido releases his second album Moods of Future Joy through hometown label Tectonic Recordings. Alongside Joker and Gemmy, Guido completed Bristol's "Purple Trinity" generation of dubstep producers, whose collective sound took the worldwide underground scene by storm in 2009. His 2010 debut Anidea was well-received by critics -- hailed as "one of the finest post-dubstep full-lengths yet" by Pitchfork and the Guardian describing Guido as "one of the most gifted [composers]. He arranges sound with an elegant precision, as though painting a still life." Resident Advisor highlighted his adaptive musicality, writing "there's no other producer releasing music at the moment who can switch styles so emphatically." Stepping forward from the synthed-out R&B blueprints laid down by Anidea with tempered restraint, Guido has spent the past 18 months grafting in the studio to bring Moods of Future Joy to fruition. Two vocal collaborations -- album opener "Green Eyed Monster" and "Letting Go" -- feature singer Emma-Lou, "Same Road" explores expansive minimalism and "Afrika Pt 2" (Pt 1 released on Guido's own label State Of Joy) flirts with broken Afro-beats. The playfulness of "Heartless Dodger" contrasts the grimier tones of "NRG" while the melancholic harmonies of "Kalm" provide a subtle diversion to the bombastic album closer, "Squeaky Jungle." Foundations in studying jazz and classical music are evident on this highly musical album. Impeccably composed instrumentation, performance and production meld to create sonically delightful tracks that -- although always inherent of dubstep's influence -- are bereft of any single genre.
$9.79 EAN: 5055300378330 ELECTRONIC
01. Green Eyed Monster (GEM)
02. Heartful Dodger
03. Same Road
04. Letting Go
05. Lucky Git
06. Jupiter
07. NRG
08. Afrika Pt. 2
09. Midnight Savannah
10. Kalm
11. Squeaky Jungle
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GUIDO: Moods of Future Joy LP (TEC 074LP)
LP version.
$20.39 EAN: 5055300378347 ELECTRONIC
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THING, THE: Mono 2LP (TTR 002LP)
First time on vinyl. The CD edition was first released on Smalltown Superjazz in 2011. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Includes a cover of Sonny Rollins' "Alfie's Theme." Members of Norwegian jazz supergroup The Thing include: Mats Gustafsson (bass, baritone, tenor and soprano saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass), and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums).
$20.99 EAN: 9120036681323 JAZZ
01. Viking
02. Alfie's Theme
03. Bruremarsj
04. Triple Fox
05. Silver Slipper
06. There Is Shitloads of Red Meat Missing
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VAINIO/JOACHIM NORDWALL, MIKA: Monstrance 2LP (TO 088LP)
Mika Vainio was a member of the legendary minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Emerging from the Finnish industrial and rave music scene in the early '90s, they became one of the most important electronic music acts. Vainio's solo work goes from abstract drone to minimal and experimental techno, under his own name or as Ø for labels like Touch, Raster Noton, Sähkö, and Editions Mego. He has worked with Alan Vega, Keiji Haino, and many others. His music is always extremely physical and present. Mika Vainio lives and works in Berlin. Joachim Nordwall has run the iDEAL Recordings label since 1998, releasing intense electronic music of various kinds and organizing club nights and festivals around the globe. He started making electronic music as a teenager in the late '80s in the psychedelic drone duo Alvars Orkester (Ash International), drifted off to sweaty avant garde punk rock with Kid Commando in the late '90s and formed the ritual rock and electronic drone group The Skull Defekts in 2005. He is also recording solo works under his own name and works with Mats Gustafsson, The Gagmen (with Aaron Dilloway and Nate Young), Mark Wastell, and The Sons Of God. Nordwall is based in Stockholm. Monstrance is their first album together and consists of drone works and pulsating electronic minimalism, but also guitar, acoustic elements, organs, and metal percussion. It was recorded in Einstürzende Neubauten's Berlin studio during an intense session in early summer of 2010. Monstrance is a place where Vainio's and Nordwall's backgrounds as musicians and composers meet, and something new and extremely powerful is born. Something deep, raw, and direct. Mika Vainio (electric guitar, processing, metallic percussion) and Joachim Nordwall (electronics, electric bass guitar, metal objects, Hammond organ, vibraphone).
$14.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
01. Alloy Ceremony (11:02)
02. Live at the Chrome Cathedral (7:06)
03. Midas in Reverse (5:32)
04. Irkutsk (3:54)
05. Praseodymium (8:32)
06. Promethium (5:31)
07. In Sheltering Sanctus of Minerals (9:05)
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DAVIS, RYAN: State of Mind 12" (TRAUM 169EP)
After Ryan Davis' album Particles of Bliss (TRAUM 026CD), it was clear to everyone that he was one of the most versatile artists on the label. There was no electronic playground he did not enter. Now Davis returns with what can easily be referred to as the most powerful EP production of his to date. Opening the doors to newly-embarked soil, the EP kicks off with "Ghosts," an attractive and sophisticated piece of sculptured melodic techno that cuts out the cheesy bits and endless doodling often found in melodic emo music to give them an extra bit of physical strength and deepness.
$8.99 UPC: 880319643415 ELECTRONIC
A1. Ghosts
A2. Drone
B1. Gyration (Live Intro Mix)
B2. Collider
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CAVAAN: Signs EP 12" (TURDJR 002EP)
Cavaan effortlessly present three beautifully-constructed productions that demonstrate the convergence and symbiotic nature of their musical past and present. The Signs EP is a feather-light feeling of completeness, with a euphoric kick in every track. These are three small dissertations that experiment with synthetic song structures with skillfully-placed drums and bass lines which have to be felt and heard. "Black Snow" received remix treatment by Isolée who created "Beau Mot Plage," a club-hit classic which is still turning all around the world.
$9.79 UPC: 827170517462 ELECTRONIC
A1. Coeur de Lion
B1. Black Snow (Isolée Remix )
B2. Baisemain
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BARRETT, SYD: The Madcap Laughs LP (MRSSS 504LP)
Not much introduction needed for this magic album, originally released in 1970 on the Harvest label in the UK. 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
A1. Terrapin
A2. No Good Trying
A3. Love You
A4. No Man's Land
A5. Dark Globe
A6. Here I Go
B1. Octopus
B2. Golden Hair
B3. Long Gone
B4. She Took a Long Cold Look
B5. Feel
B6. If It's In You
B7. Late Night
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TOMORROW: Tomorrow LP (MRSSS 505LP)
Early British psychedelia band Tomorrow, alongside Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, were the most relevant of the London-based underground sound circa 1967. They were formed by Keith West (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera aka Grocer Jack, which inspired The Who's Tommy), John "Twink" Alder on drums (who replaced Viv Prince in The Pretty Things and later formed The Pink Fairies) and Steve Howe, prodigal guitarist from the Syndicats on its way to form highly successful progs, Yes. The group only managed to record one album before breaking up in 1968. That sole album is a solid effort, with quite a few first-rate tracks featuring backward guitar phasing ("My White Bicycle"), electric sitar riffin' ("Real Life Permanent Dream") and infectious pre-hippie anthems ("Revolution"). It's a record full of gentle harmonies and hooky melodies with affectingly trippy lyrics. A great psych-pop album from one of the most fascinating eras in music history. Officially available for the first time with its original artwork and tracklist sequence. On 180 gram vinyl.
$17.79 EAN: 8435008875053 ROCK
A1. My White Bicycle
A2. Colonel Brown
A3. Real Life Permanent Dream
A4. Shy Boy
A5. Claramount Lake
A6. Revolution
B1. The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase
B2. Auntie Mary's Dress Shop
B3. Strawberry Fields Forever
B4. Three Jolly Little Dwarfs
B5. Now Your Time Has Come
B6. Hallucinations
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BUZZCOCKS: Another Music in a Different Kitchen LP (MRSSS 506LP)
The first LP by Buzzcocks, released in 1978 after the departure of Howard Devoto, is one of the truly essential punk rock albums. It sounds fast and aggressive, raw and witty, but the band also had pop hooks to spare and incorporated influences such as Krautrock to their sound, which added to the brilliant songwriting, meaning these songs remain as emotionally intense today as when they came out.
$17.79 EAN: 8435008875060 ROCK
A1. Fast Cars
A2. No Reply
A3. You Tear Me Up
A4. Get On Our Own
A5. Love Battery
A6. 16
B1. I Don't Mind
B2. Fiction Romance
B3. Autonomy
B4. I Need
B5. Moving Away from the Pulsebeat
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RAMONES, THE: Brain Drain LP (MRSSS 507LP)
1989's Brain Drain was an important album in the Ramones discography, as it was the last one with Dee Dee in the band and also saw the return of Marky behind the drum kit. Mainly produced by Bill Laswell, the LP sounds hard and hits heavy, and among its great tracks are included two Ramones classics such as "Pet Sematary" and "I Believe in Miracles." On 180 gram vinyl.
$17.79 EAN: 8435008875077 ROCK
A1. I Believe in Miracles
A2. Zero Zero UFO
A3. Don't Bust My Chops
A4. Punishment Fits the Crime
A5. All Screwed Up
A6. Palisades Park
B1. Pet Sematary
B2. Learn to Listen
B3. Can't Get You Outta My Mind
B4. Ignorance Is Bliss
B5. Come Back, Baby
B6. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
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PIONAL: Invisible/Amenaza 12" (YT 101EP)
Pional's Invisible/Amenaza EP brings the groove and audio-perfectionism of his previous collaborations but adds an unsettling sense of paranoia which brings the music depth and tension. "Invisible Amenaza" translates as "invisible threat." Pional's influences aren't really worn on his sleeve, but the forward-thinking producer adds influences from The Zombies, Roy Ayres, and The Police into a sound that manages to work on the dancefloor as well as the headphones.
$8.99 UPC: 880319636912 ELECTRONIC
A1. Invisible/Amenaza
A2. A New Down
A3. The Shy
B1. Invisible/Amenaza (Extended Dub 12" Version)
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VA: Young Turks 2013/2 12" (YT 2013-2EP)
Young Turks are set to release a series of uniquely artworked limited edition 12"s. Each vinyl will feature two exclusive new tracks by artists affiliated with the label in 2013. At the end of the year, fans will be able to purchase a box set designed to house all of the 2013 series releases. The second of these is the release of a rare track by The xx ("Reconsider"), split with "Without," from Sampha's now sold-out Dual EP. This is the first vinyl release for "Reconsider," which was a Japanese bonus track on Coexist.
$10.39 UPC: 880319629419 ELECTRONIC
A1. The xx - Reconsider
B1. Sampha - Without
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NEGRO, JOEY: Remixed with Love 2CD (ZEDD 030CD)
Joey Negro is the most well-known pseudonym of master British DJ/producer/remixer Dave Lee. Under a plethora of other monikers including Jakatta, Akabu, Doug Willis, Raven Maize, The Sunburst Band, Sessomatto, and Z Factor, Dave was one of the first artists to incorporate disco samples in house music when he began his production career in 1988. Intrinsically linked with the birth of soulful house in the UK, Dave Lee set up the dance music division of Rough Trade. His discography is undoubtedly as impressive as his knowledge of seminal house and disco, and now Joey/Dave puts it to good use with this album; a revisit to some of disco's most sparkly moments. Turning this dream project into a reality was a labor of love. It turns out getting original session tapes from tracks 30 years-old is, as Joey puts it, "a headache. Often you end up speaking to relatives of the person who actually made the record and unfortunately I heard the line all too often, 'I might have a copy of the vinyl somewhere but I definitely don't know where the master tapes are.'" As a fanatical music collector and enthusiast, Joey found himself meeting up with ex-label reps and relatives of the artists leaving no stone unturned -- searching through boxes and in lofts. One multi-track was even under the producer's bed. With such dedication comes results and the results are impressive. Rather than remixes in their modern definition, this is a body of re-edits with the tracks given a new dimension to make them relevant and playable now. In many cases, he has changed the drums, added percussion and sometimes keyboard parts, but not totally ditched the music and started again, as is often the way with straight-up house remixes. This project is about utilizing some of those fantastic original parts in a different way that takes advantage of many of the songs' classic status, subtly teasing in familiar elements and dubbing them out. Artists include: Mass Production, Patrice Rushen, Roxy Music, TW Funkmasters, Karen Young, Narada Michael Walden, Loleatta Holloway, Kleeer, Phreek (feat. Donna McGhee), Ashford & Simpson, Roy Ayres, Matt Bianco, Electric Empire, Princess Freesia, and Bobby Caldwell.
$11.99 EAN: 5060162572390 ELECTRONIC
CD1:
01. Mass Production - Welcome to Our World (Joey Negro Funk in the Music Mix)
02. Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (Joey Negro Extended Disco Mix)
03. Roxy Music - The Same Old Scene (Joey Negro Disco Scene Mix)
04. TW Funkmasters - Love Money (Joey Negro Dubwise Revision)
05. Karen Young - Hot Shot (Joey Negro Sure Shot Mix)
06. Narada Michael Walden - Tonight (I'm Alright) (Joey Negro Spirit of '79 Mix)
07. Loleatta Holloway - Hit and Run (Joey Negro Dub Sensation)
08. Kleeer - Tonight's the Night (Good Time) (Joey Negro Partytime Tonight Mix)
09. Phreek (feat. Donna McGhee) - May My Love Be With You (Joey Negro Tribute to Patrick Adams)
CD2:
01. Kleeer - I Love to Dance (Joey Negro Extended Disco Mix)
02. Mass Production - Cosmic Lust (Joey Negro 7 Minutes of Jazz Funk Mix)
03. Ashford & Simpson - Over and Over (Joey Negro Find A Friend Mix)
04. Roy Ayres - Get on Up Get on Down (Joey Negro Revibe)
05. Narada Michael Walden - I Should've Loved Ya (Joey Negro Should've Dubbed Ya Mix)
06. Matt Bianco - Half a Minute (Joey Negro Sunburnt Mix)
07. Electric Empire - Always (Joey Negro Classic Mix) (CD-only)
08. Princess Freesia - Freesia (Joey Negro Cookie Dough Mix)
09. Bobby Caldwell - Down for the Third Time (Joey Negro Down for the 4th Time Edit) (CD-only)
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NEGRO, JOEY: Remixed with Love, Part 1 2LP (ZEDD 030LP)
Double LP version, in a gatefold sleeve. Volume one of two.
$22.39 EAN: 5060162572413 ELECTRONIC
A1. Mass Production - Welcome to Our World (Joey Negro Funk in the Music Mix)
A2. Ashford & Simpson - Over and Over (Joey Negro Find a Friend Mix)
B1. Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (Joey Negro Extended Disco Mix)
B2. Roxy Music - The Same Old Scene (Joey Negro Disco Scene Mix)
C1. TW Funkmasters - Love Money (Joey Negro Dubwise Revision)
C2. Narada Michael Walden - Tonight (I'm Alright) (Joey Negro Spirit of '79 Mix)
D1. Kleeer - I Love to Dance (Joey Negro Extended Disco Mix)
D2. Loleatta Holloway - Hit and Run (Joey Negro Dub Sensation)
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NEGRO, JOEY: Remixed with Love, Part 2 2LP (ZEDD 030X-LP)
Double LP version, in a gatefold sleeve. Volume two of two.
$22.39 EAN: 5060162572420 ELECTRONIC
A1. Karen Young - Hot Shot (Joey Negro Sure Shot Mix)
A2. Roy Ayres - Get On Up Get On Down (Joey Negro Revibe)
B1. Mass Production - Cosmic Lust (Joey Negro 7 Minutes of Jazz Funk Mix)
B2. Kleeer - Tonight (Joey Negro Partytime Tonight Mix)
C1. Phreek (feat. Donna McGhee) - May My Love Be With You (Joey Negro Tribute to Patrick Adams)
C2. Narada Michael Walden - I Should've Loved Ya (Joey Negro Should've Dubbed Ya Mix)
D1. Princess Freesia - Freesia (Joey Negro Cookie Dough Mix)
D2. Matt Bianco - Half a Minute (Joey Negro Sunburnt Mix)
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FUNKADELIC: Maggot Brain (Limited Edition) LP (4M 1611LP)
"1971's Maggot Brain is the all-out Funkadelic masterpiece. Absolutely no one working in soul and funk at the time had the scope, or vision, to pull off the kind of record that George Clinton and his collaborators have made here. Eccentric funk jams are book ended by two of the heaviest tracks ('Maggot Brain' and 'Wars of Armageddon') ever committed to tape. The title track, and album opener, is nothing short of mindblowing, Eddie Hazel's guitar is a revolution brought on by Clinton asking him to play 'as if your mother just died.' Maggot Brain is an essential classic and the deepest album to come out of the Parliament-Funkadelic camp. A limited edition of 1,000 translucent orange vinyl in a deluxe classic style gatefold sleeve."
$15.00 UPC: 646315161113 ROCK
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BLUNSTONE, COLIN: One Year LP (4M 237LP)
"One Year is the debut solo album from Colin Blunstone, lead singer of legendary psych/pop group The Zombies, originally released in 1971. Produced by fellow Zombies Rod Argent and Chris White, One Year is classic Baroque pop with lush string arrangements and Argent's unique keyboard sound. One Year features the hit 'Say You Don't Mind,' plus a number of Blunstone originals, and a beautiful cover of Tim Hardin's 'Misty Roses.' Pressed on 180 gram vinyl."
$15.50 UPC: 646315123715 ROCK
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GX JUPITTER-LARSEN: Empty Holes, Empty Homes BOOK/7" (BN 060BK)
"Empty Holes, Empty Homes, the sixth book from GX Jupitter-Larsen, is an amathopaedia of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and cryptograms. Printed and perfect bound in the United States using traditional offset methods with recycled inks and fine recycled papers. Housed with tear out double sided black flexi-disc."
$16.50 UPC: N/A Misc
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PSYCHIC RALLY: Transmission 104.5 1989-1995 10CD BOX (BN 061CD)
"Psychic Rally was a monthly radio show, which broadcasted more than 60 times between 1989 and 1995 on the alternative non-profit station Radio LORA in Zurich, Switzerland. Hosted by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) and Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck), Psychic Rally developed new forms of radio techniques, cut-ups, sound recycling and sound manipulation. Transmission 104.5 includes 10 discs, featuring 10 broadcasts, exploring all years, with a balance between wild cut-ups, studio live noise, theme sessions (Swiss Folk), etc. Compiled and digitized in 2013 from the original tapes. Housed in a custom letterpress printed box, individually numbered, with text and photo pamphlet."
$38.00 EAN: 0091131172087 ELECTRONIC
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HEAVENLY BEAT: Prominence CD (CT 188CD)
"Prominence is the second full length in as many years from Texas transplant John Pena. It was recorded/mixed in the same apartment (after a failed attempt to mix in a 'real' studio) as last year's Talent, over the first few months of 2013 - that's after shelving a full length's worth of songs for not being sonically or emotionally interesting enough. Using Primitive Radio Gods' 'Standing Outside a Broken Telephone Booth with Money in My Hand' as a sonic touch point John built a new album from the ground up utilizing chopped/sampled drum breaks and, for the first time, some non laptop based keyed instruments(piano, mellotron) along with H.B. main stays classical guitar and steel drums. Live member Christian Barsi and Daniel Schlett of Strange Weather Studio both contributed keys to a few songs but the outcome is still a very solo sounding project."
$10.00 UPC: 817949019242 ROCK
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HEAVENLY BEAT: Prominence LP (CT 188LP)
LP version.
$11.50 UPC: 817949019235 ROCK
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WYATT, ROBERT: The End of an Ear LP (CRP 201LP)
"Featuring significant contributions from his Soft Machine band mate Elton Dean, amongst others, The End of an Ear is one of the more adventurous titles in Robert Wyatt's catalog. It's an album much more in line with the electronic jazz experimentation of Miles Davis, and the avant-garde, than the singer-songwriter material Wyatt would later be known for. Despite being a very serious record, Wyatt's playful nature and sense of humor still shine through. The End of an Ear is an absolutely essential piece of the Canterbury progressive scene and Wyatt's canon, lovingly reissued here on LP by Cherry Red Phonograph."
$25.50 EAN: 5013929420113 ROCK
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SHADOWS OF KNIGHT: Shadows of Knight LP (CRP 202LP)
"Three years gone from their massive hit, 'Gloria,' only one original member remained in the band; lead singer Jim Sohns. Thinking the world wasn't done with him yet, he assembled a band and inked a deal with the hit-makers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz and cut a record, which produced one final hit for the group in 'Shake' and this self-titled LP. A bit of a hit chasing LP, it's all over the map stylistically, from the expected snotty R&B to psychedelic excursions to hard rock to pop. Although this might sound off-putting at first, the album rewards with later listens as the record has some of the best songs of the Shadows of Knight's brief career. Reissued here on LP by Cherry Red Phonograph."
$25.50 EAN: 5013929420212 ROCK
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GILES, GILES AND FRIPP: The Cheerful Insanity Of... LP (CRP 203LP)
"Originally released in 1968, and selling less than 500 copies according to Robert Fripp's royalty statements, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp is, of course, the pre-cursor to King Crimson. Drawing its influence from folk, pop, classical, and religious music, the album is a masterpiece on par with the greatest records that the British psychedelic and progressive movements had to offer. Reissued on LP by Cherry Red Phonograph."
$25.50 EAN: 5013929420311 ROCK
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NEW SOUND OF NUMBERS, THE: The Invisible Magnetic LP (CLD 020LP)
"The New Sound of Numbers is an experimental post-punk band based in Athens, GA. It is fronted by Hannah Jones on 12-string electric guitar and features members of Pylon and The Olivia Tremor Control. Their album Invisible Magnetic is the follow up to their debut album Liberty Seeds which was released in 2006 by Cloud Recordings. The new album has a more celebratory feel than the first, and the driving rhythms and layered percussion lend themselves to both a sense of urgency and instant danceability. Violin, clarinet, melodica, synth, and trumpet beautifully interplay throughout the songs, and occasionally take a turn towards musique concrete while also bolstering the upbeat feel of the songs. The rhythms of Invisible Magnetic are even more tribal, with an African influence, than those of Liberty Seeds, whose songs were described by Electrelane's Mia Clarke in a review for Wire Magazine as 'giving a nod to the Slits and Lizzie Mercier Descloux' The New Sound of Numbers can be placed categorically next to fellow Athenians Pylon and the B-52s."
$10.25 UPC: 617037045364 ROCK
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DO MAKE SAY THINK: Do Make Say Think 2LP (CST 005LP)
"Do Make Say Think self-recorded its self-titled debut album in Toronto in 1996-1997 and self-released the record on CD. It made its way to Constellation's stereo in spring 1998, just as the label was getting off the ground. Constellation re-released the album in more elaborate bespoke CD packaging in 1999 and Do Make Say Think became the label's fifth release. This terrific debut remained one of the very few titles on Constellation that was never issued on vinyl, as the label's limited resources in the early years conspired against a 2xLP pressing at the time. This historical aberration is now being remedied by a lovely deluxe double 180 gram edition of the album, with the CD's unique window-cut artwork and packaging translated to glorious 12" dimensions. One of the first groups to define the newly genre-blending aesthetics and collective/collaborative ethics of (post) rock experimentation in the Toronto scene, Do Make Say Think has released a superb, dynamic and continually inventive series of instrumental rock albums since their auspicious debut."
$18.75 UPC: 666561000516 ROCK
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PERRI, SANDRO: Spaced Out 12" (CST 101EP)
"The final set of remixes from Perri's critically acclaimed Impossible Spaces album, following previous EPs on DFA and Phonica. Featuring remixes by Larry Gus (DFA, Lefse), Le Révélateur (Root Strata), and Imugem Orihasam (FRAGIL). While Sandro Perri's acclaimed and meticulously constructed album Impossible Spaces was a decidedly avant-rock affair conjured from guitar, bass, drums, synth and voice (with flourishes of woodwinds and brass), longtime fans of Perri will also be familiar with his deep roots in electronic music, chiefly via his Polmo Polpo project from the early 2000s."
$7.50 UPC: 666561010119 ROCK
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CRASS: Penis Envy LP (SOUTH 321984LP)
"Remastered & reissued vinyl version of what should've been one of the first 10 records you ever bought. Comes with download coupon for the digital punks out there. Named as a reference to some of Freud's ideas concerning sexuality, this release marked something of a departure from the somewhat macho, hardcore punk image that The Feeding of the 5000 & Stations of the Crass had given the group. Featuring more obviously complex musical arrangements, this release showcases exclusively female vocals provided by Eve Libertine & Joy De Vivre. The album addressed feminist issues & once again attacked the institutions of "the system" such as marriage & sexual repression."
$11.25 UPC: 718752578318 ROCK
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COUM TRANSMISSIONS: Home Aged & The 18 Month Hope LP (DAIS 051LP)
"The most recent installment of the rare and unheard archival recordings from the transgressive '70s performance art group COUM Transmissions. Founded in late 1969 by Genesis P-Orridge, COUM Transmissions' provocative performances mixed with visual art solidified the group as one of the most forward thinking breakthroughs within the '70s conceptual art scene. Only in the past couple years has COUM's recorded works seen the light of day. This release collects various selections spanning the years 1971 through 1975, including a rare live performance opening for Hawkwind, lost radio interview, obtuse poetry readings by early member Fizzey Peat, piano and violin compositions by Genesis P-Orridge, and insightful field recordings. Limited to 1,000 vinyl copies."
$15.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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LUNDVALL, TOR: Structures and Solitude 5CD BOX (DAIS 052CD)
"Tor Lundvall's elegant soundtracks have been captured onto nine full length albums and collected within various compilations, raising his stature as one of the most abundant craftsman within the field of ambient music. Lundvall's second box set for Dais features a five disc collection of more recent works including the albums Empty City, Last Light, and CD versions of the vinyl-only albums Sleeping & Hiding and The Shipyard. Additionally, the fifth disc in the collection entitled Night Studies compiles Lundvall's 'after hours' recording sessions, setting the atmospheric tone for the ensemble. All discs include previously unreleased bonus tracks with a booklet and artwork by Tor Lundvall."
$20.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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ROYAL TRUX: Veterans of Disorder CD (DC 168CD)
"Back in play just to celebrate 14 years, 2 months and 12 days since its original release is Royal Trux's penultimate album, Veterans of Disorder. Coming off the fan-favorite Accelerator LP, it was clearly time to build on expectations, right? Uh... listen, maybe this isn't the band for you. Neil and Jennifer were fans of rock n roll to the finish, sure -- but in that, Royal Trux was a dyed-in-the-wool contrarian enterprise, rebels to the core, and everything they endeavored to was viewed from the several angles necessary to call a spade a dupe, etc. And so it was with counterintuitive rose-colored work-goggles strapped on tight that Veterans of Disorder was conceived. Accelerator had deployed a unified production concept, with pleasingly mashed-together sonics in a coruscated, ultra-compressed mix. Fine. That was out; new ways of hearing would be necessary this time around. VOD's songs seldom sound as if they're coming from the same session as each other, and the distorto riffrock that had caused so much intake of breath in '98 was abandoned for a generally cleaner, wider-ranging sound overall."
$9.50 UPC: 036172916825 ROCK
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ROYAL TRUX: Veterans of Disorder LP (DC 168LP)
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$13.00 UPC: 781484016816 ROCK
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MAGIK MARKERS: Surrender to the Fantasy CD (DC 482CD)
"Stop right there, hands in the air! If you want to know what Magik Markers think is good for you, you'll Surrender to the Fantasy. For this long-desired alpus, they've been working in threes and stuff. Triangles. The hermetic trifecta of knowledge, Christ and the two thieves, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and the original tagline of the Markers' symbol: '3 down, no to go.' Meaning, these three get it and literally no one else needs to, 'cept the record-buying public, tra la la, ha ha ha ha. STTF (never too soon for the acronym, kids) kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough-core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas, and on beyond zed-bra. 'Acts of Desperation' is Shaggs-meets-Stones color commentary on driveway laying, your mom's Merit Ultra-Light 100's and the lengths we'll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete 'koan on loan' Nolan has nixed his kit and Straps Field Handily into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed."
$9.50 UPC: 781484048220 ROCK
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MAGIK MARKERS: Surrender to the Fantasy LP (DC 482LP)
LP version.
$13.00 UPC: 781484048213 ROCK
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ISHIBASHI, EIKO: Imitation of Life LP (DC 566LP)
"Drag City presents the first domestic release of any kind from the Japanese singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi -- and the first vinyl release of any kind on this already accomplished performer. And what a release! Imitation of Life isn't just another pop record from another part of the world -- it's got a sci-fi theme and is produced by none other than Drag City's old friend, Jim O'Rourke. With an understanding of band dynamics developed through her many live shows and recordings, Eiko's delicate, precise compositions are arranged with a dramatic-yet-humorous prog-pop sound. Eiko plays piano, vibraphone, and flute as well as nylon-string guitar, a first for her, on Imitation of Life. The flowing backgrounds she has conceived for her light, sweet melodies are captured by O'Rourke with a lively sense of play, which matches Eiko's lyric concept. The lyrics in this album embody a science fiction story which brings the album to a challenging new level. The variety of sounds, the impact of lyrics and her imagination keeps expanding, and in the latter stages of the album, the songs achieve a shattering impact."
$13.00 UPC: 781484056614 ROCK
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TURNER, MICK: Don't Tell the Driver CD (DC 569CD)
"Finally, after 15 years, Big Mick Turner has turned in the big rock record we always knew he had in him. Yeah, Don't Tell the Driver is a different kind of record from all the Mick Turner records -- not just his own, but the ones he's done with Dirty Three, Bonny Billy, Cat Power, Fungus Brains, and Venom P. Stinger put together. So, what's so different about Don't Tell the Driver anyway? Well, Mick grew a mustache for this one. That must mean it's his Sgt. Pepper; a consolidation and development of everything he's done up until now, streamlined and presented under the sophisticated umbrella known as the rock opera/concept album! Write it down so you won't forget it -- Don't Tell the Driver is inarguably the first post-rock rock opera of our times -- by an artist running out of time."
$9.50 UPC: 781484056928 ROCK
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TURNER, MICK: Don't Tell the Driver 2LP (DC 569LP)
Double LP version.
$15.00 UPC: 781484056911 ROCK
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BERRY, CHUCK: San Francisco Dues LP (GET 54058LP)
"Reissuing the oft-forgotten Chuck Berry gem on vinyl, painstakingly re-mastered and re-created with the same level of care and detail that have come to define the Boston label's reissues. A bygone classic from one of rock n' roll's great trailblazers."
$15.50 UPC: 664425405811 ROCK
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RMILLIS: Relief LP (HMS 025LP)
"Our man Millis is a Climax Golden Twin and a noted curator of globe trotting/time traveling esoterica, amongst other accolades. In the former category, Millis and Jeffery Taylor steadily release some of the most head-scratching amalgamations of avant-rock, decontextualized temple music, heightened-state minimalism, and collaged field recordings this side of the Sun City Girls (including the soundtrack to the cult film Session Nine); and in the latter, Millis has published a number of acclaimed anthologies for Sublime Frequencies (Scattered Melodies, This World is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope, Phi Ta Khon, The Crying Princess, etc.) and Dust-To- Digital (our personal favorite, aptly titled Victrola Favorites). With his fingers in so many jars of jam, it can seem like an uncommon occurrence for Millis to release solo work although he is one to smear his sticky hands all over himself in performance, installation, and collaboration. Thus, The Helen Scarsdale Agency is delighted in presenting his latest opus, Relief. A fever dream of blurred harmonics and ethnomusicological spelunking, Relief repeatedly returns to variations on a peculiar yet beautifully serpentine drone, whose twinkling acoustic properties meld the hallucinatory mouth-music of the Bangladeshi Murung people and the curved air hypnosis of Terry Riley. Millis bookends and interrupts his mysterious miasma with comedic interludes snatched from his lauded collection of antique 78s, maudlin piano tone-clusters, and teleported crescendos of spectral ballroom waltzes. More Nurse with Wound than The Caretaker, this polyglot raga-drone of daytime somnambulism and psychedelic slipperiness speaks to the uneasy borders at psychological, cultural, and geophysical states of being. Oh, to be a human on this planet."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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PITRELEH: Pitreleh LP (IMPREC 384LP)
"Full length collaboration from Duane Pitre and Eleh. Pitreleh use high resolution analog and digital tools to create music utilizing natural vibrations and harmonics as rhythm and melody. Inspiration is drawn directly from vibrational waves (sound, gravity, water). The electronics, of which both pieces are constructed, are tuned using pure intonation which utilizes prime numbers: 1-3-5-7. The debut live performance of Pitreleh was recently presented at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland."
$15.00 UPC: 793447538419 ELECTRONIC
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NEO BOYS: Sooner or Later 2CD (K 242CD)
"In Portland, OR, in 1978, a radical form of artistic expression some refer to as 'punk' or 'new wave' was beginning to take shape, and at the heart of this legendary movement was the powerful all-girl punk group the Neo Boys. Though they were an active band for just five years (1978-82), teenage sisters Kt (bass) and Kim Kincaid (vocals), Pat Baum (drums) and guitarists Jennifer Labianco and Megan Hengtes forged a place for women in the growing punk rock scene, and redefined gender roles in the '80s movement of rock and roll. They regularly shared bills with The Wipers, opened for Nico, and played their first show with Television. Calvin Johnson has been working with the band members to track down the missing tapes of their recordings through a rabbit hole of Northwest basements and closets, and after twenty years of effort, the result is Sooner or Later."
$11.75 UPC: 789856124220 ROCK
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CHROME: Half Machine from the Sun: Lost Tracks '79-80 CD (KOS 400CD)
"Tracks recorded by Helios Creed and Damon Edge in '79 and '80, during the Half Machine Lip Moves and Third from the Sun period, but never released. About this era Helios recently wrote: 'We were into Iggy and the Stooges, and punk shows started happening at the Mabuhay Gardens in 1976 which was right there in North Beach too, at the end of the Broadway strip. It was the most fun era of my life. The punk scene had an incredible energy and fire. Then the Sex Pistols came out with Never Mind the Bullocks in 1977 and we released Chrome's second album Alien Soundtracks the same year and the whole punk thing exploded. Next we released Half Machine Lip Moves in 1979 and it and Alien Soundtracks took over in the punk world. Our record covers filled the windows of record stores and I was in awe. We weren't really a traditional punk band. Nobody else sounded like us. We were more of a psychedelic band, but a punk version of psychedelia, acid-punk. But I was influenced by the punk scene, because the music was experimental and free, but still hard and solid. punk's guitar was fucked up and without rules. So it was a great scene to keep developing my sound and my approach to guitar. Damon and I were both into expanding the possibilities. We fed off of each other in our experimentation and as we created we'd both like the same things. There was this thing that Damon and I called 'the Chill Factor' where if its really good you get goose bumps, and we used to get the 'Chill Factor' at the same time. We shared concepts about how to approach music and we pushed the limits and that is how I guess we became known as proto-industrial, because we expanded the possibilities of what music at the time could sound like and people were influenced from there. Damon's and my meeting had become a catalyst for the birth of a whole new sound.'"
$8.50 EAN: 0829707040023 ROCK
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CHROME: Half Machine from the Sun: Lost Tracks '79-80 2LP (KOS 400LP)
$21.00 EAN: 0829707040016 ROCK
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LAMBKIN, GRAHAM: Abersayne/Attersaye 7" (KYE 006EP)
"Kye is proud to present Abersayne/Attersaye, a brand new 7" single by Graham Lambkin, his solo debut on the format after 21 years in the game. Abersayne/Attersaye pairs a perfectly serviceable love song with a rough-and-ready late-night lament (featuring one conspicuous overdub). Expertly mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs, Abersayne/Attersaye arrives in a pro-printed full color high gloss sleeve, with lyric insert, in an edition of 500 copies."
$6.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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FIVE TIMES OF DUST: Smile with the Eyes 2LP (MW 048LP)
"A double LP of selections of unreleased material from the prolific outsider/underground duo Five Times of Dust. Formed in 1980 in Bristol, the duo of Mark Phillips (MAP) and Robert Lawrence came together with a shared passion for krautrock, industrial electronics, and the burgeoning DIY tape scene as well as being influence by the Dadaist movement and the works of Burroughs and Ballard. Unconventional and quirky, yet at times melancholic and romantic their music was a perfect escape from the urban decay of early '80s Bristol and Cardiff, the two cities they travelled between at weekends to record. Although unashamedly electronic, the sound of Five Time of Dust is far harder to pin down, in part perhaps due to their location. Both Phillips and Lawrence produced music that owed little to any scene happening in London, Manchester or Sheffield at the time. As a result, the majority of their output sounds like perfectly formed electronic curiosities. The material on Smile with the Eyes spans recordings Lawrence and Phillips made between 1982-1986. As a follow up to The Dadacomputer, their debut cassette release as a duo which we reissued earlier this year, Smile with the Eyes remains lo-fi but is musically more complex. The recordings are catchy, curious and emotionally rich. Whereas The Dadacomputer could be compared with the early output of Robert Rental, Smile with the Eyes is a collection of works that stands all on its own. Smile with the Eyes is a double LP pressed on 180 gram black vinyl and housed in a heavyweight gatefold sleeve. Limited edition to 500 numbered copies."
$24.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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IN AETERNAM VALE: Machine a Laver/Ultrabase 12" (MW 049EP)
"Minimal Wave is proud to present a third 12" single from our French favorites, In Aeternam Vale. This one is in the same vein as the Dust Under Brightness/Highway Dark Veins 12" and the La Piscine/Calling Somewhere 12". The single features two more epic, pioneering masterpieces. 'Machine à Laver' (Washing Machine) sounding much like its title, is 12 minutes of pure electronic hypnotica. And the flip side is a more straightforward 127 BPM, 11 minute number entitled 'Ultrabase,' which is an unashamed slab of innovative dub techno from 1990, existing completely outside of its genre. Neither of these tracks have ever been released before. The pressing is limited to 999 copies, all pressed on 160 gram clear electric blue vinyl, accompanied by a hand-numbered matte printed sleeve."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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BLANCMANGE: Irene & Mavis 10" (MW 050EP)
"A 10" reissue of Blancmange's seminal debut EP Irene & Mavis. Formed in the UK by Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe, Blancmange recorded the six songs on Irene & Mavis in 1979 and released it as a 7" EP in 1980. Irene & Mavis, though not exactly representative of what Blancmange later went on to become, is a fascinating relic that captures the gestation period of the duo, fresh out of art school and keen to experiment. The D.I.Y. sound of the EP fits right in there with the early output of Soft Cell, the Human League, and Cabaret Voltaire; but what separates it from those like-minded releases of the time is that it's even more distinctly English. In fact it was Daniel Miller, supporter and Mute boss himself who first recognized this when he proclaimed them 'the maiden aunts of electronic music.' The Irene & Mavis EP is simultaneously pioneering, provincial, and surreal in its down-to-earth playfulness and lack of artifice. It stands out as an important record, capturing the mundane with modern electronics and remains as an artifact representative of the band before they went on to reach pop chart success. The Irene & Mavis EP has been newly remastered and will be released as a numbered limited edition 10" EP."
$12.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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HARD CORPS: Rarities Cassette (MW 051CS)
"Hard Corps were true innovators of the 1980s UK synthpop scene. Apart from their releases on Survival and Polydor, Hard Corps gained some notoriety for their unique and uncompromising live shows throughout the 1980s. It was the juxtaposition between their hard edged industrial sound and the fragile and enigmatic vocals of French front woman Regine Fetet that created an unusual dichotomy, lending to their strength of character as a band and thus allowing them to stand out from the rest. As a follow up to Clean Tables Have to Be Burnt (2012), Rarities compiles the outtakes and demos that were left behind. Tracks that truly never saw the light of day. They have finally been remastered and will be released as a cassette and 12" vinyl (edition of 300)."
$8.25 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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HARD CORPS: Rarities LP (MW 051LP)
"Hard Corps were true innovators of the 1980s UK synthpop scene. Apart from their releases on Survival and Polydor, Hard Corps gained some notoriety for their unique and uncompromising live shows throughout the 1980s. It was the juxtaposition between their hard edged industrial sound and the fragile and enigmatic vocals of French front woman Regine Fetet that created an unusual dichotomy, lending to their strength of character as a band and thus allowing them to stand out from the rest. As a follow up to Clean Tables Have to Be Burnt (2012), Rarities compiles the outtakes and demos that were left behind. Tracks that truly never saw the light of day. They have finally been remastered and will be released as a cassette and 12" vinyl (edition of 300). The vinyl is pressed on 180 gram clear vinyl, accompanied by a numbered 8" x 10" photographic print of the band."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MIGRATIONS IN RUST: Two Shadows LP (NNA 065LP)
"Migrations in Rust is Jesse Allen. As a member of the Red Light District collective in Queens, NY (which has included some of the best in modern experimental musicians such as Yellow Tears, Pharmakon, John Mannion, Diaphragm, DJ Dog Dick, and a slurry of other side projects, solo projects, and collaborations), former member of the Cathode Terror Secretion and current performer in Cowards, in addition to producing and performing under the guise of several other solo projects (Hollow Seed, Goldeater, etc), Jesse has been actively pursuing many diverse avenues for his musical expression. Migrations in Rust, whose original sonic intentions could have at one time been more easily categorized as ambient music, has slowly shifted towards the unrecognizable. Migrations in Rust has ascertained as Jesse's longest running solo endeavor and holds as his most personal, having transformed from merely a study of emotion and a practice of understanding emotions into something altogether more grand and wholly personal. Three years in the making, during which Jesse relocated from New York City to the valley of Western Massachusetts, Two Shadows communicates the yolk of this transformation. The elements of interplay between turmoil and tranquility, and the means of composing organically to achieve these results, have been filtered through new approaches in an attempt to reach closer to a finer understanding of grace, and towards more precisely using music and sound as a vessel of psychic emotional transmission. Throughout the record, orchestral landscapes blend with rustling concrete textures, settling in a purgatory between melancholy bleakness and slow-burning serenity. Each second is densely packed with incredible detail and carefully-layered instrumentation, crafted with an expansive palette of acoustic, electronic, and naturally-occurring sound sources. Amorphous melodic passages travel with well-paced fluidity from one idea to the next, producing a dream-like narrative. At times placid and evocative, Two Shadows also has a tendency to teeter on the edge of powerful ferocity, sometimes brewing with crackling fury while tastefully maintaining the restraint not to explode into outright violence. This shifting temper is constructed with elements of noise, ambient, hip hop, musique concréte, and sci-fi R&B, all finding their place in the innovative tapestry that unfolds across Two Shadows."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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HUBBLE: Hubble Eagle LP (NNA 066LP)
"The latest full-length from Ben Greenberg's Hubble project. Having cut his teeth in numerous bands such as Pygmy Shrews, Zs, and most recently with The Men, Greenberg has been fostering and cultivating his own unique reexamination of the the guitar as an instrument, resulting in a minimalist and truly psychedelic whirlwind of notes, first displayed on his debut release Hubble Linger on NNA in 2011. Since then, the Hubble sound has matured and expanded, taking in new ideas and influences while still retaining the rock and roll hypnotism of its 'one man and his guitar' rawness. On Hubble Eagle we hear Greenberg launching his guitar mantra even further into uncharted territory. Opening with the side-long 'A Star or Two Beside,' Hubble trades in his trusted electric and opts for acoustic guitar, which when subjected to Greenberg's turbulent tapping chops, yields incredible and unexpected sonic results. Complex percussive patterns begin to emerge, creating a raw rhythmic backbone for a constantly shifting vortex of overtones and harmonic weavings. These dulcimer-like pluckings ping-pong back and forth across a vast stereo field, creating a whirlwind effect that sweeps over the listener like river rapids; bubbling, rushing, chaotic, and endlessly flowing. After some immersion, the barrage of notes can start to feel automated or even electronic, until brief pauses and subtle flourishes break the hypnotic spell, reminding the listener of the human nature of this music. Side B opens with the breaking of more new ground on the track 'A Long Way from Home' originally by The Kinks, Hubble's first cover song. Inspired by Greenberg's rigorous touring schedule on the open road, Hubble meditates on the feelings of isolation and melancholy set forth in the original song. By deconstructing the riffs and rebuilding them in the Hubble framework, the track turns into an electro-acoustic hybrid that is entirely new in sound, employing alternate tunings and adding vocals for the first time in the project's history. The result opens newharmonic gateways for the notes to flow through a psych-rock atmosphere. Closing off with the title track 'Hubble Eagle,' Hubble is in its truest form with a powerful electric guitar exercise. The playing is mechanical in its relentless repetition, creating guitar fractals that seem to crystallize around themselves like the formation of a galaxy."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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DAMON: Song of a Gypsy (Deluxe Edition) 2LP (NA 4107LP)
"The Now-Again select edition: expanded version of the album with bonus disc of Damon's '60s recordings and demos contained in a separate dress jacket."
$23.50 UPC: 659457410711 ROCK
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DAMON: Song of a Gypsy 2CD (NA 5107CD)
"Deluxe reissue of the legendary late '60s Los Angeles psychedelic masterpiece: restored/remastered transfer, pitch/speed corrected for the first time ever. Contains second disc: the entirety of Damon's '60s recordings, and never-before-heard demos. Extensive booklet contains dozens of unpublished photos and images, a thorough investigation into this landmark album, and an extensive interview with Damon. Damon's Song of a Gypsy is generally regarded as one of the finest privately-pressed psychedelic rock records and has, for over twenty years, been one of the most sought after late '60s American rock artifacts in the world, with the scant original copies that exist exchanging hands for thousands of dollars. Song of a Gypsy has remained high on its own plateau: out of reach and indescribable. It seemed that this homespun, funky psychedelic monument borrowed from nothing and sprung from nowhere. Damon's unique, introspective songwriting and nuanced voice, the interplay between he and lead guitarist Charlie Carey and an atmosphere that so perfectly captured the last bloom of the flower power era as it decayed into the dark haze of the '70s underground could only have arisen from a spark of auspicious genius. But did it? Over the past seven years, we at Now-Again have been obsessed with Song of a Gypsy and have researched the album, and Damon's life-arch. This anthology is our attempt to put forth a convincing argument for the overwhelming importance of this album, a unique high point from within but also outside of America's psychedelic movement. We follow Damon on his 'predestined life as a gypsy' from his birth into a tight knit Italian American family in Rochester, New York, through the various Los Angeles communities that he would call home. We compile, and analyze the entirety of his oeuvre, from his first surf-rock single in 1960, through schmaltzy pop, convincing doo-wop, blued eyed soul and garage rock in the mid 60s. And we focus on the year 1967, the founding of his label Ankh, and his transformation from a pop hopeful to the tortured soul who would create Song of a Gypsy. To that end, we've uncovered demo recordings and acetates that show an artist in transition, and we attempt to make sense of the seminal moments that made this transformation possible in a crucial moment in America's psychedelic high water mark."
$15.50 UPC: 659457510725 ROCK
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KUBIN, FELIX: Zemstra Plutona CD (OMNI 175CD)
"Fractured transmissions from a crypto-utopian future and pop missives from the neon-Freudian wastelands, the new Felix Kubin album is everything (and more) you could want from the Hamburg-based Kaiser-elect of electronic music. Franco-machine-funk monster 'Atomium Vertigo' slinks and slides, 'Flies without Memory' clicks and glides while 'Piscine Resonnez!' explodes with teenaged exuberance and aquatic wisdom. Kubin's retooled reanimation of 'Lightning Strikes' astounds, while 'Nachts Im Park' shuffles on a bed of analogue dreams. Pyro-electro-maniac Kubin returns with his test-tube beat. Strap in... destination particle accelerator pop."
$14.50 UPC: 725543917522 ELECTRONIC
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HAACK, BRUCE: The Electric Lucifer LP (OMNI 176LP)
"Bruce Haack's The Electric Lucifer is rightly considered one of the masterworks of 20th century electronic music. Originally recorded in 1968 and 1969 (and released in 1970) it is an album both unique in conception and superb in realization. An eminently listenable work where pop-psychedelia and Moog/musique-concrete sounds coalesce around Haack's central metaphysical concept of 'Powerlove,' a force so powerful that it could end war and unify humankind. Acclaimed upon its original release (one of Rolling Stone's favorite albums of 1970 among many citations) yet unavailable on LP for over four decades, The Electric Lucifer is reissued here officially for the very first time on LP. Remastered and restored from the 'lost' original master tapes discovered in the Columbia vault. The Electric Lucifer is your gateway to the profound yet playful universe of Bruce Haack, a 'far-out' place where flower-power and inner-space electronics collide. Limited edition of 500 copies in deluxe replica packaging on 180 gram vinyl."
$18.50 UPC: 725543917614 ROCK
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DIAGRAM:A: Your Object 2LP (OM 035-36LP)
Diagram:A exists in the tendons that connect Western Mass basement dada, the psychedelia of repetition, sculpture, and an idiosyncratic sense of composition and space. It is the sound of electricity, systems connecting and breaking down. An expression simultaneously personal and inhuman. Gatefold 2LP in an edition of 250 with cover art by Bill Nace and insert art by Dan Greenwood.
$23.00 UPC: N/A JAZZ
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SAINT ETIENNE: Foxbase Alpha LP (PLAIN 178LP)
"Foxbase Alpha is the 1991 debut album by the British group Saint Etienne. It is a wonderful mix of both modern and retro influences with house music, ambient, samples and '60s pop coexisting easily for a unique sound not found anywhere else at the time. It is best known for their popular cover of Neil Young's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart.' Foxbase Alpha had such an impact upon its release that it was nominated for t he Mercury Prize, eventually losing to Primal Scream's Screamadelica. This early '90s Britpop classic is now available on 180 gram vinyl from Plain Records."
$13.50 UPC: 646315517811 ELECTRONIC
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SAINT ETIENNE: So Tough LP (PLAIN 179LP)
"So Tough is the second album by Saint Etienne. Released in 1993 it is the highest charting album by the trio, reaching #7 in the UK charts. So Tough is another eclectic album from the group with samples used (mainly from British films and television) to link the songs together that feature electronic dance grooves, dub influences, a dash of folk music, and their own brand of blissed out pop. The album features the classic singles 'You're in a Bad Way,' 'Avenue,' and 'Hobart Paving.' On 180 gram vinyl from Plain Records."
$13.50 UPC: 646315517910 ELECTRONIC
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DEMENT, IRIS: Infamous Angel LP (PLAIN 185LP)
"Infamous Angel is Iris Dement's debut album originally released in 1992. The album is a showcase for her clear voice and guitar with spare instrumental backing featuring acoustic bass, piano, and fiddle that support her beautiful songs of life, love and family. Infamous Angel is a modern folk classic. In a gatefold sleeve on 180 gram vinyl. First time issued on vinyl."
$13.50 UPC: 646315518511 ROCK
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ICECROSS: Icecross CD (ROCK 051CD)
"40th anniversary first official reissue of 1973 Icelandic hard rock underground monster that's been the target of collectors for several decades. Carefully re-mastered for pristine sound that lays waste to all the inferior bootlegs that have come before. Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes, clippings and photographs. After several years of hounding band members we are very happy to finally be able to bring you the first official reissue of this legendary gem. Icecross possess a unique dark sound which reveals influences ranging from Sabbath to Crimson and beyond all melded together in such a way to form their distinct Icecross style. Considered proto-metal by many, though they don't achieve this with a typical smash your face approach. Instead, Icecross unleash some killer inventive guitar sounds by way of Leslie speakers combined with ominous effected bass lines and splendid use of bow, creating a perfect dark heavy guitar album that really creeps up on you. One of the few, if not the only, Icelandic band inspired by Sabbath at that time. For fans of Leaf Hound, Blue Cheer, Elias Hulk, Iron Claw, Jerusalem, Necronomicon, Hairy Chapter, Incredible Hog, Dust, Pentagram and the like."
$10.00 UPC: TBA ROCK
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MEN, THE: Campfire Songs 12" (SBR 095EP)
"While holed up in a house in upstate NY, The Men took full advantage of their rural surroundings, in-house studio, and lack of recording timelines and obligations. They tracked over twenty-five songs. On top of that they also managed to record five songs acoustically, while sitting around a campfire outside the house. Vinyl version comes with a 12-page photo book 11.5" × 11.5" insert featuring never before seen black & white photographs shot by their bassist/photographer Kevin Faulkner during the Big Indian sessions. Campfire Songs is the band's second release this year, and their fifth in the past four years. To say this band is prolific is an understatement; they are teeming, borderline prodigal even. Two of these acoustic jams are alternate takes from the album, 'I Saw Her Face' and 'The Seeds.' The plugged-in version of 'Water Babies' appeared on the B-side of their 7' from January, 'Patience' and 'Turn Your Color' are two entirely new beautiful tracks that highlight this band's ability to be as gentle as they are commanding."
$10.25 UPC: 616892102649 ROCK
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MILES, WYMOND: Cut Yourself Free CD (SBR 106CD)
"On the heels of last year's critically acclaimed debut LP Under the Pale Moon and the Earth Has Doors EP comes the sophomore full length from Wymond Miles, guitarist of San Francisco garage-pop titans The Fresh & Onlys. Cut Yourself Free assembles another convergence of moon-lit romantic swagger and post-punk massacred urgency. Again self recorded and produced to tape, Miles' song-craft has emerged more refined and poignant, benefitting from the avalanche of his frenzied live shows, but also adhering to a more minimalistic fashion with crooning mid-era Nick Cave or Bowie/Roxy Music strains of pop-modernism. But what stands at the forefront is Miles' command of his textural guitar and vintage-synth sprawl that on his choosing can open dream-like vistas, or pierce with an engine's snarl. Turning to the narrative, Miles weaves each song with its own vignette of story line, often with a vaguely obscured protagonist/antagonist dialog. Relationships in Miles' sketches are always tangled, if not licentious affairs, but are presented more as lustrous gateways to mend and revitalize rather than squalor in."
$10.00 UPC: 616892145745 ROCK
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MILES, WYMOND: Cut Yourself Free LP (SBR 106LP)
LP version.
$11.75 UPC: 616892145844 ROCK
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BOOKS, THE: Music for a French Elevator and Other Oddities 2LP (TRR 206LP)
"While supplies last, we are offering this very special limited-edition vinyl-only double album, Music for a French Elevator and Other Oddities. Originally available as a part of the hugely acclaimed, super-deluxe A Dot in Time box set, Music for a French Elevator compiles all of The Books's non-album tracks into one fittingly surreal package befitting the group who essentially created their own genre (often reluctantly described as 'collage-pop'). A total of 45 tracks are here, including standouts and longtime favorites 'Classy Penguin,' '8 Frame,' and their sublime Nick Drake cover 'Cello Song feat. Jose Gonzales.' Along with their commissioned pieces for the 1% art and sound installation in the Ministry of Culture in Paris, France, the collection includes the Books's unreleased film score for the feature-length Biosphere 2 documentary, a stellar collection of counterpoint electroacoustic explorations that emanate the kind of wry charm and wit that became a staple of the Books's music. Packaged in an impeccably designed die-cut jacket with metallic inks, this collection proves that even the Books's non-album material is worthy of emphatic celebration and adoration."
$15.50 UPC: 656605320618 ROCK
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FOUR TET: Beautiful Rewind CD (TEXT 025CD)
"Beautiful Rewind. Shout out to Text Records. On LP and CD. No YouTube trailers, no streaming, no charts, no Amazon deal, no last minute Rick Rubin."
$10.00 UPC: 656605392523 ELECTRONIC
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FOUR TET: Beautiful Rewind LP (TEXT 025LP)
LP version.
$13.00 UPC: 656605392516 ELECTRONIC
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REZZETT: Fire Bomb 12" (TRILOGY 012EP)
"Uproarious, run-to-the-rocks skin-flayers. Rrruff."
$14.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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CELLETTI, ALESSANDRA: Above the Sky CD (TRANS 381CD)
"Alessandra Celletti's new album Above the Sky consists of nine original piano pieces and three by composers who have been an ongoing influence on her work (George Gurdjieff, Lawrence Ball and Alan Hovhaness). The CD is packaged in a very beautiful digipak with ten color paintings on the panels. 'This new album as always affects my relationship with the flight and the starry sky. Maybe my "extreme" album more because my interest is going right to the essence of the sound, the music as pure color and tonal experimentation. For this reason I have chosen precious fellow travelers, who, like me, intend music research as an exploration of sound, and I wanted to juxtapose to my compositions authors who I feel similar in the way of intending music as a tool to give voice to the invisible. I threw the coins to form three hexagrams. They formed the 'Sky,' the 'Crescent Moon,' and the 'Vision...' and maybe the album will start from these notes. I tried to sing the stars, the emergence of a lily in the fog... following the sound to dissolve the image of a dream. Next to my piano you will hear the colors of an accordion, a bass flute, the poignant notes of a saxophone, the magic of a Theremin, the drum beats. I'm not anticipating the names of the musicians, but some of you who know me better, may have already guessed. I decided to record in my house and with my piano because for a work of this kind I needed a total familiarity with the sounds and colors that I wanted to find. And then my house, small and chaotic, is my launching pad towards the infinite.' -- Alessandra"
$12.00 EAN: 0716205038129 ROCK
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