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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE
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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 10/26/2015
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 10/26/2015
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
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DAMAGE & DOC DANEEKA/BICEP, BENJAMIN: Kansas/Closing Sequence 12" (50 042EP)
180-gram vinyl. For the third 12" in 50 Weapons' 11-part finale, Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka return to the label with a dark, futuristic, warped techno tune. "Kansas" builds on a bouncy bassline and classic house hi-hats and manages to incorporate a twisted version of an old-school house organ and some sweet, uplifting pads while maintaining an otherworldly touch. Bicep contribute another hybrid that tends more to the funky side of things. Its beautiful arrangement of synth arpeggios and shiny hi-hats are sure to bring out that last drop of energy and a smile on the ravers' faces in the early morning hours.
$9.79 UPC: 817231012661 ELECTRONIC
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T.RAUMSCHMIERE: T.Raumschmiere LP (ALB 007LP)
LP version. Includes download code. There is a purpose behind ambient music: it is utility music. Brian Eno made that clear once and for all with Music for Airports -- the utilitarian nature of this music can already be found in the title. But way before that, in 1920, Erik Satie composed "Musique d'ameublement" -- furniture music. The purpose of his furniture music was also to bridge the awkward gaps in conversation in social situations. In turn, Eno's airport music is meant to serve as background music while sounding interesting enough for listeners to become absorbed. If we go by Eno's definition, the music on T.Raumschmiere's new album is not ambient. Although -- or in fact, because -- each individual track on this album immediately and effortlessly generates atmospheres, it is impossible not to be drawn in. Clearly a new meaning of the term ambient is needed to describe the music on this album more accurately. It is music that never sounds deliberate yet at the same time is so compelling, which might have something to do with the fact that Shitkatapult label founder Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere is the one behind it. As T.Raumschmiere, Haas produces a sound with influences ranging from bass music and punk rock to industrial. A darkly beating pulse works like a machine through the surging pads of "Dampfer". Synths drone languidly on "Anker". T.Raumschmiere deftly manages to avoid succumbing to the kitsch that often arises from these kinds of sounds. "Grotznogg" has an inner stillness within the rustling and scattered clattering and clanging. The track "007" is a post-industrial masterpiece -- warm, heavy, and latently threatening.
$12.39 EAN: 4260217560933 ELECTRONIC
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DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN: Flogging a Dead Frog LP (AVM 055LP)
LP version. Includes printed inner sleeve, lyric sheet, and download code. Die Goldenen Zitronen ("The Golden Lemons"), born a punk band in 1980s Hamburg and since developing into a seminal art punk collective, present their 2015 album Flogging a Dead Frog. After 11 long-players and countless collaborations with artists such as Peaches, Wesley Willis (with whom the band toured the US), Chicks on Speed, Françoise Cactus (of Stereo Total), Mark Stewart (of The Pop Group), DJ Koze, and Michaela Melián, Flogging a Dead Frog is their first release on Altin Village & Mine. The album collects instrumental and, for the first time, English reworkings of songs from their most recent albums. Far from being a complacent "best of," the album directly plugs into the band's impressive body of work. Flogging a Dead Frog unfolds a re-contextualization in two senses. First, its instrumental tracks emphasize the fact that the band's sound has always been much more than a musical accompaniment for the unrelenting social commentary of singer Schorsch Kamerun, bringing out the band's tremendous nomadism between punk, techno, and krautrock and mirroring the diverse engagements of the six members in theater and film projects. On the other hand, in the English versions of songs such as "If I Were a Sneaker," a song about European immigration policy, or "The Investor," Flogging a Dead Frog proves a consequent re-adjustment of the band's political scope, opening discourse on matters that have disastrously proven to not be exclusively pertinent to Germany. As is typical for Die Goldenen Zitronen, these two perspectives -- one concerning the band's oeuvre, the other its environment -- are inseparable and testify to their political aesthetics, a political aesthetics of which Flogging a Dead Frog is not a review, but a substantial extension.
$12.39 UPC: 880918221656 ROCK
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Brahms: Works for Piano CD (ARB 103CD)
1996 release. A tireless teacher and performer who hated practicing piano, Walter Gieseking was recorded playing most of the piano's major works. Unlike the marathon studio sessions, his few and rare live appearances have a different character, a spontaneity and fire that the studio inhibited. Arbiter found a war trophy: two movements of a Brahms piano concerto from Berlin in 1944. A year later, when Germany was defeated, the Red Army seized Berlin radio's contents (including the furniture) and spirited all off to Moscow, where it languished until perestroika effected the return of all acknowledged stolen property; Arbiter was the first to notice its return. Gieseking's Brahms is a welcome relief from the sanctimony plaguing his music nowadays! This CD includes recordings from 1939-1956. These recordings of the Piano Concerto No.2 in B-Flat, Op. 83, feature Robert Heger and the Berlin Philharmonic.
$8.39 UPC: 604907010324 CLASSICAL
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VA: Kapell in Recital CD (ARB 108CD)
1997 release. "The singleness of his passion for the art we both loved was almost frightening, even to a composer like myself" --Aaron Copland. Previously unpublished live recordings of pianist William Kapell, including his first documented playing, of Beethoven at age 15. New light on a legacy that ended when he perished in a plane crash in 1953 after the 31-year-old had finished an Australian tour. Notes include interview excerpts with his wife and letters about his artistic aims. Also includes performances of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. These recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, feature Leon Barzin and the National Orchestral Association; these recordings of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, feature Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
$8.39 UPC: 604907010829 CLASSICAL
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TCHAIKOVSKY/ANTON RUBINSTEIN/ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV, PYOTR: The Sirota Archives: Rare Russian Masterpieces CD (ARB 110CD)
1997 release. Leo Sirota studied with Ferruccio Busoni, who once commented, "after such playing, I don't wish to hear anyone else today." In his family archive, a box was thought to have contained a few radio recordings made during his years in St. Louis. Many were concerned that the great playing on his 1920s 78-RPM shellacs was under-represented. After a decade of stasis, a box was retrieved and found to contain nearly 30 hours of his playing. This rare repertoire launched Arbiter's rescue of Sirota's piano mastery. This first publication of live radio recordings from 1955 includes performances of compositions by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubinstein, and Alexander Glazunov.
$8.39 UPC: 604907011024 CLASSICAL
01. LEO SIROTA - Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Grand Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37: I. Moderato e risoluto
02. LEO SIROTA - Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Grand Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37: II. Andante non troppo quasi moderato
03. LEO SIROTA - Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Grand Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37: III. Scherzo. Allegro giocoso
04. LEO SIROTA - Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Grand Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37: IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
05. LEO SIROTA - Anton Rubinstein - Pres du Ruisseau Op. 93, No.1
06. LEO SIROTA - Anton Rubinstein - Serenade Op. 93, No. 5
07. LEO SIROTA - Anton Rubinstein - Prelude in F Minor, Op. 81, No. 1
08. LEO SIROTA - Anton Rubinstein - Polonaise in E-Flat Minor, Op. 118, No. 6
09. LEO SIROTA - Anton Rubinstein - Valse Caprice in E-Flat Major
10. LEO SIROTA - Alexander Glazunov - Piano Sonata in B-Flat Minor, Op. 74: I. Allegro moderato
11. LEO SIROTA - Alexander Glazunov - Piano Sonata in B-Flat Minor, Op. 74: II. Andante
12. LEO SIROTA - Alexander Glazunov - Piano Sonata in B-Flat Minor, Op. 74: III. Finale. Allegro scherzando
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Bach Recital: English Suite No. 2/Partitas Nos. 2 & 5 CD (ARB 113CD)
1998 release. "He played Bach like he was composing it" --Murray Perahia. First publication of recital recordings of pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, made in Italy from 1958-1986. Although he was four foot ten inches, Horszowski scaled the Matterhorn three times and reached equal heights in his Bach playing. Some colleagues begged Horszowski to drop all other composers and focus on Bach. His teacher advised that he was meant for Mozart. An elderly Roman musician wrote that the young pianist that his was the closest to Chopin's own playing, which he had always remembered. Horszowski covered the entire range of the piano's literature, and here Arbiter offers his essential Bach.
$8.39 UPC: 604907011321 CLASSICAL
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BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Horszowski Plays Beethoven: Four Piano Sonatas - Historic Recital Recordings CD (ARB 119CD)
1999 release. Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski (1892-1993) was taught by a pupil of Beethoven's assistant Czerny; he is but three steps from the composer himself and his own insight guides him to a high interpretive level. Arbiter traced these performances from archives in Parma, Italy and Philadelphia, presenting them here in their first publication. Horszowski played the entire solo Beethoven piano works as a cycle and kept many sonatas in his repertoire, but few were recorded. Arbiter continues to recover and refurbish his Beethoven legacy.
$8.39 UPC: 604907011925 CLASSICAL
Piano Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 2, No. 2:
01. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 2, No. 2: Allegro Vivace
02. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 2, No. 2: Largo Appassionato
03. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 2, No. 2: Scherzo
04. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 2, No. 2: Rondo. Grazioso
Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1:
05. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1: Allegro Molto e Con Brio
06. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1: Adagio Molto
07. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1: Finale. Prestissimo
Piano Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 14, No. 2:
08. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 14, No. 2: Allegro
09. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 14, No. 2: Andante
10. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 14, No. 2: Scherzo. Allergro Assai
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109:
11. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109: Vivace. Ma Non Troppo
12. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109: Prestissimo
13. MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI - Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109: Andante Molto Cantabile ed Espressivo
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Schnabel Trio & Duo - Brahms: Chamber Music (with Szigeti & Fournier) CD (ARB 121CD)
2001 release. A legend in his time and ours, pianist Artur Schnabel epitomized the height of Beethoven playing and continues to influence all who come in contact with his complete cycle of the piano sonatas and concertos. Throughout his life Schnabel actively played chamber music, and Arbiter's discovery of previously unpublished 1947 concert recordings reveals a side never captured in the formality of studio performances. These recordings capture Schnabel performing Brahms with violinist Joseph Szigeti and cellist Pierre Fournier, an ensemble that Schnabel raved about in his private correspondence.
$8.39 UPC: 604907012120 CLASSICAL
01. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI, PIERRE FOURNIER - Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: I. Allegro con brio (performed with Joseph Szigeti and Pierre Fournier)
02. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI, PIERRE FOURNIER - Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: II. Scherzo. Allegro molto (performed with Joseph Szigeti and Pierre Fournier)
03. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI, PIERRE FOURNIER - Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: III. Adagio (performed with Joseph Szigeti and Pierre Fournier)
04. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI, PIERRE FOURNIER - Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro (performed with Joseph Szigeti and Pierre Fournier)
05. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI - Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 78: I. Vivace ma non troppo (performed with Joseph Sziget)
06. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI - Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 78: II. Adagio (performed with Joseph Szigeti)
07. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI - Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 78: III. Allegro molto moderato (performed with Joseph Szigeti)
08. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI - Sonata No. 2. in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 108: I. Allegro amabile (performed with Joseph Szigeti)
09. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI - Sonata No. 2. in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 108: II. Andante tranquilo (performed with Joseph Szigeti)
10. ARTUR SCHNABEL, JOSEPH SZIGETI - Sonata No. 2. in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 108: III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi cantabile) (performed with Joseph Szigeti)
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VA: Tokyo Farewell Recital/Liszt Broadcast CD (ARB 123CD)
2001 release. Pianist Leo Sirota lived and performed throughout Europe, but after a first visit in 1928, he taught and performed in Japan from 1929 to 1946. Sirota barely made it through the war and was persuaded to return in 1963 to give a farewell recital tour. This release of the first part of his farewell piano recital in Tokyo is presented alongside performances of two of Liszt's masterworks. Sirota's daughter was Beate Gordon, who, at age 22, wrote the section on women's rights for Japan's postwar constitution. It is thanks to her that these recordings were saved. Also includes performances of compositions by Domenico Scarlatti & Carl Tausig, Beethoven, and Schubert.
$8.39 UPC: 604907012328 CLASSICAL
01. LEO SIROTA - Domenico Scarlatti & Carl Tausig - Pastorale in E Major
02. LEO SIROTA - Domenico Scarlatti & Carl Tausig - Capriccio in E Major
03. LEO SIROTA - Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No.3: I. Allegro
04. LEO SIROTA - Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No.3: II. Scherzo. Allegretto vivace
05. LEO SIROTA - Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No.3: III. Menuetto. Moderato e grazioso
06. LEO SIROTA - Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No.3: IV. Presto con fuoco
07. LEO SIROTA - Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 845 : I. Moderato
08. LEO SIROTA - Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 845 : II. Andante poco moto
09. LEO SIROTA - Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 845 : III Scherzo. Allegro vivace
10. LEO SIROTA - Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 845 : IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace
11. LEO SIROTA - Franz Liszt - Sposalizio
12. LEO SIROTA - Franz Liszt - Réminiscences de Don Juan
13. LEO SIROTA - Leo Sirota - Voice of Sirota: Message to His Family
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VA: The Chaliapin Edition, Volume 1: 1902-1908 CD (ARB 125CD)
2001 release. This first disc in Arbiter's Feodor Chaliapin series finds him in a St. Petersburg hotel room singing unaccompanied folk songs, Russian arias, and more. The recordings date from 1901 and are among the earliest examples of the Russian singing that raged throughout Europe. Several unissued test discs were accessed, and Arbiter has yanked these unique copies out of their isolation and given new life through restoration. Includes performances of compositions by Theo Koeneman, Mikhail Slonov, Genary Korganov, Charles Gounod, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Glinka, Manikin-Nestruev, Arrigo Boito, Modest Mussorgsky & Igor Stravinsky, Gioacchino Rossini, and Leo Délibes.
$8.39 UPC: 604907012526 CLASSICAL
01. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Theo Koeneman - When the King Went to War
02. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Mikhail Slonov - Ah, Thou Red Sun
03. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Genary Korganov - Elegy
04. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Charles Gounod - Faust, Act II: Le veau d'or
05. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Nightingale, Op. 60, No. 4
06. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Nochenka (Traditional)
07. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Mikhail Glinka - A Life for the Tsar, Act IV: My Dawn Will Come
08. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Disenchantment, Op. 65, No. 2
09. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Manikin-Nestruev - Song of the Needy Pilgrim
10. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Theo Koeneman - When the King Went to War
11. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele, Prologue: Ave Signor
12. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Charles Gounod - Faust, Act IV: Serenade
13. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Modest Mussorgsky & Igor Stravinsky - The Song of the Flea
14. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Charles Gounod - Faust, Act II: Le veau d'or
15. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Eh Vanka (Traditional)
16. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Nochenka (Traditional)
17. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Luchinushka (Traditional)
18. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Mikhail Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmila, Act II: Farlaf's Rondo
19. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Gioacchino Rossini - Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: La calunnia
20. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Mikhail Glinka - A Life for the Tsar, Act I: They Guess the Truth
21. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Leo Délibes - Lakme, Act II: Lakme, ton doux regard
22. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Mikhail Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmila, Act II: From the Dark Shroud of Eternity
23. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Dubinushka (Traditional)
24. FEODOR CHALIAPIN - Arise, Fair Sun (Traditional)
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VA: The Chaliapin Edition, Volume 3: 1911-1914 - La Scala Recordings CD (ARB 127CD)
2001 release. Arbiter's third volume of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin's complete early recordings documents his intense work from 1911-1914 at La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy, singing in several languages and taking his unique approach to folk songs. Once major rarities, these discs are now finally accessible. Includes performances of compositions by Alexander Borodin, Anton Rubinstein, Mikhail Strokin, Robert Schumann, Modest Mussorgsky, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioacchino Rossini, Arrigo Boito, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Rouget de L'Isle, Grigory Lishin, Johannes Brahms, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
$8.39 UPC: 604907012724 CLASSICAL
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VA: Pachmann: The Mythic Pianist - 1907-1927 Recordings CD (ARB 129CD)
2002 release. Pioneering recordings of eccentric piano genius Vladimir de Pachmann dating back to 1907. While he behaved outrageously on stage and sometimes in the studio, Pachmann self-consciously played at his best to provide a legacy for future listeners. While hunting for his lost archive in Rome, Arbiter discovered a pupil of his who revealed that Pachmann's unique Chopin playing came from private studies with a retired assistant of the composer's who lived in Florence, Italy. Nineteenth-century listeners identified him with Chopin, even leading some to call him a "Chopinzee" after his wild on-stage stunts. Also includes performances of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, Joachim Raff, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Liszt.
$8.39 UPC: 604907012922 CLASSICAL
01. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1
02. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
03. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1
04. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37, No. 2
05. Frédéric Chopin - Valse in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2
06. Frédéric Chopin - Mazurka in A-Flat, Op. 50, No. 2
07. Frédéric Chopin - Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 59, No. 3
08. Frédéric Chopin - Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 67, No. 4
09. Frédéric Chopin - Mazurka in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3
10. Frédéric Chopin - Impromptu in A-Flat, Op. 29
11. Frédéric Chopin - Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3
12. Frédéric Chopin - Etude in G-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5
13. Frédéric Chopin - Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12
14. Frédéric Chopin - Etude in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5
15. Frédéric Chopin - Ballade in A-Flat Major, Op. 47 (Second Half)
16. Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in D-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15
17. Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in D Minor, Op. 28, No. 24
18. Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E Minor, Op. 35, No. 1
19. Felix Mendelssohn - Venetian Gondola Song, Op. 30, No. 6
20. Felix Mendelssohn - Spinning Song, Op. 67, No. 4
21. Joachim Raff - La Fileuse, Op. 157, No. 2
22. Robert Schumann - Novelette in F Major, Op. 21, No. 1
23. Johannes Brahms - Capriccio in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 76, No. 5
24. Franz Liszt - Polonaise No. 2 in E Major (Second Half)
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RUSSELL, ARTHUR: Another Thought 2LP (ALE 001LP)
2015 repress. Originally released on CD in 1994 and reissued in 2006, this is the first time Arthur Russell's Another Thought has been released on vinyl. Arthur Russell's Another Thought was first released posthumously in 1994, two years after his death. The tracks date from between 1982 to around 1990, catalogued from over 800 tape reels by Mikel Rouse for Point Music, and produced by Don Christensen. While it is a collection of tracks in various stages of completion, often sparse and direct, it is perhaps the most sonically coherent album ever released of Russell's material. Another Thought includes appearances by trombonist Peter Zummo, percussionist Mustafa Ahmed, additional vocals by composers Julius Eastman and Elodie Lauten, plus Joyce Bowden, Jennifer Warnes, and Steven Hall. Double vinyl in kraftliner sleeves printed in white litho, with art paper inners. Artwork by Jennifer Lucy Allan. This is the first release on Arc Light Editions, a label curated by Jennifer Allan in collaboration with Multiverse Music.
$18.39 EAN: 5065002003669 ROCK
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STEINBERG, DANIEL: Left-Handed Part 1 12" (A&L 032EP)
Berlin DJ and producer Daniel Steinberg's Left-Handed Part 1 is a kaleidoscopic trip through house, electronica, and jazz imbued with the artist's trademark warmth and adventurous musical spirit. "Corn Dog" is a melting-pot of Latin, tech, funk, rap, and jazz, preceding the Chicago-inspired "State of Mind" and "Bones" and the bluesy nostalgia of "Peace." They all work beautifully as a cohesive whole.
$8.99 UPC: 827170612464 ELECTRONIC
01. Corn Dog
02. State of Mind
03. Bones
04. Peace
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CERRONE: The Golden Touch (Cerrone IV) LP+CD (BEC 5156077)
Gold-colored LP in gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve; includes CD. The idea that France once had a genius and let him go to California where he was more welcome and appreciated than in Paris is, in the digital era, commonplace. Every web entrepreneur heads toward Silicon Valley to develop ideas. During the '70s, this was less ordinary. Back then, the music world witnessed the departure of a very talented guy for the United States, a country that quickly understood he was a star. Marc Cerrone, a trained drummer and disco phenomenon who sold more albums than many other artists put together, saw his career magnified by America but also slightly twisted by France, which quickly reduced him to a style -- disco music -- without trying to understand who he was and how relevant his talent was. His path went through two phases; two complementary moves. The Golden Touch was released in 1978; its composer is one of the spiritual fathers of the dense '70s disco era.
$16.99 EAN: 5060421560779 ROCK
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CERRONE: You Are the One (Cerrone VII) LP+CD (BEC 5156078)
Yellow vinyl; includes CD. The first years of Marc Cerrone's career, from his first album in 1976 (BEC 5161904) to his seventh in 1980, were fueled by an exemplary sense of creativity and a free-spirited vision. Against everyone's advice, Cerrone was never reluctant to compose long and pure trance disco tracks that were not exactly radio-friendly but did incredibly well because they encapsulated the hedonism of the day and were far more than a trend. For instance, "Love in C Minor" and "Supernature" (BEC 5161908) have become unbeatable classics, featured regularly in the best pop, disco, and dance selections. Such a success would have burnt the wings of most artists, but at the beginning of the '80s, when he decided to unleash his creativity on stage, Cerrone managed to rebound with his You Are the One studio album, originally released in 1980.
$16.99 EAN: 5060421560786 ROCK
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CERRONE: Give Me Remixes 2LP+CD (BEC 5156079)
Double LP in screenprinted recycled cardboard sleeve; includes CD. Marc Cerrone became the star of incredible live experiences in Paris and elsewhere, as if, after having spent the first years of his musical career elaborating his repertoire, he'd chosen to devote the second one to make it live permanently. Firstly on stage, then through younger generations; when Bob Sinclar samples his music or invites him to collaborate, it's a new way for Cerrone to keep making crowds dance. It's a talent that's inspired his younger fans, including Todd Terje, Prins Thomas, James Murphy, and a whole generation of cosmic disco lovers. From 1976 to 2014, Cerrone, whose discography makes so many others jealous, never stopped playing. And if disco music had to be summarized by one artist, one creator, it would be him and nobody else. This exclusive double LP is something of a tribute to his prolific discography, containing incredible remixes by Dimitri from Paris, The Reflex, L'Impératrice, Sacha Mambo, Alan Braxe, Joey Negro, Frankie Knuckles, Kevin Saunderson, A-Trak & Codes, and Get a Room!.
$18.39 EAN: 5060421560793 ROCK
A1. Love in C Minor (Dimitri from Paris Remix)
A2. Hooked on You (The Reflex Revision)
B1. Je Suis Music (L'Impératrice Remix)
B2. Dr Doo-Dah (Sacha Mambo Jungle Adjustment)
C1. Music of Life (Alan Braxe Remix)
C2. Cerrone's Paradise (Joey Negro Remix)
C3. Give Me Love (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
D1. Supernature (Kevin Saunderson Remix)
D2. Misunderstanding (A-Trak & Codes Remix)
D3. Africanism/Gimme Some Lovin (Get a Room! Remix)
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GODIN, NICOLAS: Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde 12" (BEC 5156235)
Arranged by Nicolas Godin, the original track was written by Georg Christian Lehms, composed by Bach, and adapted from Bach's cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54. Here Bach's church cantata for solo voice meets languid Gainsbourg and Birkin (embodied in vocalists Gordon Tracks and Dorothée de Koon), albeit in German, with exquisite choir and strings. Godin says, "This piece starts with a very strange chord, which was avant-garde for its day. Bach's scores are outside any rules, which I wanted to exploit." Includes remixes by Justin K. Broadrick, Mmoths, and Lapalux.
$9.79 EAN: 5060421562353 ELECTRONIC
A1. Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde (Original)
A2. Widerstehe Doch der Sünde (Lapalux Remix)
B1. Widerstehe Doch der Sünde (Justin K. Broadrick Remix)
B2. Widerstehe Doch der Sünde (Mmoths Remix)
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SHADY P: Speaker for the Dead EP 12" (CDR 12013EP)
Co-founder of How to Kill Detroit, one of Clan Destine's favorite labels, Shady P delivers some prime Detroit techno sludge with his Speaker for the Dead EP. "A Man in Reverse" features Drowned.
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VA: Dark Acid V 12" (CDR 12014EP)
Shady P contributes the gloriously fucked-up "X Is Whole." Marshall Applewhite drops a total acid banger with "Prostrate," and The Friend throws down the skewed acid tech of "How R U." Glasgow's Gregor Garnutsi (Upstanding Monk) changes up the vibe with the creepy electronica of "Access Granted" and France's Orphan Swords bring a killer mix of noise and techno with "Astaroth."
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FIXMER, TERENCE: Depth Charged Remixes 12" (CLR 091EP)
Following his profound and forward-thinking 2015 album Depth Charged (CLR 014CD/LP), Terence Fixmer returns with Depth Charged Remixes featuring Ostgut Ton's Answer Code Request and UK underground techno hero Steve Bicknell. "Elevation," originally the final track of the album, emotional and reflective, is kicked up a notch by ACR's Patrick Gräser by adding ponderous drum patterns making it perfect for the floor. Conversely, Steve Bicknell takes on "Unforeseen." With its fast-paced rolling bass, it is now put into top gear, shivering with feverish reverberations. Fixmer's own live versions, which have energetically filled dancefloors throughout his tour, complement each variation.
$9.79 UPC: 827170605862 ELECTRONIC
A1. Elevation (Answer Code Request Remix)
A2. Elevation (Fixmer's Live Version)
B1. Unforeseen (Steve Bicknell Remix)
B2. Unforeseen (Fixmer's Live Version)
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STEFANIK, DANIEL: I Wonder 12" (COR 131EP)
Daniel Stefanik presents a true tech-house-monster as his return to the Cocoon label. With "Twilight Zone," Stefanik moves away from his Detroit-influenced background but stays true to his oldskool-flavored vibe. Wild 909 beats and an overall atmosphere that is dry as a bone let this one communicate pure musical madness. "Twilight Zone" has been a climax of label head and Cocoon master Sven Väth's sets. "I Wonder" breathes the air of Octave One's "Black Water" merged with cool and dubby Basic Channel influences.
$9.79 UPC: 827170596160 ELECTRONIC
A1. Twilight Zone
B1. I Wonder
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MARBERT ROCEL: In the Beginning 2LP+CD (COMP 474LP)
Double LP version. Includes CD. A place far away from everything, yet right around the corner. A vision close enough to touch, yet so far away. Surrounded by keys, hatches, pots, and small fragmented parts, Marbert Rocel lie down, discuss, and dance through the winter of 2015. In this environment, in their studio in Leipzig, the band ties together the songs, which first saw the light of day in a small spot enclosed by woods in the summer of 2014. Each decision goes through every head and each chord is listened to a hundred times, from front to back and in reverse. This is not an album fueled by pompous string arrangements, but by the notion of a consensual nod, which has evolved within Marbert Rocel over the years. In the Beginning is the fourth album by Marbert Rocel. It's a delicately sculpted work with deft percussion and synth pads forming songs that welcome you like good friends. Like Tinker Bell, Spunk's voice guides listeners through this strange, familiar world, moving past big feelings and small gestures to where it all started: In the Beginning.
$15.79 UPC: 673794247410 ELECTRONIC
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COMPOST ALLSTARS (FEAT. ROBERT OWENS): Good Day 12" (COMP 500EP)
Compost Allstars (Christian Prommer, Roland Appel, Jan Krause (Beanfield), and Compost Records founder Michael Reinboth), celebrate the 2014 20th anniversary of Compost Records with "Good Day," a top-notch, impulsively deep tech-house track with vocals by legendary Fingers Inc. vocalist Robert Owens. The mighty SHOW-B contributes a versatile peak-time rework and an instrumental. Also includes a dub by Prommer.
$8.39 UPC: 673794250014 ELECTRONIC
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TIGERSKIN: Time of Descent 12" (DIRT 092EP)
Time of Descent by Alex Krüger aka Tigerskin ranges from deep and tech house through techno, with influences from all over. "Faint (feat. Grambow) is a bright and soulful dancefloor gem of melodic Detroit-style house track. "Stay" is a subtle, classy deep house cut perfect for the early morning. "Descent" resides in more spacious territory, steady and deep with acid and techno undertones. Vinyl-only bonus track "This Place Is Empty Without You" is Tigerskin's biggest hit, originally released in 2012 as a digital offering.
$9.79 UPC: 827170590564 ELECTRONIC
A1. Faint (feat. Grambow)
A2. Stay
B1. Descent
B2. This Place Is Empty Without You (Special Vinyl Reissue)
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PILOOSKI: Isola 12" (DL 019EP)
For Isola, Pilooski (Discodeine, Dirty Edits) has called upon four contributors, with eden ahbez's Eden's Island. Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) reads from Carl Gustav Jung's The Red Book (1915-1930); Judah Warsky reads his own homage to the sun and the moon; Narumi Hérisson (Tristesse Contemporaine) reads a passage from Ango Sakaguchi's Sakura No Mori No Makaï No Shita (1947); and writer Simon Liberati (Anthology of Apparitions (2005), Jayne Mansfield 1967 (2011), Eva (2015) reads a fragment from one his 113 Studies of Romantic Literature (2013). Features Clément Froissart (flute), Axel Lecourt (percussion), and Julien Vichnievsky (guitar).
$8.99 UPC: 880319719110 ELECTRONIC
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H.O.S.H.: Cilantrophy EP 12" (DIYNAMIC 080EP)
Longstanding Diynamic family member H.O.S.H. follows his well-received Forever Young EP series (DIYNAMIC 066-A/B/C/D, 2013-'14) with his first release of 2015. "Cilantro" is a deep, bubbly tech house number with scurrying drums and hi-hats, surging synths, and wavy chords. "Camino" gets more late-night and tripped-out, with rich harmonies and melodies raining down on a hip-swinging kick-clap combo. It's a colorful, neon tune that bristles with great detail and is sure to make for magical moments on the dancefloor. The epic "Cambia" evokes a cosmic, jungle-like atmosphere with sweeping synths and cooing bird sounds married to rubbery beats and rattling percussive patterns.
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STIMMING & JOHANNES BRECHT: Stekker 12" (DIYNAMIC 082EP)
Stimming and Johannes Brecht each serve up one solo track, with a collaborative track in between. Brecht's stirring "Breathe!" is full of glistening melody and richly musical chords, with plenty of bass and slick percussion. Stimming's uniquely freaky "Quecksilber" is an atypical, intricate affair full of great sound design and unusual textures, with bendy tones, deep drums, woody hits, and hiccupping grooves. Their collaborative "Stekker" (based on elements of the pair's improvised live set at the 2014 Studio Stekker Festival) is a spine-tingling affair that marries jangling chords with distant trumpets, little funky hand claps, finger clicks, and more.
$8.39 EAN: 4018939288310 ELECTRONIC
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HESS, LUKE: Adventures in Deep Space 12" (ECHOCOL 032EP)
Adventures in Deep Space reflects on humanity's existence a planet somewhere in the universe, stranded and searching for meaning and purpose. "Pillars of Creation" represents the beauty of the stars on a clear night and the inspiring feeling that staring at the galaxy gives. "Gravitational Effects" is about the parallel between the physical properties of science and creation. The music speaks to the deep connection that is possible between humans. "Crate Digging on Planet Omnom" is about a hike in the alien mountains, a dip in some hot springs, and some space-dancing around a neon green campfire.
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GIGLI, GIORGIO: The Right Place Where Not to Be 3LP (EDLX 045LP)
Triple LP version in three-panel gatefold sleeve. LP "Ø" is single-sided. Limited to 350 copies; not to be repressed. Giorgio Gigli presents his debut album, exploring sophisticated ambient layers as much as obsessive and hypnotic techno landscapes. After spending time working on his own Zooloft label and crafting an evolved sound reflected in his DJ sets, Gigli presents his first full-length sonic movie, The Right Place Where Not to Be. It emerges from the depths of his soul and properly filters every musical input he's developed over the years. The album imagines a scenario in which all human and animal lifeforms have perished and only plants and minerals have survived. Gigli performs that concept by writing an ultra-detailed soundtrack to an imaginary movie, using rich textures that reveal new acoustics enhanced by alienating atmospheres that captivate the listener. The album is focused on obsessive rhythms cut on low frequencies, a persistent motion, and a stable tremor. The sky is darkened by laden clouds and stratified sonics that electrify the sound of space. Blooming sensations that cover a wide spectrum alternate from a feverish tension to the lightness of faith. Confines are rejected and techno meets ambient, purging our body of consciousness. A sonic bubble from a faraway era; a timeless atmosphere. The album brilliantly depicts a surreal concept without losing tension. The experience of the music is enhanced by the intricate artwork that expresses Gigli's concept. The black and white photographs were taken in the Dolomites mountain range with an old Hasselblad camera by Marcello and Alessandro Gianvenuti, and subsequently enhanced with watercolor-painted textures. The whole graphical project was curated by Studio Lord Z.
$19.79 EAN: 5414165074182 ELECTRONIC
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JEE JEE BAND: Glass Fish LP (EM 1138LP)
LP version. Here's a tasty treat for all fans of DIY pop music: a multinational confection, the perfect blend of sweet and smart. Based around core members Matt Jones, originally from Western Massachusetts, and Busan native Jee Eun Lim, who met in Korea in 2011, the Jee Jee Band fuses simple pop structures, airy instrumentation, and breathy vocals with clever lyrics, in both Korean and English, often of a satirical or political nature. Based in Northern California, the band quietly celebrates Korean culture while also evidencing a cosmopolitan classic pop sensibility, blending K-pop and other Asian pop elements with a classic and yet contemporary US/UK pop feel. The songs on Glass Fish, all very fresh-sounding, feature performers from South Korea, America, and, on one song, the Khmer-language vocals of Cambodian filmmaker Vanntey Morn. Jones's Western Massachusetts pop roots allowed him to enlist the skills of former members of Sunburned, Sebadoh, and others to help record this charming and refreshing release, sure to appeal to fans of K Records, DIY sounds, and pure pop. Liner notes by Byron Coley.
$11.79 EAN: 4560283217381 ROCK
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COSMIN TRG: III 12" (FIZIC 003EP)
Romanian DJ and producer Cosmin TRG presents the third release on his Fizic label, taking abstract inspiration from musique concrète and J. G. Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise. "Sever" is a stripped-back bit of basement funk with scurrying alien sounds, frosted lo-fi textures, and propulsive kick drums; the forceful dub of "Redus" is riddled with abstract lifeforms and distorted radio frequencies; the synths of "Sirena" howl and spray like a UFO in a storm over a burrowing groove; and "Motoric" goes arctic with cavernous chambers of sound full of echo and reverb. Music and artwork by Cosmin Nicolae. Mastered by Matt Colton.
$9.79 UPC: 827170613669 ELECTRONIC
01. Sever
02. Redus
03. Sirena
04. Motoric
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AUNTIE FLO: Theory of Flo 2LP (HUNTLEYS 025LP)
Auntie Flo returns with his Theory of Flo masterpiece, his first release on Huntleys + Palmers since 2012. Following his critically acclaimed 2012 Future Rhythm Machine album, Theory of Flo is a bold step ahead, taking the listener on the trip of a lifetime spanning continents, genres, languages, and cultures to create a wholly unique listening experience and one that's only possible in 2015. Auntie Flo created the album with long-term collaborator Esa Williams; Theory of Flo also features collaborations with the incredible Ghanaian singer Anbuley (who appeared on Auntie Flo's 2014 Autonomous Africa hit "Daabi"), Shingai Shoniwa (Noisettes, The Matthew Herbert Big Band, Dennis Ferrer). It was recorded over a lengthy period between Havana, London, and Glasgow, with outstanding results. Scratch the surface and it becomes clear that by interweaving the rhythms and traditions of Africa and Latin America with more familiar western club sounds and four-to-the-floor electronic house music, Auntie Flo's interplanetary projects can break down barriers for fans on both sides of the electronic/world music divide. Fans of Daphni, Débruit, or Spoek Mathambo are all too aware of the tendency for media and critics to sub-categorize and pigeon-hole. Auntie Flo is building his own artistic response, one that re-energizes house music and looks outward but is very much indebted to the vibrancy of the Glasgow club scene. With regular appearances on the foremost underground dance music filter Boiler Room and a monthly show on Rinse FM, Auntie Flo has earned the respect to take the marimbas of West Africa and the palenque of Colombia to the unsuspecting. Two 180-gram LPs in double-gatefold sleeve with download code.
$16.39 UPC: 880319734038 ELECTRONIC
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LOZANO, LUCA: Gun Fingers 12" (HYPE 047EP)
Klasse Recordings and Grafiti Tapes impresario Luca Lozano rolls up to Hypercolour with a 12" of genre-blending future dance grooves following releases for Sex Tags UFO, Optimo Trax, and Crème Organization. "Gun Fingers" is a strictly heads-down affair, with luscious synths and tantalizing breaks sandwiched between pounding kicks. "Calling All Dancers" is laced with the familiar components of the golden era of UK dance. Kindred spirit DJ Sotofett weighs in with two versions of "Gun Fingers" exclusively for the vinyl edition of this release. Those who know Sotofett's killer style will know the score here, and he certainly does not disappoint.
$10.99 EAN: 4012957254708 ELECTRONIC
A1. Gun Fingers
A2. Calling All Dancers
B1. Gurn Fingers Massive Mix by DJ Sotofett
B2. DJ Sotofett's Gurn Redouble Riddim
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FLUGEL, ROMAN: Monday Brain 2LP (HYPE 048LP)
Very few artists have influenced the sound of house and techno as much as Roman Flügel. Active since the early '90s under various aliases, Flügel is widely revered as a DJ, live performer, producer, remixer, intellectual, and record label owner. The record labels he helped found -- Ongaku, Klang, and Playhouse -- are pivotal imprints in the electronic music scene, and his ability to gracefully incorporate and master most styles of 4/4 has seen him create in genres ranging through techno, house, electro, ambient, IDM, downtempo, and acid house. Respected both as a solo artist and collaborator, this veteran of the scene now presents an incredible double vinyl release for Hypercolour. Monday Brain contains six tracks of highly polished techno/electronica covering a range of tempos and styles. Flügel demonstrates his ability to morph his sound with the times, and displays his breadth of sound-design magnificently over the release. Opener "Teenage Engineering" explores cosmic IDM sensibilities and builds in harmony and texture for a fine example of Flügel's melodic sound, while "Make It Happen" captures more psychedelic touches over a solid groove. "Man Sees the Face, God Sees the Heart" goes as deep as its title suggests, as rhythmic sounds melodically ride over minimal beats and luscious bass in a stirring slice of modern electronica; "Church of Dork" wigs out like the very best Chicago house records, its synth motif worming around the jacked-up beats. "Picnic for Players" comes ready with blissful and melancholic riffs, dipped in warm reverb for a classic-sounding piece, before the work closes in fine style with the shadowy "Vegetarian Leather Jackets." Flügel once again displays his effortless knack for creating timeless dance music.
$20.39 EAN: 4012957254807 ELECTRONIC
A1. Teenage Engineering
B1. Make It Happen
B2. Man Sees the Face, God Sees the Heart
C1. Church of Dork
C1. Picnic for Players
D1. Vegetarian Leather Jackets
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L A N D: Anoxia LP (IMPREC 429LP)
LP version in combination offset/screenprinted jacket. Edition of 500. The second L A N D album, Anoxia, sees Daniel Lea return alone with an outing that marks a shift from the industrial-inflected jazz-noir of 2012's Night Within into distinctly new terrain. Mixed by Ben Frost at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík; mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. CD packaged in a combination offset/screenprinted jacket. "Anoxia" means "total absence of oxygen," and in Lea's hands the term heralds aural environments that are full of the dreams of humanity yet may well be devoid of its living presence. The Anthropocene era in which we live has seen the rise of many human-made monuments that add up to a total presence that humanity will leave behind; Lea's labyrinthine arrangements are a soundtrack to such a world, one without humanity that is nevertheless fully marked and constructed by humans. From the very first moments of the pummeling djun djun skins and the growing bowed rototoms of "Labyrinthitis," the direction is one of a more radical constructivist sound rooted in modernist architecture. Lea has elevated his practice to the point at which he cleaves space sonically, and Frost is the perfect person to mix such spaces. The results are visions of a brutalist world slowly decaying, but with the mellifluous harmonics of vegetation and fluid matter entwining through the ruination. Other tracks rise up like towers in a city, growing from the metallic chimes and structured percussion; one sees visions of the Balfron Tower or the Genex Tower, but such associations do not tether this work to geographical real-world locations. Anoxia may well be in a time outside of time. On "Anoxia," cello harmonics swing their head and screech like prancing komodo dragons, marking the entry to the final track, the "End Zone," with which Lea carries out his own initiation ritual, a dance between those edifices left beneath the growing millennial weeds and forests. Monuments that will long outlast their creators. Daniel Lea: sound design, field recordings, processing, electronics, composition, production. With Rupert Clervaux: drums, percussion, aluphone, crotales, copper pipes; Jamie McCarthy: cello on "Metamorphosis," "Equinox," "Transition," and "Anoxia" and bowed percussion and copper pipes on "Equinox" and "Anoxia"; Clive Bell: shakuhachi on "Drop City," "Equinox," and "Anoxia"; Leo Abrahams: processed guitars on "Neutra," "Transition," and "End Zone"; Mark Wastell: tamtam on "Neutra," "Equinox," "Transition," "Anoxia," and "End Zone"; and Dom Garwood: clarinets on "Labyrinithitis."
$18.99 UPC: 793447542911 ROCK
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BIRCHALL, NAT: Invocations LP (JMAN 082LP)
LP version. The music of saxophonist Nat Birchall joins a long-flowing conversation in jazz. His chosen tongue is that of the spiritualized musical discourse with a vital source that can be found in the sacred testaments of John Coltrane, and which was channeled most directly by his fellow travelers Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders and his wife Alice. Many others followed where Coltrane led, giving voice in music to the esoteric renewal of the soul and mind that lent spiritual strength to the black counterculture and complemented the political radicalism of the late 1960s and 1970s. This rich vein of spirit-music has rarely been tapped by British jazz musicians, and Birchall is one of the few to have been drawn to it with the conviction of heart that it demands. For these are the sonic and spiritual spaces where the colossi of an earlier age declaimed and confessed with sacrificial passion, from within the flames of revolution. Ultimately, it has been the sonic pathways offered by jazz that have provided Birchall with the clearest way to channel the resonances of the higher heights, wherefrom timeless musical messages might be revealed. "It seems to me that's it's the most direct way of tuning in to this higher source," reflects Birchall. "That music seems to me to display this connection to whatever this higher source, this higher energy, might be... You can hear it in other musics to a certain degree sometimes, but this seems to be almost purely of that nature. That's what really motivates me the most." All music is a spiritual communion -- it speaks to the old and the young in a language that is beyond language, it expresses and elicits emotion and thought at once, it is both bodily and mental, noise and silence, intention and accident. It is the dissolution of opposites, the fleeting noise made eternal prayer, the transubstantiation of spirit into sound. Music is the expression of unity, in which difference is both accepted and resolved, and from which a mended world might be born. To make music is, as Roland Kirk observed, to talk with the spirits. We are lucky that the music of Nat Birchall allows us to hear the sounds of their world once more. Played with Adam Fairhall: piano; Tim Fairhall: bass; Johnny Hunter: drums; Christian Weaver: congas, batá drum, various bells, shakers, and other percussion.
$16.99 EAN: 5036468000820 JAZZ
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BAHAR, SADAR: Tik Tok/At the Concert 12" (KKS 004EP)
After a furious release from Cuttlefish & Asparagus (Hang On in There (KKS 003EP, 2015)), Kalakuta Soul presents a 12" from Sadar Bahar, one of the major influences on the label's work. Listeners who are still dancing and sweating to his unforgettable Chicken Wing Edits series may have been wondering what he's been doing. Well, Soul in the Hole's true soul and DJ's DJ Sadar Bahar has been travelling the world giving everybody a serious lesson in soul music that he calls disco beatdown. Some would also call Sadar's ceremonies "exorcism" -- pretty apt for the fantastic disco tracks here.
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A1. Tik Tok (8:41)
B1. At the Concert (7:12)
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23S, THE: Los Manos Arriba! 12" (KK 086EP)
Four remixes of mysterious German one-man act The 23s' 2015 album Flamingo (KK 084CD/LP). Canadian disco-techno-blender The Mole transforms "Any Second" into a slow, banging sort of trip hop experience. The now-defunct German experimental electronic trio To Rococo Rot, long-term friends of The 23s, twist "The Scene Where the Car Was Blown Away" into a futuristic, balearic trip with cool guitars and unfolding rhythms. Gilles Aiken aka Edward (White, Giegling) delivers a rattling remix of the same track, with a prominent double bass and an absorbing psychedelic atmosphere. Christian S (Cómeme) remixes "Any Second" with percussive rhythms and bewitching chords.
$8.99 UPC: 880918222530 ELECTRONIC
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TELLAVISION: The Third Eye LP (KR 031LP)
180-gram vinyl. The Third Eye is the third album by Hamburg's Tellavision aka Fee R. Kürten, who has been deeply rooted in DIY culture right from her start in 2007. Kürten calls her original aesthetic "hardware post-pop," work which she uses to deconstruct borders between (anti-)pop and avant-garde, and between high and low art. The Third Eye follows 2011's Music on Canvas (FTR 111EP) and 2013's Funnel Walk, which was recorded with Tobias Levin (Tocotronic; Mutter; Ja, Panik). Developed and produced during a stay at the Whitehaus, one of Boston's self-governing cultural centers, the tracks play with Tellavision's reception across different genres; too punk for an arty audience, too arty for the punks, Kürten, who studied arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (attending classes taught by Jutta Koether and Felix Kubin, among others), follows an interdisciplinary approach that combines visual arts, film, and music, taking in a wide range of pop-cultural references, rejecting them, and finally mashing them up for new positions in contemporary arts that defy conventions. Defied too is the concept of the traditional A-side and B-side; instead, The Third Eye is split into two named sides. Ease Tikky Tab continues and refines Tellavision's atonal, dub-infected trademark sound, while Cryptic Snash Man crystallizes as an oscillating field of krauty repetition and industrial ambiences. Oppressive, dissonant soundscapes, created by a reduced set-up of analog synthesizers, percussive elements, and fragmentary field recordings, go along perfectly with Kürten's elegic, soulful voice. It's a unique sound that situates the young artist, 27 at the time of this release, among like-minded lo-fi-advocates Ariel Pink and John Maus, the rhythmic grooves of ESG, and a generation of female artists including Fatima al Qadiri, Inga Copeland (whom Kürten has supported in concert), Gazelle Twin, and Klara Lewis.
$14.39 EAN: 4024572844097 ELECTRONIC
Ease Tikky Tab:
A1. Unimperative
A2. My Friend
A3. Juxtaposition
A4. Attitude
A5. Hide and Look
A6. Separation Time
Cryptic Snash Man:
B1. Hypocritiques
B2. Libido da Ooze
B3. Cryptic Snash Man
B4. They're Playing Grunge
B5. His-Story
B6. J-Walk International
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PAVLOV'S DOG: Of Once and Future Kings... Live LP (KH 9059LP)
Pavlov's Dog are one of the most revered prog outfits to have emerged from 1970s America. This WABX-FM radio broadcast of their performance at the Ford Auditorium, Detroit, on May 14th, 1976, is an extremely rare document of the original band, boasting the unique vocals of David Surkamp, as well as Steve Scorfina (lead guitar), Doug Rayburn (Mellotron, guitar), Tom Nickeson (keyboards), Richard Stockton (bass), and Kirk Sarkisian (drums). The material is culled from their classic albums Pampered Menial (1975) and At the Sound of the Bell (1976). Includes insert with background notes and rare images.
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TERRANOVA: Restless Remixe 2 12" (KOM 342EP)
Terranova's second remix EP for their 2015 Restless album (KOMP 123CD/KOM 327LP) opens with a reimagining of "Skin & Bones" (featuring captivating vocals from Lydmor & Bon Homme) by Karl Friedrich, an up-and-coming producer from Halle, Germany. Terranova's Fetisch follows up with his own version of "Kepler186f," an energetic groover feeding off its thriving percussion and powerful bass injections. Stereo MC's revamp "Twisted Souls" featuring Cath Coffey, and turn the source material into a thrilling club drama in its own right, using only a Roland 808, a Bell Delay (one of the earliest samplers), and a Juno.
$8.39 UPC: 880319807114 ELECTRONIC
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HUNTER/GAME: Speicher 87 12" (KOM EX087EP)
Italian producers Hunter/Game follow their sneaky club anthems "Hexagon" and "Bermuda" (KOM EX083EP) and their strong rework of Weval's "Gimme Some" (Total 15, KOMP 125CD/KOM 340LP) with their second Speicher release. They dig even deeper into the hardware circuits while cranking up the momentum a notch or two; opening banger "Adaptation" doesn't ease you into the experience, instead dropping you right in the middle of its frenzied staccato synth throb. Meanwhile, "The Path" opts for rich, saturated colors and epic melodies, slowly building its case until it's ready to blow its lid.
$8.39 UPC: 880319806414 ELECTRONIC
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EVIL BLIZZARD: Everybody Come to Church CD (LTW 010CD)
Like Hawkwind on even more acid or Sunn O))) meets Butthole Surfers/P.I.L. with four bassists and droning powerful songs... Those masked marauding architects of cacophonic, bombastic, psychedelic, bass-bothering rock have been at it again, making another album of unrivalled and quintessentially unique rock music. To say that Everybody Come to Church has been eagerly awaited in many quarters is an understatement; fellow Northwest England-based musician Mr. Mark E. Smith, who's been heard to say of the Blizzard, "I like Evil Blizzard, they give me hope that music is alive and kicking," would no doubt agree. The Guardian are also huge fans of the band, having featured them on their cover and described them as "a fearsome collision of Hawkwind, krautrock, molten noise, dazzling psychedelic lights and weird, gnarly looking masks." The album was "recorded live in one day with minimal overdubs at Magnetic North Studios... a fierce, spontaneous outburst of evil noise." They had only four songs written before entering the studio and the rest of the album just happened around ideas they'd had kicking around. Everybody Come to Church features eight tracks of brooding, sinister psychedelic rock that will melt your mind and soul.
$10.39 UPC: 666017296029 ROCK
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FRED BANANA COMBO: Manana 12" (MIG 1305EP)
Kult kraut band The Fred Banana Combo remixed by none other than Ralf Hildenbeutel, the legendary innovative mastermind behind Sven Väth's early-'90s works ("L'Esperanza," "An Accident in Paradise," "Harlequin," "Robot," "Ballet-Dancer"...) and one main ingredients of Eye Q Records. With both of his (rare) remixes, Hildenbeutel goes back to the roots of techno and underground dancefloor music; his ultramodern style still stands out and would fit in on a finer Pampa release. His remixes are the first in a series of Fred Banana club reworks, with no less than Richie Hawtin and Luciano to follow.
$9.79 UPC: 885513013057 ELECTRONIC
A1. Manana (Electrodance Clubmix) (5:27)
B1. Manana (Hildenbeutel-Electro Pogo) (4:14)
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HOMELESS HOUSE: Irrational Beat Up EP 12" (MOC 005EP)
Homeless House (Moire Patterns and DJ Kriton) develop live-session sounds into a specific old school techno sound. "Irrational Beat Up" delivers a dirty kick and bass followed by catchy percussion and chords. The trance-inducing "Astronaytis" is branded by rough sounds and vocals, with snare breaks taking perception back to reality. On "Sous Sols," intense chord progressions collide with solid beat structure and a slight bassline to show a lighter side.
$8.99 UPC: 880319738814 ELECTRONIC
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KINNARI: Kinnari 12" (MLV 002EP)
Infused with elements of 2-step and ambient textures, these tracks' minimalist directions also evoke reflections of the pastoral. In ancient tradition, Kinnari is the poetic embodiment of virtuous musicianship. She is the goddess of love and perpetual pleasure. With her lover she transcends the boundaries of aural pleasure with extraordinary grace. "Tigris and Euphrates" features Blue Nile. Mastered at Transition Mastering UK.
$8.99 EAN: 5055300387257 ELECTRONIC
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DAPAYK SOLO: #nofilter 2x12" (MFP 079LP)
Producer Niklas Worgt aka Dapayk Solo presents his fourth album, #nofilter. Since 1996, Worgt has been regarded as one of the most creative and versatile protagonists of Europe's club scene. Several projects for his label Mo's Ferry Prod., like the I Love Vinyl festival or his work on Dapayk & Padberg releases, have kept him busy since 2010. He finally got some solo time in the studio, and after having explored a more melodic and gentle side on his last two albums with Padberg (Smoke (MFP 067CD/LP, 2013) and Smoke (Family Remixes) (2014)), he now turns to more experimental, edgy productions. "I wanted the sound to be very focused," says Worgt about #nofilter -- more straightforward, more reduced, more analog and dirtier than "anything I have done before." On #nofilter he combines elements from his early days in breakbeat and drum and bass with minimal and tech-house, resulting in his very own unique signature sound, far off the beaten club-sound track. Worgt aims to challenge his audience, willing them to see that there is more than just one way of doing things. He's aware that "some of the tracks might not be for everyone at first glance. But it's always good to do things in an unexpected way, to change the listener's perspective." Worgt also shows his provocative and humorous side with the album title, statistically proven to be one of the most commonly used hashtags. "I wanted to look at the cliche of the big, gloomy nightclub, where everyone has to be credible and cool all the time, with a hint of humor. I think it's important to show people that there are different levels on which they can have fun and just enjoy themselves." #nofilter is a perfect demonstration of how much Dapayk Solo is enjoying himself and his work. "If you had asked me ten years ago where I would have seen myself today, I wouldn't have been able to give you a straight answer. If someone asks me that question now, I can say that I will definitely be making music."
$17.79 UPC: 827170605169 ELECTRONIC
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MUSK: On and On 12" (MUSIQ 190EP)
Musk debuts on mule musiq after excellent remixes for KZA and Kuniyuki . "On And On" is a massive Chicago house track and "Mysore" has a modern Berlin house sound.
$9.79 UPC: 880319718816 ELECTRONIC
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SHIFTING SANDS, THE: Cosmic Radio Station LP (FISH 015LP)
LP version. If you went up and over the hill behind Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New Zealand, you might stumble across the rundown shack and converted woolshed whence the Cosmic Radio Station was first beamed into the Pacific ether. Head back to Port Chalmers itself and there stands Chick's Hotel. Tiny it may be, but it's hosted shows by Sebadoh, Stephen Malkmus, J Mascis, Sharon van Etten, and Parquet Courts, among many others, and it's also the epicenter of the vibrant Dunedin pop underground. The venue is run by the three members of The Shifting Sands -- Mike McLeod (guitar, vocals), Tom Bell (bass), and Jake Langley (drums) -- who, even with the responsibility of providing radio for the cosmos and bringing bands to Dunedin, still managed to undertake a 2014 US West Coast tour supporting David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights. The eye-popping sleeve of Cosmic Radio Station, by renowned Port Chalmers artist Jim Cooper, gives some idea of the psych-dealing within. This is an album that drips sundazed melody through a shifting haze of fuzzy, chiming guitars, shimmering strings, and vocal harmonies, with the aforementioned Mr. Kilgour lending his inimitable guitar to two songs. Recorded in a woolshed in Whareakeake and a decrepit crib overlooking Mapoutahi. Overdubs recorded at Chick's Hotel. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Thomas Bell.
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EVERLASTING YEAH, THE: Anima Rising LP (HATI7DF 040LP)
LP version. That Petrol Emotion were one of a kind; a myriad of influences, a back-catalog stuffed with brilliant songs, a group blessed with gifted songwriters, a killer live act, and, above all, a bunch a friends who were (and still remain) fans of music. Now four members of the final line-up (Ciaran McLaughlin, Raymond Gorman, Brendan Kelly, and Damian O'Neill) have returned with a new sound as The Everlasting Yeah. The emphasis is on the collective -- this time the whole tribe sings. Since 2013 they have been playing sporadic but ecstatically received gigs in London, Oxford, and Glasgow. In 2014 and '15 they recorded their debut album, Anima Rising. Of course, there are echoes of the Petrols' signature sound in the album; however, this is very much an upgrade on the classic template of melody-harmony-beat-noise -- some call it keltic kosmische music.
$18.39 EAN: 5038622133719 ROCK
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REVOLUTIONARY ARMY OF THE INFANT JESUS: Beauty Will Save the World LP (LOGOS7DF 042LP)
180-gram LP version in gatefold sleeve. One of music's most elusive and enigmatic acts lifts the veil (a fraction) to present Beauty Will Save the World. Since forming in the mid-1980s, the reclusive Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus have confounded musical classification and studiously declined every invitation to explain their unique form of musical and artistic experimentation. Initially, the Liverpool outfit built their reputation on their extraordinary immersive multimedia performances, which combined multiple layers of visual imagery with elements of ritual, enigmatic samples, field recordings, and mesmeric live music. Their cult status was further reinforced with the release of the now-much-sought-after two studio albums The Gift of Tears (1987) and Mirror (1990) and two EP collections, Liturgie pour la Fin du Temps (1992) and Paradis (1995). Now, in 2015, the appearance of a new RAIJ album and the apparent relaxation of their strict vow of silence are generating predictable excitement and expectancy. Beauty Will Save the World does not disappoint. RAIJ's intoxicating mix of ethereal beauty, dazzling soundscapes, and oblique mystery reach new levels of intensity and subtlety. The album title -- a quotation from Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky -- is one of the many literary, cinematic, and spiritual references underpinning RAIJ's unexpected comeback. Founding members Paul Boyce, Jon Egan, and Leslie Hampson, joined by a fresh wave of collaborators, have crafted an album of unique beauty and originality. Prolonged silence seems to have deepened rather than dimmed their creative impulse. As ever, it is the breadth of musical genres, cultural references, borrowings, and retrieved sounds that defines the RAIJ aesthetic, but there is also a more consistently meditative and melodic strain that underpins the album's integrity and purpose. In a rare insight into the RAIJ's creative method, Jon Egan explains, "Although our work takes elements and inspiration from many disparate sources we have never viewed it as deconstruction. We are looking for the thread that connects every manifestation of beauty, however fragile, transitory and seemingly accidental." "There is renewed interest and appreciation of our music and that's great," says Leslie Hampson. "We have never tried to cultivate obscurity or anonymity, we simply wanted to avoid having to explain and justify a creative process that isn't necessarily premeditated. Isn't it enough to listen to and experience it?" CD includes one extra track.
$18.39 EAN: 5038622133214 ROCK
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VA: [Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982) 2LP (OMDIY 001B-LP)
[Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982) collects 15 UK 7" singles recorded between 1978 and 1982, compiled by JD Twitch to showcase the DIY spirit of those times. "If Punk was the nuclear detonation, the fallout that came after was where a lot of the most interesting music of that era was made. People who would never have thought to release a record before realised it was something they could do, and the end result was a DIY explosion. I've always loved music that doesn't try to fit in a particular genre, that is anti-canonical and doesn't care what else is going on in music at that time, that takes risks and is full of imagination and ideas that may or may not make any logical sense but that resulted in something unique, that ignores conventions about how a record SHOULD be produced and that was created simply because its creators felt the urge to express themselves and share the results with some other people. This compilation compiles 15 tracks that fulfil all those criteria. None of them had any success, most are (unjustly) obscure but every one of them has inspired me and would be in my ultimate 7" singles box" --JD Twitch. This release has been a real labor of love, involving tracing long-lost artists to far-flung corners of the globe, persuading them that the modern world needs to hear the music they made several decades ago, tracking down masters -- lovingly restoring 7"s in place of lost masters in some cases -- and conceiving an elaborate package with detailed sleeve notes to house the double album. Unfortunately, the original choice of title for this release infringed on the copyright of a series of well-known pop compilations released by a certain major label. They sent a cease and desist letter (hence the title of this edition), and did not accept proposed modifications to the original sleeves, so this edition is released in a more conventional package than was intended. Gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves containing sleeve notes and detailed overviews of each individual track by JD Twitch and an introduction by New York's DIY expert Dan Selzer. Includes tracks by Tesco Bombers, Sara Goes Pop, People in Motion, Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires, The Distributors, Dorothy, Thomas Leer, Visitors, The Murphy Federation, The Cro-Tones, Fatal Microbes, Spunky Onions, The Fakes, and The Prats.
$16.99 UPC: 880319732737 ROCK
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TERAKAFT: Alone LP (OH 028LP)
Alone was born out of a need to maintain sanity in times of broken dreams and lies. It might be Terakaft's most rock-oriented album to date, but at the same time it is their most poetic. While their 2010 album Aratan N Azawad, and even their 2012 follow-up, Kel Tamasheq, found them still full of hope, in 2015 the soil that was supposed to blossom is burnt by selfishness and rivalry. "There are too many characters in the picture, too many chiefs and not enough people," says member Diara when asked about Mali's political development since the group's last album. He used to sing political songs in the days in his rebel youth, when he was still playing guitar with Tinariwen. Since then he has begun to watch a new feeling growing inside him: ténéré, which translates to "alone." In the days when Diara sat in the dunes drinking tea with high hopes for the future, singing songs into the night, his nephew Sanou would sit next to him, still a young boy. Occasionally the uncle would hand his guitar to the nephew, so he could play along with the others. Just before the international success story of Tinariwen started, Diara got stuck on his way to Bamako and his place in Tinariwen was taken. Meanwhile Sanou had set up his own band, Terakaft. Diara and Sanou are now the backbone of Terakaft; the guardians of desert blues. Diara is the spirit of the band, as strong as a rock. Sanou is the band's heart. He brings the life to its spirit. Diara, the elder, lays out heavy rhythms pulsing through his guitar. Sanou has become the natural heir to the sound of "assouf," with his intense rock riffs and an uplifting attitude toward life. Alone is Terakaft's fifth album. It was produced by Justin Adams, one of the musicians from Europe who has delved deep into Tuareg music. Adams is known as a musician and producer through his work with Robert Plant, Tinariwen, and Juldeh Camara. He has geared up "The Caravan" (as Terakaft's name translates) to reach new shores and hit the dancefloors. In these troubled times, they have made an album together that presents the deep Saharan rhythms as a vital contemporary heartbeat. Standing on the ruins of their people's dreams, they sing to their brothers and sisters about true friendship and tolerance. Includes printed inner sleeve.
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VA: The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. I 2LP (OUTRE 1001LP)
2015 repress. Subtitled: Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48. This series of archival 78 transfers was originally released in 1995 on CD only. Now for the first time on vinyl, a deluxe gatefold presentation in a limited edition pressing. Produced by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) in conjunction with Yazoo Records. Compiled here are many of the greatest performances of world and ethnic music ever recorded. This volume represents a trip around the world, stopping at each port to sample one of that country's finest recordings of its indigenous music. Each of these recordings was captured at a period during the golden age of recording when traditional styles were at their peak of power and emotion. Included inside are extensive notes and beautiful period photographs that work together with the music to communicate an exciting sense of discovery. "One of the most consistently rewarding world music compilations in years, the cuts range from Macedonian fiddle jaunts to Puerto Rican Christmas tunes, from Abyssinian religious chants to ominous Japanese court music. The instruments include Ukrainian sleigh bells, Sardinian triple pipes, Vietnamese moon lutes and Ethiopian one-string violins...a profound artistry lurks beneath the alien vernaculars." --Village Voice; Vol. 1 contains music from Nigeria, Sardinia, Russia, Ceylon, Rajahstan, Cuba, Rumania, Vietnam, Macedonia, Morocco, Society Islands, South Africa, India, Japan, Jamaica, Fiji, and more.
$18.39 UPC: 725543593719 WORLD
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VA: The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. II 2LP (OUTRE 1002LP)
2015 repress. ...Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48. This series of archival 78 transfers was originally released in 1995 on CD only. Now for the first time on vinyl, a deluxe gatefold presentation and limited edition pressing. Reissue produced by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) in conjunction with Yazoo Records. Compiled here are many of the greatest performances of world and ethnic music ever recorded. This volume represents a trip around the world, stopping at each port to sample one of that country's finest recordings of its indigenous music. Each of these recordings was captured at a period during the golden age of recording when traditional styles were at their peak of power and emotion. Included inside are extensive notes and beautiful period photographs that work together with the music to communicate an exciting sense of discovery. Early 20th century recordings from Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, India, Mozambique, Ukraine, Trinidad, Kazakhstan, Ceylon, Tibet and elsewhere, compiled by archivist Pat Conte.
$18.39 UPC: 613505275622 WORLD
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VA: The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. III 2LP (OUTRE 1003LP)
...Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48. Restocked. Outernational Records is pleased to announce the third volume of this legendary series is now available on the vinyl format. This series of archival 78 transfers was originally released in 1995 on CD only. Now for the first time on vinyl, a deluxe gatefold presentation and limited edition pressing. Reissue produced by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) in conjunction with Yazoo Records. Compiled here are many of the greatest performances of world and ethnic music ever recorded. This volume represents a trip around the world, stopping at each port to sample one of that country's finest recordings of its indigenous music. Each of these recordings was captured at a period during the golden age of recording when traditional styles were at their peak of power and emotion. Included inside are extensive notes and beautiful period photographs that work together with the music to communicate an exciting sense of discovery. Early 20th century recordings from Poland, Spain, China, Angola, Turkey, Mongolia, Russia, the Congo, and elsewhere, compiled by archivist Pat Conte.
$18.39 UPC: 613505277022 WORLD
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VA: The Secret Museum of Mankind: Central Asia 2LP (OUTRE 1004LP)
...Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48. Restocked. Outernational Records is pleased to announce the fourth volume of this legendary series, now available on vinyl. This series of archival 78 transfers was originally released in 1995 on CD only. This volume from Central Asia has to be one of the most revelatory volumes yet presented. Concentrating on a singular geographic region, this volume unearths some of the rarest recorded artifacts of music from the Central Asian countries of Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Caucasus region, Tadjikistan, Azerbaijan and others. Of all the recent excavation projects inspired by our voracious musical culture, none is more fascinating than Pat Conte's Secret Museum series for Yazoo. Until now, a Western listener's familiarity with ethnic music from the distant past has depended on unsexy field recordings of relatively recent vintage, produced in a spirit of near-scientific inquiry by anthropologically-minded musicologists. When the commercial record business really began to expand in the late '20s however, just about every national style of music was sought out and captured for a growing marketplace. This was true "world music," dressed in its Sunday best perhaps as performed by ambitious locals, but still more vital than the academic, folklorist approach that followed. Just as Harry Smith compiled early commercial blues and country records for his monumentally influential Anthology Of American Folk Music, so Conte has gathered even rarer 78s from all over the globe. Thanks to excellent remastering, we can hear vividly how an ensemble sounded in India or Japan more than a half-century ago or a klezmer orchestra right before the Nazis destroyed that bit of local culture. It's like owning your own time machine. Gorgeous gatefold Stoughton tip-on sleeves with newly-discovered vintage color photos not available on the original CD issue. This is a limited edition one-time pressing of 1,000 copies.
$18.39 UPC: 613505291028 WORLD
A1. Anon. - Mon-Gu Tuul 2 (Mongolia)
A2. A. Mirzaeva - Uzbekiston Dyorim (Uzbekistan)
A3. M. Omukanova - Dzuregumden (Kirghizia)
A4. Sh.Dzhuraev & Family - Bulbulon (Tajikstan)
A5. Anon. - Mon-Gu Tuul 1 (Mongolia)
A6. Kahn Shushinsky - Segiakh Murza Gusein (Azerbaijan)
B1. D. Dzhumabaev - Syrtabay (acc own dombra) (Kirghizia)
B2. Chimiddorzh Ghanshuryin - Sharyin, Sharyin Shoru (Mongolia)
B3. Tatyana Makharadze - Karishalshi Antebulo (Mongolia)
B4. S. Yarashev & A. Imamkhodzhaev - Ey Pari (Uzbekistan)
B5. Nadzhiba Kerimova - Aman Nene (Azerbaijan)
B6. A. Ibragimova - Kolkhoze Odzhy (Daghestan)
B7. D. Mykhtybaev - Ayraukh (Kazakhstan)
C1. T. Fazylova - Kar-Shabi (Tajikstan)
C2. D. Khansakatov - Urul Chykdy (Turkestan)
C3. G. Gadjibabekov - Bakhtaver (Azerbaijan)
C4. Temiuv Damirov - Vagzalia (Azerbaijan)
C5. D. Nurpeisova - Ashkelen (Kazakhstan)
C6. N. Mamedova - Shushe Dzheirany (Azerbaijan)
D1. Levi Mulladzhanov - Kazharnai Sarvinoz (Tajikstan)
D2. A. Dzhumabaev - Ak Manday (Irghizia)
D3. Mme. Babaeva, Neizova & Dzhuraev- Dodarakam (Tajikstan)
D4. Ali Kerimova - Ker-Oglu Nagarasy (Azerbaijan)
D5. Abdulimu & Aimunisa - Shest ' Golubeii (Sinkiang)
D6. Krimm-Tatar Orkiestra - Beym Odaman (Crimean)
D7. Mme. B. Shambueva - Zkenerin Du (Mongolia)
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TOZZI, LUIGI: Calipso 12" (OUTIS 008EP)
Luigi Tozzi, a Roman artist 23 years old at the time of this release, possesses a profound musical knowledge apparent in his productions, which also reflect Rome's distinct musical style purveyed by artists who are considered icons within the international techno scene. "Calipso" elegantly adds subtly trance-like traits to a classic 4/4 beat before the deep, sophisticated, and refined "Ambrosia." "Nostos" is a substantial, hypnotic tool. Outis Music founder Dino Sabatini remixes "Nostos" and provides a different point of view in his own classic and unmistakable style.
$9.79 UPC: 827170597860 ELECTRONIC
A1. Calipso
A2. Ambrosia
B1. Nostos
B2. Nostos (Dino Sabatini Version)
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MODERN HEADS: Chapter II (The Beginning) 12" (OUTIS 009EP)
"It all began about ten years ago in a basement in the heart of Rome; the story of a crew of people who followed a musical ideal and created an original sound and an unmistakable style. After the return of Modern Heads with Chapter II (OUTIS 006EP, 2014), memories once again led me to friends I made during the period of the first productions on Elettronica Romana, and I asked them for personal interpretations of the track 'Beginning.' From the youngest, Claudio PRC, to the veterans. Donato Dozzy and Giorgio Gigli, all together on an amazing release." --Dino Sabatini
$9.79 UPC: 827170609969 ELECTRONIC
A1. Beginning (Claudio PRC Remix)
A2. Beginning (Giorgio Gigli Remix)
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40 THIEVES FEAT. QZEN: Permanent Vacation Classic Vol. 2 12" (PVC 002EP)
The second edition of Permanent Vacation's Classic Series is all about San Francisco-based DJ/producer collective 40 Thieves' fantastic cover (with the amazing Qzen on the mic) of disco classic "Don't Turn It Off" by Hot Chocolate. 40 Thieves' version was originally released in 2008 on Permanent Vacation; Brennan Green released his remix of it in 2009 on his Chinatown imprint and Greg Wilson's edit of the cover appeared on his 2010 Credit to the Edit Volume 2 sampler. All three versions, long sold-out in their original formats, are now available on one record, with an exclusive Greg Wilson dub.
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KYOKA: Is (Is Superpowered) (Deluxe Edition) LP+CD (R-N 153LTD-LP)
Limited deluxe edition of Kyoka's 2014 album Is (Is Superpowered) (R-N 153CD). 180-gram LP packaged in handmade cardboard slipcase with silkscreened Kyoka logo designed by Hamburg-based illustrator Alex Solman. Includes CD and download code for the 12 tracks on the CD plus a Japan-only bonus track. On Is (Is Superpowered), Kyoka uses her own voice much more often than usual, in the form of short snippets as well as longer sung melodies. These elements are set and arranged as if they were an autonomous instrument. Sometimes these voices give the impression of being a Babel-esque language mix-up, or even a kind of cryptic message for the listener, as found in the song "Meander." The production process of the record was heavily supported by her label-mates Frank Bretschneider and Robert Lippok -- a unique production team in the history of Raster-Noton. While Lippok focused on preserving the roughness and complexity of Kyoka's compositions, Bretschneider concentrated on refining their fluidity and focus. Both tried to keep the vitality and hyperactivity of the initial tracks without losing their distinctive eccentricity. Although Kyoka's sound is often somewhat chaotic, it is by no means stressful, but energizing and easy to enjoy. The only exception to this can be found in "Piezo Version Vision," the noticeably roughest track of the record. Her particularly progressive style is best reflected by the song "Re-pulsion," a rolling groove combined with unusual clicks and snares and topped with crazy-sounding voice fragments. The album thus further deepens what she initiated with Ununpentium/iSH (R-N 115EP), released in 2012 as part five of Raster-Noton's Unun series. It presents a stylistically broader spectrum of Kyoka's music, but at the same time exhibits the fresh and positive, sometimes even child-like attitude for which she is already known.
$18.39 EAN: 4260115995325 ELECTRONIC
A1. Int-A_Bln
A2. Flashback
A3. Lined Up
A4. Rot Neu
A5. New Energy Shuffle
B1. Toy Planet
B2. Moonboots
B3. Re-pulsion
B4. Meander
B5. Mind the Gap
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ATOM TM: HD+ DVD-ROM (R-N 155DVD)
Universal DVD data disk, mainly for playing on computers only (there is no NTSC or PAL format or region designation for data DVDs). HD+ is a data DVD documenting the visual aesthetics of Uwe Schmidt aka Atom TM for the first time. The conceptual engagement with and the critical yet diverting examination of pop music, delivered with a twinkle in the eye, is a central topic of this musician's diverse creative work and is certainly included in this visual presentation of it. Together with the second remix EP, Riding the Void (2015), HD+ marks the provisional completion of Atom TM's HD cycle. In addition to tracks from the HD album (R-N 147CD), the video collection also contains other Atom TM recordings such as "Streuung," originally released on Winterreise (R-N 140CD), and tracks taken from external releases such as "Praezision." In order to present the video material in high resolution and at the best quality, no special formatting was used, but for playing the videos, the following system requirements have to be met: OS: Mac OSX 10.5 or later, Windows 7 or later; processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster; RAM: minimum 2 GB; video RAM: minimum 512 MB. The following people helped realizing this complex work: vector rescanning renderings: Nathan Jantz; video tech advisor: Karl Kliem; video conversion: Nibo.
$16.99 EAN: 4260115991556 ELECTRONIC
01. Strom (Extended Album Version) (3:44)
02. Stop (Imperialist Pop) (Extended Live Version) (6:45)
03. Praezision (Extended Live Version) (9:09)
04. Empty (Video Version) (3:50)
05. My Generation (Video Version) (3:58)
06. Streuung (Live Version) (7:23)
07. Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Extended Live Version) (13:30)
08. Riding the Void (Extended Live Version) (13:27)
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DASHA RUSH: Sleepstep (Deluxe Edition) 2LP+CD (R-N 158LTD-LP)
Limited deluxe edition of DJ and producer Dasha Rush's 2015 album Sleepstep (R-N 158LP). Two 180-gram LPs in a handmade cardboard slipcase with art print. Includes CD and download code for the 16 tracks on the CD. Limited to 100 copies. Sleepstep's subtitle, Sonar Poems for My Sleepless Friends, describes its underlying concept -- Sleepstep is a trip through electronically alienated micro-compositions and sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aim at creating a dream-like atmosphere. The album's journey strives for oblivion of time, an immersion, a drifting in universal states -- moving through the stations of death, life, birth, grief, desire. The titles often appear to be raw sketches; fugitive, surreal short stories. The musical arrangements are rather subtle and fragile, and, though the pieces are electronically manipulated, no production technique pushes itself to the fore. Dasha Rush's sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle, and personal reports. A musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept record, and an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music. Dasha Rush is already known as a techno DJ and producer. Here on Sleepstep, she celebrates her alter ego.
$34.39 EAN: 4260115995837 ELECTRONIC
A1. Dance with Edgar Poe
A2. Scratching Your Surface (Revisited)
A3. Time Whispers and Albert
B1. Sail Away to Her
B2. Life Time Poem
B3. Lucy in the Sky, Lost Diamonds
B4. Outer Space
C1. Abandoned Beauties and Beasts
C2. Antares
D1. 100 Hearts
D2. Micro Universe
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ATOM TM: Riding the Void 12" (R-N 160EP)
Atom TM's Riding the Void EP is, together with the visual works of HD+ (R-N 155DVD, 2014), the conclusion of his critical yet delightful examination of pop music and culture on Raster-Noton. Like the previous EP Ich Bin Meine Maschine (R-N 146EP, 2014), Riding the Void is designed for functionality and club use. Techno maverick Scuba remixes "Riding the Void" into a straight, dense march, whereas Atom TM himself shakes the groove out of the track with his own two lighthearted remixes. His "Nought Remix" presents itself as slimmed-down yet vibrant, while "Tool" is a perfectly dancefloor-ready reinterpretation.
$9.79 EAN: 4260115991600 ELECTRONIC
A1. Riding the Void (Album Version) (6:30)
A2. Riding the Void (Scuba's Pulse Mix) (7:07)
B1. Riding the Void (Nought Remix) (7:04)
B2. Riding the Void (Tool) (3:24)
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SENKING: Closing Ice CD (R-N 166CD)
Senking follows his 2013 album Capsize Recovery (R-N 152CD) with Closing Ice, drawing listeners back into the depths of his musical creativity. The album's nine tracks are intently dedicated to Senking's distinctively bass-heavy and atmospheric compositions, forming trips into the dark recesses of the human psyche. The mid-tempo grooves leave plenty of room for his sawing, war-declaring sounds that unfold into expressive soundscapes, gloomy yet also warm. Every now and then, like a distant echo, a pacifying melodic fragment gives comfort and hope. However, the open and seemingly improvised songs always follow their inner musical logic. "Serpent" or "Lighthouse Hustle," for example, could indeed be interpreted as conventional arrangements -- in general, the riffs and melodies on Closing Ice are rooted in a profound tradition of rock and pop music. With Closing Ice, Senking delivers exactly what the title promises: a balancing act between danger, hope, and destruction, and an eerily beautiful companion into the innermost spheres.
$11.99 EAN: 4260115991662 ELECTRONIC
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LICHTENBERGER, GRISCHA: La Demeure; Il Y a Péril en la Demeure CD (R-N 169CD)
La Demeure; Il Y a Péril en la Demeure is the opening to a five-part complex of works by artist Grischa Lichtenberger. "La demeure" -- "the residence" -- could be understood as referring to a sense of intimacy in the possibilities of isolation. The focus of the work is the joy of being isolated and having the chance to work, explore, and, most importantly, experiment, free from economic, temporal, or social restraints. The tracks and their components are constantly broken, disassembled, and reassembled again. Some parts may remind the listener of hip hop and breakbeat; others may evoke associations with a broken music box -- something mechanical that is not working as it should. In his very own way, Lichtenberger is examining limits, new experiences, and unfulfilled expectations. This unfiltered rawness, as well as the album's lack of a specific target audience, is what is fascinating about La Demeure; Il Y a Péril en la Demeure. It is a luxurious, Kafkaesque collection of materials; an uncensored archive of a seeker. This CD is released in advance of three vinyl EPs, as well as a second album focused on Il Y a Péril en la Demeure -- danger in delay.
$11.99 EAN: 4260115991693 ELECTRONIC
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LEROY: Skläsh LP (LE 003LP)
LP version. "It's more timeless than fashionable" is a line, or at least sentiment, that artists often spout about their own music -- more often than not, it's rooted more in fantasy or delusion than reality. But when LeRoy (the one-man project of Munich-based Leo Hopfinger) says it of Skläsh, an album crammed with krautrock dub, lo-fi funk, esoteric jams, and DIY sparseness, it seems almost irrefutable. Hopfinger reflects, "My approach to creativity is diverse. It's like collecting pieces of various puzzles... Tools, strange ambient sounds, noises, field recordings. I put unusual things together and try to feel how they react on different levels." The result is a vast, unpredictable, and rich sonic depth that often sounds like the work of multiple artists. "I try to spread the gap between abstract and pop as far as possible," Hopfinger says of the musical disparity of Skläsh. "I see this album more like a collection, a musical chronicle. Like a DJ who is digging some strange tunes, no matter which era they are from." There is a refined quality to the record; while it's diverse and stylistically broad (opener "Like a Disease" sounds like a long-lost Faust classic), there is a plain, straightforward approach to the album that evokes a long-lost bedroom recording dug up in parts over decades. As Hopfinger puts it, "I started to restrict things. To become very simple and focused... Straight up, no gimmicks... For me it is important to keep all the mistakes in the songs because they make the sound more human and sympathetic."
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APPARAT: Multifunktionsebene, Tttrial and Eror, Duplex 3LP (STRIKE 155LP)
Triple LP version. Includes download code. The Shitkatapult label reissues Apparat's first three albums, originally released in 2001, '02, and '03. Hardly any other musician at the interface between electronic and pop is as greatly cherished and passionately admired as the Berlin-based Apparat. He merges the inexhaustible sound-worlds of electronic music with the emotional depth of indie. He makes music to rock out to and to drift away to, to sing along to and to dive into. With Moderat, his collaboration with Modeselektor, he has commanded numerous festival stages. In 2015, he created the score for the 2015 film Equals, and is working on the third Moderat album at the time of this release, as well as his second collaboration with theatrical luminary Sebastian Hartmann. Most people got to know Apparat through his albums Walls (STRIKE 084CD, 2007) and The Devil's Walk (2011), and don't know much about his early, quintessentially electronic music dating back to just after the turn of the millennium. In his early 20s at the time, Apparat created an autonomous, radical sound-universe on those albums -- long out of print -- that is just as fascinating today as it was then. For this combined reissue, Mike Grinser painstakingly remastered each album and Carsten Aermes, a comrade-in-arms from Apparat's early days in Quedlinburg, East Germany, designed the cover based on Apparat's own original graphic design. Apparat's debut album, Multifunktionsebene, was released in 2001. With its intricate grooves and floating soundscapes, it defines a differentiated, tuned-down emotional spectrum. It is a recorded moment from another era entirely, which is exactly what makes it so powerful and captivating. Tttrial and Eror, from 2002, is his electronic magnum opus. Apparat mangles the grooves and develops rhythms with a complexity that makes Aphex Twin seem dull by comparison. And yet from within these tremendous, brutish tracks emerge minute, cautious sounds. On his third album, Duplex (2003), his world of sound explodes as he adds acoustic instruments to the electronics. Throbbing basses create an absurd contrast with saxophones and clarinets. He continues to define his acoustic space, which is reminiscent of classical chamber music; intimate and tactile. This is where he lays the foundation for Apparat as we know it. One can only marvel at the consummate and broad understanding of music that Apparat had already achieved in his youth.
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VA: Boom-A-Lay: Blues & Rhythm, Popcorn, Exotica & Tittyshakers Volume 7 10" (STAGO 070LP)
Repressed; Vinyl-only 10" release. Stag-O-Lee presents Boom-A-Lay: Blues & Rhythm, Popcorn, Exotica & Tittyshakers Volume 7, released alongside Chug-A-Lug: Blues & Rhythm, Popcorn, Exotica & Tittyshakers Vol. 8 (STAGO 071LP) and following volumes one through six, which sold out almost immediately. Amazing, danceable tunes from the late '50s and early '60s -- a handful of popcorn dancefloor smashes, a few grinding tittyshakers, awesome rhythm and blues, most of them with an exotic twist! Includes tracks by Plas Johnson & His Orchestra, Chance Halladay, Nick Anthony, Nicky de Matteo, David Seville, Ted Jarrett & Band, The Astro-Jets, Titus Turner, Ronny Savoy, Malcom Dodds, Alan Arkin, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
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VA: Chug-A-Lug: Blues & Rhythm, Popcorn, Exotica & Tittyshakers Vol. 8 10" (STAGO 071LP)
Repressed; Vinyl-only 10" release. Stag-O-Lee presents Chug-A-Lug: Blues & Rhythm, Popcorn, Exotica & Tittyshakers Vol. 8, released alongside Boom-A-Lay: Blues & Rhythm, Popcorn, Exotica & Tittyshakers Volume 7 (STAGO 070LP) and following volumes one through six, which sold out almost immediately. Amazing, danceable tunes from the late '50s and early '60s -- a handful of popcorn dancefloor smashes, a few grinding tittyshakers, awesome rhythm and blues, most of them with an exotic twist! Includes tracks by Dick D'agostin & The Swingers, Don Carroll, Mike Shaw, Chance Halladay, Deane Hawley, Jim Burgett, The Viscounts, Bobby Scott, Malcolm Dodds, Trini Lopez, Jimmy Ricks, and Oscar Perry.
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KARMIL, MATT: Dans Maxi Fran Nacksving 12" (BARN 033EP)
Matt Karmil was born in 1979 near the giant pre-historic glockenspiel/mythical Neolithic monument known as Stonehenge. His debut EP for Studio Barnhus, following 2014's masterful remix of Talaboman, is an homage to the Nacksving studio in Gothenburg, another mythical place that Matt calls home.
$9.79 UPC: 827170613065 ELECTRONIC
A1. Death
A2. Moment
B1. Sex Life +
B2. Doom
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BLACK MECHA: AA LP (RAVE 011LP)
The Death of Rave is proud to host the initiation of Black Mecha with AA, their sci-fi vision of heavy electronics strongly informed by the outer limits of black metal and a cryptic, esoteric Weltanschauung. Official communiqué from the Grand Lodge of Internal Masonry: "Black Mecha AA provides fragmented metaphoric sci-fi audio conceptualization based around some of the formative ideology developed by the Grand Lodge of Internal Masonry. With centralized focus on the deterrence and defence technique aspects of Internal Masonry, namely, Black Ray and its resulting Architecture Antithesis, or AA, mental effect, the six tracks create a realm conducive to execution of thought rumination, and an embankment for sharp inner pathways." Black Mecha does not exist safely within any pre-defined idiom. It is by nature a noumenal gesture in the void, projecting uncharted escape beyond staid, putative perceptions of genre. Fascinating for its sense of discipline and focus, AA is poised in the balance between meditative hypostasis and raging yet controlled emotion, characterized in the bellicose momentum of "Starship Aspicio" or the strobing, stately majesty of "Altruego," and to cataclysmic impact with the eviscerated electronics of "Black Ray." But make no mistake; it's not showboating industrial noise or melodramatic angst -- the sense of control amid panic and dread is palpable and compelling in a way hardly experienced with such elemental force. For listeners of a steeled disposition and open mind there is a logic and ingenuity at play in this record that begs the rarest private consideration. But overall, enjoy this music in your own way, because that is the only way of Black Mecha!
$15.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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51 BLACK SUPER: 51 Black Super LP (BEC 5156124)
LP version. Two-and-a-half minutes of drums rolling under a whirlwind of cranky guitars and vocals arguing from the bottom of a 1990s boom box -- that's 51 Black Super. Eleven tracks and 30 minutes to cross the USA, from California with Pavement and Weezer to Ohio with Guided by Voices and The Raspberries... 51 Black Super isn't a band to get lost on its way, or in futilities. Written, composed, recorded in an emergency, with short and intense sessions, the debut album by 51 Black Super is made in the image of its creators: spontaneous and eager to get things out there. "Sounds like The Strokes with less cocaine and more facial hair," said a Californian rock critic after listening the two first few tracks. "A big compliment," he added, for good measure.
$16.39 EAN: 5060421561240 ROCK
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LA FLEUR: Make a Move EP 12" (WG 027EP)
La Fleur's Make a Move EP bridges classic aesthetics with future concepts. "Make a Move" hits hard with vintage house hi-hats and top-end percussion balanced perfectly with a grand bassline that is as memorable as it is gripping. "Just in Time" seamlessly blends the wash of lush pads with a rolling and unrelenting bassline as a looping female vocal circles the room. "Result" grooves hard with live natural drums while a cosmic flute-like wind instrument calls out through the dense yet soft bass.
$9.79 UPC: 827170612068 ELECTRONIC
A1. Make a Move
B1. Just in Time
B2. Result
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LAUTEN, ELODIE: Miracle 2 12" (WC 006EP)
Wilde Calm Records is honored to present the final project with the late Elodie Lauten (1950-2014), a new version of the spiritual club classic "In the Light of the Miracle." The original version was co-written with fellow downtown luminary Arthur Russell in the early 1980s and appeared on his posthumous 1994 album Another Thought. Numerous club-friendly remixes of "In the Light..." were released as promotional white-labels in the 1990s and helped bring this amazing proto-house song to the dancefloor. This version picks up where the white-label remixes left off, as Lauten had always intended to record her own dancefloor version and found a kindred spirit in Brooklyn producer Pocketknife. The track features Lauten on vocals and keys, Nirosta Steel (Steven Hall) on additional vocals, Peter Zummo on trombone, and production and arrangements by Pocketknife. Reworks were done by two long-time fans of Lauten, LA's Gifted & Blessed (Technoindigenous Studies, Wild Oats, Eglo) and Brooklyn's Bryce Hackford (PRAH, DFA). Gifted & Blessed references Lauten's classic post-minimalist compositions with his remix and takes the dancefloor of "Miracle 2" out into the cosmos. Hackford focuses on the instrumental track, extending it way out and roughing it up with heavy Bushwick Body Actualized-vibes. Also includes an a capella version. White vinyl. Artwork by Josh Gurrie. Hand-stamped and numbered edition of 400.
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MARLEY, BOB: Legend in Dub LP (AA 678LP)
2015 repress; 2004 release. Not really a Bob Marley album, but rather a collection of his tracks played by non-Jamaicans at a studio in Long Island, New York (the not-legendary "Pro-Jam Studios").
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ANDY, HORACE: Pure Ranking LP (CT 112LP)
2015 repress. Reissue of this 1979 album, mixed at King Tubby's Studio. Tracks: "Pure Ranking," "I've Been Around," "What Eyes Don't See," "African Liberation," "Jah Gift To Man," "Modern Babylon," "Totally Free," "Change Your Ways," "No Love In The City," "Jah Is The One," "Natural Mystic" and "Strictly Ranking (Ghetto Style)."
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SCIENTIST: Scientific Dub LP (CT 119LP)
2015 repress; 1995 release. "A virtual wizard of the mixing desk, Overton H Brown has been one of the key figures in dub since the late 1970s. Getting his start as a teenager at King Tubby's legendary studio in Waterhouse, Brown was known as 'The Scientist' because his imaginative approach to the mixing desk and electronic gadgetry seemed to derive from magical powers that linked him to some intangible, futuristic realm."
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PERRY & THE UPSETTERS, LEE 'SCRATCH': The Quest LP (CT 999LP)
2015 repress. Tracks: "Militant Man," "Longer Way," "Kung Fu Man," "What Can I Do," "Silver Locks," "Episode 3," "When Notty Came," "Dread Locks," "Johhny Reggae" and "Golden Rocks."
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LEVY, BARRINGTON: Poorman Style LP (LPCT 125LP)
2015 repress. Some of Barrington Levy's most significant (and enduring) recordings from Channel One Studio, mixed by Scientist. "It's difficult to overstate the transformative effect that Barrington Levy's earliest recordings had on the sound of Jamaican music. In late 1979, Levy's spare, hauntingly arranged early singles completely overtook Jamaican dancehalls and streetside sound clashes. By the time Levy released Poor Man Style in 1982, he was arguably Jamaica's preeminent vocalist. Poor Man Style features a set of punishing rhythms from the crack studio outfit The Roots Radics, with production work from singer?turned?label owner Linval Thompson and former King Tubby protégé Scientist. The title track?a crisply observed sufferers' tale full of tragic notes and indelible details from everyday life?hits particularly hard."
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NAS: Illmatic LP (GET 51297LP)
2015 repress. "In 1994, hip-hop was going through a painful growth spurt. Since N.W.A. and Ice-T's ascent in the late '80s, the rap game was no longer owned by the east coast. After the worldwide popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, things were looking even worse for hip-hop's hometown. The east coast/west coast feud that would indirectly claim the lives of Biggie and Pac was still in its infancy, but New York needed a shot in the arm. And as soon as the first lines of 'N.Y. State of Mind' kick in, bolstered by perhaps DJ Premier's darkest beat of all time, the entire east coast breathed a collective sigh of relief. God's son had arrived. Backed by an absolute all-star cast of New York's top-shelf producers -- Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Q-Tip, and a youngster named L.E.S. -- the album never lets up. Serious to a fault, and lyrically dense to an extent that has possibly never been matched, the 20-year old Nas stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and proudly proclaimed, 'Don't f*** with the east? we are back.' It was a dark, hard record, made for heads in New York, not teeny-boppers in Des Moines. There were no dance beats, no crossover love songs. Just boom-bap and rhymes, skills, and heart."
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WATERS, MUDDY: After The Rain LP (GET 54042LP)
2015 repress. "The second of two electric-blues albums released on Chess Records and Cadet Concept imprint in the late '60s, Muddy Waters' After the Rain has achieved cult-like status amongst blues fans in the years since his death in 1983. After taking a backlash from critics with first attempt at adopting psychedelic influences on Electric Mud, Muddy made adjustments for the follow-up, despite keeping a majority of the same session players. This time, he toned down the psychedelic elements and put them in balance with his classic Chicago blues sound, and the results yield some vintage tracks that glow with fuzzy guitars and bass: 'I Am the Blues,' 'Ramblin' Mind,' 'Bottom of the Sea,' and 'Blues Trouble.' After being out of print for years, Get On Down is proud to present this rare classic from Muddy Waters pulled from the original masters and presented on LP with Japanese-style OBI and double-sided poster."
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WIESE, JOHN: Deviate from Balance CD (GGGR 077CD)
"CD version, housed in tip-on gatefold jackets. John Wiese's long awaited Deviate From Balance is the artist's first album since 2011's Seven Of Wands (PAN). Recorded throughout Europe/UK, Australia, and the US, the album includes scored ensemble pieces including over 20 musicians on each, recorded in Melbourne and Portland, as well as audio documentation of installation pieces Wind Changed Direction, a four-channel sound piece presented in the garden of the Getty Center (curated by Liars), and Battery Instruments, an eight-channel piece presented at HSP in New Zealand, now heard for the first time. Also included are various collaborations and recordings from live performances. Musicians appearing include Joseph Hammer, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C Spencer Yeh, Joe Preston, Smegma and countless more. The material is extremely diverse and services as a comprehensive and detailed document of this prolific individuals work over the past several years."
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PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT: Eleventh Hour LP (GGGR 081LP)
"Originally released as a tour cassette on Monorail Trespassing, Eleventh Hour features two side-long tracks that serve as excellent examples of the diverse sounds Pedestrian Deposit use to construct their work. There are moments of somber melody, near silence, electro-acoustic assembly, drone and harsh noise. The material is dynamic and extreme, at time in regards to restraint and at others in terms of volume and catharsis. Previous releases on Hospital, Hanson and A Dear Girl Called Wendy. Edition of 300 in screened jackets."
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LOSCIL: Plume 2LP (KRANK 096LP)
"This is the first vinyl issue of the classic fourth loscil album originally released in May of 2006. from the original onesheet: Scott Morgan notes: Compositionally, many tracks on Plume are similar in approach to First Narrows; they started with a harmonic root from which sounds were processed into a loose structure over which the live players could improvise. There was substantially less editing this time around with the live tracks. I opted to choose the better improvised passes and merely mix them in and out rather than cut them up. I think this leaves a lot more natural space and balances the heavily structured and repetitive electronic elements with more organic performed layers. Jason Zumpano returned from the First Narrows ensemble and I also recruited long time friend Steve Wood and my partner Krista to play some ebow guitar as well as Josh Lindstrom to play some xylophone and vibraphone which added some new elements into the mix. Thematically, I stuck with things that are quintessentially loscil; flow, subtle movement, gradual transition, growth. Also of significance to this album is the family connection. 'Charlie' was composed after seeing and hearing my daughter Sadie through ultrasound while still in the womb. The track was also composed as a womb-like sound experience for her to sleep to after she was born, hence the heart beats."
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HELIOCENTRICS, THE: 13 Degrees of Reality 2LP (NA 5097LP)
2015 repress; Double LP version. "The Heliocentrics' debut album, Out There (2007) was a confounding piece of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry's turned-on musique concrète, and Can's beat-heavy krautrock, Out There pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics' masterminds and producers, and guitarist Ade Owusu, percussionist Jack Yglesisas, and keyboardist Ollie Parfitt hold constant presence within this ever-evolving ensemble. They have been playing together for over a decade and their collective drive is to find an individual voice. The Heliocentrics search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde, and 'ethnic' music all revolve around 'The One.' Back at Now-Again with 13 Degrees of Reality, the Heliocentrics have returned to develop this epic vision of psychedelic funk, while exploring the possibilities created by their myriad influences -- Latin, African, and more.The Heliocentrics have realized that their strongest statements are made somewhere between the persistent fuzz of Owusu's distorted guitar, Catto's impossible syncopation and Ferguson's looping bass lines."
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WITCH: Introduction LP (NA 5103LP)
2015 repress. "Our comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-,Afro-rock ensemble Witch, We Intend To Cause Havoc!, is now sold out in its 6LP box set form. So we are making the first four Witch albums available in archival reissue form. As with our box set, the audio is nigh-perfect -- restored and remastered from the original master tapes. The entirety of Witch's first album, restored and remastered from master tapes, and presented as an archival reissue. Witch's musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, is a logical one. The band's first two, self-produced albums - released in unison with the birth of the commercial Zambian recording industry -- are exuberant experiments in garage rock, and are as influenced by the Rolling Stones as they are James Brown. Thus Introduction, their first, is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in delving into the Witch band, or Zamrock in general."
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WITCH: In The Past LP (NA 5104LP)
2015 repress. "In The Past, their second album, is the perfect follow-up for anyone exposed to the Witch band through their landmark Introduction."
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WIRE, THE: #381 November 2015 MAG/CD (WIRE 381)
"On the cover: Magma (The monumental msic of the fabled French ensemble has been pouring from the mind of its leader Christian Vander for more than four decades. Keith Moline travels to north east France for an audience with the man behind the mythos). Attached to the cover: The Wire Tapper 39, the latest volume in our series of experimental and underground music compilations is given away free with every copy of the new issue. Inside the issue: Kamasi Washington +Thundercat (The Flying Lotus associates are applying their virtuosity to develop a strain of cosmic fusion that's accessible to all); Heather Leigh (The former Charalambides member is recasting the pedal steel as a means to warp the fabric of space, time and the human voice); Rabit (The Texan producer casts a post-industrial hex on the dancefloor); Seth Cooke (Ex-Hunting Lodge drummer takes a hands-off approach); Elaine Mitchener (Intimate moves underpin the work of the London singer); Global Ear: Austin (Norwegian bassist Ingebright Haker Flaten has galvanized the Texan capital's underground scene); Invisible Jukebox: Jam City (Dj and producer Jack Latham lays aside his early cares to face The Wire's mystery record selection)."
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DEL THA FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN: I Wish My Brother George Was Here 2LP (TEG 75502LP)
2015 repress. "In the early '90s hip hop took a turn and gangsta-style rap dominated, making waves off the West Coast that rattled throughout the world. The East Coast's dominance was descending despite the success and positivity of Native Tongues acts like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, who favored thought-provoking humor and cleverness over gangsta rap's grittiness and grim outlook. It was in this landscape that Oakland, CA's Del the Funky Homosapien emerged in 1991, with his debut release I Wish My Brother George Was Here. Cribbing equally from the East Coast's irreverence and wit, and the West Coast's P-Funk inspired production, (the album was produced by Del's cousin Ice Cube) Del's debut has rightly been heralded as a benchmark album for underground hip hop. I Wish My Brother George Was Here not only produced the underground classics 'Dr. Bombay' and 'Mistadobalina' (#9 on the 1992 Hot Rap Tracks Charts), but also set the scene for the success of the other less gangsta West Coast artists like The Pharcyde, Digable Planets, and of course Del's compatriots in Souls of Mischief. Above all else, Del is credited with injecting some much needed light-heartedness at a moment when it was truly needed. Traffic Entertainment now presents I Wish My Brother George Was Here as a special double LP reissue, featuring the original artwork, and all of The Funky Homosapien's witty and innovative rhymes intact."
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BIG L: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous 2LP (TEG 78509LP)
2015 repress. "In 1995, fresh off the success of Nas's landmark debut album Illmatic the year prior, Columbia Records released Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerouz, the first LP by a relatively unknown Harlem MC named Big L. Few at the time would realize that Lifestylez -- which was only a modest commercial success at the time -- would go on to be considered a true classic of the era, comparable to Illmatic itself. Armed with a cocky Uptown attitude, a sharp wit and production from the likes of Lord Finesse, Buckwild and Showbiz, Big L established himself as one of New York's hip hop heavyweights with an album that balanced radio appeal with uncompromising hardcore lyricism. Remastered from the original tapes and pressed on loud double vinyl."
$15.00 UPC: 829357850911 HIPHOP
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DONAGGIO, PINO: Tourist Trap (Original 1979 Soundtrack) LP (WAXWORK 014LP)
"Includes: 180-gram blood-red-and-black-swirl vinyl; composer liner notes by Pino Donnagio (Carrie, The Howling, Body Double); director liner notes by David Schmoeller (Puppet Master, Crawlspace); all new artwork by Marc Schoenbach of Sadist Art Designs; a heavyweight old style tip-on gatefold jacket; an 11"x11" art print. Waxwork Records is proud to announce the deluxe soundtrack reissue to the 1979 horror gem, Tourist Trap. For decades, the original 1979 pressing of Tourist Trap has become not only incredibly difficult to locate, but also prohibitively expensive. Due to this fact, Waxwork has poured themselves into tracking down the original masters, re-storing, re-mixing, and re-mastering for vinyl. Waxwork Records has created the most high quality release of Tourist Trap to date. This eerie soundtrack has never sounded better! Tourist Trap kick started the mannequin horror film, and is still as creepy today as it was upon it's initial 1979 release date. This horror movie is as spooky as they come. The score that accompanies it composed by the legendary Pino Donnagio (Carrie, The Howling, Body Double), is a riveting, masterful work of retro horror soundscapes. Harpsichords and breathing female vocals a-plenty."
$25.00 UPC: 728028399806 ROCK
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DAMAGE/TRUNCATE, BENJAMIN: Battle/86 12" (50 048EP)
180-gram vinyl. The ninth 12" in 50Weapons' 11-part finale combines two driving forces of contemporary techno, Benjamin Damage and Truncate -- a deadly combination for any DJ's bag. Benjamin Damage's "Battle" sees him layer his hyperactive grooves over a thumping kick with a small but effective acid line topping things off. Truncate's "86" is a massive track that Dave Sumner aka Function previously used in his Berghain 07, obviously serving as one of the highlights there. Its creeping synths build up to a climax in typical Truncate fashion, with huge, compressed kick drums pounding the dancefloor mercilessly.
$9.79 UPC: 817231012722 ELECTRONIC
A1. Benjamin Damage - Battle
B1. Truncate - 86
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FJAAK/RODHAD: Super Smash/Oblivion 12" (50 049EP)
180-gram vinyl. The tenth 12" in 50Weapons' 11-part features the first meeting on record of two acclaimed Berlin-based artists known for regularly destroying clubs around the world. FJAAK are joined by Dystopian label head-honcho Rødhåd, who debuts on 50Weapons with "Oblivion," a track inspired by the Elder Scrolls video games. FJAAK also take inspiration from video games -- Super Smash Bros. -- and their tracks shows off the appropriate hyperactivity for which they're known.
$9.79 UPC: 817231012739 ELECTRONIC
A. FJAAK - Super Smash
B. Rødhåd - Oblivion
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ULAN BATOR: En France/En Trance CD (ACR 026CD)
2013 release. Ulan Bator's most finely crafted album yet. En France/En Trance features a fresh line-up and instrumentation, most notably the strange and haunting sounds of the vintage ondes Martenot played by Nathalie Forget. It was recorded in Paris as an intense, concentrated improvisation and quickly evolved into a nine-track album. The sheer maturity and dynamics of this album go well beyond the usual references to Swans, early Sonic Youth, Can, Faust, Bad Seeds, Pan Sonic, New York no wave, Serge Gainsbourg, etc. Collectively drawing from a large pool of cultivated musical training, they have created a passionate, urgent, and sometimes dangerous album. With tense interplay of grooves, drones, cutting electricity, and vocal vicissitudes, Ulan Bator continues to stretch and pull the boundaries of song structure. As always, it is hard to place their distinct sound in any one genre; however, this album further solidifies their place in the canon of European art rock like none other. Their highly acclaimed Young God release Ego:Echo from 2000 still maintains a cult status among music lovers. Amaury Cambuzat's solo work as well as his live collaborations with Faust and other luminaries of the European scene have kept him extremely active, and Ulan Bator has reemerged to make their best album yet. "One of the best French bands in the last 300 years!" --Michael Gira (Swans)
$10.99 UPC: 884501909235 ROCK
01. Takeoff
02. We R U
03. Ah Ham
04. Colere
05. Bugarach
06. Song for the Deaf
07. Fakir
08. Jesus BBQ
09. En France/En Trance
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VINCENT OVER THE SINK: 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers 2LP (ADA 004LP)
Matthew P. Hopkins and Chris Schueler were Vincent Over the Sink and 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers was their 23-track opus.
"Think about music, but then dig a hole."
Hidden beneath an astoundingly diverse range of experimental and DIY output by Hopkins (The Bowles, Naked on the Vague; Penultimate Press, Vittelli, Kye) and Schueler (The Bowles; Kye) is the disorienting, psychedelic mess of Vincent Over the Sink's 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers. Written between 2005 and 2007 in Australia's Blue Mountains, Sydney, and Melbourne, its limited 2008 cassette release was lauded by those who heard it and lusted after by those who hadn't. This 2015 reissue, remastered by Mikey Young, comes in the form of a double-vinyl gatefold designed by Hopkins. Ten years on from its conception, 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers is still a rollicking, psychotic, and kaleidoscopic dream that demands reinterpretation on every listen. Made of 23 dazzling lo-fi vignettes and songs that range from tender spoken and vocal excursions ("Number Theory") to acoustic and instrumental sketches ("Santa Maria"), lullaby duets ("Blackbird" and "Rainblame"), and devastating, fleshed-out, no-new-wave songwriting ("Mice in the Ocean" and "Horses Screaming"). Schueler and Hopkins formed Vincent Over the Sink in 2001 and offered little in the way of heralded releases. The project lurked in the shadows of the Australian east coast scene. Even the 2008 cassette release of 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers saw no Vincent Over the Sink shows and only one (excellent) street press interview given by Schueler. Their most penetrating music came on a 7" on Graham Lambkin's Kye label in 2011, sounding like a terrifying washed-out DIY chamber music record. Sadly, it was released posthumously in memory of Schueler who had passed away a year earlier. What little material had arisen from this long partnership would be all the world was left with. These 23 tracks capture one part of the southern zeitgeist in the same way Flying Nun's early archive did. Vincent Over the Sink were two mates who could have been trying to record a Mick Hobbs record in their garage. The album mirrors The Shadow Ring's Put the Music in Its Coffin. It's a work full of the forlorn, dark humor in Pink Reason's alienating lyrics. 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers is all of this but none of it and Another Dark Age is extremely proud to present it with all the fanfare it deserves.
$19.79 UPC: 700461647744 ROCK
A1. Number Theory
A2. 22 Paintbruch Place
A3. I Found a Genie
A4. Flute of the Rubber
A5. Heavy Gum
B1. Horses Screaming
B2. Santa Maria
B3. Grey Bull-Terrier
B4. Mice in the Ocean
B5. Redmund & Winston
B6. Mektoub
C1. Threads of Beginning
C2. Broken Brown Finger
C3. White Bull-Terrier
C4. A Disease from Thee
C5. Mrs S & Mrs H
C6. Rainblame
C7. Black Cat
D1. Golden Dots
D2. Chris Sailing a Boat
D3. Velveteirs
D4. Blackbird
D5. Waiting for Your Hair
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SYRACUSE: Liquid Silver Dream LP (ATN 023LP)
Full-length debut from this quirky French pair after a couple of very impressive singles. Antinote continues to delve into the world of experimental "pop" electronics. After a few years of intensive touring, Syracuse's Antoine and Isabelle finally spent some time in a studio to record new songs as well as ones that were born on the road. Liquid Silver Dream is the result of these studio sessions. From the opening track, "Vapeurs d'Équateur," to the last one, "Le Coeur en Naufrage," it seems that the whole album has been recorded in some secret cave under the sea. Maybe the hot, dry weather in Paris at the time of the recording and the fact that the studio lacked air conditioning can somehow explain the urge to liquidize every musical element -- Isabelle's voice, the instruments -- before pouring them into the album, turning each tune into a phial of intriguing essences. Syracuse's work serves as a reminder that sophistication doesn't necessarily mean complexity. "LOVE," for example, is a beautiful demonstration of this statement; the song has the genuine simplicity that any love song should have, with its only ornament an elegant opiate dub treatment given by a master of the genre, Iueke. The first track on the B-side, "Floating," allows you the listener one last deep breath -- somewhere over a still ocean where time has momentarily stopped -- before the ten-minute "Liquid Silver Dream," a big acid wave that gets at the listener before the wipeout in a roar of synths and crushed claps. Finally, "Le Coeur en Naufrage" resonates in the listener's ears; you are lying on the shore while the sea gently laps over your feet.
$13.79 EAN: 3770005870010 ELECTRONIC
A1. Vapeurs d'Équateur
A2. L'Eau des Songes
A3. LOVE
B1. On Desert Oceans
B2. Liquid Silver Dream
B3. Le Coeur en Naufrage
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JONSON, NATHAN: Towards the Sun 12" (AREAL 082EP)
Following years producing and DJing as Hrdvsion since the early 2000s, Nathan Jonson presents Towards the Sun under his given name. At what point does this world become too complex for its creator to be all-knowing and all-powerful? To create an ever-changing world there needs to be an ever-expanding complexity. We are changing therefore we can never be the same. Within this infinite expansion a complexity that has always been is now revealed.
$8.39 UPC: 880319736513 ELECTRONIC
A1. Towards the Sun
A2. 4 Faces
B1. Towards the Sun (Dub)
B2. Hide All Others
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CERRONE: The Golden Touch (Cerrone IV) CD (BEC 5156083)
The idea that France once had a genius and let him go to California where he was more welcome and appreciated than in Paris is, in the digital era, commonplace. Every web entrepreneur heads toward Silicon Valley to develop ideas. During the '70s, this was less ordinary. Back then, the music world witnessed the departure of a very talented guy for the United States, a country that quickly understood he was a star. Marc Cerrone, a trained drummer and disco phenomenon who sold more albums than many other artists put together, saw his career magnified by America but also slightly twisted by France, which quickly reduced him to a style -- disco music -- without trying to understand who he was and how relevant his talent was. His path went through two phases; two complementary moves. The Golden Touch was released in 1978; its composer is one of the spiritual fathers of the dense '70s disco era.
$8.99 EAN: 5060421560830 ROCK
01. Je suis Musique
02. Rocket in the Pocket
03. Look for Love
04. Music of Life
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CERRONE: You Are the One (Cerrone VII) CD (BEC 5156084)
The first years of Marc Cerrone's career, from his first album in 1976 (BEC 5161903/5161904) to his seventh in 1980, were fueled by an exemplary sense of creativity and a free-spirited vision. Against everyone's advice, Cerrone was never reluctant to compose long and pure trance disco tracks that were not exactly radio-friendly but did incredibly well because they encapsulated the hedonism of the day and were far more than a trend. For instance, "Love in C Minor" and "Supernature" (BEC 5161907/5161908) have become unbeatable classics, featured regularly in the best pop, disco, and dance selections. Such a success would have burnt the wings of most artists, but at the beginning of the '80s, when he decided to unleash his creativity on stage, Cerrone managed to rebound with his You Are the One studio album, originally released in 1980.
$8.99 EAN: 5060421560847 ROCK
01. Hooked on You
02. My Look
03. Letter to My Mother
04. Someone to Love
05. You Are the One
06. Cherry Tree
07. Took Me So Long
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CERRONE: Love in C Minor (Cerrone I) CD (BEC 5161903)
Looking back now, Love in C Minor by Marc Cerrone is one of the most important of its time. It fully embodies the '70s atmosphere of creative energy, inherited from the spiritual, aesthetic, and sexual revolutions of the '60s; it helped create the sound of an era; and it brought French disco to the world. It is also the result of one man's vision: Marc Cerrone, a free spirit, possessed by music, driven by pure originality and the madness of a vision without compromise. He had his sound firmly in mind, focused on its central element: the bass drum. Cerrone's first step was to record a 16-minute track, long enough to fill one side of an LP, driven by its beat and accompanied by female voices simulating sex. This concept of musical and physical orgasm was recorded at Trident Studios in London with Don Ray, the brilliant arranger who would accompany Cerrone throughout his career, and with whom Cerrone had collaborated when they were both members of Kongas. French record labels, convinced that radios would never play 16 minutes of beats and moaning, swiftly turned the track down. Cerrone, a born fighter, decided to trust his instincts, certain that even if the radio stations wouldn't play the track, people would dance to it in the clubs. He released the record himself. The record got some attention in France, mostly thanks to Cerrone's own network. But when Cerrone's record store mistakenly mailed a box of Love in C Minor to the U.S. instead of some unsold American LPs, the record found its audience. Radio and club DJs began passing the record around, and before long, the record that every French label turned down became a hit in the New York disco scene. Once Cerrone discovered what was happening in the U.S., he flew to New York, and found the doors of every record company, especially Atlantic, open to him. He was welcomed by Ahmet Ertegun, one of the major visionaries of American music. Having signed Aretha Franklin and John Coltrane, among others, Ertegun must have understood that this young French musician was about to define the sound of his time. Love in C Minor was the first step.
$8.99 EAN: 5060281619037 ROCK
01. Love in C Minor
02. Black Is Black
03. Midnight Lady
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CERRONE: Cerrone's Paradise (Cerrone II) CD (BEC 5161905)
CD reissue of the 1977 album Cerrone's Paradise by Marc Cerrone. The cover of Cerrone's previous album (BEC 5161903/5161904) was part of its success. Its strange atmosphere, its surrealistic aspect, its erotic staging, and its playfulness made it a classic of disco imagery. The cover was banned in the United States, which was always more prudish than France or Europe. Cerrone struck again with an even more erotic, direct, and less ambiguous cover. Actually, it was a matter of chance. Looking for a visual idea for the cover of his new album, the musician went through some photographers' portfolios and found this scene he liked: a fridge, a girl, a cold-tiled floor. The craziness of the picture came from the fact that the girl was lying on the fridge. He decided to ask the photographer to take the same picture with him on the side. But during the shoot, the door of the fridge opened and a yogurt fell out and spilled onto the floor. Cerrone asked the photographer to keep on shooting and despise conflicting advice, he chose the photo with the "ambiguous" white traces of yogurt. It would boost the fantasy. Was it cocaine? Something more sexual? It's still one of Cerrone's most identifiable record covers. And what about the record? After the simulated orgasm of Love in C Minor, Cerrone wished to move onto serious stuff. Rather than using tapes, he organized an orgy in a studio full of microphones set to record every single aural detail. The album followed in the footsteps of the first one, with a long track on the A-side and a few shorter tracks on the B-side. It was another massive hit, selling three million copies.
$8.99 EAN: 5060281619051 ROCK
01. Cerrone's Paradise
02. Take Me
03. Time for Love
04. Cerrone's Paradise (Edit)
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CERRONE: Supernature (Cerrone III) CD (BEC 5161907)
CD reissue of the 1977 album Supernature by French disco legend Marc Cerrone. Big hits can be the result of a combination of circumstances. Massively popular at the time, crowned with the success of Love in C Minor (BEC 5161903/5161904) and Cerrone's Paradise (BEC 5161905/5161906) that made him a disco hero of the '70s, the musician started working on his new album differently. This time, the inspiration came from a synthesizer, an instrument he had never used before. ARP, an American manufacturer, provided him with it. "I was given this machine and didn't know how to use it," he remembers. "I twiddled a few knobs, trying to get some sounds out of it. Then, as I was playing on the keyboard, a bass line came to me that I immediately recorded on my Revox. It was 'Supernature!'" Lene Lovich, future queen of the punk and new wave English scene, wrote the lyrics. It was a science fiction story, similar in spirit to The Planet of the Apes. Once the track and album were finished, Cerrone asked the record company to focus on "Supernature," rather than the rest of the record, in the vein of his previous work. History would prove him right. This track, the more iconic of his catalog, would turn out to be his biggest hit. This third album would sell eight million copies. Always a funny guy, Cerrone can be seen on the cover of the record, but without naked women. Creatures with animal-heads in a surgery room replaced them. It meant a mutant and more synthetic kind of disco was born.
$8.99 EAN: 5060281619075 ROCK
01. Supernature
02. Sweet Drums
03. In the Smoke
04. Give Me Love
05. Love Is Here
06. Love Is the Answer
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MANEK, TARQUIN: Tarquin Magnet LP (BLACKEST 047LP)
A unique synthesis of time-dilating folk-jazz romanticism, brittle chamber dub, and plasmic post-techno electronics, Tarquin Magnet is Australian musician Tarquin Manek's first full solo release on Blackest Ever Black, but by no means his first contribution to the label; as one-half of Tarcar (with Carla dal Forno), he has released the dysfunctional dreamsongs of Mince Glace (2014), and as one-third of F ingers (with dal Forno and Samuel Karmel) he has helped summon the baleful backyard apparitions of Hide Before Dinner (BLACKEST 044LP, 2015). Manek has been busy elsewhere, too; he released Th Duo under his LST alias on Another Dark Age in 2015 (ADA 003LP). Still, none of this activity prepares one for the disturbed and enchanted environments of Tarquin Magnet. Its raw materials are the result of improvisation and domestic field recording, of literally grabbing at whatever's available -- clarinet, keyboard, dictaphone, cell phone -- and throwing it into the pot. And then, of course, untold hours of hunched and red-eyed editing. For all its rough textures and strange juxtapositions, this is masterfully mixed and arranged music; to adepts, and really to anyone listening at high volume, its deep spatial dynamics and higher dub logic will be powerfully apparent. Comparisons are pointless, but one might imagine "Edges of Illusion"-era John Surman meeting Karel Goeyvaerts's minimalist phase, delivered with the no-fidelity recklessness of the best underground traditions of Australia and New Zealand. The spooling tunnel visions of "Fortunes Past" (like a scene from Jane Arden and Jack Bond's Anti-Clock (1979)) and strung-out junkyard gamelan of "Fortunes Begun" precede "Perfect Scorn," a tour de force of crack'd kosmische pitched somewhere between folk tale and science fiction. Imagine The Shadow Ring or Small Cruel Party trying to find common ground with Dettinger or Pole, or the sound of a million servers crashing and taking their users' memories with them. Manek's psycho-acoustic landscaping culminates in "Blackest Frypan," a puzzle-box of insinuating, paranormal resonances wrought out of plucked steel guitar strings, stifled screams, and subaqueous bleeps. This truly progressive, THC-ushered marriage of wracked bedroom psychedelia, gloopy alien concrète, and dubwise, third-eye-open sound-design is a fitting finale to a record of singular and persuasive vision. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy, London; pressed at Optimal; housed in reverse-board sleeve with printed inner sleeve and download code (MP3/FLAC).
$14.99 EAN: 5055869539630 ELECTRONIC
A1. Sassafras Gesundheit (13:37)
A2. Fortunes Past (1:26)
A3. Fortunes Begun (3:09)
B1. Perfect Scorn (10:27)
B2. Blackest Frypan (6:53)
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BABADOUM: Babadoum LP (BRD 015LP)
Bruit Direct Disques presents the first LP by Badaboum, a French all-star girl group that includes Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams), and Solene (Dudu Geva) and is affiliated with the famous Grande Triple Alliance de l'Est posse (Ah Kraken, Feeling of Love, Scorpion Violente). They play a form of post-punk music akin to Liliput/Kleenex and Malaria!, adding their own reverbed idiosyncrasies and eerie organ lines and chanting in indecipherable Italian, mock German, and plain French. Taking turns on drums and blowing thru severed reeds, Badaboum will bring you as much joy as chaos.
$19.79 EAN: 5055869539647 ROCK
A1. Chamois du mal
A2. La Vouivre
A3. Sono Io
A4. Stix
B1. Reubenoit XVI
B2. Aigu Martial
B3. Sordida
B4. Samedi ?
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MAGNE, MICHEL: Musique Tachiste CD (CACK 001CD)
2013 reissue; mid-line pricing. Originally released in 1959. The debut release on Finders Keepers' experimental/jazz/avant-garde imprint Cacophonic, Musique Tachiste is the first in a series of rare records by French experimentalist Michel Magne. One of the very earliest full-length French concept albums -- part radical manifesto, part pantomime -- it combines found sounds and industrial noise with piano jazz alongside imposing avant-garde orchestral elements and Magne's own hammered cimbalom flourishes, as a physically humorous reaction to the bourgeoning musique concrète movement. This unique debut LP also provides an early insight into a fruitful soundtrack/conceptual jazz career that would see Magne collaborate with Jean-Claude Vannier, Martial Solal, and Artie Kaplan, and found the residential recording studio at Château d'Hérouville, nicknamed Strawberry Studios, where French artists like Magma, Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine, and Ange shared space with Terry Riley and Pink Floyd. As a dedicated producer of thematic composition, anti-intellectual experimental performance, and modern jazz, Magne was also a well respected pioneer of France's signature film score sound of the late '60s. His self-initiated debut, Musique Tachiste, marks a stylistic crossroads where the likes of Egisto Macchi, Harry Partch, Rolf Liebermann, and Igor Wakhevitch overlap with the work of future collaborators and understudies like Jean-Claude Vannier and Martial Solal. This album is an essential forefather of European conceptual pop made at the start of a career that later furnished France with one of its most important residential studios and a discography of challenging LPs before Magne's untimely suicide in the 1984. Presented here for the first time since its initial humble pressing in its unabridged entirety complete with its collectible illustrated sleeve art, this album stands as the perfect debut release and musical modus operandi for the Cacophonic imprint.
$6.99 EAN: 5060099504457 JAZZ
01. Mémoire D'un Trou
02. Self Service
03. Carillon Dans L'eau Bouillante
04. Méta-Mécanique Saccadée
05. Pointes De Feu Amorties Au Dolosal
06. Larmes En Saule Pleureur
07. Concertino Triple - Mouvement 1 (Rire)
08. Concertino Triple - Mouvement 2 (Prière)
09. Concertino Triple - Mouvement 3 (Amour)
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GOEYVAERTS, KAREL: Karel Goeyvaerts CD (CACK 002CD)
2013 release; mid-line pricing. Karel Goeyvaerts was born in Antwerp in 1923. After receiving a humanistic education in Antwerp, he took courses at the Lemmensinstituut in Mechelen, Belgium. From 1943 until 1947 he studied at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Antwerp. From 1947 until 1950 he studied composition with Darius Milhaud and music analysis with Olivier Messiaen and was a pupil of Maurice Martenot at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1949 he was awarded the 2nd Prize for Composition and the Lili Boulanger Prize at the same college. He won the Halphen Prize in 1950. During the winter of 1950-'51, he wrote the "Sonata for two pianos." Because of its decisive and total stylistic novelty he designated this work "Opus 1," thus rejecting all of his former work. With this sonata he created a structural synthesis of the dodecaphonic system of Anton Webern and the teachings of Messiaen and laid the foundations for generalized "punctual" serialism. He demonstrated the application of this technique on the electronic medium in his compositions Nos. 4, 5, and 7. During the period from 1951-1956, he influenced -- directly, through personal contact and intensive correspondence -- the musical creativity of Karlheinz Stockhausen, whom he met during the summer courses of 1951 in Darmstadt. In 1953, Goeyvaerts and Stockhausen produced the first electronic music in the studio of the NWDR (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk) in Cologne. In 1970 the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television) appointed him as producer at the IPEM (Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music) in Ghent. In 1974 he took charge of the new music productions for BRT-3 in Brussels. Goeyvaerts received several awards, including the Koopal Prize in 1967 and the Visser-Neerlandia Prize in 1969. He also was given commissions by the BRT, the Festival of Flanders, and the NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting). His works have been performed in several European countries, as well as Canada, the United States, and Japan, and at festivals of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), including Brussels 1950, Oslo 1953, Graz 1972, and Bonn 1977. This CD is the first collection of some of Goeyvaerts's ultra-rare vinyl releases, available here for the first time outside of their original vinyl editions.
$6.99 EAN: 5060099504532 ELECTRONIC
01. Pour Que Les Fruits Mûrissent Cet Été
02. Ach Golgatha
03. Op Acht Paarden Wedden
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VA: Danse Sacrale: 14 Early Avant-Garde and Electronic Compositions for Ballet and Modern Dance CD (CACK 009CD)
2014 release; mid-line-priced CD. The roots of electronic dance music by definition. An unlikely combination of early recordings by international electronic and avant-garde composers as well as infrequent collaborators retrospectively unified by their commitment to the musical enhancement of 20th-century ballet and the evolution of modern dance. Presenting key exponents of the musique concrète and tape music movements alongside masters of the early electric sound synthesizers, as well as pre/anti-electronic instrument designers with non-conformist and microtonal composers, Danse Sacrale reveals a broad range of truly revolutionary musical and academic advancements that found an improbable, sporadic, and vibrant creative outlet via one of Europe's proudest and most sacred cultural institutions. Featuring composers Pierre Henry, Lasry-Baschet, Igor Wakhevitch, Henk Badings, Jean-Claude Vannier, Remi Gassmann, Alwin Nikolais, and Karl-Birger Blomdahl alongside choreographers like Béjart, Balanchine, and Yvonne Georgi, Danse Sacrale unites the unanimously lauded and the relatively unknown with some of their earliest and underexposed achievements. These rare and remastered compositions provide a concise retrospective of a previously undocumented global phenomenon and a global synergy that formed the true foundations of electronic dance music and changed the perceptions of modern music and dance culture in the stern face of adversity and tradition.
$6.99 EAN: 5060099505096 ELECTRONIC
01./A1. Henk Badings - Arioso
02./A2. Lasry-Baschet - Ballet Jeux D'Ombres
03./A3. Alwin Nikolais - Glymistry
04./B1. Remi Gassmann - Scherzo
05./B2. Pierre Henry - Tam Tam
06./B3. Karl-Birger Blomdahl - The Yurg/The Mimarobe
07./C1. Henk Badings - Ragtime
08./C2. Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
09./C3. Henk Badings - Konflikt
10./C4. Lasry-Baschet - Ballet Du Soho
11./D1. Igor Wakhevitch - Danse Sacrale
12./D2. Alwin Nikolais - Aeolus
13./D3. Jean-Claude Vannier - Le Ballet Des Accoucheuses
14./D4. Pierre Henry - Transfiguration
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VA: Danse Sacrale: 14 Early Avant-Garde and Electronic Compositions for Ballet and Modern Dance 2LP (CACK 009LP)
Double LP version.
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FLABBERGAST: No. 1 12" (CCS 097EP)
Flabbergast (Circus Company veteran Guillaume Coutu Dumont and Vincent Lemieux) conjure up heavy grooves that feed directly from their experiences in the freakier ends of house and techno. The production hits raw and direct, with dead-eye rhythms providing a functional structure for surreal sonic decoration. "Frozen Beans" has a twitchy lead and all manner of displaced vocal snippets drifting around the sparse mix, with the warmth of a Rhodes sneaking in. "Gros Sabots" has fun with some roughly hewn drum breaks before "Wash Karma" gets into an incantation of minimal techno and funk. "Lunatic Lines" sports a jammed-out finish that fizzes with impulsive ideas.
$8.99 UPC: 827170553569 ELECTRONIC
A1. Frozen Beans
A2. Gros Sabots
B1. Wash Karma
B2. Lunatic Lines
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VATH, SVEN: In the Mix: The Sound of the 16th Season CD (CORMIX 051CD)
When the shadows grow longer on the island of Ibiza and the noise of summer fades away, Cocoon Recordings founder Sven Väth takes a couple of days off and reflects on the music of the passing season; the best of 2015 is represented here on The Sound of the 16th Season. Väth opens with DJ Koze's "XTC," which offers a captivating melody through a cloudy, blurry soundscape. Matthew Dekay offers a poetic starting signal before Väth sets a new tone with "Next Please" by Metaboman, a high-spirited, twisted, funny, electronic polka. Legendary Detroit figures Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig (feat. Inner City) turn play into drama before Jacob Korn releases the tension with a jazzy, experimental gesture. With Leon Vynehall's reduced gospel, the set reaches a spiritual moment, which Aaaron pushes on with his wonderful, driving "Whatcha Say." With Daniel Bortz's pretty, quiet "Don't Disturb Björn," Väth pauses for a moment. Beloved for his delicate sound textures, John Tejada extends the subdued mood and Mattheis offers penetrating strings with an anthemic quality before Väth brings the groove with Patrick Specke & Daze Maxim's "Battery." For the finale of the first disc, Jacek Sienkiewicz and Ricardo Tobar deliver beautiful, delicate sounds. Väth's second disc takes off with Tim Green's "Eclipse," in which a boastful bassline leads through a charming house groove. Alex Smoke delivers cocky, vigorous acid sounds before Heartthrob breaks the playful energy with an escalation into a furious snare drum thunderstorm. Tim Wright employs a screeching electro bassline with a twinkle in his eye and Deetron drops an overwhelmingly positive, beaming, unforgettable riff. With Bastinov, Väth adds more shades with fascinating violin sounds. Robert Hood uses a brilliant synthesizer to shift things into electrifying soul before Väth makes an utterly surprising U-turn with a song by Swedish cult band The Knife, merging soul with highly sensitive indie pop. Geeeman's voice-modulation recalls Väth's own legendary 1986 track "Electrica Salsa." Gary Beck pulls us into another world with a powerful groove and an epic hook, Pig & Dan condense this mood with "Universal Love," and Stranger's "Warehouse Memoires" brings back recollections of crazed parties in abandoned factories. Väth clears the madness with Alex Bau's hypnotic, flowing grooves. Dimi Angélis sets a soulful final chord with a beautiful riff merging fragile violin sounds and a shrill 8-bit synth, so the set can fade away with a charmingly mellow piece from Petar Dundov.
$16.39 EAN: 4260038310021 ELECTRONIC
1.01. DJ Koze - XTC
1.02. Matthew Dekay - Fangtango
1.03. Metaboman - Next Please
1.04. Kevin Saunderson - Till We Meet Again (feat. Inner City) (Carl Craig Remix)
1.05. Jacob Korn - Bingoparty
1.06. Leon Vynehall - It's Just (House of Dupree)
1.07. Aaaron - Whatcha Say
1.08. Daniel Bortz - Don't Disturb Björn
1.09. John Tejada - Cipher
1.10. Mattheis - Prism2
1.11. Patrick Specke & Daze Maxim - Battery
1.12. Jacek Sienkiewicz - Drifting
1.13. Ricardo Tobar - Brittle
2.01. Tim Green - Eclipse
2.02. Alex Smoke - Executive Realness
2.03. Heartthrob - Never Wanted One
2.04. Tim Wright - The Crab
2.05. Deetron - The Believer
2.06. Bastinov - Prisma
2.07. Floorplan - Ritual
2.08. The Knife - Silent Shout (Shaken-Up Version)
2.09. Geeeman - Wanna Go Bang (Alden Tyrell Remix)
2.10. Gary Beck - Leo
2.11. Pig & Dan - Universal Love
2.12. Stranger - Warehouse Memoires (Bergweg Mix)
2.13. Alex Bau - On Synth
2.14. Dimi Angélis - New Sun Spots
2.15. Petar Dundov - Synchrotonic
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DA CRUZ, RAFAEL: Rex 12" (COMP 475EP)
Cologne's finest, Rafael da Cruz, follows his 2014 Compost Black Label debut, Renaissance (COMP 454EP), with the dark and floating "Rex." 2015 was a good one for Rafael da Cruz. He toured through South America, Thailand, India, and Europe and played legendary spots like D-Edge, Warung, and Watergate, in addition to running his Right to Love night at the Gewölbe club in Cologne. This 12" includes an incredible remix by Edgar Peng and an epic version from André Lodemann, which has earned a lot of love from guys like Âme, Dixon, Sandrino, and more.
$8.39 UPC: 673794247519 ELECTRONIC
A1. Rex (Original) (9:01)
B1. Rex (André Lodemann Remix) (7:52)
B2. Rex (Edgar Peng Remix) (7:38)
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MELON: Air 12" (DOC 008EP)
Jeroen Hofer aka Melon, whose musical life began at age eight when he asked for a drum machine and an Atari 500 computer with the intention of starting a band, has won acclaim with tracks like "Nitzi" on Innervisions and "Spring" on his own Ratio?music imprint, as well as his work under his Je Dàvu moniker, including his famous re-edit of INXS's "Need You Tonight." Air sports music for the dancefloor, full of groove, lush harmonies, and organic undertones. Engineered to perfection by D.O.C. label head Gui Boratto, who also provides a remix of "Air."
$8.99 UPC: 880319735219 ELECTRONIC
A1. Air (Original)
A2. Gimme Some of That...
B1. Air (Gui Boratto Remix)
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VA: In the Streets Part II EP 2 12" (DVR 029EP)
The Deep Vibes crew presents the second part of the second installment of the In the Streets series, begun in 2008 with the In the Streets double 12". Dope tunes from Ezikiel (voice by Seydou Badji), Melon, and Sascha Dive.
$8.99 UPC: 827170608061 ELECTRONIC
A1. Ezikiel - Casamance (voice by Seydou Badji Senegal)
B1. Melon - Waiting
B2. Sascha Dive - Mars (Vocal)
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ARTEFAKT: The Fifth Planet EP 12" (DSR C4-EP)
Dutch duo Artefakt (Field, Prologue) open The Fifth Planet EP with "Transit," a thick, heavy, and heady track with rubbery kicks tunneling deep and smeared, somber synths stretched and skewed into trippy forms. On "From Our Minds to Yours," the synths are lighter, more airy, and more uplifting, and induce trance-like states of mind. "The Fifth Planet" steps it up another gear, with celestial melodic patterns, heavy synth daubs, and spine-tingling pads all expanding around a ticking techno groove. Expertly crafted, serene, and supple stuff that will sound perfect in the dead of night on some intimate and spaced-out dancefloor.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Transit
A2. From Our Minds to Yours
B1. The Fifth Planet
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VOISKI: Breaths Written Outside Gloom 12" (DSR C5-EP)
French producer Voiski's Breaths Written Outside Gloom features four cuts of his trademark techno, following solo and collaborative releases on L.I.E.S., Syncrophone, and others. The menacing bassline of opener "Downhearted Holidays" looms large below jostling metal percussion and frazzled synth lines. It's spare and absorbing; inhuman and bleak -- in the most inviting way. "Galaxy Call" is more energetic with squeaking, pixelated, high-pitched melodies squealing over a gloomy, gloopy bass line and militant snares. "Mathematical Park" is about mid-tempo drums and paranoid synth drones; on "Answer Silently," a growing sense of darkness permeates slithering synths, icy hi-hats, and lazy drums.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Downhearted Holidays
A2. Galaxy Call
B1. Mathematical Park
B2. Answer Silently
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STEFANIK, DANIEL: Aftermath EP 12" (DISS 028EP)
Daniel Stefanik offers up two tracks that strike a perfect note between cerebral intrigue and instinctive deep house groove, channeled into an unforgettable and timeless quality. "It Might Drizzle Until September" is a truly heartfelt piece throughout its keynotes and dubby gestures. The combination of subtle rhythmic elements and strong, ever-developing melodies exemplifies the passion and power that can be worked into house and techno. A stronger beat punches through on "Jolly Green Giant," but the soothing, sensual synth lines remain, giving space for dubby effects and delicate details to feed into the mix.
$8.99 UPC: 827170603363 ELECTRONIC
A1. It Might Drizzle Until September
B1. Jolly Green Giant
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STL: Message of Sound EP - Part 1 12" (ECHO 066EP)
Stephan Laubner aka STL presents his third EP on Echocord. Laubner is known for running his Something label, and he has also released on labels like Perlon, Sushitech, Styrax, Echospace, and Smallville. This first part of the two-part Message of Sound EP contains two original STL tracks and two loops. "Inside Out" is a beautiful, almost ambient, dubby tune, and "Heavy Snow" is a powerful dubby house track, perfect for the dancefloor.
$9.79 UPC: 880319737015 ELECTRONIC
A1. Inside Out
B1. Heavy Snow
B2. Loop 01
B3. Loop 02
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PARA ONE & THE SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH CHOIR: Elevation 12" (BEC 5156233)
In the decade after producing Bâtards Sensibles by TTC (2004) and releasing his own classic Beat Down and Clubhoppn EPs (in 2003 and 2005), Para One has never stopped reinventing his art. "It gives us great pleasure to announce the signing of Para One to Ed Banger records. A new chapter in his career, a new challenge for the label, 12 years of breaking boundaries in electronic music ... Para One & The South African Youth Choir's Elevation precedes another single and Para One's third album" --Pedro Winter, June 26, 2015. Includes remixes by Todd Edwards, Gener8ion, and Boston Bun.
$9.79 EAN: 5060421562339 ELECTRONIC
A1. Original Version
A2. Instrumental Version
A3. Acapella
B1. Todd Edwards Takes You Higher Remix
B2. Gener8ion Remix
B3. Boston Bun Kickless Remix
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EDDIE C: Solaris 12" (EF 070EP)
Eddie C returns to Endless Flight with two tracks and an excellent Move D remix. "Solaris" is one of the most danceable tracks from Eddie C; it's simply a floor-killer. On the B-side,"Flying Blue" is alternative disco stuff with the typical Eddie C sound. Move D's remix of "La Palette" is a stripped version of the original Brazilian house track -- a DJ tool for fans of Workshop or German deep house.
$9.79 UPC: 880319722912 ELECTRONIC
A1. Solaris
B1. Flying Blue
B2. La Palette (Move D Remix)
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AYLER, ALBERT: Bells/Prophecy: Expanded Edition 2CD (ESPDISK 4076CD)
Albert Ayler's trio with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray is best known for the July 10, 1964, recording of Spiritual Unity (ESPDISK 1002CD), the album that made both Ayler and ESP-Disk' famous when it was released in 1965. A decade after that, in 1975, ESP-Disk' also released, as Prophecy (ESP-3030), the first documentation of the group, recorded a month before Spiritual Unity by Canadian poet Paul Haines at a concert at a 91st Street club. These Cellar Café recordings are augmented here beyond the five cuts from the original Prophecy release by another six tracks from the same gig. (This edition uses the more accurate titles found on their release in the 2004 Holy Ghost box set on Revenant, rather than the fanciful titles from their 1996 first issue, as Albert Smiles with Sunny on the German label InRespect. Note also that "Wizard" on CD 1 and "The Wizard" on CD 2 are different compositions.)
1965 yielded Ayler treasures as his style shifted. The transitional Bells was just under 20 minutes, originally released in 1965 as one side of a clear vinyl LP, with the other side empty of music. It was recorded at a May 1, 1965, Town Hall concert of ESP artists, displaying Ayler's new group. Murray remained, Albert's brother Donald joined on trumpet, and Lewis Worrell held down the bass slot. The denser sound of "Bells" shows Ayler moving toward the bigger sonic statement made on Spirits Rejoice (ESPDISK 1020CD/LP, 1965), his September 23, 1965, Judson Hall session. By the way, "Bells" as heard here is not, in fact, a single composition; rather, it is a medley moving from "Holy Ghost" to an unnamed theme and then into "Bells" proper. ESP-Disk' founder Bernard Stollman was so excited by "Bells" that he released it on one side of an LP without delaying to record additional music to fill the other side. "Bells" also happens to be the recorded debut of saxophonist Charles Tyler, who would go on to record for ESP as a leader (Charles Tyler Ensemble (ESPDISK 1029CD, 1966), and Eastern Man Alone (ESPDISK 1059CD, 1967)).
$10.99 UPC: 825481407625 JAZZ
1.01. Bells
1.02. Spirits
1.03. Wizard
1.04. Ghosts, First Variation
1.05. Prophecy
1.06. Ghosts, Second Variation
2.01. Spirits
2.02. Saints
2.03. Ghosts
2.04. The Wizard
2.05. Children
2.06. Spirits (Theme)
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DUB PHIZIX: FabricLive 84 CD (FABRIC 168CD)
FabricLive 84 is an exclusive-packed 40-track mix of DnB, halftime, hip hop, and bass-packed breakbeats. In many ways a paean to Dub Phizix's hometown of Manchester, the mix features 22 previously unreleased tracks, including 12 of his own productions and collabs with DRS, Skeptical, Xtrah, Chimpo, and Strategy. Cruising at a foot-to-the-floor 40 tracks per hour, the pace would border on relentless were it not tempered through smart selections of tempo and rhythm switches. Packaged in bespoke slipcase containing die-embossed tin. Also includes tracks by Ulterior Motive feat. James Sunderland, Subtension & Minor Rain, Was a be, Chunky, Chimpo, RIOT, Basement Jaxx remixed by Dub Phizix, LEVELZ, Skeptical, Fixate, Cadenza & Nasher, Ward 21, The Rum Baba, Skittles, Sam Binga, Strategy, DRS feat. Enei, Dub Phizix feat. Fox, Mikal & RIOT, and Matthew David Scott.
$11.39 UPC: 802560016824 ELECTRONIC
01. Dub Phizix & DRS - Break the Chains
02. Dub Phizix - Who Are You?
03. Ulterior Motive - Muted (feat. James Sunderland)
04. Subtension & Minor Rain - Sklep
05. Dub Phizix & Skeptical - Contact
06. Was a be - WLTB
07. Dub Phizix - Dummeh + Chunky - Ooh Ahh (Acapella)
08. Chimpo - Backslang
09. RIOT - Zouk in the Souk
10. Basement Jaxx - Buffalo (Dub Phizix Remix)
11. Dub Phizix & Xtrah - Bill Roach
12. LEVELZ - LVL 09
13. Skeptical - Tundra
14. Dub Phizix - Dun Dem
15. Subtension - Fairlady
16. Dub Phizix - Gaana
17. RIOT - Bounce
18. Was a be - Champion Sound
19. Fixate - Tweeker
20. Dub Phizix - Bounce
21. Cadenza & Nasher - Gyal Town
22. Fixate - Sueno
23. Chimpo - Atlanta
24. Fixate - Tic Tac + Ward 21 - Doberman (Acapella)
25. Dub Phizix - Bugs
26. Dub Phizix & Chimpo - Ossibisa
27. Dub Phizix & Strategy - Jus' a Nuvver Divvy
28. Chimpo - Restless Leg Syndrome
29. Dub Phizix - Smokey Hot Biscuits
30. The Rum Baba - Stop Talk
31. Skittles - Mr Song
32. Fixate - Throwback Therapy
33. Sam Binga - 8Barr
34. Dub Phizix - Hooligan Plague + Strategy - Marka (FabricLive VIP Acapella)
35. DRS - Count to Ten (feat. Enei) (VIP)
36. The Rum Baba - Meatallic
37. Dub Phizix - Never Been (feat. Fox)
38. Mikal & RIOT - Control of People
39. Dub Phizix - Rainy City Music
40. Matthew David Scott - What's Next?
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SATO, MASAHIKO: Belladonna LP (FKR 079LP)
"There was a time when the strength of a musician's vision transcended all labels; here is a chance to dip into that pool again, and emerge not just refreshed, but alive again with the sense that we all can live in that world again, but most importantly raise the flag for excellence. Fantastic." --Jim O'Rourke
An unholy grail of near-mythical status is finally now available in the form of this first-ever reissue. Masahiko Sato composed this elusive, sensual, psychedelic free jazz score for the stunning 1973 Japanese witchcraft animation Belladonna of Sadness (Kanashimi no Belladonna) directed by Eiichi Yamamoto. Since the mid-2000s, Belladonna of Sadness has risen from the ashes and now shines brighter than ever. Now, on the eve of its third or fourth global DVD release in 2015, fans no longer have to settle for third-generation VHS telecine dubs or stuff their wish-lists into the hands of lucky friends visiting Tokyo. Belladonna has been used as nightclub projections by clued-up VJs and been restored by discerning feminist folk singers and improv bands while influencing illustrators, fashion designers, and other creative types along the way. Original copies of the soundtrack, however, are much less likely to rear their heads, with prices literally doubling each time the original stock copies swap hands among the same Italian dealers at central European record fairs. Italian soundtracks are expensive anyway, but this one, originally released by the Italian Cinevox label in 1975, has extra credentials. Finders Keepers Records and Sato himself agreed that this record should finally be liberated among those who know the magic words. With the decision to keep this album "strictly Sato," a track from the original release has been removed -- the main orchestral love theme by Asei Kobayashi and Mayumi Tachibana -- which in all honesty is very much detached from Sato's psychedelic soundtrack. Kept intact, however, are the songs sung and penned by Sato's wife at the time, Chinatsu Nakayama, including the track titled "TBFS," which only appears on the master tapes and never actually made it onto the theatrical cut of the film (though the theme is briefly alluded to, with different instrumentation, in a cut-scene available on the German DVD release). This reissue project also marks the beginning of a longer intended relationship between Finders Keepers and Masahiko Sato, exploring his recorded work in film music, jazz, and avant-garde composition.
$18.99 EAN: 5060099505683 ROCK
01. Andy Warhol
02. Belladonna
03. Valle Incantata
04. The Notice Is Notice
05. Mr. London
06. Little Flower
07. Funny Feeling
08. TBSF
09. Take It Easy
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KADEN, MATHIAS: Energetic Remixes Part 1 12" (FREUDE 071EP)
Mathias Kaden follows his acclaimed 2015 second album Energetic (FREUDE 013CD/LP) with an EP of album remixes. On his remix of "Energie (feat. Rocko Schamoni)," Kompakt cofounder Michael Mayer induces euphoria from the track's calm conclusion by going far afield with the synth waves. Dresden's Cuthead, working at the intersection of deep house, soul, and hip hop, brings out a relaxed, dancing lightness with his remix of "Korokana." Redshape gives "Clarity" more drive as Sophie Taylor's vocals loop into the analog acid-inspired synth sounds. Nick Curly delivers hypnotic, elegant, minimal house with his remix of "Get Phunky (feat. Aquarius Heaven)."
$8.99 UPC: 880319740411 ELECTRONIC
A1. Energie (feat. Rocko Schamoni) (Michael Mayer Remix) (8:08)
A2. Korokana (Cuthead Remix) (4:46)
B1. Clarity (feat. Sophie Taylor) (Redshape Remix) (7:15)
B2. Get Phunky (feat. Aquarius Heaven) (Nick Curly Vocal Remix) (6:55)
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BARON, MARC: Carnets LP (GLEX 1503LP)
Just as 2014's widely lauded Hidden Tapes marked a turn from saxophone improvisation to an embrace of what the Potlatch label referred to as "music for speakers" or, more elegantly, "sound diffusion," Carnets is not only another leap forward, but could easily be considered Marc Baron's masterpiece. Carnets is a dynamic interplay of degraded magnetic tape and unsettlingly normal everyday recordings dating back to Baron's childhood, showcasing Baron's deftness in crafting compositions that leave the listener with more questions than answers. Attempts to pin down his methods are forestalled at every turn by the abstract yet suggestive nature of the pieces. Personal memories become a platform for a series of inscrutable, elegantly arranged compositions. Baron's misused tapes carry evocative resonances that linger hauntingly in the mind of the listener, begging to be heard again. This record is the analog debut for Marc Baron, and his hand-constructed audio works sound completely alive on this vinyl pressing mastered by Jason Lescalleet. Each slab of 150-gram vinyl comes in a special black poly-lined dust sleeve inside a 300-gsm white-on-white art board, all lovingly protected by a polyvinyl bag. The front cover bears a striking photograph of a sculpture by French artist Loïc Blairon, something very intimate and personal for Marc Baron. This album is truly something very special.
$16.99 UPC: 769791958708 EXPERIMENTAL
01. 2014
02. 2008-2013
03. 1965-2015
04. 2015-Pastiche (le style n'est rien)
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DESMADRADOS SOLDADOS DE VENTURA: Clifton Park Vol. 2 LP (ROWF 066LP)
Seventh LP -- and part two of a two-part set -- from Manchester, UK-based free rock floatation unit DSDV. The band accepted an invitation by Burnt Hills' guitarist Parashi to hole up in his Clifton Park, NY, basement and make a record in April 2015, and Parashi sat in with his bandmate Rambutan to wail with the guys. The first jam of the night up had turned out so well that back down they went, this time falling quickly into a rhythmic trance that dallied and then collapsed into free rock Helheim. Drones, counter-rhythms, shifts into major pentatonic Allman Brothers-isms, and spitting, all-out Mahavishnic curses and hexes make this the band's most erratic statement of unswerving cacaphonic intent. Mixed and mastered by Bojanic Audio & Mastering, Manchester, UK. Dave Birchall: guitar; Andrew Cheetham: drums; Dylan Hughes: guitar; Nick Mitchell: guitar; Parashi: guitar; Rambutan: guitar; Edwin Stevens: guitar; Otto Willberg: bass. Features unique artwork combinations by John Moloney with every copy -- no two alike. 140-gram vinyl. Edition of 250. "Absolutely essential two volume collection with crazy Heitkotter esque artwork courtesy of Sunburned Hand's John Moloney -- both references work sonically as well -- DSDV are one of the preeminent 'free rock' bands out there, cutting edge, tip of the spear, reconciling out-there free jazz -- maybe think Coltrane's Ascension -- with pummeling heavy psych straddling Bardo Pond and The Stooges -- the drummer and bassist maintain an in-and-out telepathic groove while six freaked out guitarists cut loose like almost nothin you've ever heard, a semi improvised yet well considered exposition of riffs -- my god, it's full of riffs -- prepare yourself for a hundred minute hurricane of mind-blowing finger-blistering bliss." --Psi Lab
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A1. [Untitled]
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LOKIER: Gate Masters 12" (HAKT 014EP)
Mexican DJ and producer Yoan Rodriguez aka Lokier presents Gate Masters, a heavy EP of uncanny dance. "Blind Flow" opens into a whopping current of elliptical surrealism à la Terrence Dixon. "Gate Masters" features a rippled bassline and high-pitched Suspiria synths that turn a dark piece of club functionality into a retro fever-dream. "Hel's Reaction" begins with a classically spooky synth arpeggio and mounts to a macabre big-room stomper. London-based producer South London Ordnance replaces some spook with extra thump for a beefy remix of "Gate Masters."
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A1. Blind Flow
A2. Gate Masters
B1. Hel's Reaction
B2. Gate Masters (South London Ordnance Remix)
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HIP EDITS: Edits 02 12" (HIPEDITS 002EP)
More Hip Edits, this time provided by Edit Piafra and Johannes Albert. Unlimited vinyl only with music to make you cry -- ahem -- dance. These tunes were rediscovered in a lonesome backyard in Monza, Italy. Straight recorded from original cheese plates and Abletoned up for today's DJ needs. Now stop the talking please. Play it, say it!
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A1. Never Let Go (Johannes Albert Edit)
A2. Slang Preacher (Piafra Edit)
B1. You're My Last Dub (Piafra Edit)
B2. NY (Piafra Edit)
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LOVER, AL: Zodiak Versions 2LP (HNR 005LP)
San Francisco-based producer Al Lover has spent the 2010s evolving a unique approach to psychedelic music by way of exploring the common threads within its various genres. Zodiak Versions sees Al exploring what he views as two musical styles that have defined modern underground music culture: Jamaican dub reggae and the German experimental "krautrock" from the 1970s. Sketching out repetitive dub basslines and leads using only the keyboard of his laptop as a musical device, Al formulated the basic structures of what would become these versions. Reminded of what artists like Kraftwerk and NEU! attempted to portray with the driving motion with their motorik beats and expansive washes of analog synthesis, Lover felt compelled to write music directly within the environment that had once inspired the original "krautrock" sound. Once back in the states, Al teamed up with his good friends Burnt Ones in LA to add some touches of guitar and synth drone to the sketched-out songs. At this time he was further introduced to the some of the lesser-known efforts of kraut pioneers who would later influence the rise of ambient music. Returning home completely inspired, he added even more layers of analog Moog synthesizer, tribal percussion, and vintage rhythm box drum sounds before sequencing and mixing all the elements through a vintage Roland RE-201 Space Echo. The end result is Zodiak Versions. With his previous projects, Al Lover has been bouncing back and forth between a more sample-based remix approach and actual synthesized music composition. You can hear elements of his earlier works -- Distorted Reverberations of Reverberating Distortion (2011), Vodun Moon (2013), Al Lover X Goat (2014), Sacred Drugs (2014), Cave Ritual (2015) -- in Zodiak Versions, but the music here heads in a more textured, droned-out direction. An experiment in maximized minimalism. Subtlety and nuance hidden within an intense wall of sound, as if the psychedelic aspects of everything that influenced the record have been extracted and reconfigured to produce the sonic dub version of a bad trip.
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01. Kling Klang Sound Clash
02. Zodiak Version
03. Studio Einer Dub
04. Earth People (New York & London)
05. Stockhausen Blues
06. Osbourne Ruddock vs Conny Plank Dub
07. Jah Warble
08. Neo Eno (Island Records)
09. Planetarium Rock (Acoustic Version)
10. Ranking Roedelius
11. Ode to a Dead Riddum (Martin Hannett Blues)
12. Kosmische Musik in Dub
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HENRIKSSON, MARCUS: A Matter of the Heart 12" (HOME 003EP)
Home Records is the musical platform for the work of Marcus Henriksson (Nobody Home, Minilogue, Son Kite). Genre: techno. Mastered by Marcus Henriksson. No limiting. No digital plugins. Little compression and some analog EQing to keep the original space and dynamics in the music.
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A1. A Matter of the Heart (8:07)
B1. Feminine Wisdom (9:55)
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A NEW LINE (RELATED): Our Lady of Perpetual Fucking Succour 12" (HAM 012EP)
Housed in a black disco bag with a download code for the EP plus remixes. Limited edition of 300. The first music from Andrew Johnson as A New Line (Related) since his 2014 debut under the alias (HAM 009LP) and its accompanying 7" (which included a remix by Miles Whittaker (Demdike Stare). The title-track draws upon Detroit producer Terrence Dixon's simple hypnotism; the second track recalls Huerco S.'s experimental, grainy house. The B-side opens with percussion stabs over effervescent, Deepchord-style loops, and the closer is the absolute apex of Johnson's creativity, with billowing, distorted loops over a simple drum machine.
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A1. Our Lady of Perpetual Fucking Succour
A2. Belle Ile En Mer Dub Night
B1. Nobody's Been in Touch
B2. They're Burning Northerners Fifteen at a Time and Firing Them into the Sky to Light Up London
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TCB: Rather Happy Songs 12" (HIOK 007EP)
Chris Beißwenger (formerly known as TCB (The Citizen's Band)), has, since thre breakup of his Arto Mwambe duo, gone deep into modular synthesis and released on labels such as Live at Robert Johnson, Tasteful Nudes, and Story. These three mid-tempo techno ballads will get your mind moving and spirit floating while your body falls into an instant trance dancing to these highly hypnotizing pieces. Includes a remix by Roman Flügel.
$8.99 UPC: 827170617162 ELECTRONIC
A1. Uptown Slice
A2. Z-Gnal
B1. 2nd Touch (Roman Flügel Remix)
B2. Excerpt
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OEHLEN, MARKUS: Wanne 4 10" (IGR 008EP)
Renowned German artist and musician Markus Oehlen's "Wanne 4," an homage to the sound of The Feelies' early recordings, is a beautiful piece of woozy instrumental techno for people who prefer Palma to Ibiza and Jessy Lanza to Katy Perry. Oehlen's first physical release since 2003 (Rock & Roll Is Here to Die, Blue Chopsticks). Single sided mint-green 10" with screen-printed B-side. Includes numbered insert, photograph, and download code for "Wanne 4" plus two bonus tracks. Handmade artwork by Paul McDevitt and Cornelius Quabeck. Screenprint by Ulrich Schmidt-Novak. Mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. Numbered edition of 300.
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CLARKE, JOHNNY: Creation Rebel/Version 7" (JR 7028EP)
Johnny Clarke sings the Burning Spear classic "Creation Rebel." The B-side's King Tubby version features another DJ legend, Mr. U-Roy.
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CAMPBELL, CORNELL: The Gorgon/Gorgonwise Version 7" (JR 7029EP)
Cornell Campbell sings "The Gorgon," the king of the dance. The B-side version features the great U-Roy toasting to the vibes.
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A1. The Gorgon
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ANDY, HORACE: You Are My Angel/Version 7" (JR 7030EP)
Horace Andy's timeless "You Are My Angel" backed up by a rocking King Tubby dub cut.
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A1. You Are My Angel
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ISAACS, GREGORY: Don't Believe Him/The Village 7" (JR 7031EP)
Two killer Gregory Isaacs vocal tracks back-to-back, produced by the hitmaker from Jamaica, Bunny "Striker" Lee.
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A1. Don't Believe Him
B1. The Village
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ANT ORANGE: Ant Orange 12" (KK 087EP)
Berlin resident Ant Orange presents five diverse and lively tracks fusing elements of funky soul, nu jazz, and deep house. "Omi" gets the ball rolling with groovy off-beats and a wonky kalimba melody to get your feet tapping. "Yesterday" is a funky dancefloor track, while tunes like "Are You Alon" and "The Look" are filled with romance and vibes under the careful guise of eclectic electronica. "Hands Together" draws inspiration from the same Marlena Shaw vocal sample that St Germain used to such great effect on his hit "Rose Rouge," embedding it in a contemporary down-tempo groove.
$8.99 UPC: 880918222936 ELECTRONIC
01. Omi (5:12)
02. Yesterday (5:46)
03. Are You Alon (4:23)
04. The Look (8:13)
05. Hands Together (7:12)
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SILENT ONES, THE: Magical Party 12" (KOM 346EP)
French duo The Silent Ones (Aalik and Fred Traverso) specialize in their own brand of indie-infused electronic pop, putting a modern spin on vintage cold wave and minimal synth influences. "Magical Party" exemplifies their distinct mélange of swirling melodies and catchy songwriting. Jonas Bering returns to Kompakt after his 2008 release Can't Stop Loving You (KOM 172EP) with an immersive rework that successfully trims the vocals and transplants the original's delicacy into a deep but buoyant mover. Ben Watts's mix is a fitting companion cut, promoting a slightly bouncier approach and seasoning its propulsive beats with tension-building synths.
$8.99 UPC: 880319807015 ELECTRONIC
A1. Jonas Bering Mix
B1. Ben Watts Mix
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DURANTE, MAX: Black Light 12" (KYN 001EP)
180-gram vinyl. Techno veteran Max Durante has been active since the late '80s and is regarded as one of the pioneers of Italian techno and electro. Black Light is a four-track EP of deep, physical, avant-garde techno. The swung drums, drone, and perc of "Black Light" precede the distorted, broken-beat theme of "Solar Request." With his remix of "Biocentrism," Donato Dozzy loops the feedback into a powerful groove for the DJs. Mastered by Neel (EnissLab Studio, Rome). Pressed at Optimal Media, Germany. Artwork by Christopher Honeywell. Kynant Records (based in Berlin with a UK background) explores and inverts rhythm in techno.
$11.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Black Light (5:20)
A2. Solar Request (6:21)
B1. Biocentrism (5:44)
B2. Biocentrism (Donato Dozzy Remix) (6:17)
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KASETA, DJ ASSAM & LIEM, JOHAN: Back Quality 12" (LHLT 003EP)
180-gram vinyl. The opener is a Johan Kaseta aka Gravity Hannes aka DJ Tapee Tapey Tape flip of an older DJ Assam aka Nizza Overload aka DJ Alley Loop tune. "Back Quality" is a bomb settling somewhere between early morning weirdness and deep and freaky warm-up game-changer. It's complemented by a storming Times Are Ruff remix -- drums, drums, drums. "Kord Dreyer" is a triple-combo of Johan Kaseta, DJ Assam, and Liem aka Lars Lavendel aka Fatso Frolunda -- a straightforward groove affair, were it not for those unsettling, beautiful chords and the sudden change of mood during the break.
$9.79 UPC: 827170615465 ELECTRONIC
A1. DJ Assam - Rowdy Hope (Johan Kaseta's Hopeless Remix)
A2. Johan Kaseta & DJ Assam - Back Quality
B1. Johan Kaseta & DJ Assam - Back Quality (Times Are Ruff Remix)
B2. Johan Kaseta, DJ Assam & Liem - Kord Dreyer
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MUMBAI SCIENCE: Black Hole (Floorplan RMX) 12" (LL 097EP)
Belgian electronic duo Mumbai Science follow their acclaimed 2014 album Déjà Vu (LL 014CD) with "Black Hole" remixed by Robert Hood -- Hood's first-ever remix as Floorplan. Founding member of Underground Resistance, arguably the most important techno act in the world, and of the M-Plant label, Hood paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late '90s. His remix of "Black Hole" deconstructs the original track and rebuilds it in the relentless techno landscape of Floorplan to perfectly complement the original.
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A1. Black Hole (Floorplan Remix)
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RACHMAD, STEVE: Parallel Shopping 12" (LAD 025EP)
Dutch techno hero Steve Rachmad presents a fable of consumerism gone sideways. In "Parallel Shopping" one can hear the sounds of the machines rising from their slumber as they slowly begin their bizarre free market march to gather their forces. On "Out in the Open (Edit)," their plans having been revealed to the masses, and the machines have no other option but to launch a full scale attack. Under the cover of night the machines rally their forces as soft synths sing their rhetoric into the night while the crash of metal and booming basses foreshadow the likely winner.
$9.79 UPC: 880319734618 ELECTRONIC
A1. Out in the Open (Edit)
B1. Parallel Shopping
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KING CHEETAH: Endurance 12" (LBW 001EP)
King Cheetah is a shining star from the Motor City, and here he presents three tracks inspired by techno vinyl digging in the late '90s. Though this is King Cheetah's first official release, he has been making music since the mid-'90s in seclusion on the west side of Detroit. This is also the first release on Light Body Works. Light Body Works is a label that intends to release club music that induces hypnotic states through repeated melodic movements and straight rhythm patterns.
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A1. Endurance
B1. Water Maze
B2. Wax On
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PEVERELIST: Undulate/Grit 12" (LIVITY 018EP)
Livity Sound close out a busy 2015 with something of a rarity, a solo 12" from label head Pev, his first solo material since 2013's Aztec Chant 12". Almost a genre in himself, Peverelist has been releasing curveball anthems since the mid-'2000s in his own inimitable style, appearing on Hessle Audio, Skull Disco, and Tectonic as well as his own Punch Drunk and Livity Sound labels. This 12" coincides with his autumn 2015 tours of Japan and the US.
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B1. Grit
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DREAD D: Siege 12" (LOC 026EP)
Though he's mostly known for house anthems on labels like Local Action and PMR, in the early 2000s T.Williams was known as Dread D. His tracks as a key part of Jon E Cash's seminal Black Ops crew still sound great, as proven by his 2013 Boiler Room set for RBMA. For Siege, T combines his classic Black Ops sound kit with the studio expertise he's developed since for timeless grime tracks that could be classics in 2002 or 2015. Also includes a re-tooled version of an overlooked vintage Dread D cut, "Time Command." This is as authoritative as grime gets.
$11.79 EAN: 5055300387622 ELECTRONIC
01. Siege
02. 10 Missed Calls
03. Time Command
04. Siege 2
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BAILEY, MARCO: Pere Lachaise 12" (MBRLTD 008EP)
Marco Bailey returns to his prolific MBR Limited imprint with another killer single titled "Pere Lachaise." Includes remixes by ROD, who delivers two incredible reworks exemplifying his intelligent sound, and Stuttgart's heavyweight Raphael Dincsoy.
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A1. Pere Lachaise (ROD Mix V5)
A2. Pere Lachaise (ROD Mix V6)
B1. Pere Lachaise (Raphael Dincsoy Mix)
B2. Pere Lachaise (Original Mix)
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VOLCANO THE BEAR: Commencing 5LP BOX (MIA 032LP)
Leicester, England -- mid-1990s. Aaron Moore, Nick Mott, Clarence Manuelo, and Daniel Padden create a freeform group called Volcano the Bear out of their frustration with standard musical limitations. Now, in 2015, after 20 years of experimenting with improvisation, folk, Dada, post-punk, krautrock, noise, surreal comedy, pure avant-garde, and more, the group has obtained a cult following and high critical praise across the globe. Renowned for their highly theatrical and obscure live performances, as well as their mind-blowing catalog of releases, Volcano the Bear truly is a one-of-a-kind group, consistently pushing forward with their own unique, experimental approach to sound making. Commencing manages to be both a retrospective of the group's 20-year history since their formation in 1995 as well as its own unique release filled with vast amounts of material. The five LPs presented here, each in individual covers with liner notes for each track on the back and housed together in a deluxe silkscreened box, contain 64 tracks and clock in at over four hours in length. Expect an abundance of previously unreleased material, alternate versions, tracks from early cassette albums never before released on vinyl, live recordings, pieces from forgotten compilation appearances, and more, all mixed and compiled together to form five standalone albums. The set also includes a 50-page book of writings, photos, artwork, and flyers from the band's long history, along with a download code for the complete set plus a bonus album of ten tracks that didn't make the final cut. This is the ultimate Volcano the Bear release for fans of the group and of surreal, experimental musical history in general. "Listening to the wealth of mainly unreleased and live material presented here, one's mind boggles at the wonderful, extraordinary and frankly bizarre pallet these guys have to offer. They take us on a sure fire journey into some of the most healthy and unambiguous, crazed and deadly, astonishing and timeless music to push our pleasure buttons up to 13!" --Steven Stapleton, Cooloorta, May 25, 2015
$76.60 UPC: 880918223063 ROCK
LP 1:
01. Yak Folk's Y'are (3:27)
02. The Following Him (5:26)
03. The Idea of Wood (2:43)
04. Go Fetch the Water Anthony (3:34)
05. Tubular Smells (1:02)
06. BB (0:26)
07. Pretty Flower (2:41)
08. Fog Slicer (0:51)
09. Ash Harm (4:49)
10. Eleven (4:03)
11. Pick Up the Spanners (1:34)
12. Tic Toc (Live) (4:12)
13. Velcro Symbols (5:47)
14. Egg & Two Books (1:20)
15. General Chin (3:10)
16. The One Burned Ma (4:22)
LP 2:
01. Horse (4:29)
02. Ballet of Swedish Mountain (1:04)
03. Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah-Um Cha Check (2:50)
04. Elephant Bingo (3:43)
05. Quick (4:42)
06. Barbara Castle Festival Hall (0:45)
07. Phantom, Tha Will Be Done (7:24)
08. Hello Graham (Live) (6:47)
09. Feverfew (5:28)
10. Planetary Bethlehem (Live) (5:14)
11. Tadpole Alphabet (Live) (7:45)
LP 3:
01. Asian Speedway (5:38)
02. The Pincher (1:08)
03. Broccoli von Hamburg (1:32)
04. Chair: The Musical (4:33)
05. Cond (4:48)
06. Strange Dreams of Invisible Girls (3:45)
07. Woman Who Weighs Out the Wool (2:32)
08. Hexofun (2:31)
09. St. Ivel of the Fittest (1:10)
10. The Middle Farm (3:06)
11. Splendido (2:12)
12. Tremondo (3:27)
13. Bowls (4:29)
14. Backwoods Colour (7:29)
LP 4:
01. Halo Onna Volcano (3:46)
02. Fat Monarch (3:18)
03. Jackanapes (2:21)
04. Tori Anus Abdul (0:52)
05. Sex Transfusion (1:34)
06. Hot Rat Piano (4:20)
07. Aflame (4:14)
08. Night Fig (1:46)
09. Monthly Friends to Cherish (3:03)
10. Goose War Two (4:19)
11. HatHands (4:52)
12. Baltic (6:43)
13. Long Kong Is My Pain (2:55)
14. Curly Robot (7:01)
LP 5:
01. Amateurs Blind (Live) (8:43)
02. Burnt Seer (Live) (2:53)
03. Crikey Biscuits (Live) (0:35)
04. Hairboots (Live) (6:08)
05. Did You Ever Feel Like Jesus? (Live) (6:48)
06. Hairy Queen (Live) (6:37)
07. Cruston (Live) (5:13)
08. Strausshand (Live) (8:13)
09. Botticello (Live) (4:12)
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MARTINEZ: Substance E.P. 12" (MINI 038EP)
Martinez, the first Swedish Minibarian, offers a sonic journey into the deeper shades of his sound, with heavy emphasis on the low-end subs and hypnotizing rhythms.
$9.79 UPC: 827170613966 ELECTRONIC
A1. Something of Substance
B1. Lookit
B2. C's Trip
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OLIVEROS & IONE, PAULINE: Water Above Sky Below Now LP (DOSER 027LP)
Pioneering American composer Pauline Oliveros and author Ione present Water Above Sky Below Now. An experimental musician and educator, Oliveros is the creator of the deep listening practice of highly attentive full-body audition. She is joined on the album by Ione, an author and improviser of spoken word and sonic vocals, and the artistic director of the Deep Listening Institute founded by Oliveros. This three-part improvisation was produced using Oliveros's Expanded Instrument System (EIS), an electronic sound-processing environment that allows improvising musicians to transform their own acoustic input in real time. Here, her specially tuned digital accordion -- accompanied by Ione's vocals and spoken word -- is converted via EIS, manipulated, and diffused through multiple channels. "The EIS imperative (and improvisation imperative)," Oliveros writes, "is to listen and respond: spatial relationships and progressions are as important as the traditional parameters of music." The release of Water Above Sky Below Now is the latest movement in Oliveros's six-decade-long career, which began at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the '60s and was distinguished with the William Schuman Award for lifetime achievement in 2009. Produced by Rabih Beaini; designed by Tankboys; original cover art by Nathalie du Pasquier.
$13.79 EAN: 8717127018932 EXPERIMENTAL
01. Water Above Sky Below Now Part 1
02. Water Above Sky Below Now Part 2
03. Water Above Sky Below Now Part 3
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BILLY BAO: Lagos Sessions 2LP (MR 354LP)
Munster Records, Billy Bao, and Night School Records present Lagos Sessions, featuring Billy Bao, Ambido, Diana Bada, Duro Ikujenyo, Mark Ido, Oduyomi Isaiah Oluseye, Joel Isioma Okoh, Orlando Julius, Mendo, and Emeka Ogboh. Presented in gatefold sleeve with liner notes by Kunle Tejuoso and Ed Emeka Keazor. "Experimental; Conceptual? That's what these sort of things are usually called, when references are anything but immediate: in the feeling, hearing, and seeing, especially by many. Even more troubling, when the accustomed in us gets ajar... We lack articulation of the seemingly unfamiliar! Even at that, I think the most charitable review of this live electronic exploration will suggest the four sections bordering on insanity. How else? Even when not a few self-styled patriots were booking their flights out of the country, with an election looming to signal the end of a nation, and a band of modern day faith-heads detonating grenades in every other street corner, two dreamers swim against the currents and sneak through the lagoon into the country collecting inputs of derelict art; of garbage can noise; of hooting; honking horns on screeching brakes squelching tar; rackety generator booms? For an imagined program! What's that? Who, what do these doods think they're doing with Lagos?! I'll call it rebirth. That simple. How to find a centre here? The output? The hum-drum of the street's daily accent compels the sense of the immediate, the terrestrial; and then those primitive, primeval-seeming echoes of the earliest beginnings of the big bang and its wavesound simultaneously releasing Sun Ra's reverb sensation of end time! This should not be danceable but these guys are suggesting the possibility of rhythm in the inchoate. Believe me, you can't miss the Lagos Faaji, Sakara flow, Awurebe, Afrobeat slices; its jazz, highlife/Euro-Afro funk/rock/rap and seedy night echoes too. But in their otherworldly dimension. No matter the accolades, I will encourage a therapy of some sorts to the creators of this production." --Sola Olorunyomi (poet, bassist, co-editor of Glendora Review) & Kunle Tejuoso, Jazzhole, Lagos
$18.39 EAN: 8435008835415 ROCK
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B1. [Untitled]
C1. [Untitled]
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DESECHABLES: La Maqueta LP (MR 357LP)
Desechables formed around 1980 in Vallirana, a village in the Barcelona suburbs where three friends got together to create one of Spain's most visceral and dirtiest primitive rock groups: Tere (screams), Miguel (guitar), and Dei Pei (snare and tom). Tere was 14, Dei Pei was 17, and Miguel was the oldest of the three at 22. Without any musical knowledge, Miguel established a unique personal guitar style that would define the Desechable sound. Pei recalls, "Our way of rehearsing was like eternal zeroes, like mantras... Tere was especially amazing because Miguel was constantly having a go at her; come on baby, come on, come on. He got the shyness and childishness out of her teenage beauty, so blonde and so perfect." Jaime Gonzalo, music journalist and the band's friend, remembers the first time he saw them live: "It was spectacular. Spectacular in the sense that it was still a mirror copy of The Cramps and it didn't go beyond that ... But Miguel's guitar was hellish. They used their limitations well and achieved great chemistry." One day Pei went by the office of Ernest Casals, who ran the independent label Flor y Nata Records and wrote for the Radio Carolina fanzine, to tell him that the fanzine was shit, and left a low-fi demo on his desk with three tracks Desechables had recorded in a dubbing studio. The cassette was sent to Jesús Ordovás, a Radio 3 presenter in Madrid, who broadcast Desechables nationwide for the first time when he played "Fuera de la ley." Casals persuaded his partners that launching Desechables would be beneficial, and the first Desechables demo came out in 1982 (in an edition of 750) as the first release of the Anarchi Records sublabel, run by brothers Ferran Sahún and Joni Destruye and mainly conceived to release cassettes. It was recorded in just one evening without any kind of production, in a gloomy Barcelona studio in October of 1982. "There was a total connection the whole evening, we all had a great time and Miguel gave us a lot of confidence... We felt at home. From beginning to end, everything came out seamlessly," remembers Tere. The demo became the best Spanish garage punk artifact from the '80s and the best legacy from the original Desechables trio. This first vinyl edition includes "El peor dios," recorded at the same session but not featured on the original cassette.
$13.79 EAN: 8435008835712 ROCK
A1. No Me Consigues Divertir
A2. En Un Rincón De Tu Cabeza
A3. El Caso Del Hombre Serio Y Formal
A4. El Asesino
A5. Golpe Tras Golpe
B1. Maldito Seas
B2. El Vampiro
B3. Fin Del Mundo
B4. Quiero Pasarlo Bien Esta Noche
B5. El Peor Dios
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WESSELMANN, MARCUS ANTONIUS: Piano Works CD (NEOS 11508CD)
To an extent unequalled by any other instrument, the piano can become a kind of workshop or laboratory. Almost anything can be realized on it, although it is limited in timbre and tone production compared to other instruments or an orchestra. But this is precisely the quality that turns it in the direction of musical abstraction, which can be of interest to composers. Free of specific ensemble requirements, compositional ideas can be tried out on the 88 keys in downright exemplary fashion. One could regard the piano works of Marcus A. Wesselmann presented here as a compositional laboratory of this kind. Moritz Eggert, who performs Wesslemann's piano works here, was born in 1965 in Heidelberg, Germany. As a composer he is glad not to be pigeonholed into any of the usual categories, a fact that bewilders both avant-garde and classical concert audiences. Through projects often discussed in the media -- including Die Tiefe des Raumes (a "Fußballoratorium" or soccer oratorio, written for the Ruhrtriennale festival and commissioned by the cultural program of the 2006 World Cup) and Freax (an opera created in collaboration with Christoph Schlingensief) -- he constantly attempts to undermine the customary image of new music as an affair exclusively for expert audiences. As a pianist, singer, conductor, and performer, Eggert is not only committed to contemporary music but also to the classical repertoire, especially in the areas of lieder and chamber music. He carries on the "Bad Blog of Musick" for the Neue Musikzeitung, the most widely read blog on the subject of contemporary music in Germany. He lives in Munich with his wife, the writer, poet, translator, and literary scholar Andrea Heuser, and their children Milo and Siri.
$10.99 EAN: 4260063115080 CLASSICAL
01. Solo 5 (1998/1999) (15:15)
02. Solo 6 (2000) (15:09)
03. Solo 7 -moto blues- (2001) (5:25)
Solo 9 -kombinatorische etüden- (2003):
04. 1 Dance, Standing (1:31)
05. 2 Song, Running (5:41)
06. 3 Machine One (2:49)
07. 4 Lament, Standing (3:21)
08. 5 Lament, Running (3:30)
09. 6 Dance, Running (4:02)
10. 7 Dance of Singing Machine (5:48)
11. 8 No Lament (3:14)
12. 9 Machine, Running (3:41)
13. 10 Machine, Standing (2:04)
14. 11 Dance Four (5:28)
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KESSLER, THOMAS: , said the shotgun to the head./Utopia II CD/SACD (NEOS 11511CD)
Thomas Kessler's piece , said the shotgun to the head., which he produced in 2003 at the age of 66, refers to rap culture without making use of customary rap clichés. The music follows the word cascades of the slam poet Saul Williams in great detail. It is strengthened by a rap choir that is cast for each individual performance, made up of school children in Cologne; seven voices sitting in the orchestra and -- in the closest contact with the classical musicians -- propelling the event. A bridge is built between remote worlds, full of élan and energy, far removed from pleasant crossovers. Kessler goes still further eight years later, in 2011, with Utopia II. His idea of live electronics is central here, reflecting decades of studio experience. The musicians have a microphones, loudspeakers, and laptops at their disposal alongside their instruments, and can individually control and alter the sound. The whole, therefore, is not regulated by a "god at the control desk," but by musicians who listen attentively to each other. The result is a multi-layered, hardly foreseeable orchestral sound containing, alongside instrumental tones, countless sounds, remote voices, and noises, as well as fragments of news channels. An enormous expenditure was needed to realize this venture -- in terms of logistics, technology, personnel, and finances. There were miles of cable to lay, dozens of laptops to be installed, and loudspeakers and microphones to be placed at far-flung positions. An unusually large number of assistants and helpers were necessary for this, in order to supervise the musicians individually and rectify the malfunctions of the technical devices that were likely to break down. In the end -- despite all gloomy predictions -- it was a success. , said the shotgun to the head. features a rap choir of Elena Berthold, Hennig Gemke, The-Huy Giang, Julia Lang, Stella Lehmann, Talin Maas, Itamar Marom (Schiller-Gymnasium Köln), Oliver Karau, Sinat Ud-Din, Patrick Elberg (Berlin), Hannah Maria Noack (Hamm). Coaching and rehearsals: Lisa Baum. Performed with WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer. Utopia II features the voices of So Jeong Ahn, Isis Krüger, Axel Lindner, Johanna Melder, and Barbara Ziersch. Music informatics: Thomas Seelig. Audio design: Markus Danne. Audio design assistants: Simon Böckenhoff, Ferdinand Grätz, Tobias Hartmann, Sergej Maingardt, Hendrik Manook, Tim Schmidt, and Oliver Niemöller. Performed with WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer.
$10.99 EAN: 4260063115110 CLASSICAL
01. , said the shotgun to the head. (26:53)
02. Utopia II (31:22)
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VA: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO Vol. 6: 40 Years Anthology Vol. 1 CD/SACD (NEOS 11515CD)
The four works brought together on this CD, the result of the first 25 years activity of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation and the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, founded in 1971, document different aspects of work with live electronics. The spectrum in which the technical development is reflected in this field extends from the playing of a pre-produced recording and initial attempts with delays to complex forms of the transformation of sound and its projection in space, and of space simulation. Cristóbal Halffter's Noche pasiva del sentido (1970/'71) is performed by Hélène Fauchère, soprano, and ENSEMBLE EXPERIMENTAL conducted by Detlef Heusinger, with sound direction by Thomas Hummel and Dominik Kleinknecht. Brian Ferneyhough's Mnemosyne, for bass flute and tape (1986) is performed by Martin Fahlenbock, bass flute, with mixing by Reinhold Braig and sound direction by Braig and Simon Spillner. André Richard's Glidif. a sonar e cantar à Luigi Nono in memoriam (1991) is performed by Collegium Novum Zürich (Elmar Schmid, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet; Johannes Nied, double bass; and Käthi Steuri, double bass) conducted by Detlef Heusinger, with sound direction by Thomas Hummel, André Richard, and Joachim Haas. Heusinger's Abraum II, for piano trio and live electronics (1995) is performed by Collegium Novum Zürich (Urs Walker, violin; Imke Frank, cello; and Simone Keller, piano), with with sound direction by Thomas Hummel, André Richard, and Joachim Haas.
$10.99 EAN: 4260063115158 CLASSICAL
01. Cristóbal Halffter - Noche pasiva del sentido [San Juan de la Cruz] (1970/1971) (15:05)
02. Brian Ferneyhough - Mnemosyne for bass flute and tape (1986) (11:15)
03. André Richard - Glidif. a sonar e cantar à Luigi Nono in memoriam (Version 1991) (14:28)
04. Detlef Heusinger - Abraum II (1995) for piano trio and live electronics (22:58)
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CZERNOWIN/MARK ANDRE, CHAYA: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO Vol. 7: 40 Years Anthology Vol. 2 CD/SACD (NEOS 11516CD)
The EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR, founded in 1971, views itself as an interface between compositional ideas and their technical realization. Every year several composers and musicians are invited to accept a fellowship in order to realize their works with the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO's special equipment in interaction with its staff members -- experts in computer music, sound designers, studio engineers, and sound directors. The studio then takes an active role in the worldwide performance of these works. With more than 40 years of activity in the international music scene, the studio has become the leading center for ambitious works of music with live electronics. It gives concerts on an ongoing basis at all major festivals (including Berliner Festwochen, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Festival, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Venice Biennale) and in renowned music theaters and concert halls (including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, and Teatro Real in Madrid). Its outstanding productions include works by such significant composers as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cristóbal Halffter, Vinko Globokar, and Luigi Nono. Indeed, the latter composer produced almost the whole of his late music in close collaboration with the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO and its staff. This CD includes Shu Hai mitamen behatalat kidon (1997) by Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) and ab II (1996/1997) by Mark Andre (b. 1964). Czernowin's piece, for one female voice and nine pre-recorded reflections with live electronics, is performed by Noa Frenkel, alto voice, with mixing by Reinhold Braig and sound direction by Braig and Simon Spillner. Andre's piece, for contrabass clarinet, cello, cimbalom, percussion, piano, and live electronics, is performed by Collegium Novum Zürich (Elmar Schmid, contrabass clarinet; Imke Frank, cello; Françoise Rivalland, cimbalom; Martin Lorenz, percussion; and Christoph Grund, piano) conducted by Detlef Heusinger, with sound direction by Michael Acker, Sven Kestel, and Joachim Haas.
$10.99 EAN: 4260063115165 CLASSICAL
01. Chaya Czernowin - Shu Hai mitamen behatalat kidon (1997) (29:31)
02. Mark Andre - ab II (1996/1997) (27:07)
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VA: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014 3CD/SACD+DVD BOX (NEOS 11522-24CD)
Each year, Neos presents the essence of the previous year's Donaueschingen Festival, a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen in south-western Germany. Founded in 1921, it is one of the oldest festivals for contemporary music in the world, and among the best-known and most prestigious. This collection of performances from the 2014 festival includes the world premieres of the following pieces on three Super Audio CDs: Nacht for orchestra (2012/2013) by Friedrich Cerha performed by SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by Emilio Pomàrico; Ibant obscuri for large orchestra (2014) by Hanspeter Kyburz performed by SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by Pomàrico; Zentral Park for nine musicians, electronics and video projection [optional] (2014) by François Sarhan performed by Jugendensemble für Neue Musik des Landesmusikrats NRW (Studio Musikfabrik) with François Sarhan, voice, and EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; nos. 1-10 of Carnaval for five voices and ten players (2010-2011) by Salvatore Sciarrino performed by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Klangforum Wien conducted by Ilan Volkov; Inner Voicings (2014) by Chiyoko Szlavnics performed by Klangforum Wien (conducted by Volkov) and EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; Sound As Will for trumpet and ensemble (2011/2014) by Wolfgang Rihm performed by Marco Blaauw, trumpet, and Klangforum Wien conducted by Volkov; points & views (2014) by Peter Ablinger performed by Ensemble Modern (Hermann Kretzschmar and Ueli Wiget, pianos) conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer; Mélodictionnaire Concerto for piano and septet (2014) by Kryštof Mařatka performed by Hermann Kretzschmar, piano, and Ensemble Modern, conducted by Stockhammer; and Inconjunctions for ensemble (2014) by Brian Ferneyhough performed by Ensemble Modern conducted by Stockhammer. The accompanying 147-minute DVD includes the world premieres of Piano Concerto for piano solo, sampler, video and orchestra (2014) by Simon Steen-Andersen performed by Nicolas Hodges, piano, and SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by François-Xavier Roth; Körper und Seele for air machine, choir and orchestra (2014) by Ondřej Adámek performed by Christoph Grund (air machine), SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, and SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by Roth; and The Total Mountain (2014) by Jennifer Walshe performed by Walshe; as well as the film Kämpfer für die Moderne: Armin Köhler und die Donaueschinger Musiktage (2014) by Syrthos J. Dreher.
$31.59 EAN: 4260063115226 CLASSICAL
SACD 1:
01. Friedrich Cerha - Nacht for orchestra (2012/2013) (20:03)
02. Hanspeter Kyburz - Ibant obscuri for large orchestra (2014) (16:06)
03. François Sarhan - Zentral Park for nine musicians, electronics and video projection [optional] (2014) (29:23)
SACD 2:
Salvatore Sciarrino - Carnaval for five voices and ten players (2010-2011):
Nos. 1-9, Così dice lo scultore di prue (2010-2011):
01. No 1 Chi vedi là (4:52)
02. No 2 Chini dolcemente (3:34)
03. No 3 La nostra mente rapita (2:46)
04. No 4 Persi nel sogno (2:59)
05. No 5 E ti trasformerai (2:04)
06. No 6 Persi nel sogno (3:35)
07. No 7 Tremante inventerà immagini (2:55)
08. No 8 Come acqua (2:15)
09. No 9 Soffia (2:36)
10. No 10 Lasciar vibrare (2011) (4:52)
Chiyoko Szlavnics - Inner Voicings (2014):
11. I (7:33)
12. II (7:06)
13. III (9:08)
14. Wolfgang Rihm - Sound As Will for trumpet and ensemble (2011/2014) (13:52)
SACD 3:
Peter Ablinger - points & views (2014):
01. Score 1/Tile 1 (1:45)
02. Score 2/Tile 2 (1:45)
03. Score 3/Tile 3 (1:45)
04. Score 4/Tile 4 (1:45)
05. Score 5/Tile 5 (1:45)
06. Score 6/Tile 6 (1:45)
07. Score 7/Tile 7 (1:45)
08. Score 8/Tile 8 (1:45)
09. Score 9/Tile 9 (1:45)
10. Score 10/Tile 10 (1:45)
11. Score 11/Tile 11 (1:45)
12. Score 12/Tile 12 (1:45)
13. Score 13/Tile 13 (1:45)
14. Score 14/Tile 14 (1:45)
15. Score 15/Tile 15 (1:45)
16. Score 16/Tile 16 (1:45)
17. Kryštof Mařatka - Mélodictionnaire Concerto for piano and septet (2014) (19:41)
18. Brian Ferneyhough - Inconjunctions for ensemble (2014) (19:15)
DVD:
01. Simon Steen-Andersen - Piano Concerto for piano solo, sampler, video and orchestra (2014) (28:09)
02. Ondřej Adámek - Körper und Seele for air machine, choir and orchestra (2014) (31:18)
03. Jennifer Walshe - The Total Mountain (2014) (41:52)
04. Syrthos J. Dreher - Kämpfer für die Moderne: Armin Köhler und die Donaueschinger Musiktage (2014) (44:49)
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DUO AUTRES VOIX DE PIANO: QUATRE = ONZE == (7) CD (NEOS 11527CD)
Contemporary, improvised, electro-acoustic music. After a complete classical training (academy and conservatory studies in Belgium, then conservatory studies in France with state teaching qualifications of the Ministry of Culture...) with subsequent studies in jazz and improvised music (Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA...) and numerous specialized practical courses (IRCAM...), Patrick Defossez is, on the one hand, a poly-aesthetic composer who is very much present in contemporary musical life (Ensemble InterContemporain, public composition commissions...). On the other hand, he is an active interpreter in the improvisation scene, committed to interdisciplinary improvisatory procedures that more or less incorporate the current digital possibilities of music-making. He teaches multi-dimensional musical composition at a state regional conservatory, studying classical new music, mixed music (with new musical technologies), as well as all forms of improvisation. Defossez is the musical director of the Association 2d'Lyres, founded in 2007, which fosters research, creativity, and dissemination, with CDs and materialized as well as dematerialized multimedia production of those music-aesthetic tendencies considered fragile. These include new music, improvised art music, electro-acoustics, and mixed music, as well as interdisciplinary creativity with poetry, theater, and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, video, etc.). QUATRE = ONZE == (7), composed by Defossez and Anne-Gabriel Debaecker, is performed here by Defossez (acoustic and digital piano, percussion, laptop/extended piano), Debaecker (digital piano, electro-acoustic live-sculpture, bowls), Daniel Erdmann (soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones, percussion), and Benny Sluchin (tenor trombone, duplex-euphonium, percussion).
$10.99 EAN: 4260063115271 CLASSICAL
01. Movement 1 (23:39)
02. Movement 2 (15:57)
03. Movement 3 (17:21)
04. Movement 4 (15:16)
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VILLA ABO: Sibilant 12" (NIMH 003EP)
Villa Åbo, mainstay of veteran Swedish analog unit Frak, presents Sibilant, the product of an appreciation for Severed Heads and Terse Tapes, which propelled a 13-year-old Jan Svensson to form Frak in 1987. On "Warming Up Signal" Svensson sounds the nuclear alarm with an unforgiving techno meltdown that leaves no survivors. The flip gives our disintegrated minds some relief with "Drum-Magnet," a paranoid beat track recorded in collaboration with Karlskrona punk rocker Nebula, and the hypnotic "Syndrome Beautiful." Cover art by P.A.M.'s Misha Hollenbach.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Warming Up Signal
B1. Drum-Magnet
B2. Syndrome Beautiful
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PASCALIDIS, SAVAS: Transforced 12" (NONSERIES 020EP)
German producer Savas Pascalidis (founder of the Sweatshop and Lasergun labels, with releases on Figure and 909 Pervertions), active since the mid-'90s, presents his fourth EP for Non Series. "Year Two Alpha" is a timeless composition that sticks to the fundamental roots of techno. The added sharpness of "Interpositive" originates from dirty, agitated, and unfiltered chords climaxing into speedy rhythmic hi-hats. "Cold Front" presents itself with a rolling bassline before its cymbals build dynamism throughout the track. The smooth melody of "Quartz" stomps away at a smoother BPM, building a comfortable rhythm.
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HARRO TRIPTRAP: First EP 12" (OA 001EP)
Harro Triptrap delivers the first release on the Osmund Audio label. With three 97-BPM slow-motion rockets, he's ready to set things on fire. From the Baltic Sea into the universe, perfect for every dancefloor from New York to Tokyo. Hyper-hypnotic basslines with endless pressure meet a special melancholic mood. Jump on Harro's train to nowhere.
$9.79 UPC: 880319743412 ELECTRONIC
01. Grandfathers Clock (9:37)
02. Dog at the Sea (8:18)
03. To Be Yourself (8:02)
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PORT & JENNIFER TOUCH, ADAM: This Time EP 12" (PETS 059EP)
"This Time" is the product of a fruitful relationship between Adam Port and vocalist Jennifer Touch, who grabbed Adam Port's attention with her standout vocals on New World's 2013 Night Stalker EP on Riotvan (RVN 006EP). Full of dark, new wave pop sensibilities and edgy, dancefloor nuance, "This Time" is highlighted by Jennifer Touch's haunting vocal delivery. Sei A delivers a punchy, bassy remix; a darker, techno-leaning excursion into full-force peak-time territory. Adam Port's remix focuses on percussion and a deep, ethereal sub-bassline, while chopping and splicing Jennifer Touch's vocals for hypnotic techno workout.
$9.79 UPC: 827170612761 ELECTRONIC
A1. This Time
A2. This Time (Sei A Remix)
B1. This Time (Adam Port Remix)
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DEEPBASS & NAX_ACID: Exomoon 12" (PHORMA 010EP)
The tenth release on the Stockholm-based Phorma label is Deepbass & nAX_Acid's "Exomoon," an 11-minute journey through hazy space between disjoint galaxies. On the flip-side, Neurotron give "Exomoon" a dub treatment, transforming the original track into an atmospheric beauty. Vinyl only.
$9.79 UPC: 827170615168 ELECTRONIC
A1. Exomoon
B1. Exomoon (Neurotron Remix)
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JOHN'S CHILDREN: Orgasm LP (RAD 7001LP)
180-gram vinyl. The sole album from unhinged UK psychedelic mod rock outfit John's Children, recorded in 1966, right before Marc Bolan joined the band. Produced by The Yardbirds' manager Simon Napier-Bell, who referred to them as "positively the worst group I'd ever seen," John's Children's debut LP was shelved for three years due to its then-unthinkable title, Orgasm, and released only in 1970, on the US White Whale label. Acclaimed by many as precursors of glam rock for both their theatrics and music, John's Children quickly disbanded in 1968, leaving behind a half-dozen singles ranking among the most collectible British '60s rock artifacts ever.
$16.99 EAN: 8592735003880 ROCK
01. Killer Ben
02. Jagged Time Lapse
03. Smashed! Blocked!
04. You're a Nothing
05. Not the Sort of Girl
06. Cold on Me
07. Leave Me Alone
08. Let Me Know
09. Just What You Want - Just What You Get
10. Why Do You Lie
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LEJEUNE, JACQUES: Parages and Other Electroacoustic Works 1971-1985 3CD BOX (ROBOT 042CD)
2013 release. This three-CD retrospective includes six compositions by French composer Jacques Lejeune (born 1940), totaling near three-and-a-half hours of music. Presented chronologically, these works for tape represent a stunning array of themes, images, and destinations covering the years 1971-1985. Throughout Lejeune's compositional development, dreams, reflections on the written fable, and mythological thinking all reappear. Originally released on LP by INA-GRM, both Parages and Symphonie au bord d'un paysage have been remastered and have never before been available on CD. Parages (1973) is a work exploring distances (or vicinities), cycles, and the transparency of the sky. A deep undercurrent of perpetual movement and altitude -- flight and fall -- is ever-present in the piece, encompassing a procession of auditory colors, places, and events. These elements multiply, uniting beyond their individual musical processes, further immersing the listener within an increasing auditory field. Symphonie au bord d'un paysage (1981) is a composition concerned with motion, panoramas, and geographical relationships -- all as if being at the edge of a vast chasm. Also included is Lejeune's masterwork, Blanche-Neige (1975). This has been regarded as one of the most peculiar and elusive recordings in the whole GRM-related canon. This early LP, also known as Fantasmes, was originally recorded for a theater/ballet production of the same name. Loosely based on the text by the Brothers Grimm, with its narrative symbolism and tale of the deep forest, Blanche-Neige is one of the finest compositions of cinéma pour l'oreille (cinema for the ear) for tape and electronics from the period. Cri (1971) is the earliest piece featured in the set, with an emphasis on the very nature of vocal expression. Integrating mixed landscapes and a spacious use of cyclical elements, this work offers a fantastic prelude to Lejeune's evolution as a composer. Additionally featured are Entre terre et ciel (1979) and Les palpitations de la forêt (1985). These two works are concerned with the natural world, labyrinths, clusters, and intermingled morphologies of the Earth. This box set includes a 28-page bilingual booklet (in English and French) with detailed program notes, as well as a 32-page booklet of interpretive stanzas surrounding these bizarre and evocative works. Meticulously translated and collected for the first time in print, these writings offer a rare insight into Lejeune's creative process. Parages and Other Electroacoustic Works 1971-1985 is an essential overview of one of the seminal figures in musique concrète.
$22.39 UPC: 884501218177 ELECTRONIC
CD 1:
Cri:
01. Mixed Landscapes (8:08)
02. Scattered Calls (6:49)
03. Bursts (5:14)
04. The Earth Is Telling the Dead What the Living Are Saying (9:20)
Parages:
05. Study of Matter, Space, and Rhythm (13:53)
06. The Icarus Cycle (A. Labyrinth, B. Flight, C. Fall, D. Abysses) (11:19)
07. Traces and Reminiscences (21:15)
CD 2:
Blanche-Neige:
01. Once Upon a Time (1:42)
02. Birth of Snow White (1:59)
03. Lament of the Mother of Snow White (3:29)
04. Entrance and Dance of the New Queen (3:32)
05. Snow White's Daydream (2:11)
06. Dance of the Mirror (2:07)
07. The Hunter's Race Dragging Snow White (5:23)
08. Solitude of Snow White in the Nocturnal Forest (4:30)
09. Dance of the Dwarves in Front of Sleeping Snow White (4:08)
10. Apparition of the Disguised Queen (1:27)
11. Funeral Procession of the Dwarves (3:25)
12. Arrival of the Prince and Rebirth of Snow White (3:07)
13. March of the Queen Towards Her Punishment (1:49)
14. Final Gallop at the Court of the Prince (3:11)
Entre Terre Et Ciel:
15. [Untitled] (22:23)
CD 3:
Symphonie Au Bord D'un Paysage:
01. Large (12:06)
02. March (3:15)
03. Rushed (7:36)
04. Animated (8:48)
05. Perpetual (Linked to 'Animated') (8:02)
Les Palpitations De La Forêt:
06. Quivers - Palpitations (11:09)
07. Character - Landscape (5:33)
08. Raw Light - Warm Light (10:03)
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LEJEUNE, JACQUES: Early Works 1969-1970 LP (ROBOT 043LP)
This LP of early compositions by Jacques Lejeune features three seminal works: D'une Multitude En Fête and Petite Suite, originally released in the Perspective Musicales series in 1970, and a previously unpublished composition, Géodes, from the same period. These three pieces (not included in Robot's 2013 Parages and Other Electroacoustic Works 1971-1985 three-CD set (ROBOT 042CD)) are some of Lejeune's earliest music for tape and may be considered a "prequel" to his later, more thematic works. Still, his concise musical narrative is ever-present in these first recordings. The side-long D'une Multitude En Fête (1969) refers to multitude, number, celebration, and any crowd situation as a form of ceremony -- all evoking a circular gaze, as topics of the different aural events and their anecdotal development emerge, leading to the dream, as a story we tell to ourselves. Géodes (1970) features percussion improvisations by Lauréat Dionne with Lejeune's tape work inflecting prisms deep into its thundering, rhythmic core. This concert version appears on vinyl for the first time. Concluding the album is Petite Suite (1970), with each section referencing a traditional musical form using both anecdotal as well as instrumental flourishes. The original drum and guitar elements are performed here by Michel Foudrinoy and Jean-Pierre Vassout. These pieces have been compared to Pierre Henry's bold rock themes in Messe Pour Le Temps Présent and also recall the peculiar atmospheres of some of the great early Nurse with Wound records that would follow. In contrast, Lejeune's early approach was heavily steeped in sonic narratives, combining unusual and ambiguous events to create a sound world uniquely his own. Early Works 1969-1970 explores the first precision splices by one of the true visionaries of musique concrète.
$18.99 UPC: 769791901216 ELECTRONIC
A1. D'une Multitude En Fête
B1. Géodes
B2. Petite Suite
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STAPLETON & CHRISTOPH HEEMANN, STEVEN: Painting with Priests LP (ROBOT 044LP)
Robot Records, in association with Yessmissolga and Elica Editions, presents the vinyl release of the long-fabled duo collaboration by Steven Stapleton and Christoph Heemann. This historic live performance took place on November 21, 2009, at the ancient Ivrea Synagogue in Ivrea, Italy. After working together for many years on various Current 93, Nurse with Wound, and H.N.A.S. sessions, these two old friends met for a rare moment of performance completely independent of thematic material and engaged in a near-telepathic, mysterious one-to-one improvisation, where textural worlds merge, hot, on the spot. While one may discover an intriguing intersection between each of their respective solo works, the real magic of this duo encounter evokes something strangely unfamiliar and altogether new. With this generous edit of the highly acclaimed concert, Painting with Priests exhibits a rare session of both artists' eccentric talents in a palette of colors and mystery across a highly detailed musical canvas. Front cover features new artwork by Stapleton, with back cover featuring a previously unpublished drawing by Heemann. (The CD version released by Yesmissolga (YMO 004CD) features a totally different Stapleton front cover and alternate mix.)
$18.99 UPC: 769791901117 ROCK
A1. Painting with Priests Pt. 1
B1. Painting with Priests Pt. 2
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MCLEAN, DON: Live... The Bottom Live April '74 CD (RV 2014CD)
The October 1971 release of American Pie catapulted Don McLean to stardom, and the ensuing three years saw him touring internationally and recording further albums while coming to terms with his huge success. This superb live set was broadcast on WNYU-FM from New York's legendary Bottom Line club in April 1974, and contains several of his best-known songs. The complete broadcast is presented here in digitally remastered sound complete with background notes and images.
$11.99 EAN: 5292317201422 ROCK
01. Cowboy Hero
02. Lovesick Blues
03. Winter Song
04. Where Were You Baby When My Heart Went Out
05. Now That You're Around Me
06. On the Amazon
07. American Pie
08. Hey Hey Hey
09. Sally Anne
10. By the Waters of Babylon
11. David David
12. Frightened Atmosphere
13. Spinnin' Top
14. Andrew McRue
15. Vincent
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16. This Land Is Your Land
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CHARLES, RAY: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music LP (RUM 2011102LP)
1962's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is regarded by many as Ray Charles's finest studio album. A departure from his earlier work for ABC and Atlantic, this LP features Charles's reworkings of country standards in his inimitable pop-R&B style. In addition to being a damn fine album, it was also a landmark release as it bridged the racial divide between country music and R&B and marked one of the earliest albums on which a black artist had complete control over his own recordings. A truly monumental piece of 20th-century American music history, one that is essential to any collector of R&B or country!
$14.39 UPC: 889397104672 ROCK
A1. Bye Bye, Love
A2. You Don't Know Me
A3. Half as Much
A4. I Love You So Much It Hurts
A5. Just A Little Lovin'
A6. Born to Lose
B1. Worried Mind
B2. It Makes No Difference Now
B3. You Win Again
B4. Careless Love
B5. I Can't Stop Loving You
B6. Hey, Good Lookin'
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VENTURES, THE: Walk Don't Run LP (RUM 2011103LP)
Tacoma, Washington's The Ventures went from an unknown instrumental hot rod/surf rock group to million-selling superstars practically overnight with the success of their very first single, "Walk Don't Run," a rock cover of a Chet Atkins track. With the 1960 release of the first 45 came huge success, national tours, and the recording of their classic debut LP, titled Walk Don't Run after that legendary first piece of wax. The album is a blazing set of instrumental surf rock and hot rod jams and required listening for any fan of '60s surf and garage. Yet another amazing band from the Pacific Northwest -- there truly was something in the water over there. Includes four bonus tracks.
$14.39 UPC: 889397104689 ROCK
01. Morgen
02. Raunchy
03. Home
04. My Own True Love (Tara's Theme)
05. The Switch
06. Walk, Don't Run
07. Night Train
08. No Tresspassing
09. Caravan
10. Sleep Walk
11. The McCoy
12. Honky Tonk
13. Rawhide*
14. Ginchy*
15. Yellow Jacket*
16. Orange Fire*
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UNKNOWN: Shimmy Sham Sham 009 12" (SHIMMY 009EP)
Shimmy Sham Sham returns with an urgent need to throw everything to the floor and make out with the music. There's a distinct sense that the unnamed vigilante behind this deviant dispatch of disco-fied diatribes likes nothing better than to burrow deep into the ground, unearthing every honey-coated bass lick and simmering drum hook you craved but were afraid to ask for. Leave it to the Shimmy Sham Sham and its occult-enhanced band of beatsmiths to guide you toward the most righteous kind of party, and you too shall be spiritually sanctified. Let those sweaty numbers melt down any worries.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Track A
B1. Track B1
B2. Track B2
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DISAPPEARS: Low: Live in Chicago LP (SCR 095LP)
Chicago four-piece Disappears cover David Bowie's 1977 classic Low in its entirety live in their hometown. It's the perfect balance between a tribute and a work that furthers the experimental nature of the original. The band ran through the album twice on November 22, 2014, as part of a concert series titled Bowie Changes, which featured several Chicago-based musicians reinterpreting the Bowie catalog to mark the opening of the David Bowie Is exhibition at the city's Museum of Contemporary Art. "Naturally we chose the hardest one," jokes guitarist and singer Brian Case. They succeed by being faithful to the original, while turning it into something that sounds very much like a Disappears album. The seven songs on the first side are buzzing and muscular, injected with steroids by the ferocious rhythm section of Noah Leger (drums) and Damon Carruesco (bass). However, it is the more avant-garde songs on the B-side that are the revelation. Stripped of Eno's EMS Synthi AKS and Minimoogs, "Warszawa" becomes an intense battleground between Case and Jonathan van Herik's treated guitars; "Subterraneans" swaps saxophones for Rother-esque kosmische curlicues; and "Weeping Wall" builds to an appropriate and fearsome (Berlin) wall of noise. Mastered by Sonic Boom. Limited-edition orange vinyl in see-through PVC sleeve with fold-out insert. Includes download code.
$19.79 EAN: 5024545734010 ROCK
A1. Speed of Life
A2. Breaking Glass
A3. What in the World
A4. Sound and Vision
A5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
A6. Be My Wife
A7. A New Career in a New Town
B1. Warszawa
B2. Art Decade
B3. Weeping Wall
B4. Subterraneans
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PIERS, CHRISTIAN: Sambos Sub 12" (STEP 007EP)
Spell "PETS" backward to get "STEP." Spell "STEP" forward to find PETS going back to basics. STEP is the vinyl-only label from the founders of PETS, Catz 'n Dogz, that highlights the rawest forms and root functions of quality club music. STEP finds the fundamental groove with under-the-radar house and techno that is isn't afraid to be rough around the edges. STEP is limited promo and all about the music.
$9.79 UPC: 827170612860 ELECTRONIC
A1. Sambos Sub
A2. Texture
B1. Step Into the Light Until We Meet Again
B2. You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You
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CABARET CONTEMPORAIN: Moondog CD (SR 404CD)
French band Cabaret Contemporain pay tribute to the composer Moondog -- New York's Viking -- with singing by two Scandinavian sirens, Swedish singers Linda Oláh and Isabel Sörling. The seven musicians focus on Moondog in particular in an effort to offer the public a new way to appreciate this too little-known music. Cabaret Contemporain is a Paris-based quintet who play electro music with prepared acoustic instruments (piano, electric guitar, drums, two double bassses). The band began playing in 2012, blending electronic music and classical (John Cage Project with Étienne Jaumet, Terry Riley revisited with Château Flight, The Man-Machine with Oláh), and has performed live around the world. Linda Oláh and Isabel Sörling: voice; Fabrizio Rat: piano; Giani Caserotto: guitar; Ronan Courty: double bass; Simon Drappier: double bass; Julien Loutelier: drums.
$10.99 EAN: 5411867114048 JAZZ
01. My Tiny Butterfly
02. I Love You
03. Do Your Thing
04. I'm Just a Hop Head
05. Why Spend the Dark Night with You
06. Maybe
07. Paris
08. Trees Against the Sky
09. Enough About Human Rights
10. All Is Loneliness
11. High on a Rocky Ledge
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CABARET CONTEMPORAIN: Moondog LP (SR 404LP)
LP version.
$10.99 EAN: 5411867334040 JAZZ
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H, NATAN: Erklingen EP 12" (TA 002EP)
After the launch of the Taped Artifact label in 2015 with label co-founder Kevin Arnemann's Lumière EP (TA 001EP), Los Angeles resident Natan H serves up four tracks of emotive dub-influenced house and techno excursions, showcasing his inimitable musical qualities.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Erklingen Dub
A2. Te Aro
B1. Submission
B2. Orthogonal
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AXH: Numbskull 12" (TEMPA 103EP)
US producer Andrew Howard aka AxH follows his lauded 2014 Tempa debut, Destroy, and releases on Elk Beats and Dubs Alive, with Numbskull. "Numbskull" kicks things off with lively melodies tumbling over driven kicks, dramatic ride pings, and fierce, roaring bass tones before "Gem Tone" melds off-kilter tones over capacious percussion perfect for big room spaces. "Hacker," a brawny collaboration with Toronto-based Gremlinz, shoots off the blocks with mangled feedback signals and sharp, effective rimshots, while dense subs tremble beneath spectral reverberated atmospherics.
$8.99 UPC: 800071004521 ELECTRONIC
01. AxH - Numbskull
02. AxH - Gem Tone
03. AxH x Gremlinz - Hacker
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COMMUNITY RADIO: Real Transformation EP 7" (TEN 003EP)
Sydney's Community Radio follow 2014's Sick in the Car/Wildflower with the four-track Real Transformation EP. The first two tracks on this EP are propelled by grooving bass and the organ's driving hum and punctuated by delightful and restrained guitar work reminiscent at times of Richard Thompson. Ben Watt included "Real Trasnformation" in his list of favorite tracks from 2014 after the band released it digitally. "Aide de Camp" is another recording from 2014, which showcases Community Radio's prowess at combining a flowing and tight sound with a lyrical approach. The delicate and frail "Cruel Museum" whispers this EP to a soothing end.
$7.79 EAN: 8435008884468 ROCK
A1. Real Transformation
A2. Puff of Smoke
B1. Aide de Camp
B2. Cruel Museum
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TEENAGE MOODS: Select Buds 12" (TEN 051EP)
Minneapolis-based Teenage Moods honed their sweet take on punk and garage in a K Records vein over the course of two albums, , Mood Ring (2011) and Grow (2013). After some line-up changes, late 2014 saw the release of the limited Rosebuds cassette. Tenorio Cotobade now gathers five of the eight tracks on Rosebuds to bring you Select Buds, showcasing the band at their most sparkling. There's a sweet and slightly psychedelic undercurrent that brings to mind classic references such as Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett, but the delivery of these immediately grabbing songs is fantastically Teenage Moods.
$10.99 EAN: 8435008884437 ROCK
A1. Fools Wonder?
A2. Groovy Regina
A3. Light Bright
B1. Rosebuds
B2. Get It Right
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TREANOR, RIAN: A Rational Tangle 12" (RAVE 012EP)
Rian Treanor reimagines the intersection of club culture, experimental art, and computer music with A Rational Tangle, his debut quartet of glass-cut, 150-BPM hyperprisms for The Death of Rave. Galvanizing and accelerating garage and techno with cuttingly crisp tonal diction and a pointillist percussive palette, A Rational Tangle demonstrates Treanor's adroit and finely nurtured rhythmelodic instincts through a quicksilver syntax of kerned, polychromatic 2-step patterns and whip-smart, emotive jit music. Functionally titled "A1" thru "B2," the EP's four tracks vacillate between ping-pong ballistics and recursive melodic motifs constructed in Max/MSP, dancing from pendulous, aerobic minimalism to taut, synthetic tabla grooves with grid-melting nous, while also taking in gamelan-esque hypeR&B through wormholes of smeared and curdled harmonics, plus one dead lush section of Detroit-via-Yorkshire styled hi-tech funk. The production is stainlessly dry and future-proof while his arrangements are considerately efficient, yet it's all blessed with a pop or 'floor-ready turn of phrase that reveals new kinks, fills, and twysts with each return listen. Whichever angle you view it from, A Rational Tangle forms a rewarding introduction to the work of a very promising and distinct voice in electronic music. Rian Treanor (b. 1988) is an artist and producer based in the North of the UK. His practice references the dynamic cut-ups of Fluxus and Dada as much as UK dance music to present an insightful and compelling musical world of interlocking and fractured components. He has formerly studied with Lupo at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering, in addition to years spent running the Enjoy art space in Leeds. RIYL RP Boo, SND, Æ, NHK, Murlo, Gábor Lázár. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton. Housed in jackets designed and hand-screened by the artist. Limited edition of 300.
$11.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. A1
A2. A2
B1. B1
B2. B2
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DJ DEEP & ROMAN PONCENT PRESENT ADVENTICE: Exsurgence 12" (TRESOR 281EP)
Adventice, the incendiary collaboration between DJ Deep and Roman Poncet, returns to Tresor and takes the groove up quite a few notches with three different versions around a common theme. The "Main Mix" opens into hammering chords yet takes a delicate turn into an ethereal refrain. The "Reduced Mix" follows the same composition while remaining playful and cinematic, as the use of hi-hats adds a skip to your step. The "Percussive Mix" and its rapid drum patterns exude a fragrance of vocals triggering endless soundscapes.
$8.99 UPC: 666017295763 ELECTRONIC
A1. Main Mix
B1. Reduced Mix
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DIETZ & ALCI, ROBERT: TBT 002 12" (TBT 002EP)
180-gram vinyl. The second release on Robert Dietz's Truth Be Told label comes from Dietz himself and Swiss-born producer Alci. Each track features distorted drum rhythms complemented by chilling synth arrangements. Dietz's acclaimed production style paired with Alci's technique of balancing analog gear with new technology creates a delectably composed release from one of underground music's most enthralling imprints. With future releases planned to engage an artist roster of old and new, Truth Be Told's notably sincere output marks a new chapter for underground music married, joining honesty and investigation with raw strength and determination.
$9.79 EAN: 4260129253046 ELECTRONIC
A1. Robert Dietz - Tan Tropez
B1. Robert Dietz & Alci - Mortal Ham
B2. Alci - Somehow
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TABBAL, FADI: Museum of Disappearing Buildings CD (TFRK 002CD)
Fadi Tabbal, lead guitarist with Lebanese psychedelic rock band The Incompetents and various other alternative outfits, presents his second solo album, Museum of Disappearing Buildings. This album continues his sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with 2013's On the Rooftop Looking Up. While the young guitarist's first album featured a finely devised interaction of ambient soundscapes and John Fahey-inspired finger-picking acoustic meanderings, this second solo outing adopts a different approach -- it relies on an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics, which recalls somewhat the work of early krautrock vanguard artists from the 1970s, the leftfield exploration of British electro-acoustic practitioners from the mid-1970s, and the radical works of American minimalistic composers from the 1960s. As in his first outing, Tabbal preferred a radical and direct approach to composition and recording, opting for the intimacy and self-reflection of home recordings over the traditional environment of a recording studio. At the heart of the album resides one unifying concept, which finds its way into the resulting musical bed: the sketches, impossible structures, and urban configurations of Russian paper architects Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin.
$11.79 EAN: 5055869539623 ROCK
01. A Bridge
02. A Glass Tower
03. A Hill with a Hole
04. A Bridge Across the Precipice
05. Doll's House
06. Wandering Turtle in a Maze of a Big City
07. A Bridge Across the Precipice in the High Mountains
08. A Monument of the Year 2000
09. Crystal Palace
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PERTH DRUG LEGEND: Bliss & Envy: Halfers on a Fishbowl 12" (TURBO 173EP)
Perth Drug Legend (half of innovative Scottish techno duo Clouds) tears off a solo EP of rugged, apocalyptic techno. "Balquhidder Ruins" is a stomping gate-crasher with the tempo pulled back just enough to feel the grit of industrial funk. "Monzievaird" swings heavily around a few twinkling bleeps and sparse, chunky kicks that thunder through the greased hats. "Clackmannanshire Crusaderz" pushes things even further into the dark corners with overdriven, haunting resonance. "This Is Tulloch Not Tibet, Pal" adds a mystical dimension with some inexplicable mountain flute before a bell breakdown zens things into a forceful yet tranquil climax.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Balquhidder Ruins
A2. Monzievaird
B1. Clackmannanshire Crusaderz
B2. This Is Tulloch Not Tibet, Pal
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MOORI, ARASH: Heterodyne LP (TYPE 125LP)
"I'm going to do something I never do -- I'm going to write this press release in the first person. This is a very special release for Type and it's been a long time coming. I met Arash Moori when we both attended the same Art School in Birmingham in 2000. We quickly realized that we both liked music -- I think it was a shared love of To Rococo Rot or Metamatics that sparked the first conversation -- and within weeks of meeting each other we were DJing fairly regularly. We kicked off a number of nights in the city, some successful (Default, which birthed the Type label), some not (Left Handers Disco, which confounded punters who didn't understand how well Kelis mixed with SND). Arash was also kind enough to teach me some production tricks as I was putting together my first album. In 2002, Arash headed to Finland to continue his art studies, and began to experiment with electricity and light. These experiments informed the direction of Heterodyne -- I've been waiting 13 years for this record. It's the experimental Chinese Democracy, except worth the wait. Over the years, Arash pieced together a deeply personal palette of electrical sounds from strobe lights, fluorescent lights, radios, plasma balls, and electronic devices. He exploited the peculiarities of these devices to create harsher and more aggressive sounds. This gave way to a series of live performances using minimal hardware and self-built devices to structure, shape, and trigger sounds rather than resorting to samples. The computer was an editing device, not a compositional one. Heterodyne is the culmination of these experiments. The resulting tracks are far more than academic exercises: Arash has taken years of theory and woven together a spiky collection of coarse techno and disorienting drone. The raw electrical textures and rhythms he spent years collecting are framed by analogue synth pads and oscillators which add contrast and levity. It's a demanding listen, certainly, but a rewarding one. This is an album I've seen develop for longer than any other and it's a pleasure to unleash it on the world. Our own collaboration LP (touted for release on City Centre Offices in the early 00s) will never see the light of day, but Heterodyne may be one of the most personal record I've released on Type to date. Enjoy." --John Twells, October 2015. Edition of 500.
$12.99 EAN: 5060165484003 ELECTRONIC
A1. Heterodyne
A2. Flowers of Evil
A3. Parasitic Noise
A4. Nerves and Wires
A5. Illusory Systems of Broadcast
A6. Ruins
B1. Vomitorium
B2. Possession
B3. Doppelganger
B4. Plasma Arcs
B5. Heterodyne II
B6. Tantalum March
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SIERRA SAM: Remember Me 12" (UYX 005EP)
Belgium-born Sammy Goossens aka Sierra Sam presents "Remember Me," sporting percussion layers as hot as a tropical night out and well-morphed sample wizardry before positive, uplifting stab sequencing and an energy overload. Pascal Hetzel and Sierra Sam's remix is a darker affair, on the technoid side of things. Psyched-out, acid-induced synth lines meet a threatening, slightly distorted drum foundation, frizzling high-hats on overdrive, and devilish, psychotic vocal processing. Upon.You cofounder Marco Resmann's remix is a fascinating, highly energetic, yet dry and toolish take on the original track for maximum dancefloor frenzy.
$8.99 UPC: 827170539563 ELECTRONIC
A1. Remember Me (Original)
A2. Remember Me (Pascal Hetzel & Sierra Sam's System 100 Mix)
B1. Remember Me (Marco Resmann Remix)
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WHARVES, THE: NAZ/My Will 7" (UTR 078EP)
Green and gold hand-embossed disco sleeve. Limited edition of 500. Following 2014's brilliant At Bay album on Gringo Records, this 7" is released in advance of The Wharves' 2016 album Electa. A Women Make Music grant from the PRS for Music Foundation enabled the band to record with a rebel choir made up of friends and family members. Side A boasts the plaintive yet powerful track "NAZ," which soars for the sky with each vocal climb and guitar trail. "My Will" sounds practically medieval in its quietude, before leaping up like a newly lit bonfire when the rebel choir joins the fray.
$6.99 UPC: 828887007819 ROCK
A1. NAZ
B2. My Will (feat. The Rebel Choir)
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LES RALLIZES DENUDES: Live 77 2LP (V6E 400LP)
Les Rallizes Dénudés are one of the earliest and most revolutionary Japanese psychedelic rock bands, and existed off and on through four decades. The band formed in November of 1967 at Kyoto University, inspired by Exploding Plastic Inevitable-era Velvet Underground as well as the over-amplified rock of Blue Cheer and Mario Schifano's avant-garde ensemble Le Stelle. By 1968 they were gigging live and even began a regular collaboration with an avant-garde theater troupe, which ended the next year because of Les Rallizes' penchant for extreme volume. Not only did they use massive amounts of feedback at loud volumes, their stage shows used strobe lights, mirror balls, and other effects for a live experience that was a total sensory assault. This historic performance recorded in Tachikawa in 1977 is perhaps the most beloved document of the band's sound: extreme feedback and distressed guitar with detached vocals laid over languid rhythms -- unbelievable in intensity.
$22.39 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Enter the Mirror
A2. The Night of the Assassin
B1. Flame of Ice
B2. Far Away Memory
C1. The Deeper Night
C2. Who Harvest the Night
D1. The Last One
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LAGHONIA: Glue LP (MRSSS 532LP)
180-gram vinyl. In 1969, after four brilliant singles, the Peruvian band The New Juggler Sound, formed by Saúl Cornejo (guitar), David Levene (lead guitar), Ernesto Samamé (bass), Carlos Salom (organ), and Manuel Cornejo (drums), changed their name to Laghonia and released their debut LP, Glue, on the MaG label. The album included tracks from their initial singles, which were heavily influenced by the British rock scene of those years, to which they added fiery guitars bursting with fuzz and wah-wah, the ever present and hypnotic Hammond organ sound, and Latin American percussion and rhythms. The result was a wonderful mix of mid-'60s British beat melodies, Jimi Hendrix's intense rock, Cream's heavy blues, and Santana's Latin rock. Glue is regarded as one of the key albums of Latin American psych and garage rock, and is an essential record for any fan of those genres.
$17.79 EAN: 8435008875329 ROCK
A1. Neighbor
A2. The Sand Man
A3. Billy Morsa
A4. Trouble Child
B1. My Love
B2. And I Saw Her Walking
B3. Glue
B4. Bahia
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SIMBIOSI: Elements 3x12" BOX (WDNT 019LP)
Italian DJ and production duo Simbiosi present a three-part set containing 14 tracks of techno, hardcore, and abstract explorations. The set includes "xxxxxxx" and "Impari," which Actress featured in his 2015 DJ-KiCKS mix. "The whole series was recorded at night. Everything sounds better at night," say Simbiosi. The trio of 180-gram 12"s is housed in a beautiful black and white printed card mailer featuring artwork by Euan Duncan. Includes download code.
$27.59 EAN: 5054429002331 ELECTRONIC
A1. xxxxxxx
A2. Fake
B1. Zero
B2. Call Firm 2
C1. A245
C2. Lights
C3. Impari
D1. Sh
D2. Srmn909
E1. Akaname
E2. Diamond Ac
F1. Mute
F2. Sense
F3. Huldra
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ART-ERRORIST & ACID COBRA: Cold Waters CD (YMO 002CD)
2012 release. Cold Waters is the result of a very short yet intense meeting between Jean-Hervé Péron (Faust) and Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator). The duo met in the French countryside -- two days, two mics, two friends, and a dog... from hilarious to heart-striking, these "Songs from the Mill" flowed through them. Cold Waters, far from being an anecdotal side-note to their ongoing collaborative efforts in the legendary "krautrock" band Faust, reaffirms the duo's successful explorations as leading figures of avant-rock. Cold Waters combines the best of the early-'70s Faust sound with the freshness of today. This album is a mixture of joyful play, liquid psychedelia, pounding aural textures, delicate drones, and stormy meanderings that break into exalting voyages beyond the bucolic countryside in which it was recorded. Jean-Hervé Péron is one of the founders of Faust. Despite the now-historic split in the band, Faust, under Péron, continues to tour extensively, including 2012 US shows in collaboration with The CalArts Orchestra. Amaury Cambuzat founded Ulan Bator, a French experimental post-rock group whose 2000 album Ego:Echo was produced by Michael Gira (Swans). The duo have been working together since the early 2000s in Faust. Péron and Cambuzat both have side projects as Art-Errorist and Acid Cobra respectively. Presented in a full-color digipak.
$10.39 UPC: 884501806664 ROCK
01. Délivrance
02. Notes De Mon Moulin
03. Un Homme Mort Ne Vaut Pas Un Chien Vivant
04. Cold Waters
05. A Morte-Eau
06. Crushed Croissants
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ACID COBRA: Petrified Minds CD (YMO 003CD)
2012 release. Acid Cobra is Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator, Faust), who has remained a cult figure throughout a career that has included collaborations with Jaki Liebezeit (Can), Michael Gira (Swans), Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Jac Berrocal (Catalogue), Faust, Pascal Comelade, and so many other luminaries from the international music scene. Yesmissolga, Acid Cobra Records, and Lumberton Trading Company present Petrified Minds, a collection of solo works by this curious figure of the avant-garde. Fusing wiry yet strong song-craft with the faintest air of psychedelia, a dash of avant-weirdness, and fervent post-punk sensibilities, this album catches some of Cambuzat's most focused work so far. Released in a limited edition of 300 copies in a full-color digipak with original art by Acid Cobra.
$10.39 UPC: 859709004426 ROCK
01. Illyadescowboys!
02. Two Freaks
03. Dusseldorf
04. Donkeys
05. The Court of Miracles
06. Mattinata
07. Les Esprits
08. San Lorenzo
09. Space Trip
10. I Had a Dream
11. Texan Sunset
12. 101
13. Calendos Diablos
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STAPLETON & CHRISTOPH HEEMANN, STEVEN: Painting with Priests CD (YMO 004CD)
Yessmissolga presents the CD release of the long-fabled duo collaboration by Steven Stapleton and Christoph Heemann. This historic live performance took place on November 21, 2009, at the ancient Ivrea Synagogue in Ivrea, Italy. After working together for many years on various Current 93, Nurse with Wound, and H.N.A.S. sessions, these two old friends met for a rare moment of performance completely independent of thematic material and engaged in a near-telepathic, mysterious one-to-one improvisation, where textural worlds merge, hot, on the spot. While one may discover an intriguing intersection between each of their respective solo works, the real magic of this duo encounter evokes something strangely unfamiliar and altogether new. With this generous edit of the highly acclaimed concert, Painting with Priests exhibits a rare session of both artists' eccentric talents in a palette of colors and mystery across a highly detailed musical canvas. Front cover features new artwork by Stapleton, with back cover featuring a previously unpublished drawing by Heemann. Packaged in a full-color Japanese-style gatefold mini-jacket featuring a totally different Stapleton front cover and alternate mix from the LP version released on Robot Records/Elica Editions (ROBOT 044LP).
$10.99 UPC: 888295343503 ROCK
01. Painting with Priests
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FUNKADELIC: America Eats Its Young (Colored Vinyl) 2LP (4M 1791LP)
"The 4th album from George Clinton's funk/psych/rock outfit, originally released in 1972, is a double LP of epic proportions. Deep and heavy grooves propelled by the always amazing guitar, bass and keyboard work of Eddie Hazel, William 'Bootsy' Collins, and Bernie Worrell, respectively. Equally sleazy, political, heartfelt, and just plain bizarre, America Eats Its Young was, and remains, one of the few double albums of the 1970s that warranted every single minute of wax. Reissued on one opaque turquoise and one translucent purple vinyl in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket."
$21.00 UPC: 646315179118 ROCK
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REVOLUTIONARIES: Revolutionaries Sounds Vol. 2 LP (DKR 188LP)
Black Friday RSD 2015 release. "First ever reissue of this classic Channel 1 material. Housed in a two color silk screened jacket with an 18" x 24" poster of the iconic cover art. Revolutionaries Sounds Vol. 2 is the stellar 1979 follow up to the groundbreaking 1976 self-titled first volume. The Revolutionaries were the house band of Channel 1 studios, and their style defined the sound of reggae in the second half of the 1970's. The band was a who's who of the top players of the decade, featuring the core unit of Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Ranchie McLean and Rad Bryan. Augmented by a revolving cast of the top hornsmen, keyboard/organ players and percussionists, The Revolutionaries not only backed the in-house production output of their 'home base' studio of Channel 1, but countless other productions done by producers renting the studio. The 1976 first volume released in Jamaica was an instrumental affair, with the iconic Che Guevara image by Ras Daniel Heartman on the cover complimenting the militant sounds contained on the album. For this 1979 follow-up originally released in the UK, Che again adorns the album, with the tracks being a mixture of classic instrumentals recorded at various points in the few preceding years, and then previously unreleased dubs to some of the studio's hardest original rhythms, such as Alton Ellis' 'Tell Me' and the Enforcer's 'Ride on Marcus.' Previous to this album, some of these tracks had been coveted dubplates on the sound system scene of the day. Reissued for the first time ever, this is a fantastic touchstone for fans of '70s roots reggae, and with a terrific selection of tunes that should satisfy the hardcore roots fans, serious dub heads and across-the-board reggae fans just the same."
$16.50 UPC: 717273018815 WORLD
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PERILS: Perils LP (PATHWAY 010LP)
"Mutual admirers of each other's work, Thomas Meluch (Benoît Pioulard) and Kyle Dunn (Kyle Bobby Dunn) present a collaborative recording that ruminates on painful realities, disappointments and transitioning to new homes, in the hopes of finding a coping mechanism to bring them through to the other side. Perils began auspiciously in 2012 at transitional points in these artists' lives. Dunn was living in Belleville, Ontario, trying to complete Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay) and coming to grips with the fact that this great endeavor was at its end. Given the enormity of the album and the emotionally and physically exhausting process of recording it, Dunn found himself drained with unforeseen questions and confusions. He immersed himself into this newfound nocturnal work, finding a path in the midst of wondering. Meluch, meanwhile, was uprooting from the UK and relocating to Seattle during the recording process of Perils. Nearly drowning under the anxieties of living on uncertain ground, he channeled these emotions into musical escapades. Meluch recorded in his spare moments, sending sonic puzzle pieces one by one to Dunn, who would in turn explore the musical sentiments Meluch had shared, adding his own billowing sounds to the seething mix. The ten pieces created for this release are culled from a poutine and whisky-fueled trudge through the dark corridors of an as-yet undiscovered or possibly imaginary mystic temple. Commencing with the shimmering guitar and tape loops of 'Colours Hide My Face,' the album crawls out of the grooves with a slow-churning turmoil, coaxing the listener to embark along its path. The dirge-like guitar clang and vocals of '(Dead in the) Creekbed Blues' could be an 18th Century blues standard emitted from a buried radio. On Perils, Meluch and Dunn lock arms and together chart the upheaval in their lives to bridge the liminal gulf between the once-was and the soon-to-be."
$15.00 UPC: 600197661017 ELECTRONIC
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SCHOOLLY D: P.S.K. What Does It Mean?/Gucci Time 12" (GET 51314EP)
Black Friday RSD 2015 release. "30 years ago, a booming sound was heard rumbling out of Philadelphia, PA. Starting with a trebled-out but thunderous TR-909 drum pattern and galloping forward with little more than a young man's nasal, arrogant flow, that blast was Schoolly-D's 'P.S.K. What Does It Mean'? Released on his own Schoolly-D Records label in 1985, the song was -- and still is -- too powerful and unique to ignore. It took the rap world by storm that year, presenting a counterpoint to Melle Mel's more socially-conscious 'The Message'; literally inventing 'Gangsta Rap.' Schoolly was a musician, drum-programming wizard and force of nature, and he would go on to shock the world with his in-your-face approach to making music -- as bombastic lyrically as he was musically. He simply gave no f*cks, and listeners were drawn into his street-influenced vortex of 'b-boy rhyme and riddle.' As noted in the liner notes to this special release: 'The demand [for "P.S.K."] was so large that nationwide bootlegging was a major distribution avenue, albeit an unpaid one. "Those bootleggers made me big because, when it came down to it, I didn't have the money to get the records out there," Schoolly says. "The person who helped me figure that sh*t out was Luke [Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew and Luke Skyywalker Records]. He took me all over Miami and showed me all the different bootlegged versions of my own records. It was crazy."' On the flipside of 'P.S.K.,' Schoolly gave the world another classic: 'Gucci Time.' Flexing brutal brag muscles, it was another gangsta masterpiece, furthering his legend and bringing even more 909 boom to the still expanding rap world. The opening lines are still quoted by scholars of the game today: 'Lookin' at my Gucci / It's about that time.' Get On Down presents this classic for the first time in deluxe form, which is also fully Schoolly-approved: a custom 12-inch sleeve adorned with Schoolly-D's famed artwork; unique split clear & yellow vinyl; a liner notes insert featuring Schoolly's own look back on the year 1985 as told to author Brian Coleman; and a unique sticker sheet with 8 images taken from the artwork on this 12-inch cover (which was first seen on his early 12-inches, as well as his 1985 Schoolly-D EP and 1986's Saturday Night: The Album)."
$13.00 UPC: 664425131413 HIPHOP
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RUN-DMC: The Singles Collection 5x7" BOX (GET 56037-7)
Black Friday RSD 2015 release. "In a musical world where heated debates rage constantly, here is a statement that no one can dispute -- Run-DMC is one of the most important and influential groups in rap history. Forming in the early '80s and guided by Russell Simmons (who was, of course, Run's brother), the three-man unit were lyrical and musical pioneers from their first, Larry Smith-helmed foray: 1983's 'It's Like That,' with the world-shaking b-side, 'Sucker M.C.'s.' With a string of gold and platinum albums that started with Run-DMC in 1984 and ran through 1988's Tougher Than Leather, the trio changed the course of music (and videos, and youth culture, and more) and ruled the genre outright, boasting sales numbers that were neck-and-neck with manufactured pop stars of the day. Part of their charm was their every-man appeal -- they didn't dress like rock stars, and they didn't act like them either. They just made amazing music. Get On Down, who celebrated 2014's Black Friday Record Store Day with their reissue of Run-DMC's Christmas In Hollis, follows it up for 2015 with the deluxe 45 RPM vinyl Singles Collection box, which celebrates the group's glory days with a curated assortment of five smash singles that brought the group from New York to Tokyo, London to Sydney, and just about every corner of the Earth. With lovingly re-created 7-inch sleeves (taken from original 45s and 12-inches), the set is housed in a sturdy outer box with the group's name proudly overlaid across a map of their hometown: Hollis, Queens."
$36.00 UPC: 664425603712 HIPHOP
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VIGROUX & MATTHEW BOURNE, FRANCK: Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited CD/BK (BAY 102CD)
"'For me, there is a great nostalgia and melancholy about this album,' says Franck Vigroux, the composer and sound artist who, along with Perrier Jazz award-winning pianist and composer Matthew Bourne and installation artist Antoine Schmitt, is responsible for the Radioland project. Earlier in 2015, they re-imagined Kraftwerk's 1975 masterpiece Radio-Activity live on the 40th anniversary of its release, using a formidable barrage of analog equipment and live visual imagery. Vigroux and Bourne briefly considered faithfully replicating the original Radio-Activity, whose structural perfection feels hard to improve upon, before almost instantly dismissing the idea. 'I thought, no, we don't want to do it like this,' says Vigroux. 'Why do this? So in the end, we kept the melodies, we kept the main element but then treated it in more of a jazz way.' Jazz is apt. In the end, there are parallels between the way Radioland uses Kraftwerk's original as a jumping off point musically and the journey John Coltrane undertakes on his version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic showtune 'My Favorite Things.' While the melodies and rhythms of the original album are briefly referenced, this is not so much a cover version as a discovery version, a launchpad for analog and digital exploits that is far truer to the spirit of Kraftwerk than mere duplication. After all, it was Kraftwerk who constructed the grid from which myriad adventures in electronic music -- from techno to IDM, house to EDM -- have proceeded. This album is an homage to their vast influence. And so, Radioland weaves its own highly individual mesh of electronics, including blizzards of analog, antique futurist percussive patterns, rewired melodies, processed versions of sounds recently discovered in space by NASA, short- and longwave radio samples, hurricanes of modulated electronics, vocoders ebbing and throbbing; it's like the detritus of 40 years of electropop all colliding at once."
$13.50 UPC: 843190010226 ELECTRONIC
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VIGROUX & MATTHEW BOURNE, FRANCK: Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited LP+CD (BAY 102LP)
Deluxe gatefold LP version. Includes CD. Limited to 1000 copies.
$17.50 UPC: 843190010219 ELECTRONIC
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COMET IS COMING, THE: Prophecy 12" (DOCK 061EP)
"The Comet Is Coming's freak-out space funk is a musical metaphor for society as it speeds toward meltdown. For it has been written. In 1682 and 1757. In 1997 and 2020 and 2148. Just like Halley's Comet and Hale-Bopp before them, this trio is here to blaze a trail across the firmament like a fireball on an unalterable collision course, smash through the atmosphere and rocket off into unknown territories on a one-way ticket to the center of the mind's third eye. This is no doom-trip, though; it's last-night-of-the-earth party time. Five tracks of freewheeling psychedelia and honking jazz-punk mayhem is the soundtrack. Strap in and lift off to the dizzying 'Neon Baby.' Slip down the helter skelter wormhole of 'Star Exploding in Slow Motion' and come down to the dark ambient state-of-the-universe address that is 'Final Days of the Apocalypse.' But most importantly: hit the floor and shake it like there's no tomorrow."
$13.50 UPC: 843190056163 ROCK
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HEADS, THE: Time in Space 2LP (ROOSTER 022LP)
"Originally pressed in a limited edition for sale at Liverpool Psych Fest, The Heads' Time in Space compiles twentytwo tracks from their highly collectable tour CDR series. Cut by Shawn Joseph and showcasing Sam Giles artwork, this collection of studio outtakes, rehearsal sessions and live tracks is the ticket to some serious cosmic adventures. This one-time pressing of 600 copies comes on translucent vinyl with orange and blue splatters."
$18.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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HARRY PUSSY: Harry Pussy LP (SV 087LP)
"Harry Pussy emerged out of the Florida swamps in 1993. Formed by Adris Hoyos and Bill Orcutt, the duo became legendary for their volatile live shows, which often devolved into violent clashes with audience members. Obliterating the lines between hardcore, noise and free jazz, the unclassifiable Harry Pussy were at once all of these things and none of them. Originally released on Siltbreeze, their self-titled debut album reveals an antagonistic and visceral approach to music: Hoyos' self-taught, wild-style drums and shrouded screams tangling with Orcutt's high-tension blues guitar. As David Keenan writes in the liner notes, 'Harry Pussy played at such a heightened speed-of-thought climactic future- primitive peak that they outstripped technique so completely that people thought they couldn't actually play at all.' From the opening blasts of 'Youth Problem' to the spasmodic, electro-convulsive take on Kraftwerk's 'Showroom Dummies,' Harry Pussy is an absurd and devastating statement. Twenty-plus years later, rock 'n' roll's collective ears are still ringing. This long out-of-print vinyl release is recommended for fans of The Dead C, Royal Trux and Mars."
$13.50 UPC: 857176003492 ROCK
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SCIENTIST: Introducing Scientist - The Best Dub Album in the World LP (SV 093LP)
"Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for nearly 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby's studio in Kingston. Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby's throne, producing imaginative and technically impressive mixes that solidified his forward-looking nickname. Introducing Scientist - The Best Dub Album in the World, his 1980 debut LP, lives up to its boastful title. Recorded with Sly & Robbie at Channel One Studio and mixed at King Tubby's, the album features hypnotic basslines, reverb- drenched keyboards, and fluid, start-stop rhythms. Opening track 'Steppers,' with its well-balanced phrasing and organic contours, shows Scientist's mastery of the studio- as-instrument concept. On 'Scientific,' the effectsladen guitars are stretched to their outer limit to create magnificent, spaced-out textures and muted tension. Introducing Scientist displays the talents of a man obsessed with every element of production, drawing out the very best of the dub form."
$15.00 UPC: 857176003690 WORLD
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MCDOWELL, FRED: Amazing Grace (Colored Vinyl) LP (SP 10151LP)
"One of the truly legendary releases in the cannon of the man who defined modern Hill Country Blues, Amazing Grace finds Fred McDowell playing with the Hunter's Chapel Singers in Hunter's Chapel of Como Mississippi. This 1966 release originally on Testament was one of the few records producer Jim Dickinson took with him to every recording session to make sure there was always some real shit present. The recordings also features Fred's wife Annie Mae. McDowell and company perform what the record subtitle calls 'Mississippi Delta spirituals' on this stark and moving set, which includes a version of one of his signature tunes, 'You Got to Move.' Limited edition of 500 on gold vinyl."
$17.00 UPC: 725543101518 ROCK
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BURNSIDE, R.L.: Sound Machine Groove (Colored Vinyl) LP (SP 10171LP)
"Recorded by folklorist David Evans in 1979 and 1980, these are Burnside's first recordings with electric guitar and also his first with a band. That band was the Sound Machine, a band he literally created himself out of members of his own family, blending raw Mississippi blues with soul, funk, R&B, contemporary beats and other urban flavors to make a marvelous amalgam of his own. Especially notable is a version of 'Sitting on Top of the World' with Burnside on slide guitar that, with Jackson's help, neatly evokes the sound and feel of a fife and drum band. Although Burnside became the darling of the blues crowd and hailed as something of an overnight success, one listen to this disc tells you he was already forging a new chapter in the Mississippi blues tradition with these recordings. Limited edition of 500 on blue vinyl."
$17.00 UPC: 725543101716 ROCK
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PHARCYDE, THE: Running 7" (BIC 105EP)
Black Friday RSD 2015 release. "Before J Dilla was Dilla - he was Jay Dee. One of the first things he did upon hitting LA in the mid-90s was serve as the producer of The Pharcyde's sophomore effort, Labcabincalifornia. His work on this seminal project lead to a string of (often uncredited) work on singles and remixes for Janet Jackson, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest and many others. Drop the needle on his first Pharcyde production 'Runnin' and you have the launch point of a producer's career that mesmerized, titillated and expanded the domes of music fans for decades to come. This stand out selection from Labcabincalifornia is presented for Black Friday Record Store Day with the non-album B-Side 'Emerald Butterfly.' In a nod to the original blue vinyl 45 issued in 1995, the vinyl is in a blue and clear split pressing housed in a full color jacket that's a reproduction of the original pressing."
$8.25 UPC: 829357610577 HIPHOP
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POPOL VUH: Nosferatu the Vampyre 2LP (WAXWORK 012LP)
"Waxwork Records proudly presents the deluxe vinyl soundtrack reissue of Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre. The album, composed by German prog legends Popol Vuh, comes from Waxwork as a deluxe, expanded double LP including four extra tracks from the film, and originally released on the Popol Vuh album, Bruder des Schattens - Sohne des Lichts. Waxwork has worked directly with the family of late Popol Vuh founder, Florian Fricke, to faithfully restore and remaster the soundtrack for vinyl. Incredibly detailed new album artwork has been commissioned from Jessica Seamans of Landland, and is the first officially-approved Nosferatu the Vampyre soundtrack artwork since the original 1978 soundtrack release. In addition to liner notes by artist Jessica Seamans, the LP package also includes an art print of the front cover artwork."
$31.50 UPC: 728028399813 ROCK
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