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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE
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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 10/03/2016
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 10/03/2016
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
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SUBS, THE: A Decade Of Dance CD (541 541568CD)
The Subs celebrate their tenth anniversary with A Decade of Dance. 2016 marks the tenth anniversary of The Subs: Ten years of partying, touring, making friends but most of all, ten years of making music. Since 2006, The Subs have become a household name in the Belgian (electronic) music scene. They've released three full albums to date, wrote numerous high-rotation-radio-hits and performed at the best venues & festivals Belgium has to offer: Pukkelpop, Rock Werchter, Tomorrowland, I Love Techno. The Subs have performed live in the Netherlands, France, UK, Italy, China, Japan, Australia and so on. It's been an amazing journey so far and The Subs have no intention of slowing down, but while they gear up for the future, this tenth anniversary is also the perfect moment to look back at their heritage with A Decade of Dance, a best-of-album containing 18 previously released tracks and one new single. Tracks feature: Colonel Abrams, Friends In Paris, Etienne De Crécy, Jean-Pierre Castaldi and Party Harders.
$9.79 EAN: 5414165078135 ELECTRONIC
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KAMACH & BAKSEY CHAM KRONG, MOL: Ne Penser Qu'A Toi 7" (AKU 7001EP)
Between surf music and ballad, this record rediscovers the effervescent Khmer musical scene of the 1960s. In 1959, in the midst of artistic turmoil, Mol Kamach and his brothers created a band: the Baksey Cham Krong. Kagnol got his guitar inspiration from the Ventures and the Shadows while Kamach admired the vocal techniques of crooners such as Paul Anka, singing in either French or Khmer. In 1975, Khmer Rouge stopped musical development. This reissue brings back the Cambodian musical scene of the 1960s.
$10.99 UPC: 742832732895 WORLD
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KAMACH & BAKSEY CHAM KRONG, MOL: Je Te Quitterai 7" (AKU 7002EP)
Between surf music and ballad, this record rediscovers the effervescent Khmer musical scene of the 1960s. In 1959, in the midst of artistic turmoil, Mol Kamach and his brothers created a band: the Baksey Cham Krong. Kagnol got his guitar inspiration from the Ventures and the Shadows while Kamach admired the vocal techniques of crooners such as Paul Anka, singing in either French or Khmer. In 1975, Khmer Rouge stopped musical development. This reissue brings back the Cambodian musical scene of the 1960s.
$10.99 UPC: 742832732901 WORLD
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ALIEN ENSEMBLE: Alien Ensemble 2 CD (N 051CD)
Alien Ensemble present their second album, Alien Ensemble 2. Micha Acher, who plays tuba in the band Millipede and is also a member of The Notwist, formed Alien Ensemble in 2010 as a passion project. He wanted to have a personal outlet that allowed him to focus on his two greatest passions: playing trumpet and coming up with intricate, instrumental arrangements. The Ensemble's self-titled debut album was released via Alien Transistor (N 040CD/LP, 2014), the label Micha's been running with his brother Markus since 2003. Arriving in a similar vein as its predecessor, everything from jazz to kraut, from ambient to soundtrack-type music, from new music to pop is present. Playing more and more shows has, over time, turned "this project into a proper band" as Acher explains: "At this point, each of us has really found his place in the dynamic of the group - also in terms of how we write and compose." A case in point being the new track "Skeleton Dance" which was written by Andi Haberl, drummer of The Notwist. The track has a beat that can only be described as stoical, a banjo that settles on one chord and stays there all the way till the end, topped off by amazing melodies that shape shift and interlock just beautifully. "Gedanken" written by trombone player Matthias Goetz, who also plays in the band Millipede, is the Ensemble's definition of pop: a slow-moving lower end, contributed by Haberl (drums) and Matthias Pichler (bass), that has an almost hip-hop feel to it. Given the certain cool, seasoned and nonchalant attitude, there's nothing cold or dispassionate about these recordings. Instead, the new material's emotional depth is already present in album opener "Arc Trilogy". What starts out as an almost classic "cool jazz" song, suddenly disintegrates and makes way for the only solo part on 2: Double bass player Matthias Pichler uses a bow and takes it into unexpected new music territory. The Notwist's Karl-Ivar Refseth (vibraphone) manages to steer the track towards a more ambient-sounding sphere. The shape-shifting harmonies and arrangements presented by Alien Ensemble on this album are never predictable. The Ensemble keeps breaking new ground, creating one set of colorful hues after the next. It's an album that's stunningly compact and coherent. Says Micha Acher: "Well, we recorded it in just one day. Things were really relaxed and easy."
$10.99 UPC: 880918224749 ROCK
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BITORI: Legend Of Funana: The Forbidden Music Of The Cape Verde Islands LP (AALP 081LP)
LP version. In 1997, an unassuming 59-year-old man named Victor Tavares -- better known since the late 1950s as Bitori -- walked into a studio for the very first time to record a work that many Cabo Verdeans consider to be the best funaná album ever made. Analog Africa's Legend Of Funaná marks the first time that these recordings, originally issued as Bitori Nha Bibinha & Chando Graciosa in 1998, have been available outside of Cape Verde, bringing Bitori's beloved accordion-based sound to the world. In 1954, Bitori embarked on a journey across the seas to the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe with the hopes of returning with an accordion. Following two years of hard labor, Bitori had saved enough money to acquire what was to become his most valued possession. The two-month journey back to Cape Verde provided time enough for him to master the instrument. Self-taught, Bitori developed his own style, an infectious blaze that quickly caught the attention of the older generation. Before long Bitori was asked to perform at local festivities around Praia, the capital of Cape Verde. But not everybody welcomed the rural accordion-based sound of the funaná. Perceived as a symbol of the struggle for Cabo Verdean independence and frowned upon as music of uneducated peasants, the funaná was prohibited by Portuguese colonial rulers. Performing it in public or in urban centers had serious consequences -- often jail time and torture. As a result, the funaná began to slowly disappear. In 1975, Cape Verde achieved independence from Portuguese colonial rule, and the ban on the funaná was lifted. Many artists embraced the funaná, translating and adapting its musical form in new ways. It was not until the mid-1990s, however, that the funaná in its traditional form was actually recorded. A young singer from the Cabo Verdean town of Tarrafal, Chando Graciosa, heard Bitori and immediately felt drawn to his playing style -- a raw, passionate sound accompanied by honest lyrics that reflected the harsh reality of the Cabo Verdean working class. He approached Bitori suggesting they join forces and travel overseas to take the funaná beyond its rural roots. After introducing a receptive European audience to the vibrant energy of the funaná, Bitori eventually returned to his beloved Cape Verde, while Graciosa settled in Rotterdam. Graciosa vowed, however, to bring Bitori to Holland to eventually record an album. In 1997, the time was ripe to immortalize the sound Bitori had shaped over four decades. Drummer Grace Evora and bassist Danilo Tavares helped record "Bitori Nha Bibinha," which catapulted Graciosa to stardom, establishing him Cape Verde's foremost interpreter of the funaná. Bitori's songs quickly became standards -- classics known and loved throughout the country.
$13.79 EAN: 4260126061125 WORLD
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GEMINI: Imagine-a-Nation 2LP (AD 004LP)
The story of Gemini aka Spencer Kincy, one of Chicago's most mysterious and revered characters, has become something of a myth in recent years. Blazing a trail throughout the '90s, prolifically releasing over 200 tracks from 1994 to 1999, Kincy had shades of innovation and soul few of his peers could match. Then, suddenly, at the peak of his career, he disappeared. Gemini's most complete and varied album is 1997's Imagine-a-Nation, originally released on the Cajual sublabel Relief Records. You know the music -- every track is on YouTube, and expensive original pressings are available on Discogs -- but here it is in its fully remastered glory! Rumors and gossip of Kincy's whereabouts and situation have been rife in the music press, and rarely on the money. Kincy is alive and well at the time of this release, and wants his music to be heard. This album has been licensed directly from him, and the money made from its exploitation will go directly to him.
$18.99 UPC: 666017304311 ELECTRONIC
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METRONOMY: The English Riviera LP (BEC 5772894)
2016 repress. Metronomy present their third album The English Riviera. The follow up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Nights Out, The English Riviera is a sonic progression of epic proportions and affirms Metronomy front man and producer, Joseph Mount, as a rare British talent. Since Nights Out, the band have swollen to a four-piece with new members Anna Prior on drums, Gbenga Adelekan on bass, original member Oscar Cash on keys/sax, and Joe himself on vocals, keys and guitar. This expansion of personnel is reflective of a new record that is mapped by vast soundscapes, incredible depth and warmth, and big pop hooks. Part love letter to the area of Devon coast Mount grew up in and part concept album about his own semi-fictionalized vision of The English Riviera, the tone for the album is set by the opening sounds of seagulls, distant waves and a Music Hall string quartet. However, any notion of whimsy is swiftly dispelled, as the seismic bass line of "We Broke Free" shudders and ushers in waves of layered guitars and synths. Having produced and remixed everyone from Roots Manuva to Kate Nash an album from Nicola Roberts, this is the first Metronomy album that Mount has taken out of his bedroom and recorded in a proper studio. The results are telling. Characterized throughout with a sense of warmth and richness, The English Riviera is in parts reminiscent of seminal 1970s West Coast studio albums from the likes of Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles, but due to Mount's studio wizardry, the record sounds vibrant and entirely of its time. Few other albums will so successfully transcend such a plethora of influences and ideas and form such a coherent body of work.
$16.39 EAN: 5060107728943 ROCK
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EL'BLASZCZYK ROCK BAND HIMSELF: The Quirky Lost Tapes 1993-1995 CD (BORNBAD 085CD)
The cobbled music and strange pieces from the unpublished majority of The Quirky Lost Tapes 1993-1995 are as bizarre as the genesis of El'Blaszczyk Rock Band Himself. Recorded on tape, at times featuring his ten year old little sister, the irresistible charm of El'Blaszczyk's pieces reveal a delicious bawdiness that is reminiscent of the universe of Jean Yanne, Les Charlots or Boby Lapointe. This is vaguely rhythmic garage music. El'Blaszczyk explores such topics as illness, the French resistance during WWII and medicine in general - all adding to the uniqueness of it all. More than a joke, these pieces are subtle and accomplished, but something suggests that these recordings are also their first plays. In parallel to his schooling at the Beaux Arts, El'Blaszczyk was a student of Christian Eloy, the eminent composer of concrete music and head of the electroacoustic creation of class at the National Conservatory of Bordeaux. No doubt a magneto-phage animal, being a student of Eloy's and his time at the academy reinforced his electro-artisanal approach to music. This period of study and intense creativity allowed him to explore a new path to infinite perspectives, but the academic expectations were ultimately codified - productions for the "less displaced" were received with great caution. The academy allowed him access to a usually difficult to mobilize instrumentation by an amateur: Grand piano, Hammond organ, orchestral percussion, drums, synths and VCS3 Moog 55. The sound database has also served as much to his compositions of concrete and electronic music as it did to his pop productions. Individual schedules provision of the studio is often very late - nightlife in working time was perfectly suited to the more diverse sides. Most of the time, El'Blaszczyk proceeded himself to his own sound recordings. A good disciple of his elder's electro acousticians, he tracked his sounds, its unwavering Nagra shoulder.
$9.79 EAN: 3521383437407 ROCK
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DILLON: Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele (Jewel Case) CD (BPC 325CD)
Jewel case CD version. Includes 12-page poster booklet. Dillon presents Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele. Recorded at the extraordinary Berlin theater, Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Born in Brazil, raised in Cologne and based in Berlin, Dominique Dillon de Byington, aka Dillon, has always had a clear vision of her art. Her two previous albums, This Silence Kills (BPC 244CD/LP, 2011) and The Unknown (BPC 285CD/LP, 2014), told a coherent story and together carried her live shows. Her live shows demonstrate a magical interchange between the dark-melodic songs of both albums. In 2015, she developed a unique concert with a six-piece women's choir for the Berlin Foreign Affairs Festival. The choir accompanied her and Tamer Fahri Özgönenc, her collaborator and co-producer of her first two albums, in the live performance at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, held in July 2015. "I felt the need to work with vocals and to create an additional layer that breathes in this space between the electronic music and myself. I was very attracted to this idea, so Tamer and I wrote and arranged the choir parts together," Dillon explains. The choir injects a new physical layer into her music, which is dominated by piano and electronic sounds, and her own voice dances longingly in this space. The live recording of the concert reveals just how naturally this new element slots into her dramatically minimal music. "When I started writing my new album The Unknown, I already knew it would be a continuation of This Silence Kills in terms of both music and content. Now the two albums are being brought together as a release, as well as in the live shows. For me, this album could be called 'This Silence Kills The Unknown' ".
$10.39 UPC: 673790032720 ELECTRONIC
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DILLON: Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele 2LP+CD (BPC 325LP)
Double LP version. Includes CD. Dillon presents Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele. Recorded at the extraordinary Berlin theater, Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Born in Brazil, raised in Cologne and based in Berlin, Dominique Dillon de Byington, aka Dillon, has always had a clear vision of her art. Her two previous albums, This Silence Kills (BPC 244CD/LP, 2011) and The Unknown (BPC 285CD/LP, 2014), told a coherent story and together carried her live shows. Her live shows demonstrate a magical interchange between the dark-melodic songs of both albums. In 2015, she developed a unique concert with a six-piece women's choir for the Berlin Foreign Affairs Festival. The choir accompanied her and Tamer Fahri Özgönenc, her collaborator and co-producer of her first two albums, in the live performance at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, held in July 2015. "I felt the need to work with vocals and to create an additional layer that breathes in this space between the electronic music and myself. I was very attracted to this idea, so Tamer and I wrote and arranged the choir parts together," Dillon explains. The choir injects a new physical layer into her music, which is dominated by piano and electronic sounds, and her own voice dances longingly in this space. The live recording of the concert reveals just how naturally this new element slots into her dramatically minimal music. "When I started writing my new album The Unknown, I already knew it would be a continuation of This Silence Kills in terms of both music and content. Now the two albums are being brought together as a release, as well as in the live shows. For me, this album could be called 'This Silence Kills The Unknown' ". Standard CD comes with 12-page poster booklet.
$16.39 UPC: 673790032614 ELECTRONIC
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DILLON: Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele (Digipak) CD (BPC 325X-CD)
Digipak CD version. Includes 12-page poster booklet. Dillon presents Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele. Recorded at the extraordinary Berlin theater, Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Born in Brazil, raised in Cologne and based in Berlin, Dominique Dillon de Byington, aka Dillon, has always had a clear vision of her art. Her two previous albums, This Silence Kills (BPC 244CD/LP, 2011) and The Unknown (BPC 285CD/LP, 2014), told a coherent story and together carried her live shows. Her live shows demonstrate a magical interchange between the dark-melodic songs of both albums. In 2015, she developed a unique concert with a six-piece women's choir for the Berlin Foreign Affairs Festival. The choir accompanied her and Tamer Fahri Özgönenc, her collaborator and co-producer of her first two albums, in the live performance at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, held in July 2015. "I felt the need to work with vocals and to create an additional layer that breathes in this space between the electronic music and myself. I was very attracted to this idea, so Tamer and I wrote and arranged the choir parts together," Dillon explains. The choir injects a new physical layer into her music, which is dominated by piano and electronic sounds, and her own voice dances longingly in this space. The live recording of the concert reveals just how naturally this new element slots into her dramatically minimal music. "When I started writing my new album The Unknown, I already knew it would be a continuation of This Silence Kills in terms of both music and content. Now the two albums are being brought together as a release, as well as in the live shows. For me, this album could be called 'This Silence Kills The Unknown' ".
$10.39 UPC: 673790032607 ELECTRONIC
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SCHWABINGGRAD BALLETT/ARRIVATI: Beyond Welcome! CD (BTT 1502CD)
Beyond Welcome! is an album of music that didn't exist before, made by people whose collaboration is altogether rather improbable, developed out of political-performative interventions in public spaces, and created against the backdrop of the recent migration movements to Europe. Beyond Welcome! is about border regimes, jazz, post-punk, electronic Afro-kraut music, the Germans and the non-Germans, about an encounter that goes beyond the "welcome culture", about staying strong without legal papers, about social dances and NATO, about Yoruba gods, about Eurocentrism, about ingenious dilettantes and the impossibilities of even imagining a different world, let alone wanting to push for it. Schwabinggrad Ballett, a political and performance collective that was founded in Hamburg at the beginning of the new millennium, began, in the spring of 2014, to work with Lampedusa activists living in Hamburg - a conglomerate of people from different African countries who fled to Germany prior to the outbreak of war in Libya, and who are still fighting for their right to stay. Raw musical ideas arose from their various performances and political interventions in Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen and other cities. These ideas created a framework around agitprop didactic plays and confronted the demonstrators and demonstrations with experimental dance music played on instruments that were mobile enough to be carried on the street - old drum kit parts, analog synthesizers, melodica, xylophone, congas, a nineties sampler or the Böhmat, a Brechtian organ machine from the '70s. Much like Schwabinggrad Ballett's debut in 2006 (STAUB 061CD/LP), this album was created in a commune-like camp atmosphere that brings to mind the marathon sessions in Sun Ra's Sun Studio in New York or Can in their studio in Weilerswist. In the winter of 2015/16, Schwabinggrad and Arrivati, a performance group that arose from the Lampedusa movement, rented a converted barn in Gut Reichenow in Brandenburg. After seven days and nights, 16 songs were finished, ten of which made it onto Beyond Welcome!. Three further tracks were recorded at the Art Blakey Studio in St. Pauli, Hamburg. Schwabinggrad Ballett and Arrivati are: Dieudonné Eboth, Jeano Elong, Ted Gaier, Charalambos Ganotis, Sylvie Kretzschmar, Latoya Manly-Spain, Heiko Marn, Heike Nöth, Peter Ott, Liz Rech, Christine Schulz, Oumar Traore, Margarita Tsomou, Christoph Twickel, Asuquo Udo and numerous other people who took part in their interventions, performances and concerts over the last years.
$10.99 EAN: 4015698007336 ELECTRONIC
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VON DEYEN, ADELBERT: Sternzeit LP (BB 237LP)
LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of Adelbert Von Deyen's debut album Sternzeit, originally released in 1978. Adelbert Von Deyen is a protagonist of the so-called Berlin School (Berliner Schule) of electronic music. On his debut album, he takes his time to develop sound structures, often drifting, floating blissfully into tonal interference. The listener also requires time and patience, but will be rewarded with a Zen-like state of contemplation. Adelbert Von Deyen's musical backstory follows a less than typical path. He recalls: "To make the best use of my evenings, I finally bought a second-hand synthesizer, various electronic keyboard instruments and a tape machine, plus a few bits and pieces you need to make music. If I didn't have enough money, I asked the bank. During the day I worked as a re-toucher for a newspaper and in the evenings, I composed my celestial electronic sounds, invariably deep into the night. It took me around eight months to finish my first compositions. I made tape copies which I sent out to various record companies. I struck lucky straight away. Sky Records in Hamburg were interested in my music and my first record was granted a worldwide release in 1978. I called it Sternzeit and I painted the cover myself." Founded by Günter Körber in 1975, the label had already hosted acclaimed releases from electronic and krautrock stars like Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and even Brian Eno. A decent level of public interest was thus guaranteed. Sternzeit was one of the early releases on the label. In principle, many elements on this first album reappear on the two which followed: rich analog layers, the swirling winds of the ARP Odyssey, masterful synth effects sprinkled so delicately. The second side of the record is devoted to a single track which is based on an incessant organ tone and played with vibrato, engendering a hypnotic sense of weightlessness. Keyboarders often taped down keys on their organs or synthesizers to create such effects back in the day. When Adelbert Von Deyen performs, he sits down with his back to the audience, focused on his arsenal of equipment. The way he has unreservedly followed his passions for music and artistic creativity speaks volumes about his free-thinking nature. Adelbert Von Deyen mixed and produced this album in his own small studio on a Revox A77 tape recorder.
$15.79 EAN: 4015698006384 ELECTRONIC
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SILVER APPLES: Clinging To A Dream (Color Vinyl) 2LP (CCR 006COL-LP)
Double LP version. White and purple splatter. Clinging To A Dream is the Silver Apples first album since 1998. It features 11 new songs recorded at the ChickenCoop studios in Fairhope, Alabama, USA. Produced by Graham Sutton in London, UK. The new songs on Clinging To A Dream carry on the tradition begun in 1967 by Silver Apples of merging pure, raw electronic sounds with melodic poetic content; this album represents 40 years of polishing and refining this experiment.
$22.99 EAN: 5024545752809 ELECTRONIC
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SILVER APPLES: Clinging To A Dream 2LP (CCR 006LP)
Double LP version. Clinging To A Dream is the Silver Apples first album since 1998. It features 11 new songs recorded at the ChickenCoop studios in Fairhope, Alabama, USA. Produced by Graham Sutton in London, UK. The new songs on Clinging To A Dream carry on the tradition begun in 1967 by Silver Apples of merging pure, raw electronic sounds with melodic poetic content; this album represents 40 years of polishing and refining this experiment.
$20.99 EAN: 5024545752816 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Cocoon Compilation P CD (COR 039CD)
Cocoon Recordings presents P. Loaded with power and purity, the latest edition of the Cocoon Compilation series offers a great selection of crazy and kicking techno tunes. Mirko Loko is in control for the beginning. His track "Artificiel" is energetic, crazy and minimalistic with destroyed digital sound fragments. Wouter de Moor follows with his "Tesla Coil", a speedy acid tune with a simple structure and crazy hi-hats, sounding almost like an old steam locomotive. Einzelkind & Robin Scholz present their Rhythm Factory project on "N.2guts". Another kickin' acid-tune, full of power with an energy loaded forward boost. Slightly slower than Wouter de Moor but certainly with a similar vibe. Redshape follows the red acid-tip of the previous tracks with "The Choice" adding a bit of a Detroit and Dopplereffekt vibe. Swedish La Fleur contributes her track "Chemicality" which is nothing less than another great techno anthem. "Porridge" by Alex Smoke sees him doing the shuffle and creating massive musical tension by using cool but insane sounds. "The Whip" by Alex Bau is big time Chicago-techno with a strong DJ Sneak/Blu funk feeling. Hypnotic, oppressive and with no frills. Dustin Zahn's "Sun Breaker" is powerful, strong and masculine. The initial hypnotic loop aesthetics progresses fairly quickly in a massive production full of powerful synths and freaked out sounds. "Rising Lines" by Ilario Alicante delivers another strong, deep techno monster and follows the course set by Dustin Zahn: Big string sounds and twisted harmonies makes "Rising Lines" an epic techno cinema highlight. Josh Wink's "Bouyantly Grounded" is a fat fish, pushing the speakers in a powerful manner and turning each festival and each open air into another unforgettable event. "You Fill Me" by Jacob Korn follows Josh Wink and adds a bucket of nice musical emotions. Korn designs an amazing creation full of gentle harmonies and profound melodies - his contribution deserves to be labeled as "techno music". Any sunrise and any after-hour will be better with "You Fill Me". The last track "All This For A Jump" by Atelier Francesco is cool but kickin' with '80s retro sounds meeting a very unique electronic funk feeling - the captivating vocals make the picture complete.
$11.99 EAN: 4260038314548 ELECTRONIC
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WATSON/FRANK LORBER, VINCE: Speaker Freaker/L'Obscure Objet Du Desir 10" (COR 10011EP)
Scotsman Vince Watson and Frankfurt Cocoon family member Frank Lorber are in charge for Cocoon's latest baby. Although hailing from Erskine in Scotland and meanwhile residing in Amsterdam "Speaker Freaker" by Vince Watson appears like a Detroit house gem in perfection. This is Planet E, this is electronic art, this is a deeper than deep tech-house-lovers delight. Frank Lorber's "L'Obscure Objet Du Désir" has a strong beat, a massive and freaky acidic bassline and driving hi-hats. Frank created a kickin' techno monster spiced up with cool effects and break-downs.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038314562 ELECTRONIC
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VA: 10 Years Diynamic 2CD (DIYNAMIC 016CD)
DIY: A simple idea, rooted in the wish to change the predominant principles and to do something in one's own way. For 10 years now, Diynamic - the artist collective surrounding label father Solomun - acts true to this calling. Since 2006, it's all been about releasing, partying, thinking ahead and doing it yourself. Born in the heart of Hamburg's St. Pauli neighborhood, it is now home in virtually every corner of the world. The beginning of the adventure dates back even further, to the year 2003, when the clique around Solomun introduced their DIY party series in Hamburg. 2006 saw the founding of the music label Diynamic, followed by the opening of infamous EGO club in Hamburg's red light district, St. Pauli. in 2009. This was soon succeeded by festivals on multiple continents, worldwide Diynamic showcases and several successful residencies on Ibiza. How do you commemorate such a special anniversary? The year 2016 already saw the novel 10-Years-Diynamic parties in multiple metropolises around the globe - so now it's time for some music. The 10 Years Diynamic compilation is a collection of 13 unreleased original productions by Solomun (feat. Liu Bei), Adriatique, H.O.S.H., Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Stimming, Karmon, NTFO, Thyladomid, Ost & Kjex, Magdalena, Johannes Brecht, Undercatt and Lehar. But it's not just all four-to-the-floor: the styles of the tracks are as diverse as the artists on Diynamic, as diverse as the members of a family. So, no more words - hear it for yourself. Double CD version comes in a six panel digipak.
$14.99 EAN: 4018939304904 ELECTRONIC
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FUSCO, GIOVANNI: L'Avventura LP (DOC 132LP)
Doxy Cinematic present the score for L'Avventura (1960), composed by Michelangelo Antonioni's longtime collaborator, Giovanni Fusco. Starring Monica Vitti, presents a great thematic variety with a memorable main theme, swing tunes, dramatic love themes and some funky tracks. Extra tracks and alternate versions included. Edition of 500.
$14.99 UPC: 889397381325 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Titoli
A2. Tema Drammatico
A3. Valzer
A4. Slow A
A5. Slow B
A6. Tema Grottesco
A7. Notturno II
A8. Bolero Avventura
B1. Tema Romantico
B2. Swing
B3. Tema Romantico III
B4. Finale
B5. Titoli (Versione Alternativa)
B6. Valzer
B7. Notturno
B8. Finale (Versione Alternativa)
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FUSCO, GIOVANNI: L'Eclisse LP (DOC 133LP)
Doxy Cinematic present for the first time on vinyl, the complete score for the legendary movie L'Eclisse (1962), composed by Michelangelo Antonioni's longtime collaborator, Giovanni Fusco. Starring Monica Vitti and Alain Delon, this is a collection of disturbing and dissonant tunes that mirror the dark mood of the Antonioni's masterpiece. Includes "Eclisse Twist" by the great Italian singer, Mina. Edition of 500.
$14.99 UPC: 889397381332 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Eclisse Twist (Italian Vocal) (feat. Mina)
A2. L'Eclisse (#01)
A3. L'Eclisse (#02)
A4. Eclisse (Slow Version)
A5. L'Eclisse (#03)
A6. Passeggiata
A7. L'Eclisse (#04)
A8. L'Eclisse (#05)
A9. Eclisse Twist (Spanish) (feat. Mina)
A10. Eclisse Twist (French) (feat. Mina)
B1. Eclisse Twist
B2. L'Eclisse (#06)
B3. Eclisse Twist (2nd version)
B4. L'Eclisse (#07)
B5. L'Eclisse (#08)
B6. L'Eclisse (#09)
B7. L'Eclisse (#10)
B8. L'Eclisse (#11)
B9. L'Eclisse (#12)
B10. L'Eclisse (#13)
B11. Eclisse Twist (English)
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DUBITERIAN MEETS THE SCIENTIST: Tribute To Augustus Pablo LP+CD (MIR 100746LP)
Dubiterian is a Brazilian dub music producer and melodica specialist who graduated in audio engineering in Munich, Germany. He has performed all over the world since 2004 sharing the stage with the likes of The Skatalites, The Roots Radics, Ras Michael, Fully Fullwood, Mad Professor, Sister Nancy, Ranking Joe, Gentleman, Mungos Hi-Fi, Jahtari and Soom T. He has collaborated in the studio with heavyweight producers and artists such as The Scientist, Adrian Sherwood and Dub Syndicate, amongst others. This tribute to Augustus Pablo, the great Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer active from the 1970s onwards, is mixed by the legendary dub master Scientist. Tribute To Augustus Pablo was originally release digitally in 2014. This is its first time on vinyl. Remastered by Hopeton Overton Brown (Scientist). Contains a bonus CD of the album.
$15.79 UPC: 889397105402 WORLD
A1. Arabian Dub
A2. Execution Dub
A3. Meditation Dub
A4. Up Warrika Hill Dub
A5. Pipers of Zion
A6. Pablo Java Dub
B1. Good Hearted Dub
B2. Arabian Rock
B3. Jah Light Dub
B4. Up Warrika Rock
B5. Good Hearted Dubwise
B6. Pablo Dub Light
B7. Pablo Java Rock
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SCIENTIST MEETS TED SIROTA'S HEAVYWEIGHT DUB, THE: The Scientist Meets Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub 2LP+CD (MIR 100748LP)
The debut album from Chicago band Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub was recorded, mixed, and mastered by the legendary "Dub Chemist" Overton H. Brown, aka The Scientist. Sirota, a veteran of the Chicago music scene, decided to address his 30+ year love for Jamaican music by putting this new band together in early 2013. Only weeks after starting the band, Sirota had a chance encounter with one of his biggest influences, The Scientist. With this band, Sirota and cohorts hope to bring back some of the serious musicianship that was emblematic of the "golden age" of reggae. Through his original music, and arrangements, Sirota hopes to creatively pay respect to legends like Tommy McCook, Cedric Brooks, Ernest Ranglin, Jackie Mittoo, Winston Wright, Leroy Sibbles, Roots Radics, Soul Syndicate, The Upsetters, The Revolutionaries and many others, while still keeping an eye on the future. Originally released digitally in 2013, this is the albums first time on vinyl. 45rpm audiophile edition. Contains a bonus CD.
$21.79 UPC: 889397105419 WORLD
A1. Scientific Strut
A2. House on the Rock
A3. Jackie-Me-Too!
B1. Stop and Frisk (The New Jim Crow)
B2. Killa Dilla
B3. Baltimore
B4. Give a Little Love
C1. This is a Takeover Tubby
C2. The Struggle
D1. Saro-Wiwa featuring Diverse Yanira
D2. Geronimo's Free
D3. Yanira Dub
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MR. OIZO: All Wet 2LP+CD (BEC 5156617)
Mr. Oizo (aka Quentin Dupieux), the French producer and pioneer of modern electro alongside Daft Punk, Air and Cassius simply can't and won't stop working. Having released five studio albums, four original soundtracks, a multitude of EPs and directed six movies over the past 20 years, the "Godfather" is back with All Wet. And this time, he is not alone as the track list features an impressive selection of quality guests: Peaches, Boys Noize, Skrillex and Charli XCX among others. All Wet will be a new occasion to further explore the mind of one of the most fantastically uncommon artist today. Also features: Tetanos, Phra, Siriusmo and Mocky. Comes in gatefold sleeve with yellow vinyl. Includes CD.
$20.39 EAN: 5060421566177 ELECTRONIC
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TRIO MANDILI: With Love CD (MN 1014CD)
With Love is the debut album from Trio Mandili, a trio of young ladies from Georgia in the Caucasus area. Being into singing, folk songs, and filming, one day the three girls made a recording of the love song "Apareka" and the video gained them three million views on Youtube. This is pure folk, three ladies singing to the sound of classic Eurasian stringed instruments, such as the panduri and tschonguri, long necked lutes. The all acoustic instrumentation can be considered the soil from which the voices of the three lead singers rise, the instrumental lines going deeper than that of course. It might sound like a miracle that this music gained so much attention in a time of flat-ass, streamline plastic pop, but if you take a closer listen to With Love, it's not hard to realize that it does justice to its title. The melodies sung by the girls grab the heart immediately and then the soul. This is a passionate brand of eastern, Caucasian folk and has an enchanting approach within the melodies. The girls sing with a very determined expression in their performance. Trio Mandili seems to be much more than just a group of young ladies playing music. There is a kind of mystical atmosphere rising from this compilation of simple love songs coming straight from the heart. The spiritual vibe should not be underestimated. The compositions themselves may be rather simple, as it is the fact with most classic folk tunes from any region or century are, but the emotional depth is amazing and the performance is utterly tight. The vocal performances are uniquely impressive.
$10.39 UPC: 701197130111 WORLD
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VIDEODRONES: Mondo Ferox LP (EPR 036LP)
Danish synth duo Videdrones are all about simultaneously channeling of the vibes of maestros, ranging from the epic choirs of Popol Vuh or Fabio Frizzi through the smooth gliding arpeggios of Tangerine Dream or Giorgio Moroder, even into Goblin or Morricone at their most abstract. But there's more to it than mere tribute. Mondo Ferox is the kind of album where electronic instruments take on a life of their own - Constantly in flux, changing direction and pace like that of the lives at the bottom of the sea. It's like a constant overture. These are sounds that the listener knows, but they're turning themselves inside out, bleeding into each other and losing themselves in the flow - Favoring emotion and impulse over logic and structure. Rather than repeating what's already been seen and heard, Videodrones re-melts the voices of cinema into something yet to be imagined.
$22.99 EAN: 5024545759617 ELECTRONIC
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MCLAUGHLIN, SCOTT: There Are Neither Wholes Nor Parts CD (ERGODOS 012CD)
2013 release. There Are Neither Wholes Nor Parts is the debut album from Scott McLaughlin, an Irish composer of immersive, experimental music, currently based in the UK. Immediately arresting and all-consuming, the album features highly focused performances by Quatour Bozzini, Trio Scordatura, Jonathan Sage, Iain Harrison, and the Metastable Collective. "This album is a delivery system for concentrated listening [...] it comes highly recommended..." Stephen Graham, Tempo.
$10.99 UPC: 888174417196 CLASSICAL
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ERGODOS MUSICIANS: Songs CD (ERGODOS 013CD)
2014 release. Ergodos Musicians present Songs. Working with the members of Ergodos Musicians, composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly arrange, re-compose, weave and stitch material drawn from the songs they love, spanning over 800 years of music, from John Dowland and Vivaldi to Steve Earle, Richard Thompson and The xx. Working closely with vocalist Michelle O'Rourke, reed player Seán Mac Erlaine and cellist Kate Ellis, they celebrate the way a melody or a lyric can live in memory, heart and limb. A 13th century hymn becomes a spacious meditation over a drone. An opera aria by Vivaldi becomes understated jazz. Sholdice takes a fragment of contemporary Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy's Yeats setting, "The White Birds" and transforms the original, re-imagining the material as a forgotten folk-song, very different from Dennehy's taut rhythmic landscape. Schlepper-Connolly's shimmering take on the traditional song "I Am Weary Of Lying Alone" becomes a vehicle for an incisive, biting sax solo from Seán Mac Erlaine. The devotional melancholy of Richard Thompson's "Beat The Retreat" is complimented by an hauntingly spare version of Dowland's "Weep You No More, Sad Fountains". American alt-country singer Steve Earle's "Goodbye" becomes a mercurial lament in Schlepper-Connolly's hands, while Sholdice's transcription of a Javanese gamelan "Ladrang" is elegant in its simplicity. The album closes with a tender, intimate re-coloring of "Angels" by UK indie trio The xx. "Nothing could better exemplify the continued vitality of the song tradition. Four stars." -- "CD Choice", The Irish Times.
$10.99 UPC: 888174796291 CLASSICAL
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ERGODOS MUSICIANS: All The Ends Of The Earth CD (ERGODOS 014CD)
2014 release. Ergodos Musicians present All The Ends Of The Earth. Revelatory, celebratory music by Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Linda Buckley inspired by Christmas music by a mediæval master, known simply as Léonin, and performed by Ergodos Musicians: vocalist Michelle O'Rourke, clarinetist Jonathan Sage and cellist Kate Ellis, with Sholdice and Schlepper-Connolly on piano and guitar respectively. "[An] eloquent meditation... The mood is spiritual, perhaps, but hardly sectarian, with a warm bath production style taking full advantage of studio effects" -- I Care If You Listen Magazine.
$10.99 UPC: 702382914806 CLASSICAL
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RING, JUDITH: What Was CD (ERGODOS 015CD)
2014 release. What Was is the first release devoted entirely to the music of Judith Ring. Painterly, sensuous, dark and beautiful music from one of Ireland's most important composers. Ring's work is first and foremost with the pulse in the arm that glides the bow over the string. She does not begin with a highly abstract, one-dimensional idea of that sound in notation. Her process can be described as truly experimental, in the sense of Charles Ives: open, aware, conscious, hopeful. Features performances from some of the finest exponents of new Irish music, including Paul Roe, Kate Ellis, Malachy Robinson, Michelle O'Rourke, Natasha Lohan and Concorde, as well as genre-crossing performers such as Laura Moody and Beau Stocker. "... the Vinko Globokar-esque imaginings of composer Judith Ring..." -- I Care If You Listen Magazine.
$10.99 UPC: 702382914813 CLASSICAL
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IRISH YOUTH CHAMBER CHOIR: Rise Up, My Love CD (ERGODOS 017CD)
2015 release. Rise Up, My Love is the fresh and vital debut record from the Irish Youth Chamber Choir, under their conductor Greg Beardsell. Rise Up, My Love features music by contemporary choral masters Howard Skempton, Gabriel Jackson, Pēteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre. "... a musical calling card of consummate elegance..." -- Michael Quinn, Classical Ear.
$10.99 UPC: 702382914844 CLASSICAL
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SHIR KHAN: Dancing & Romancing 2CD BOX (EXPDR 001CD)
From the consistent quality of its prolific output to its early championing of many a dance music star to its diverse array of sounds, it has felt like a highly accomplished offering even since its earliest days, Shir Khan's Exploited Recordings has come a long way since its humble beginnings in Berlin. Dancing & Romancing is a snapshot of the imprint from 2011 to 2016, charting its story from contender to heavyweight in stunning fashion. From breaking Claptone as an unknown artist to helping him become one of the biggest-selling names in dance music to introducing the world to other major players like Adana Twins, Doctor Dru and Joyce Muniz, he has unearthed a staggering amount of talent in such a short space of time. Browse through the label's 150+ releases and there is an impressive plethora of acclaimed names from across the house, techno and disco sphere: Metronomy, Modeselektor, Siriusmo, Munk, Julio Bashmore, Michael Mayer, Fort Romeau, John Tejada, Cosmin TRG, Locked Groove, Deetron, Acid Pauli - the list goes on and on. Dancing & Romancing showcases some of the label's high points from the last half decade, attempting to provide a summary of what Exploited is all about. From resolute club bangers to tracks that sound as good on a home stereo as they do on the dancefloor, it's a compilation that reminds us that dance music is bigger and further-reaching than it's ever been. Big vocal anthems like Claptone's "No Eyes (feat. Jaw)" and Murphy Jax's "Let's Get To It (feat. Mike Dunn)" sit alongside charismatic instrumentals such as dreamy Cocolores's "Vox" and Urulu's rolling "1991". Sample-heavy classics like Adana Twins's "Strange" and Doctor Dru's "Voice Of Dru" contrast with the cutting-edge freshness of Light Year's "Never Know" and Sirens Of Lesbos's "7 Years In Tibet". The excellent vocalists that have graced the label are represented too, from Anabel Englund's seductive tones alongside Human Life on "El Diablo" to Daudi Matsiko's haunting delivery with Kyodai on "Houston In The Blind". From nu disco to acid to melodic techno to fist-pumping house, the breadth of the label's output is neatly encapsulated in these 30 enduring tracks. Released as a double CD box. Also features: Compuphonic, Moodymanc, Homework, Audiojack, Munk, Dino Lenny, James Curd, Annabel Weston, Joyce Muniz, Bam, Kruse & Nuernberg, Brolin, Human Life, Jimmy & Fred, Karmon, Homework, Nils Penner and Marques Toliver.
$11.99 EAN: 4050486963777 ELECTRONIC
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HANNAH WANTS: FabricLive 89 CD (FABRIC 178CD)
Hannah Wants presents the 89th installment of the FabricLive series. Hailing from Birmingham, Hannah Wants is a champion of the new breed of bass-orientated, garage-influenced house of her hometown. Traversing a variety of tracks and sub-genres, the track list of FabricLive 89 includes five of Hannah's own productions. Whilst the mix shows off Hannah's bass-heavy sound it also sees Hannah venturing into darker, tech-ier territory. She rounds the compilation off with a couple of releases from two of techno's biggest labels, Tale Of Us's remix of Thugfucker's famous "Disco Gnome" on Life And Death and Marco Faraone's pounding "Boost". In 2014 Hannah was crowned "Best Breakthrough DJ" by DJ Mag and Mixmag as well as being named Mixmag's "Star of the Year". 2015 saw the beginning of Hannah's own headline series of events, "What Hannah Wants". Also in 2015, Hannah was invited to do an Essential Mix for Radio One, as well as a contribution to their Residency series. FabricLive 89 comes packaged in a bespoke slipcase containing die-embossed tin. FabricLive 89 also features: TÂCHES x Eli & Fur, Cera Alba, Josh Butler, Dennis Cruz, Enrico Sangiuliano & Secret Cinema, Shadow Child & Huxley, Wade, Leftwing & Kody, Four Tet & Champion, Detour City, Jacob B, Alex Coulton, Katy B, Claude VonStroke and How To Dress Well. "Her tireless dedication to her cause, down-to-earth attitude and downright amazing talent has cemented her place as one of the UK's most sought after artists." -- Skiddle.
$11.39 UPC: 802560017821 ELECTRONIC
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SELDA: Selda LP (FKR 011LP)
2016 repress; originally reissued in 2006. Bearing all the aesthetic watermarks of a private-press country LP, Selda Bağcan's 1976 debut long-player is a stunning work of space-age Anatolian electronic, progressive protest-psych-folk-funk-rock; a delectable hybrid concoction, presented with the utmost authenticity and conviction, which has never been replicated or equaled in the decades since its recording. When Selda first released her long-awaited LP (the first of two confusingly eponymous titles released the same year), she was enduring/enjoying her halcyon time as one of Turkey's most politically outspoken popular folk singers. In the previous decade she had made a household name for herself as a traditional Anadolu protest singer with a spectacular emotive vocal capacity (for idle argument's sake, begging comparison to a Turkish Joan Baez). A figurehead and poetic driving force for a radical generation of politically motivated, creative revolutionaries, she sang raw, stripped-down folk songs with a yearning for political change and a heart-wrenching earnestness. On her debut LP, in a match made in psychedelic heaven, Selda's radical prose fuses with equally radical musical gestures from some of the most lauded musical mavericks, including Anadolu beat combo Moğollar (also known to a growing French audience as Les Mogol), popular backing band Dadaşlar under the guidance of Anatolian rock stalwart Arif Sağ, and master electronic producer and pioneer Zafer Dilek. The bands were assembled at multiple sessions at Yeni Studios and the über-legendary Studio Elektronik, where the record was finally completed and mastered. Released in 1976 to equal parts critical acclaim and skepticism, the album smashed boundaries both lyrically and musically. It begs comparison to the second LP by post-folk sibling trio 3 Hür-El (GUESS 056LP), who used a balance of electronically treated saz and proto-polyphonic synthesizers to similar effect (exemplified here on tracks such as "Gitme" and "Yaz Gazeteci Yaz"). However, the fact that Selda was one of the few female voices to adopt the use of such cutting-edge techniques puts the LP in a league of its very own. Anatolian progressive rock has since gained popularity among DJs, producers, and record collectors as an unrivalled source for unique sounds rarely found in other genres of international music, and the artists involved in the recording of this LP, all of whom continued to record radical and experimental music, are considered the cream of the crop among Eastern psych aficionados. Includes two bonus tracks from the album sessions.
$17.79 EAN: 5060099500213 WORLD
A1. Meydan Sizindir
A2. Yaz Gazeteci Yaz
A3. Mehmet Emmi
A4. Nasirli Eller
A5. Ince Ince
A6. Gine Haber Gelmiş
A7. Yaylalar
B1. Dam Üstüne Çul Serer
B2. Dost Uyan
B3. Gitme
B4. Niye Çattin Kaşlarini
B5. Kizil Dere
Bonus Tracks:
B6. Utan Utan
B7. Karaoglan
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GOOGOOSH: Googoosh LP (FKR 047LP)
2016 repress; originally released in 2011. Googoosh collects some of the rarest records from the East's best-kept secret songbird, Googoosh, including forgotten B-sides and mythical LP tracks. Despite her reputation as one of the most legendary Iranian pop stars, Faegheh Atashin aka Googoosh is also the performer of some of the rarest heart-melting pop music in the world, originally pressed on the diminishing vinyl format. Her 1970s songs and performances were banned after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, resulting in her records being forbidden, hidden, and destroyed. Some of Googoosh's most famous songs have since become anthemic among global Iranian communities, but in a darker contrast, dozens of 45 B-sides and album tracks remain only as distant and nonexistent memories in the minds of the most devout fans and fastidious vinyl librarians. Googoosh focuses on a handful of these lesser-spotted tracks -- the ones that didn't get away. Googoosh's voice conveys an urgency and yearning that is arguably unrivalled under the often-disposable femme-pop umbrella. Mid-tempo pulsating pop paeans awash with expertly orchestrated strings (akin to those of some of the most intense European film composers) provide the backdrop for songs of unrequited love and poetic premonitions of impeding cultural heartbreak. Other tracks combine unlikely jazz, bossa, and early disco influences, which inadvertently incited political paranoia from the era's brooding anti-pop regime. Boasting deep roots in the history of Persian poetic verse and indelible Arabic songcraft, these lost tracks from the artist known among Farsi-speaking fans as "Iran's Daughter" have most certainly earned a place in the hearts of all outernational music lovers.
$17.79 EAN: 5060099503047 WORLD
A1. Shekayat
A2. Nimeyeh Gomshodeyeh Man
A3. Pishkesh
A4. Ma Beham Nemiresim
A5. Talagh
B1. Gharibe Ashena
B2. Bemoun Ta Bemounam
B3. Mano Tou
B4. Digeh Geryeh Delo Va Nemikoneh
B5. Man Aamadeh-Am
B6. Mano Gonjishkaye Khooneh
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CASA, DANIELA: Sovrapposizione Di Immagini LP (FKR 072LP)
2016 repress. In an alternate universe, the Rome-born female synthesist Daniela Casa would be a household name. A genuine pioneer of experimental pop music, abstract electronics, giallo jazz, and even heavy drone rock jams, her elusive and infectious music joins the dots and loops between other Italian female electronic composers such as Giulia De Mutiis (later Giulia Alessandroni), Doris Norton and Suzanne Ciani, while retaining one of the most individualistic and diverse composing styles of an advanced mechanical musician regardless of their nationality or gender. This LP compiles, for the first time, a multifarious selection of previously commercially unavailable instrumental music composed at her home studio in the late '70s before her untimely death at the age of 42. Originally designed for use in radio, film, TV and other industry-specific applications, these seldom-heard selections combine ingenious homemade and hi-tech disciplines, providing scores for Italian thrillers, nature documentaries, educational projects, and commercial sound installations. Mastered from the vaults of the sought-after Deneb/Flirt/Canopo library labels (home to some of the rarest records by Fabio Frizzi, Giuliano "Raskovich" Sorgini, Gerardo Iacoucci, Alessandro "Braen" Alessandroni, amongst others) these rare tracks reveal Daniela Casa in her most fertile environment (composing as a young mother) in both a solo capacity and alongside incredible Italian session musicians, often sharing release schedules and track lists with her maverick maestro husband Remigio Ducross. These multi-layered musical images remain as vibrant and authentic today as they did 35 years ago. Close your eyes and unravel the Sovrapposizione Di Immagini.
$17.79 EAN: 5060099505362 ROCK
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COSMIN TRG: Oblic/Serpenti Remixes 12" (FIZIC 005EP)
The fifth installment of Cosmin TRG's Fizic comes in the shape of two lethal remixes from Lucy and Minor Science. Lucy takes the mystical energies "Serpenti" and blends them into a digital ritual of tectonic plate-shifting drums, sizzling textures and hypnotic patterns, a highly seductive and authoritative transmission. "Oblic" sees its exuberant shimmer and ricochet rhythms reinterpreted with scientific precision by Minor Science. The result is a hyper-modern, high-octane excursion with deep fluid bass drums, expert percussion and soaring synths. Lucy's remix mastered by Giovanni Conti. Minor Science's remix mastered by Matt Colton. Original cover artwork by Cosmin Nicolae.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038314784 ELECTRONIC
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SPR!: Mental Health LP (HNR 008LP)
Debut LP by Gothenburg-based duo SPR! (Albert Sjöstam and Christoffer Fransson). White LP. Limited edition of 300. From hypnotic, chaotic anarcho-kraut to beautiful, toned-down pieces, these seven tracks invite the listener to turn illness into a weapon and mellow the mind to numbness. Closing track "Dope Rider" aims deep down for the underground. Music for going crazy while studying health with one's brain.
$16.99 EAN: 7071245217754 ROCK
01. Cha Cha Cha
02. Second Hand Smoke
03. Twa-Lif
04. Psygnosis
05. Dymaxion Music
06. Turn Your Illness Into A Weapon
07. Dope Rider
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PRURIENT: Pleasure Ground 2LP (HOS 467LP)
One of Prurient's most captivating raids on the borderlands of power noise and symphonic doom rears its furious head once again for this gatefold reissue on Hospital Productions, ten years on from its original release on double tape and then as a single vinyl pressing for the legendary Load Records in 2007. Pleasure Ground stands as a key part of Prurient's golden quadrant alongside The History Of Aids (2002), Black Vase (2005) and Cocaine Death (HOS 232CD/HOS 410LP, 2008), its immolating rage renders Ian Dominick Fernow at an early crest of his energies, consolidating the hi-pitch intensity and bile of his idols, Whitehouse, with the majestic, meditative inspirations of black metal and a more personalized bloodlust for unheimlich synth tones and pulsating electronic undercurrents. Its four long tracks are riven with the paradoxes that make Prurient's music so compelling and practically a genre unto itself, meting out a sound in "Earthworks / Buried In Secret" that's simultaneously nerve-gnawing yet bleakly tender, or weighing up caustic harshness with a melodic vulnerability in "Apple Tree Victim" that appeals far beyond the bombed-out no-man's land of pure noise to intersect with the entrails of EBM in the raging but poised thunder of "Military Road" - one of his finest moments, bar none - and cold-wave pop and fetishistic synth themes in "Outdoorsman / Indestructible". If you're willing to bite down, you will find a depth of bittersweet flavor submerged beneath the tidal waves of white noise filled with nuance and vulnerability, slowly dragging you into the abyss. Ultimately though, there's no mistaking that in the end Pleasure Ground is just unflinchingly fucking heavy. Housed in a deluxe, reverse-board gatefold sleeve. Mastered and cut by Barry Grint at Alechemy.
$18.39 EAN: 5060165482122 ELECTRONIC
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C. DIAB: No Perfect Wave LP (INJA 003LP)
No Perfect Wave is the proper debut album from Vancouver's C. Diab. A meditative sound exploration for bowed guitar, trumpet and subtle tape manipulations that brings to mind Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker, Arthur Russell and Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack (1966) in equal measure. No Perfect Wave hits a strange and beautiful intersection between left-field ambient music, film score, post-classical solo cello, American folk music and post-rock. First physical release for the newly-launched Injazero Records, run by two ex-FatCat staffers. 180 gram vinyl. "There's a melancholic, broken beauty in C. Diab's music... think Godspeed You! Black Emperor at their least bleak." -- Vancouver Weekly.
$18.99 EAN: 5055300390639 ELECTRONIC
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RIZZUTO, EMANUELE: Hand Made Illusions 12"/PIC DISC (KPT 005EP)
Hand Made Illusions is a vague ranting by a lone individual who relinquishes social impositions and reinstates himself into the cosmos. There's no grace, no mastery in this, just a long and liberating dance, sometimes calm and sleepy, sometimes wild and violent. "Zero Zero Due" indicates the narrow and anxious unraveling of mental work, constantly correcting itself in order to reach for the definitive truth. "Monotron" is a euphoric outburst echoed through pounding space rains and metallic sounds, brought together in a muscular syncope. Single-sided picture disc vinyl in PVC with sticker.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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DAKOTA SUITE/VAMPILLIA: The Sea Is Never Full CD (KK 094CD)
The origin of this collaboration began two months prior to the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Dakota Suite had been touring Japan with their friends from the Japanese band called Vampillia and had been in several coastal locations in Wakayama as well as places near to Fukushima. The tsunami was very upsetting for Chris Hooson and David Buxton from Dakota Suite who then set about making music to reflect this overwhelming sadness and loss for Japan with a desire to reflect the phases of the disaster, the rising violent seas, the destructive power and loss preceding sorrow at the devastation which followed. They approached Vampillia to work on these somber reflective songs for the sea. Vampillia is next alternative music from Osaka. Guitar, noise guitar, bass, piano, classical strings, Velladon on Opera, Mongoloid on the dark metal vocals alongside twin drummers Talow the Tornado (Nice View, Turtle Island) and Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins). From this lineup of ten (sometimes more) comes experimental and beautiful dark music. They have previously collaborated with acts such as µ-Ziq, Merzbow, Nadja and Lustmord. Their intense experimental style is the perfect fusion with the Dakota Suite aesthetic. Chris Hooson was haunted by images of floating pieces of wood which had once been someone's ancient dwelling. The music Dakota Suite & Vampillia have recorded on The Sea is Never Full seeks to provide a mechanism to deal with this pain cathartically. Various short pieces were passed between Dakota Suite and Vampillia, who added strings and the distinctive throat singing of Mongoloid. Japanese throat singing speaks to an ancient method, called rekukkara. It is tonal rather than melodic. As Hooson says "It seemed an appropriate way to convey the sadness we felt at the horror of Fukushima, which knows no words to express it accurately." After basic recording had been completed, David Buxton, took apart every note of the music and created a two-part suite. This had a seismic shift in the project, the music is presented in that form. Together with Vampillia they have sculpted a truly epic record spanning musical styles from ambient and experimental to post-rock and neo-classical.
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PAINKILLER: Execution Ground 2LP (KR 025LP)
The seminal 1994 double album Execution Ground, by the original Painkiller with the line-up of Bill Laswell, John Zorn and Mick Harris on vinyl for the first time. When Painkiller started in 1991, their first two albums Guts Of A Virgin (1991) and Buried Secrets (1992) (both released on extreme metal label Earache) were heavy attacks blending grindcore and free jazz that brought together the musical backgrounds of the three protagonists: drummer Mick Harris had just left grindcore legend Napalm Death, John Zorn explored new extremities with his Naked City project while Bill Laswell had as a member of roaring free jazz quartet Last Exit (with Peter Brötzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson) proven that he was not only a visionary producer but also an accomplished bassist. But it is their 1994 double album Execution Ground remains the opus magnum of the brilliant trio: Zorn's unmistakable shrieking saxophone, Harris's pounding drums and Laswell's growling sub-bass lines were given heavy mixing desk treatment, resulting in extended tracks that are no less intense than their early works but display the full range of the musicians's skills. Avant-jazz, grindcore, dub and ambient melt into eerie tracks of haunting atmospheres - even more so in the "ambient" versions of the second disc. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin. Available here as a double 180 gram vinyl. Includes a download code and insert. Edition of 500.
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MATADOR: Loveland Festival 2016 EP 12" (LLR 105EP)
Matador's Loveland Festival 2016 EP showcases two big tracks from the Irish maestro presented here on a limited vinyl edition of 200. Comes in full color sleeve of lavish artwork created by Sjors Verwijmeren. 2016 will be remembered as a milestone year for Dublin-based live techno producer. Another year of headline performances at key events worldwide has been complimented by a surge of musical activity including the release of his debut album Ructions.
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ELEKTRO GUZZI: Clones CD (MACROM 049CD)
Elektro Guzzi, holding their position as the leading "real" techno live band, present Clones. Literary all the Granny Smith apple trees grown today, from Uruguay to Hokaido, are clones from Mrs. Smith's original tree in Sydney. Bananas, oranges, watermelons, garlic and other fruits of daily delight are routinely replicated without any input of external ideas - i.e., they are cloned. There is no general ethical or aesthetic decision to be formed about clones, since you have already imbibed them ever since your first bite. Thus, you are not in a neutral or otherwise preliminary position, but already involved, knee-deep. It may not be a coincidence that the first mammals, warm-blooded egg-layers and small marsupials, date almost exactly to the period of the first flowers, evolving some 125 million years ago. Quick-thinking, vegetable eating mammals provide a most striking example of cooperation in evolution, as their interest in plant foods led them to become well-fed. A bond has been formed. Seedless plants, like banana and oranges, have made a most remarkable dispersal strategy: season after season, human growers clone them. The plants are perpetuated because they taste so good. And that's about it. Much has been said about Elektro Guzzi's aptitude in transcending their instrumental sources towards techno of unlikely beauty, pristine consistency and razor-sharp definition. It tastes good, and thus they have decided to clone themselves. Elektro Guzzi plow through their own fertile ground of ideas and sprout structures, textures and gestures into a dizzying array of new offerings. Yet the tunnel vision of the singular point of origin of all tracks makes it smack even more, because there's never too much of a great thing.
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GOLDMANN, STEFAN: A1 Tools 12" (MACROM 050X-EP)
Rough techno versions, derived from Stefan Goldmann's synth-heavy soundtrack for the Swiss documentary, A1 (2016). Five cuts remixed into the mighty 4/4 grid (mostly). "Inward Slope" features a warped beat layout and wave-table splashes, sounding like a weeping robot fighting with a cat. Free-wheeling hardware synthesis and heavy-handed beats line up for concrete-blasting impact on "A-Drive" and "Constructor". "Roadside Lot" is a soothing ambient FM tech tool. "Spikes" is a looser affair, around a scintillating analog synth riff.
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VA: Cologne Curiosities: The Unknown Krautrock Underground 1972-1976 2LP (MENT 005LP)
Double LP version. The Nuggets (1972) of krautrock, Cologne Curiosities collects for the first time on vinyl, all the otherwise unpublished/un-reissued material that originally appeared on the three Unknown Deutschland - The Krautrock Archive CDs released on Virgin in 1996. These CD only releases were originally compiled by Trevor Manwaring (Paratactile, Impetus, Virgin, Harmonia Mundi) from tapes supplied to him by Toby Robinson. Toby, aka The Mad Twiddler, aka Genius P. Orridge, is well-known to krautrock collectors as one of a number of engineers working at Stockhausen's WDR and Dierks Studio in Cologne in the mid-1970s, where he assisted on recordings by many famous kraut bands such as Can, Birth Control, Mythos and Dzyan. The recordings included here were made between 1972 and 1976 using studios in and around Cologne, produced by Toby Robinson for his own amusement. Bands would come in for practice sessions, to record demos, and during slack periods, impromptu jams would happen. Most of these sessions were recorded by Toby, and they feature Toby himself plus a revolving cast of friends and musicians (some of them apparently big kraut names under pseudonym). Including lost-in-time bands/studio projects like Astral Army, Fuerrote, Spirulina and Baal among others, the music here ranges from killer proto-new wave kraut psych to wild space rock, proto-ambient electronic, dark psychedelia and raw kosmische sounds with lots of analog synths/Moog. It was during that time in Cologne, that Toby, along with Fluxus artist Robin Page, gave birth to the mysterious and controversial Pyramid label, for which these tracks were originally made for. 24-bit domain remaster from the original master tapes. Insert with detailed liner notes by Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule, The Crack In The Cosmic Egg (2007)). Also features: Chronos, Neil Andersen and Ten To Zen. RIYL: Pink Floyd, Gila, Cluster, Hawkwind, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Düül II, Popol Vuh, Cosmic Jokers.
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ANTUNES, JORGE: Musica Eletronica LP (MENT 007LP)
Considered the first electro-acoustic/electronic album made in Brazil, Mental Experience presents the first vinyl reissue of Jorge Antunes's Música Eletrônica, originally released in 1975. During the early '60s, Antunes built his own components for making electronic music: theremin, sawtooth oscillator, a spring-reverb device, a frequency filter. The works on Música Eletrônica were recorded at Antunes's home studio and at the Electronic Music Laboratory of the Institute Torcuato Di Tella, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On "Valsa Sideral" (1962), Antunes uses artificial echo and reverberation by feedback between the recording heads, creating the first Brazilian work consisting only of electronic tones. "Auto-Retrato Sobre Paisaje Porteño" (1969/1970) is an amazing piece of early turntablism on which Antunes "samples" an old tango vinyl record, using it as a loop and for sound effects/manipulation, and mixes it with electronic sound effects and cut voice manipulation/sound poetry. The version included here features the audio collage which Antunes created to criticize the military regimes from Brazil and Argentine. This version wasn't used on the original LP to avoid any problems with censorship. "Cinta Cita" (1969) was the first piece recorded by Antunes at a professional studio. Pure electronic sounds and pulsating rhythms use filtered noise and synthetic sounds created by additive synthesis. "Contrapunctus Contra Contrapunctus" (1962) was created using tape splicing, micro-assemblies and tape manipulation. "Historia de un Pueblo por Nacer ou Carta Abierta a Vassili Vassilikos y a todos los Pesimistas" (1970) with its sinusoidal sounds and low frequencies, was inspired by the plot of the novel and film Z (1969) by Vassili Vassilikos. In the original audio of this work, Antunes used a quotation from the International Communist anthem. To avoid censorship problems, he cut that passage for inclusion on the original LP. The uncensored, original version is presented here. In 1970, Antunes did research at the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht with a specialization in Computer Music (working with the Electrologia X-8 computer). During the '70s he worked under the guidance of Pierre Schaeffer and Iannis Xenakis amongst others. Antunes is presently the Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of Brasilia and President of the Brazilian Society for Electroacoustic Music. Included in this LP is an insert with liner notes and photos. Master tape sound. Mandatory for anyone into Pierre Henry, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Schaeffer, Louis & Bebe Baron, Ihlan Mimaroglu, Morton Subotnick, Stockhausen.
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CHRISTENSEN, MATT: Honeymoons CD (MIA 034CD)
Matt Christensen, the singer and guitarist of atmospheric masterminds Zelienople, presents his solo album, Honeymoons. His most recent solo endeavor however embodies a song writer deeply involved with his own vision of sound, resulting in an accomplishment strong enough to stand on its own. Matt delivers a longing and emotional outreach through Honeymoons's six delicate songs and immersing into them provides a feeling of understanding and affiliation that turns solitude into a state of awareness and insight. The sparse instrumentation of broad guitar/effects and incisive drum machine adds immediacy to this recording and the airy arrangements keep the perfect balance between song structure, free-form playfulness and silence. Accompanied by Matt's echoing voice and personal lyrics, his recipe is being formed and dilated into an experience that requires devotion to be fully perceived and appreciated. "I'm See Through" may be the protagonist's self-perception but by guiding his compositions through foggy, pliant tone constellations he leaves us in doubt that Matt's output could ever be considered transparent. Honeymoons, his first album for Miasmah, is a perfect reminder of how interfering contradictions can make the most interesting installations. The confrontation of organic guitar movements, stirring poetry and patterns of beat arrangements create fascinating tension: Honeymoons's full scale won't unfold instantly but you will be captivated right away. The listener is allowed a deeply moving glance into a contemplative musician's mind by witnessing an outstanding statement for imparting the feeling of companionship. CD version comes in a digipak and is a limited edition of 500.
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SILVERSHOWER: Ice Fractions 1 Remixes 12" (MONTAGE 003EP)
The third release on Pooledmusic's techno-focused sister imprint, Montage, features Silvershower's Ice Fractions 1 (1996), the debut release of Ian Pooley's techno alias. The original Ice Fractions 1 arrived on Plus 8 Records showcased a tougher edge to Pooley's productions. In 2016, Pooley is still maintaining his high standards, revisiting and updating past work in the form of reissues & remixes and issuing fresh original material such. This new edition of the Ice Fractions 12" supplies the two original lead tracks and a 2016 remix of each by Pooley himself.
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MR. TOPHAT: From Another Dimension 12" (MFF 15009EP)
Mr. Tophat, an enigmatic Swedish house head, presents From Another Dimension. Mr. Tophat serves up three of his textbook trips down the rabbit hole. "Aliens From Another Dimension" is a squeaky adventure in sound, navigating the inner-workings of Mr. Tophat's imagination and penchant for sci-fi. "Prophet Funk" is a chugging, progressive slice of hip house surrealism. Its quirky call and response melodies and gawky vocals are straight out of an episode of the Twilight Zone. "Message To The Stars" features a funky breakbeat underpinned by discordant melodies and lead lines that resonate with the head and the heart.
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ETHYL & FLORI/OUR MUTUAL FRIEND: Lacewing/Burnside 12" (MFR 003EP)
Long-time London based collaborators Ethyl & Flori combines their talents with enigmatic label owners, Our Mutual Friend. Ethyl & Flori open the package with otherworldly cut "Lacewing", driven by a rolling bass and delicately sprinkled with ethereal chime hits and lingering piano melodies. Our Mutual Friend deliver a hypnotic, layered remix, focusing on down-tempo percussion and glitched samples. Our Mutual Friend open up the flip with "Burnside", laying down chattering bass hits shuffled alongside soothing melodic chimes. Ethyl & Flori deliver a toughened remix, injecting some of their relentless techno style with murky synth notes and dark atmospherics.
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FOLAMOUR: Fort Bellefleur 12" (NOIRE 001EP)
Equally influenced by French '90s house, soul, gospel and hip-hop, Folamour's Fort Bellefleur is his first release on Noire & Blanche. It's a record to play at home or in the club. Folamour is the co-founder of Moonrise Hill Material and has been pushing sunny, soulful and housy wax and CDs for few years now, all around France and elsewhere.
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ZIUR: Deeform 12" (OBJ 004EP)
Ziúr is a female Berlin-based producer and she's bringing some future club industrial vibes to Objects with Deeform. Ziúr has come a long way from her experimental noisy punk band Sissters. Punk vibes still run through the dark and bass-heavy sound of Deeform though. Her use of environmental noises, dogs barking and the like, are evocative of cityscapes and dimming lighting when the streets meet dusk. "My testing ground [for my own music] is when I work at a venue and I do a sound check," she explains. "If people freak out, then I know that it's a good track."
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GRAU, DANIEL: El Leon Bailarin CD (DOO 16002CD)
Oom Dooby Dochas present a reissue of Daniel Grau's El Leon Bailarin, originally released in 1980. El Leon Bailarin shows the typical trademarks of its Venezuelan creator Daniel Grau. Spaced-out disco grooves with some nifty female vocals aspirated gently upon the light-footed waves of synthesizer melodies and pulsating rhythms. An exception is the second track "Con En Cielo En Tus Ojos" which is a lush and utterly relaxed floating Latin pop number with a repetitive vocal line breathing an atmosphere of peace. There is definitely more color on this album than expected from listening to the Disco Fantasy (DOO 16001CD/LP, 1979) record which in fact was a strong piece already. Fans of Donna Summer during the late '70s will love the silky, yet vivid feel of the steady pulse the rhythms offer on El Leon Bailarin. This is one of those albums that should have been legendary among the dancing public when it was released - peppered with memorable tunes that work well even decades after its release. Looking beyond the surface, dig this is a real jewel of its genre.
$10.39 UPC: 710473604321 ELECTRONIC
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PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS: Arc Angel 3x12" (OSTGUT 023LP)
3x12" version. Includes digital download. Luke Slater returns to Ostgut Ton with a Planetary Assault Systems album titled Arc Angel. Staying true to the project's initial mission statement, Slater comments on the new yet familiar musical direction: "For me, music has to go forward. I'd feel I was cheating by sticking to tried-and-tested formulas." With Arc Angel, Planetary Assault Systems departs to new musical frontiers by focusing on melody, but staying rooted in the purist values of techno. While the album title may sound like a reference to spiritual matters, it hints to rather secular affairs. Arc Angel is a postmodernist, non-comfortist techno album first and foremost. In the tradition of Slater's previous albums with Ostgut Ton - The Messenger (OSTGUT 010LP/020CD, 2011) and Temporary Suspension (OSTGUT 004LP/009CD, 2009) - its musical motifs radiate around polymorphic and extraterrestrial sounds, using contemporary instrumental language, but with an emphasis on compatible musical phrases. "With this album it was very much a case of limitation and focus around the idea of alternative melody," Slater says, "I love music that takes you somewhere new. All music for this album had to pass that test. At the same time I wanted to re-root the foundations of what I see as techno into that and focus on melody, rather than a track just being a beat." While there are nods to the past, Arc Angel aims for the future. There's shimmering sounds reminiscent of light beams being fired ("Tri Fn Trp"), pulsing signals in deep space ("Angel Of The East", "Sonar Falls", "Groucho") and rather harsh aesthetics ("The Last Scene"). Its melodic range includes hypnotic arrangements ("Merry Go Round", "Blue Monk"), distorted bells ("Revolution One"), rainbow noise and spatial effects - for the most part meshing with heavy kick drums ("Message From The Drone Sector", "The Rider"), sometimes using reduced beat patterns ("Max"), at times turning to repetitious loops, analog synth pads and alienated vocal bits ("Interlude 1 to 6"). Despite its musical richness, all gear had to fit onto a small table. "I love software, hardware, technology; but because we have almost endless choice of sound creating devices, it drove me to using very limited and focused equipment. Actually taking influences from the way an original blues guy... He has the guitar, the box and voice - I have the 909 and 808." Includes digital download of the single tracks and the continuous album mix.
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PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS: Arc Angel 2CD (OSTGUT 037CD)
Luke Slater returns to Ostgut Ton with a Planetary Assault Systems album titled Arc Angel. Staying true to the project's initial mission statement, Slater comments on the new yet familiar musical direction: "For me, music has to go forward. I'd feel I was cheating by sticking to tried-and-tested formulas." With Arc Angel, Planetary Assault Systems departs to new musical frontiers by focusing on melody, but staying rooted in the purist values of techno. While the album title may sound like a reference to spiritual matters, it hints to rather secular affairs. Arc Angel is a postmodernist, non-comfortist techno album first and foremost. In the tradition of Slater's previous albums with Ostgut Ton - The Messenger (OSTGUT 010LP/020CD, 2011) and Temporary Suspension (OSTGUT 004LP/009CD, 2009) - its musical motifs radiate around polymorphic and extraterrestrial sounds, using contemporary instrumental language, but with an emphasis on compatible musical phrases. "With this album it was very much a case of limitation and focus around the idea of alternative melody," Slater says, "I love music that takes you somewhere new. All music for this album had to pass that test. At the same time I wanted to re-root the foundations of what I see as techno into that and focus on melody, rather than a track just being a beat." While there are nods to the past, Arc Angel aims for the future. There's shimmering sounds reminiscent of light beams being fired ("Tri Fn Trp"), pulsing signals in deep space ("Angel Of The East", "Sonar Falls", "Groucho") and rather harsh aesthetics ("The Last Scene"). Its melodic range includes hypnotic arrangements ("Merry Go Round", "Blue Monk"), distorted bells ("Revolution One"), rainbow noise and spatial effects - for the most part meshing with heavy kick drums ("Message From The Drone Sector", "The Rider"), sometimes using reduced beat patterns ("Max"), at times turning to repetitious loops, analog synth pads and alienated vocal bits ("Interlude 1 to 6"). Despite its musical richness, all gear had to fit onto a small table. "I love software, hardware, technology; but because we have almost endless choice of sound creating devices, it drove me to using very limited and focused equipment. Actually taking influences from the way an original blues guy... He has the guitar, the box and voice - I have the 909 and 808." Includes digital download of the single tracks and the continuous album mix.
$13.79 UPC: 880319780523 ELECTRONIC
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SCOTT, PATRICE: Odyss' Dance 12" (POEM 005EP)
People of Earth reaches its fifth release with Patrice Scott's Odyss' Dance. He delivers two deep, late night, Detroit inspired tracks, along with a bonus cut.
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POOM: 2016 LP (POOM 001LP)
Gatefold LP version. Poom present their debut album, 2016. Poom differ from the French song scenery with their electronic sounds inherited from the French touch, their love for funk and disco and a hint of symphonic orchestra. The influences of French artists such as Michel Legrand, Daft Punk, Gainsbourg or Air are apparent on 2016. The texts are intimate and their performance swings between elation and melancholy which contrasts with their energetic arrangements. Taking advantage of their art studies, Poom created the whole visual universe of the project. Their debut album gathers ten tracks written since the start of the project, with two modern covers of French writer and artist Boris Vian and French singer Georges Brassens. Their first two singles "Les Voiles" and "De la Vitesse à l'vresse" were released in 2014 and 2015 on Partyfine and got great press in France. It also received surprising international recognition, Pharrell playlisted "Les Voiles" on his Beats1 show for example.
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PUCE MARY: The Spiral LP (PI 169LP)
Repressed. The Spiral is Puce Mary's third LP for Posh Isolation. It follows where 2014's critically acclaimed Persona left off. Working more precisely than ever, The Spiral binds the listener in a tight web of sharp synthesizers, hammering percussion, obscured vocals, field recordings, and blistering noise. Intimidatingly personal, though never allowing the introspection to become aimless, Puce Mary manages to honor the history of industrial music and noise while simultaneously transforming it. The Spiral is harsh, but the aggression of the compositions never feels unnecessarily overstated or irrelevant. As the feverish sexuality of The Spiral comes into focus as the album's cornerstone, the exertion of the recording is problematized and turns errant. The vestige of safety in dominance and submission is antagonized as audience and artist take turns being dealt blows. The Spiral charts this instability as a perennial tonic in sound. With an already impressive discography and live career, Puce Mary has manifested herself as a key voice in new experimental electronic music. This album is further proof that she has earned her praise.
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A1. The Spiral
A2. Night is a Trap ll
A3. The Temptation to Exist
A4. Enter Into Them
B1. Masks are Aids ll
B2. The Actor
B3. No Memory
B4. Slow Agony of a Dying Orgasm
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BLOWN OUT: New Cruiser LP (REPOSE 053LP)
Newcastle Trio Blown Out continue on their voyage through deep fuckin' space with New Cruiser. Power-driven, psychedelic rock, New Cruiser is made of two huge tracks of blistering leads, mind-melting brain changes and max fuzz. Influenced tonally by "Peace In Mississippi"/"Crash Landing" third generation cassette culture and tight Grand Funk oblivion rhythm mind chemistry. Blown Out features members of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Khünnt, Bong and HaiKai No Ku. "New Cruiser" dives straight in with some deep, rolling bass, crashing drums and the trademark guitar from Mike Vest. The track rolls and pitches along its way, based, as ever, on repetition (the bass of John-Michael Hedley becomes positively hypnotic) while the guitar weaves heavy, reverb-drenched patterns in the sky. Blown Out have become masters of creating music that is heavy enough to affect the gravitational pull of nearby planets whilst still having the ability to mesmerize. If "Phase II" may sound a tad familiar to some, that's because it is a reworked, longer version of the same on Celestial Sphere (2016). It continues pretty much where "New Cruiser" left off: blistering, fuzzy wah-wah, jackhammer drums and undulating bass all coming together to create an Heironymous Bosch like vision of hell. Vest's guitar positively wails at times like some poor tormented denizen of the underworld. Like "New Cruiser". it is the repetition that holds the power. Given all of the free-wheeling, freak-out guitar, it has a structure and a form to which the rhythm section sticks rigidly. This is the less-than-secret ingredient in the Blown Out recipe - tightness of form that allows a freedom of expression - sounds oxymoronic but without the drums/bass creating a framework, the guitar of Vest would sound chaotic and functionless, but instead it sounds free but purposeful. In all, New Cruiser is another unqualified success, guaranteed to scramble the brains and scare the neighbors. This is what "psychedelic" music is all about. Not flowers and sugar cubes and paeans to long lost pastoral idylls, but music that can transport you. RIYL: Psychedelic rock, spaced-out jams, Acid Mothers Temple, Bong, The Cosmic Dead, Les Rallizes Denudes, Earthless. Includes a download code. Edition of 400.
$16.99 UPC: 666017308319 ROCK
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BEACH BOYS, THE: Live In Japan '66 LP (RV 2047LP)
The Beach Boys, live from Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan on January 13th, 1966. As 1966 got underway, Brian Wilson was crafting Pet Sounds in Los Angeles, while his bandmates continued to tour. Mike Love, Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson and Bruce Johnston started the year by flying to Japan, where they toured from January 7th to the 23rd. Presented here is the entire NHK Radio broadcast from Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan on January 13th, 1966. The superb performance finds them in excellent form as they tackle a cross-section of their most popular material to date, both originals and covers. Includes background notes and images, and a bonus rare interview for TV Magazine.
$16.39 EAN: 5292317204713 ROCK
A1. Fun, Fun, Fun
A2. Little Honda
A3. Medley: Little Deuce Coupe / Shut Down / Surfin' USA
A4. Surfer Girl
A5. Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
A6. Hawaii
A7. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
B1. Monster Mash
B2. Help Me Rhonda
B3. California Girls
B4. Barbara Ann
B5. I Get Around
B6. Johnny B. Goode
B7. Interview In Japan
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DUBFIRE & OLIVER HUNTEMANN: Elements Remixed 12" (SENSO 017EP)
Dubfire & Oliver Huntemann revisit their Elements project with a new series of killer remixes. Terra, originally released in 2011, is remixed by Joseph Capriati. The Italian techno headliner delivers a signature slice of muscular, driving techno - taut, dramatic and devastating. Fuego, originally released in 2010, is remixed by Julien Jeweil. The Frenchman's remix of "Fuego" is stripped back machine funk primed for big systems and even bigger moments.
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D/P/I: Composer CD (SHELTER 074CD)
D/P/I (Alex Gray) is a musician, DJ and visual artist from USA; he has made music under the alias of Deep Magic and as a part of various Sun Araw Trios, Duos and Quartets. Now, most of the time, he plays drums, guitar, or saxophone at home for his other half & two cats. Here he presents Composer. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M.
"Composer is an album of rhythms that, once started, eventually completed themselves without much input from the composer. The character of a rhythm can develop very simply/unconsciously with just a slightly different part of the hand hitting a drum, or the wrist getting tired, causing trembling and stuttering that further magnifies the rhythmic stability of the pattern and/or player. With electronics, it's different physically, as you are not 'hitting' anything, but the link to the subconscious/unconscious, remains analogous. Every adjustment to a single sound/pattern can reveal complexities that were not apparent when the sound/pattern started. A natural flow begins, similar to the development of complex accents via 'human error' of using an ordinary djembe or conga: as the composer begins to be entranced by the sound/pattern, with a midi-mapped set of physical knobs, controlling complex processes/effects - each effect/process assumes its own character for that, almost quantum-like, layer of improvisation - layer by layer, until the simple layers of sound/patterns have naturally developed into compositions that reflect the seeming-instability, excitement, and sadness in time, here referred to as a fixed, unmoving element in the 'universe', that our human software is intrinsically dependent on to interpret these rhythms and the rest of the material world. This album was fun, exciting and unpredictable until the day it was 'finished'. I hope this album encourages people to think for themselves. This isn't a 'techno', 'experimental', 'abstract', 'dance', 'IDM', or any 'genre' of album. I hope you know what I mean. I hope that music hasn't lost the quality of inter-being 'beyond categorization'. I also hope that, to a small extent, this album can act as a beacon of creativity for future generations, who are currently being completely saturated by marketing content for products and media that will do nothing but confuse and distract them." -- Alex Gray, July 2016.
$10.99 UPC: 769791963696 ELECTRONIC
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GARVARENTZ, GEORGES: Panic Button CD (SKOK 003CD)
Skokiaan present a reissue of Georges Garvarentz's Panic Button, originally released in 1964. The mastermind behind this album can be seen as a luminary in the field of movie soundtracks, especially for the '60s and '70s, his career lasting til the early '90s, up to his untimely death. Panic Button is the third album of its kind from Garvarentz, composed for an Italian low budget comedy film, of the same name, released in 1964. The most interesting fact about the movie is the participation of cult actress Jayne Mansfield, who also was part of the inner circle of Anton Lavey in the '60s. The music is a colorful trip through different styles from Italian traditional music to lush orchestral baroque music with most of the tunes being laid down by a well-rehearsed, big band. With big band swing background, Garvarentz explores the more light-footed corners of this genre and the result is a breathtaking joy. The melodies bring images of crowded market places and nifty street restaurants in Italian cities. The performances have the right amount of steam and passion to get the listener dancing and singing along to these sunny harmonies. The pieces themselves are perfectly placed with high energetic moments and gentle parts following each other to sustain the attention of the listener and underline the different scenes of the movie in an ideal way. For fans of old movie scores from the early '60s that make use of big band orchestration, hip-shaking grooves to the tunes and the occasional hushed moods. Panic Button is all about fun and felicity with a deeper feeling accompanying the compositions.
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SHIHAB, SAHIB: Sahib's Jazz Party CD (SKOK 006CD)
Skokiaan present a reissue of Sahib Shihab's Sahib's Jazz Party, originally released in 1964. In a time before jazz music went free and avant garde, there were a couple of inspired souls who put an emphasis on extended jams and improvised, yet melodic parts based on a rather repetitive rhythm background. The result in turning away from the rather artistic and complicated bebop was the modal jazz that came up in the second half of the 1950s, lasting as the leading style until the mid to late '60s. Sahib Shihab can be seen as one of the protagonists of modal jazz despite being more of an underground star in the scene and being more popular in Europe than in the USA, from where he originates. He often worked as a member of an ensemble but had a couple of albums out as a bandleader. Sahib's Jazz Party is his third album as a bandleader. Recorded live in its entirety Sahib's Jazz Party features a few highly entertaining announcements by the master himself leaving the impression that Sahib was a bit far out that day. The performance is beautiful and passionate. He plays flute and saxophone backed up by a Danish jazz orchestra even with an electric guitar, in clean mode of course. Especially in the third part of the "Conversation" piece the dialogues between saxophone and trumpet are amazing while in "Charade" Shihab uses his flute to conjure a mind-relaxing atmosphere. The rhythms are all quite hot and whipping. The drummers must be some kind of madmen. Yes, there are two drummers indicated for the "Conversation" long track and the ever pulsating and vibrating rhythm patterns will prove that right. Bass and guitar rather back up everything and fill the gaps with simple notes which add just enough to leave the whole picture feeling full and round. Sahib's Jazz Party holds the same level as the most appreciated works of Miles Davis and John Coltrane during their modal jazz stint. All-in-all, the whole band is steaming and so full of passion, any listener will be electrified without fail.
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ALPHA & OMEGA MEETS RAS TINNY: No Beginning No End LP (AO 2016LP)
UK dub pioneers Alpha & Omega present their first new studio album since 2012. No Beginning No End is a nod to the classic A&O sound yet illustrates A&O's forward thinking and distinctive outlook on reggae music. Featuring the unique vocal stylings and astoundingly intelligent lyrics of Surinamese singer Ras Tinny. Another A&O classic, and well worth the wait.
$16.39 UPC: 634158537066 WORLD
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BANA OK: Bakitani CD (STCD 1042CD)
1993 release. Bana OK present Bakitani. When the colossus of Congo, Franco Luambo, died in 1989, the great band he had led for more than 30 years, OK Jazz, was of course, devastated. But its members survived their enormous loss and lived to rock another day. Nine of the best of them carried on as Bana OK - "Children of OK" - and sustained the signature tout puissant ("all-powerful") sound of their late master's band. The leader was saxophonist and composer Rondot Kasongo Wa Kasongo, who had long been Franco's right-hand man. Three more of these "children" were veteran guitarists Fan Fan Sesengo, Papa Noel and Thierry Mantuika. And the singers included the female star of the last years of OK Jazz, Baniel Mbambou, and the heartthrob tenor Malage de Lugendo. Bakitani would have made Franco proud.
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AFRICAN VIRTUOSES: The Classic Guinean Guitar Group CD (STCD 3024CD)
2007 release. The Classic Guinean Guitar Group features instrumental recordings, made between 1970 and 1983 by the guitar-playing Diabaté brothers of Guinea, who, in various formations, led the African Virtuoses. These lush, intricate and lilting, their music carries echoes of Spain, Latin America and even the Paris of Django Reinhardt, yet its roots lie deep in Maninka traditions. This is African acoustic guitar music at its most intimate and beguiling.
$10.39 UPC: 740042302426 WORLD
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VA: Urgent Jumping!: East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics 2CD (STCD 3067-68CD)
A collection of 27 East African golden oldies from the '70s and '80s compiled by the British DJ and journalist John Armstrong. One well-known word and a phrase in KiSwahili - "safari" and "hakuna matata" - are both useful and euphonious, but they aren't enough for a sophisticated music-lover. "Zilipendwa" denotes an object of admiration, but in a musical context it applies to what might be called "golden oldies". "Serebuka" is a lovely word that translates as "blissful expressive dance". "Musiki wa dansi" (the KiSwahili-English exchange goes both ways) is the general term for "zilipendwa" that inspires "serebuka", and it's what this double-album is all about. KiSwahili is spoken throughout East Africa (a first language for many people, a lingua franca for most) and is sung in various musical styles, but other languages give voice to other styles in this culturally diverse region, and musiki wa dansi encompasses some of them, too. One of the most prominent is benga, which originated in the 1970s among musicians of the Luo ethnic group in western Kenya, drawing on traditional rhythms and melodies but wielding electric guitars and basses. From further west came rumba and soukous, brought by Congolese émigrés to Kenya and Tanzania, where they formed bands that often included musicians from all three countries, sang in Lingala, KiSwahili and local languages, and have been enormously popular and influential since the '60s. The Arabic and Indian complexions of taraab from Zanzibar, Lamu and other islands off the East African coast colored pop music in the mainland cities of Mombassa, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as well, particularly with the chakacha beat. Armstrong gives lively recollections of a bygone time in a wonderful place grace the album booklet. Two and one half hours of 21 Kenyan, Tanzanian and Congolese bands. Features: L'Orch. Dar International, Afro 70, Kauma Boys Band, Super Mambo Jazz Band "69", Maquis du Zaire, Victoria Jazz Band, Orchestre Conga Internationale, The Golden Kings Band, Sunburst Band, Urafiki Jazz Band, L'Orchestre Grand Piza, Hafusa Abasi & Slim Ali and the Kikulacho Yahoos Band, L'Orch. Moja One, Sega Sega Band, L'Orchestre Super Mambo, Earthquake Jazz Band, Vijana Jazz Band, Orchestre Special Liwanza, Juwata Jazz Band and Orchestre Super Jambo.
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MARQUEE, ANDREA: Zumbi CD (STCD 2012CD)
2000 release. Andrea Marquee made Zumbi, her first album, with São Paulo's YBrazil? musicians's collective, most notably guitarist and composer Maurício Tagliari and electronic beats producer Rica Amabis. They reimagined pieces by earlier Brazilian innovators such as Caetano Veloso and Jorge Ben, and Marquee and Tagliari wrote original songs that drew from samba, bossa nova, tropicália, hip-hop and EDM. The result was, as The Guardian applauded, "an impressive collision of Brazilian melody with new global rhythm patters and technology." All Music called Andrea Marquee "one of the most interesting and adventurous singers in Brazilian popular music."
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ZONNEVELD, REINIER: Megacity Servant CD (SVT 178CD)
Reinier Zonneveld's third studio effort, Megacity Servant, stands as a coherent 16-piece techno outfit tinged with experimental tones while playfully deconstructing classic acid and disco fragments. Reinier's style of production ranges from cavernous power tracks to more concise trips subdued with melancholic piano-stemmed soundscapes. "Plastic People" swiftly introduces a raw techno dungeon mood with varying elements make for a surrealist atmosphere. Following up in the same timbre, a heavy-hitting percussion sets off "8 Ball". The moving bassline is revealed as centerpiece, while faint vocals antagonize the rhythm. Cari Golden stellar vocals and skillful lyrics on "Things We Might Have Said" shine paired with Zonneveld's production prowess. Seizing attention for the full length of the track, the entire arrangement seduces the listener, making for a clamorous earworm. "Disturbed Minds" offers an experimental set of distorted synths permeating the speakers. "Spacedge" comes in the form of a groovy, laid back offering, with a blunt loopy vocal and a fractured field recording of over 50 layers as memorable high points. "Gateway" has a focus on dancefloor antics, elements zigzag, mimicking the initial arrangement. Having created an immersive loop, the percussion switches sides playing the melody. "Megacity Servant" makes use of the classic Roland SH-101's ability to emit a nearly tridimensional sound ray, unfolding newer details with each listen. The relentless melody, padded with grave synth arrays, establishes a melancholic mood. "EHT" unveils a heavy-hitting resolution, as the artist layers on hefty polarizing synths. A powerful arrangement that is unsettling and playful at the same time, diving into dark techno realms. Sharp clangs and high synths pepper the melody in "Modern Voodoo" amounting to a relentless, mind-reprogramming tidbit. "Dive" slows down the storyline, leaving just enough room to breathe until "Dynamite" pops in. Bolstering a progressive melody with a spacy vocal hook, the track turns the usual SH-101's '70s string loop into a techno-palatable disco instance. "Sharp Bust 2.2" previously released, is now reworked and reconstructed to amp up and stabilize the raw techno energy. Aymar's lush voice offsets the metallic production pads in "Beast" which unfolds as a spacious and multilateral sonic journey. American pop-folk singer Simone White comes "You Could Be The One I Want", a ludic techno ballad. A steady groove with a wandering synth line, "Abstinence" brings a moment of brief calm, followed by pure downtempo in "Anti Matter". Includes download code.
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BUDD + ERALDO BERNOCCHI, HAROLD: Music For 'Fragments From The Inside' CD (SR 239CD)
2016 repress; originally released in 2005. The long-awaited collaborative release from legendary American minimalist composer and pianist Harold Budd and Milanese producer and experimental electronic composer Eraldo Bernocchi. Recorded during a magic night in the courtyard of a Renaissance palazzo in Siena, Italy, Music For 'Fragments From The Inside' melds Budd's light tonal wash and sparse keyboard treatments with the deep electronic rumbles of Bernocchi. An astonished piano player drifts on beats and scrapes, while bass and drones join together harmonically to produce one of the most emotionally involving compositions ever heard.
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FIS: From Patterns To Details CD (SUB 008CD)
FIS presents From Patterns To Details, his second full length release. Natural patterns of organic life make the most efficient use of space and surface area and in permaculture design one observes natural patterns in a landscape and plans details accordingly. Taking a self-occurring pattern like the veins of a leaf, contour lines, or the spirals of water and letting that guide interactions with the surface of the earth. The ethos is to work with natural flow and processes rather than to impose. Mirroring this idea, From Patterns To Details draws from the sense of a deeper underlying order. It sees continuity between environment and individual, continuity between external bodies and the internal emotional landscapes that music can communicate beyond the affordances of language. The album embraces technology as something that is not in conflict with the organic processes of nature. Technology is treated as life in a different state. Human beings are gardens in a different state; all temporary forms of the same thing. From Patterns To Details imagines states of alignment with all and harmonious design, a complete integration between personal and external systems whether organic or technological. FIS composes physical, spirited, exploratory electronic music inspired in part by his work as a permaculture designer. Initially developing his craft on the sound systems of his birth country New Zealand, he went on to a string of critically acclaimed releases on Tri Angle Records and Loopy.
$10.99 EAN: 5065002106186 ELECTRONIC
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FIS: From Patterns To Details LP (SUB 018LP)
LP version. FIS presents From Patterns To Details, his second full length release. Natural patterns of organic life make the most efficient use of space and surface area and in permaculture design one observes natural patterns in a landscape and plans details accordingly. Taking a self-occurring pattern like the veins of a leaf, contour lines, or the spirals of water and letting that guide interactions with the surface of the earth. The ethos is to work with natural flow and processes rather than to impose. Mirroring this idea, From Patterns To Details draws from the sense of a deeper underlying order. It sees continuity between environment and individual, continuity between external bodies and the internal emotional landscapes that music can communicate beyond the affordances of language. The album embraces technology as something that is not in conflict with the organic processes of nature. Technology is treated as life in a different state. Human beings are gardens in a different state; all temporary forms of the same thing. From Patterns To Details imagines states of alignment with all and harmonious design, a complete integration between personal and external systems whether organic or technological. FIS composes physical, spirited, exploratory electronic music inspired in part by his work as a permaculture designer. Initially developing his craft on the sound systems of his birth country New Zealand, he went on to a string of critically acclaimed releases on Tri Angle Records and Loopy.
$14.99 EAN: 5065002106179 ELECTRONIC
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KJELLVANDER, CHRISTIAN: A Village: Natural Light LP+CD (TR 344LP)
LP version. Includes CD. "In regards to the album A Village: Natural Light by Christian Kjellvander, I am writing to you as a friend of Christian Kjellvander. I was sitting in Christian's kitchen in Malmö when he picked up a guitar and played the album Faya (2005) in its entirety. I was sitting in his living room in Rynge when he played me the final mix of I Saw Her From Here/I Saw Here From Her (2007). He was at my house in Denmark when he played me the demos for The Rough and Rynge (2010). When Christian bought an old church in a tiny Swedish village I brought my family. We stayed there right before he started recording The Pitcher (TR 273CD/LP, 2013). Walking around that big beautiful room, hearing how beautiful it sounded and knowing that this sound would be captured on many amazing albums to come was comforting. This new album is the best there is. A Village: Natural Light is an album about living, loving and dying. When I listen to these songs I think about how important it is to really live your life. These songs right here are about staying and riding it out. Create a life of your own, surround yourself with good people, don't let bastards get you down and make the most of what you got. Make sure to love. Christian told me that he had started working part-time in a cemetery in a small Swedish village while writing these songs because he wanted to get the realest job he could and let it bleed into his songs. Make something that truly sounded like where he was - in a village, like a microcosm of the world we live in today facing life and death. This leads me to thinking about the beauty in mourning and how it's an important part of life. I think about how we isolate ourselves from other people and how it takes away our reasons to mourn. A mixture of genuine happiness, sadness and appreciation. The album was recorded at Christian's old church in Österåker by Ruben Engzell. The band really made the most out of that beautiful sounding room. A truly great album by a truly great artist who has been releasing nothing but great albums since the late '90s." -- Henry Toft. Mixed by Craig Schumacher. Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering.
$16.39 EAN: 4015698006780 ROCK
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LUSTMORD: Dark Matter CD (TO 102CD)
Lustmord, often credited as the originator of dark ambient, presents Dark Matter. Dark Matter was derived from an audio library of cosmological activity collected between 1993 and 2003; the audio was gathered from various sources including NASA (Cape Canaveral, Ames, The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arecibo), The Very Large Array, The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and various educational institutions and private contributors throughout the USA. Lustmord writes: "The universe we inhabit is a vast expanse far larger than we are able to comprehend. As we attempt to understand its underlying structure and as we gain new insight into the nature of matter, new questions arise and further gaps in our understanding are revealed. Behind the world that we experience lies a veil of darkness and much is hidden between, beyond and unseen. We are limited by our inability to truly grasp the infinite breadth of the Universe, the time scales involved in its measure and our insignificant position within. Some things will always be unknowable, and existence does not begin or end with man's conception. Everything that has ever been observed by man, even with our most sophisticated instruments amounts, to less than five percent of the universe. Approximately sixty-eight percent of the universe is unseen dark energy and approximately twenty-seven percent is unseen dark matter. We have yet to discover what dark matter is, and only know the things it is not. Although it has not been directly observed, its existence and properties are inferred from its effects on visible matter, its influence on the universe's large-scale structure, and its effects in the cosmic microwave background. The universe began of darkness, not of light. While space is a virtual vacuum, it does not mean there is no sound in space. It exists in space as naturally occurring electromagnetic vibrations, many well within the range of human hearing while others exist at different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and these can be adjusted with software to bring them within our audio range. The recordings of these interactions in space come from several different environments including radio, ultra violet, microwave and X-ray data and within these spectra a wide range of sources including interstellar plasma and molecules, radio galaxies, pulsars masers and quasars, charged particle interactions and emissions, radiation, exotic astrophysical objects, cosmic jets and flares from magnetars." Recorded in Los Angeles between October and December of 2015. Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft.
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VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE: The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes Vol. 2 LP (TUMMY 002LP)
Tummy Tapes present the long-awaited second installment of The Velvet Underground's The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes. Recorded through a microphone jammed in the back of Lou Reed's amp right around the release of their third album, The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes are formidable in their unadulterated rock and roll fire and fury. They are a revelation for anyone who hasn't paid close attention to Reed's dynamic guitar playing which in this set is a monolithic roar, a pulverizing electronic "kaiju" (strange beast) grinding the whole universe into pebble and sand. Paste-on covers. All tracks recorded at The Boston Tea Party on March 15, 1969.
$16.39 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. I'm Waiting For The Man (7:02)
A2. What Goes On (7:37)
A3. Ferry Boat Bill (4:34)
B1. Candy Says (4:25)
B2. I'm Set Free (4:49)
B3. White Light/White Heat (7:33)
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RHYS, GRUFF: Set Fire To The Stars (Original Soundtrack) CD (TN 093CD)
Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack for the film Set Fire To The Stars (2014). Although recorded around the same time as Gruff's last LP (2014's hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and atomic age bop, it's a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff's increasingly brilliant solo catalogue. Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars: "This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas's first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also kept the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn't try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song 'Atom Bomb' which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way. Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived 'Agro-Jazz' quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. 'Chop Shop' features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting. Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London."
$11.99 EAN: 5060099506437 SOUNDTRACK
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RHYS, GRUFF: Set Fire To The Stars (Original Soundtrack) LP (TN 093LP)
LP version. Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack for the film Set Fire To The Stars (2014). Although recorded around the same time as Gruff's last LP (2014's hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and atomic age bop, it's a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff's increasingly brilliant solo catalogue. Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars: "This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas's first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also kept the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn't try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song 'Atom Bomb' which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way. Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived 'Agro-Jazz' quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. 'Chop Shop' features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting. Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London."
$17.79 EAN: 5060099506420 SOUNDTRACK
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AURA: Aura LP (AGS 002LP)
"Superb late-seventies soul from Hawaii. Sleekly bumptious, with brilliant musicianship and classy arrangements, dosed with jazz and funk (by way of Kool And The Gang), easily traversing ballads and booty-shakers... just the kind of thing Wayne Henderson was doing across the Pacific at the time with At Home productions, for Side Effect, The McCrarys and co. Great stuff."
$20.00 UPC: 840096424676 ROCK
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BAIRD SISTERS, THE: Until You Find Your Green CD (BING 117CD)
"Considering they've collaborated ever since they were kids living under the same roof, The Baird Sisters arguably could have made an album like Until You Find Your Green years ago. They've released two live recordings (the first recorded by their dad) and made plenty of demos, but this marks the first time Laura and Meg Baird decided to write and record a full-length on their own terms. The songs, recorded in Laura's house, have a familial intimacy joined by skillful depth, the ideal blend for a folk record, an equal mix of comfort and talent. These recordings capture the complexity of seventies progressive folk rock, emphasizing acoustic instrumentation with a lack of self-consciousness that can only come from a private domestic environment. Meg plays guitar, Laura banjo, singing in harmony, and ornamenting their songs with flute, cello, fiddle, mandolin, upright bass, percussion and a cricket chorus. Until You Find Your Green's songs seem traditional, but that's deceptive, and they unfold in greater depths the deeper attention paid to them."
$7.50 UPC: 600197011720 ROCK
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LADY WRAY: Smiling/Make Me Over 7" (BC 002-7)
"Big Crown Records is proud to present the second single from Lady Wray's Queen Alone album 'Smiling'. An instant feel good anthem, 'Smiling' finds Lady Wray reminding us to keep our heads up and keep a smile on our faces through whatever life deals us. With production from Leon Michels & Thomas Brenneck that rides the line between bubblegum pop and lo fi tough grit, Nicole lays out with a voice as encouraging as the lyrics she is singing. Listeners will be hard pressed not to find themselves singing along after the first listen. A proper good vibe tune guaranteed to move dance floors the world over."
$6.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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79.5: Terrorize My Heart 7" (BC 039-7)
"Hard to categorize, easy to love, 79.5 has been making tons of noise around New York City for the past year. 'Terrorize My Heart', a tune leaving no room for gray, finds the ladies of 79.5 walking the line between vulnerability and forthrightness. Setting out with admonishments of love and infatuation that are checked by the bluntness of women who've lived in the Big Apple for years, 'is it her or is it me, that's how it's gotta be'. A smashing rhythm section covered in punching Rhodes chops, flute parts, and dubbed out reggae rhythm guitar sets the perfect vibe for the ladies to trade off leads and come back together in three part harmonies: All the while taking the whole tune from half time to double time. The B side, coined the Disco Dub mixed by Jens Jungkurth, finds Michels' production taking 'Terrorize My Heart' from the change where it goes to four on the floor and lacing it with drums and a clap track that absolutely pushes this tune over the edge into the realm of dancefloor banger."
$6.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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PABLO, AUGUSTUS: King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown LP (CT 085LP)
2016 repress. Reissue of the 1976 historic collaboration between producer instrumentalist Augustus Pablo and dub engineer King Tubby.
$9.50 UPC: 881026000850 WORLD
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MAGIC IN THREES: IV LP (GED 1011LP)
"Magic In Threes return with their fourth full length album! IV also marks the groups return to the LP format, their first album on vinyl since their debut in 2011. Magic In Threes have always dealt in moods, grooves and smokey vibes, IV is no exception. G.E.D. Soul's instrumental cinematic soul bandits deliver: From slow rolled synth drenched affairs to hyped up thematic joints, this record is a DJs delight with nothing but the toughest beats and arrangements."
$13.00 UPC: 030955017396 ROCK
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GLORIAS NAVALES: Cofradia Nautica LP (KYE 043LP)
"Kye is proud to present Cofradia Nautica the debut LP by Chile's Glorias Navales, and the follow-up to 2015's Carta a Maureen Tucker cassette on ETCS. 'Glorias Navales is a band based in Santiago, Chile, who combine local folk traditions and paganism with a post-Velvets aesthetic. Imagine Lou Reed, John Cale and Violeta Parra together, doing late night acoustic lo-fi trance jams in a rural area of Chile.' --Ivan Daguer. Drawn from live concert tapes recorded at BYM Records, and recordings made in the band's private practice space Cofradia Nautica offers a raw, unvarnished walkway straight into heart the of the contemporary Chilean underground. Cofradia Nautica arrives in a full-color matte stock sleeve with printed inner sleeves, mastered by Jason Lescalleet, in an edition of 400."
$13.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VERNON, MARK: Lend An Ear, Leave A Word LP (KYE 044LP)
"Kye is proud to present Lend An Ear, Leave A Word the new LP from Glasgow's Mark Vernon. 'The pieces composed for this album combine field recordings of contemporary Lisbon with found tape recordings from the past; reel-to-reel tapes, micro-cassettes and Dictaphones collected from the Feira de Ladra market, a popular and lively flea market in the Alfarma district. Each tape recording is an audio snapshot of a specific time; a family album in sound, a musical performance, a compilation of treasured music, or even just the fun of playing around with a tape recorder captured for posterity. Every thoughtless edit or push of the record button teleports us to a different time and place. The musical material extracted from the tapes is also an evocative signifier that locates it within a specific era. The interesting thing is how the tapes accumulate different strata of time even within a single side. There are consecutive chronological recordings but also sequences with unexpected breakthroughs where the user has carelessly fast-forwarded through the tape, randomly 'dropping-in' new recordings. These accidental edits create instantaneous new collages of sounds and voices. I have endeavored to retain the essence of these unintentional edits and unexpected outbursts in the pieces I have assembled here. The noisy whir and clicking of the various tape mechanisms is evident on many of the found recordings. As the material is sped up and slowed down it acts as an internal clock, a continuous, steady marker of time, almost like the second hand of a timepiece. All of the pieces contained here within explore one particular environment - the city of Lisbon. Field recordings by their very nature are time-based but the introduction of found tapes into the mix expands the time-scale of these studies from just the short period spent in the city making recordings, backwards to possibly forty or more years in the past. It is a portrait in time *and* place, an archaeology of sound. The result of the audio flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shores of low commerce in the flea markets of Lisbon.' --Mark Vernon. Lend An Ear, Leave A Word arrives in a full color matte stock sleeve with insert and download card that features additional pieces left off the LP due to time constraints. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet in an edition of 400."
$13.00 UPC: N/A EXPERIMENTAL
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COMET IS COMING, THE: Channel The Spirits LP+CD (BAY 104LP)
"Channel the Spirits is a starburst galaxy, a journey through the outer reaches of the cosmos. Over twelve tracks, our fearless stargazers evoke the ghosts of bold experimentalists such as Sun Ra, Funkadelic and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, reanimate them through 21st century technology and send them off hot-stepping into the greatest party the universe has seen. Keyboards, drums and electronics shimmer and soothe one moment and wig-flip wayward the next, while saxophonist King Shabaka squeezes sounds that echo like the exaltations of visionary voyagers drifting through interplanetary space and time. They shift from the elegiac and the experimental into iridescent molten jazz and full-on intergalactic groove mode. Dusted in cosmic magic, Channel the Spirits is more than an album--it is a séance, a reckoning, a prophecy, a mission. A trans-dimensional journey. The Comet Is Coming. Look busy."
$15.00 UPC: 843190010417 ROCK
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YOUNGE PRESENTS, ADRIAN: The Electronique Void: Black Noise CD (LL 033CD)
"This, too, is a story about control. It's a manual, maybe half Rosetta Stone, half bird guide. It was made the way they made electronic music in the good old days, all analog everything, right after synthesizers shrunk to a manageable size and you didn't have to trek down to a university to use one anymore. Hard-earned. Tastes different. Our parents' electronic. And its subject is staying together, that thing we thought was their province. It's about trying to fix what hurts. It's about knowing better. Black Noise is men talking to men about women; Lemonade is a woman talking to women about men, and they both orbit around a failure we take for granted like the sun: loving you is complicated. It's a skill; we forgot. Adrian Younge calls The Electronique Void an academic album, by which he means it is both instructional and informational. There's a problem at the heart of it, a woman who's been told that she's loved, but she doesn't recognize that, can't feel it, may have heard it all before, may be worrying about the wrong things. Jack Waterson, long a guitarist in Younge's band, plays the role of narrator, sounding professorial and rather superior as he lays out for the woman where she's erred. That vocoder you hear is Adrian, talking to her on a subterranean level, the way an artist must. There's a strong sense of rules here, a prescription and a presumption that there is an agreed upon way to do it, and there is also a wrong way, or at least a way that won't work. And the fact is, as didactic as that sounds, it might be the truth. Maybe everybody who's alone can be cured. The discourse on the album is the kind of thing that happens when you go blonde and then you can't keep 'em off you. These truths are cold and hard, and our hero begrudges the well-meaning advice being rained down upon her as any independent woman would. The science of love, its formulas and if-then constraints, causal relationships and observable properties, is best taught experientially, but learning it hurts so, so bad. Music, especially electronic music, reliant as it is on abstraction and unrepentant as it is about hijacking your physiological responses to tempo and rhythm and dynamics, is a way to get there without going through it. Electronic music as practiced and developed by pioneers like Dick Hyman and Raymond Scott and Wendy Carlos is precise and intentional. In making his first electronic album, Younge took his cues from them, reminding a contemporary audience what a synthesizer, deep in its heart, really could be. The lady of The Electronique Void, only ever seen through a man's eyes, who's being told what to do by him, sounds trapped by her history and by her position, her ancestors' trauma echoing through her lineage and booming out of her as a phobia, distrust, misapprehension, rational response to a fucked up situation. Waterson's text here seems to say that if his character could go back in time, catch her before the damage was done, she would be able to love. And that's reasonable. Don't get hooked. Don't do wifey shit for a fuck boy. Don't let it go to your head, no. It's also possible he has no idea what he's talking about. The lessons for men in The Electronique Void are unspoken but plain as day. This music is an urgent tutorial. Adrian Younge looks at us and sees the front line of a crisis, something we only have time to triage right now. This isn't romantic and it isn't about settling down. This is the fight of our lives: how to love."
$9.50 UPC: 856040005723 ELECTRONIC
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YOUNGE PRESENTS, ADRIAN: The Electronique Void: Black Noise LP (LL 033LP)
LP version. "This, too, is a story about control. It's a manual, maybe half Rosetta Stone, half bird guide. It was made the way they made electronic music in the good old days, all analog everything, right after synthesizers shrunk to a manageable size and you didn't have to trek down to a university to use one anymore. Hard-earned. Tastes different. Our parents' electronic. And its subject is staying together, that thing we thought was their province. It's about trying to fix what hurts. It's about knowing better. Black Noise is men talking to men about women; Lemonade is a woman talking to women about men, and they both orbit around a failure we take for granted like the sun: loving you is complicated. It's a skill; we forgot. Adrian Younge calls The Electronique Void an academic album, by which he means it is both instructional and informational. There's a problem at the heart of it, a woman who's been told that she's loved, but she doesn't recognize that, can't feel it, may have heard it all before, may be worrying about the wrong things. Jack Waterson, long a guitarist in Younge's band, plays the role of narrator, sounding professorial and rather superior as he lays out for the woman where she's erred. That vocoder you hear is Adrian, talking to her on a subterranean level, the way an artist must. There's a strong sense of rules here, a prescription and a presumption that there is an agreed upon way to do it, and there is also a wrong way, or at least a way that won't work. And the fact is, as didactic as that sounds, it might be the truth. Maybe everybody who's alone can be cured. The discourse on the album is the kind of thing that happens when you go blonde and then you can't keep 'em off you. These truths are cold and hard, and our hero begrudges the well-meaning advice being rained down upon her as any independent woman would. The science of love, its formulas and if-then constraints, causal relationships and observable properties, is best taught experientially, but learning it hurts so, so bad. Music, especially electronic music, reliant as it is on abstraction and unrepentant as it is about hijacking your physiological responses to tempo and rhythm and dynamics, is a way to get there without going through it. Electronic music as practiced and developed by pioneers like Dick Hyman and Raymond Scott and Wendy Carlos is precise and intentional. In making his first electronic album, Younge took his cues from them, reminding a contemporary audience what a synthesizer, deep in its heart, really could be. The lady of The Electronique Void, only ever seen through a man's eyes, who's being told what to do by him, sounds trapped by her history and by her position, her ancestors' trauma echoing through her lineage and booming out of her as a phobia, distrust, misapprehension, rational response to a fucked up situation. Waterson's text here seems to say that if his character could go back in time, catch her before the damage was done, she would be able to love. And that's reasonable. Don't get hooked. Don't do wifey shit for a fuck boy. Don't let it go to your head, no. It's also possible he has no idea what he's talking about. The lessons for men in The Electronique Void are unspoken but plain as day. This music is an urgent tutorial. Adrian Younge looks at us and sees the front line of a crisis, something we only have time to triage right now. This isn't romantic and it isn't about settling down. This is the fight of our lives: how to love."
$17.00 UPC: 856040005730 ELECTRONIC
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THOR & FRIENDS: Thor & Friends CD (LM 011CD)
"Thor & Friends is the eponymous full length debut from the avant-chamber ensemble formed by polymath percussionist Thor Harris. It was recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and produced by Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost from A Hawk & A Hacksaw and Deerhoof's John Dieterich. The three core members of the band are Peggy Ghorbani on marimba, Sarah 'Goat' Gautier on marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, organ, voice, mellotron and piano, and Harris on sundry percussion and wind instruments including some of his own devising. The band was inaugurated after Harris toured for five years as the percussionist of iconic avant-rock ensemble Swans. As a vehicle for experimentation with American Minimalism with a rotating cast of Austin-based musicians, Harris draws on composers including Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but also such diverse influences as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moondog and The Necks; the album centers around a polyrhythmic core of mallet-struck instruments -- primarily marimba, xylophone and vibraphone. Circling these core motifs are shifting streams of everything from processed pedal steel and analog synthesizer to violin, viola, stand-up bass, clarinet, duduk and oboe. By rooting their art in both improvisation and the involvement of neighbors and friends in their process, Thor & Friends embody utopian optimism, making use of what and whom is around at any given moment to make music with."
$6.75 UPC: 616892422440 ROCK
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THOR & FRIENDS: Thor & Friends LP (LM 011LP)
LP version. "Thor & Friends is the eponymous full length debut from the avant-chamber ensemble formed by polymath percussionist Thor Harris. It was recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and produced by Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost from A Hawk & A Hacksaw and Deerhoof's John Dieterich. The three core members of the band are Peggy Ghorbani on marimba, Sarah 'Goat' Gautier on marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, organ, voice, mellotron and piano, and Harris on sundry percussion and wind instruments including some of his own devising. The band was inaugurated after Harris toured for five years as the percussionist of iconic avant-rock ensemble Swans. As a vehicle for experimentation with American Minimalism with a rotating cast of Austin-based musicians, Harris draws on composers including Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but also such diverse influences as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moondog and The Necks; the album centers around a polyrhythmic core of mallet-struck instruments -- primarily marimba, xylophone and vibraphone. Circling these core motifs are shifting streams of everything from processed pedal steel and analog synthesizer to violin, viola, stand-up bass, clarinet, duduk and oboe. By rooting their art in both improvisation and the involvement of neighbors and friends in their process, Thor & Friends embody utopian optimism, making use of what and whom is around at any given moment to make music with."
$13.00 UPC: 613505500076 ROCK
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MF DOOM: Operation: Doomsday (Fondle 'Em Cover) (Black Vinyl) 2LP (MF 093LP)
Includes 18x24" poster of the original cover art. "Back again on vinyl where it belongs, MF Doom's 1999 classic Operation: Doomsday is now presented on a premium grade LP, with audio re-mastered from the original Fondle'Em Records release, and a poster of the album cover art! Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF Doom hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD (his first group)'s 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was shelved by Elektra in 1994 and his blood brother Subroc (one half of the sibling rap duo) passed away, surviving frontman Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF Doom and the rap world is better for it. This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. On arguably the best track, 'Rhymes Like Dimes,' Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting 'only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.' 'Who You Think I Am?' features Doom's crew M.onster I.sland C.zars, while on '?' he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious Jorge. Doom's avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more intentionally weird twists on 'Tick, Tick...' where he and guest MC MF Grimm's flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually. The comic-book themed skits, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. And in today's bland commercial rap universe, Operation: Doomsday's left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy."
$19.50 UPC: 829357009319 HIPHOP
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CAMBERWELL NOW: The EP Collection LP (MCR 922LP)
"Taking inspiration from seafaring and imperialism, and the fact that the music was created within close proximity to the meridian line in Greenwich, the Meridian EP was originally intended to be a project for This Heat. The group's departing member Charles Bullen plays on the opening track, 'Cutty Sark', named for the famed British clipper ship. The second EP, 1987's Greenfingers, was their final recorded work and, according to Hayward, 'it's possible to hear the group atomizing and preparing to go its separate ways' within its grooves. The only This Heat or Camberwell Now recording not to have been produced at Brixton's Cold Storage studios, it was recorded as a DIY exercise and -- unusually for either of the groups -- was not pored over laboriously for a great deal of time. The EP also saw the addition of a new member, Maria Lamburn, primarily on sax, whose 'Element Unknown' was inspired by her experiences in the nuclear protest camp at Greenham Common. Comprising tracks that overlapped between This Heat and Camberwell Now, the EPs concerned themselves with information technology, surveillance, propaganda and what Hayward describes as 'day-to-day, hand-to-mouth survival' -- all pertinent concerns in a fractured Britain under the rule of right-wing 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher, and perhaps still as pertinent today in fractured, recession-hit, isolationist Britain. The group dispersed after a final European tour, amicably, quietly, and differently, the latter their MO throughout a unique career. Goronwy, Hayward and Rickard all share their experiences and thoughts on The Camberwell Now in liner notes accompanying this landmark release: young and old, birth and death captured on two sides of vinyl. Official vinyl re-issue in collaboration with original members. 24 bit/96 kHz re-master from original analog tapes. Restored art, expanded to a gatefold tip-on jacket. Includes download card with two bonus tracks. 8 page booklet with track notes by the artists, lyrics and archival photos."
$17.50 UPC: 826853092210 ROCK
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ORLEANS, ELA: Circles Of Upper And Lower Hell CD (LSSN 040CD)
"Circles of Upper and Lower Hell is the grandest, deepest work to date by Polish-born, Glasgow-based sound artist and composer Ela Orleans. From her beginnings inaugurating a lo-fi, homespun style that has since developed fully into a language uniquely her own, from tentative live outings featuring multiple instruments to a now-masterly command of sound, Orleans has become one of the most consistently surprising musicians of the global underground. The seventh album under her own name, this expansive vision, loosely based on Dante's Inferno but infused with deep personal experience, incorporates sound art, orchestral textures, synth pop and electronic music to construct a world equally peppered with loss and inspiration. It pulls all the strands of Orleans' previous work together into an epic depiction of turmoil wide in scope but reveling in detail. The album documents a far more personal approach to conventional songwriting. Previously, the artist's sonic textures have relied on samples cleaved out of context, buried songs beneath warped aural gauze, but Circles blows every element of Orleans's art upwards and further apart."
$13.00 EAN: 5060446120781 ELECTRONIC
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NGOZI FAMILY: Day Of Judgement LP (NA 5115-1LP)
Repressed. "Proto-punk and garage Zamrock: the celebrated guitarist Paul Ngozi's essential debut album. Featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo. Guitarist/vocalist Paul Ngozi's debut album ? under the name Ngozi Family - is an important record: not just in the Zamrock genre, but in the global rock canon. Day of Judgement is an introduction to the most intense, raw and inimitable golden era Zamrock recorded, as it paved the way for a dozen Paul Ngozi and Ngozi Family releases (the most famous being drummer Chrissy Zebby Tembo's My Ancestors) that straddled the line between funk and punk, of driving hard rock and Zambian folk melodies and rhythms. Day of Judgement was released in 1976, the same year as other, now famous, Zamrock albums, from WITCH's Lazy Bones!! to Rikki Ililonga's Zambia. But it sounds like none of its counterparts. Part of that stems from its frenzied primitivism, the Ngozi Family's attempt to overcome a lack of musical acumen with sheer force of will. That will allowed Paul Ngozi to overcome a humble upbringing to become the most unlikely combination: Zamrock's most beloved star in its brief but now-well chronicled arc; the only musician to maintain his fame and recording prowess in the dark ages of the '80s; an inspiration to not only aging but young Zambians -- and now others, beyond Zambia's borders. But one cannot imagine Paul Ngozi without this album, a full-on aural assault that sounds as wild nearly forty years after its release as it must have sounded in the developing Zamrock landscape from which it emerged. We listen to this anachronistic yet prescient album now as a wholly original, completely unpredictable album in line with those from mavericks from across the world - from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols to Death. And, though it's been over two decades since Paul Ngozi's passing, his voice and vision still seem exciting, powerful, unique, unvarnished, new."
$15.50 UPC: 659457511517 ROCK
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KALEIDOSCOPE: Kaleidoscope LP (NA 5145LP)
"One of the great psychedelic rock albums is finally back in print on vinyl in a band-licensed reissue. Its roots are in Puerto Rican teenage garage rockers; it was recorded in the Dominican Republic at the high-point of the flower power era; it was only ever pressed in a minuscule run in Mexico. Now one of the most sought after rock artifacts on the planet, Kaleidoscope is remastered and reissued with an extensive, photo-filled booklet with the story of the band and their album by historian Enrique Rivas Viniegra. Download card included."
$18.00 UPC: 659457514518 ROCK
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CHADWICK, SARAH MARY: Roses Always Die LP (RINLP 042LP)
"Following three critically acclaimed solo albums, Sarah Mary Chadwick's Roses Always Die expands on the quiet intensity of her previous work, exploring memory, grief and personal analysis. Her unflinching approach to songwriting introduces complex, often difficult subject matter as vivid as it is understated. An old immobile organ provides the only accompaniment to her voice, giving the album an eerie consistency that perfectly underpins the diverse, open-ended narratives that run through each song. The second album recorded with Geoffrey O'Connor (Crayon Fields), it has a more organic sound than the wall of synths used on 9 Classic Tracks, with most songs comprised of just one voice and a live '70s Yamaha analogue organ -- a huge, heavy, double-tiered beast with built-in percussion beats and pedal bass -- recorded on site in the loungeroom at Sarah's house in Collingwood, Melbourne. Unembellished and at times brutally sparse, these songs are whittled down to their surprisingly hooky, heartbreaking, wry, bare-boned essentials."
$17.50 EAN: 9332727039379 ROCK
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KANDODO/MCBAIN: Lost Chants / Last Chance 2CD (ROOSTER 024CD)
"A meeting of like minds surfing the sonic highways to tonal oblivion. These four castaways on Sonic Island (this may be too much) have delivered an album that evokes the long lost and revered genre 'Drug-Rock' a true mind melt of acid abandonment! Tab-era Monster Magnet, Sessions Era-The Heads... purely visceral and pummeling workouts of a krautrock and psychedelia (surely the most overused term of now-but finally in its right place) from these masters of the art. Let's not beat about the burning bush here, this is an original Monster Magnet member and three of the Heads - this is pedigree not to be overlooked. Tune in, turn on, droned out! Mutually appreciated riffs, drones and tones floated across the oceans (via the internet). Conceived by Simon Price, Wayne Maskell, and Hugo Morgan and their US conspirator John McBain. They've created a modern masterpiece, straight from the off, the album feels like it has been hurled from riff valley, laden with trips aplenty catch a sonic wave here fellow psychonauts. (Liquid aural lava, it will encase your brain with a sike glazed crust.) Mastered by John Mcbain for full sonic immersion, and cut at 45rpm to enable a further immersion into the molassess when sped down to 33rpm, strap this on and soar into space."
$13.00 EAN: 5060446120934 ROCK
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KANDODO/MCBAIN: Lost Chants / Last Chance 2LP (ROOSTER 024LP)
Double LP version. "A meeting of like minds surfing the sonic highways to tonal oblivion. These four castaways on Sonic Island (this may be too much) have delivered an album that evokes the long lost and revered genre 'Drug-Rock' a true mind melt of acid abandonment! Tab-era Monster Magnet, Sessions Era-The Heads... purely visceral and pummeling workouts of a krautrock and psychedelia (surely the most overused term of now-but finally in its right place) from these masters of the art. Let's not beat about the burning bush here, this is an original Monster Magnet member and three of the Heads - this is pedigree not to be overlooked. Tune in, turn on, droned out! Mutually appreciated riffs, drones and tones floated across the oceans (via the internet). Conceived by Simon Price, Wayne Maskell, and Hugo Morgan and their US conspirator John McBain. They've created a modern masterpiece, straight from the off, the album feels like it has been hurled from riff valley, laden with trips aplenty catch a sonic wave here fellow psychonauts. (Liquid aural lava, it will encase your brain with a sike glazed crust.) Mastered by John Mcbain for full sonic immersion, and cut at 45rpm to enable a further immersion into the molassess when sped down to 33rpm, strap this on and soar into space."
$19.50 EAN: 5060446120927 ROCK
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COSAQUE, ERICK: Kaloukera Percussions EP 12" (SSS 017EP)
"Flan'm Cho / Banbou La / Kowidow Man'm Boe / Bazouka. Rootsy, body-rocking Gwo Ka rhythms with dashes of drum machines and electronics, from 1988-93. Dancefloor mayhem. During this period, the 808, 909 and co. were permeating music-making world-wide. From pulsating Chicago house and rough Detroit techno, to the dancehalls of Kingston and the shebeens of Kinshasa, every place and every scene reacted to the new technology in a different way. The French Caribbean was no exception. Long the bedrock of Zouk, it was fertile ground for the new equipment and fresh sounds. Kaloukera Percussions celebrates the music of celebrated Guadeloupean singer and percussionist Erick Cosaque. Staunch activist in the name of the music, language and culture of Guadeloupe, his musical career spans five decades."
$11.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
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GOMBERG, BILLY: Slight At That Contact LP (SOD 114LP)
"Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Billy Gomberg's past work has released by labels such as and/OAR, Digitalis and Sunshine Ltd. In addition to his solo output, he operates in a variety of collaborative settings (including Fraufraulein, a duo with fellow label alum Anne Guthrie) and, over the course of the last five years, has carved out a niche for himself at the crossroads of electro-acoustic improvisation, ambient, and minimalist music. The beguiling Slight At That Contact brings to mind both the bucolic electronica of Microstoria and the expansive arrangements of Mirages-era Tim Hecker. 'Medial' opens the record with a sea of vaporous, blooming tones set against an array of delicately percussive clicks and cuts. 'Acute' further develops this, conjuring the cinematic atmosphere of a train station in a ruined, futuristic metropolis. Over the course of eight understated but nuanced compositions, Gomberg cultivates an intoxicating aural topography, a deep, expressive collection that offers considerable rewards to the attentive listener."
$13.00 UPC: 600197511411 ELECTRONIC
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MINGUS, CHARLES: The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady LP (SV 065LP)
2016 repress. "Bassist/composer Charles Mingus is one of the most radical figures in American music. Throughout the '50s, he worked as a sideman with legendary players Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and more. In the '60s, he gained recognition as a bandleader, often followed by controversy for making strong-minded statements in the press about race, politics and stodgy music critics. While Mingus received many honors posthumously as well as during his career, perhaps his greatest achievement was transcending the restrictive label of jazz. The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady is without question Mingus's magnum opus. Originally released on Impulse! in 1963, the album broke new ground in both genre-defying composition and innovative recording techniques. A six-part suite with dramatic shifts in mood and tempo, The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady features the three-way brass dialog of trumpets, trombone, and tuba; swooping reeds; and awe-inspiring rhythm section. Balancing delicate Spanish modes and Ellingtonian themes, the ensemble breaks into a divine cacophony of group improvisation on par with free jazz giants like Ornette Coleman or Cecil Taylor. In his best-known essay, 'Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung,' Lester Bangs praises, 'the experience of the first few listenings to a record so total, so mind-twisting, that you authentically can say you'll never be quite the same again. Black Saint and The Sinner Lady did that, and a very few others. They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm.' This long out-of-print vinyl release has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes."
$17.50 UPC: 857176003652 JAZZ
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MINGUS, CHARLES: Mingus Plays Piano LP (SV 066LP)
2016 repress. "Bassist/composer Charles Mingus is one of the most radical figures in American music. Throughout the '50s, he worked as a sideman with legendary players Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and more. In the '60s, he gained recognition as a bandleader, often followed by controversy for making strong-minded statements in the press about race, politics, and stodgy music critics. While Mingus received many honors posthumously as well as during his career, perhaps his greatest achievement was transcending the restrictive label of jazz. Mingus Plays Piano, released just a few months after his masterpiece The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, is the only record to feature Mingus performing on his instrument of choice for composing. From the opening track, appropriately titled 'Myself When I Am Real,' Mingus shrugs off any virtuosic pretensions of solo albums and stakes out more introspective territory. These trance-like, poetic musings reveal a tenderness rarely associated with Mingus, reminiscent of Erik Satie's piano works and Art Tatum's free rhythmic style. This long out-of-print vinyl release has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes."
$17.50 UPC: 857176003669 JAZZ
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JANSCH, BERT: Bert Jansch LP (SV 121LP)
"Scottish singer-songwriter Bert Jansch recorded his first album in producer Bill Leader's London flat with a borrowed guitar, sitting on the edge of the bed and singing into a portable tape recorder. As author Richie Unterberger writes in the liner notes, 'When Bert Jansch's self-titled debut LP was issued in April 1965, he was already a major figure on the British folk scene. His synthesis of traditional British folk with blues and a bit of jazz was at the vanguard of a new generation of UK folk performers, well-versed in past forms but unafraid to venture into new territory. His virtuosic guitar was complemented by a plaintive rough-hewn voice that didn't just document the on-the-road experience, but lived it.' Bert Jansch contains all original material, except a shattered cover of Davy Graham's 'Angie' that Jansch makes all his own. 'Needle of Death,' one of the first folk songs to address the consequences of heroin use, yields to a restraint uncommon for Jansch, yet beautifully encapsulates the album's tone of heartfelt conviction. Superior Viaduct is honored to present the first-time domestic release of Bert Jansch's debut, remastered from the original master tapes. For those interested in a unique strand of music that would become a major influence on everyone from Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Donovan, Neil Young and more - there is no better place to start than here."
$17.50 UPC: 855985006215 ROCK
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BRAND NUBIAN: One For All 2LP (TEG 75503LP)
Repressed. "When released at the end of 1990 Brand Nubian's One for All emerged into musical landscape yet to be littered with disposable hip hop. The politically charged and socially conscious material brought acclaim to the project, both critically and commercially. The Source granted the album a full on Five Mics saying Brand Nubian's debut 'overflows with creativity, originality, and straight-up talent.' Even Robert Christgau of the Village Voice, who's reviews often read like a riddle penned by a hater, laced One for All with a solid A-. By the late '90s the record had been named one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums with the single 'Slow Down' on their list of Top 100 hip hop singles of all time. Sure, militant five percenter beliefs (among other things) stirred controversy. Yet the music found here remains relevant and has stood the test of time. Besides, some of us miss the days when inflammatory rhetoric in hip hop could cause controversy. Long out of print on vinyl, Traffic Entertainment now proudly presents this fresh pressing of one of hip hop's most crucial releases. A moment in time captured in the grooves of the double vinyl pressing for the world to remember how great the genre can be."
$18.00 UPC: 829357550316 HIPHOP
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ZIGAN ALDI: Gelbensande EP 12" (ACKER 050D-EP)
The dusty twilight of day and night sets the atmospheric backdrop for the dreamlike groove visions of Berlin based producer Zigan Aldi. "Blue Hill", featuring Sandeck, combines a compelling bassline with the enigmatic sound of a string instrument that seems to originate straight from the parallel world of One Thousand and One Nights. "Rosa Martha" starts as a stripped-down rhythm tool with a rather dark vibe which then contrasts beautifully with a hint of warm house music bubbling up from the depths towards the middle of the track. Mollono.Bass and Pophop dedicate their remixes to the uplifting side of things.
$8.99 UPC: 880319833816 ELECTRONIC
01. Blue Hill (feat. Sandeck)
02. Rosamartha
03. Rosamartha (Mollono.Bass Remix)
04. Blue Hill (feat. Sandeck) (Pophop Remix)
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CROATIAN AMOR: Love Means Taking Action CD (ALT 028CD)
Multi-faceted Copenhagen-based artist Loke Rahbek presents Love Means Taking Action under his alias Croatian Amor. It is the first full-length Croatian Amor recording since 2014's The Wild Palms, a release that was made available on cassette for a single month, and only in exchange for a nude self-portrait. Since the inception of the project, Croatian Amor has dealt with a mixture of fiction and reality, often using real events and places as a platform for a largely fictional play. Where there is playfulness, there is revelation. On Love Means Taking Action - without a doubt the project's strongest work to date - the effect of the perpetual collaging of information is keenly felt. Short, unnerving moments appear with slick familiarity. Voices repeat and quietly glitch through tonal shifts. Listeners are ushered along by the shuddering effect of the samples and field recordings on the pristine synthesis, with motifs and plot lines presented as quickly as they disintegrate. Listeners are enticed to find comfort here but are not guided through a space as with much ambient music. The textures and terrains that Love Means Taking Action presents form an array of scenarios with what at times feels like a punishing degree of indifference to the listener. Listeners are bluntly shown snippets of impassioned architectures. It is a process that draws the listener in through alienation.
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EXEK: Biased Advice LP (ADA 007LP)
Exek present their debut LP Biased Advice, following a self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). Biased Advice collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realization of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne's live gig circuit. Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them, he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesizer), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and they began recording material according to Wolski's vision. The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy's Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering, Essendon Airport's 1981 album, Palimpsest (CH 087CD). But Exek dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new wave scene reaching out to German post-punk of the same era. Wolski's songwriting is akin to records put out by Hannover's No Fun Records and Hamburg's Zickzack, channeling the droll lyricism of 39 Clocks, saturated with self-deprecating attitude. Their vision mirrors Tuxedomoon's "Holiday for Plywood" but crucially, Biased Advice is a sermon that Exek preach to themselves. The band pit themselves as both victims and saviors living in a world that's trying to extinguish them. The conceptual weight carried in Wolski's lyrics follows on from process. Dub and other studio techniques are used throughout Biased Advice and are no better evidenced in the 16-minute modern (and instant) classic, "Baby Giant Squid". This song remains unchanged from its cassette release on Melbourne's Resistance/Restraint label, but here it lays bare its perfection over a whole side of the record. Basslines that stand out one moment give way to dubbed out percussion, hissing tape delay and reverb drenched vocals. Simply, this post-kraut-dub-psyche-punk excursion looks back over it's shoulder as it leaves "Bella Lugosi's Dead" for dead. It's a sublime balance of improvisation and cold calculation. It's the tension between this teetering psychotic nihilism and arrangement with studio-like precision that gives Biased Advice the tone of a forewarning. But of what?
$13.79 UPC: 700461270836 ROCK
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SEBASTOPOL: Sebastopolis, The Journey LP (ADM 101LP)
Sebastopol. From the Greek Sevastos polis: Venerable city. Marc Debroey could arguably have chosen a better moniker for his new musical project. His former efforts - Indicators, 7 A Nou, but especially Fat's Garden - were all as idiosyncratic as they come, but always straight from the heart. Sebastopol is a new state of the union. Not concerned with being the flavor of the month, it's firmly focused on the journey and the destination. The Journey containing instrumental pieces akin to the work of artists as diverse as Legowelt, Alessandro Cortini and John Carpenter. Meanwhile, each song, describes a facet of the human condition against a backdrop of Baltic harbor towns, where the iciness of the water contrasts with the natural warmth of the wooden houses. The Journey was analogically recorded in Marc Debroey's home studio, treated and mixed in Staf Verbeeck's Stiff studio and mastered at Jerboa, by Frederik Dejongh.
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DFX: Relax Your Body 12" (ATM 002EP)
DFX's Relax Your Body is featured on the first release of the Secondhand Series on Autum Records - vinyl reissues of iconic tracks from the past, brought back to life through contemporary remixes signed by the most influential artists of the electronic scene. Ricardo Villalobos lends a hand for the first one. 12" deluxe sleeve with 3mm spine, custom inner-sleeve, ink stamp application, A3 poster, 180 gram vinyl. The original has been covered by The KLF for "What Time Is Love".
$10.99 EAN: 8068381718206 ELECTRONIC
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FORNO, CARLA DAL: You Know What It's Like CD (BLACKEST 015CD)
Carla dal Forno presents her debut solo album You Know What It's Like, following time in cult Melbourne group Mole House and an earlier association with Blackest Ever Black as a member of F ingers and Tarcar. Her voice is an extraordinary instrument: both disarmingly conversational and glacially detached. It has something of the bedsit urbanity of Anna Domino, Marine Girls, Antena, or Helen Johnstone - stoned and deadpan - but it can also summon a gothic intensity that Nico or Kendra Smith would approve of. This voice is the perfect embodiment of dal Forno's emotionally ambiguous songs: their lyrics rooted in the everyday, observing and exposing a series of uncomfortable truths. "Fast Moving Cars" and "What You Gonna Do Now?" weigh up claustrophobia against loneliness, inertia against acceleration, doubling-down versus taking-off; the title track acknowledges the provisional nature of love and "real" intimacy, then decides to brave it anyway. By the time the startlingly sparse "The Same Reply" arrives, the sense of dejection is absolute. The vocal-led pieces are interspersed with richly evocative instrumentals. Smothered in tape-hiss and reverb, the seasick synthesizer miniatures "Italian Cinema" and "Dragon Breath" channel the twilit DIY whimsy of Flaming Tunes and Call Back The Giants. The drum machine and bassline of "DB Rip" are pure Chicago house, but then its dark choral drones nod to Dalis Car's dreams of blood-spattered Cornwall stone. "Dry The Rain" drinks from a stream of moon-musick that runs through Coil, In Gowan Ring, Third Ear Band, even the Raincoats's Odyshape (1981).
$11.99 EAN: 5055869542814 ELECTRONIC
01. Italian Cinema
02. Fast Moving Cars
03. DB Rip
04. What You Gonna Do Now?
05. Dry In The Rain
06. You Know What It's Like
07. Dragon Breath
08. The Same Reply
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FORNO, CARLA DAL: You Know What It's Like LP (BLACKEST 015LP)
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TROSTEL, ROLF: Two Faces CD (BB 231CD)
Bureau B present a reissue of Rolf Trostel's second album Two Faces, originally released in 1982. While Inselmusik (BB 230CD/LP), released the previous year, was intended as a basis for live performance, Trostel composed and produced the five instrumental tracks on Two Faces exclusively for this album. The music is clearly a product of the Berlin School, yet it is more sophisticated and varied than its predecessor. Some new additions to Trostel's instrument collection are audible. While on its predecessor the still novel strains of the PPG Wave Computer 360 A and its associated sequencer were augmented only by a Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm drum machine, resulting in a fairly puristic sound, the sonic pallet on Two Faces is enhanced by the Minimoog solo synthesizer and a string synth. The CR-78 is considered the first programmable drum machine and can be heard clearly, for example, on Phil Collins's hit "In the Air Tonight" or during the intro of the album version of Blondie's "Heart of Glass". But on Two Faces Trostel uses its potentially assertive sounds relatively modestly and often in the background - surely so as not to steal the show from the wavetable sounds. As with Inselmusik, Two Faces uses numerous synth runs that harness the possibilities of PPG 350 Computer Sequencer, which are layered to complement each other and often also define the chord progressions and song structure. The digital PPG sequencer offered some innovative features for this: The musician could invert the notes of a sequence with the press of a button or use the keyboard to transpose the sequence either at the end of each note or each loop. Of course, in addition to the PPG 360 Wave Computer A, it could also be used to control analog synthesizers. Synchronizing with tape machines was also not a problem. In comparison to Inselmusik, Rolf Trostel himself felt that Two Faces was more versatile and aggressive and "away from the idea of meditation, but without entirely abandoning contemplative structures." The first edition of this self-produced long player amounted to 2000 copies, which Trostel distributed himself.
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TROSTEL, ROLF: Two Faces LP (BB 231LP)
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CLUSTER: Kollektion 06: Cluster (1971-1981) Compiled and Assembled by John McEntire CD (BB 242CD)
Cluster's influence on the development of electronic music cannot be overstated. The original trio of Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two seminal albums as Kluster before Roedelius and Moebius replaced the 'K' with a 'C' and continued as a duo. They produced eight albums in their most innovative period between 1971 and 1981, two of them together with another pioneer of electronic music, Brian Eno. Cluster anticipated much of what would later emerge in such varied styles as industrial, ambient, electro and even synth-pop. Some call Cluster's music avant-garde, others krautrock or kosmische. Hence their first album, as a microcosm of their entire oeuvre, made the list of "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)" in The Wire magazine. On Kollektion 06, John McEntire provides a collection of tracks spanning Cluster's first eight studio albums. John McEntire is a drummer/percussionist and recording engineer/producer. He is a founding and current member of Tortoise and The Sea & Cake; former contributing/touring member of Red Krayola and Gastr Del Sol. He has been the owner/operator of Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago, IL since 1995. Asmus Tietchens on Cluster: "Cluster's role in the development of new German electronic music went unnoticed for a long while. Cacophonous noise in the 1970s and 1980s masked the subtlety of Cluster aesthetics, diminishing their force of impact. Only since the 1990s, and all the more so today, have Cluster been identified and celebrated as pioneers. The somewhat hackneyed 'avant-garde' tag really amounts to nothing more than being ahead of one's time. And those who are ahead of their time often slip out of sight. Now, twenty, thirty years later, with so many new aural experiences on offer, listening habits have changed to such a great extent that we are better placed to assess Cluster's importance, their influence on subsequent generations of musicians. It has thus become easier to appreciate and enjoy their music... Cluster were no pedagogues, but their indirect influence on musicians and, more to the point, on listeners, resonates until today. Can a legacy be any more alive?" This collection features tracks from:Cluster 71 (BB 058CD/LP), Cluster II (LR 335LP), Zuckerzeit (LR 333LP), Sowiesoso (BB 039CD/LP), Cluster & Eno (BB 029CD/LP), After The Heat, Grosses Wasser (BB 026CD/LP), and Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP).
$11.99 EAN: 4015698006667 ELECTRONIC
01. Zum Wohl (6:50)
02. Hollywood (4:48)
03. The Shade (3:11)
04. Für Die Katz (3:09)
05. Grosses Wasser (Edit) (10:19)
06. Oh Odessa (3:04)
07. 21 32 (Edit) (7:09)
08. Es War Einmal (5:25)
09. Wehrmut (5:04)
10. Heiße Lippen (2:24)
11. In Ewigkeit (Edit) (4:00)
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CLUSTER: Kollektion 06: Cluster (1971-1981) Compiled and Assembled by John McEntire LP (BB 242LP)
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SILVER APPLES: Beacon CD (CCR 004CD)
Beacon is the fourth album for the Silver Apples, the "come back album", produced by Steve Albini and originally released in 1997 on CD only. Eight of the tracks were new songs that former exile and Silver Apples leader Simeon had composed with recent additions Xian Hawkins and Michael Lerner. The remaining three tunes are remakes from the Silver Apples's past. A reworking of "I Have Known Love" opens the record. "You and I" is given an appropriate chaotic reading; a wall of cacophonous keyboards forms in the instrumental breaks, like the video game Stargate on tilt. Of the originals, the vocal-less "Cosmic String" is the standout, developing a Trans Am groove with sounds recalling the moment the beloved Pac-Man is caught by his nemesis, Speedy. Beacon is full of the influence of '80s video games, no doubt incorporated by the twenty-something Hawkins.
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SILVER APPLES: Beacon (White And Yellow Splatter Vinyl) LP (CCR 004COL-LP)
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SILVER APPLES: Beacon LP (CCR 004LP)
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SPIT MASK: Swallow Cassette (CDRTP 035CS)
Spit Mask is a ball-and-chain industrial project out of Houston, Texas. Formed in early 2015, the band consists of Bryan Jackson on vocals and Rachel Jackson on electronics. Spit Mask has been described by Houston Press as "industrial music along the power electronic sideline of fetish aesthetics and extra shouting," and a "wet ball of sex" by Free Press Houston. Influenced by Sleep Chamber, Leaether Strip, Ministry, and Women of Sodom, Spit Mask has shared the stage with High Functioning Flesh, Body of Light, Creepoid, and Leaether Strip. Swallow is their debut EP, released on Clan Destine Records, that pushes the boundaries of comfort and is packed with aggression. The cassette features artwork by Domokos Benczedi of Future Blondes and Rusted Shut.
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HICKS, IAN: VIY Cassette (CDRTP 036CS)
After crafting the deconstructed synth-pop of Soft Metals since 2010, Portland, Oregon based synth artist Ian Hicks has resumed his solo output and has delved deeper into exploring the darker, weirder, more mutant alleys of his mind and studio. Inspired by the capricious winter of the Pacific Northwest, early industrial gear experiments, science fiction, horror and the explosion of the modular synthesizer scene in Portland, Ian presents VIY as his initial post-Soft Metals work. VIY is a snapshot of an ever-changing configuration of equipment, textures and moods captured with minimal processing and editing to preserve the original idea in the purest form.
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DA GOBLINN: Deejay Fou A L'extereur Cassette (CDRTP 037CS)
Canadian producer Da GobliNN delivers full on acid mayhem on Deejay Fou A L'extereur. 11 tracks including remixes by Orphan Swords, D'marc Cantu, Seixlack (Innsyter), and Greece's Drum Machine.
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BURMA CAMP: Burma Camp Cassette (CDRTP 038CS)
The electronic project of The KVB, Burma Camp deliver ten tracks of dark industrial flavored techno, drones and electro.
$8.39 EAN: 5055300391018 ELECTRONIC
01. The Unquiet Grave
02. Imposter
03. Swell
04. Without Reason
05. Strain
06. Industry
07. Accra
08. Even This River
09. Unique Grave Part 2
10. Job In Hand
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DJS PAREJA: Alto 12" (COMEME 035EP)
Buenos Aires's DJs Pareja present Alto. The title track is sleazy and ecstatic, with Mariano incessantly repeating "me siento alto" ("I feel high") over a throbbing bassline reminiscent of the most sensual crooning techno. "Bwoo" is direct and made for the impact on the body mechanics - bouncing acidic euphoria. "Club de La Locura" clings to the utopic idea of the dancefloor as an unreal place of dream and magic. "Mad Box" refers to a small and cheap synthesizer locally produced in the outskirts of the capital. It produces a crazy drone that is present throughout the whole track.
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ALLEN, TONY: HomeCooking 2LP (COMET 075LP)
Originally released in 2002, Comet presents the legendary album from Tony Allen, HomeCooking, reissued with a remastered version. Tony Allen talks about the album: "After Black Voices (KSTA 006LP) and Psyco On Da Bus albums, I came back with HomeCooking which was an album filled with guests. I brought in Ty, who had remixed some of my work previously, to rap on the record, and Damon Albarn, who had already sung about me on 'Music Is My Radar'. On the first day in the studio, Damon didn't record anything because we were enjoying ourselves too much. He came with two boxes of champagne and everyone got boozed and he decided he'd take the music back to his own studio and finish it there. That was the beginning of our friendship and since then we've done a lot of different things. Since the early days I've been trying to find things that everybody will want to listen to. I've always been pushing Afrobeat in different directions. Here's another one again, another style, almost clean but still rough, raggedy and radical.'' Also features: Mary & Norman and Eska.
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ALLEN & AFRICA 70, TONY: Hustler (Disco Afro Reedits Series) 12" (COMET 076EP)
Tony Allen & Africa 70 on the Comet's Disco Afro Reedits Series, featuring remastered original versions and super disco Afro reedits tracks by Mad Rey and Monsieur Scott. Tony Allen's debut album Jealousy (1975), is considered a highlight of his four solo-albums. It features two Afro-beat gems "Jealousy" and "Hustler". By 1978 he parted company with Fela Kuti, forming his own band, Tony Allen & the Afro Messengers and in 1979 he began collaborating with artists worldwide. Till this day he remains one of the greatest kit drummers alive.
$10.99 EAN: 3760179353754 WORLD
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FRANKLIN, ERMA: Her Name Is Erma LP (CRNBR 16003LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Erma Franklin's debut album, Her Name Is Erma, originally released in 1962. Erma Franklin was born in 1938 in Shelby, Mississippi, but was raised - with her sisters, Aretha and Carolyn - in Detroit, Michigan. The daughter of the legendary preacher, gospel musician, and civil rights activist Reverend C.L. Franklin, Erma grew up singing in the church, like so many other R&B and soul greats of the time. After recording backing vocals with her sister, Erma got the chance in 1962 to cut her debut album. Though she would only record one more album and retire from music entirely in the 1970s, this debut shows a singer just as talented as her more famous sister. A husky, soul belter of a voice is showcased here, with all the tracks from the original LP, including two bonus tracks. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004597 ROCK
A1. Hello Again
A2. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
A3. What Kind Of Girl (Do You Think I Am)
A4. Don't Blame Me
A5. Detour Ahead
A6. Time After Time
A7. I Don't Want No Mama's Boy*
B1. It's Over
B2. Never Let Me Go
B3. Each Night I Cry
B4. Saving My Love For You
B5. Pledging My Love
B6. The Man I Love
B7. Have You Ever Heard The Blues*
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BROWN, RUTH: Late Date With Ruth Brown LP (CRNBR 16005LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Ruth Brown's debut album, Late Date With Ruth Brown, originally released in 1959. Probably the best and most popular female artist of the 1950s jump blues and R&B scene, Ruth Brown was a powerhouse vocalist, and Late Date With Ruth Brown is a perfect example of her husky, smoky, and raunchy presence. Before Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, even before Ray Charles, Ruth Brown was the R&B star of Atlantic Records (there's a reason Atlantic was often referred to as "the house that Ruth built", also a nod to another NYC institution, Yankee Stadium). Essential 1950s R&B from an absolute legend, reissued on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004610 ROCK
A1. It Could Happen To You
A2. Why Don't You Do Right
A3. Bewitched
A4. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
A5. I Can Dream, Can't I
A6. You And The Night And The Music
B1. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
B2. We'll Be Together Again
B3. I'm Beginning To See The Light
B4. I Loves You Porgy
B5. No One Ever Tells You
B6. Let's Face The Music And Dance
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OLYMPICS, THE: Doin' The Hully Gully LP (CRNBR 16006LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of The Olympics's debut album, Doin' The Hully Gully, originally released in 1960. Los Angeles high school buddies, The Olympics, first hit it big in 1958 with the classic single, "Western Movies". Soon after that they started a dance craze with "(Baby) Hully Gully", the inspiration for the title of their debut LP. "Big Boy Pete" was also a big single and a huge influence on the Pacific-Northwest garage rock group, The Kingsmen. Included here are many of those classic early singles, with five bonus tracks, on 180 gram vinyl with a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004627 ROCK
A1. Baby Hully Gully
A2. Big Boy Pete
A3. Stay Away From Joe
A4. The Slop
A5. Everybody Likes To Cha Cha Cha*
A6. Hoochie Coochie Coo*
B1. What'd I Say
B2. Boo-Dee Green
B3. Private Eye
B4. Dodge City
B5. The Stomp*
B6. Pony Time*
B7. Party Pooper*
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DIDDLEY, BO: Have Guitar Will Travel LP (CRNBR 16007LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Bo Diddley's Have Guitar Will Travel, originally released in 1960. Ellas McDaniel, better known to the world as Bo Diddley, was born in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, but like so many electric blues legends, he was raised on the south side of Chicago. After performing on street corners for years on the south side, Diddley finally cut his first records in 1955, for Chicago's own Checker label. Have Guitar Will Travel is his third LP for Checker and a classic of electric guitar driven blues and R&B. Reissued here with two bonus tracks on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004634 ROCK
A1. She's Alright
A2. Cops And Robbers
A3. Run Diddley Daddy
A4. Mumblin' Guitar
A5. I Need You Back
A6. Say Man, Back Again
A7. Lazy Woman*
B1. Nursery Rhyme
B2. I Love You So
B3. Spanish Guitar
B4. Dancing Girl
B5. Come On Baby
B6. Heart-O-Matic Love*
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SUN RA & HIS MYTH SCIENCE ARKESTRA: The Nubians Of Plutonia LP (CRNBR 16009LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra's The Nubians Of Plutonia, originally released in 1969. Featuring the early classic Arkestra lineup that included Pat Patrick, Ronnie Boykins, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, James Spaulding, and more, The Nubians Of Plutonia is one of the best and most sought after of Sun Ra's early titles. Recorded in the late '50s in Chicago, this LP is a top-tier landmark in a prolific career. Essential Sun Ra reissued on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005297 JAZZ
A1. Plutonian Nights
A2. The Golden Lady
A3. Star Time
B1. Nubia
B2. Africa
B3. Watusa
B4. Aiethopia
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HERBERT: Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) 12" (CURLE P07Y-EP)
Curle Recordings reissue two Matthew Herbert deep house goodies. After the very well received Linkwood remix of "See You On Monday", it's now time for one of Herbert's biggest records; "Deeper", from the iconic Part Two EP (1996). On remix duties is Basic Soul Unit. His remix exceeds all expectations. What a bomb. First edition of 300 on marbled vinyl.
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KATOR: Connor 12" (DICA 001EP)
Young and gifted, Kator delivers the tune that founded Defrostatica - 160 BPM minimalism, with a smell of aerosol leaving the can after midnight. Lightless label boss Fanu delivers an arctic heart breaker, a yearning slow-fast reinterpretation with bursting drum fills. Singapore's Kiat squared the circle with a catchy drum and bass beat, razor-sharp percussion and a bold surprise. Daniel Myer, aka Hexer, found himself on the b-boy tip, layering and destroying old-school breaks on a firm sub bass.
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KATOR: Getstacked EP 12" (DICA 002EP)
With Getstacked EP, Kator delivers a crisp imprint of his seamless style. By matching sharp-edged beats and soft melodic chords as in "Getstacked" or "Clapfresh", he adds his flavor to the footwork sound. Kabuki said it best: "It's good to see that the number of artists and labels that are determined to blur the boundaries between jungle, juke and autonomic sound is growing. Kator's Getstacked EP is a fine example of futuristic footwork with British hardcore DNA."
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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KIAT: Leipzig EP 12" (DICA 003EP)
Singapore's Kiat delivers three tunes that are impeccable in style and substance. From the soothing yet purposeful "Brooklyn" to the acute manifesto that is "Procession" and the final but cathartic "Slider", Leipzig EP offers a unique perspective on drum and bass music. The 160 bpm "5 Boroughs Remix" by Kabuki reflects the aesthetics of his Berlin series "New Forms", which he runs in collaboration with dBridge.
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FANGO: Viscera 3/3 12" (DEGU 023EP)
While producing the Viscera trilogy, Fango has tried to understand something about himself. In order to do this, he had to enter into his own body, just like Dante entered hell, studying and analyzing himself from the inside, diving through organs, guts and grey matter. This helped him in the creation of three devastating and introspective EPs, but a lot of questions are still unsolved. Viscera 3/3 is the last leg of a journey that disrupted 2016 and marks the beginning of a new absurd phase for Fango.
$8.39 UPC: 880319794513 ELECTRONIC
A1. Amnios
B1. Medulla
B2. Metacarpo
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LANGENBERG: Central Heated House 2LP (DES 018LP)
After a considerable career releasing on numerous labels, as well as being co-founder of Essen based label Mild Pitch, Max Heesen finally drops the first album under his Langenberg alias. Heesen, (who is also one half of Ribn with Manuel Tur) delivers the smartly titled Central Heated House for Steve Bug's Dessous Recordings. The LP format suits Langenberg's hypnotic house classicism well, allowing time and space to stretch out the grooves and moods over four sides of vinyl - working both for the DJs and perfect as a soundtrack for the autumn. The LP kicks off with "Jade," a melancholic, tape-saturated introduction to Langenberg's deep tastes. "Room 210" maintains this atmosphere, with fizzing percussion and warm Detroit-esque melodies. "Groove 26" is perfectly timed for the hot summer, as lush Rhodes chords and KDJ style vocal snippets provide the heat for the open air vibes. The single from early 2016, "Shadows", features the talents of vocalist Blakkat, and caused some serious response when it hit airwaves and dancefloors alike. "Never Worry" is a heads down roller, built around a simple but perfectly executed bassline, while "Dreamliner" is trippy laidback sunshine house all the way. "I'll Be Late" and "Planitz Proposal" step back into the club, with Langenberg's signature crisp percussion, crunchy hits and analog synth wizardry on full display. "Rain & Roses" closes out the album in a similar way to how it started - wistful, thoughtful house music with soul.
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GERMAN ARMY AND OLD KOMM: Disquiet LP (CREP 033LP)
Disquiet is the imaginary soundtrack to the lost 1976 Russian-American dystopian classic. Russian occultists Old Komm collaborate with the south Californian dons of austere electronics, German Army, bringing to life the made-up soundtrack to a film that never was. Disquiet tells the story of a child born to a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, war-torn and fractured by greed. Organ tones and broken exoteric bumps coexist with dark ambient themes and cavernous beats. Remnants of wry memories, smothered dreams, dim visions of a world that never was.
$14.99 EAN: 5055869501149 ELECTRONIC
A1. Old Komm - Gorky's Theme
A2. German Army - Arka
A3. Old Komm - Sky Scrap
A4. German Army - No Roles
A5. Old Komm - Sea Reaks
A6. Old Komm - Gorky's Theme (Ascending)
B1. German Army - The Bonobo Sect
B2. German Army - Okapi
B3. Old Komm - Dialogue (Excerpt)
B4. German Army - Ulundi
B5. Old Komm - Abuna
B6. Old Komm - The Freak Of Algiers
B7. German Army - Caledonian River
B8. Old Komm - St.Kenelm's Dream
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ROLLINS, SONNY: Sonny Boy LP (ACV 2075LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Sonny Rollins's Sonny Boy, originally released in 1961.This album screams modernity. Rollins plays hard on this superb bop classic. The album contains a combination of two different recording dates from 1956, shortly after the devastating car accident that took Clifford Brown and Richie Powell. Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and George Morrow still played powerfully, as Kenny Drew filled in nicely. The wonderful hip abstract-expressionist album cover generates the tone contained inside the packaging. Fans of free jazz and bop should not neglect this masterpiece. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020750 JAZZ
A1. Ee-Ah
A2. B. Quick
A3. B. Swift
B1. The House I Live In
B2. Sonny Boy
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MONK/GERRY MULLIGAN, THELONIOUS: Mulligan Meets Monk LP (ACV 2076LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Thelonius Monk and Gerry Mulligan's Mulligan Meets Monk, originally released in 1957."(...) At the time of its original issue in late 1957, Mulligan Meets Monk was considered an anomaly. Its two namesake artists represented two different, divergent 'schools' of jazz. Gerry Mulligan, the baritone saxophonist, was associated with the laid-back, relaxed vibe of cool jazz. He had played with Miles Davis on the sessions that would become the definitive Birth of the Cool (RUM 2011122LP). Around the same time, he had made a name for himself as an arranger and performer with Chet Baker. Thelonious Monk, the pianist, was a cutting-edge, rule-breaking composer and performer, so much so that for the first decade of his career he was often viewed as a misguided outcast. Monk's harder, angular, almost percussive style was a crucial influence on the bebop style of jazz. Musically, Mulligan and Monk seemed to have little in common... The sessions that became Mulligan Meets Monk occurred by happenstance, as John Coltrane, with whom Monk had been performing at the time, was the Riverside label's original choice of sax player. Coltrane was unavailable, though, so producer Orin Keepnews decided to have Mulligan take part instead. Good things often happen by accident, and Mulligan Meets Monk is one of those. Over time and several reissues, it has become a favorite among fans of both artists." --John Bergstrom, 2013. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020767 JAZZ
A1. 'Round About Midnight (Monk, Williams)
A2. Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk)
A3. Sweet And Lovely (Arnheim, Tobias, Lemare)
B1. Decidedly (Mulligan)
B2. Straight, No Chaser (Monk)
B3. I Mean You (Monk)
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AKIYOSHI, TOSHIKO: Her Trio Her Quartet LP (ACV 2079LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Toshiko Akiyoshi's Her Trio Her Quartet, originally released in 1956. An engaging pianist whose crisp, forceful attacks take off from Bud Powell territory but go well beyond mere imitation, Akiyoshi is also a skilled composer-arranger and ranks as one of the more acclaimed figures in the bop-based modern big band field. Her work in the latter category blends swinging, Gil Evans-esque arrangements with occasional Eastern influences, spotlighting top-notch soloists such as tenor saxophonist/flautist Lew Tabackin. Edition of 500 (numbered).
From original liner notes: "(...) About this session, recorded in July, 1956, Toshiko begins by saying of her altoist colleague, 'Boots played so beautifully on the session. Of my tunes, 'Salute To Shorty' I originally wrote for five horns. 'Pea, Bee And Lee' I wrote for Lee Konitz (he does not know it.)' Henry W. 'Boots' Mussulli is an emotionally vehement modernist who has worked with Mal Hallett, Teddy Powell, Gene Krupa, Charlie Ventura, and has headed his own units. Boots along with bassist Wyatt Reuther, formerly with Dave Brubeck and Erroll Garner, and drummer Edmund Thigpen of the Billy Taylor trio is heard with Toshiko on all tracks but 'Pea, Bee And Lee', 'No Moon At All' and 'Thou Swell.' On these three, Oscar Pettiford, one of the major bassists in jazz history and the crisp, spearing Roy Haynes of the Sarah Vaughan entourage accompany Toshiko (...)"
$14.39 UPC: 889397020798 JAZZ
A1. Kelo
A2. Salute To Shorty
A3. Pea, Bee And Lee
A4. Taking A Chance On Love
B1. All The Things You Are
B2. No Moon At All
B3. I'll Remember April
B4. Thou Swell
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MONK, THELONIOUS: Monk's Music LP (ACV 2081LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Thelonious Monk's Monk's Music, originally released in 1957. "(...) Monk's Music is among the most significant of Thelonious Monk's classic albums. Here he was literally looking back and ahead at the same time, by bringing together Coleman Hawkins (the very first important voice on tenor saxophone) and John Coltrane (on the verge of becoming a major shaping force of the '60s). Equally notable is the incredible rhythmic support provided by combining Art Blakey and Wilbur Ware; and, justifying the album title, a selection of vital Monk compositions - plus his choice of the 19th century hymn, 'Abide With Me' (written by one William H. Monk) (...)" --Music Direct. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020811 JAZZ
A1. Abide With Me (Monk) (0:52)
A2. Well, You Needn't (Monk) (11:23)
A3. Blues For Tomorrow (Gryce) (13:32)
B1. Off Minor (Monk) (5:10)
B2. Epistrophy (Monk-Clarke) (10:46)
B3. Crepuscule With Nellie (Monk) (4:46)
B4. Ruby, My Dear (Monk) (5:25)
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JEREMY LIAR: Annapurna 12" (EM 003EP)
The talented Jérôme Sklorz, aka Jeremy Liar from Hamburg, brings a well-balanced EP, which seamlessly builds the bridge between a deep house and melodic techno. "Annapurna" will set fire to the dancefloor during peak-time hours - Straight forward techno with a nice arpeggio and pads creating a trancy atmosphere. Avidus & Christoph Vogel deliver a remix. "Semikolon" is a deeper take on house music with the certain dreamy "Jeremy Liar"-vibe. In addition Zaun Recordings founder ZK Bucket delivers a more techy version, a more four-to-the-floor-ish alternative besides the original.
$8.39 EAN: 4050486969090 ELECTRONIC
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SCHLEPPER-CONNOLLY, BENEDICT: The Weathered Stone LP (ERGODOS 026LP)
The product of three years of work, The Weathered Stone marks Benedict Schlepper-Connolly out as a voice of compelling individuality. Inspired by the secret histories of landscapes, old maps and memory, this is music that possesses the ecstatic, unforced beauty of the natural world. Across only four tracks, the Dublin composer lays out a many-hued musical statement that is at once minimal and teeming with matter. The monumental opening track, "The Weathered Stone," and the explosive string quartet that follows, "A View From Above," both deal in large, distinct, swathes of music in which a pattern warps elegantly over time. Schlepper-Connolly was inspired here by the corrosion and erosion of building materials and landscapes. He writes: "Landscapes erode, reshape and accumulate; my use of musical material here behaves in a similar way, with musical states exposed to time and altered, often subtly, sometimes more violently." "Beekeepers," which Schlepper-Connolly sings himself, forms the record's intimate core. A song of memory, reflection and renewal, "Beekeepers" reveals new, expansive possibilities latent within Schlepper-Connolly's musical language. These are further explored in the harmonically lush closing track, "Field", which is again inspired by the action of time on the land. "In 'Field'," the composer writes, "musical material is much like earthly material: it retains many of its features over time, but its surface is continually transformed." The Weathered Stone features performances of extraordinary grace and virtuosity, with the Robinson Panoramic Quartet, and pianist Saskia Lankhoorn, and reedman Seán Mac Erlaine, joining Schlepper-Connolly to bring his vivid music to life. Benedict Schlepper-Connolly is a composer and producer from Dublin. As a composer, he moves between various musical forms, including chamber music, choral writing, orchestral work, arrangement, songwriting, field recording and music for dance and film. Benedict's compositions frequently seek out an ecstatic quality, with a reduced palette of materials, rich tonal harmonies and rhythmic intricacy.
$16.39 UPC: 751570946143 CLASSICAL
01. The Weathered Stone
02. A View From Above
03. Beekeepers
04. Field
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BELL, BECKIE: Music Madness 12" (FVR 120EP)
Favorite Recordings presents the official single reissue of Music Madness by Beckie Bell. A killer disco anthem produced in 1980 by famous French producer, Pierre "Berjot" Jaubert (Ice, Lafayette Afro Rock Band). Jaubert has been involved with many artists and labels, including Motown, Chantal Curtis, Brenda Mitchell or Robert Helms. Music Madness is a brilliant disco track from Beckie Bell's rare album, In Need Of... (1980). Includes the original album version and two hot remixes by Tom Noble and Voilaaa.
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LOS LICHIS: Dog 2LP (FTR 229LP)
"This deep into the internet era it's unusual to discover a weird-ass band who've been active and recording since the '90s without ever appearing as a blip on any known radar screen. Yet, here are Los Lichis -- a Mexican music/art collective whose recording history goes back 19 years and whose sound is as powerful and strange as any combo around. Some might suggest that Mexico is not known for its underground sonic emanations, but we've long dug artists like Loch Ness, Chac Mool, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Los Llamarada, and various improv-types we hear about from folks who tour down there. Some of Mexico's punk and metal bands have their moments as well. But none of them on the scale of Los Lichis, formed in Mexico City by three visual artists. There is something very special about the way non-musicians approach music as an art-form. It's usually something they have long appreciated from afar, and they often attack it with a unique brand of amateur gusto mixed with a sophisticated conceptual approach. Los Lichis (named after a stray dog, not the tropical fruit) sound like a million different things from track to track and moment to moment. I've been trying to map the 'evolution' of their sound by cross-referencing the dates the material was recorded, but there's a delightfully shocking lack of standard technical 'advancement.' This takes some doing. While they claim no specific musical influences, their sound is comparable (in parts) to Ritual All 7-70, No Neck Blues Band, Sun City Girls, Mako Sika and (especially) the French free-rock combos of the '70s -- Mahogany Brain, Red Noise, Gutura and so on. Insane free psych gush of the highest order. Dog reissues a privately released anthology, documenting Los Lichis's first decade recording. It was sold through art galleries in Mexico, and our version has a few additional notes. Prepare thyself." --Byron Coley, 2016. "Drinking In The Den Of Little Ears" features Bolita. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$18.89 UPC: 019962208829 ROCK
A1. Le Rythme Se Précipite (4:29)
A2. La Vida Natural De Chito (1:52)
A3. La Carnicería De Chavilocotzin (4:46)
A4. !Vamos Por Más! (0:52)
A5. White Magic Studio Lines (1:37)
A6. Perla De Noche (1:07)
A7. Thurandu Paradtzube (1:13)
A8. Bruxas Púrpuras (1:02)
A9. Krondstat Variation (2:56)
A10. Osaka '77 (2:23)
The Rise And Fall Of Chito's Kingdom (22:55)
B1. I. Chito Meets Budrah Putrah
B2. II. Chito Defeats The Evil Industries
B3. III. Go And See The Burning Corpses!
C1. Epsilonia Radio Waves (9:14)
C2. L'Origine De La Guitare Fantôme (2:15)
C3. L'Inévitable Catastrophe (8:11)
C4. Chito Duerme En El Monte (2:40)
D1. Eva Und Adolf (2:04)
D2. Chavilocos In Da Hood (4:04)
D3. Opium Boogie (3:00)
D4. La Caspa Del Diablo (Poema Y Voz De Francisco Serrano) (1:05)
D5. Drinking In The Den Of Little Ears (feat. Bolita) (12:03)
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FIRE MAGAZINE: Issue Three: September 2016 MAG (FIRE 003)
Fire Magazine present their third issue, September 2016. Features: Blues Pills (cover story), Mos Generator, Zodiac, Sahg, The Wounded Kings, HP Lovecraft, Eternal Elysium, Truckfighters, Comet Control, Subrosa, Mondo Generator, Psycho Fest - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bloody Hammers, Temple of Dust, Gozu, Dee Calhoun, Stonewitch, Istvan, Wo Fat, Palace of the King, Godwatt. File under: heavy psych, stoner, doom, sludge, occult, dark, '70s hard rock, space rock, garage, drone. Size: 210mm x 297mm.
$9.79 EAN: 9772280143074 Misc
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RAMMELLZEE: Angel In The Middle Of The Flow 12" (GPF 063EP)
Cosmic Flush fully realized Rammellzee's complex philosophy and unique vision of futuristic hip hop, apocalyptic science fiction, and extreme sonic exploration. Gamma Proforma are releasing Cosmic Flush as a commemorative series of records and prints - There are seven core tracks, each will be reinterpreted and remixed by a visual and audio artist. This release is the fifth part in the set and it focuses on "Angel In The Middle Of The Flow". It has been visually reinterpreted by grafitti artist SheOne and remixed by Beans.
$8.99 EAN: 5060174911491 ELECTRONIC
A1. Angel In The Middle Of The Flow (Original Mix)
A2. Angel In The Middle Of The Flow (Instrumental Mix)
B1. Angel In The Middle of The Flow (Beans Remix)
B2. Angel In The Middle Of The Flow (Instrumental Remix)
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RAMMELLZEE: Paint To Pave The Road 12" (GPF 065EP)
Part six in Gamma Proforma's Cosmic Flush, a commemorative series of records and prints focusing on Rammellzee's complex philosophy and unique vision of futuristic hip hop, apocalyptic science fiction, and extreme sonic exploration. Part six in the set, Paint To Pave The Road, has been visually reinterpreted by graffiti artist Poesia and remixed by Sam Sever.
$8.99 EAN: 5060174911484 ELECTRONIC
A1. Paint To Pave The Road (Original Mix)
A2. Paint To Pave The Road (Instrumental Version)
B1. Paint To Pave The Road (Sam Sever Remix)
B2. Paint To Pave The Road (Remix Instrumental Version)
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VA: Picaro Vol.2: Calypso-Rock Pastis, Oriental Flavored Jazz, Colombian Fox, Tipsy Gin-Twist & the Spanish Cowboy Kid LP (GRUMETE 002LP)
From the basement of small, secluded shops selling electrical appliances in the provinces and exquisite albums of singles from the select discotheque of piano bars and top-class singles bars, Grumete Records serves up a cocktail of versions that have never been heard before, with Picaro Vol.2. Mysterious instrumental tracks and bizarre, inexplicable pieces performed by disheveled orchestras and forgotten or half-forgotten soloists. The Argentinian trumpeter Tulio Gallo performs a Russian classic to a twist beat luring listeners irresistibly onto the dancefloor. Pantaleón Perez Prado emigrated from Cuba to Italy and recorded material for European labels. Eclipsed by his brother's huge success, his work went unnoticed until Grumete rescued this magnificent version of "Guaglione". Many Italians travelled to the USA to try to get their talent recognized but Nino Rienzi alone managed to unite the elegance of the popcorn sound with an exotic and oriental rhythmic base. The French pastis moment comes with the frenzied saxophones, intoxicating sound and more oriental rhythm on "When", written by Paul Evans in 1958 with Francis Linel on vocals. This track is followed by Armand Canfora conducting a composition by Jacques Dutronc and Roger Morris et Son Orchestre performing "Oriental Express", a rare moorish jazz number. The orchestras on the first side of the record give way to wilder and more unusual performances on the second side - Renderings of rock, twist, fox and beat, all sung in Spanish. Long-forgotten soloists like Juan Ramón, the Mexican Hermanas Montoya or Angelito. The flawless version of "Bang Bang" by Kinita stands out on the album; a little known track that was released, with different orchestral arrangements, as a promo record for Fundador. The priceless "Escóndete" by a youthful Angelito Pachín dressed as a cowboy also stands out. And to top it all, Los Tarahumaras provides the best beat version of "Taboo", the composition written by Margarita Lecuona: a hard-to-find track taken from an EP released by Orfeón in Mexico. Also features: Peter Hinnen, Mr. Sax, Juan Ramón, Los Golden Boys, Dave Dacosta, and Los Risueño. Edition of 500.
$16.39 EAN: 8435008885373 ROCK
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VAN HOUDT, REINIER: Paths Of The Errant Gaze LP (HG 1606LP)
Reinier Van Houdt presents Paths Of The Errant Gaze. Reinier Van Houdt, as a classically trained pianist, has performed premieres of works by Robert Ashley, Charlemagne Palestine and many others. He has worked with composers such as John Cage and Luc Ferrari. Reinier Van Houdt plays in Current 93. "I've never heard a better mix of piano, electronics and amplification than during Van Houdt's program." --New York Times. "Reinier Van Houdt's performance was radical, extreme and without compromise. One of the most impressive examples I have witnessed of maximally mesmerizing an audience with ever more reduced materials." --Weser Kurier, Germany.
$20.99 EAN: 7640138449796 ROCK
01. Atopic Radio (2:33)
02. The Fabric Of Loss (4:56)
03. Orphic Asylum (6:44)
04. Vessel (4:57)
05. Gaussian Veils (6:56)
06. Transfinite Spectre (10:15)
07. Vapours (1:52)
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ELECTRIC SEWER AGE: Bad White Corpuscle LP (HG 1607LP)
Bad White Corpuscle is the work of Danny Hyde, producer and remixer of Coil, Nine Inch Nails, Psychic TV, Depeche Mode and many others. It was originally released on CD in 2014 by Old Europa Cafe. It follows the debut Electric Sewer Age album Moon's Milk In Final Phase (2012). Coil lovers know that Hyde was a kind of a secret member of the group, so it's not surprising that Bad White Corpuscle sounds kind of like a lost Coil album. "Redocine (Death Of The Corpuscle)" is a previously unreleased new track which doesn't appear on the CD version. It was specially arranged for this vinyl version. "Its seven tracks, a sequence of dank, futuristic environments, are essentially gliding, glacial synth suspensions, coolly decorated with suggestions of artificial intelligence (glitch computer voices, starship bleeps, analogue arps and warped tremolos) some of which seem like echoes from previous Coil releases bringing back fond memories of their original moon music." --Russell Cuzner, The Quietus.
$20.99 UPC: 727973174858 ELECTRONIC
01. Grey Corpuscle (3:56)
02. Corpuscular Corpuscle (5:11)
03. Amber Corpuscle (5:12)
04. Rising Corpuscle (8:40)
05. Bad White Corpuscle (6:27)
06. Redocine (Death Of The Corpuscle) (6:58)
07. Black Corpuscle (5:20)
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GORDON, DEXTER: Village Vanguard, NYC Feb '83 2CD (HH 3043CD)
Dexter Gordon, live at the Village Vanguard, New York City on February, 27th 1983. Dexter Gordon's long and remarkable career saw him perform alongside Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and many others. After a long spell in Europe, he returned to the US in 1976, and was named Down Beat Musician of the Year in 1978 and 1980. This superb set was broadcast by National Public Radio, and finds the great saxophonist celebrating his 60th birthday in typically authoritative and entertaining style. Digitally remastered here for greatly enhanced sound quality. Presented with background notes and images.
$16.39 EAN: 5297961304314 JAZZ
Set 1:
1.01. Secret Love
1.02. As Time Goes By
1.03. Soy Califa
1.04. The Jumpin' Blues & Intros
Set 2:
2.01. Hi-Fly
2.02. Body & Soul
2.03. Improvisation
2.04. Improvisation > Band Intros > Dexter Talks To Audience
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DARK STRANDS: The Last Ride EP 12" (HNRUK 001EP)
Leeds finest, Antony Beardsley - A lone gunman producing analog, slow-paced dance music influenced by pioneers like Andrew Weatherall, Timothy J Fairplay, Aphex Twin, and Sean Johnston.
$12.99 EAN: 7071245217747 ELECTRONIC
01. The Last Ride
02. We Own The Night
03. Black Dog
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ALDINUCCI, GIULIO: Goccia CD (HOMEN 067CD)
In 2012, Giulio Aldinucci released Tarsia on Nomadic Kids Republic to critical acclaim. Follow-up Goccia takes a rather thunderous step in the direction of a bang-on classic with one of the most complete, catchy, and ambitious albums heard in a long time. Balancing organic layers with some fantastic melodic synth hooks, flying straight through a maze of frequencies from drones, bleeps, bloops, background music, jingles, jangles, gut-punching subs, and whatever else he can. Features vocals by Nadia Bredice. Mastering and design by Ian Hawgood. Cover art by Peter Nejedly. Comes in a portrait style matte card digipak with hand-embossed printing. Edition of 500.
$10.99 UPC: 634158548239 ELECTRONIC
01. The Rule Of Forgetting
02. Immobile, Blu
03. Los Ojos De
04. Rondine
05. Apart
06. Candles (Tuscany, Spring)
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ALTARS ALTARS: Small Hours CD (HOMEN 078CD)
Moritz Leppers, the man behind the Altars Altars moniker, makes music using a variety of instruments running through his faithful, old reel-to-reel machine. Much has been made of reel-to-reel in recent years, but when you come across an artist who uses its limitations and beautiful randomness to such effect, it's deeply stirring. It is very refreshing to hear someone who makes simple, melodic, and inherently soulful ambient music, and it is a reminder of how rare it is to listen to such music and really feel connected when people play around far too much with computers, software, and plug-ins. Taking a few steps back and letting the music breath in such an organic way really has a truly deep meaning. Mastered by Ian Hawgood. Photography by Dominic Kreutzer. Design by Christian Roth and Ian Hawgood. Edition of 500.
$10.99 EAN: 5060179704012 ELECTRONIC
01. Joanna's Lullaby
02. Small Hours
03. Family's Downstairs
04. Balu
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HAASTRUP, JONI: Wake Up Your Mind (Deluxe Gatefold) LP (HC 043LP)
Hot Casa reissues Joni Haastrup's Wake Up Your Mind, originally recorded in 1978. Growing up in a royal household in Nigeria, Joni Haastrup began his musical journey performing for his brother's band Sneakers and was quickly snapped up as a vocalist for Orlando Julius Ekemode and his Modern Aces's 1966 Super Afro Soul album (VAMPI 091CD), one of Afro-beat's formative albums. Soon after, Ginger Baker of Cream fame replaced Steve Winwood with Joni on keys for Air Force's UK concerts in '71 and the success of the collaboration led to further shows with Baker as part of the SALT project before he returned to Nigeria to set up MonoMono. Back in London in 1978, Joni recorded his solo gem Wake Up Your Mind for the Afrodesia imprint. Laced with funk basslines, swirling keyboards and screaming guitars, this is Joni's most "western" record but at the same time, unmistakably African in origin. From the slow-motion disco of "Greetings" to the stone-cold groove of "Watch Out" to the Reuben Wilson-style funk of "Free My People" Joni was soaking up the sounds of the times and blending them with the music of his roots. Limited repress of Hot Casa's 2011 reissue. Deluxe gatefold sleeve.
$17.79 EAN: 3760179353808 WORLD
A1. Free My People
A2. Greetings
A3. Wake Up Your Mind
B1. Champions & Superstars
B2. Do The Funkro
B3. Watch Out
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QUEEN IDA AND THE BON TEMPS ZYDECO BAND: Live From The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, '80 CD (INTR 022CD)
Queen Ida And The Bon Temps Zydeco Band live from The Old Waldorf, San Francisco on September, 7th 1980. Ida Guillory is a jewel in the history of roots music who wears her own crown. Her passionate grasp of Creole roots lay charged behind the accordion, having offered compelling results since the 1970s. Countless appearances alongside her brother Al Rapone in the Bon Temps Zydeco Band have given widespread joy to more than just a roots audience. While San Francisco's famed venue was perhaps more familiar to contemporary rock acts, Queen Ida was always going to be "at home" wherever she played, an attitude that is felt throughout this prized set here. Professionally re-mastered original KALX-FM broadcast with background liners and rare archival photos.
$11.99 EAN: 5296127002217 ROCK
01. Intro To The Bayou Blues > Hey Negress
02. P'tit Fille O'Paradis
03. Grome Bayou
04. La Louisiane
05. La Vieje
06. My Baby She Left Me (She Left Me A Mule To Ride)
07. Tyrone
08. Vieus Paris
09. Jole Blon (Traditional Cajun Waltz)
10. When The Saints Go Marching In
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ORDUNA, JAVIER: Fool Again 12" (JEU 026EP)
For their 26th release, Jeudi present Javier Orduna's stunning four tracker. "Fool Again" sets the mood for this this release - Deep, poetic and sentimental with the right amount of bass pressure and flow to fill the floor. "Circles & Lines" softy transitions the listener to the other side, leaving it up to them to decide where they want to bring it. "Everything Is Real" is an early morning track that seduces you to stay. "Mardigan" is the true beauty here. The top-line melody awakes this special undeniable melancholy.
$8.39 EAN: 4050486971048 ELECTRONIC
A1. Fool Again
A2. Circles & Lines
B1. Everything Is Real
B2. Mardigan
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DJ SINCLAIR: Ricky/Gunman What 12" (LDN 065EP)
"Ricky" flips an iconic jungle ident over a dirty 8-bar drop. The flip sees former Roll Deep and Dizzee-producer, Wonder's "Gunman What" remade as a Wiley-style devil mix, with an explosion of Waifer gunshots and AMS bass to boot. Mumdance, Logos, Spooky, Dusk + Blackdown, Kahn & Neek have been playing the release and DJ Sinclair beats circulate among London's wider Boxed crew.
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MORGENSTERN, CHRISTIAN: Remixes 7/8 12" (KSQ 045EP)
Dr. Shingo's remix of "Malaria" - a beautifully crafted down-tempo version which skillfully dissolves the techno spirit of the original in crystal-clear electronic soul music. Staffan Linzatti's remix of "Spiegelkerker" is a futuristic and minimal interpretation of the original, with a sturdy drum pattern, an alluring blend of bleeps and spaced-out synth tones. Stanislav Tolkachev's remix of "The Future Is On Fire Pt. 1" is a raw and sinister industrial monster with a bold noise overload. Includes a remastered version of the classic club hit "The Future Is On Fire Pt. 1" by the mastermind Christian Morgenstern himself.
$8.99 UPC: 880319758119 ELECTRONIC
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TYPHONIAN HIGHLIFE: The World Of Shells LP (K 091LP)
Typhonian Highlife is the new moniker of Spencer Clark. Clark is the ultimate shape-shifter, a trickster continuously mutating from a sci-fi hero, into a mystic guru or into a speculative visionary. As Typhonian Highlife, he assimilates juxtapositions of the natural world and fantastic technology to reanimate the manneristic tradition. His compositions envision possible futures and speculative pasts. They imagine a new vision upon mankind, as a mythical underwater creature who creates meaning through a prosaic mysticism. The World Of Shells works as an dream expedition that has overflowed itself into real time. Through continual material-world visualization, a technologically natured music unfolds as a series of movements outlining the existence of a mythological African creature. Travelling through Hollywood, Hanging Rock, Australia, and The Ear of Dionysus in Sicily, the creature was placed, and has enacted a music and art form that explores a sci-fi aquatic and wind-blown desert fusion to uncover the life and wanderings of this non-material being. Mastered by Christophe Albertijn. Artwork by Spencer Clark.
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CELL, SIMO: Gliding 12" (LIVITY 021EP)
Following up his debut 12" for Livity Sound in 2015, Cellar Door/Piste Jaune (LIVITY 499EP), the Parisian brings his varied tastes to this diverse four tracker. From the hazy bumping rhythms of "Gliding" to the pulsating strobed snare assault of "Away From Keyboard", these razor-edge productions demonstrate exactly why Simo Cell has been tipped by so many as one to watch.
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IN GOWAN RING: Visions Of Shadows That Shine CD (LUNE 008CD)
Visions Of Shadows That Shine is a collection in extempore arrangements, and in ways a "bonus" album for In Gowan Ring's The Serpent And The Dove (2015). These songs accompanied Bobin Eirth (aka B'ee) throughout these seasons - playing with friends in the open air or in private chambers, in the sun or around the fire - while working with the original material on The Serpent And The Dove. Certain pieces are considered intrinsically related to this album, having attended the entire process, while others are rather spontaneously included in these late hours. Originally self-released in 2015, Lune Music present a reissue here.
$10.39 UPC: 769791964099 ROCK
01. Changes I (3:26)
02. The Vision Of The Face In The Well (6:15)
03. Pied Piper (4:39)
04. Blessings Of The Day (2:19)
05. Across The Universe (4:16)
06. Attics Of My Life (5:07)
07. The River (3:02)
08. Garden Of Love (8:52)
09. Changes II (3:28)
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IN GOWAN RING: Visions Of Shadows That Shine LP (LUNE 008LP)
LP version. Includes insert. Edition of 300.
$16.99 UPC: 769791964105 ROCK
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ADRIANI, ALESSANDRO: Crow/White Swan 12" (MNQ 083EP)
The new Mannequin Records series Death Of The Machines, opens up with the label head Alessandro Adriani, at work with "White Swan", a perfect hypnotic/psychedelic electro tune plus a banging Mick Wills cut on the unreleased "Crow" track. Mastered by Rude 66.
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JASSS: Mother 12" (MNQ 084EP)
JASSS debuts on Mannequin Records for the Death Of The Machines series with a three tracks - killer mix of ebm/industrial & wave on this heavy 12''. Perfect for the most abrasive dancefloors. Mastered by Rude 66.
$10.39 UPC: 769791963993 ELECTRONIC
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ZOMBIES UNDER STRESS: Stalin 12" (MNQ 086EP)
Mannequin Records present the 12" release of the Dutch Industrial band Zombies Under Stress. Started in 1984 as an industrial/electronic one-man project, the band has expanded to a seven-person multimedia collective. The band has always maintained a pure industrial approach, through the use of analog synthesizers, microphones, effects and distorted acoustic sounds. Four killer tracks make up this release. "Liberation" and "Stalin" are from their 1985 cassette Fanaticism & Hysteria, this last one also presented in a "Seven Sisters Of Putin" remix form. The killer slow industrial-techno "Message" is from the cassette Matrix Machinations (1996).
$10.39 UPC: 769791963955 ELECTRONIC
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FLO & ANDREW: Take Suicide 12" (MNQ 087EP)
A holy grail of the minimal synth and one of the most obscure Italian musical projects, reissued on Mannequin Records. Originally released in 1981 by Broadbean Records, Flo & Andrew's Take Suicide was home-recorded and home-mixed by the duo in Bologna, using early drum machines like the Boss DR-55 and the Korg KR-55, analog synthesizers, guitar, saxophone and tape loops. "To Committ Suicide" travels through contort and nervous synth sounds and loops, taking somehow inspiration from the No Wave heroes, while "Japanese Girls" is a beautiful minimal electronics track in the mythology of the futuristic rise of Japan.
$10.39 UPC: 769791963962 ELECTRONIC
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PLATH: Plath (Alessandro Adriani Edit) 12" (MNQ 088EP)
Originally self-released as a 7'' in 1982, Plath's self-titled release is definitely one of the obscure gems of the Italian underground. Plath were a duo from Prato, formed in 1982 by Silvia Innocenti (voice, bass guitar) and Fabrizio Lucarini (synth, drum machine). Plath were influenced by Throbbing Gristle and early Cabaret Voltaire works. A side includes the original single in full, with the classic "I Am Strange Now", recently unearthed by Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) in his monumental Mutazione (2013). The B side contains a killer percussive edit of Alessandro Adriani made for the most crazy mental dancefloors.
$10.39 UPC: 769791963979 ELECTRONIC
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RAYON: A Beat Of Silence CD (MORR 152CD)
"With his latest record, Notwist singer and guitar player, film soundtracker and Alien Transistor label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating album of instrumentals. As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves - arpeggios spiraling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures. An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmur, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole. Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl. Melancholic but weirdly uplifting arrangements surface throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon's work, A Beat Of Silence beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen. Closing tracks "To the Quiet", a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and "Kona", a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close." --Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch) Personnel: Sachiko Hara - piano, harmonium; Cico Beck - marimbaphone, bass-drum, percussion, electronics; Karl Ivar Refseth - vibraphone, glockenspiel, bassdrum, percussion; Anton Kaun - objects, electronics; Markus Acher - harmonium, percussion, gongs, electronics; Tadklimp - electronics, algorithmic processing. Produced by Tadklimp and Markus Acher.
$10.99 UPC: 880918815220 ROCK
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RAYON: A Beat Of Silence LP (MORR 152LP)
LP version. Includes an inner sleeve and a download code. Edition of 500.
$13.79 UPC: 880918815213 ROCK
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SEV DAH/JEFF RUSHIN: Parallel Series 5 12" (MOTE 048EP)
The Parallel Series is back with Sev Dah and Jeff Rushin who produce four techno pieces aimed for early mornings on darker dancefloors. Sev Dah starts with "Svarog", a fierce workout with rolling percussion and an off-kilter melodic line. "Morana" has the mood of early Detroit tracks but with more modern production values. Jeff Rushin's "Solex" is the most disorienting track on the release - A distant kick drum and the rising intensity of a ringing synth line gradually fall together with added percussion. "Obsolete" fills the audio spectrum with layers of dissonant panning and shuffling hats.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MATERIAL OBJECT: Artefacts Digitaux II CD (NO 913CD)
Material Object, aka Andre Ruello, returns with Part II of his Artefacts Digitaux project. Picking up the baton where he left it at the conclusion of 2015's debut, Ruello takes derelict waveforms from a myriad of forgotten sources and processes them exclusively in the digital realm, again, once more and then reprocesses them for good measure. The resulting output has been pushed into a sonically unique place then arranged into six movements spanning the width of emotional landscapes from harsh, atonal noise to love-addled euphoria, all in the context of "Electronic Ambient". Six artifacts from the artist's mind to the listener's speakers - the 23rd audio adventure on the No. label.
$13.79 EAN: 4260038315712 ELECTRONIC
01. 0int7b (4:00)
02. MMx22 (18:13)
03. k5_12 (10:29)
04. dr8zN (3:52)
05. c33k (13:56)
06. ke87z (10:50)
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ALESSANDRONI, ALESSANDRO: Di Tresette Ce N'e Uno, Tutti Gli Altri Son Nessuno LP (ODR 038LP)
Overdrive present the first vinyl release of the 1974 soundtrack by Alessandro Alessandroni for the Giuliano Carmineo (as Anthony Ascott) directed Di Tresette Ce N'è Uno, Tutti Gli Altri Son Nessuno, known in English as The Crazy Bunch. The sequel to Lo Chiamavano Tresette... Giocava Sempre Col Morto (Man Called Invincible) released in 1973, the film is a goofy, slapstick comedy spaghetti-western, but the maestro's soundtrack is anything but goofy. Haunting, sparse, and riveting, the soundtrack is easily the best thing about this film. Presented on color vinyl.
$23.79 UPC: 644042855152 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Di Tresette Ce N'è Uno, Tutti Gli Altri Son Nessuno (Seq.1 - Titoli)
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MOGGI AKA PIERO UMILIANI: Double Face LP (ODR 039LP)
Overdrive present a reissue of Moggi's (aka Piero Umiliani) Double Face, a hard-to-find Italian library record, originally released in 1981. The A side is Umiliani's compositions performed by a traditional string orchestra. The tracks have been synthesized for side B, exclusively by electronic instruments. At this point, the music becomes futuristic and brilliant. 180 gram vinyl.
$23.79 UPC: 644042855169 ELECTRONIC
Orchestra:
A1. Fata Morgana
A2. Nel Giardino Fantastico
A3. La Ballata Del Mare Salato
A4. Ricorrenza
A5. Planetario
Elettronica:
B1. Planetario
B2. La Ballata Del Mare Salato
B3. Nel Giardino Fantastico
B4. Ricorrenza
B5. Fata Morgana
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VA: Circus Days: Pop Psych Obscurities 1966-1972 6CD BOX (PARTBOX 007CD)
Spread over six discs, Particles present Circus Days, over 100 of the finest pop, psych and pop-psych gems ever mined. Dating from the glory days of British flower power, the set encompasses performances both by familiar acts (Vashti Bunyan, Arzachel, The Factory) and lesser-known ones (Rhubarb Rhubarb, Blue Yoghurt, The Katdz), and even a smattering of clowns (Bob Monkhouse, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore spring to mind). Coming complete with a packed program featuring many rare pictures, this is one freak-show for which you'll want a ringside seat. Deluxe six-CD set with 105 rare tracks, many previously un-compiled. Full-color 52-page booklet with detailed group biographies. Sleeve notes by Nick Saloman. Features: Clover, Los Brincos, Lomax All-Stars, Stars, Head West, Waterloo, Johnny Burton, Tandem, The Penny Peeps, Jon Plum, Nick Garrie, Dry Ice, Alex Harvey, The Fruit Machine, Orange Peel, The Smoke, Nimrod, The Fingers, Blonde On Blonde, The Wire Machine, The Eggy, Fruit Machine, The Green Scarab, Cirkus, Tamara Koran and Perception, Hat & Tie, The Actress, Shy Limbs, The Churchills, The Lovin', The Summer Set, Thane Russal, The Mirage, Earth, Druid Chase, The Marianne, The Fenmen, The Living Daylights, The Medium, Cat's Pyjamas, Jerusalem, Kate, Opus, Andromeda, Bent Frame, The Answers, Juan & Junior, Cardboard Orchestra, Broken Toys, Shubert, Temple Row, Jon Isherwood, Peter & The Wolves, Peter Janes, The Cortinas, Tuesday's Children, Tomorrow's Thoughts, Rainbows, The Worrying Kynde, The Secrets, Threshold Of Pleasure, David Copperfield Style, Jason Crest, The Sweetshop, Dave Justin, Cecil McCartney, Pattern People, Juice, The Scots Of St. James, Together, Price & Sheridan, The Cymbaline, Timothy Grass, Queen Flora's Recollections, Motivation, Leze Majesty, Sparrow, The Idle Hands, Green Pavane, The Amelia Smile, The Essence, The Majamood and six mystery tracks.
$22.39 EAN: 8690116300730 ROCK
Volume 1:
1.01. Clover - Ice Cream Man
1.02. Los Brincos - Nobody Wants You Now
1.03. Rhubarb Rhubarb - Moneylender
1.04. Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled
1.05. Lomax All-Stars - Honey Machine
1.06. Stars - Auntie Annie's Place
1.07. Head West - Someday
1.08. Waterloo - Why May I Not Know?
1.09. Johnny Burton - Polevault Man
1.10. Tandem - Shapes & Shadows
1.11. The Penny Peeps - I See The Morning
1.12. Jon Plum - Alice
1.13. Nick Garrie - Wheel Of Fortune
1.14. Dry Ice - Running To The Convent
1.15. Arzachel - Garden Of Earthly Delights
1.16. Vashti Bunyan - I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind
1.17. Mystery Track #1
Volume 2:
2.01. Alex Harvey - Dance Of The Green Scarab
2.02. The Fruit Machine - Follow Me
2.03. Orange Peel - I Got No Time
2.04. The Smoke - Dreams Of Dreams
2.05. Nimrod - The Bird
2.06. The Fingers - Circus With A Female Clown
2.07. Blonde On Blonde - Castles In The Sky
2.08. The Wire Machine - The Doves
2.09. The Eggy - You're Still Mine
2.10. Blonde On Blonde - Circles
2.11. Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today
2.12. The Green Scarab - Asariah's Dance
2.13. Cirkus - Amsterdam
2.14. Tamara Koran and Perception - Veils Of Mourning Lace
2.15. Rhubarb Rhubarb - Rainmaker
2.16. The Wire Machine - Mind Fascination
2.17. Mystery Track #2
Volume 3:
3.01. Hat & Tie - Finding It Rough
3.02. The Actress - Good Job With Prospects
3.03. Shy Limbs - Reputation
3.04. The Churchills - Too Much In Love To Hear
3.05. The Lovin' - Do It Again
3.06. The Summer Set - It's A Dream
3.07. Thane Russal - Drop Everything And Run
3.08. The Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows
3.09. Shy Limbs - Love
3.10. Earth - Resurrection City
3.11. Druid Chase - Take Me In Your Garden
3.12. The Mirage - And Life Goes On
3.13. The Marianne - You Had Better Change Your Evil Ways
3.14. The Fenmen - Rejected
3.15. The Living Daylights - Jane
3.16. The Mirage - My Door
3.17. The Medium - Edward Never Lies
3.18. Mystery Track #3
Volume 4:
4.01. Cat's Pyjamas - Virginia Water
4.02. Jerusalem - Kamakazi Moth
4.03. Kate - Shout It
4.04. Opus - Baby, Come On
4.05. Andromeda - Go Your Way
4.06. Bent Frame - Fairylights
4.07. The Answers - Tawney Wood
4.08. Juan & Junior - To Girls
4.09. Cardboard Orchestra - Yes I Heard A Little Bird
4.10. Broken Toys - Broken Toys
4.11. Shubert - Until The Rains Come
4.12. Temple Row - King & Queen
4.13. Jon Isherwood - Apple Pie
4.14. Peter & The Wolves - Little Girl Lost And Found
4.15. Peter Janes - Go Home Ulla
4.16. The Cortinas - Phoebe's Flower Shop
4.17. Tuesday's Children - She
4.18. Mystery Track #4
Volume 5:
5.01. Tomorrow's Thoughts - Night Is Like Day
5.02. Rainbows - Rainbows
5.03. The Worrying Kynde - Sand & Water
5.04. Clover - Ice Cream Man (Psychedelic Version)
5.05. The Secrets - I Think I Need The Cash
5.06. Threshold Of Pleasure - Rain, Rain, Rain
5.07. Peter & The Wolves - Lantern Light
5.08. David Copperfield Style - I've Been Wrong, I've Been Right
5.09. Jason Crest - Juliano The Bull
5.10. Blue Yoghurt - Lydia
5.11. Clover - Dream Dream Dream
5.12. The Sweetshop - Barefoot & Tiptoe
5.13. Dave Justin - You Outside
5.14. Cecil McCartney - Liquid Blue
5.15. Pattern People - Take A Walk In The Sun
5.16. Juice - The Elastic Band
5.17. Mystery Track #5
Volume 6:
6.01. The Scots Of St. James - Eiderdown Clown
6.02. Together - Memories Of Melinda
6.03. Price & Sheridan - Tracy Smith
6.04. The Cymbaline - Fire
6.05. Timothy Grass - Second Glance
6.06. Queen Flora's Recollections - Red Brick House
6.07. Motivation - Little Man
6.08. Leze Majesty - Regency Gardens
6.09. Sparrow - Dream Song
6.10. Kate - Don't Make A Sound
6.11. The Idle Hands - Remember
6.12. Green Pavane - The Nymphs Of Untwalumi Wood
6.13. The Amelia Smile - Father Good's Space Flight
6.14. The Factory - Red Chalk Hill
6.15. The Essence - Call Me A Friend
6.16. Peter & The Wolves - Smokey Wood
6.17. The Majamood - 200 Million Red Ants
6.18. Mystery Track #6
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ELCADOS: What Ever You Need CD (PMG 025CD)
PMG present a reissue of Elcados's last record, What Ever You Need, originally released in 1979. "By the 1979 release of What Ever You Need, the Elcados were ready to party. 'We got rhythm, we got sound,' they declare on 'Funky Music'. Starting out as The Moonrakers in Kanu in 1968, Steve Black, Rocky Mustapha, Tony Nosika and Frank Martins spent the next decade gigging their way out of the north, including a surreal set with Khalifa Baba-Ahmed at the Miss New Nigeria contest. They released two rock-oriented albums in the mid '70s before hitting a disco/reggae groove on What Ever You Need. The album starts with the title track, a bouncy reggae number guaranteed to fill the dance floor. 'Cross Over Reggae' keeps the mood light before 'The World Is Full Of Injustice' delivers a bit of Rasta indignation. Funk monsters 'Marry The Poor' and 'Funky Music' bring it all home, reminding listeners that the guys didn't drag out their best shiny suits just to smoke spliffs. Sadly, What Ever You Need, was the last record the Elcados released. But they went out with the glitter ball burning brightly, dimmed but a little by the fug of the righteous herb." --Peter Moore.
$10.39 UPC: 710473190534 ROCK
01. What Ever You Need
02. Cross Over Reggae
03. The World Is Full Of Injustice
04. Marry The Poor
05. Funky Music
06. This Is Life
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ELCADOS: What Ever You Need LP (PMG 025LP)
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$16.99 UPC: 710473190527 ROCK
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S. JOB ORGANIZATION: Freedom Anthem CD (PMG 027CD)
PMG present a reissue of S. Job Organization's Freedom Anthem, originally released in 1978. "S. Job Organization (also known as SJOB Movement) was a rarity in the Nigerian music scene - a collective of equals in a world where band 'leaders' ruled the roost and 'band boys' had to make do with the crumbs. The name was an acronym representing each of the members - Samuel 'Spark' Abiloye, Johnnie Woode Olimah, Ehima 'Blackie' Ottah and Prince Bolarinwa Agba. They were music scene veterans and the nucleus of Sonny Okosuns's group, Ozziddi. Unshackled, their undeniable chemistry fizzed. Listen to a SJOB record and you can almost hear band members nodding their heads in appreciation of each others's mad skills. On Freedom Anthem, the music is deep, dark and funky. It took inspiration from the new sounds coming out of black America with a focus that was increasingly political. 'Ayamoto' calls for Africans to stand up for their rights. 'Freedom Anthem' is another funky call to arms. 'Oya' and 'Wombiliki' incorporate local folk sounds and a tinge of reggae for a distinctly African burnish. The egalitarian structure of SJOB eventually led to its demise. Without a dominant personality to galvanize the band, they lost direction. Johnnie Woode rejoined Ozziddi. Prince Bola joined King Sunny Ade. The great social experiment was over. But in Freedom Anthem, the magic it created lives on." --Peter Moore.
$10.39 UPC: 710473190497 WORLD
01. Oya
02. My Friend
03. Ayamato
04. Kukelu
05. Efin Ogiso
06. Freedom Anthem
07. Wombiliki
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S. JOB ORGANIZATION: Freedom Anthem LP (PMG 027LP)
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$16.99 UPC: 710473190480 WORLD
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LEBARTY, AIGBE: Unity CD (PMG 028CD)
PMG present a reissue of Aigbe Lebarty's Unity, originally released in 1979. "In 1979, long-time highlife veteran Aigbe Lebarty decided to try his hand at high-energy disco funk. Checking the Lebartone Aces at the door, he borrowed the Sex Bombers from Prince Omo Lawal-Osula and created Unity, a sure-fire dance floor stomper that channels 'Ring My Bell' into a clarion cry for, well, unity ... and a good time. The title track is the undisputed highlight of the album. It rattles along in a wonky, skittish fashion, with the high-pitched toms dueling with the Sex Bombers in a musical game of Space Invaders. 'His Highness Erediauwa 1 Oba Of Benin' sees Aigbe slip back into highlife like a comfortable pair of slippers. The tracks were a gift to Erediauwa, who had just been crowned the 38th ruler of the Edo people in Benin City. Like eastern Nigeria, Benin City had remained a haven for highlife, so no surprises there. Spookily, the reissue of this album by PMG coincides with the passing of his Highness Erediauwa 1 and the coronation of his successor." --Peter Moore.
$10.39 UPC: 710473190510 WORLD
01. Unity
02. His Highness Erediauwa 1 Oba Of Benin (Part 1)
03. His Highness Erediauwa 1 Oba Of Benin (Part 2)
04. Gratitude
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LEBARTY, AIGBE: Unity LP (PMG 028LP)
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$16.99 UPC: 710473190503 WORLD
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KANONU MEETS TOLBERT, THE MIRACLE MAN, ALEKE: Happiness/Nwanne, Nwanne, Nwanne 12" (PMG 029EP)
"Bringing together the undisputed talents of Nigerian percussionist Aleke Kanonu and soul legend from Alabama, O.C. Tolbert, this 12" created quite the buzz when it was released in New York in 1982. 'Happiness' is an uptown style gospel ballad where Tolbert's gravelly, soulful voice channels years of hurt and pain. 'Nwanne, Nwanne, Nwanne' is an Afro-beat disco monster that rattles along on the back of Kanonu's awesome percussion skills. Both tracks were written and produced by Jack Taylor, a producer, songwriter and purported gangster from Harlem and released on his own label." --Peter Moore.
$12.99 UPC: 710473190541 ROCK
01. Happiness
02. Nwanne, Nwanne, Nwanne
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BLO: Back In Time 12" (PMG 030EP)
"We're talking early '80s sophistication here, with a killer groove designed to let you show off all your moves and still look as classy as hell. By the late '70s and early '80s, disco was king in Nigeria and BLO were under pressure to follow the trend. Typically, they did it their own way, with slinky bass lines, Nile Rodgers guitar licks and a beat guaranteed to make you move. The Afro-beat and psyche rock stylings were gone, but the tightness and funkiness that comes from laying down rock hard grooves for over a decade remains." --Peter Moore.
$12.99 UPC: 710473190558 ROCK
01. Back In Time
02. Dance In A Circle
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CROATIAN AMOR: Love Means Taking Action LP (PI 180LP)
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P.NOIR: f 109 12" (PE 007EP)
On the EP f 109, Basel-based duo P.Noir celebrates the final fusion of dub and electroacoustic. Besides various feedback-loops and amps, the musical elements are reduced to the max. What's left is a 30-minute-trip into drums, drones and dread. After an unterwelt-y 12" by dane//close and a chaos-tape straight out of Lucerne, f 109 marks the third audio release of 2016 on Präsens Editionen, also home to the zweikommasieben Magazin.
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VOIGT, WOLFGANG: Apodiktische Gewissheit 12" (PROFAN 040EP)
Apodiktische Gewissheit ("apodeictic certainty") is the title of a cooperative audio-visual project from Berlin-based artist Gerhard Mantz and Wolfgang Voigt. The project is premised on a digital video piece from Gerhard Mantz. Steadily flowing geometric forms and themes move evenly around a fixed center towards the viewer. A hypnotic undertow-like effect of seductive beauty emerges - impossible to elude. Wolfgang Voigt seizes on the digital aesthetic and the mechanical flow of the images, giving them a musical equivalent. The result is a successful amalgamation of imagery and music that generates maximum intensity with minimum motion.
$10.39 UPC: 880319814716 ELECTRONIC
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MIDWINTER: The Waters of Sweet Sorrow LP (PT 8018LP)
Prog Temple present a vinyl reissue of Midwinter's The Waters of Sweet Sorrow, originally released in 1993. Midwinter's now legendary status in the field of acid-folk had only been established when their 1973 demo recordings were unveiled to a wider audience 20 years after their conception. Until then, Midwinter had existed only in local knowledge and in the shadows of Stone Angel, the post-Midwinter outfit whose privately-pressed self-titled album from 1975 (PT 8026CD) has since commanded deserved attention by fans and collectors alike. Also included in this retrospective edition is the earliest-known recordings by Midwinter/Stone Angel front-man Ken Saul, taken from his highly rare and sought-after debut single from 1970. Includes detailed liner notes. Digitally remastered.
$16.39 EAN: 4753314801820 ROCK
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ASSAGAI: Assagai LP (PT 8027LP)
Prog Temple present a vinyl reissue of Assagai's self-titled album, originally released in 1971. Assagai's debut for Philips's progressive subsidiary Vertigo was realized in 1971 to quiet applause. Critics soon became favorable as Afro-rock gained a foothold as the "next big thing" and it wasn't long before they would make their (only) appearance on Top of the Pops. Their journey in London's predominantly progressive underground music scene was brief, but also established a further chapter in the annals of Afro-rock alongside Black Velvet, Osibisa, Thor's Anvil, Uhuru and the Cosmic Grass Band. Numerous musical figures were assembled from the South African and Nigerian communities resident in London at the time with contributions from Dudu Pukwana, Fred Coker, Ayinde Folarin (Demon Fuzz) and Fred Fredericks (Jimmy James And The Vagabonds). An unlikely partnership with progressive-folk legends Jade Warrior would provide backing on their 1971 Zimbabwe LP (KH 9012CD), co-writing material for their self-titled debut. Unbeknownst to Jade Warrior at the time, they were part of a combined contract with their label mates. Assagai is as fresh and alive as it was when it was recorded in 1971, hypnotic in its rhythm and tantalizing in its mix of punctured brass and provocative vocals. Their ruthless brand of handsome rhythm offers copious potent vibes, but simultaneously employs a simple narrative achieving an elementary perspective of London's rapidly changing times.
$16.39 EAN: 4753314802728 ROCK
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BOXER: Absolutely LP (PT 8047LP)
Prog Temple present a vinyl reissue of Boxer's second album Absolutely, originally released in 1977. In 1976, legendary vocalist Mike Patto (Timebox, Patto) put together a new lineup of Boxer featuring keyboardist Chris Stainton (Joe Cocker's Grease Band), guitarist Adrian Fisher (Sparks), bassist Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge), and drummer Eddie Tuduri (The Beach Boys). The lineup proved volatile and short-lived, but they did tape this lost classic of melodic hard rock in 1977, with producer Jeff Glixman, red-hot from his association with Kansas. Reissued on vinyl for the first time since 1977. Comes with insert including background notes and images.
$16.39 EAN: 4753314804722 ROCK
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DJ HAUS: Artificial Intelligence 2LP (RINSE 035LP)
After the sweat-soaked throwback fervor of his 2015 debut album Burnin' Up (RINSE 034CD/LP), Unknown To The Unknown and Hot Haus main man DJ Haus returns to Rinse for the ten-track album Artificial Intelligence. Working at a formidably high rate of productivity, Haus returns with Artificial Intelligence less than 12 months after his last; and he shows no signs of slowing down, maintaining his reputation for creating hard-edged dance anthems that leave a lasting effect on the dancefloor. Each of the album's ten tracks take on a life of their own as DJ Haus mutates his own nostalgic influences through rave, acid basslines, Detroit techno and more to create something that's genuinely innovative, but no less devastating to the dancefloor. Using Haus's broad sonic palette, Artificial Intelligence harks back to golden eras of dance music without ever seeming pastiche; DJ Haus splices pre-existing genres to produce hybrid sounds that are rooted firmly in the future. Collaborations with the likes of Arun Verone and DJ Octopus & Steve Murphy utilize their signature quirks, integrating them into Haus's creations to fabricate something completely unique. Opening to the frenzied sounds of acid house, "Feels So Good" instantly consolidates the producer's deft ear for a purpose-built vocal sample. Using typically overlaid embellishments as rhythmic elements, DJ Haus utilizes repetitive vocals & high-octane rave stabs to create a natural movement that is sure to heat up clubs worldwide. "Got Me Where You Want Me", a collaboration with midlands-based tech house don Arun Verone, brings to the forefront an intensely percussive beat that's progressively anchored by acidic basslines, adding weight to the production's abrasive drum line. For all the album's nods to the golden eras of classic genres, Artificial Intelligence doesn't veer away from experimentation, with the pummeling percussion of "Pump It" soon to be running up heartbeats, the 8-bit computer game-esque sounds of "Blip Blorp", and the paranoid chimes of "Artificial Intelligence". As one of the most productive artists in the club scene, DJ Haus has pooled from a huge pool of inspirations and dipped back in time to the most misty-eyed moments of rave culture to present Artificial Intelligence, an album that's deadly, hard-bodied and most importantly, like nothing out there in the club stratosphere.
$17.79 UPC: 800071004873 ELECTRONIC
A1. Feels So Good
A2. Get On Down
B1. Got Me Where You Want Me (feat. Arun Verone)
B2. Gotta Luv Me (All Nite Mix)
C1. C'mon Letz Work
C2. Open Your Mind
C3. Blip Blorp (feat. Dj Octopus & Steve Murphy)
D1. Didn't Want 2 Hurt U
D2. Pump It
D3. Artificial Intelligence
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LE SYNDICAT + PHARMAKUSTIK: Plasmoglitch LP (ROTOR 045LP)
Plasmoglitch is a new developed and produced project by Le Syndicat (France) and Pharmakustik (Germany). The two long pieces of the album involve all sorts of rusty analog hardware and reciprocating engines to form a new definition of "glitch" in its most radical form: torsional vibrations, massive rotational motions, crankshaft-rhythms, magnaflux processes, metallic straightness, re-melted granularity and thermal spraying. Micro-finished and mixed by Ruelgo, with rusty analog mastering-tools. Machined acceleration motorsport for the gourmets of rotary glitch-motions. Bleeding! Comes on clear and red split colored vinyl.
$18.39 UPC: 769791964006 ELECTRONIC
A1. Plasmoglitch A (18:23)
B1. Plasmoglitch B (16:26)
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ETANT DONNES: Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et Les Etoiles LP (ROTOR 052LP)
Rotorelief present Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et Les Etoiles, recorded in 1982 but previously unreleased. This music, like all first works of Etant Donnes, was made without any instrument or effect - It is the fruit of long work on raw sound material coming only from nature field recordings. Standard black vinyl in an edition of 300.
$16.99 UPC: 769791964037 ELECTRONIC
A1. Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et Les Etoiles Part 1 (22:30)
B1. Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et Les Etoiles Part 2 (22:30)
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ETANT DONNES: Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et Les Etoiles (Red Vinyl) LP (ROTOR 052RED-LP)
Red vinyl version.
$18.39 UPC: 769791964044 ELECTRONIC
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ROUS: La Purpura Del Ocaso 12" (SANFUENTE 014EP)
Argentina's Rous, who currently lives in Mendoza, delivers music with confident brush strokes of synthesizer magic over titillating classic analog sounding drums. The raw and intense landscapes of a snowy Patagonian lake island and its surroundings - the place where he spent a month with no communications or technology - shaped La Púrpura Del Ocaso ("The Purple of Sunset"). In Rous's words, "this recording expresses my intensity while growing up, my experience with masters, the natural destinies that the mountain put in front of us and the ecstasy we feel at the parties with our South American family and friends."
$8.39 UPC: 880319784415 ELECTRONIC
01. La Púrpura Del Ocaso
02. Tornasol Andino
03. Silencio Carmesí
04. Muzgo, Nieve y Luna Llena
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FUSION FARM: Rush Job CD (SHAD 186CD)
Shadoks Music present a reissue of Fusion Farm's Rush Job, originally released in 1971. After many years of trying to locate the band to properly reissue Rush Job, a daughter of one of the band members coincidentally found Shadoks through social media. The album originally was very limited release on the S.R.T label with a hand-sprayed cover, very much like Tony Caro & John's All On The First Day (1972). Originals are very rare, fetching high prices on the collectors market. This reissue includes tracks from the rare 1974 single Fat Judy/Gypsy Mountain Woman. Fusion Farm got radio play and played a lot of shows in London and the surrounding cities before heading off to Europe to gig constantly. Germany became a second home, in particular Frankfurt and Munich and they found favor playing at many US army air bases. Fusion Farm played the Frankfurt Festhalle, with a 15,000 capacity, supporting Bad Company and Black Oak Arkansas. This show is infamous because Black Oak Arkansas never showed up and a riot ensued, leaving the venue trashed. The band changed personnel several times but the core of the band and song-writing team of Bob Bett and Normal Ley remained constant. The band split in 1979 to pursue other projects. Rush Job includes snotty, Stooges-like psych songs, with great guitars, drums, cool vocals and bass. Some tracks are dreamy and some are very powerful British underground tunes.
$11.99 UPC: 801670018629 ROCK
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LUCY/RROSE: The Lotus Eaters 12" (SA 028EP)
Lucy and Rrose team up as a production duo for The Lotus Eaters. "Chloroform" is anything but anesthetic: at high volumes, its monstrous low-end surge and prickly, scintillating sonic ephemera bring attention to imperceptible phenomena. "Peeling" develops its own cascade of sensory impressions from deep-bass loops, injections of surface noise, and pitch-shifted/harmonizer-effected phantom phrases. "Stained Glass" is a potent distortion of the mundane, primed with shivering bell tones, tamed feedback and hints of speaker cones fraying. "Foil Gardens" is an elegant study in harmonics whose time-dissolving ability nods to the works of Charlemagne Palestine or Eliane Radigue.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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FLUXION: Vibrant Forms III (Part 1) 12" (SUBWAXFX 004EP)
In 2016, Subwax Bcn remastered and reissued the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion (SUBWAXFX 001CD). Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III. It's all here: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb, dub echoes and the warmth. Vibrant Forms II was a reminder of the legacy of the Basic Channel, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Vibrant Forms III is a reminder of the timelessness of truly great music.
$10.99 EAN: 4260038315736 ELECTRONIC
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FLUXION: Vibrant Forms III (Part 2) 12" (SUBWAXFX 005EP)
In 2016, Subwax Bcn remastered and reissued the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion (SUBWAXFX 001CD). Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III. It's all here: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb, dub echoes and the warmth. Vibrant Forms II was a reminder of the legacy of the Basic Channel, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Vibrant Forms III is a reminder of the timelessness of truly great music.
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FLUXION: Vibrant Forms III (Part 3) 12" (SUBWAXFX 006EP)
In 2016, Subwax Bcn remastered and reissued the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion (SUBWAXFX 001CD). Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III. It's all here: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb, dub echoes and the warmth. Vibrant Forms II was a reminder of the legacy of the Basic Channel, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Vibrant Forms III is a reminder of the timelessness of truly great music.
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FLUXION: Vibrant Forms III (Part 4) 12" (SUBWAXFX 007EP)
In 2016, Subwax Bcn remastered and reissued the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion (SUBWAXFX 001CD). Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III. It's all here: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb, dub echoes and the warmth. Vibrant Forms II was a reminder of the legacy of the Basic Channel, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Vibrant Forms III is a reminder of the timelessness of truly great music.
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BRUCE: I'm Alright Mate 12" (TIMEDANCE 006EP)
I'm Alright Mate sees the Bristol-based producer shift full throttle into far more menacing territory. Fueled by the distaste for ignorance, blind condescension and amphetamine fueled brawls, Bruce delivers two cuts of floor destroying workouts. "I'm Alright Mate" has been dazing dancefloors for over a year, recently being a highlight of Joy O's Dekmantel mix. Tenacious kick drums set the tone, before screaming feedback obliterate any sense of predictability. It is as mischievous as it is hostile. "Post Rave Wrestle" utilizes a similar sound palette, but with a low-slung, surly rhythm punctuated by splinters of feedback.
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PHASE: Alone In Time? Remixed 12" (TOKEN 065EP)
This tribute to Ø [Phase]'s 2015 album Alone in Time? (TOKEN 057CD/LP), the second LP on Token, offers remixes of two of its tracks. The utilitarian discord of "R-Mash" is remixed by James Ruskin and Karl O' Connor (Regis) under their O/V/R collaboration. They highlight the rattling percussion of the original and its juxtaposition with the tense and uneasy anti-harmony. Ø [Phase] revisits the album's title piece. "Alone in Time?" originally appeared as a restless arrangement is re-imagined as a solid construction for the dancefloor.
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TRISTANO, FRANCESCO: Surface Tension CD (MS 092CD)
Pianist and composer, Francesco Tristano, joins forces with one of the godfathers of Detroit techno Derrick May on Surface Tension. Described by the man himself as his "most techno and synth-based project yet," the eight-track effort is both a celebration of electronic instrumentation and the first record Derrick May has worked extensively on for the better part of two decades. "I had to lure him into my studio," Tristano says of May with a smile, "he was like Alice in Wonderland when he saw the synthesizers." Originally developed as a way create new material for Tristano's p:anorig project - a unique live set-up debuted at Barcelona's Sónar festival - Surface Tension grew into a project in its own right. With an instrumentation of analog, digital, classic and modern gear - ranging from Prophets to Moogs, to Rolands and Yamahas - at his and May's disposal, Tristano has aimed to keep processing to a minimum. The pair are not just using these synths, they're paying tribute to them, honoring their rich, recognizable sound palettes. The result is an album that feels, at once, nostalgic and fresh; that feels like an old friend, but one who never ceases to surprise. From the ambient vision of "Esoteric Thing", drifting along to the sound of birdsong, to more beat-centric pieces such as "The Mentor" and the quirky "Xokolade", the equipment, and the love it's been treated with, shines through. Both Tristano and May's individual presences are obvious too, yet work in a way so complimentary to each other as to blur the lines at which they cross. "Pacific FM" is a lesson in uplifting techno, keys fluttering over pad-foot bass; the futuristic Detroit dance of "In Da Minor" is undercut by eerie, unpredictable glass synth-work; "Rocco's Bounce" is free-form jazz tugged into line by structured four-to-the-floor; there's even an itchy, jittering, Decca Records-sanctioned remix of Japanese pianist and general Renaissance man, Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence". Those hoping for a Francesco Tristano piano album: be duly warned. "The piano is there, but it's more like the shadow of the piano. We don't have the mass of that sound, it's more like the reminiscence of that sound," says Tristano. It gives Surface Tension the aforementioned significance. Tristano hasn't abandoned his roots, yet has simultaneously transcended what it means to be a pianist in the 21st century.
$10.99 UPC: 844216040807 ELECTRONIC
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TRISTANO, FRANCESCO: Surface Tension 2LP (MS 092LP)
Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve.
$18.99 UPC: 844216040906 ELECTRONIC
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DIXON, TERRENCE: From The Far Future 2LP +7" (TRES 141LP)
Essential repress of Terrence Dixon's debut album and first release on Tresor, originally released in 2000. Essentially variations on a concept, From the Far Future is delightfully warm with dreamlike excursions through techno and house-based structures. Dixon says, "From The Far Future is all about respecting those who came before me, respecting the art of pure techno, taking bits and pieces of what's old and making it new once again." Past, present and future are interwoven within eleven tracks, all compositionally unified but each able to stand alone when heard individually. The 50-minute journey takes is smooth and organic phrases; specifically designed to be flexible; understood in club settings and at home. Alternating rhythms throb to the forefront while floated in echoey synthesizer washes. Subtle traces of some of most ingenious profiles in the history of electronic music are hinted at, including Kraftwerk, Derrick May, and Juan Atkins, bathing the listener in sensual nostalgia. From The Far Future embodies a specific and vital time of Detroit's techno production, going hand in hand with Juan Atkins's work as Infiniti, Terrence Dixon signed this album with a masterful hand. This edition comes with a bonus 7" vinyl featuring two previously uncut tracks: "What Up" and "Shuffle All Circuits".
$20.99 UPC: 718755614167 ELECTRONIC
A1. Running Time
A2. The Bionic Man (Remix)
A3. Early Space Pioneers
B1. Untitled
B2. One Bedroom Apartment
C1. Detroit Express
C2. Reasons (Vocal Mix)
D1. Bonus Beat (Remix)
D2. Hard Times
Included 7":
A1. What Up
B1. Shuffle All Circuits
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DE SONG, CULOE: Watergate 21 CD (WG 021CD)
To preserve the standards set by previous selectors, Watergate Records have enlisted the genius of one of today's brightest stars to take the helm for Watergate 21; the one and only, Culoe De Song. Hailing from the northern shores on South Africa's east coast, Culoe De Song has broken out internationally and paved an impressive path for himself over the last decade. From his first release on fellow South African export Black Coffee's Have Another One compilation (2007) to his multiple anthems on the mighty Innervisions and renowned Japanese imprint Mule Musiq to his most recent long player Washa (2016) on his own imprint De Song Music, Culoe has always celebrated his musical heritage and the sounds of home. By blending the fundamentals of modern house and techno with the aesthetics of traditional African musicality, Culoe De Song has become one of a few pivotal figures in pushing the agenda for the "Afro-house" movement to the international stage. With regular appearances at Watergate, it's no doubt that his sound flawlessly fits the modus operandi of the club. Whether it's an intense journey upstairs in the dark under the LEDs or a morning of deep euphoria as the sun pours over the water floor, Culoe's approach and execution never fail to capture the essence of the moment in only a way that he can create. With this skill and his signature brushstroke, he has crafted an impeccable journey spanning an entire spectrum of club moments into an hour and twenty minutes. Not only is the mix flawless, but it features an extravagant array of unreleased and well known tunes including four absolutely stunning exclusive originals from Culoe De Song himself. On the whole, the mix is an indisputable illustration of Culoe's kaleidoscope of talent, philosophy, and artistry and is equal parts uplifting and infectious as it is psychedelic and dreamy. Like Hunter S. Thompson once said, "Buy the ticket, take the ride" and Watergate Records would have to concur. Take a ride with Culoe De Song on Watergate 21. Watergate 21 features: Francesco Chiocci, &ME, David Anthony (feat.Beverlei Brown), Corinda, Boddhi Satva (feat. Teedra Moses), and Guti. Features exclusive tracks from: Culoe De Song, Em Ex, Mr Joe, and illuMonate DJs.
$11.99 EAN: 4260038315361 ELECTRONIC
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ALVES, VASCO: Volume II CD (WCEC 013CD)
Portuguese sound artist Vasco Alves presents a collection of new material developed through his work with homemade AM transmitters and transistor radios broadcasting and manipulating reduced sine wave compositions. The project continues Alves's ongoing research into the structural behaviors of electronics and the points of resistance and malleability present within these technologies. Across the recordings Alves works with a characteristically focused production process, using two sine waves with variable frequencies broadcast to two panned transistor radios. The simple signal chain generates a dynamic paired field of textural noise, resulting from the combination of the signal volatility, overdriving, frequency modulation and its consequent harmonics all interacting with the innate analog tendencies of the short wave ether. Together the production method creates untamed sonics and pulsing noise that is uncompromising in its raw articulation of sound as material. Currently based in Lisbon, Alves's interests lie in the investigation of unstable electronics through the use of radio and both customized and malfunctioning devices. His work explores processes that are often volatile in nature with the outcomes being subjected to strict live processing techniques.
$4.99 UPC: 666017311326 ELECTRONIC
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CADANS: Hollow Funk EP 12" (WOLF 036EP)
Dutch producer Cadans delivers four energetic dancefloor monsters. "Hollow Funk" kicks off with an erratic drum pattern which slowly builds into frenetic raw claps and a very danceable bass kick. "Got Woodblock" serves up a dose of suspense as a hollow pitter-patter echoes throughout. "Vocal Exercise" delivers a myriad of percussions which perfectly harmonize between a beautiful orchestral interval. "Papercuts" is conceived with his brother Kracht, and slows down the tempo while still maintaining the industrial flavor of is elements, together with deep vocals and lively hi-hats.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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PAUL & THE TALL TREES: Our Love In The Light CD (BC 019CD)
"Staten Island is both close enough to New York City and far enough away to make it easily the most exotic of the 5 boroughs. RZA from Wu-Tang Clan attributes the uniqueness of the Wu to its Hip Hop contemporaries at the time to just that dynamic. Growing up on an island that is neighbors with the capital of the world, but has no bridges to it, no trains or tunnels, only a ferry, turns out to be the perfect recipe to give a New York band a unique take on the energy of the city. Paul Schalda, the bandleader, singer and songwriter of Paul & The Tall Trees is from Staten Island. One part of a crazily talented musical family, Paul's music seems to embody the unexpected overlap of The Band's Americana, Ian MacKaye's unhinged emotion, Otis Redding's raw, warm soul, and the doo-wop melodies his father, Bill Schalda Sr. (a member of Brooklyn vocal group, The Montereys) raised him on. On Paul & The Tall Trees' debut album Our Love In The Light you hear the sum of his experiences. This singular sound is helped by the fact that his father, William Schalda, Sr., and brother, Will Schalda Jr., play on and inspire the record. The album was written entirely by Paul, and produced by another Staten Island native, Thomas Brenneck of Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band, and Budos Band fame. The combination of the two gives the record an amazing sonic range, from the powerhouse rocker 'Crack Of Down' to the ethereal western vibes of 'She Comes Around'."
$13.00 UPC: 349223001921 ROCK
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PAUL & THE TALL TREES: Our Love In The Light LP (BC 019LP)
LP version.
$15.50 UPC: 349223001914 ROCK
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SHACKS, THE: The Shacks 10" (BC 046-10)
10" version.
$11.75 UPC: 349223004618 ROCK
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SHACKS, THE: The Shacks CD (BC 046CD)
"When you listen to the Shacks's self-titled debut EP, you might imagine that Shannon Wise and Max Shrager are much older than their respective 18 and 20 years. But when Shannon's whisper-vocals breeze through the speakers, you hear the youthfulness of their sound which then in turn explains the fearlessness of their songwriting. Both vaguely familiar and completely fresh, The Shacks are one of the most interesting NYC bands to surface in a minute. Since the release of their first single, 'Strange Boy,' which they recorded with El Michels Affair, The Shacks have been compared to '90s indie icons like Mazzy Star, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Broadcast. As good as those bands are, you wouldn't find a single one of their records in Max and Shannon's music collection. All these bands are drinking from the same well, just 20 years apart."
$8.25 UPC: 349223004625 ROCK
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VA: Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds From South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) 2LP (CRZR 1004LP)
Black Friday RSD 2016 release. "This Black Friday RSD exclusive is housed in a hand silk-screened jacket from Antidesigns. When most people think about Nigerian music, the first thing that comes to mind is Lagos -- the country's main commercial center, the glittering megacity that spawned Yoruba-speaking music luminaries such as Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Sir Shina Peters and Wizkid. But Nigeria is a country of rich diversity, especially in its music: From the Igbo highlife and rock bands of east-central region, to the deep Edo roots rhythms from the midwest, to the keening, ornamented Fulani melodies of the north. But one region whose music has remained largely underexplored is the south eastern land of the Efik and Ibibio ethnic groups in Cross River and Akwa Ibom State -- the region colloquially referred to as 'Calabar.' A cradle of culture, this region was one of the earliest outposts of Nigerian popular music. Its primordial rhythms traveled across the Atlantic during the slave trade to provide the part of the foundation for Afro-Cuban grooves that would go on to influence the development of jazz, rock & roll, R&B and funk. With the new Calabar-Itu Road compilation, Comb & Razor Sound presents 15 heavy tracks recorded in the decade between 1972 and 1982, spotlighting rare music from 'Calabar' superstars such as Etubom Rex Williams, Cross River Nationale, Charles 'Effi' Duke, The Doves and Mary Afi Usuah. The package features a magazine-style booklet containing a wealth of information about the milieu with rare photographs and illustrations. The Calabar-Itu Road is the major artery linking modern-day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. And Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds From South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) will link the region's music to the rest of the world!"
$21.50 UPC: 112437100410 WORLD
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MISTRESS MARY: Housewife LP (CR 011LP)
"We are thrilled to offer the first and only licensed reissue of Mistress Mary Housewife, an obscure Southern California songwriting demo issued privately in 1969. This is Mary's one and only recording and she's backed here by Carl Walden, Clarence White, Johnny Redd (and other yet to be identified session players) from the late '60s Byrds, Burrito Bros country rock scene. Brilliantly packaged with lush glamour girl photo front and hand-penned liners/bored housewife pics back (sharply introducing herself as 'Wife - Mother - Civic Leader - etc. - Artiste.') 500 original copies of the album were cut as a demo and maybe 50 of those were sent out as promos to industry folks (she saw to it that one made its way to Elvis Presley). Walden & producer Darrell Cotton thought the world of Mary and encouraged her efforts but after a year or two of little response she moved on to one of her many other careers including stints as an auto mechanics instructor for women, running a class on female self-defense, belly dance instruction, and a lucrative multi-year gig as a disco dance instructor. This faithful reissue was pressed at RTI with heavy, old style tip-in jackets produced by Stoughton. Alternate takes of 'And I Didn't Want You' and 'My Country Boy' and another track left off of the LP are included on a download card."
$21.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MOORE, RUDY RAY: This Ain't No White Christmas LP (DOL 102LP)
Black Friday RSD 2016 release. "Rudy Ray Moore was a storyteller extraordinaire, a hilarious, low-down dirty man, and a legit trailblazer in the world of no-holds-barred, fuck-the-censors comedy. This classic, live Christmas album shows Moore in the 1970s form that cemented his late-night legacy. Side 1 is for early evening listening, when family and respectable friends might still be around. (The dirty stuff is for the flip.) The song 'Merry Christmas, Baby' starts things off -- a slow, dusty blues number bolstered by a wobbly but upright backing band. The song itself is PG, extolling the virtues of a caring partner and the joy of the season. Truth be told, it's a warm and wonderful holiday song. With the band gently strolling behind him, he then lays into Christmas tales from childhood up through modern day trials, tribulations and hilarities. 'I can remember when me and my brother were six years old,' he says. 'We hung our stockings up on the mantelpiece, and the health department made us take them down.' Good old fashioned family fun. But with the man also known Dolemite, the 'down and dirty' is never far away. Side 2 is where things get good (and X-rated), for the late night listening pleasure. It all starts with Rudy retelling The Night Before Christmas -- with his grooving backing band -- in his trademark raunchy style, complete with mice and rats getting it on. Also included on this side is a psychedelic blues number, detailing Brother Rap's visit to heaven (to get dirty, of course). And it all finishes up with a thematically appropriate Christmas themed tale, with the term motherfucker used in potentially record-breaking numbers. It's what you'd expect from the legendary, foul-mouthed, groundbreaking comedy legend. A perfect way to keep the holidays from becoming too much of a Hallmark moment."
$17.00 UPC: 829357010216 ROCK
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UGK FEAT OUTKAST: Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) 12" (GET 51317EP)
Black Friday RSD 2016 release. " 'Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)' by U.G.K. is one of the most recognizable hip hop songs of the 2000s. This is the kind of record that can be heard anywhere, from car shows in Texas to basement parties in Brooklyn, maybe even at your cousin's wedding. This song is so good that at the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards Kanye West famously gave his Video Of The Year award to U.G.K. after 'Stronger' beat 'Int'l Players Anthem'. Let's also not forget its Grammy Nomination. Yes it's that good. U.G.K.'s celebratory anthem also features Outkast and the groups combine as one over a very hypnotic Three 6 Mafia produced beat. The sample used is Willie Hutch's 'I Choose You' from the movie The Mack, which is the perfect backdrop for Andre 3000, Pimp C (R.I.P.), Bun B and Big Boi to spit tales of women, money and marriage. The song starts off with Andre 3000 rhyming over the elegant doo wop vocal harmonies until a stuttered drum kick changes the mood for Pimp C to spit fire. This beat change/mood switch happens each verse, fitting each rapper's personality and tone, kudos to DJ Paul and Juicy J for expertly crafting this record. For Black Friday Record Store Day, Get On Down presents 'International Players Anthem' as a special collectible vinyl release shaped like U.G.K.'s home state of Texas!"
$21.50 UPC: 664425131710 HIPHOP
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JUNGLE BROTHERS: Done By The Forces Of Nature 2LP (GET 52720LP)
Black Friday RSD 2016 release. "The Jungle Brothers's 1988 debut, Straight Out The Jungle, was important for many reasons. It was sloppy and goofy but had moments of real focus and social consciousness. It was a true 'kitchen sink' record, that caught a rap fan base enraptured by Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions a bit off-guard. Also of note, beyond the excellence of the album itself, the Jungle Brothers were the fulcrum for what would become the Native Tongues movement -- they came first, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest followed, under their guidance. By 1989, the group had even more confidence, plus a Warner Bros. contract and advance in their back pocket. They used it to great advantage on the self-produced and criminally underrated Done By The Forces Of Nature, expanding their sonic palette and continuing their Afrocentric approach to music and life. Singles like 'What 'U' Waitin' 4' and 'Doin' Our Own Dang' (with De La and Q-Tip, alongside Monie Love) showed the group's fun side, which has also lead the way in the 'hip-house' movement. But things weren't all fun and games, as deeper, more pensive album tracks like 'Black Woman,' 'Beeds On A String,' and 'Acknowledge Your Own History' show. It was another accomplished mix of fun, frolic and knowledge-of-self, proving that you could be serious in the rap game but still let off steam and fill the dancefloor. Done By The Forces Of Nature stands as one of the most cherished hip-hop documents of the late '80s among true-school heads, and this edition is the perfect way to revisit this classic thinking-man's (and woman's) rap platter. Issued for the first time ever on 2-LP with the original picture sleeve artwork, it also comes with a reproduction of the original insert, with credits and lyrics."
$20.50 UPC: 664425272017 HIPHOP
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VA: James Brown's Funky People (Part 3) 2LP (GET 54085LP)
Black Friday RSD 2016 release. "Get On Down continues its very welcome obsession with James Brown's stable of late '60s and early '70s talent - much of it culled from his People Records label, including various backing bands - by bringing this first-time-ever-on-vinyl package to the world. The third volume in the groundbreaking Funky People series, originally released on CD in 2000, is just as incredible as the first two. And maybe even more fascinating to JB fans, because of the less-heard discoveries lurking in these grooves. With 12 tracks spanning 1967 to 1975, this is far from a 'remainders' collection. Each cut here packs an undeniable punch. Featuring James's most talented side-people, including The JBs, Bobby Byrd, Marva Whitney, Lyn Collins and Vicki Anderson, Part 3 goes even deeper in the cut than previous collections, with the white Ohio-based studio crew The Dapps (featuring drummer/vocalist Beau Dollar), the Dee Felice Trio and even a cheekily named side crew called the A.A.B.B. (Above Average Black Band). There are some impressive covers here, including the Dee Felice Trio's driving, jazzy version of James's 'There Was A Time' (known to the hip-hop nation thanks to Chubb Rock's 'Treat 'Em Right'); a live version of Lyn Collins covering the Isley Brothers's 'It's My Thing'; in addition to her studio cover of James's 'Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose.' In retrospect it even sounds like James covers himself on the raw and powerful 'Original Rock Version' of his 1972 hit 'Talkin' Loud And Saying Nothin',' even though the rock version was recorded first, in 1970. Marva Whitney's 'If You Don't Give Me What I Want' is as powerful and emotional as a soul ballad gets. The A.A.B.B.'s 'Pick Up The Pieces One By One' must have made the Average White Band want to hang up their instruments. And one truly fascinating alternate take here is the 'Undubbed Version' of the JBs's 'Blow Your Head,' with the Moog work and main Fred Wesley trombone solo removed. It lets the groove shimmer in whole new light. The more that newcomers and diehard fans alike dig into the James Brown and People Records vaults, the more they realize that it's a never-ending source of truly next-level funk and soul music. And you can be sure this aural goodness will keep flowing to the public, thanks to the exhaustive efforts of Get On Down."
$23.00 UPC: 664425408515 ROCK
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CYPRESS HILL: Cypress Hill (25th Anniversary Skull Reissue) CD BOX (GET 9005CD)
"Cypress Hill teamed up with Get On Down to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their 1991 debut with an ultra deluxe '25th Anniversary Skull' reissue. The entire set is housed in a unique, hard resin black skull - a faithful, 3-D physical recreation of the group's 1991 logo. A CD with remastered audio and a 100-plus page hardcover book are also included. The book features extensive liner notes by journalist Chris Faraone with input from B-Real, Sen Dog and DJ Muggs, and also includes full album lyrics and rarely seen photos provided by the group, as well as press clippings from 1991. Cypress Hill's self-titled debut album was hard as nails, with very few pop concessions. There was humor, but it was laced by cackling, homicidal sneering. Not well known outside of the hardcore hip-hop scene at first, faces of the three group members weren't usually shown clearly in press photos; they preferred the shadows. As their first singles began hitting the airwaves and record racks, the press and music fans started to take notice. From the opening notes of the group's first single, 'The Phuncky Feel One,' to deeper album cuts like 'Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk' and 'Tres Equis,' it was clear that Cypress Hill was something different. And very, very dope."
$56.00 UPC: 664425900521 HIPHOP
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BOWERY ELECTRIC: Beat 2LP (KRANK 014LP)
"The second album from New York City's Bowery Electric was released in late 1996, less than 15 months after their self-titled debut, but it found them having traveled light years musically in the interim, the group having seemingly decided to see how far they could take the guitar/bass/drums/vocal setup into the atmosphere. Every aspect of their approach had been refined and focused: squalling, distorted guitars had been transformed into hazy, sensual sheets; the live drums transmuted to sampled rhythms more in debt to the blossoming down-tempo sound of the day; bass lines reduced to their most basic diagrams; vocals submerged to become one with the narcotized fog of the instruments; even the lyrics were reduced to a few minimal lines used sparingly so as not to overshadow the dynamic. Beat is a lush and dense mantra of shadowy percussion, barely-there vocals and immersive drones that envelops the listener in an opiated blanket of sound. The second in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener, Beat is without doubt their definitive artistic statement. Coming 20 years to the day of its original release, this is the first time this album has been available on vinyl in almost two decades, and the first ever U.S. vinyl release."
$16.50 UPC: 796441801411 ROCK
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LOSCIL: Monument Builders CD (KRANK 204CD)
"Monument Builders is the new album from Loscil, the ambient/electronic project of prolific composer Scott Morgan. It was primarily created on sample-based instruments in Morgan's century-old Vancouver home. Like that aged space, this music is also rough-hewn, with rickety samples of boiling kettles and resonant moving air. Recordings from a vintage micro-cassette recorder contribute distortion, rattles and textures that serve as both percussion and abstract aural color. According to Morgan, the genesis for the album may have begun as he viewed an old VHS copy of the American experimental film Koyaanisqatsi. 'Something about the time-tarnished visuals and the pitch warble on Philip Glass's epic score added a new layer of intrigue for me,' says Morgan. 'Glass has always been an influence but lo-fi Glass felt like a minor revelation, as if the decay was actually enhancing the impact of the film's message.' The investigations on Monument Builders also took inspiration from the anti-humanist writings of influential philosopher John Gray, as well as photographer Edward Burtynsky's iconic aerial photographs of pollution and environmental destruction. 'Gray's writing, particularly his book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, reinforced a bleak notion I had that we humans don't have much say in how it all turns out,' says Morgan. 'With Burtynsky, I was struck by the fact that something so strikingly beautiful could be the result of large-scale waste and exploitation.' Monument Builders was composed during a period in which the life-and-death battles of close friends and family forced Morgan to examine his own feelings on mortality. In the course of that introspection, Morgan found himself buoyed by a feeling of celebration and a stubborn sense of survival -- an acknowledgement of what it means to be able to breathe and create amidst the clash of love and chaos. Ultimately, Morgan hopes the music here can offer listeners solace while leaving room for exploration and surprise."
$9.50 UPC: 796441820429 ELECTRONIC
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LOSCIL: Monument Builders LP (KRANK 204LP)
LP version.
$11.50 UPC: 796441820412 ELECTRONIC
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VLADISLAV DELAY: Tummaa 2LP (BAY 072LP)
2016 repress, originally released 2009; 2LP version. "Marks a significant shift in emphasis in this acclaimed musician's work, reflecting a renewed interest in jazz and acoustic performance -- Tummaa is far more organic and live-sounding than anything he's done before. Ripatti is a genuine musical maverick. Tummaa marks a return to Ripatti's first love of performing as a percussionist. The album essentially features a live trio -- Ripatti, Argentine musician Lucio Capece on clarinet and saxophone, and acclaimed Scottish soundtrack composer and arranger Craig Armstrong on piano and Rhodes. Ripatti set the tone, recording his drum parts and then inviting Capece to his studio to improvise alongside the drums. Armstrong offered recordings of pure solo piano playing he had made for the project. From these two sound sources, Ripatti began composing and arranging, and wrote a whole suite of music. The results are jaw-dropping."
$16.00 UPC: 843190007219 ELECTRONIC
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YOUNGE PRESENTS, ADRIAN: The Electronique Void: Black Noise Instrumentals LP (LL 034LP)
"Adrian Younge calls The Electronique Void an academic album, by which he means it is both instructional and informational. The science of love, its formulas and if-then constraints, causal relationships and observable properties, is best taught experientially, but learning it hurts so, so bad. Music, especially electronic music, reliant as it is on abstraction and unrepentant as it is about hijacking your physiological responses to tempo and rhythm and dynamics, is a way to get there without going through it. Electronic music as practiced and developed by pioneers like Dick Hyman and Raymond Scott and Wendy Carlos is precise and intentional. In making his first electronic album, Younge took his cues from them, reminding a contemporary audience what a synthesizer, deep in its heart, really could be. This study of how music crafted with synthesizers can tap into raw human emotion is sure to excite long-time fans of Younge as well as devotees of electronic music. Adrian Younge now presents what is sure to be one of his most sought after instrumental releases, The Electronique Void: Black Noise Instrumentals."
$14.50 UPC: 856040005754 ELECTRONIC
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MF DOOM: Operation: Doomsday (Metal Face Cover) (Black Vinyl) 2LP (MF 094LP)
"Back again on vinyl where it belongs, MF DOOM's 1999 classic Operation: Doomsday is now presented on a premium grade LP, with audio re-mastered from the original Fondle'Em Records release, and a poster of the album cover art! Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD (his first group)'s 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was shelved by Elektra in 1994 and his blood brother Subroc (one half of the sibling rap duo) passed away, surviving front-man Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF DOOM and the rap world is better for it. This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. On arguably the best track, 'Rhymes Like Dimes,' Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting 'only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.' 'Who You Think I Am?' features DOOM's crew M.onster I.sland C.zars, while on '?' he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious Jorge. Doom's avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more intentionally weird twists on 'Tick, Tick...' where he and guest MC MF Grimm's flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually. The comic-book themed skits, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. And in today's bland commercial rap universe, Operation: Doomsday's left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy."
$19.50 UPC: 829357009418 HIPHOP
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MOON POOL AND DEAD BAND: Humanizer LP (MIDWICH 007LP)
"The duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes, Regression) and David Shettler (Viands, SSM) return with their highly-anticipated full-length follow-up to MEQ 2LP remixes, released by Midwich in 2015. Humanizer is sonically diverse featuring varied modes of production throughout. Humanizer jettisons with their live staple 'New British Blues', the 10-minute track recalling Shettler's long-form work in Viands, putting synthesizers in space, as live drums invigorate the track with an earthbound brashness. 'Cycloid' is the album's most concise, bracing and dare-we-say catchy number -- a real ear-worm. 'Sea Dust' is a blasting electronic collage also featuring live drums (we think). The title track 'Humanizer' is classic Moon Pool, creepy and menacing with an off-kilter bass thump. 'A Gray Glow' continues in classic mode with thumping bass and queasy synths. 'Hospital Quiet' features pleasing, sunward-facing ambience to reassure listeners that all is good. Moon Pool and Dead Band have been a Detroit cult techno favorite since Shettler and Young joined forces in 2011. Uninitiated listeners are caught off-guard by the funkiness of the group, shaking assumptions about the group's perceived roots. We've all heard bad noise-techno records -- this isn't one of them. The danceable style is one that grows organically from the duo's life experience. Moon Pool and Dead Band approach the music with respect, knowledge and humor. Humanizer is a party-starter that could have only come from Detroit."
$11.50 UPC: 867574000160 ELECTRONIC
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HAYES, ISAAC: Do Your Thing LP (NA 5144LP)
Black Friday RSD 2016 release. "The full 33-minute, unreleased, psychedelic funk jam session by Memphis rhythm kingpins the Bar-Kays, mixed directly from the original tapes. Contains bonus rhythm section instrumental and booklet detailing the history of this never-before-heard version of one of Isaac Hayes's most famous songs by Hayes historian Bill Dahl. Hayes was already a cutting-edge funk master at Stax Records when he accepted the unprecedented assignment of creating a soundtrack for the 1971 action flick Shaft. At a time when R&B songs routinely timed out at three minutes and under, Hayes's albums for Stax's Enterprise imprint had been breaking new ground since 1969. His masterpiece Hot Buttered Soul consisted of only four tracks, two songs on The Isaac Hayes Movement clocked in at a hair under 12 minutes, and one selection on his ... To Be Continued stretched to 15:33. But his epic 'Do Your Thing,' one of the cornerstones of the two-LP Shaft soundtrack, outdid them all. Occupying nearly the entire last side of the set, it concluded after 19-and-a-half grooving minutes with the overdubbed sound of a needle scratching violently across a piece of vinyl. No one knew that jarring ending masked the existence of another 13 minutes of 'Do Your Thing.' Consigned to the vaults, those improvisatory extensions -- somewhere in between free-jazz and psychedelic rock -- were seemingly destined never to be heard. Until now."
$13.00 UPC: 659457514419 ROCK
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MAKER: Maker vs. Now-Again Vol. 4 CD (NAML 008CD)
"Chicago-area beatsmith Maker's two entries into Now-Again's Music Library series showcase the verve with which this underground Chicago hip-hop producer undertook an exercise in boom-bap era aesthetics: he dug deep into the Now-Again catalog and found dusty drum breaks to underscore two bar loops. Maker vs. Now-Again made the case that hip hop didn't necessarily have to fly into a dub-step inflected future if it was still having fun in its funky past. Maker vs. Now-Again Vol. 2 expanded beyond the American funk, soul and jazz that Now-Again was founded upon and included worldly grooves from far-flung locales like Nigeria, Brazil and Zambia flipped up by this hip hop classicist. With his latest, Maker vs. Now-Again Vol. 3, we find that the producer grabbing from the best of both worlds, from the riches of the ever-expanding Now-Again catalog. This limited edition is CD is packaged in a gatefold eco-wallet package and is available in limited quantities. Once they're gone, they're gone."
$10.75 UPC: 675495000820 HIPHOP
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SOFT KILL: Choke LP (PFL 175-5LP)
LP version.
$17.00 UPC: 616892427346 ROCK
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SOFT KILL: Choke CD (PFL 175CD)
"Portland's Soft Kill began in 2010 by releasing An Open Door, one of the most highly regarded post-punk albums of the last ten years. Founding member Tobias Sinclair (ex-Blessure Grave) joins Conrad Vollmer (Warm Hands) on guitar, drummer Maximillion Avalon (Chromatics, Antioch Arrow, Get Hustle, Atriarch) and Owen Glendower on synths for their fourth album Choke, an eight song suite. This follows on the heels of 2015's Heresy, which was much more claustrophobic and oppressive than their debut. Rooted in influences such as the Chameleons, Wire and The Sound, this latest album pulls delicately from foundational elements of the Cocteau Twins and Spaceman 3. It places the listener deeply under water, gasping for breath and beyond hope with tracks like 'On The Inside,' featuring the vocals of legendary Mark Burgess of the Chameleons. Drawing from the first wave of post punk, the songs slip seamlessly into the cascading and ethereal elements of early shoegaze. Soft Kill has discovered a depth of invention and creativity with their latest, vast and engaging in scope, invoking an enduring and melancholic bliss. Filled with warm, lush guitars, it teems with melodic songs, generating urgency and vitality, elevating all that is potent in post punk. A culmination of years perfecting a unique sound, Choke places itself firmly in the canon."
$10.75 UPC: 616892427247 ROCK
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BAD BAD: Bad Bad CD (S-S 086CD)
"bAd bAd started in 2012 when Christian Zamora and Eli Maness started making noise in the foggy outskirts of San Francisco's Sunset District. Joined by Christian's brother Michael and drummer Patrick Webb, the band obsessed on the faraway sounds of Peruvian '60s legends Los Saicos and the Turkish guitar melodies of Erkin Koray, as well as Link Wray. After a year or so of playing hyperactive spaghetti western instrumentals and now based in Oakland, they incorporate other influences: the pop-infused punk of Jay Reatard, one-chord Hawkwind power jams, and the highbrow playfulness of the Suburban Lawns. Disparate sounds, yes, but bAd bAd turns them into exciting buzzsaw-pop with Barrett/Floyd interludes. With recording starting in 2015, they perfected this album until it became a seamless psychedelic pop piece of punk energy."
$10.75 UPC: 655035078625 ROCK
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BAD BAD: Bad Bad LP (S-S 086LP)
LP version.
$13.00 UPC: 655035078618 ROCK
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GHOSTWRITER: Ghostwriter LP (S-S 087LP)
"The small towns of California's northern Central Valley have an eerie loneliness to them. Cinematically, take Two-Lane Blacktop and fuse it with Neil Young's Human Highway. Fix that into music and you'd get something like Ghostwriter. Odd rock & roll from Orland, California, the home of the dearly departed Nothing People (and theater organ legend George Wright), Ghostwriter lurks in the dust-caked shadows of rusted old cars and 'obsolete,' solid state, electronic instruments. The Chrome-meets-psych sounds of the Nothing People is there, with some haunted rockabilly à la Alan Vega, Residents-like wooziness, and something that conjures the words 'paranoid closet.' These outsider/loner rock sounds will be listened to for years to come."
$13.00 UPC: 655035078717 ROCK
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FLESH EATERS, THE: Forever Came Today LP (SV 052LP)
"In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters' frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound vision. Forever Came Today, the group's third full-length album, was originally released on Ruby Records in 1982 and features Don Kirk on guitar, Robyn Jameson on bass, Chris Wahl on drums, Steve Berlin on sax and Chris D.'s unmistakable voice. 'My Life To Live' and 'Shallow Water' are masterfully wrought punk tunes, reverberating with heart-wrenching vocals that turn on a dime from desperate whispers to blood-curdling screams. 'Drag My Name In Mud' dives deeper into full-throttle rock demonology, bluesy primeval swagger and obsessive imagery, inspired in equal parts by William S. Burroughs and Edgar Allan Poe. This first-time reissue has been carefully remastered and comes with lyric sheet. Forever Came Today is the perfect introduction to The Flesh Eaters' dark sense of humor and positively bleak form of rock 'n' roll."
$15.00 UPC: 855985006901 ROCK
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RENDERERS, THE: A Dream Of The Sea LP (TELP 001LP)
"Amidst their stellar discography, The Renderers are best known for their album A Dream Of The Sea, released in the mid-nineties by Siltbreeze, and now issued for the first time ever on vinyl in a gatefold jacket on the band's own label. Various forces were at work - a revered label, increased attention towards New Zealand artists - but the greatest achievements were within the band itself. Maryrose and Brian Crook reached a new level of insight and honesty with their lyrics, forming a wave of insight and metaphor that is as forceful today as when first written. Songs draw from ghostly sea tales and personal demons, where the specters as much rise from the waters as emerge from within oneself. The forceful songs are propelled by tornadoes of guitar play, always rumbling and screeching underneath the singing. There's a connection to be heard between The Renderers and Dead Moon, both bands dedicated wholly to the music they create, a fact clear in every note they play. When Buzzfeed gets around to making a list for it, A Dream Of The Sea will inevitably be listed amongst the greatest New Zealand rock albums of all time."
$15.00 UPC: 600197730119 ROCK
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