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ELLLL: Romance 12" (AFB 052EP)
With music featured in mixes by Truss and Karen Gwyer amongst others, as well as broadcasts on Rinse FM and NTS, ELLLL has been gaining a name by crafting a sound world all of her own. Delivering a unique live show, her performances are characteristically unapologetic, oblique, and relentless. Expect heavily manipulated samples, resonant beats and dark textures, whilst also drawing influence from drone and noise crossed with vigorous techno leanings. The result is an immersive narrative that pummels the listener.
$10.99 EAN: 5055869504201 ELECTRONIC
01. Romance
02. Pegasus
03. Bear
04. Tease
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SCHNAUSS & JONAS MUNK, ULRICH: Passage LP (VISTA 001LP)
LP version. Passage is the second collaborative album from London-based synth-wizard Ulrich Schnauss and Danish producer Jonas Munk. 11 tracks of breezy, blissed-out electronica and colorful ambient. As the album title denotes, there's a sense of movement in the music these two producers create together: a Schnauss and Munk composition starts one place and ends up someplace very different - something that can only rarely be said about electronic music, which traditionally has focused its energy on texture rather than composition. Sometimes their vivid, expansive soundscapes feels like the sonic equivalent of gliding towards the horizon through a panoramic landscape on a train. One's perspective changes slightly when in motion from one place to another - continuously approaching new things and leaving others behind. There's a prismatic, multi-dimensional quality to these 11 tracks, likely stemming from the fact that these two producers each have worked with a wide range of styles and musicians throughout their 15+ year careers: Ulrich cut his teeth as a drum and bass producer in Berlin, before releasing a string of highly influential neo-shoegazy records on labels such as Domino and City Centre Offices. Since moving to London in 2006, he's been a member of bands such as Engineers and Longview and remixed artists ranging from Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys to Mojave 3, and since 2013 he's been a member of legendary band Tangerine Dream. While Jonas Munk initially became known to the post-rock and electronica communities via his Manual albums on Morr Music and Darla Records, he's also had his hands in psychedelic rock (he's a noted producer in the European psych scene and is in the band Causa Sui) as well as film soundtracks and experimental minimalism. Both Ulrich and Jonas, however, have the skills of seasoned producers to weave the multitude of influences together in a well-defined sonic aesthetic. The result is a compelling set of melodic electronic music that echoes the past, yet feels fresh.
$18.99 EAN: 5024545769616 ELECTRONIC
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DTW//CPH: Fiegenbaum EP 12" (BAUM 017EP)
This is the sound of Detroit meets Copenhagen, the collaboration between Luke Hess of DeepLabs fame and Resoe, Baum's label owner. This release has been on the way for more than two years, but finally it's here!
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
Side A
01. Above The Sky
Side B
02. Blessings
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RILEY, TERRY: Descending Moonshine Dervishes LP (BNSD 017LP)
Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley's Descending Moonshine Dervishes, originally released in 1982. Recorded live in Berlin in 1975, and largely improvised, Riley plays a modified Yamaha organ with variable resistors to facilitate tuning in just intonation. This is a 50+ minute recording divided into two halves for vinyl. Terry Riley turned the music world upside down with his 1964 work In C, a revolutionary concept based on 53 modules that can be improvised upon by any number of musicians for an indeterminate amount of time over a pulsing C note typically played on piano or mallet. Performed live for the first time by Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnik, and Jon Gibson, it has since been performed by everyone from the Shanghai Film Orchestra, Adrian Utley of Portishead, and the Malian musicians of Africa Express (featuring contributions by Brian Eno and Damon Albarn). Though referred to as the "father of minimalism", the 81-year-old Riley has ranged widely in the intervening decades, deeply influenced by jazz, North Indian classical music, and a distinctly West Coast strain of radical spirituality - and in turn influencing practically everyone: The Who ("Baba O'Riley"), The Velvet Underground, collaborators The Kronos Quartet, as well as the legions of cutting-edge electronic musicians and contemporary composers making genre-defying music today. A resident of Grass Valley, CA, Riley is still touring the world. "Great for meditating to the cosmos" --Thurston Moore. Remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri. .
$16.39 UPC: 769791965096 ELECTRONIC
A1. Descending Moonshine Dervishes (Part 1)
B1. Descending Moonshine Dervishes (Part 2)
RILEY, TERRY: Songs For The Ten Voices Of The Two Prophets LP (BNSD 018LP)
Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley's Songs For The Ten Voices Of The Two Prophets, originally released in 1983. Recorded live in Munich in 1982 using two Prophet synthesizers and voice, this album is a reflection of Riley's ongoing interest in melding improvisation, electronic music, and the raga vocal stylings of his mentor, Pandit Pran Nath. Terry Riley turned the music world upside down with his 1964 work In C, a revolutionary concept based on 53 modules that can be improvised upon by any number of musicians for an indeterminate amount of time over a pulsing C note typically played on piano or mallet. Performed live for the first time by Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnik, and Jon Gibson, it has since been performed by everyone from the Shanghai Film Orchestra, Adrian Utley of Portishead, and the Malian musicians of Africa Express (featuring contributions by Brian Eno and Damon Albarn). Though referred to as the "father of minimalism", the 81-year-old Riley has ranged widely in the intervening decades, deeply influenced by jazz, North Indian classical music, and a distinctly West Coast strain of radical spirituality - and in turn influencing practically everyone: The Who ("Baba O'Riley"), The Velvet Underground, collaborators The Kronos Quartet, as well as the legions of cutting-edge electronic musicians and contemporary composers making genre-defying music today. A resident of Grass Valley, CA, Riley is still touring the world. Remastered by Raphael Anton Irisarri. Includes original insert; Edition of 300. "His voice twists and curves in complicated arabesques, recalling Indian music, and especially the singing of Mr. Riley's colleague and teacher, Pandit Pran Nath, who is also associated with Mr. Riley's long-time friend LaMonte Young. The synthesizers create a hushed, meditative counterpoint of slowly unwinding melodies and cross-rhythms... the Prophet 5, a polyphonic synthesizer that is capable of rich viola-like sounds, is a winning instrument for Mr. Riley's improvisations. After years of playing a Yamaha electric organ, he has turned to the synthesizer, which theoretically offers an infinite assortment of sounds. Rather than take advantage of the instrument's ability to mimic vocal sounds and timbres, as composers like Jon Hassel and Brian Eno have done, Mr. Riley plays the synthesizer as a keyboard instrument, with a luminous sound and the ability to bend or inflect notes." --New York Times, Feb 1984
$16.39 UPC: 769791965102 ELECTRONIC
A1. Embroidery
B1. Eastern Man
B2. Chorale Of The Blessed Day
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PALMER, TRISTON: Stop Spreading Rumours LP (BSLP 004LP)
LP version. Triston Palmer, aka Triston Palma, was born in 1962 and grew up in Waltham Park, Kingston. Triston knew from a very early age that he was destined to become an entertainer and his first visit to a recording studio at the age of 16 was with Ossie Thomas. Their initial release was A Class Girls (1979), which was a hit in England, and Triston's subsequent releases on their Black Solidarity label laid the foundation for his rapid rise to dance super stardom. As the '80s progressed and dancehall began its inexorable rise to ubiquity, the popularity of Triston Palmer, who had nine songs in the Top Forty, was unstoppable. So sit back and enjoy this selection of killer tunes. "Favourite tunes... The tunes are like my children... There is a whole heap of them! I want to tell you this though... some of them I never released properly but A Class Girls through it was the first one me love that, the rhythm! I don't know how the song never hit in Jamaica but listening to it back now it's like you are branding the girls A and B so (perhaps) the girls weren't happy with it. But it was a good tune, wicked tune. Tony Chin wrote it, but it was Tony Chin and Chinna who taught me these things so I have to love those men forever." --Ossie Thomas. CD version includes four bonus tracks.
$11.79 EAN: 5060135762230 WORLD
01. Collie Man
02. Bad Minded
03. Stop Spreading Rumours
04. Jailhouse Foreigners
05. Natural Lady
06. Pon The Corner
07. Trash And Ready
08. Hard Times
09. Good Looking
10. Born Naked
11. Reggae Party
12. Settle Down
13. Cutie
14. Mother Rosie
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NAAAHHH: Themes 12" (BLACKEST 054EP)
Five tracks of dark-side slither from somewhere under London - sidereal downers for all hardcore ravers. The dread energy of grime and bleep techno distilled into pungent electro-acoustic ooze. Paranoid street music meets the cosmic disturbances of musique concrete, the spine-freeze of isolationism and England's Hidden Reverse (2012). Staccato string stabs, murmured voices, black holes of reverb and pulverizing, body-numbing bass. Drums optional; Unwanted side-effects include nosebleeds, earaches, stomach cramps, and nausea.
$10.39 EAN: 5055869545105 ELECTRONIC
01. Blooz
02. Empty Rituals
03. My Theme
04. Neck Devour
05. Theme 2
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VA: Sammlung: Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Dusseldorf 1982-1989 LP (BB 236LP)
LP version. Post-war apartments dominated the views of Düsseldorf in the early 1980s - cement slabs, the "art bunker" known as the Kunsthalle, and the elevated railway called "The Millipede". Yet reconstruction was in full swing - bank buildings on the "Kö" received postmodern interiors, the old town became stylishly retro-rustic, and advertising agencies displaced industrial companies. Music took all of this on. Punk was finished, but its pathos drifted through pubs and shared flats. At the same time, synthesizers, due to digital electronics, had become increasingly affordable. This music pushed ahead slightly in order to dock onto the electronic sounds of the 1970s krautrock. But most chose the detour via records by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, or the more unfamiliar experimental sounds on the The Elephant Table Album compilation (1983). Cassettes from labels, like Klar! 80, were available on Aachener Straße. LPs, like those found at Pure Freude on Derendorfer Straße, were also available. This shop served as an umbrella for the disparate strands of the electronic side of post punk. Almost all artists on this compilation could be seen there. Perhaps that is why the encounter with "Electronic Cassette Music" seems like a glimpse into a mysterious parallel world. Indeed, everyone knew of each other, but often only as a name. Kurzschluss was Catherine Ledit's project. Where her threatening pads had an almost meditative character, Dirk Grützmann's Le Petit Mort drew listeners into virtually occult scenarios, not far from Current 93. Ledit and Grützmann later collaborated as the duo Temps Perdu?. Trance, as propagated by Chris & Cosey, could have been the inspiration behind the duo Wooden Barrows. Isolated searching found expression in forms of deviant sexuality - a leitmotif in those days. It's astonishing how subtly many of the pieces exemplify this movement. It's almost terrifying on the track by Strafe Für Rebellion when a voice whispers "the cashbox is empty" and a staccato rhythm replaces the ticking of a clock. Ralf Dörper, on his way to international success Propaganda, saw ADD preferring him trapped in a nightmare. The cassette generation did not bother crossing over to pop music. They were pioneers of a music which would develop into drone, ambient or hypnagogic. Features: Konrad Kraft, Deux Balaines Blanches, Ettlinger, Mentocome, Frigorex, Dino Oon, Pfad Der Tugend, Kurzschluss, Wooden Barrows, Le Petit Mort, Strafe Für Rebellion, Maria Zerfall, and ADD.
$15.79 EAN: 4015698008395 ELECTRONIC
XAO SEFFCHEQUE: Ja - Nein - Vielleicht Kommt Sehr Gut: A Selection Of Electronic Beats 1980-82 LP+CD (BB 256LP)
LP version. Includes CD. Austrian national Xaõ Seffcheque was at the right place at the right time: Düsseldorf at the end of the '70s was not only the nucleus of German punk, but it also enjoyed a fruitful symbiosis with the parallel development of a synthesizer-supported side-line. However, in historical retrospective, forty years after the punk big-bang and 35 years after the electronic substitute-revolution in Germany, there is the question: What impact did Palais Schaumburg, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Liaisons Dangereuses or Der Plan expect from their music? Objet d'art? Material for archaeologists? Xaõ Seffcheque's music - same, but different later on with Family*5 - was all that and more: Always great everyday stuff to listen to is still the object of engagement and discourse because of its impact and the marks it left behind. This compilation, Xaõ Seffcheque's electronic phase in the early '80s from both his albums Sehr Gut Kommt Sehr Gut (1981) and Ja - Nein - Vielleicht (1981), plus unreleased tracks from 1982, comes in two parts: The songs of Sehr Gut Kommt Sehr Gut are always satire, persiflage, paraphrase altogether: Reflecting his contemporaries with '80s analog equipment, this discourse always adds something new and unheard of. The fact that Seffcheque released that (fake) album as an anticipation of the Neue Deutsche Welle sell-out did shape those songs audibly by deconstructing the music of essential German bands at that time in order to reassemble them in a very sarcastic way and into a whole new context. Whereas the following album, Ja - Nein - Vielleicht was of a very different kind and Diederich Diederichsen, the pope-of-pop, had this to say about Seffcheque's sequencer-meets-jazz-onomatopoetic-scat-vocals-meet-guitar-riffs in Sounds Magazine: "Xaõ Seffcheque has made his first music-record without any jokes, quotations and 'Kulturkritik'. Music instead of cabaret. A lot of Düsseldorf 'negro-music' with an excellent brass section and vocal effects: A winningly distorted Louis Armstrong song, a modern march-funk-pogo piece with scat vocals of a digital age, ethereous, intense experiments (in the title song Xao pleases with foreign stammering and in 'Du Und Ich' with a girls choir from the next best solar system. In brief: a very modern record bordering on rock and disco. Defiant. Sorrowful. Tough." Bureau B present here a restored and remastered compilation of Xao's best songs from his solo phase. Cover photo by Richie Gleim, taken during a recording session in 1981. Furious non-chalance, regardless-of-the-consequences lunacy, and indestructible musical talent.
$16.39 EAN: 4015698009392 ELECTRONIC
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SWINDLE: Purple Walls 12" (AIRMILES 006EP)
Swindle completes his "Trilogy of Funk" series with the Purple Walls EP, joined by soul singer Daley and regular collaborator Terri Walker. It is a full departure from his 140 bpm previous outings on Deep Medi Musik and Butterz, but still retains his signature style he has been honing over the last ten years. The previous EPs in the "Trilogy of Funk" series include: Connecta (AIRMILES 004EP, 2016) and Funk & Grime (AIRMILES 005EP, 2016).
$9.79 EAN: 5055300390868 ELECTRONIC
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DOME LA MUERTE E.X.P.: Lazy Sunny Day LP (CNGOD 101LP)
LP version. Glossy cover. Dome La Muerte E.X.P. is the new project of Dome La Muerte, aka Domenico Petrosino. Cult character and guru of Italian rock n' roll, Dome was a founding member in 1979 of the Italian precursors of hardcore-punk, CCM (Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers). In the '80s, he was in the band Not Moving and then, in the following decade, he played in Hush and he composed tracks that ended up in the Italian cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Gabriele Salvatores, Nirvana (1997). To understand his caliber, he has shared the stage with The Clash, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Johnny Thunders's Heartbreakers, The Fuzztones and Iggy Pop. This new project is the son of his first solo recording experience Poems For Renegades (2011), which contained a highly psychedelic-folk matrix; they were thrown as the first seeds for Lazy Sunny Day (or more briefly, LSD), produced by Cinedelic and Godown records. Lazy Sunny Day, unlike Poems For Renegades, was recorded and arranged with a band, E.X.P.. The sound is mostly instrumental and it's lysergically inspired by spaghetti western soundtracks, the beat generation, India, the hippie movement, and expansion of consciousness, comes with a deep respect and admiration to the culture and spirituality of Native Americans. The formation of E.X.P., with Dome La Muerte on guitar and vocals, includes: Luca Valdambrini (organ, guitar, backing vocals) from Surfer Joe And His Boss Combo and Pam And Pipelines, where he also played bass and contributed backing vocals as Alessandro Quaglierini, and Emiliano Giuliani (drums) formerly of Liars and a member of the original line-up of The Diggers. Also features: Lu Silver - harp on "L.S.D. (Little Sun Dose)"; Cristina Rovini - flute on "Amsterdam 66". "Sick City" was written by Charles Manson; "Eternal Door" was written by Not Moving.
$15.79 EAN: 8055323520591 ROCK
SOMUSUNDARAM, RAMASANDIRAN: Skinny Woman LP (CNPL 805LP)
Cinedelic Records present the first-ever reissue of Ramasandiran Somusundaram's Skinny Woman, originally released in 1974. Skinny Woman is the only solo album by Indian percussionist Ramasandiran Somusundaram, a former member of Bambibanda E Melodie (post-Garybaldi band of Bambi Fossati), Maya, and New Trolls' Atomic System (1973). Produced and played along with a large portion of New Trolls - the De Scalzi brothers, Gianni Belleno, and Giorgio Usai - Skinny Woman is an absolute anomaly of an album that mixes hard-funk and rock, supported by the incisive extraordinary rhythms of Indian music, all wrapped in an exploitation feel. The A side is a true funky party, starting with the funk-rock title track. But by the second track, "I Am Afraid Of Loosing You", the album takes a more experimental turn, with clavinet, Hammond organ, lo-fi brass, and a bizarre use of voices incredibly similar to Frank Zappa's The Mothers Of Invention. The Zappa reference continues into the next track, "Everybody", which starts with a distorted bass riff in a George Clinton style. Then you get to "Electronic Heart", a rhythmic bomb with a long insane flute solo - by the unmistakable Vittorio De Scalzi - in a Roland Kirk/Ian Anderson style. The B side is more psychedelic and meditative, mixing Oriental tinges and the American west coast into a very peaceful Hindu atmosphere. Skinny Woman is a funky, percussive orgy with flute. Features the bonus track "Contrabbando Di Fagioli" ("Smuggling of Beans"), previously available only in a very rare 7", originally released in 1973; Includes download card; Edition of 500.
$22.39 EAN: 8055323520560 ROCK
A1. Skinny Woman
A2. I Am Afraid Of Loosing You
A3. Everybody
A4. Electronic Heart
A5. Leon Dance
B1. Swamy
B2. Bombay
B3. Hari Siva
B4. Shanghai
B5. Chan
B6. Contrabbando Di Fagioli*

*Bonus track.
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VA: Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 13 4LP (COMP 492LP)
Four LP version. Compost presents the 13th chapter of their highly acclaimed compilation series, Future Sounds Of Jazz. As usual, Future Sounds Of Jazz is compiled by Compost head honcho Michael Reinboth with a solid sense of left-field tracks, punchy floor-fillers, ghostly, cinematic, Balearic, frazzled, bitter-sweet and mind-shaking hybrid tunes. Several magazines voted Future Sounds Of Jazz as the one of the best compilation series of all time. With this series starting in 1995, the term "Future Jazz" became a genre landmark. The 13th volume includes some exclusives, sought-after tracks and previously unreleased tracks. The Van Hai track, remixed by Ripperton, is a perfect opener into a tranquil music venture - a sheer bliss tune. Montezumas Rache's "Wu Du Wu", which was only released on vinyl before, but it is difficult to find the original 12", is a freaky outstanding funk hybrid. Karim Sahraoui is here with a punchy Detroit-ish track, picked up from Derrick May's Transmat label. Acid Pauli delivers a brand new dubby Balearic remix, which he recently did for Matanza, a live band from Chile. Peter Kruder came up with something special - a warm breath in the open air tune, which drives listeners into a chilled wormhole. Beside new names and bigger names, like Tony Allen with a Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer remix, you'll find more lefties tracks from respected labels like Studio Barnhus, Innervisions, Lovemonk, Transmat, Mule, Tru Thoughts, Rebirth, and Ninja Tune, next to other exclusive deliveries by Manuel Tur. Also features: FaltyDL, Mr. Raoul K, Sona Diabate, Laolu, Gabriele Poso, Atjazz, Rancido, Kems, Marsmobil, Butch & C. Vogt, Chaos In The CBD, Axel Boman, MLiR, Tribilin Sounds, Lagerfeltz, Jonny Faith, and Bing Ji Ling.
$18.39 UPC: 673794249216 ELECTRONIC
Disc 1
LP 1: Side A
01. VAN HAI - Dernier Amour (Ripperton's No Love Lost Reshape)
02. PETER KRUDER - Memento
LP 1: Side B
03. MONTEZUMAS RACHE - Wu Du Wu
04. JONNY FAITH - Dapple City
05. BING JI LING - Twilight
Disc 2
LP 2: Side C
01. CHAOS IN THE CBD - Digital Harmony
02. MR. RAOUL K - Sene Kela (feat. Sona Diabate) (Mr. Raoul K & Laolu Version)
LP 2: Side D
03. KARIM SAHRAOUI - Father's Legacy
04. GABRIELE POSO - Roots Of Soul (Atjazz Remix)
Disc 3
LP 3: Side E
01. TONY ALLEN - African Man (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)
02. TRIBILIN SOUNDS - Negroide
LP 3: Side F
03. MATANZA - Existencia (Acid Pauli Remix)
04. MANUEL TUR - Ela
Disc 4
LP 4: Side G
01. BUTCH & C. VOGT - The Infamous (Original Mix)
02. RANCIDO - The Encounter (feat. Kems)
LP 4: Side H
03. MLIR - Spanish Lo-Life
04. FALTYDL - Some Jazz Shit
05. LAGERFELTZ - Uitaar
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HOLIDAY, BILLIE: Lady Love LP (CRNBR 16016LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Billie Holiday's Lady Love, originally released in 1962. Though she had been performing professionally since the late 1920s, as a teenager in Harlem during its Renaissance, the immortal Billie Holiday didn't play a single night on the European continent until 1954. It was in that year that the great journalist and musician Leonard Feather, and a Swedish promoter, organized the Jazz Club U.S.A. tour, named after Feather's wildly popular radio program. Featuring Red Norvo, Sonny Clark, and more, the centerpiece of Jazz Club U.S.A. was undoubtedly, Lady Day. Recorded at various dates across the tour, Lady Love shows Holiday still had it, despite the turmoil, and drug and alcohol abuse, her voice remained strong, a stunning document of one of America's greatest treasures on her first ever tour of Europe. Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl; Includes five bonus tracks and download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005440 JAZZ
A1. Announcement By Leonard Feather
A2. Blue Moon
A3. All Of Me
A4. My Man
A5. Them Their Eyes
A6. I Cried For You
A7. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
A8. I Cover The Waterfront
A9. Detour Ahead*
A10. Trav'lin' Light*
B1. Billie's Blues
B2. Lover Come Back To Me
B3. Blue Turning Grey Over You*
B4. Be Fair With Me Baby*
B5. Rocky Mountain Blues*

*Bonus track.
SHIRELLES, THE: Tonight's The Night LP (CRNBR 16018LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of The Shirelles' Tonight's The Night, originally released in 1961. The pride of Passaic, New Jersey, the girl group The Shirelles were formed in 1957 by four friends from high school. After some early singles with chart success, they released their debut album in 1961, Tonight's The Night. Blending pop with doo-wop and R&B sensibilities, along with songwriting from the classic team of Goffin/King, Tonight's The Night is notable for "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", the very first Billboard #1 hit pop single from an African-American girl group, making this a truly groundbreaking record. Essential girl-group pop from one of the genre's true innovators. Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl; Includes two bonus tracks and download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005464 ROCK
A1. Tonight's The Night
A2. Johnny On My Mind
A3. Lower The Flame
A4. Will You Love Me Tomorrow
A5. Doin' The Ronde
A6. You Don't Want My Love
A7. Look A Here Baby*
B1. Dedicated To The One I Love
B2. Boys
B3. The Dance Is Over
B4. Oh, What A Waste Of Love
B5. Unlucky
B6. Tonight At The Prom
B7. A Teardrop And A Lollipop*

*Bonus track.
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ANTONA, MARC: Unrestricted EP 12" (DISS 031EP)
Marc Antona follows the jazz-infused adventures of the Rattle Snaps EP (DISS 023EP, 2014) with another crucial exploration of beat science, Unrestricted EP. "Hanging Gardens" is a masterclass in immersive programming, fusing the natural feel of live drums with crisp electronic tones that hover in a spacious mix. Where "Hanging Gardens" deals with angular rhythms and a shape-shifting atmosphere, "Unrestricted" takes the sound palette of organic and electronic elements and feeds them into a rolling, techno-minded focus. The tribal thrum of the beat fills out an "in-the room-ambience" while the psychoactive synth flurries speak out the pulse of the machines.
$8.99 EAN: 4260038316641 ELECTRONIC
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DLBM/BEAT MOVEMENT/D-LERIA: 00Y 12" (DLBM 00YEP)
After its debut with 00X, the Italian based techno record label Dlbm. is back with a six tracker EP composed by their owners D-Leria and Beat Movement. As they promised, the EP recalls old school sounds on the textured backing; inspired by the sounds of the Detroit techno masters like Jeff Mills, Surgeon, Fanon Flowers and Regis, the trio offers music around 140bpm and for the first time the apparition of two tracks composed by the union of their minds as Dlbm.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Dlbm - One
A2. Beat Movement - Defence
A3. D-Leria - The Day Before
B1. Dlbm - Two
B2. D-Leria - Attak
B3. Beat Movement - The Day After
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RUSSELL AND HIS ORCHESTRA FEAT. BILL EVANS, GEORGE: Jazz In The Space Age LP (ACV 2077LP)
Doxy present a reissue of George Russell And His Orchestra's Jazz In The Space Age, featuring Bill Evans and originally released in 1960. From the original liner notes of Burt Korall: "(...) This album points the way to the future. It is prophetic because George Russell felt compelled to make it so. 'Jazz is changing, the sixties could well be a crucial decade,' says the composer. 'One thing is certain. A variety of sound and rhythms, many of which are alien to what audiences are used to, will find their way into jazz.' Unaccountably, things we hear around us every day, very humans things, have either disappeared or been left out of jazz as we know it. 'Progress is inevitable. Today's musical palette is just not adequate.' All feelings relative to life and beauty cannot be validly expressed with techniques now in vogue. What is more, jazz is an evolving art; it is not meant to be restricted. The very nature of the music and its history indicate this. The jazz music of the future? What will it be like? Well, the techniques are going to get more complex, and it will be a challenge for the composer to master the techniques and yet preserve his intuitive approach. And it will be a challenge to the improviser to master these techniques and also preserve the intuitive, earthy dignity of jazz (...)" Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020774 JAZZ
A1. Chromatic Universe - Part One
A2. Dimensions
A3. Chromatic Universe - Part Two
B1. The Lydiot
B2. Waltz From Outer Space
B3. Chromatic Universe - Part Three
PRINCE LASHA QUINTET FEATURING SONNY SIMMONS: The Cry LP (ACV 2078LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Prince Lasha Quintet's The Cry, featuring Sonny Simmons and originally released in 1963. "This 1962 recording is one of the prize items of the free-jazz movement as it flowered in California. It teams flutist Prince Lasha and alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons, who co-wrote all the songs and play with an esprit de duo that reflects their long-term partnership. Lasha, who also played saxophone, was a childhood friend of Ornette Coleman and became part of his circle in Los Angeles. Simmons, a Louisiana native who grew up in Oakland, came under Coleman's influence while honing his own terse, lyrically heated style. Though the overall sound of The Cry! very much proceeds from Ornette's harmolodic 'new thing' (while absorbing earlier styles ranging from Ellington 'exotica' to Waller 'erotica') it's a racier vehicle that takes hairier turns. Propelled by the clean and steady dual basses of Gary Peacock and Mark Proctor (on three tracks, Peacock goes it alone), Lasha and Simmons harmonize with as much zip and warmth as they put into their solos." --Lloyd Sachs. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020781 JAZZ
01. Congo Call
02. Bojangles
03. Green And Gold
04. Ghost Of The Past
YOUNG, LESTER: Collates LP (ACV 2080LP)
Doxy present Collates, a reissue of two Lester Young recordings with The Oscar Peterson Trio titled, Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio #1 and Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio #2, both released in 1954. Are you ready to swing with the great Lester Young? A bunch of killer tracks from one of the all-time great tenor saxmen teaming up with pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio: guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer J.C. Heard. Includes his finest performances of the '50s "Ad Lib Blues"; "Just You, Just Me"; "Tea For Two"; "(Back Home Again In) Indiana"; "On The Sunny Side Of The Street"; "Stardust"; "There Will Never Be Another You"; "I Can't Get Started", and more. A really great collection! Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020804 JAZZ
A1. Ad Lib Blues
A2. Can't Get Started
A3. Just You, Just Me
A4. Almost Like Being In Love
B1. Tea For Two
B2. There Will Never Be Another You
B3. Indiana
B4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS, ART: Like Someone In Love LP (ACV 2082LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers' Like Someone In Love, originally released in 1967. "Taken from the same legendary sessions that resulted in A Night In Tunisia, this classic LP features the 1960 version of The Jazz Messengers starring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Bobby Timmons. The title cut is the most impressive performance, but this excellent program of high-quality hard bop also allows listeners to hear three obscure Wayne Shorter compositions and Lee Morgan's forgotten 'Johnny's Blue'. (...)" --AllMusic. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020828 JAZZ
A1. Like Someone In Love
A2. Johnny's Blue
B1. Noise In The Attic
B2. Sleeping Dancer Sleep On
B3. Giantis
ABDUL-MALIK, AHMED: The Eastern Moods Of Ahmed Abdul-Malik LP (ACV 2084LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's The Eastern Moods Of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, originally released in 1962. One of the most compelling albums ever recorded by Ahmed Abdul-Malik, the set's got a style that's very strongly in keeping with the "eastern moods" of the title - with less of a jazz sound than some of Abdul Malik's other work, and more spare, exotic instrumentation overall. The group on the set is a trio - Ahmed on bass and oud, Bilal Abdurrahman on alto, Korean reed flute, and percussion, and William Henry Allen on bass and percussion. With that kind of lineup, you can imagine the feel - lots of spare rhythms, with snaking reed work over the top, done in a very evocative way - and although there's less jazz than usual, the alto sax solos still give the record enough of a jazz component to set it apart from straight world music. The album kicks off with a surprisingly great, and incredibly haunting, take on "Summertime", then rolls into some really wonderful original tunes that include "Ancient Scene", "Magrebi", and "Shoof Habebe". From original liner notes: "(...) The music on this album, in spite of the unorthodox instrumentation and exotic titles, should prove itself readily accessible to any listener with an open mind and an interest on the fascinating and original fusion of different musical cultures which it represents. (...)" Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020842 JAZZ
A1. Summertime
A2. Ancient Scene
B1. Magrebi
B2. Sa-Ra-Ga' Ya-Hindi
B3. Shoof Habebe
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COLDHARBOURSTORES: Wilderness LP (RAPT 077LP)
LP version. In the years in between, people came and went, but the promise never left, and after writing, recording, deleting, rewriting, re-recording, mixing, remixing, hoping and wishing, the follow up to Coldharbourstores' More Than The Other (2002) is finally here. Wilderness features eight original songs, six of which were produced by Graham Sutton of legendary post-rock band Bark Psychosis. Sutton has produced, amongst others, Silver Apples, East India Youth, These New Puritans and Jarvis Cocker. The album opens with the wonderful "Sightless" and features spoken word from critically acclaimed author of Mysterious Skin (1995), Scott Heim. The album sleeve continues their working relationship with designer Martin Andersen (V23, Pottermore).
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JUXTA POSITION: Failsafe 01 12" (FAS 001EP)
Failsafe is a new label created by, and primarily for the release of, material by Juxta Position, whose output was previously featured on Rhythm Nation, and on DVS1's Mistress Recordings imprint. Juxta Position first came to the attention of the electronic music world in 2013, with the release of Juxta Position Vol. 1 on Mistress Recordings. It was licensed to Deetron's Fabric 76 DJ mix (FABRIC 151CD, 2014). Inaugurating the first Failsafe release, Juxta Position delivers two slices of upfront hypnotic techno, custom-made for cutting edge DJs to provide maximum dancefloor damage.
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Side A
01. Sutartines
Side B
02. Machines
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MORENO FEATURING JOYCE, TUTTY: Magica CD (FARO 113CD)
2006 release. Debut CD of authentic samba-jazz from Tutty Moreno, one of Brazil's leading drummers and Joyce's most constant musical collaborator. Joyce provides vocals on two tracks and guitar on five. Recorded in Rio De Janeiro in 1981, a year after Joyce's seminal Feminina album, Magica showcases Tutty Moreno's outstanding mastery of samba jazz. As Feminina defined the political yet uplifting folk-jazz style of Joyce, Magica can be looked upon as Tutty's coming-of-age showing his mastery of a genre at the relatively young age of 34. Magica is an essential album for any lovers of samba jazz and for fans of Joyce. It can be viewed as a companion to Feminina, highlighting the rhythmical force that has driven Joyce's music ever since. Tutty Moreno was born in Bahia in the north of Brazil and has been an important figure in Brazilian popular music, from the days of bossa nova through to the jazz influenced fusion of the '70s, 80s and beyond. Tutty has recorded with all the finest Brazilian artists, including Joyce, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Gilberto Gil and Joao Donato. He has also worked with many respected jazz musicians such as Ernie Watts, Larry Willis and Claus Ogerman. Originally released under the name Tutty Moreno & Friends's Tocando Sentindo Suando (Playing Feeling Sweating) (1996), the album has been out of print for the majority of Far Out Recordings's existence. Tutty Moreno on the record: "This is a project made 25 years ago which means this is how our hearts and minds sounded back then. The sound may have changed a little but the heart is still the same."
$9.79 EAN: 5060088043226 WORLD
01. Magica
02. Algo Sobre Nos
03. Princesinha
04. Constelacao
05. Pege Leve
06. GB
07. Cameleao
08. Pianco
MORENO, JOYCE: Tudo CD (FARO 173CD)
2013 release. Tudo is Joyce's first studio album in a decade formed entirely of the Brazilian icon's original compositions. Tudo - meaning "everything" in Portuguese - showcases Joyce's remarkable vocals, which gently float over the classic genres of Brazilian music. This charming and captivating record amalgamates the sounds that personify Brazil and celebrates the talent of one of its most passionate voices, described as "one of the greatest singers of all time" by the legendary Tom Jobim. With the vibrant and contagious swing of the opening track "Quero Ouvir João", the delicious rhythm of a train crossing the country in "Boiou", the romantic broken hearted sounds of "Sem Poder Dançar" and the delicate harmonies of "Claude Et Maurice", Joyce creates an effervescent trip that makes this album unique. Since the beginning of her musical adventures, in her warm hometown, Rio de Janeiro, Joyce, then only 16 years old, already demonstrated an amazing talent. In 1980 she released her breakthrough album Feminina, where she portrayed the multiple facets of women, with defying lyrics and infatuating voice that catapulted her to stardom in Brazil and around the world. Since then, she's been recording and touring, building an astonishing 44 years career that shows no sign of slowing down and gives us another beautiful work of art with Tudo. Tudo was recorded in Biscoito Fino Studios in Rio de Janeiro in March of 2012, co-produced by Joyce and her long time life partner Tutty Moreno, here also responsible for the drums and percussion. This project also features Mauricio Maestro on vocal arrangements.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211501234 WORLD
01. Quero Ouvir João
02. Estado De Graça
03. Puro Ouro
04. Boiou
05. Aquelas Canções Em Mim
06. Claude Et Maurice
07. Tringuelingue
08. Domingo De Manhã
09. Choro Do Anjo
10. Dor De Amor É Água
11. Sem Poder Dançar
12. Pra Você Gostar De Mim
13. Tudo
DEGIORGIO, KIRK: Sambatek CD (FARO 176CD)
2013 release. From legendary techno don, veteran producer and long-time Far Out Recordings contributor Kirk Degiorgio, comes Sambatek. Sourced from classic samba drum breaks and organic percussive elements, this album transposes the essence of "ritmos do Brasil" into the late night peak time techno soundscape Kirk has enriched for over 20 years. A collection of pulsating, evolving and unrelenting techno stormers, Sambatek is accompanied by remixes from a worldwide cast of established and up & coming producers appearing on the Far Out Recordings imprint for the first time. As ever Kirk Degiorgio brings his "A game" to this release. From the dark, ethereal, Berlin-esque sonics of the album opener, to the house-y Detroit-infused stabs of "Borel" and the booming warehouse rave ethic of "Complexo Do Alemão", this album showcases Kirk's passion for these two traditionally disparate musical genres coalescing into the symbiotic rhythmic experience of Sambatek. This project is accompanied by remixes from Rick Wilhite, Jonas Kopp and NX1.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211501593 WORLD
01. Morro Da Formiga
02. Babilônia
03. Dendê
04. Borel
05. Complexo Do Alemão
06. Rocinha
07. Prazeres
08. Vidigal
09. Babilônia (Rick Wilhite Dub)
10. Borel (Jonas Kopp 'My Vision Of Samba' Remix)
11. Borel (NX1 Remix)
VA: Brazilian Bass: Inner City Tropical Soundblast CD (FARO 179CD)
2014 release. Far Out Recordings presents Brazilian Bass, featuring 17 tracks of this new wave of Brazilian music, which resonates the heavy bass and musical inventiveness of the root sounds of Bahia, Recife and Rio de Janeiro. For some time now, Far Out Recordings have been really excited to present the heavy low-end of places like Bahia, Pernambuco and Sao Paulo and the cultural force behind it. This is a blending of a myriad of different musical styles - reggae, hip-hop, dub, soul, electronica and Afro-beat, all filtered through Brazilian melodies, rhythms and instruments to create something totally unique. Bass culture is essentially from London, it's in its DNA. Reggae, brought over with the Jamaican diaspora who migrated to the UK from the 1950s onward, presented a clarion call to all those Jamaicans who found themselves living in a system which did not care for them or their culture. By the 1970s, reggae's message of unity and rebellion resonated with a wider audience as the music challenged racism and generated new visions of culture and identity in the city. Decades ago it filtered through punk, rock and pop and became an emblematic London soundtrack. Today reggae music's ability to evolve and influence other genres is stronger than ever and London is home to the next generation of bass culture sounds, with new forms like dubstep, grime and bass music. Far Out Recordings presents Brazilian Bass which runs the breadth of what the genre has to offer, from the soulful dub rhythms of Anelis Assumpção, through to the reggae/samba grooves of Banda Escola Pública, and on to the music of Afroelectro, whose name perfectly encapsulates their style. Start with this diverse list of bands, and you're still only scratching the surface of Brazilian Bass' sound. Opening the works on Brazilian Bass is Mental Abstrato & DJ Tahira, representing the bossa beats, the pure essence of jazz and classical as well as rarities of Brazilian music. Following up is the keyboards and synth magician, Astronauta Pinguim with "Ghosts Inside Your House". Also features: Soraia Drummond, Nsista, 3Adub, Pitshu, Sistema Criolina, Os Nelsons, Junior Dread, Black Alien, Nathy Faria, Aton Dub, 7 Estrelo, O Quadro, Mangaio, Bemba Trio and A Banda De Joseph Tourton.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211501913 WORLD
01. Mental Abstrato & DJ Tahira - Baião (Original Mix)
02. Soraia Drummond - Eu Acho É Pouco
03. Nsista - Caroço
04. 3Adub - Blindness (feat. Pitshu)
05. Banda Escola Pública - Samba De Novato
06. Astronauta Pinguim - Ghosts Inside Your House
07. Sistema Criolina - Pequi Week Bar
08. Os Nelsons - Olhe O Fogo
09. Afroelectro - Omin
10. Junior Dread- Não Deixe De Lutar (feat. Black Alien)
11. Anelis Assumpção - Bola Com Os Amigos
12. Nathy Faria - Saindo Do Lugar
13. Aton Dub - Travessias
14. 7 Estrelo - As Leis De Um Tambor
15. O Quadro - Tá Amarrado (Mangaio Remix)
16. Bemba Trio - Melô Do Vatapá
17. A Banda De Joseph Tourton - After Work Ganja
FAR OUT MONSTER DISCO ORCHESTRA, THE: The Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra 2LP (FARO 181LP)
Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl. 2014 release. Back in 2008, Far Out Recordings had the idea of putting together some of their best musicians from Rio in the studio to make a record that could mix cultures, generations, languages and musical ideas between Brazil, the UK and the Americas, yet be a homage to the music we all love, Brazilian music, soul and disco. They went into the studio with three producers, three engineers and musicians including Jose Robeto Bertrami and Alex Malheiros from Azymuth, Arthur Verocai, Paulinho Black (from the original Banda Black Rio), Jose Carlos and many more outstanding participants. With this amazing team, The Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra was born. Armed with two of the greatest arrangers in contemporary Brazilian music, Jose Roberto Bertrami and Arthur Verocai, it really could not go wrong. Combining a mutual love for soul, funk and disco music, majorly because of Azymuth's musical influence, they all wanted to push it one step further. They decided to have a full string orchestra and horn section on the tracks, all of which were arranged by Arthur Verocai. Later, English lyrics were given to the recordings to add a real Anglo-American feel while keeping the Brazilian harmony running strong through its veins. In 2012, Jose Roberto Bertrami, one of the main components of the band and indeed Far Out Recordings's friend, brother and mentor, sadly passed away. He has been a massive part of the black music heritage in Brazil having been the arranger of albums such as Jorge Ben's Africa Brazil (1976), the first Candeia record, Raiz (1970), Serginho Meriti and many, many more. Bringing to the table his love for the music of Philadelphia, Far Out Recordings got into the studio with those sounds in mind to prepare the bases of the tracks. Taking in consideration the transatlantic logistics of recording, writing and mixing, this project has demanded a huge production effort, therefore it has taken a long time for this album to be put together and finally see the light of day. Disc two of the CD version includes great remixes by Theo Parrish, Mark Pritchard, the legend of disco John Morales LTJ X-Perience, Mark E, Jose Carretas, Marcellus Pittman.
$15.79 EAN: 5060211502033 WORLD
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GLASS, PHILIP: Buddha Machine - Blue Soundbox (OMM 3001-BLU)
More than a decade ago the Beijing-based duo of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian released their first "Buddha Machine" loop box, a quirky pocket sound system that propelled sound art into the consumer mainstream. For their newest release, Virant and Zhang team up with Philip Glass for a special-edition Buddha Machine to commemorate the legendary American composer's 80th birthday on January 31, 2017. This new unit comes in two soft-tone colors, and offers seven long-playing loops of distinctive and hypnotic Glass works, featuring piano, organ and voice. Requires 2 AA batteries (not included).
$16.99 UPC: 735255934908 CLASSICAL
GLASS, PHILIP: Buddha Machine - Red Soundbox (OMM 3001-RED)
Red version. More than a decade ago the Beijing-based duo of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian released their first "Buddha Machine" loop box, a quirky pocket sound system that propelled sound art into the consumer mainstream. For their newest release, Virant and Zhang team up with Philip Glass for a special-edition Buddha Machine to commemorate the legendary American composer's 80th birthday on January 31, 2017. This new unit comes in two soft-tone colors, and offers seven long-playing loops of distinctive and hypnotic Glass works, featuring piano, organ and voice. Requires 2 AA batteries (not included).
$16.99 UPC: 735255933796 CLASSICAL
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MYTHOLOGEN: Mythologen LP (HNR 009LP)
Mythologen continue to build on the foundations that Pistol Disco and Alexander Palmestål's other band, Iberia, were made upon. The songs on Mythologen are the perfect combination of the fragility and melancholy of Iberia and Pistol Disco's monotony and drive. Underneath layers of dreamy, free-floating synthesizers and restrained, yet steady drumbeats lies muffled melodies waiting for the air to be let in. And then, all of a sudden the clouds disappear and the sunlight is beaming down over the music, like on the closing track "Brighter Summer Day". In other songs on the album, the darkness is more present, embodied by polyrhythmic tribal drums giving the music weight and suggestion. Mythologen is the soundtrack for recovering from a depression. The album seduces the whole spectrum of your mood swings, eliminates your ego, and moves your focus from the past to the future.
$18.99 EAN: 7071245217808 ROCK
01. Jungle Beats
02. Gone
03. 13
04. Praise
05. Ily
06. Birdsong
07. Gold
08. Brighter Summer Day
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FARBROR RESANDE MAC: Farbror Resande Mac LP LP (MAMBO 002LP)
LP version. Transparent poly sleeve with heavy cardboard insert and black inner sleeve. "Following their Atalanta 12" (MAMBO 003EP, 2016), Stockholm-based Farbror Resande Mac returns to Horisontal Mambo with this extended EP of b**earic bliss. Through releases on labels such as Aficionado, Back to the Balearics and Is It Balearic they've carved their own niche in the tropical music climate we northeners like to embrace. Although it's hard to escape the use of the dreaded b-word it might be the most fitting label still. Anyway, we love it and we hope you do too." --Prins Thomas, Mambo HQ, January 15, 2017
$15.79 EAN: 4260038310939 ELECTRONIC
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JULIUS, ORLANDO: Disco Hi-Life 12" (HC 007EP)
2016 repress. "Orlando" Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode was born in 1943 in the Osun state of Nigeria. He first learned of his musical talent studying and playing drums and flute in school, but found his true love in the sounds of the alto saxophone. As early as 19, he was involved professionally in music as both bandleader and as a "Top Ace" with Eddy Okunta's popular band in Lagos. In 1964, he released his first massive hit single with his newly-formed Modern Aces. His 1966 effort, Super Afro Soul, made him a national celebrity in Nigeria and even went so far as to influence music in the United States. The record's dramatic, highly melodic incorporation of soul, pop, and funk was very much ahead of its time, helping to shape the funk movement in the U.S. for years to come. After Super Afro Soul, Julius released a long list of records exclusively in Nigeria and from them received a great amount of local fame. He recorded this Disco Hi-Life session in 1976 with 12 musicians.
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BARKER, SUE: Sue Barker LP (HC 048LP)
First reissue of Sue Barker's sole album, a fantastic, rare soul-jazz LP recorded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1976, and originally released the same year by Crest International. 180-gram vinyl. Sue Barker is a jazz singer who was never afraid of throwing in a little soul -- most of the album features covers of songs made famous by Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and James Brown. And Sue Barker is also more than just a vocal album -- there's a lot of space for instrumental solos from Barker's team of top Adelaide musicians. Her hip seven-piece combo perfectly matches all of her vocal inflections -- jazzy when needed, with more soul at other moments, and often with more of a '60s acoustic mode than the more electric and groovy instrumentation used by other singers of the time. The arrangements are by Grahame Conlon, the guitarist in the group.
$17.79 EAN: 3760179353907 JAZZ
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JOHNSON, S.: Red Hot Mama/Don't You Worry 7" (JBJ 1069EP)
"Red Hot Mama" is a cracking mid-50s R&B number that will bless any DJ set or record collection. The personnel and indeed the singer - known only as S. Johnson - remain something of a mystery, though it's known to have been recorded in New Orleans for the Chess label, and certainly the second line drum rolls sound highly reminiscent of NOLA session drummer Charles 'Hungry' Williams. Either way, this is yet another unissued gem making its first appearance on 45 rpm vinyl on the Jukebox Jam Series imprint.
$7.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Red Hot Mama
B1. Don't You Worry
PERRYMAN & BOBBY ROACH, PAUL: Work To Be Done/Mush 7" (JBJ 1073EP)
Cracking R&B dancefloor stroller with a strong New Orleans feel to it from Paul Perryman, backed up with Little Bobby Roach's "Mush", a top R&B instrumental which sounds tailor made for tassel twirling.
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A1. Paul Perryman - Work To Be Done
B1. Little Bobby Roach - Mush
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RAMONES, THE: WBUF FM Broadcast, Buffalo, NY, February 8th 1979 PIC. DISC (KHPD 9037LP)
Outstanding performance by The Ramones taped for radio broadcast in Buffalo, New York, on February 8, 1979, shortly after Marky Ramone joined the band. It captures New York's punk pioneers at the peak of their powers, tearing through many of their most renowned songs in typically energetic style. It's presented here for the first time on picture disc, digitally remastered, with background notes and rare photos.
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A1. Rockaway Beach
A2. Teenage Lobotomy
A3. Blitzkrieg Bop
A4. I Don't Want You
A5. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
A6. Rock'n'roll High School
A7. I Wanna Be Sedated
A8. I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
A9. Bad Brain
A10. I'm Against It
A11. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
A12. Havana Affair
A13. Commando
B1. Surfin' Bird
B2. Cretin Hop
B3. Listen To My Heart
B4. California Sun
B5. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
B6. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
B7. Pinhead
B8. Do You Wanna Dance?
B9. Suzy Is A Headbanger
B10. Let's Dance
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BLACKDOWN: Rollage Vol.2: Keysound Sessions Anthem 12" (LDN 067EP)
All four tracks on Rollage Vol.2 are built from the same constrained sound palate and they center around a short audio recording made on a mobile phone at a Keysound Sessions club night in 2015, during a Riko and Kahn & Neek set. As well as using the same family of sounds, all four tracks - "Original", "Feverish Weightless", "Techrollage", and "8bar" mixes - roll at the same 130 BPM so they can be mixed into each other. But they also are designed to suggest a diversity of possible spaces, energies, and intensities within nominal constraints.
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01. Keysound Session Anthem (Feverish Weightless Mix)
02. Keysound Session Anthem (Techrollage Mix)
03. Keysound Session Anthem (Original Mix)
04. Keysound Session Anthem (8bar Mix)
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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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VA: No New York LP (LR 102LP)
2017 repress. One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Island's sub-label Antilles. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground N.Y.C. art and music scene, the project - produced by Brian Eno - is a genuine snapshot of the massively creative N.Y.C. scene. Artists: Contortions, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, Mars, D.N.A..
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Contortions 1. Dish It Out 2. Flip Your Face 3. Jaded 4. I Can't Stand Myself Teenage Jesus And The Jerks 5. Burning Rubber 6. The Closet 7. Red Alert 8. I Woke Up Dreaming Mars- 9. Helen Fordsdale 10. Hairwaves 11. Tunnel 12. Puerto Rican Ghost D.N.A. 13. Egomaniac's Kiss 14. Lionel 15. Not Moving 16. Size
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CLUSTER: Zuckerzeit LP+CD (LR 333LP)
2017 repress. Originally released in 1974, Zuckerzeit marked a turning point for these seminal German space rockers. Recorded shortly after their move away from the metropolis of Berlin, it sees some of the abrasiveness of their earlier material slightly diffusing. With the addition of proto drum machines and the producing talents of Michael Rother, their sound here - while remaining firmly in anchored in experimental territory - has more pop sensibility. Newly packaged with the CD of the album.
$16.39 UPC: 889397703332 ROCK
1 Hollywood 2 Caramel 3 Rote Riki 4 Rosa 5 Caramba 6 Fotschi Tong 7 James 8 Marzipan 9 Rotor 10 Heiße Lippen
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VIA MARIS: Swarm/Tempora 12" (YTIVIL 989EP)
Bristol's Via Maris delivers two pulsating skeletal rhythm tracks further exploring the UK sound. A pair of seismic transmissions from Livity Sound Recordings' reverse imprint.
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Side A
01. Swarm
Side B
02. Tempora
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SOARES, ELZA: The Woman At The End Of The World (A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo) CD (MAIS 031CD)
2017 repress. Pitchfork: 8.4 -- Best New Music. Septuagenarian Brazilian music icon Elza Soares teams up with the cream of São Paulo's avant-garde musicians for an album of apocalyptic, experimental samba sujo ("dirty samba") that tackles the burning issues of 21st century Brazil: racism, domestic violence, sex, drug addiction and global warming. The Woman at the end of the World is Elza's 34th studio album and her first to feature previously unrecorded material, exclusively composed for her. Voted "Best Album of 2015" by Rolling Stone Brazil after its domestic release, it will now be released worldwide by UK based label Mais Um Discos. Over a sprawl of distorted guitars, squalling horn, taught strings and electronic shards, samba is savaged by rock 'n' roll, free jazz, noise and other experimental music forms. A true legend of Brazilian music Elza has an incredible musical oeuvre that stretches back over seven decades mixing samba with jazz, soul, funk, hip hop and electronica, whilst her life story is a rags-to-riches-to-rags rollercoaster of triumphs and tragedies that has made her a voice for Brazil's repressed female, black, gay and working class populations. Her music career began in the late 1950s as she sung in clubs and hotels, sometimes being forced to perform off stage because of her skin color. The '60s was a career defining period with a run of classic albums for Odeon. After decades of hardships and artistic exploration, her latest muse is São Paulo's hyped samba sujo scene. Soares presents an album that walks a tightrope between post-rock and post-samba. "I knew this album would be a bold, modern sound" she says. "These songs are tense they do not allow you to relax". The album opens with "Coracão do Mar (Heart of the Sea)" with Elza reciting a poem from celebrated Brazilian modernist poet Oswald de Andrade. Title track "Mulher do fim do Mundo" uses carnival as a metaphor for the apocalypse and according to composer Romulo Froes "translates Elza's strength and indestructability". With The Woman at the End of the World, Elza forces the joy and sadness that personifies samba to confront the dirty truths of modern day São Paulo.
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TRESHER, GREGOR: Radiation (ROD Remix) 12" (MARY 003EP)
After tearing apart the Mary Go Wild basement last year, Gregor Tresher returned to Amsterdam for the worldwide release of his new Quiet Distortion (2016) album on vinyl. He left the label with a track that needs to be heard. Basement legend Benny Rodrigues, who obviously didn't hesitate provides a remix under his ROD Malmok techno alter ego.
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CAPPELLATO, TOMMASO: Aforemention 2LP (MG 120LP)
Italian musician, producer, DJ, and composer Tommaso Cappellato is a musical maverick - running the gamut from free-form techno to hip-hop production and jazz improvisation. Mentored by jazz visionaries Harry Whitaker and Michael Carvin (Pharoah Sanders), and a collaborator with techno master Donato Dozzy, Tommaso's seemingly unorthodox breadth of style and vision offers a truly unique new school artist. From building his jazz chops as a resident drummer in NYC, to hip hop excursions alongside Brooklyn MC Yah Supreme; to traveling to Senegal to meld with local world music masters; to leading his own award-winning spiritual jazz project Astral Travels; to collaborating with experimental electronica and techno artist Rabih Beaini and visionary Egyptian producer Maurice Louca; to now presenting his solo artist project Aforemention, Tommaso is the modern renaissance man. With Aforemention, he brings together his lifetime of artistic exploration and exposure to create his own concept of a jazz-informed experimental electronic soundscape. Tommaso started his music journey on piano and at age 11, he transitioned to drums. He studied under many of the jazz greats in NYC and soon became a regular fixture on the scene there, subsequently touring the US, Japan, China, Australia and Europe with multiple projects. His fascination for sounds outside the jazz realm led him to this new project - asking himself what would happen if he created alone, embracing everything from inspirations to moments of randomness and finding his own musical identity in that process. Using drums, analog synths, and his own voice, Tommaso has created a body of work that evokes inner spaces, outer realms and new ideas. Aforemention takes in all of Tommaso's past experiences and sees him creating a one-man journey through sound. He is joined on the album by three guests: legendary drummer Victor Lewis provides spoken word on "Team Ball", Inglewood, CA native and Solange-collaborator Nia Andrews provides vocals on the ode to freedom, "Fly", and Detroit/NYC vocalist Dulcinea Detwah brings freeform hip hop verse to "Get Set Free". Everything else you hear is performed solo by Tommaso Cappellato, mixed by Donato Dozzy and mastered by Neel. "One man, live on stage, concocting wild sonic mash-ups of the jazz and techno traditions" --Mark de Clive-Lowe. "Connecting deeply with his vision of time, texture, rhythm, space, and soul!" --Carlos Nino.
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A1. Team Ball
A2. R'n'Free
B1. Pastlife Flashbacks
B2. Fly
B3. Get Set Free
C1. Gentle Glide
C2. Solitary Orbiter
D1. Melting Spheres
D2. Two Ends Of The Spectrum
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FJELLSTROM, MARCUS: Skelektikon LP (MIA 036LP)
LP version. Includes download code; Edition of 500. Six years after his last album on Miasmah, Schattenspieler (MIA 013CD/LP, 2010), it's great to find Marcus Fjellström resurrected after several long years spent composing his audio-visual opera Boris Christ. Born out of shattered dreams and an obscured vision of the future, Skelektikon is a delirious yet lucid exploration of the farthest and most conflicted reaches of the heart, teeming with confusion, passion, and ghostly shadows. Being no conventional composer in any way, Marcus stumbles further down his musical domain of detuned orchestral (re-)arrangements and pain-inducing synth passages, arriving at a most unique and personal result. Where Schattenspieler gave way to noir filled alleyways, Skelektikon fills them with paranoia. It's the sound of limbo, of dancing amoebas, of deviant skeletons, nostalgia, and futurism, or quite possibly none of that. Inhabited by the bizarre and the beautiful, Marcus's music is a blurred yet encouraging representation of how you can never trust your own feelings - or eyes and ears for that matter. And yet, you can't shake the idea that the truth is to be found somewhere within this alien language, as delivered to us through the speakers. After the listener opens their eyes after the final track has dissipated, they shouldn't be surprised to find someone or something there, staring at us, in silent and unsettling knowledge.
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VA: Piano Music Of The Near East LP (OI 018LP)
Modern Silence present a reissue of Piano Music Of The Near East, originally released in 1963. This stunning 20th-century piano music was inspired by national traditions but uses the language and form of Western music. Features pieces by: Manolis Kalomiri, Paul Ben-Haim, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Andre Amine Hossein, Anis Fuleihan, and Amiran Rigai. All works played on piano by Amiran Rigai. From the original liner notes: "In the countries of the Near East, as in any other country where occidental culture is adoptive, musical composition modeled after its occidental counterpart came into being out of an intellectual necessity: that of finding a substitute for a traditional music which, under the dictate of its very essence, resisted evolution and was consequently in decay. It was logical, as far as both the ideals and the basic methods of this process of substitution were concerned, that the fashioning be done after the examples of the national schools of the late nineteenth-century Europe. The first stream of the westernized near eastern music was therefore romantic (or post-romantic, or impressionist) in its overall gesture. Regardless of the composition date of each individual opus, all of the works recorded here fall into this category: music inspired by national traditions (musical, or other), displaying at least that intangible called 'national character' whenever a national element is not evident, but employing a language and a medium belonging to western music (...)"
$18.39 UPC: 889397610180 CLASSICAL
A1. Manolis Kalomiri - Prelude To "Magic Herbs" (2:23)
A2. Paul Ben-Haim - Sonatina, Op. 38 (11:24)
A3. Ilhan Mimaroglu - Pièces Sentimentales (8:25)
B1. Andre Amine Hossein - Prelude No. 1 (5:15)
B2. Andre Amine Hossein - Persian Legend (4:46)
B3. Anis Fuleihan - "From The Aegean" (7:11)
B4. Amiran Rigai - Israeli Rhapsody (5:28)
AYLER, ALBERT: The Hilversum Sessions LP (OI 021LP)
Modern Silence present a reissue of Albert Ayler's The Hilversum Sessions, originally released in 1980. "Recorded in the Dutch city of Hilversum, The Hilversum Sessions presents Albert Ayler in all his blowzy, testifying glory, fronting a quartet that includes trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Sunny Murray. The repertoire includes five Ayler originals, notably his signature tunes 'Angels,' 'Ghosts,' and 'Spirits.' It's easy to forget how starkly original Ayler was, given the untold number of contemporary free saxophonists who've built entire concepts around his sax style. This album is a welcome reminder. Imitators adopt surface characteristics of Ayler's music - manifested mostly in the use of certain 'extended' techniques - but very few capture the subtlety of which he was capable: the contrasts of dynamics, articulation, vibrato, register and phrasing; the sense of drama as a solo unfolds. Obviously, he's in collegial company here. However misused his example has been by lesser musicians, this music retains an everlasting power" --Chris Kelsey, JazzTimes. 180 gram vinyl; numbered edition of 500 copies.
$18.39 UPC: 889397610210 JAZZ
A1. Angeles
A2. The Wizard
A3. Ghosts
B1. Infant Happiness
B2. Spirits
B3. No Name
MONKEY CHOP (JAPAN):
JIG N HUG: Moist EP 12" (MCHOP 001EP)
Brand new unit from Tokyo, Jig N Hug, present their memorial first release from their own label Monkey Chop. Features a remix by Dream Chimney, aka Ryan Bishop. He has released some sleazy and sentimental obscure sounds on Sentrall Records.
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ALVARIUS B.: Alvarius B vs Abdel Baqy Byro in Cairo LP (NP 020LP)
"Seemingly tossed-off spontaneity is the intoxicant with which Alvarius B vs Abdel Baqy Byro in Cairo is heavily laced. This 39-minute lenticular collage recalls Tangier-era Burroughs in its concealment of structure behind a veneer of arbitrary free association, with Alvarius B. delivering his take on contemporary behavioral dementia in a style that veers from the nocturnal yammer of legendary somniloquist Dion McGregor to salty neo-Yossarian ravings to the casual vitriol of a misanthrope who knows he's entertaining. It's the kind of trip a modern-day Slothrup might take after smoking polyester shrubbery and over-indulging in candiru sushi served by an erotic topiary gardener in exile for masturbating on the wall outside a 19th Century French orphanage - overseen by The Sinister Extemporizer himself, Alan Bishop. It was recorded live all over Cairo (in cars, trains, apartments, garages, cafes, bars, on rooftops, on the street) with a backline that includes little else beyond an acoustic guitar and a radio. Field recordings, glitchy wheeze underpinnings, and snippets of space murble garnish the album, but site-specific stuffing is what gives this kataif its particular flavor: a rapped tribute to the murdered members of a hardcore soccer fan-club; a pas de deux for laptop keyboard and BBC's coverage of Gaza bombings; public demonstrations against the Muslim-Brotherhood-authored Constitution; Monte Carlo Arabic Service's mention of the 70th anniversary of El Alamein battle. Bishop's quilt of screenshots depicts a consciousness informed by an increasingly universal presumption that everything public should be interactive, if only to act as a vessel for contempt. An urbane cannibal fills the twilight bazaar with bacterial karaoke and falsetto bleating slicker than a goat's uterus before disappearing into the crowd at Snotty's Chill-Out Pentagram. Turn a corner and it's an improv duet for acoustic guitar and the pachyderm grind of dirty delivery trucks. All around is mysteriously auto-tuned, proto-mahragan R'n'B crooning right out of a Saharan cellphone rave. A blue-blood places a call to an amplified insect tantrum, and is eavesdropped upon by a seductress loop. Delusional arms suppliers mansplain, as is their wont, and a beautifully dismissive monologue reduces music writers to literary dumbwaiters. The Invisible Hands take a moment to get in touch with their inner Sex Pistol. Prerecorded announcements are abused, quite comedically - the implication being that the only qualifications needed to engage in public discourse (telegenics and a piehole) are grossly insufficient. Alan Bishop stands before you not to praise anything (especially not the pathetic aesthetic championed by pork brosnans and Illuminati blood-drinkers stumbling from one end of their bleachy little swamp to the other, where mediocre meets bland and no amount of chlamydia-flavored tofutti with ground up glass in it will protect them from the constant tularemia rain), but to bury it, deep on the shoreline of Dunning-Kruger, a parting gift from The Sibling Unmoored as he withdraws in disgust. Maybe he'll return after Ramadan, if only to crack open what's left of their skulls like crème brulée, harvest the enlarged amygdala, and render tiny portraits of Pepe The Frog onto their lacerated morgellons. Maybe not." --Seymour Glass California, USA September 2016.
$16.39 UPC: 769791965119 ROCK
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01. Side 1
Side B
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SKULLFLOWER: The Black Iron That Fell From The Sky, to Dwell Within... LP (NP 022LP)
The inception of an audio trilogy concerning the Darkness of Aegypt: the shadow stuff from whence dark dreams come. The Triad: dark, light and the animating serpent power are delineated by the Egyptian Gods Set, Horus, and the Apep serpent. Volume one comprises of three received transmissions from the tunnels of Set via the physical envelopes of Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies operating as the occult cell known as Skullflower. The working, the concept, and guiding hand comes from Nashazphone, purveyors of artifacts, dreams and koans, who are currently re-creating and re-writing the myths and cycles of their native land.
$16.39 UPC: 769791965126 ROCK
KLEISTWAHR: Music For Zeitgeist Fighters LP (NP 023LP)
Music For Zeitgeist Fighters is the new album by the much revered solo project of Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Broken Flag). Two pieces of intense, emotional, and purgative electronics miles away from audiophile realms. "Welcome to 2017. I'm laughing because I'm thinking of music and I'm thinking of death. Welcome to the Captagon, the room is dizzy and moving. The DJ's turntables are on fire and the heat hits me full on as I walk onto the dancefloor. Distorted sounds like the bass rumbles or high frequencies are moving from one wall to another, tracer fire and the screams of soldiers in makeshift cages. Perilous geography. Some coded references to sobbing teenagers on tape or scattered corpses in plazas. I'm laughing because of what we all must look like. You perhaps with a biro scrawled note pinned to your chest. Not taped to the front of your shirt, but actually securely pinned to your flesh. Imagine us all like that. Not fucking photoshopped or some shit like that. Maybe a painting, with flames in the distance and the howling of the dogs. Can't see in or out. Fucked forever in mountains and cellars and attics and seas. Really don't want to ruin the fun and generally I'm up for anything but this fucking shit cannot go on, can it?" --Philip Best, Austin, Texas USA, January 2017.
$16.39 UPC: 769791965133 ELECTRONIC
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YVES TUMOR: Serpent Music LP (PAN 073LP)
2017 repress. The enigmatic Tennessee-raised, Turin-based Yves Tumor presents Serpent Music, a poignant album recorded between Miami, Leipzig, Los Angeles and Berlin over three years. Evolved from a diverse and prolific creative history under an expansive plethora of covert aliases via various forward-thinking labels, Yves Tumor emerges as his most personal and matured incarnation to date. With involvement across various artistic outlets expanding to fashion such as a visceral live performance for LA's Hood By Air earlier this year, the global artist has built a distinctly bold personal aesthetic both musically and visually as a performer. Painstakingly written from pieces developed upon since 2013, Serpent Music was initially composed as a soul record - based around delicate and emotive songwriting in various forms. It was a highly difficult project to undertake on both a creative and personal level, weaving thematic links through paranoia, social anxiety, and missing loved ones. "The songs come from a much more emotional and very vulnerable place... They're very close to me and I've been cautious of how I would eventually present them to the world." he explains. The album spans sonically diverse and richly-textured pieces, formed from live, organic instruments, samples and various field recordings. Dreamlike lo-fi psychedelia sits alongside broken electronic experimentations, ambient compositions between abrasive noise, offering insight into a haunting otherworld. From melodic choral vocals and soaring synths, to screeching guitar riffs, dramatic spoken word samples and live drumming, Serpent Music evidently moves through a strange and intriguing personal journey. "Broke In" features Oxhy. The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M. Features photography by Daniel Sannwald.
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WOVEN SKULL: Lair Of The Glowing Bantling LP (PENSKE 001LP)
Woven Skull began playing together in 2008 in the empty sparse Irish countryside, in a house owned by two of the members and located at the foot of Sheemore. These atmospheric surroundings helped to forge their music, which has been described as "minimal, repetitive, distorted, ugly and beautiful in one." The trio spent several years experimenting with combinations of instrumentation, household objects, kitchen utensils, seashells, footsteps, chimes, recordings of cats purring and frogs mating, while developing a sound that, after a recent set, was described as "a Turkish Velvet Underground." Within the group, song writing is split equally between Aonghus on densely propulsive guitar and Natalia on distorted mandola. These are glued together by the endless cyclical rhythms created by Willie and inspired by the sounds of the bogs and woods that surround his home: from syncopated cattle calls, to the beating wings of bats in the night, to the creaking of trees as they push against each other in the wind. Woven Skull have recorded in dark haunted woods, beside bottom-less lakes, and in the attics of abandoned houses. Lair Of The Glowing Bantling, is their first studio album and captures a sound that's more in line with their live performance than past releases, which have been a mix of lo-fi practice tapes, outdoor recordings and segments from collaborative sets. Giving the album an 8/10, Norman Records said this about the record: "the band recall the ramshackle anthems of Exuma and the spirited improv of Six Organs Of Admittance, suggesting that without furious discipline they can make very beautiful sounds. It's within them to make pretty music, but for the most part Lair Of The Glowing Bantling sounds like it's shaking itself from nightmare to existence." RIYL: Six Organs Of Admittance, Natural Snow Buildings, Ilyas Ahmed.
$12.39 EAN: 5055869545150 ROCK
01. Ludo
02. Chantelle
03. Blind Willy
04. Sea Graves
05. Wild
MAGIC POCKETS: Volcano Of The Bleeding Skies LP (PENSKE 003LP)
Volcano Of The Bleeding Skies is the debut LP from Ruadhan O'Meara (No Spill Blood). A collection of cosmic synth compositions, its seven tracks feature swirling psychedelics, pulsing sequences, and stark minimalism, all the while incorporating harmony and melodic leads. Drawing heavily from the sounds of bygone eras, it also sits aside the current wave of electronic reinvention. RIYL: Tangerine Dream, Ashra, John Carpenter, Goblin, Klaus Schulze, Oneohtrix Point Never, Emeralds.
$13.79 EAN: 5055869545174 ELECTRONIC
01. Buckle
02. Darkest Place
03. Lunar Caustic
04. Terminal Man
05. Volcano Of The Bleeding Skies
06. No Autopsy
07. Epilogue
FIXITY: The Things In The Room LP (PENSKE 004LP)
LP version. The music of Fixity is composed and/or produced by Dan Walsh. The project's first self-titled album was released on the KantCope cassette label in July 2016, and it presented multi-tracked versions by Walsh of seven new compositions. The Things In The Room is the fourth release by Fixity. The album was recorded in Malmö on the February 13th, 2016 with a band made of up Dan Walsh on drum kit, joined by Swedish improvisers, tenor saxophonist Emil Nerstrand (Brigaden, Heavy Water, The Nod), guitarist Nils Andersson (Ljom, Ava), and bassist Fredrik Persson (Sista Bossen, The Good Morning Spider, Leo Kall, Cassus). The Things In The Room comprises of four pieces composed by Walsh, explored in collective improvisation. Each performance was captured in one take with everyone in the same space. "...incredible abstract psychedelia... " --Tristan Bath, The Quietus. "...defined by its disregard for parameters. Few Irish artists push the invisible parameters of sonic exploration quite like Walsh - a fact mercurially confirmed across these four tracks." --Brian Coney, The Thin Air. RIYL: Ultralyd, Fire!, James Plotkin, Paal Nilssen-Love, Supersilent.
$16.39 EAN: 5055869545198 ROCK
POPCORN (UK):
CONETTA & JIMMY ROGERS, LEW: You Got Me Crazy/What Have I Done 7" (POPC 155EP)
Moody and malevolent, male vocal popcorn burner from jazzy crooner Lew Conetta. On the flip, is an alternate cut of bluesman Jimmy Rogers's super low-down "What Have I Done", a track so similar to "You Got Me Crazy" that it must have provided the inspiration.
$5.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Lew Conetta - You Got Me Crazy
B1. Jimmy Rogers - What Have I Done
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HALLADAY, CHANCE: Bury Me Deep/Deep Sleep 7" (POPC 158EP)
Marvelously macabre popcorn magic from Chance Halladay, last seen on the popcorn label with his great take on "13 Women". Here he is in a much more sombre mood, as he laments on his sins and wrong-doings and pleads to be sent to his only fitting redemption place - the grave. All set to the delicious, slinky minor key melody and swinging jazz rhythm that typifies the popcorn sub-genre. The flip side "Deep Sleep" is only slightly less sinister, as Chance promises to hypnotize his lover into a state of slumber.
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A1. Bury Me Deep
B1. Deep Sleep
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HOWLROUND: A Creak In Time LP (TROPES 002LP)
Comprised of Robin The Fog, Chris Weaver, and four reel-to-reel tape machines, Howlround create unique and immersive compositions and performances by direct manipulation of natural acoustic sounds on magnetic tape, with additional effects and artificial reverb strictly forbidden. For the soundtrack of Steven McInerney's A Creak In Time, their most ambitious yet, the group have created a striking body of work made entirely from field recordings of different objects creaking: tiny and insignificant sounds that, when amplified and extended via magnetically charged oxide particles, begin to take on a curious new identity. Taken from source material discovered in London, Yosemite, and the Mojave desert, these sounds, through simple manipulation, gradually cast off their moorings and head into space, leaving their original identities far behind and chiming perfectly with the film's recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos. Shot entirely on 16mm film with a musique concréte soundtrack, it's both science and fiction, marking a dramatic new direction for all involved. Psyché Tropes is an independent label and film project run by Steven McInerney (Merkaba Macabre) dedicated to exploring the synesthetic intersections between sound and its visual counterpart. Comes on 180 gram vinyl.
$18.39 EAN: 5055300391759 SOUNDTRACK
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01. Part I
Side B
02. Part II
PUSHMASTER DISCS (ITALY):
NASCOUR: Cripto EP 12" (PUSH 000EP)
Pushmaster Discs welcome Nascour from South Korea. His debut EP tells about a dark and mysterious planet in a futuristic war which Nascour is a terrible assassin at the service of the evil emperor to repress the rebellion: these five raw and acid techno monster tracks show the feelings about this story. The Cripto saga has been started. To be continued...
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MITTOO, JACKIE: The Keyboard King LP (RR 301LP)
LP version. Radiation Roots present a reissue of Jackie Mittoo's The Keyboard King, originally released in 1976. Jackie Mittoo's contribution to reggae music is immeasurable. Of mixed Indian and African-Jamaican heritage, the man born Donat Roy Mittoo was a gifted musician that played piano in The Skatalites at the age of 16. He was a very important part of reggae's evolution, having been a crucial member of the Studio One house band from its very foundation, being employed as the main keyboardist and musical arranger for an extended period, working closely there with Lee 'Scratch' Perry and countless other important figures, as well as relegating Leroy Sibbles to the bass. Although Mittoo migrated to Canada in the late 1960s, he frequently returned to Jamaica to record, maintaining his Studio One connection, and also issuing a sublime series of albums for Bunny Lee in the mid-1970s. The Keyboard King was first issued on Third World in 1976, and features Mr. Mittoo's delightful organ workouts, completely reconfiguring hits by John Holt, Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, and Bunny & Skully, among others.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005785 WORLD
MCCOOK & THE AGGROVATORS, TOMMY: King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station LP (RR 302LP)
LP version. Radiation Roots present a reissue of Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators' King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station, originally released in 1975. Tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook is rightly considered a giant of Jamaican music. Chosen by Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd to be leader of The Skatalites in the early 1960s, he went on to become the chief exponent of rock steady as leader of The Supersonics house band at Treasure Isle. McCook remained a key session player throughout the reggae era, and during the roots reggae heyday of the mid-1970s, his expressive melodies found particularly strong outlet, especially on the music he created for grassroots producer Bunny 'Striker' Lee as a member of The Aggrovators, the studio outfit Lee hand-picked from the cream of Jamaica's musical crop. When enhanced by the adventurous mixing experiments of King Tubby, the engineer that turned dub into an art form, instrumental Aggrovators music became positively ethereal, yielding an exceptional listening experience. On King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station, Tommy McCook blows mean sax and flute over dubs of outstanding tracks by Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, Linval Thompson, Delroy Wilson, and others greats. LP version comes with four bonus tracks.
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PABLO, AUGUSTUS: Augustus Pablo At King Tubbys LP (RR 303LP)
LP version. Radiation Roots present a reissue of Augustus Pablo's Augustus Pablo At King Tubbys, originally released in 2005. The visionary musician and record producer Augustus Pablo made some of the most unique and individual recordings in the history of reggae. As with his friend and mentor, Jackie Mittoo, the man born Horace Swaby was of mixed Indian and African heritage, and although his middle-class background might have pointed him in a very different direction, the lure of Jamaica's sound system culture captured him at a young age, particularly after debilitating health problems saw him drop out of school. He began recording as a session keyboardist as the '60s gave way to the '70s, but everything changed when a school-friend introduced him to the melodica, a small plastic keyboard operated by a mouthpiece, which he used on seminal recordings for producer Herman Chin-Loy, credited to Augustus Pablo on the release. During the early 1970s, Pablo crafted melodica instrumentals for all of the leading reggae producers, scoring "best instrumental" for "Java" in 1973, and launching the Rockers label to showcase self-produced work at the same time. This multi-faceted compilation, first issued on Bunny Lee's Attack label in 2005, compiles memorable melodica interpretations of some of Lee's greatest productions, recorded over dub cuts of immortal numbers such as Cornell Campbell's "Queen Of The Minstrel" and John Holt's "My Desire".
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005808 WORLD
DILLINGER: Answer Me Question LP (RR 304LP)
LP version. Radiation Roots present a reissue of Dillinger's Answer Me Question, originally released in 1977. Trained in the art of deejay toasting by the legendary Dennis Alcapone, Lester Bulllock initially called himself Alcapone Junior, until maverick record producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry renamed him Dillinger in the early 1970s, following his success on a west Kingston sound system called Smith the Weapon, based in the ghetto of Payne Avenue. Perry cut Dillinger's first dozen tracks, and there was early work for other producers such as Prince Tony, Augustus Pablo, Enos McLeod, and Phil Pratt; then, Dillinger's debut album, Ready Natty Dreadie (1975), was a local hit for Studio One, but the CB200 set for Island catapulted him to international prominence. Yet, the Dillinger material with the roughest edge was always produced by Bunny 'Striker' Lee, as this LP, Answer My Question, so amply demonstrates. First issued in the Netherlands on the Scramble label in 1977, it shows Dillinger on fearsome form, his relaxed rhyming toasts tackling sound system matters, the Rastafari lifestyle, action movie subplots, the highs and lows of romantic relationships, the need to help the less fortunate, and other burning issues of the day with biting wit and verbal dexterity, all delivered over tough Aggrovators rhythms - including an unusual cut of the "Three Piece Suit" rhythm.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005815 WORLD
BROWN, BARRY: I'm Still Waiting LP (RR 305LP)
LP version. Radiation Roots present a reissue of Barry Brown's I'm Still Waiting, originally released in 1983. Roots reggae star Barry Brown has a readily identifiable vocal style that has long made him among the most preferred of many roots reggae fans. Drawing largely from the blueprint provided by Horace Andy, but changing that into something all his own through a unique form of vocal phrasing, interspersed with ad-hoc slurs, Brown was initially discovered through the many amateur talent contests that fringed his west Kingston ghetto neighborhood during the early 1970s; he was also making an impact at the same time by performing live on local sound systems. Several different producers have claimed to have been the first to record him, but it is undeniable that Brown had strong links with Sugar Minott's Black Roots collective, and some of Brown's very first recordings were released by Sugar, both in Jamaica and overseas. The exceptionally rare album I'm Still Waiting was released in 1983 by Rocktone International, a spin-off of Sugar's Black Roots outfit, based in Queens, New York, with a further branch in Toronto (which reportedly closed just prior to the album's release). As noted on the original sleeve, the musicians featured on the disc include Milo T, Snappin, Badness, Flowers, and Drummie, while Mr. Brown is on fine form throughout.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005822 WORLD
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TRISTESSE CONTEMPORAINE: Stop And Start LP (REC 136LP)
Tristesse Contemporaine - Act III, Scene 1. After the first album, the self-titled Tristesse Contemporaine (DL 017LP, 2012) which was a form of a declaration of independence, and the second album Stay Golden (REC 101LP, 2013) rising above the rest, their third, Stop And Start will come to close the existing trilogy, and begin a new cycle. The trio at the head of this veritable voyage through time and space is a motley crew that found each other in Paris: Narumi from Japan, Maik from England via Jamaican roots, and Leo from Sweden. The essence of what they play as Tristesse Contemporaine is two chords, minimal instrumentation, all mixed with maximum reverb. This is a particular idea of "less is more" which is more applicable to pop music. Abandoning "the middle of the road", the band focused on ten tracks where they put their cards on the table and the petal to the metal. Comes with a download card.
$14.99 EAN: 3516628256110 ROCK
RNB HITS (UK):
CHIMES/ARTHUR LEE AND THE CROWNS, THE: Zindy Lou/Rooba Lee 7" (RB 117EP)
"Zindy Lou" is an irresistibly infectious mid-tempo floor worker, with a slightly exotic feel, based around an off-kilter rhythm and all the doo wop vocal tricks that the group The Chimes can muster. On the flip, more vocal group greatness from Arthur Lee and the Crowns, with the groovy R&B winner "Rooba Lee".
$7.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. The Chimes - Zindy Lou
B1. Arthur Lee and the Crowns - Rooba Lee
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JULIE'S HAIRCUT: Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin LP (LAUNCH 104LP)
LP version. Julie's Haircut - Italy's premiere psychedelic explorers - create a deep-end approach to sonic innovation on Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin, their debut release for Rocket Recordings. Seven albums into their mission, the band find themselves at a new plateau of small-hours elucidation and revelation that may summon the specters of the wayward squall of early Mercury Rev, the shamanic allure of Dead Skeletons, the freedom of Miles Davis, the repetition of Can, or the wild soundscapes of Amon Düül II to some, yet essentially sound like no one but themselves. The result is a record built on trance-like repetitions that grows to a mantric intensity, summoning atmospheres redolent of the psychic and surreal transgressions of its title - a double-helix tribute to both Frank Zappa and Kenneth Anger. Coruscating guitar overload and jazz-tinged blow-out collide amidst hypnotic soundscapes like the shamanically inclined "The Fire Sermon" and the eleven-minute motorik magnificence of the curtain-raiser, "Zukunft". Atmospheric restraint, glacial texture, and immersive groove play as large a part in this blinding and beatific sound world as droning darkness or overheated amp tubes.
$18.39 EAN: 5055300389220 ROCK
ROCKIN' HOUSE (UNITED STATES):
JAQUARIUS: Love Is Happiness 12" (RH 010EP)
2017 repress of this killer Chicago acid classic, one of the most essential of the acid era and now a rare gem. Rodney Bakerr (Jaquarius) himself has decided it's time to press this for the first time since 1988.
$10.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. Love Is Happiness (Club Mix)
A2. Love Is Happiness (Instrumental Mix)
A3. Love Is Happiness (Radio Mix)
B1. Love Is Happiness (Acid Rain)
B2. Love Is Happiness (Acid Love)
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NO UFO'S: NU LP For RS LP (RS 104LP)
NU LP For RS marks the first proper LP for No UFO's - Soft Coast on Spectrum Spools (SP 011LP, 2010) was considered a demo - and having been diagnosed with Carpal tunnel syndrome, will likely be the last of its kind. Eschewing the heavy gestures of today's musical zeitgeist, NU LP finds Konrad Jandavs utilizing tape machines, foley libraries, and rare synthesizers and amplifiers to construct an oblique sound world evoking reception, perception and agency. Of NU LP, Konrad states: "I was trying hard to avoid making another 3 Feet High And Rising (1989) and that basically meant I was making a De La Soul Is Dead (1991), but in the end it seems clear to me that I skipped ahead and made a Buhloone Mindstate (1993)."
$12.39 UPC: 880918225166 ELECTRONIC
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MASSACRE: Killing Time 2LP (SPITTLE 067LP)
Spittle Records present an expanded reissue of Massacre's Killing Time, originally released in 1981. Following the breakup of Cambridge's avant-rock legends, Henry Cow, guitarist Fred Frith moved to NYC in 1979, and soon found himself deep in the heart of the city's robust post-punk and free-jazz scenes. He performed with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher, from the group Material, as a power trio of sorts under the moniker of Massacre. The group quickly garnered a reputation around town, and around the world for that matter, as a heavy and heady band that experimented greatly with rhythm, time signatures, and tone. As Frith himself put it, "the group was a direct response to New York. It was a very aggressive group, kind of my reaction to the whole New York rock club scene." Massacre released one album, Killing Time, before disbanding for nearly 20 years. Their first wave as a group crashed fast and furiously and this one album, recorded in part live in Paris, and in part at Brooklyn's OAO Studio, is a perfect encapsulation of early '80s NYC. In addition to the original album, first released on Celluloid in 1981, this deluxe three-sided double LP includes eight bonus tracks recorded live between '80 and '81 at The Stone in San Francisco, and Inroads and CBGB in NYC. Avant-jazz-post-punk-noise of the highest order from several legends and one of the most important projects Frith and Laswell were ever involved in.
$18.99 EAN: 8033706210673 ROCK
A1. Legs
A2. Aging With Dignity
A3. Subway Heart
A4. Killing Time
A5. Corridor
A6. Lost Causes
A7. Not The Person We Knew
B1. Bones
B2. Tourism
B3. Surfing
B4. As Is
B5. After
B6. Gate

C1. You Said
C2. Know
C3. Conversations With White Arc
C4. Carrying
C5. Bait
C6. Third Street
C7. 3 O'Clock, June 21st, Get Down There And Do It
C8. F.B.I.
SWEET PEA (UK):
SWEET PEA WALKER: Sweet Pea 7" (SWP 101EP)
Absolute killer R&B from Sweet Pea Walker, aka singer Paul Clifton, with the eponymous "Sweet Pea", a crude guitar and harp led groover with a twisting shuffle rhythm which for some reason was never originally issued, meaning that it appears on 45rpm vinyl here for the first time.
$7.79 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Sweet Pea
B1. Sweet Pea (Alternate Take)
TIMEDANCE (UK):
BATU: Murmur EP 12" (TIMEDANCE 008EP)
"Murmur" is focused around a single stuttering beat pattern, played across multiple instruments. After its initial stark drop, the track evolves into a more measured form, whilst still ramping up its mind-mashing dancefloor purpose. "Groundwork" expands on the theme of subtle, but effective grooviness. Synth lines rise into bursts of spacious noise, ascending before being clamped back onto the tenacious but constantly developing rhythm. "Whisper" concludes with giant throbs of sub and woozy but visceral pads, fading into a sea of reverb and modulation.
$9.79 EAN: 5055300391650 ELECTRONIC
EP
01. Murmur
02. Groundwork
03. Whisper
TOKEN (BELGIUM):
TADEO: The Pit 12" (TOKEN 069EP)
Tadeo first released on Token in 2015 with the instant classic Terra Incognita (TOKEN 051EP). If Terra Incognita was an interpretation of outer space, The Pit comes from deep in the ground. This is electronic program music; book ended in distinctive Tadeo style with a modal string section that places the record firmly in the avant-garde, The Pit guides the listener through the moods and associations of a classic science fiction narrative. A subdued but powerful low-end to set the pace, disorienting semitone meanderings and organic percussion in the mid, and massive, crashing hats that lift statement sections beyond comprehension.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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H-BURNS: Kid We Own The Summer LP+2CD (BEC 5156744)
LP version. Includes two CDs; CD one features the ten tracks on the studio album; CD two features the ten demo versions of the album; Comes in a gatefold sleeve. The record cover shows a woman walking towards dusk - or is it dawn? Two years after the success of Night Moves (BEC 5156022/5156023, 2015) - a wander through a threatening nocturnal Los Angeles - H-Burns returns with a new record for twilight. Kid We Own The Summer finds its identity between a few landmarks such as David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's California, the intimacy of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978), the relative calmness of Suicide's second album (1980), and the elegant melancholy of The National. In order to compose, Renaud Brustlein, aka H-Burns, decided to reinvent himself once again. He didn't repeat the live configuration that he used in 2013 with Off the Map (BEC 5162399/5161300), an "electric storm" recorded in Chicago, with a band, in a single week, with the legendary Steve Albini. For Kid We Own The Summer, the composer started working in his home studio, by gradual touches, because there's no place like home. The result is a melancholic, cinematic stroll across stories of misguided couples, unspoken words that end-up ruining people's lives, the pursuit of dangerous situations - like an elegy to the end of adolescence, leading to a place we're unsure of. Born from a keyboard, a piano and a beatbox, these ten songs were brought to light, as always with infinite delicacy, by impeccable guests-friends: strings by Bertrand Belin and vaporous keyboards by Denis Clavaizolle (Bashung, Murat, Daniel Darc); mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliot Smith, Beck) and mastered by the great Greg Calbi (Springsteen, Dylan, Paul Simon). Noisey said Night Moves was the perfect record for "all the cold and sad months to come." Kid We Own The Summer is a record for sleepless nights. CD version comes in digipak with two panels, a 12-page booklet.
$18.39 EAN: 5060421567440 ROCK
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MAYALL & THE BLUESBREAKERS, JOHN: Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton LP (VL 900020LP)
2017 repress. This seminal British blues album gave Clapton the chance to finally show his chops, not surprisingly, launching Clapton into stardom. Recorded in 1966 during Clapton's short stint with the Bluesbreakers, just after leaving the Yardbirds (the birth place of other legendary guitar players like Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck) and before he joined Cream. Includes 4 bonus tracks.
$16.39 EAN: 8013252900020 ROCK
A1 All Your Love A2 Hideaway A3 Little Girl A4 Another Man A5 Double Crossing Time A6 What'd I Say A7 Parchman Farm A8 Ramblin' On My Mind A9 It Ain't Right B1 Key To Love B2 Have You Hear B3 Steppin' Out B4 They Call It Stormy Monday (Live) B5 Intro To Maudie (Live) B6 Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Live) B7 Hoochie Coochie Man (Live)
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WHITE HORSE: The Revenant Gospels 3x12" BOX (WYS 003LP)
White Horse is the somber vision of musician Ben Chisholm, who is also a full-time member of Chelsea Wolfe. Recording under the name White Horse since 2010, he has released a number of highly praised experimental solo recordings including Final Coordinates (2010). In 2012, Chisholm retired White Horse and adopted the Revelator moniker, under which he released a split 7" with Jacob Bannon's Wear Your Wounds project in 2012. This deluxe box set collects Chisholm's three Revenant Gospels EPs on vinyl for the first time; they were previously available as digital releases in 2010 and 2011. "All vocals performed by those whom are no longer with us." Somewhere between life and death, in a Lynchian in-between, a human face awakens, its eyes misty and feet walking on ground that it still does not recognize. This music is a mix between brutal reality, prosaic lo-fi, and hypnotic moods. The first two volumes of The Revenant Gospels contain songs from dusty records from the early 20th century, directly unloaded from the abyss of oblivion and accompanied by a piano from beyond the grave and strings straight out of horror films. Volume III takes us on a journey through other generations and points on the map, as old field recordings give way to more contemporary voices, though the overall concept and style is the same. Suffocating and mysterious, the music of White Horse still manages to remain melodic and pure, thus magnifying the wonderfully chaotic and sublimating Chisholm's excessive taste for heavy atmospheres tormented by a thin but continuous strand of seraphic light.
$110.40 EAN: 5055869539982 ELECTRONIC
DRAB MAJESTY: The Heiress/The Demon 7" (WYS 014EP)
Drab Majesty is the solo project of Deb DeMure who self describes his music as "tragic wave" or goth mid-fi. Drab Majesty combines pulsing synthesizers accent with colorful post-punk in all the right ways. In a world of darker music that conjures greyscale imagery, mastermind Deb Demure's creations shine neon bright in the haze of a drunken night. Deluxe cardboard sleeve with holographic foil. Edition of 500.
$11.79 EAN: 5055869542418 ROCK
EP
01. The Heiress
02. The Demon
SOFT KILL: Heresy LP (WYS 015LP)
Soft Kill is the brainchild of Tobias Grave and acts as a follow up to his previous band, Blessure Grave. In fall 2010, the project started demoing their first tracks, showing a devotion to goth pop and post punk acts of the early '80s. Indeed, the band's debut full-length, An Open Door (2011), is haunted by the ghosts of The Cure, Killing Joke and Magazine. Soft Kill are back with their third record, Heresy, a collection that confirms the band's great sense and ability in composing moody and sensitive, but straight-to-the-bones tunes that won't leave you heartless.
$20.99 EAN: 5055869544443 ROCK
A1. Grandview
A2. Violent Mind
A3. Hit The Floor
B1. Selfish Love
B2. Current
B3. Heresy
WOLFSKUIL RECORDS (GERMANY):
RUMAH: A View To The Sea EP 12" (WOLF 037EP)
London-based Rumah offers his unique take on peak time techno. He debuts in solo on Darko Esser's Wolfskuil with A View To The Sea EP. The EP opens with the dynamic, multilayered atmosphere of the loop driven "A View To The Sea," followed by "Tobsha," which rushes in with Detroit infused riffs and echoing vocal samples. "DOR" kicks off with a sinister groove and a concrete, infectious rhythm, genuinely combined with fading melodic pads. The closing track "Brief Reel" starts off stripped to each analog elements, slowly building up to a track perfectly suited for closing a set.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
Side A
01. A View To The Sea
02. Tobsha
Side B
03. DOR
04. Brief Reel
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ALL ACCESS (JAPAN):
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: Nothing In Particular: The Lost 1968 Dutch Broadcast CD (AACD 150CD)
"In February 1968, Jefferson Airplane's manager Bill Graham was fired after Grace Slick delivered an 'either he goes or I go' ultimatum. Bill Thompson took over as permanent manager and set about consolidating the group's financial security, establishing Icebag Corp. to oversee the band's publishing interests. In mid-1968, the group was photographed for a Life magazine story on 'The New Rock', appearing on the cover of the 28th June edition. They undertook their first major tour of Europe in August and September 1968, playing alongside the The Doors in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Sweden. In a notorious incident at their concert in Amsterdam on 15th September, while the Airplane were performing 'Plastic Fantastic Lover', Doors singer Jim Morrison, under the influence of a combination of drugs that fans had given him, appeared on stage and began dancing 'like a pinwheel'. As the group played faster and faster, Morrison spun around wildly until he finally fell senseless on the stage at Marty Balin's feet. Morrison was unable to perform his set with the Doors and was hospitalized while keyboardist Ray Manzarek was forced to sing all the vocals. It was also during this tour that Slick and Morrison allegedly engaged in a brief sexual relationship, described in Slick's 1998 autobiography. Jefferson Airplane's fourth LP, Crown of Creation (released in September 1968), was a commercial success, peaking at No. 6 on the album chart. The Airplane's appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the fall of that year caused a minor stir when Grace Slick appeared in blackface (she claimed she simply wanted to wear all the makeup she saw in her dressing room) and raised her fist in the Black Panther Party's salute after singing 'Crown Of Creation'."
$10.50 UPC: 823564690629 ROCK
ASHERAH (UNITED STATES):
MORSE, LEE: Sweeping The Cobwebs: Selected Recordings, 1924-1930 LP (ASH 001LP)
"Lee Morse (born Lena Corinne Taylor on Nov. 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon) is perhaps best remembered as a torch singer and performer on the jazz and bluegrass circuits of the Pre-War era. However, what is not yet reckoned with is that she was one of the earliest female singer/ songwriters to ever be recorded in the United States. Morse learned to sing and play guitar from her older brothers, both of whom played in the bluegrass style, at a very young age touring in the Portland-Seattle area with their preacher father. This is how she developed her distinctive low-register voice as she tried to impersonate them, something that when coupled with her very small frame made her a successful performing musician on the vaudeville circuit and in silent film. This also led to a rather large recording catalog, both credited as a solo artist and with band 'Her Bluegrass Boys.' Despite this success, early critics dismissed her 'coos' and 'yelps' in her singing style as being gimmicky even though they'd become standard uses of expression in jazz vocalizing throughout the 30's, 40's and 50's -- a style she helped invent and develop. In an era that did not see anything particularly special about a singer who also wrote music outside of the burgeoning folk/ blues movement, Morse's substantial portfolio of well-written and thoughtful songs from this period (mostly with no co-writer) have often been neglected. Lee's performing career waned in the years before WWII, and she died without much fanfare in 1954 at the age of 57. While not focused on her most popular recordings, the purpose of this collection is to instead position Lee Morse in her rightful place as a musical pioneer for both American music and gender equality in the music community."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
ROARING LION: Cairi Calypso: 1930-1939 LP (ASH 007LP)
"Roaring Lion was born Rafael Arius Cairi Llama Deleon on February 22, 1908 in Aroquita, Trinidad, an area in the northern hills of the island country. 'Cairi,' where this compilation gets its title, was another name for Trinidad in the indigenous tongue of the island. Lion, a Caribbean Creole, spent much of his early life in orphanages before being adopted by Muslim Indian parents from the migrant working class in San Fernando. This unusual upbringing and displacement greatly influenced his compositions and performances, which subsequently influenced Calypso music as a whole since Lion became such a looming figure in its popular development. Inspired by early, mostly unrecorded practitioners like King Fando and Lionel Belasco, Lion started writing and performing his own music and adaptations in the 1920's. As a composer, Lion stood out ahead of the pack with his lyrical wit and a rare ability to sight-read and draft music to paper. By helping to create the 'War'-style of Calypso in which two performers would 'battle' each other lyrically between 78rpm releases, his influence persevered into similar battles in Reggae and Hip Hop cultures decades later. By the 1930's, the period from which this music is culled, Lion became one of the first Calypso musicians to record and perform in the United States. Despite his humble beginnings, Roaring Lion's fame grew with each passing year, and he became a figurehead of Calypso as its popularity grew in the U.S. and Europe. These early recordings are a glimpse of the Lion coming into his own, showing all the swagger and bravado of a young man ready to become an international star, while also expressing the realities of working class life from the Trinidad of his youth."
$12.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
BLACK JAZZ RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
PATTERSON, KELLEE: Maiden Voyage LP (BJ 012LP)
2017 repress of this 1998 reissue. Originally released in 1973. "Despite an offer from Motown Records Patterson chose to go with the less well-known (but arguably much hipper) Black Jazz Records run by jazz pianist Gene Russell. The label was established to provide an alternative to the more traditional jazz labels with a more political and spiritual feel often blended with funk overtones. The Black Jazz roster at the time may not have had the big guns that Motown did but the talent was undeniably there albeit in lesser-known jazz circles. Rudolph Johnson, Jean Carne and The Awakening were all featuring alongside Patterson and because of Gene Russell's reputation the session musicians they attracted were first-class. Kellee's first recording on Black Jazz was the 1973 album Maiden Voyage featuring a cover of Herbie Hancock's signature tune." --Voices of East Anglia
$8.00 UPC: N/A JAZZ
BURNING SOUNDS (UK):
TWINKLE BROTHERS: Rasta Pon Top CD (BSR 981CD)
"Debut album from the long running reggae grounp, the Twinkle Brothers originally released in 1975. Beautiful reggae songs with delicate and gorgeous vocals with a focus on Rastafarianism. "
$11.75 EAN: 5036436100422 WORLD
BAILEY, ELROY: Red Hot Dub CD (BSR 982CD)
"Debut solo album from the Black Slate singer originally released in 1979. A clean and beautiful dub set, first time on CD."
$11.75 EAN: 5036436100224 ROCK
FABRICA RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
COURTIS, ALAN: Los Galpones LP (FABREC 038LP)
"Los Galpones is the latest solo full-length release conjured by the prolific Buenos Aires-based composer Alan Courtis (aka Anla Courtis). He has straddled the international noise underground and the academic-centered modern composition scenes since the early 1990s. As a solo artist, with the Argentine experimental group Reynols, and in collaborations with Pauline Oliveros, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Lasse Marhaug, Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Okkyung Lee, and Daniel Menche among others, Courtis has amassed an impressive discography. This latest album contains four dark and grimacing industrial-tinged drone pieces. Employing the electric guitar, the violin, springs and other found objects, Courtis's soundscape is at times oppressive and dense -- perhaps a reflection on the post-industrial urban landscape of his native Buenos Aires. This album should be played loud."
$15.00 UPC: 600197503812 ROCK
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COLTRANE, ALICE: Journey In Satchidananda LP (IMP 228HLP)
2017 repress. Exact repro. 180 gram virgin vinyl. Originally issued in 1971. Recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970. Alice Coltrane (harp, piano); Pharoah Sanders (soprano saxophone, perc); Charlie Haden (bass); Rashied Ali (drums); Cecil McBee (bass); Vishnu Wood (oud); Tulsi (tamboura); Majid Shabazz (bells, tambourine). "Swamiji is the first example I have seen in recent years of Universal Love or God in action. He expresses an impersonal love, which encompasses thousands of people. Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandaji's love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore. 'Satchidananda' means knowledge, existence, bliss." --Alice Coltrane
$14.50 UPC: 011105022811 JAZZ
IN THE RED (UNITED STATES):
DOUBLE, THE: Dawn Of The Double LP (ITR 295LP)
" 'Can you dance and meditate at the same time? Talking to one of The Double before a Brooklyn gig in the summer of 2014, I was told they were going to play a 'dance piece.' I wasn't sure how to take that, but it slowly began to make sense as I watched their stunning set. The music struck an odd balance between perpetual motion and perpetual stasis: the drummer, Jim White (Dirty Three, Venom P Stinger), maintained a modified Bo Diddley beat, switching between the snare and the toms after long stretches on each, while the guitarist, Emmett Kelly (Cairo Gang, Ty Segall & the Muggers), stuck steadfastly to an E chord. They took the underpinning of countless rock 'n' roll songs -- the rhythm section -- and decisively moved it to the foreground. It soon became clear that this wasn't going to be the average concert of discrete songs or pieces -- so the question then became how long they would sustain the groove for. The answer turned out to be 45 entrancing minutes. Maybe it could be likened to Rhys Chatham's 'Guitar Trio,' which also puts a rock 'n' roll backbeat to a droning, solitary chord, but The Double's vision of rock minimalism is more tied to both rock rhythm guitar and the drum's more traditional role in rock's invitation to dance. And unlike 'Guitar Trio' (or the '90s techno genre trance, for that matter), The Double didn't build up notes and rhythms until a breakdown section where the process started all over again; they went into it full bore and never let up.' --Alan Licht. [Brings] to mind Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground's 'Sister Ray,' Feedtime's 'Fastbuck,' Henry Flynt's Graduation LP of 'trancing and trucking music,' 75 Dollar Bill, Faust's 'It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl' and even Rolf Harris's 'Sun Arise.' "
$13.00 UPC: N/A ROCK
MEATBODIES: Alice CD (ITR 298CD)
"With Alice, Meatbodies return ascending toward ground level. A 'heavy-pop' concept, metal on molly. Chad Ubovich, Patrick Nolan, and Kevin Boog step out in new form, soaring through diverse stories, tones, and characters. Dancing between quiet and loud, funk and doom, pop and noise. Their message preached is celestial and deafening, a sacred scripture for today's world: a warbling Rhodes piano, a liquefying electric guitar, a ghostly synthesizer skating across the sands of a twelve-stringed acoustic. The band digs deep into the rich soils of Earth to reveal the chaotic sensual vibrations underneath the fields we walk upon. Connecting our limbs, our mouths, our consciousness to the microcosms of the grime, all while being lit by black light. Captured wriggling and alive in San Francisco by Ubovich and Eric Bauer at The Bauer Mansion, this album is a step in the right direction, a new direction, a new way of thinking. Watching the futures, watching the world burn."
$10.75 UPC: 759718529821 ROCK
MEATBODIES: Alice LP (ITR 298LP)
LP version. "With Alice, Meatbodies return ascending toward ground level. A 'heavy-pop' concept, metal on molly. Chad Ubovich, Patrick Nolan, and Kevin Boog step out in new form, soaring through diverse stories, tones, and characters. Dancing between quiet and loud, funk and doom, pop and noise. Their message preached is celestial and deafening, a sacred scripture for today's world: a warbling Rhodes piano, a liquefying electric guitar, a ghostly synthesizer skating across the sands of a twelve-stringed acoustic. The band digs deep into the rich soils of Earth to reveal the chaotic sensual vibrations underneath the fields we walk upon. Connecting our limbs, our mouths, our consciousness to the microcosms of the grime, all while being lit by black light. Captured wriggling and alive in San Francisco by Ubovich and Eric Bauer at The Bauer Mansion, this album is a step in the right direction, a new direction, a new way of thinking. Watching the futures, watching the world burn."
$13.00 UPC: 759718529814 ROCK
LATINO BUGGER VEIL (UNITED STATES):
BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac LP (LBV 003LP)
2017 repress. "Latino Bugger Veil presents the long-awaited vinyl reissues of Butthole Surfers' first four full-length albums. Originally released between 1984 and 1988, these classic and influential LPs capture the band at their peak, drawing from punk, rock, psychedelic and experimental influences for a truly inspired and unmistakably unique sound. Comes with coupons for free digital downloads."
$13.00 UPC: 697410000319 ROCK
BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Rembrandt Pussyhorse LP (LBV 004LP)
2017 repress. "Latino Bugger Veil presents the long-awaited vinyl reissues of Butthole Surfers' first four full-length albums. Originally released between 1984 and 1988, these classic and influential LPs capture the band at their peak, drawing from punk, rock, psychedelic and experimental influences for a truly inspired and unmistakably unique sound. Comes with coupons for free digital downloads."
$13.00 UPC: 697410000418 ROCK
BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Locust Abortion Technician LP (LBV 005LP)
2017 repress. "Latino Bugger Veil presents the long-awaited vinyl reissues of Butthole Surfers' first four full-length albums. Originally released between 1984 and 1988, these classic and influential LPs capture the band at their peak, drawing from punk, rock, psychedelic and experimental influences for a truly inspired and unmistakably unique sound. Comes with coupons for free digital downloads."
$13.00 UPC: 697410000517 ROCK
BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Hairway To Steven LP (LBV 006LP)
2017 repress. "Latino Bugger Veil presents the long-awaited vinyl reissues of Butthole Surfers' first four full-length albums. Originally released between 1984 and 1988, these classic and influential LPs capture the band at their peak, drawing from punk, rock, psychedelic and experimental influences for a truly inspired and unmistakably unique sound. Comes with coupons for free digital downloads."
$13.00 UPC: 697410000616 ROCK
MADE IN GERMANY (GERMANY):
ASWAD: Live At Rockpalast - Cologne 1980 2LP (MIG 90711LP)
"When Aswad played the Rockpalast recording at the Studio-B of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, nobody expected them to become pop stars in the future, yet. In 1980 they still were part of the London 'Punky Reggae Party'. The Rockpalast concert shows the band at an early stage: influenced by punk, raw and untamed, years before they rose to be one of the most important reggae bands from Great Britain next to Steel Pulse. They saw themselves as pan-African 'Rebel Souls' and began their set with a programmatic song, which never appeared on any album: 'Only Jah children play reggae music this way!' Driven by the drummer's wild drum patterns and underlined with the filigree organ figures by Clifton 'Bigga' Morrison the concert develops a increasing dubby energy, which leads to the many-voiced complaint: 'They want to execute political systems on I and I' with an anarchic echo inferno."
$23.00 UPC: 885513907110 ROCK
MANUFACTURED RECORDINGS (UNITED STATES):
SANTIAGO: 22 Somerset Dr. 1976-1978 CD (MFG 049CD)
"In the late 1960's, Neftali Santiago's family bought their first home in Willingboro, New Jersey at 22 Somerset Drive. Here he would learn to play the drums and honed his skills, which landed him a spot as the drummer and a singer/songwriter in Mandrill, one of the most diverse funk bands of all time. In 1975, Santiago took a hiatus from the band and returned home to start a new project. Though he would return to Mandrill in 1978, between the years of 1975 and 1978 Santiago recorded an album's worth of material that has largely been unreleased until now. Under the moniker Santiago, Neftali and the talented multi-arranger Joe Byrne recorded four tracks, two of which landed on the band's first single in 1975. Despite the limited success of the band's only single, Neftali's manager secured high profile tours with The Ohio Players and Gil-Scott Heron. After moving across the country, Neftali started new bands (the Santiago Band, Santiago & Friends, and Neftali's Beast) and kept recording, though nothing came of the tracks except the mysteriously bootlegged 'Bionic Funk' 45 in the late 70's. Though Neftali's solo career came to an end in 1978 when he rejoined Mandrill, he left a treasure trove of unreleased funk tracks that are sure to please fans of Parliament/Funkadelic, Boosty Collins, Sly & The Family Stone, and 70's rare groove. Manufactured Recordings is proud to present Santiago's complete recordings for the first time ever."
$8.75 UPC: 813195022081 ROCK
SANTIAGO: 22 Somerset Dr. 1976-1978 LP (MFG 049LP)
LP version. "In the late 1960's, Neftali Santiago's family bought their first home in Willingboro, New Jersey at 22 Somerset Drive. Here he would learn to play the drums and honed his skills, which landed him a spot as the drummer and a singer/songwriter in Mandrill, one of the most diverse funk bands of all time. In 1975, Santiago took a hiatus from the band and returned home to start a new project. Though he would return to Mandrill in 1978, between the years of 1975 and 1978 Santiago recorded an album's worth of material that has largely been unreleased until now. Under the moniker Santiago, Neftali and the talented multi-arranger Joe Byrne recorded four tracks, two of which landed on the band's first single in 1975. Despite the limited success of the band's only single, Neftali's manager secured high profile tours with The Ohio Players and Gil-Scott Heron. After moving across the country, Neftali started new bands (the Santiago Band, Santiago & Friends, and Neftali's Beast) and kept recording, though nothing came of the tracks except the mysteriously bootlegged 'Bionic Funk' 45 in the late 70's. Though Neftali's solo career came to an end in 1978 when he rejoined Mandrill, he left a treasure trove of unreleased funk tracks that are sure to please fans of Parliament/Funkadelic, Boosty Collins, Sly & The Family Stone, and 70's rare groove. Manufactured Recordings is proud to present Santiago's complete recordings for the first time ever."
$15.50 UPC: 813195022074 ROCK
MINIMAL WAVE (UNITED STATES):
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DEUX: Decadence LP (MW 022LP)
2017 repress, originally released in 2010. "Minimal Wave is proud to present a full length LP by French duo Deux. Gérard Pelletier and Cati Tete formed Deux after meeting in Lyon in 1981. Their music can be described as minimal synth with stripped down rhythm compositions and suitably cold duets. Their influences are a perfect blend of Kraftwerk and French synthpop. Between 1983 and 1992, they released a cassette and several rare singles : Felicita / Game & Performance and Europe / Paris / Orly. They also appeared on the V/A BIPP LP (2006) and V/A The Minimal Wave Tapes: Vol 1 LP. The album features newly remastered demo tracks as well as their best studio recordings. This LP is a hand numbered limited third edition, pressed on 180 gram black vinyl, housed in a heavy matte jacket lined in pale blue with an innersleeve of printed black and white photographs of Gérard and Cati. R.I.P. Gérard Pelletier (1952-2013)."
$17.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
NIGHT SCHOOL (UK):
NILSSON, MOLLY: Follow The Light CD (LSSN 046CD)
"The beginning moments of Molly Nilsson's second album Follow The Light now seem like the start of a personal mythology that was to reach further than she could have imagined. Few contemporary artists have seeped into the underground pop psyche more thoroughly than the Stockholm-born songwriter. After releasing her debut These Things Take Time on hand-made CDrs, Nilsson's follow up was a leap in scope and ambition. Of course, the personal takes on a tumultuous life in Berlin and the journeys to and from it inform the songs, as before, but a growing maturity in the songwriting is in evidence. From the diary pages of her first album to a growing stature as a songwriter in touch with the universal, this album contains many of Nilsson's now firm fan-favourites. Follow The Light is the second installment of an ongoing Molly Nilsson reissue campaign and the first time the album has been available on vinyl."
$13.00 EAN: 5060446121160 ROCK
NILSSON, MOLLY: Follow The Light LP (LSSN 046LP)
LP version. "The beginning moments of Molly Nilsson's second album Follow The Light now seem like the start of a personal mythology that was to reach further than she could have imagined. Few contemporary artists have seeped into the underground pop psyche more thoroughly than the Stockholm-born songwriter. After releasing her debut These Things Take Time on hand-made CDrs, Nilsson's follow up was a leap in scope and ambition. Of course, the personal takes on a tumultuous life in Berlin and the journeys to and from it inform the songs, as before, but a growing maturity in the songwriting is in evidence. From the diary pages of her first album to a growing stature as a songwriter in touch with the universal, this album contains many of Nilsson's now firm fan-favourites. Follow The Light is the second installment of an ongoing Molly Nilsson reissue campaign and the first time the album has been available on vinyl."
$17.50 EAN: 5060446121177 ROCK
ONE FLASH RECORDS (UK):
KHOURI, NADINE: The Salted Air CD (ONEFL 005CD)
"Nadine Khouri is a British-Lebanese musician and songwriter currently based in London. Influenced by dream pop, moody soundtracks and spoken-word, her sound has been described as a 'music born of perennial outsider-status.' Noted by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Giant Sand) for her voice, Khouri was invited to sing on a track on his Screenplay album and subsequently to record The Salted Air with him in his hometown of Bristol. The resulting album is a haunting collection of poetic and atmospheric meditations on loss and transformation. The album also features guest contributions from Parish, Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley, violinist Emma Smith (James Yorkston, Hot Chip) and others."
$13.00 EAN: 5060366784209 ROCK
KHOURI, NADINE: The Salted Air LP (ONEFL 005LP)
LP version. "Nadine Khouri is a British-Lebanese musician and songwriter currently based in London. Influenced by dream pop, moody soundtracks and spoken-word, her sound has been described as a 'music born of perennial outsider-status.' Noted by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Giant Sand) for her voice, Khouri was invited to sing on a track on his Screenplay album and subsequently to record The Salted Air with him in his hometown of Bristol. The resulting album is a haunting collection of poetic and atmospheric meditations on loss and transformation. The album also features guest contributions from Parish, Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley, violinist Emma Smith (James Yorkston, Hot Chip) and others."
$17.00 EAN: 5060366784179 ROCK
PROFOUND LORE (CANADA):
BLACK MECHA: I.M. Mentalizing LP (PFL 177LP)
"Black Mecha is the very strange, minimalist electronic project of Wold mastermind Fortress Crookedjaw. A theory of mind/aural operation inspires these raw sound waves, directed by the electric musical poetry of Internal Masonry, supplemented with sci-fi driven surreal and minimalist analogue patterns. I.M. Mentalizing presents audio realms of glitchy system mental warfare through spazzed robotic thought inducement mechanisms, churned out by penetrating ever-scanning inner lasers."
$17.50 UPC: 616892437543 ELECTRONIC
ROBOTIC EMPIRE (UNITED STATES):
ISIS: Wavering Radiant 2x12" (ROBO 118LP)
"The music of Isis is a suitable metaphor for their twelve-year career: patient, meticulous, fraught with tension and gradually building toward an apex of seismic proportions. They have successfully navigated the process of growing and evolving without disavowing their initial vision. On Wavering Radiant every component of this armory comes into equal play -- an audiophile's dream: grandiose without over-indulgence, epic without compromised focus. This is their fifth and final full-length album, last released by Ipecac Recordings in 2009 and produced by Joe Barresi and recently remastered for vinyl by Mika Jussila. The band split just over a year after its release. This album continues the band's history of lengthy songwriting, yet presents a slight departure from the soft-loud dynamics and post-metal aesthetic that characterized previous releases. Robotic Empire is thrilled once again to supply the gatefold, double-LP vinyl edition of this classic album."
$25.00 UPC: 655035711812 ROCK
RUSTBLADE (ITALY):
BADALAMENTI, ANGELO: Evilenko LP (RBL 017LP)
"Superb mix of melancholic melody with illusions, terror spiral to tragic climax with beautiful orchestration. A must buy for fans of Angelo Baldalamenti. features two tracks with Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries), 'Angels Go to Heaven' and 'No Way Out.' Limited colored vinyl 499 copies."
$20.00 UPC: 760137962311 SOUNDTRACK
SAHELSOUNDS (UNITED STATES):
VA: Agrim Agadez: Musique Guitare de la Republique du Niger LP (SAHEL 038LP)
"Contemporary field recordings from the Sahelian empire of Niger. Focusing on guitar music throughout the country, from meditative starlight ballads, fuzzy Hendrix covers, rag tag wedding bands, to political minded folk guitarists. A beautiful encapsulation of the diversity of guitar as it exists today, documented over years of travels. Recorded live with a single microphone, with backdrop of children's voices, crickets, and village ambience. A follow up to Laila Je T'Aime and Ishilan n-Tenere. With 16 page full color liner notes."
$13.00 UPC: N/A WORLD
LUKA PRODUCTIONS: Fasokan LP (SAHEL 040LP)
"New age music from West Africa. Lush and hypnotic dream-scapes combine traditional instrumentation with sweeping electronics, field recordings, and soothing affirmations. Bamako based composer Luka Productions delves into avant-griot, transforming ancient music into the 21st century. The songs are meditative and sage, as voices guide the listener through ways of living, from the village life to the modern world. Inspired from early electronic music, library records, and new age, this is easily one of the most left field recordings to ever come out of Mali. In Bambara. Limited to 500."
$14.50 UPC: N/A WORLD
SUPERIOR VIADUCT (UNITED STATES):
MORRICONE, ENNIO: Un Uomo Da Rispettare LP (SV 047LP)
"Un Uomo Da Rispettare translates to 'A Man to Respect,' which can easily be said of Ennio Morricone himself -- the unparalleled maestro of the soundtrack. This 1972 crime film stars Kirk Douglas as a master safecracker at a crossroads in his life, emerging from prison yet tempted by one last big job. Morricone builds the main theme around Cicci Santucci's flugelhorn as riveting leitmotifs reprise amidst variations of noir-jazz abstraction to frame the composer's grand vision. A strident, two-note piano phrase sets the mood of heightened tension, while muted timpani and trance-like descending bass patterns sweep dramatically across the cinematic stereo field. On '18 Pari,' slinky rhythms and softened wah-wah guitars offer a distinctly Italian library music, adding elements of lightness to the overall avant-garde score. Un Uomo Da Rispettare's dissonant chords and angular arrangements recall Morricone's free improvisation work with Gruppo D'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of Krzysztof Penderecki, Harry Partch and Sun City Girls."
$17.50 UPC: 855985006857 SOUNDTRACK
THE FLENSER (UNITED STATES):
DE BRAUW, TREVOR: Uptown CD (FLENSER 065CD)
"Chicago-based guitarist Trevor Shelley de Brauw (Pelican, RLYR) has announced the release of his first solo album -- a collection of power-ambient compositions entitled Uptown. The album is a stream of consciousness sustained for too long, an aural pendulum swinging between poles of murky distress and cathartic resolve that take shape somewhere in the hazy valleys between rock, ambient and experimental music. Trevor de Brauw's twenty-year musical career has manifested as an exploration of the vast possibilities of the guitar. This release departs from the riff-oriented songwriting of Pelican, taking a plaintive approach that unravels the meditative depth of washed-out riffs, deconstructed drones, and carefully controlled feedback. The album delves into complex dimensions of deeply layered textures: an evocation of haunting melodicism that shares more common ground with Brian Eno's ambient work and drone wizards Barn Owl than it does a metal record."
$10.75 UPC: 647603396828 ROCK
DE BRAUW, TREVOR: Uptown LP (FLENSER 065LP)
LP version. "Chicago-based guitarist Trevor Shelley de Brauw (Pelican, RLYR) has announced the release of his first solo album -- a collection of power-ambient compositions entitled Uptown. The album is a stream of consciousness sustained for too long, an aural pendulum swinging between poles of murky distress and cathartic resolve that take shape somewhere in the hazy valleys between rock, ambient and experimental music. Trevor de Brauw's twenty-year musical career has manifested as an exploration of the vast possibilities of the guitar. This release departs from the riff-oriented songwriting of Pelican, taking a plaintive approach that unravels the meditative depth of washed-out riffs, deconstructed drones, and carefully controlled feedback. The album delves into complex dimensions of deeply layered textures: an evocation of haunting melodicism that shares more common ground with Brian Eno's ambient work and drone wizards Barn Owl than it does a metal record."
$15.00 UPC: 647603396514 ROCK
UNITED JNANA (UK):
NURSE WITH WOUND: Thunder Perfect Mind 2CD (UJ 809CD)
"Remastered 2CD reissue of this NWW classic! Remastered by Andrew Liles and featuring expanded artwork by Babs Santini in a 6 panel digipack. The second disc features very rare tracks as well a previously unreleased material from the same era."
$16.00 UPC: 611901239507 ELECTRONIC
WIDE HIVE RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
THROTTLE ELEVATOR MUSIC: Retrorespective LP (WH 334LP)
"Throttle Elevator Music Reunites with Saxophone Star Kamasi Washington for nine new compositions on their fifth And final recording. Throttle rhythm section bassist Matt Montgomery and drummer Mike Hughes are joined by guitarist Eva Mendoza and emerging trumpet player Erik Jekabsen. Retrorespective sonically is a blend of beautiful spiritual songs and energetic well performed music."
$11.50 UPC: 698873033418 JAZZ
WOODSIST (UNITED STATES):
HAND HABITS: Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) CD (WOODSIST 088CD)
" 'Singer, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, has been putting in her time on the road and in the studio over the past two years with Pacific Northwest band Mega Bog, and the Kevin Morby Band, making an impression on everyone she comes across with her natural charisma and uncharted talent as a multi-instrumentalist. But let Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) be her open invitation to the world to step inside and take a much deeper look into who Duffy actually is. Tracked in an Upstate New York living room, then finished in her current home in Los Angeles, this album was recorded by Meg herself; she has an acute ear for detail, has touched every corner, has seen every vision 'til its end. Because of this, Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water all around you, a bath, and before you know it Meg's whisper has made its way inside you. Meg has music in her touch, and this, like many bedroom-debuts (Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, Grouper) is only the beginning. But let us not look to the future now, and instead stand alongside her, our trust in her will, both humble before the void, with her first chorus as the mission statement: Hold you like a flower, hold you like an hour glass.' --Kevin Morby."
$10.75 UPC: 655035048826 ROCK
HAND HABITS: Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) LP (WOODSIST 088LP)
LP version. " 'Singer, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, has been putting in her time on the road and in the studio over the past two years with Pacific Northwest band Mega Bog, and the Kevin Morby Band, making an impression on everyone she comes across with her natural charisma and uncharted talent as a multi-instrumentalist. But let Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) be her open invitation to the world to step inside and take a much deeper look into who Duffy actually is. Tracked in an Upstate New York living room, then finished in her current home in Los Angeles, this album was recorded by Meg herself; she has an acute ear for detail, has touched every corner, has seen every vision 'til its end. Because of this, Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water all around you, a bath, and before you know it Meg's whisper has made its way inside you. Meg has music in her touch, and this, like many bedroom-debuts (Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, Grouper) is only the beginning. But let us not look to the future now, and instead stand alongside her, our trust in her will, both humble before the void, with her first chorus as the mission statement: Hold you like a flower, hold you like an hour glass.' --Kevin Morby."
$13.50 UPC: 655035048819 ROCK
FORTHCOMING, EXCLUSIVE TITLES:
ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURE (JAPAN):
TOMIIE, SATOSHI: New Day Album Sampler #5 12" (AA 005EP)
Abstract Architecture present an EP of heavy dancefloor groovers. This EP features the previously unreleased version of "Nature Abstraite", with an amazing retake by Satoshi Tomiie himself. And on the flip side is a ten minutes journey of Brawther's "Forbidden Remix" showcasing his talent for the more minimal approach.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038315392 ELECTRONIC
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CHAIN OF FLOWERS: Chain of Flowers (Clear Vinyl) LP (ALT 022CLR-LP)
2016 was a busy year in the world of this Welsh unit. Chain Of Flowers slimmed down to a five piece and took their blend of heavy shoegaze and tough post-punk well outside of their Cardiff home, embarking on a run of UK and European gigs with Nothing and also their own tour of the USA and Canada. This all culminated with an appearance at the annual Blackest Ever Black rave in London where they held their own on a bill with drum 'n' bass stalwart Felix K and Bristol's Ossia. Alter present a repress of the band's self-titled debut album on clear vinyl.
$14.99 EAN: 5055869545235 ROCK
01. Nail Me to Your Cross
02. Crisis
03. Death's Got a Hold on Me
04. Glimmers of Joy
05. Bury My Love
06. Colour/Blind
07. Follow
08. Drained
APOTEK RECORDS (DENMARK):
SYDENHAM, JEROME: No Earth Required & Bread And Water 12" (APT 027EP)
Apotek Records' latest release from Jerome Sydenham is simply a juggernaut. Sydenham extolls his techno prowess with an irreproachable veracity. "No Earth Required" swings into action with rolling drums, daring vocal stabs, and an uplifting techno full of fervor of youthful exuberance. "Bread And Water" is classic dark Techno - a supreme energetic construction.
$9.79 EAN: 4260221742578 ELECTRONIC
A1. No Earth Required (5:52)
B1. Bread And Water (6:36)
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OJERUM: When Birds Fly, The Eyes Of Heaven Can Rest LP (ABX 065LP)
As fans since 2014, Aurora Borealis release the debut vinyl from Danish multi-disciplinary artist øjeRum. Titled When Birds Fly, The Eyes Of Heaven Can Rest, the LP features two extended tracks of ethereal, haunting, and otherworldly beauty. The cover art is a hand-cut collage, part of an ever growing body of incredible work from this talented Dane. The artwork expresses the audio perfectly - a floating, drifting haze of light, subtly shifting, organic. This is a world to lose yourself in. LP is housed in a reverse board sleeve; Pressed on clear vinyl, cut at The Carvery; Edition of 300.
$17.79 UPC: 609456146890 ELECTRONIC
A1. Pt. 1 (17:22)
B1. Pt. 2 (13:59)
AUS MUSIC (GERMANY):
HAWKES, MARQUIS: Sweet Temptation 12" (AUS 112EP)
Aus Music present another solo EP from label mainstay Marquis Hawkes. The Berlin based artist's previous work has comprised fun, sample-heavy tracks designed with nothing but the dancefloor in mind. Sweet Temptation expands on this bringing melody, rhythm, and chords to the foreground. Jubilant, powerful vocal lines and stony drums are the core ingredients and their melding results in a collection of four tracks of varying moods and intensities. While "Burning Light" and "Sweet Temptation" pack a certain big-room punch, "Eivissa" and "Zapper Bluesky" carry depth and soul in a manner that recalls a classic and cherished Hawkes sound.
$9.79 EAN: 4012957111209 ELECTRONIC
BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE):
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LES SANS PATTES: Notre Renaissance 2LP+CD (BEC 5156777)
A relentless vinyl collector and a fervent connoisseur of Anglo-American culture, the founding painter of the Figuration Libre movement (with Di Rosa, Blanchart, and Boisrond) in the early '80s, Robert Combas has always connected his art with rock music. The two are always intertwined and fuel his inspiration. During his exhibition Sans Filet, Robert Combas made an essential encounter with the artist and video maker Lucas Mancione, also from the town of Sete. They decided to make the leap together, at the start of the '10s, and create the band Les Sans Pattes. Notre Renaissance is a dazzling discharge, a geyser of cold and searing emotions, a conscious search for a unique and extreme experience. The tension in each track is palpable, as constant as it is pregnant. This band is full of character. Sometimes electronic, often a bit punk, always particularly rock n' roll - raw and physical tracks, compact and heady. Les Sans Pattes always lean towards psychedelics and repetition. Double LP version comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes a CD.
$18.99 EAN: 5060421567778 ROCK
A1. Notre Renaissance
A2. Un Amour À La Serge Gainsbourg
A3. Sans Bruit Et Sans Parler
A4. Kalekoukou, Soleil De Boue
B1. Parle Moi
B2. Je Ferais Tout Pour Toi
B3. Tu Cherches Quoi
B4. Une Fin De Quelque Chose
C1. C'est Bon C'est Bon
C2. La Chatte
C3. I Am The King Bee, My Baby
C4. C'est La Guerre Des Langues
C5. You Light Me On
D1. Catastrophe À Resort
D2. Le Train
D3. Europe
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LANGE, ROBERTO CARLOS: Cutups Cassette (SAUNA 032CS)
Cutups are a series of works by Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro), created by processing audio recordings of orphaned sounds found on his hard drive. Roberto on Cutups: "There's an idea of sound composting that happens on my hard drives, I have so many recordings of improvisations, performances and general noodling that it all comes together over time becoming some sort of nutrient for other work. All these pieces are from 2010-2016, they have a similarity in aesthetic and process." Roberto Carlos Lange was the recipient of the Joyce Award in 2015. Cover art by Kristi Sword. Sword is a visual artist that uses material from her daily work and transforms them with long-time staking process to produce forms alien to where it originated.
$6.99 UPC: 769791965386 ELECTRONIC
A1. Side A
B1. Side B
URBAN, MATTHIAS: Dialoge____Gideon's Disease Cassette (SAUNA 038CS)
Tape recorders, 78 rpm records, cymbals, floor tom, environmental recordings, contact microphones, hydrophones, magnetic sensors/cartridge, metasomatose, DSPm, etc. Additional sounds and photography by Simon Christoph Krenn. Dialoge____Gideon's Disease was produced, mixed, and mastered by Matthias Urban. 2015.
$6.99 UPC: 769791965393 ELECTRONIC
A1. 001
A2. 002
A3. 003
B1. 004
B2. 005
CODEK RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
IN FLAGRANTI FEAT. SCHALTKREIS WASSERMAN: Sample & Hold EP 12" (CRE 050EP)
In 2002, when Alex Gloor moved back to Basel/Switzerland, he played a friend the Schaltkreis Wassermann LP Psychotron from 1982 with the cosmic classic "Lux". To Alex's surprise, his friend knew PJ Wassermann, and he lived near Basel, so Alex and PJ became friends and worked on different project together. In 2016, PJ was urged by his girlfriend to finally clean up his attic, and found (forgotten) recordings from his legendary LSD sessions from 1981, master tapes with live recordings of synth noodling created on many weekend "LSD Trips". Features: In Flagranti, Toby Tobias, Vahagn, and Additional Hardware.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. In Flagranti - Side Chain (5:52)
A2. Toby Tobias - Trigger Output (7:36)
B1. Vahagn - Voltage Controlle (6:13)
B2. Additional Hardware - Resistors & Capacitors (5:51)
CORRESPONDANT (FRANCE):
TOBAR, RICARDO: Red Sea 12" (CORR 054EP)
Correspondant welcome Ricardo Tobar for his debut label release. Correspondant is the latest in an elite line of select labels that the cosmic Frenchman has worked with over the years such as Cocoon or Border Community. Consistent in all compositions, Red Sea is another pristine trip into the interstellar unknown. Each track measured, weighted and laced with Ricardo's signature creeping dynamic. Unhurried, elements gradually make themselves known and envelop your senses without you realizing. Deep, mystic and singular; the perfect debut.
$10.39 UPC: 880319785412 ELECTRONIC
EP
01. Red Sea
02. Eleven
03. Alvear
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SLIME: Controversial/Loony 7" (DAMGOOD 471EP)
Another in a long line of punk single reissues from Damaged Goods, this time it's the 7" released on Toadstool Records by the band Slime. Slime was Slimy Toad from Johnny Moped's solo adventure into a recording studio during a bit of downtime in Johnny Moped's career in 1978. Long-lost punk classic reissued on limited edition color 7".
$6.39 EAN: 5020422047174 ROCK
A1. Controversial
B1. Loony
CYANIDE PILLS: Sliced And Diced CD (DAMGOOD 475CD)
Keeping the spirit of '78 alive, Cyanide Pills' mix of punk blasts and melodic power-pop has never sounded better. With razor-sharp twin guitars, a pounding rhythm section and unmatched lyrical barbs, Sliced And Diced is one of the best albums you'll hear in 2017. Since their last LP, 2013's Still Bored (DAMGOOD 411LP), the band have gigged alongside some of the biggest names in punk including Buzzcocks, UK Subs, Johnny Moped, The Lurkers, and many more.
$10.99 EAN: 5020422047525 ROCK
01. I Don't Remember
02. Stop And Search
03. Still Bored
04. Earthlings
05. Laid-Off
06. Big Mistake
07. Alone Tonight
08. Government
09. One Of The Boys
10. Razorblade
11. No Strings Attached
12. Say You Will
13. Cut Me Loose
14. Took Too Much
15. Under The Knife
16. Pre-Emptive Strike
17. In The Back Of A Car
18. Waiting (For You To Call Me)
CYANIDE PILLS: Sliced And Diced LP (DAMGOOD 475LP)
LP version. Pink vinyl; Edition of 700.
$14.99 EAN: 5020422047518 ROCK
DEEWEE (BELGIUM):
PUPUL, BOLIS: Wei?/Teknow 12" (DEEWEE 020EP)
Bolis Pupul returns to Deewee with an out and out club moment. The A side brings together kosmiche, melody, and disco. The B side is "Teknow" by name, and techno by nature. This one will sound massive loud. Produced by Stephen and David Dewaele at Deewee, Gent. Sleeve design by Ill Studio, Paris.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038316887 ELECTRONIC
Side A
01. Wèi?
Side B
02. Teknow
DIE ORAKEL (GERMANY):
EDWARD: Shufflehead 12" (ORKL 009EP)
Die Orakel present three spaced-out excursions by Edward.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038316757 ELECTRONIC
A1. Shufflehead
B1. Dekta
B2. Etern
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BREZZO, GIANNI: Tak 2 LP (DJ 006LP)
Tak 2 is comprised of eight fusion-jazz and ambient tracks, recorded by different Cologne-based musicians, composed and arranged by Gianni Brezzo. The record comes in a crayon painted cover showing a holiday landscape with beach, sea, mountains, and two sunshades. Edition of 300.
$12.99 UPC: 880319770517 ELECTRONIC
A1. 12Words (4:18)
A2. Heisenberg (3:04)
A3. Hybrid (4:00)
A4. Me Deixa (3:06)
B1. Yvola (2:43)
B2. Samchi (3:47)
B3. The End Of (2:28)
B4. 17 (3:54)
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L/F/D/M: Music Without Discipline LP (ELP 025LP)
L/F/D/M squeezes off a volley of misshapen bangers and atonal wormholes in Music Without Discipline, making a mutant follow-up to his M Is a Shape LP (ELP 008LP, 2015) and Crocodiles in the Ceiling EP (ELP 019EP, 2016) for Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) and Sam Willis's Ecstatic label. For his third solo LP proper as L/F/D/M, the London-based producer/artist/designer Richard Smith jams, layers, and hacks a clutch of new hardware toys, the Akai VX90 and Yamaha TX81Z in particular, into 11 variants of what is essentially a style of no wave or new beta techno. Pursuing his taste for unique, visceral and affective electronic tones into odder integers of the club, L/F/D/M establishes a jagged line that runs from original '80s industrialists thru Larry Heard's legendary Gherkin Jerks and the scenius of Downwards's brummie radge packets to a place right between the eyes of 2017. DJs and dancers will find full fat, wonky weapons ranging from the cranky-assed jacker "Dance, You Awful Cunt", through to a sludgy turn called "Birds", a super-tangy Chicago percolator "Texan Flower Girl", and the throaty acid gargle of "Living Without Gain". But it's the way in which Richard Smith is just as happy to follow his nose into sparkling vignettes such as "After R Version II" and "Ballet", and into the grubby pits of "Pinx" that really gives this record its shape and asserts its messed-up character. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering.
$14.39 EAN: 5060165482511 ELECTRONIC
01. Crocodiles In Feeding
02. Dance, You Awful Cunt
03. Pinx
04. After R Version II
05. Birds
06. Ant Hills
07. Texan Flower Girl
08. Living Without Gain
09. S SSS
10. GO2
11. Ballet
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PIRI: Voces Querem Mate? CD (FARO 197CD)
Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Piri's Voces Querem Mate?, originally released in 1970. Over the course of the '60s, Roberto Quartin released more than 20 albums in Brazil on his label Forma, by artists including the likes of Eumir Deodato and Quateto Em Cy. Selling the rights of Forma to Polygram in 1969, Quartin struck out for pastures new at the dawn of the 1970s with the launch of his self-titled label. Significant works and high-water marks for Brazilian music overall followed in that decade's first year, with Victor Assis Brasil's 1970 album Toca (FARO 195LP), Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Jose Mauro's 1970 album Obnoxius (FARO 191CD/LP). These singular gems in Brazilian music, difficult to categorize yet compellingly haunting, have for too long gone unheard. The third release in the series - following the aforementioned albums by Jose Mauro and Victor Assis Brasil - is Piri's Vocês Querem Mate?, a highly sought after jewel of twisted psychedelic MPB. Vocês Querem Mate?, the first recording by the relatively unknown singer songwriter Piry Reis, is dreamy and ethereal, groovy Brazilian psych-folk at its finest. Reis has collaborated with greats like Egberto Gismonti and Robertinho Silva, and had his music performed by Celia, Charlie Haden, and Jan Garbarek. His four solo albums are all rare as hens' teeth and have been known to fetch a hefty bounty, but none higher than his debut, and for good reason. Instantly captivating from its first second, the lone trembling piano in "Reza Breva" builds a tremendous tension before bursting into the joyously funky tropicalista folk jam that keeps up throughout the album. Flying the Brazilian freak flag high are percussion kings Juquina and Wilson Das Neves, along with Paulinho Jobim and Danilo Caymmi on flutes. It's a dazzling, lucid piece of escapism, as necessary today as it was when released into the tumultuous political climate of 1970s Brazil. Tracks like "As Incríveis Peripécias De Danilo" and "Cupído Esculpido" are tripped out MPB at its most decadent, and more sombre moments like "Sombra Morta" and closer "Chão Vermelho" offer shadier melancholic contrasts. Without a doubt the most free-spirited release in the Quartin catalog, Voces Querem Mate? is a forgotten treasure of Brazilian music of the highest order. Remastered from the original 2" tapes. LP version comes as 180 gram vinyl; Includes obi strip.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211503320 WORLD
01. Reza Brava
02. As Incríveis Peripécias De Danilo
03. O Som Do Roberto
04. Sombra Morta
05. Vocês Querem Mate?
06. Cupído Esculpido
07. Chão Vermelho
08. Lágrimas
09. Espiral
10. Porta Do Sol
PIRI: Voces Querem Mate? LP (FARO 197LP)
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PASQUAROSA WITH JOHN "SUNBURNED" MOLONEY, ANTHONY "CRYSTALLINE ROSES": My Pharoah, My King LP (FTR 301LP)
"This new duo LP, the first recorded by guitarist Tony Pasquarosa and drummer John Moloney (aka The Meatball Twins), is a masterpiece of lateral drift. Recorded as something like a tribute to the spirit of Farrell 'Little Rock' Sanders (also known as 'The Son' in the saxophonic Holy Trinity, along with Coltrane's 'The Father,' and Ayler's 'The Holy Ghost') there is no music here specifically recalling Sanders's work. But much of it seems to spring from a place that is illuminated by Sanders's artistic freedom, and his utilization of Middle Eastern symbols and motifs both inside his music and as part of his artistic statements. Tony's acoustic guitar playing makes me think of the work of India's great string master, Brij Bhushan Kabra. Raga-like twirls and filigree emerge like puffs of wet smoke, drifting away lazily in the sharp light of a winter's afternoon. And Moloney, who is best known for throwing down thunder with Sunburned, Chelsea Light Moving, Dino Jr, Caught On Tape and other Giants of Thud, matches Tony's mood effortlessly. Sweet light rhythm patterns are not something one often associates with Moloney's music, but his playing here with both percussion and wind show a very different side of his chops. At some points the overall sound recalls one of Sandy Bull's 'Blends' with Billy Higgins, but the music on My Pharoah, My King is entirely its own trip. And it is a damn good one. Enjoy it with a meatball today!" --Byron Coley, 2017 Edition of 500.
$10.99 UPC: 019962206924 ROCK
A1. Desert Speaks
B1. For John, After Ali
B2. Across Windswept Villages
B3. Astral Traveling
CLARINETTE: The Now of Then LP (FTR 314LP)
"In the 15 years since Thurston and I released the first Clarinette LP, Haze (E#60, 2002), Dan Vallor has continued to produce music unabated. Most of it has been released in very limited editions (on CDRs, cassettes, and lathes), but it has been a consistently cool flow of drone accrual and invention from a guy we still sorta think of as pop-oriented. Dan's best known work probably remains his archival activities inside the archives of the late songwriting genius, Scott Miller, although others may know him from his efforts to catalog the output of the NZ lathe underground. Clarinette is a long running solo project that began in the '80s, that went dormant until early in the 21st Century. The music is largely based on electric guitar huzz and hum, but there are plenty of sound events that pop up throughout the record, disturbing and enriching the surface with sproings, rasps, and groons. The pieces on The Now of Then are all fairly reflective, and probably more suitable to stoned drifting than freak dancing, but hey -- it never pays to second guess audience reaction. If you feel the urge to freak, so be it. Clarinette's music definitely twangs the freak register. Who are we to say you should remain seated?" --Byron Coley, 2017
$10.99 UPC: 019962206528 ROCK
A1. Time Before And Time After
A2. 1960
A3. This Strange Murder
B1. There's Not A World Where I Can Talk To You
FLANGERTRACKX (GERMANY):
FLANGERTRACKX: Flangertrackx 002 12" (FLAX 002EP)
100% hardcore no compromise - Flangertrackx. Hand-stamped, vinyl only, limited.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038316740 ELECTRONIC
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LAARS: Lysar/None (Willy Nickersen Remixes) 12" (FP 055EP)
Since LAARS epic crowd surfing days touring with his former disco-band Tôg, he has been honing his production skills with more metric music inspired by the classic godfathers Patrick Crowley and Giorgio Moroder for Lysår/None. Making playful, percussive house music with a disco heart is one of LAARS's passions that come into play on this 12".Sampling hits from his favorite records, sweeping filters, playing on his Juno 60 and having his band mates come in to play percussion and synthesizers over some of his grooves. The mysterious Willy Nickersen has remixed the songs into deeper territories.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038313954 ELECTRONIC
A1. None
A2. None (Willy Nickersen Remix)
B1. Lysår
B2. Lysår (Willy Nickersen Remix)
FUN RECORDS (ARGENTINA):
NEIK: MEV 12" (FUN 004EP)
Fun Records' fourth release comes from startling producer Nicolas Neik. Neik's debut can be considered unique: his three tracks are priceless tickets to explore an enhanced electronic music game based on a limitless creativity balanced with a strict self-demand. Mike Shannon's "F9M" remix is what grants a last outstanding coup de grâce: ethereal atmosphere, slippery vocals, padded white noise and a feverish bass. From "EXP" to "MEV", each Neik's track bends straight minimalist sounds to welcome a new vibrant vision of forward-thinking house. Neik's groove attains a complexity that circles and empowers the whole three tracks.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038315583 ELECTRONIC
A1. EXP
A2. F9M
B1. F9M (Mike Shannon Remix)
B2. MEV
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SYSTEM OF SURVIVAL: D-Votion 12" (GPM 370EP)
The influential house duo System Of Survival present D-Votion. "D-Votion", a collaboration with Salvatore Stallone, is a deep and groovy dancefloor track with low-end grit and a funky swing it its step. "No Time To Waste" plays a hypnotically rhythmic synth over a steamy stage of sweaty percussion. "Phantom Power" offers a heavy dose of midnight action with a technoid feel - acid's presence builds a tension throughout while the bassline chugs the track further. Surfbit joins to present "Searching For A Wave". This one shines more sun with warm synths, soft vocals and gentle melodies.
$9.79 UPC: 844216043600 ELECTRONIC
A1. System Of Survival & Salvatore Stallone - D-Votion
A2. No Time To Waste
B1. Phantom Power
B2. Searching For A Wave (feat. Surfbit)
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DESMADRADOS SOLDADOS DE VENTURA: The Grand Celestial Purge 4LP BOX (ROWF 067LP)
The eighth Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura album, The Grand Celestial Purge, is a three-hour, four LP box set of psychedelic musings on the departed musicians of 2016. Produced by Richard Formby and recorded at a converted church in Leeds, this is DSDV's most melodious and spacious album to date. You can hear clear nods to The Grateful Dead throughout as well as fragments of Can, Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin's Love Devotion Surrender (1973) and even Tim Buckley's Blue Afternoon (1969) band. Drowned in tape echo and with a Wally Heider-style snap to the drum sound, the recording has all the traits of a classic Formby production. Gone is much of the blur of guitars that shrouded the band's previous albums in cacophony; Whilst still present here and there, it's been replaced with a somewhat virtuoso level of interplay that smacks of a bygone, pre-ironic era in rock music where sincerity, dedication to the craft of improvisation, and the desire to transcend the mundane via heightened, sustained hive-mind mentality was all that mattered. Personnel: David Birchall - guitar; Andrew Cheetham - drums; Richard Formby - synths; Dylan Hughes - guitar; Nick Mitchell - guitar, bass; Dom Tanner - guitar; Otto Willberg - bass.
$73.20 EAN: 5060366784339 ROCK
A1. Defixiones (22:29)
B1. Hogback Shingles (21:11)
C1. Red-Eared Sliders (14:06)
C2. Old & Out The Way (11:58)
D1. Upward Spiral (19:52)
E1. Black Rain (15:44)
E2. Iluvia Radiactiva (7:52)
F1. Moonlight Mind (23:33)
G1. Voces Mysticae (19:21)
H1. The Last Gasp (12:52)
GQOM OH! (SOUTH AFRICA):
DOMINOWE: Siyathakatha 12" (GQOM 004EP)
The first solo artist release for the Gqom Oh! label. Dominowe is a 19 year old producer from the Newlands east township of Durban, South Africa. Siyathakatha snapshots important themes in Dominowe's personal journey, showcasing his original style in the context of the Durban electronic music scene, especially beside gqom and sghubu. "Siyathakatha" translates to "black magic", or, "we witching", which is right at the heart of this release: listening to these sounds invite you into the universe of an unseen world. It is about gqom working its magic on the dancefloor. "Bhenga Nezinja" features Chaotic Boyz.
$15.79 EAN: 5055300392367 ELECTRONIC
01. Newlands Umgido
02. Umzabalazo
03. Tribute to Gqom Oh!
04. Umthakhathi
05. Bhenga Nezinja (feat. Chaotic Boyz)
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DOCTOR CYCLOPS: Local Dogs CD (HPS 050CD)
Northern Italy's cold woods are set to unleash their fieriest beast, with '70s power trio Doctor Cyclops returning with their blistering third album Local Dogs on Heavy Psych Sounds. Doctor Cyclops haven't stood idle since their latest album Oscuropasso (2014), slowly but surely rustling up their heaviest and most accomplished project to date. This new full-length entitled Local Dogs is an explosive mixture of '70s heavy rock, new wave of black heavy metal, and doomier Sabbath-style riffage, ready to take you back to a different era. Groovy riffs and gloomy paths, coming straight from the woods feel like the epic saga of the '70s, is truly likely to continue its course. In this context, the appearance of Bill Steer (Carcass, Firebird, Gentlemans Pistols) on lead guitar tastes like the icing on top of a tempting cake.
$11.79 EAN: 4059251052715 ROCK
01. Lonely Devil
02. D.I.A.
03. Stardust (with Bill Steer)
04. Epicurus
05. Wall Of Misery
06. King Midas
07. Stanley The Owl
08. Druid Samhain (with Bill Steer)
09. Witch's Tale
10. Witchfinder General
DOCTOR CYCLOPS: Local Dogs LP (HPS 050LP)
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$15.79 EAN: 4059251052708 ROCK
DOCTOR CYCLOPS: Local Dogs (Blue Vinyl) LP (HPS 050LTD-LP)
LP version. Limited edition clear blue vinyl.
$22.39 EAN: 4059251052692 ROCK
FARFLUNG: Unwound Cellular Frown CD (HPS 051CD)
Like a cosmic capsule sent from deep space, Farflung have been altering people's minds with their dive-bombing Moogs and hypnotic riffs for the last twenty years. Torchbearers of the psychedelic underground, they have been championed by the likes of Helios Creed (Chrome), Henry Rollins, and Voivod. They have collaborated with numerous musicians including Nik Turner (Hawkwind), Damo Suzuki (Can), and Dave Catching (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age) to name just a few. Brothers and sisters, they are once again readying their ship for flight, hop aboard. The cosmic space lords Farflung return with Unwound Celluloid Frown, 33 minutes of lysergic grooves and slamming riffs. Imagine a bastard child of Amon Düül II and Hawkwind rising from the ashes of America, stark and glimmering, bathed in the energetic glow of the Stooges - one last cup raised to the lunatics and wishing for wounds. They have set their course for the farthest reaches of the universe. Are you ready? Are you ready to climb aboard their craft? Fasten your safety belts, engage your breathing apparatus, the lift off is about to begin...
$11.79 EAN: 4059251079118 ROCK
01. You Will Kill For Me
02. We Wish For Wounds
03. Unwound Celluloid Frown
04. Axis Mundi
05. Silver Ghosts With Crystal Spoons
FARFLUNG: Unwound Cellular Frown LP (HPS 051LP)
LP version.
$15.79 EAN: 4059251079101 ROCK
FARFLUNG: Unwound Cellular Frown (Color Vinyl) LP (HPS 051LTD-LP)
LP version. Limited edition color vinyl.
$22.39 EAN: 4059251079095 ROCK
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SUPERPITCHER: The Golden Ravedays 3 LP (TGR 003LP)
Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays, is an autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling, and depth of style that the artist has honed since the mid-'90s, musically, and for his whole life, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks stretched over 12 LPs, released sequentially on the Hippie Dance label. The third chapter of the series introduces two further tracks of the haunting sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking his fans on during 2017. Side A features "1984". It has nothing to do with George Orwell's magnificent book, but it could remind some of how the apocalypse might sound one day. "1984" is as sweet as the very first track, "Little Raver", of The Golden Ravedays 1 (TGR 001LP), but it stresses the fact that even though Superpitcher produces music mainly intended for the dancefloor - he creates sound that is bordering on the shamanic. "1984" might as well be the meeting of a group of supersonic bottlenose whales that are overly excited to see each other after being separated by many an ocean and moon. Side B of this edition is "Pocket Love". Imagine looking into a kaleidoscope and turning the dial and experiencing all those colors as pockets of love rushing your way and exploding in satin wonderment the moment they past your eyes and ears. Imagine how it must sound like if all the e-mails, tweets, facebook posts, instagrams, pinterests, grandma's postcards, text messages, letters on rice paper, hearts scratched into trees, declarations of eternal loyalty written in sand, phone calls, and videos of the whole universe were all messages of love stuffed into pockets and sent to you. Imagine the treasure you will receive. Imagine being one big ear drum and listening to the very energy that this love exists of - imagine it and you will find yourself inside "Pocket Love". Includes download code.
$10.99 UPC: 880319820717 ELECTRONIC
A1. 1984 (11:23)
B1. Pocket Love (17:42)
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BARNT: If She Says She Is A Healer, She Is A Healer 12" (HOLGER 012EP)
After gracing Holger with one of his signature remixes in 2015 on The Moonland Remixes, Barnt now returns with two of his own works, the first ones since his widely acclaimed debut LP of 2014 (MAGAZINE 013LP). Side A features an ethereal composition in five parts - accurately titled "A-Seite 1-5" - while Side B displays Barnt's idiosyncratic version of techno at its best: "If She Says She Is A Healer, She Is A Healer". Unmistakably the man from Magazine, yet in surprising new garments - and another perfect match for Holger.
$10.39 UPC: 880319797613 ELECTRONIC
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ROMBOY, MARC: Monde Futuriste 10" (HYPE 001EP)
Marc Romboy presents his upcoming album Voyage De La Planète (HYPE 002CD/LP) his first solo full-length production in over eight years. Voyage De La Plantète pushes the boundaries between classical and electronic music, creating both an emotional and atmospheric experience. The first impression of this new sound can be heard on this 10". The album opener "Monde Futuriste", which blends together beautiful strings and soft flittering synths, merges the beauty of the violin played by Miki Kekenj and electronic arrangements, "Voyage De La Planète" mixes the two mediums together with fluttering synths and a somber string quartet.
$10.99 UPC: 880319852916 ELECTRONIC
Side A
01. Monde Futuriste
Side B
02. Voyage De La Planète
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TIERSEN, YANN: La Valse des Monstres CD (IDA 001CD)
2017 repress of this 2012 remastered reissue; originally released in 1995. With his whimsical, melancholy music, Yann Tiersen has become sought after as both a solo artist and soundtrack composer. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz, and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences, Tiersen's deceptively simple style has been likened to Chopin, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, and Michael Nyman. Tiersen first became popular outside his native France for his score to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 film Amélie, but this was no overnight success; Tiersen had been working for years before the film brought him international acclaim. Tiersen's first album, La Valse des Monstres, includes several pieces composed for short films and plays, and introduces Tiersen's delicate but deeply emotional style featuring intricate arrangements of instruments as varied as toy piano, banjo, harpsichord, melodica, and carillon, as well as piano and guitar.
$7.79 EAN: 3700398708713 ROCK
01. Mouvement introductif
02. La valse des monstres
03. Frida
04. Quimper 94
05. Ballendaï
06. Comptine d'été n°17
07. Cléo au trapèze
08. La valse des monstres
09. Le banquet
10. Comptine d'été n°17
11. Mouvement introductif
12. La rue
13. Iwakichi
14. Hanako
15. La plaisanterie
16. Le compteur
17. Mouvement introductif
TIERSEN, YANN: La Valse des Monstres LP (IDA 001LP)
2017 repress; LP version.
$10.39 EAN: 3700398708621 ROCK
TIERSEN, YANN: Rue Des Cascades CD (IDA 002CD)
Yann Tiersen has sold hundreds of thousands of records worlds wide and even more soundtracks. Since 2009 he has been focused on playing live, with 270 shows spread over three world tours, which touched every continent. Tiersen presents a re-mastered edition of his second album 1996's Rue Des Cascades. With his whimsical, melancholy music, Yann Tiersen has become a sought-after composer, not only for his soundtrack work, but in his own right. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences, Tiersen's deceptively simple style has been likened to Chopin, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, and Michael Nyman. Tiersen became popular outside his native country for his score to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 film Amélie. Born in Brest in Brittany, on June 23, 1970, Tiersen was raised in Rennes and made a name for himself as one of the star pupils at his local conservatory. Tiersen studied violin and piano from the ages of six to fourteen, and eventually trained to be a conductor. However, Tiersen rebelled against his classical training and, inspired by the likes of Joy Division and the Stooges, played guitar with several local post-punk-influenced bands during his later teenage years. At the same time, Tiersen was also composing soundtracks for short films and accompaniment for plays. Several of these pieces ended up on his first album, La Valse des Monstres (IDA 001CD/LP), in 1995 and introduced his delicate but deeply emotional style, and which also featured intricate arrangements incorporating instruments as varied as toy piano, banjo, harpsichord, melodica, and carillon, as well as piano and guitar. If La Valse des Monstres and its follow-up, 1996's Rue Des Cascades, were slow burners, Tiersen's third album, 1998's La Phare (IDA 003CD/LP), met a different fate; its single, "Monochrome," which was sung by French pop star Dominique A., was a radio hit and propelled the album, and Tiersen, to mainstream success in France.
$7.79 EAN: 3700398708720 ROCK
01. I've Never Been There
02. Cascade Street
03. Not That Simple
04. Summer Nursery Rhyme No. 2
05. Summer Nursery Rhyme No. 3
06. Already Gone
07. The Room
08. Introductory Movement
09. The Mute Girl
10. Naomi
11. Evening Party
12. The Old Man Still Wants It
13. Still Here
14. It Was There...
15. Prayer No. 2
16. Summer Nursery Rhyme No. 1
17. The Window
18. Prayer No. 3
19. The Empty Room
20. Everyday Life
TIERSEN, YANN: Rue Des Cascades 2LP (IDA 002LP)
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$12.39 EAN: 3700398708638 ROCK
TIERSEN, YANN: Le Phare LP (IDA 003LP)
2017 repress of this 2013 remastered reissue; originally released in 1998. French musician and composer Yann Tiersen's 1998 third album, La Phare, yielded the single "Monochrome," a collaboration with French songwriter and vocalist Dominique A; "Monochrome" was a radio hit and propelled the album, and Tiersen, to mainstream success in France. As Tiersen's acclaim grew, so did the scope of his records. 1999's Black Session -- a live album of a radio performance -- featured collaborations with Dominique A and The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, as well bands like Têtes Raides and The Married Monk. Soon after, Jean-Pierre Jeunet asked Tiersen to score Jeunet's film Amélie, which would bring Tiersen international acclaim upon its release in 2001.
$10.39 EAN: 3700398708652 ROCK
ELLIOTT, MATT: Songs 4CD (IDA 067CD)
2016 repress. Originally released in 2010. Matt Elliott's Songs trilogy - Drinking Songs (IDA 027CD, 2004), Failing Songs (IDA 037CD, 2006), and Howling Songs (IDA 049CD, 2008) - with seven failed songs in an extra CD.
$17.79 EAN: 3521383440049 ROCK
Drinking Songs (2004):
1.01. C.F. Bundy
1.02. Trying To Explain
1.03. The Guilty Party
1.04. What's Wrong?
1.05. The Kursk
1.06. What The Fuck Am I Doing On This Battlefield
1.07. A Waste Of Blood
1.08. The Maid We Messed

Failing Songs (2006):
2.01. Our Weight In Oil
2.02. Chains
2.03. The Séance
2.04. The Failing Song
2.05. Broken Bones
2.06. Desamparado
2.07. Lone Gunman Required
2.08. Good Pawn
2.09. Compassion Fatigue
2.10. The Ghost Of Maria Callas
2.11. Gone
2.12. Planting Seeds

Howling Songs (2008):
3.01. The Kübler-Ross Model
3.02. Something About Ghosts
3.03. How Much In Blood?
3.04. A Broken Flamenco
3.05. Berlin & Bisenthal
3.06. I Name This Ship The Tragedy, Bless Her & All Who Sail With Her
3.07. The Howling Song
3.08. Song For A Failed Relationship
3.09. Bomb The Stock Exchange

Failed Songs:
4.01. Mellow
4.02. Eulogy For Liam
4.03. Melange
4.04. South Canadian Sea
4.05. Song To Child
4.06. Lament
4.07. Wedding Song
LES MARQUISES: A Night Full Of Collapses CD (IDA 109CD)
The brilliant songwriter Jean-Sébastien Nouveau invites many musicians to give life to this new opus, Les Marquises' third album A Night Full Of Collapses. The newcomers are Matt Elliott (featured on "Feu Pâle", "The Beguiled", "Following Strangers", and "The Passing"), Agathe Max (Ofield, Farewell Poetry), Olivier Mellano, Christian Quermalet (The Married Monk), Jeff Hallam (Dominique A), Louis Montmasson, and François Clos. They join Jonathan Grancollot (Pan Pan Pan), Souleymane Felicioli, Julien Nouveau, Martin Duru (Immune), and obviously Jean-Sébastien Nouveau, who wrote all the lyrics and music while conducting the whole ensemble. Les Marquises' surprising 2013 Pensée Magique, an experimental pop-oriented album inspired by the cinema of Werner Herzog, Peter Brook, and Jean Rouch. Now Jean-Sébastien is back with A Night Full Of Collapses which, as its title suggests, is an eminently nocturnal record. Cinematic atmospheres are always present but the aforementioned references here give way to the work of David Lynch. The record is reminiscent of Badalamenti's compositions for Twin Peaks or the more recent dark-jazz of Dale Cooper Quartet and The Dictaphones as well as the first records by Bohren & Der Club of Gore. And while on the subject of disturbing and offbeat atmospheres, it is impossible not hear the ghosts of Talk Talk and especially Psychic TV floating here and there. But as always with Les Marquises, these are only first impressions. The influences and inspirations may seem clear at first sight but we soon find they make up a simple background whose sole purpose is to situate an action and provide context. Like the cinema which inspires him so much, Jean-Sébastien is cryptic in his approach and does not wish to clearly reveal his intentions to listeners. On the contrary, he aims to throw listeners off balance without ever attacking them and to lead them to lose themselves in his nocturnal, dreamlike, sometimes peaceful, sometimes unstable universe. A Night Full Of Collapses cultivates a mysterious aura conducive to wandering and reflection. Pensée Magique was both concise and yet abundant, even stifling for some. A Night Full Of Collapses is more grounded in some ways as it leaves aside bursts of pop in favor of a more jazzy framework which conveys its author's benevolent attitude.
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01. Vallées Closes
02. Lament
03. Feu Pâle
04. The Beguiled
05. A Forest Of Lines
06. Following Strangers
07. Des Nuits
08. The Passing
LES MARQUISES: A Night Full Of Collapses LP (IDA 109LP)
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CLOUP DUO, MICHEL: Ici Et La-Bas CD (IDA 110CD)
Following 2013's Minuit Dans Tes Bras, Michel Cloup is back with another instalment of his personal history - this time in a duo with the drummer Julien Rufié (Eryn Non Dae). Eleven tracks with the title Ici Et Là-Bas ("Here and Down There") which leaves little doubt as to the album's subject. "I stayed in Rome twice in 2012 for a residency and for a concert at the Villa Medici. It was a year and a half after the death of my mother who was Italian. I was still totally in mourning and really pretty upset. A bunch of memories came back to the surface at a time when I had lost a lot of my bearings. I hadn't finished writing Minuit Dans Tes Bras but I knew I'd found the starting point for the record after that." Over the whole album, Michel explores the many paths his own history has taken and, as is usually the case in his work, uses this to create a universal story which is at the heart of current events. "I realized that what I was going through, this late realization of my dual origins and the way I felt then had a resonance with certain events at the time. So I decided to tell my story in parallel with more general ideas, trying to hook up the personal and the political. The whole thing is a kind of fragmented scenario." The compositions are crystal clear and without embellishments although more arranged and less minimalist than on the two previous albums. The record as a whole sounds more rock in style and more direct particularly because of the playing of Julien Rufié. The songs are relatively short apart from the last two tracks where some Michel's most touching lyrics ever appear. "I wanted to break away from the monolithic side of the first two albums as a duo and move towards something more broken up and varied. Working with Julien gave me a new lease of life, new energy and quicker tempos. Ici Et Là-Bas is a little like my musical identity card and in any case it reflects all my obsessions - rock, French 'chanson', spoken-word, groove, experimentation, psychedelia, power or gentleness. I wanted it to be wild and with no barriers in the spirit of 'Check Your Head' by the Beastie Boys or 'Bubble and Scrape' by Sebadoh."
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01. Qui Je Suis
02. La Classe Ouvrière S'est Enfuie
03. Ici Et Là-Bas
04. Deux Minutes Vingt-Cinq
05. Nous Qui N'arrivons Plus À Dire Nous
06. Animal Blessé
07. D32W
08. Séparer
09. Nouveau En Ville
10. Etranger
11. Une Adresse En Italie
CLOUP DUO, MICHEL: Ici Et La-Bas 2LP (IDA 110LP)
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ZERO: San Francisco CD (IDA 116CD)
Ozkär Krapö on Zëro's fifth album San Francisco: "The first demo by Zëro - the reincarnation of Bästard!, a group which had its origins in the Deity Guns (initiators of the French post-rock movement) - is already ten years old and San Francisco is their fifth album. A red album- just like there have been white albums or black albums. A major album in a discography, in the history of a group. The style is the same as can be recognized in all the records but the total break with the past is fascinating. As is the image of the cover which shows three individuals sitting on a long seat with their faces erased, just merged together by the stains on the decrepit wall behind them. It's like a reverse image of the Greek Hydra - or rather of the Cerberus, the three-headed dog and guardian of Hell - with three bodies, three exceptional musicians who blend together and bloom into one sole head, one sound. Zëro now play as a trio and the group has gained in coherency. One after the other, the tracks flow fluidly together as a whole despite the complexity of the arrangements and the multiple cinematographic or musical references, with both sides of the record containing a mix of contained violence and tense atmospheres. All through this 35-minute trip, it is a pleasure to let yourself go taking in the explosive outbursts which have always been part of the group's identity and strike the ear in the same way as a stroboscope pervades the eye. But what is surprising about San Francisco is the tracks which are almost pop (in the best sense of the term, as The Feelies or Wire were immense pop groups) with their dynamic faux laidback nonchalance make you want to jump in the car with the radio on full blast and speed down an ocean road. Finally, cutting up, resolving or enhancing these tracks, the album's unity is above all derived from its passages of contained tension which are both psychedelic and noisy with menacing atmospheres harking back to their last appearances as a trio during readings by Virginie Despentes. Finally, it is perfectly natural that the trip should end in 'San Francisco', the title track of the album - a song which you would like to turn into a locked groove to indefinitely prolong this moment in which all the tension is resolved, stretched out and absorbed in a feeling of serenity and fullness."
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01. Last Bills For Lapdance
02. Ich... Ein Groupie
03. Lac Baïkal
04. The Drum Thing
05. Boogie Tango Thrill
06. Cracking
07. Jed / Snowdog
08. Cheap Dream Generator
09. San Francisco
ZERO: San Francisco LP (IDA 116LP)
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GABLE: Jolly Trouble CD (IDA 117CD)
GaBLé are back and the great big joyful mess which accompanies the group will leave no-one indifferent. This is a full-on first contact, a total break with the context and almost fascinating - a perfect summary in fact of this absolutely whacked-out new analog pop opus full of the live energy which characterizes the trio onstage. JoLLy TrouBLe is more or less a translation of the French phrase "un beau bordel" and moves on further from the collage, DIY or chaotic rock style GaBLé have been known for in recent years. Following MuRDeD (2013), Gaëlle, Mathieu, and Thomas are back with music which is superbly thought-out, composed, produced and interpreted. These songs have a strong identity which makes them recognizable at first listen but their prime quality is to systematically throw listeners off balance. It's inventive and personal music which only groups of Gablé's calibre can produce. GaBLé also have the advantage of knowing how to put themselves in danger and also of knowing the best people to work with, as around a dozen friends - musicians, backing singers, technicians - were invited to exchange, suggest and talk out ideas for the record. JoLLy TRouBLe is the type of work which is full of humility while remaining both complex and ambitious. Rock, folk, song, jazz and of course electronic glitch or analog, even experimental music, JoLLy TRouBLe is all of these at once. Of course, let's not forget the term "alien" when talking about GaBLé's way of composing and interpreting these highly varied but coherent songs. There are thirteen songs whose subtle arrangements (clarinet, saxophone, flute, marimba, trumpet, machines and synthesizers plus all sorts of backing vocals) nonetheless highlight the combo's immediately attractive side and vocal talents. Here GaBLé are equally at home with sunny, benevolent pop ("On Purpose" and the first single "Tropicool") as with bursts of noise ("How Long"), psychedelic slow burns ("Porti"), punk riffing ("Marvoof") or faux ballads which are crazed but still really touching ("Youngsters", "Thinging"). Yes, JoLLy TRouBLe really is a truly beautiful mess, a truly beautiful record by a truly beautiful group enhanced by a truly beautiful gang of friends. The type of record you don't hear every day. Artwork by Angela Dalinger.
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01. oN PuRPoSe
02. MaGiC GiFT
03. TRoPiCooL
04. HoW LoNG
05. PoRTi
06. WaKe uP
07. MaRVooF
08. ViRGuLe
09. youNGSTeRS
10. THiNGiNG
11. DeCay SuSTaiN
12. ViSioN
13. TeNGo
GABLE: Jolly Trouble LP (IDA 117LP)
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CHAPELIER FOU: Kalia CD (IDA 118CD)
Chapelier Fou, aka Louis Warynski, is well known today for his exemplary discography: three albums - 613 (2010), Invisible (2012), and Deltas (IDA 098LP, 2014), three EPs - Darling, Darling, Darling... (2009), Scandale ! (2009), and Al Abama (2011) - and two 12" of remixes Protest EP (2014) and Fuses (IDA 098-2EP, 2015). Since the very beginning of his career, the French composer's songs always stimulated the imagination of his listeners. Many artists, theater, and movie directors or actors have asked to use his songs or requested commissioned works. "Les Métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia" is in this very specific category of commissioned work by Chapelier Fou. The mini-album Kalia is the very first instalment to be released as a record. In spring 2014, Béatrice Lartigue and Cyril Diagne from French artists' collective Lab212 contacted Chapelier Fou while he was finalizing his third album Deltas. The two invited him to work on a digital art installation project, "Les Métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia" the graphic work of which was entirely generated by code and entered in a DevArt (the famous firm offering databases for developers) contest. The project was then selected by Google to be presented at the "Digital Revolution" exhibition at the famous Barbican Centre of London alongside works from Björk, Will I Am, and Amon Tobin, among others. The nine songs presented on Kalia are striking because of their effectiveness and conciseness (each track is just over two minutes). The writing approach offered here is more radical than Louis's previous work. Each song is based on a simple idea from which the artist extracts its maximum potential to give a stripped down result. This enables listeners to get closer to the seductive inner substance of his work - a unique groove and sense of rhythm, simple and haunting melodies plus the ability to fill the sound space whatever the limits imposed. Above all, Kalia shows brilliantly that Chapelier Fou's music is just not a well-written mix of electronic music with violin. It is the breeding ground for research, experimentation and cohesiveness. It is an inspiration for its creators, for listeners and for the creative people using it in their own work. It is an interaction, a dialogue and perpetual questioning.
$7.79 EAN: 3521383436851 ELECTRONIC
01. Bulbs
02. Books
03. Technology
04. Tribal
05. Drawers
06. Thorns
07. Lockers
08. Stripes
09. Birds
CHAPELIER FOU: Kalia LP (IDA 118LP)
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WINTER FAMILY: South From Here CD (IDA 121CD)
Winter Family is a duo of Ruth Rosenthal and Xavier Klaine who met in Jaffa in 2004. Their dark, saturated and dense music is described as "death swing", "weird wave" or "funeral pop". Their self-titled debut (2007) offered minimal music played by Xavier on pipe organ, harmoniums and piano backing strict spoken-word texts chanted by Ruth. Their second album, Red Sugar (SR 315CD/AV 032LP, 2011) was highly praised by critics. After they toured the world with their theatrical documentary Jerusalem Cast Lead (2011), they moved to Flatbush, Brooklyn. Attracted by New York/West Indian/Caribbean culture of their neighborhood, they started writing a new album. The block parties, community parades, and helicopters are frequent and Winter Family systematically capture all these sounds for their theatrical documentary work, some of them are also found on South From Here. At the end of 2012, Hurricane Sandy drowned all their equipment. They bought an old drum machine and an old synth and discovered sounds that were to make up the final color of South From Here. They began to mix South From Here in a cellar in Jaurès inspired by the sound of the Pierre Carré Orchestra and the reverb sounds at the Foire du Trône city fair. They recorded new parts of the album on tour - in the Guggenheim house in Kobe, Japan and during organ, voice and absinthe night sessions in the German Temple in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. For uncertain reasons, they then settled opposite Banana Beach in Tel Aviv. Ruth's lyrics attempt to translate the blindness into which Israeli society is definitively sinking. They published No World in collaboration with Yochai Matos (2015), released a cassette on the micro label Psychic Mule (2014), and completed South From Here, recording saccharine arrangements inspired by local weddings. The result of this long and painful calypso process is a mixture of pessimism and acceptance they summarize with these words: "Life is Beautiful". On South From Here, Ruth plays machines, drums, beatbox, and sings. Xavier plays old organs, synth, celesta, and piano. Some friends and their daughter join them here and there on the record: Ben McConnell (drums), Fabien Lehalle (bass), Victor Gachet (snare drum), Saralei Klaine (gaming and voice) and the voices of actors from Chekhov's The Seagull by Arthur Nauzyciel (Adèle Haenel, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Poitrenaud, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, etc.)
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CD:
01. Archaic Landscape
02. No World
03. Spring Roll
04. Ikea
05. Yallah
06. Jesus
07. Miss Bonaventure
08. The Land of the Free
09. Cortelyou Rd. (We Shall Overcome)
10. Nina
11. Gaza
12. Delightful Blindness
13. Imagine

LP:
A1. Archaic Landscape
A2. No World
A3. Spring Roll
A4. Ikea
A5. Yallah
A6. Jesus
B1. Miss Bonaventure
B2. The Land of the Free
B3. Cortelyou Rd (We Shall Overcome)
B4. Delightful Blindness
B5. Gaza
B6. Imagine
WINTER FAMILY: South From Here LP (IDA 121LP)
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TRUPA TRUPA: Headache CD (IDA 125CD)
Ici d'Ailleurs present a remastered version of Trupa Trupa's third album Headache, originally released in 2015 on CD and cassette via Blue Tapes And X-Ray Records. Trupa Trupa play rock, come from Poland, and consist of four musicians in a guitars-bass-drums-keyboard-vocals line-up. The story of Headache would perhaps have ended there if a certain Sasha Frere-Jones, one of today's most prominent and influential critics, hadn't written in the Los Angeles Times that "one of the best rock bands doing business now is from Gdansk, Poland." While on a trip to Poland, Stéphane Grégoire, label manager and founder of the Ici d'Ailleurs label, first met Trupa Trupa at a concert by another Polish talent, Stefan Wesolowski. The group gave him a copy of Headache which he put straight on his turntable on return to France. He was taken at once and fell straight in love. Soon enough, the reactions were coming in quick. Everyone thought, like Sasha Frere-Jones, that this really is one of the best rock albums of recent years. Trupa Trupa synthesizes what is best in the genre since the early '90s - from Pavement to Slint via The Black Angels - with unstoppable, spontaneous compositions with a real freshness. But it is primarily as an album, a true thoughtful and constructed set of 11 tracks which cannot be separated from each other, that Headache really comes into its own. The third album from a band that nobody saw coming, has been deemed a rare pearl by those who have had the chance to listen. "One of the best rock bands doing business now is from Gdansk, Poland. The lead singer of Trupa Trupa is poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, who sings (and speaks, sometimes) in English. The band recalls a less woozy version of Dungen, another band who know their '60s psychedelia but don't sound like thirsty revivalists. Kwiatkowski leans into the conversational loopiness of Syd Barrett and the band flowers behind him. Beauty and intensity get equal space here." --Sasha Frere-Jones, Los Angeles Times "This is incredible work. The result is their first moment of true greatness." --The Quietus "It's 2015, everyone, and did you hear? Bands are back in a big way, and Trupa Trupa is hands-down among the very best of 'em." --Tiny Mix Tapes
$7.79 EAN: 3521383439296 ROCK
01. Snow
02. Halleyesomne
03. The Sky Is Falling
04. Sacrifice
05. Getting Older
06. Give'em All
07. Wasteland
08. Rise And Fall
09. Headache
10. Unbelievable
11. Picture Yourself
TRUPA TRUPA: Headache 2LP (IDA 125LP)
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YOUNG, NATE: Regression LP (IDEAL 050LP)
Wolf Eyes' Nate Young's Regression series has provided some of the most compelling dread-electronics spewed out by the North American underground in years, with instalments released by Demdike Stare's DDS label and Aaron Dilloway's Hanson, as well as NNA Tapes and others. It all began back in 2009 with this first volume issued by Joachim Nordwall's Ideal label, an incredible set that's now being released on vinyl here for the first time ever. Young is one of those artists whose output is instantly recognizable, his take on primitive electronics is both innovative and unnerving, and in recent years has really dominated the stylistic direction pursued by Wolf Eyes. It's a kind of creaky, bare-boned deconstruction of classic horror scoring jolted by noise and industrial motifs, sounding somewhere between Demdike Stare's early work, John Carpenter, and Mica Levi's by-now-classic soundtrack to Under The Skin (2014). You could neither classify Regression as a noise record nor an ambient one, instead the synth dissections and tape treatments more closely reference early electronic music. "Trapped" offers little of the claustrophobia suggested by its title, although the continual woody knocking sounds and filthy oscillations do engender a sense of unease, while "Dread" brings to mind the Desmond Briscoe soundtrack to Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape (1972). "Under The Skin" returns to the more esoteric, intangible sound designs that characterized the album's opening, writhing around in a spluttering, tactile fashion that's at once sonically rather beautiful but deeply sinister, modulating through grisly synthesizer gestures while more textural, percussive sounds flood through dub-style tape delays. Young has an uncanny ability to make sonic extremes sound incredibly seductive, and this volume is perhaps the most engrossing exposition of that unique ability. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering. Edition of 500.
$12.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
01. Trapped
02. Dread
03. Under The Skin
04. Sweating Sickness
05. Sweating Sickness 2
06. Sleep Anxiety
07. Untitled
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GROWING: Disorder LP (IMPREC 435LP)
Disorder marks a few milestones for the band Growing; it is their ninth full-length release, in the fifteenth year of their band, as well as their first record in almost six years. Though this is their first record in quite some time, this by no means a reunion record. When asked, Joe DeNardo stated "We never 'stopped' doing Growing, it's just that it was tough living on two different coasts. We work kinda slow so I think it just took us a while to adjust to how to make it work with the distances. As Kevin kind of built up his home studio in Olympia over the years, it got to a place where we couldn't not use it for Growing - it's such a great isolated spot to hunker down and chisel out some tunes." With an entire country between the them, Kevin Doria has been focusing his energy on his Total Life project, releasing a handful of releases and touring with Fuck Buttons, GodSpeed You Black Emperor and a host of others. DeNardo has spent the last few years making various music-themed films and performing under the Ornament moniker. At first listen, one may be tempted to refer to this as "return to form" for the band: sonically heavy side-long pastoral excursions being a hallmark of their earlier recordings. But Disorder stands more as a refinement of Growing's evolving sonic palette, employing dissonance as liberally as harmony, delivering the listener's ear to a rather unsettling "comfort zone". The effect could be stated as one of submersion. "Kevin's Total Life records and live set really inspired me to take a look at a much simpler setup." DeNardo went on to suggest, "I don't think I succeeded necessarily, but the way he maximizes his sound sources really blew me away. And I think it affected what I was recording for Ornament, and so when we got to jamming for the record, it sort of evolved from that. We recorded to four-track reel-to-reel, it was a pretty minimal setup. It seems like a heavy record to me, these slow, subtle shifts that feel like a bad trip sometimes." Disorder is neither revival nor bookend for Growing. Disorder is another mile marker on the long open road, both figuratively and literally. Double-sided, screen printed jacket by Neil Burke @ Monoroid; Heavy duty virgin vinyl; Edition of 250 copies.
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A1. Side A
B1. Side B
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MONDKOPF: They Fall, But You Don't CD (IP 028CD)
New from In Paradisum, the home of Low Jack and December, They Fall, But You Don't is the most straight-forward and cohesive Mondkopf album to date due to his switch to analog synthesizers. They Fall was been recorded live in his room in Paris in the sadly memorable month of November 2016. The record has something familiar with Mondkopf's previous output with the raw textures and half-light atmospheres, but the rest is a radical change for him. The synth pads of They Fall are neither retro nor futuristic. In addition to Paul's fragile vocals, they exhale a distinct feeling of just being there. The tracks follow their own path by being focused and vital. They Fall, But You Don't is the singular manifesto of a relationship to electronic music that leaves out the ideas of innovation and genre and more resembles the language of a new folk music; deeply evocative, powerful and free.
$10.39 UPC: 666017313726 ELECTRONIC
01. Vivere, Parte I
02. Vivere, Parte II
03. Vivere, Parte III
04. Vivere, Parte IV
05. Vivere, Parte V
06. Vivere, Finale
MONDKOPF: They Fall, But You Don't LP (IP 028LP)
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VA: This Time Will Be Different - The Sweet Soul Of Philadelphia: 1968-1982 CD (IS 6801CD)
This Time Will Be Different - The Sweet Soul Of Philadelphia: 1968-1982 is the first part in Interstate Records' regional soul series. This Time Will Be Different documents the emerging Philly soul sound, as influenced by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, but with a focus on more obscure artists and releases. Features writing, arrangement, and production by Jerry Ross, Norman Harris, Thom Bell and Linda Creed, and Bobby Martin, with appearances by Bunny Sigler, Billy Hill (The Essex), and more. Features: The Invitations, Lou Curtin, Festivals, Choice Of Colors, Broadway Express, The Futures, Phyllis Smith, The Courtships, Paradise, J. Kelly & The Premiers, The Geminiles, The Mello Moods, The Epsilons, The Blue Notes, and The Elegant's. CD version includes eight tracks not featured on the LP version. These eight tracks feature: The Butlers, The Cruisers, The Ethics, Chapter One, The Coalitions, Donnie Elbert, The United Four, and Toppiks.
$10.99 UPC: 084721680123 ROCK
CD:
01. The Invitations with Lou Curtin - Let's Love (And Find Together) (1973)
02. Festivals - Take Your Time (1971)
03. Choice Of Colors - Betcha Didn't Know (1972)
04. The Butlers - She's Gone (1969)
05. The Cruisers - Picture Us (1969)
06. The Ethics - Good Luck (1974)
07. Broadway Express - It's OK With Me (1970)
08. The Futures - Breaking Up (1970)
09. Phyllis Smith - I Need Somebody To Love (1969)
10. Chapter One - Let Me Down Easy (Have it Your Way) (1976)
11. The Coalitions - Instead... How Are You (1974)
12. Donnie Elbert - Can't Get Used to Losing You (1970)
13. The United Four - Look At Her Now (1971)
14. The Courtships - Love Ain't Love (Till You Give It To Somebody) (1972)
15. Paradise - We Belong Together (1981)
16. J. Kelly & The Premiers - She Calls Me Baby (1973)
17. Toppiks - Surrender (1970)
18. The Geminiles - Thinking About My Baby (1968)
19. The Mello Moods - Tell Love Hello (1971)
20. The Epsilons - The Echo (1968)
21. The Blue Notes - This Time Will Be Different (1970)
22. The Elegant's - When You're Gone Away (1982)

LP:
A1. Festivals - Take Your Time (1971)
A2. Choice Of Colors - Betcha Didn't Know (1972)
A3. Broadway Express - It's OK With Me (1970)
A4. The Futures - Breaking Up (1970)
A5. Paradise - We Belong Together (1981)
A6. Phyllis Smith - I Need Somebody To Love (1969)
A7. The Courtships - Love Ain't Love (Till You Give It To Somebody) (1972)
B1. The Invitations with Lou Curtin - Let's Love (And Find Together) (1973)
B2. J. Kelly & The Premiers - She Calls Me Baby (1973)
B3. The Epsilons - The Echo (1968)
B4. The Geminiles - Thinking About My Baby (1968)
B5. The Blue Notes - This Time Will Be Different (1970)
B6. The Mello Moods - Tell Love Hello (1971)
B7. The Elegant's - When You're Gone Away (1982)
VA: This Time Will Be Different - The Sweet Soul Of Philadelphia: 1968-1982 LP (IS 6801LP)
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$14.99 UPC: 084721680116 ROCK
VA: This Love Is For Real - The Sweet Soul Of Chicago: 1968-1981 CD (IS 6802CD)
This Love Is For Real - The Sweet Soul Of Chicago: 1968-1981 is the second part in Interstate Records' regional soul series. This Love Is For Real documents the Chicago sound, as popularized by Curtis Mayfield, The Chi-Lites or Impressions, but with a focus on more obscure artists and releases. Features writing, arrangement, and production by Leroy Hutson, Willie Henderson, Eugene Record, with appearances by Otil Leavill, Charles Jackson, and more. Features: Essence, Marzette Griffith, Harlem Meat Company, Magnum Force, Billy & The Bloodknots, The Lost Generation, The Stimulators, Hands Of Time, Chocolate Sunday, Bruce Thompson, The Vegas, The Ledgends, The Independents, The Cheers, Little Ben Norfleet, The Lovelites, and Windy City. CD version includes eight tracks not featured on the LP version. These eight tracks feature: The Chi-Lites, The Turks, The Eight Minutes, The Visitors, Eugene Smiley, Enchanting Enchanters, Bobby Gomez, Magnetic Force, The Lintones, and The Esquires.
$10.99 UPC: 084721680222 ROCK
CD:
01. Essence - Sweet Fools (feat. Marzette Griffith)
02. Harlem Meat Company - I'm Not Gonna Be Anybody's Fool
03. Magnum Force - Share My Love With You
04. Billy & The Bloodknots - Gotta Get Away
05. The Chi-Lites - (Um, Um) My Baby Loves Me
06. The Lost Generation - Wait A Minute
07. The Turks - You Turn Me On
08. The Stimulators - Warm Summer Nights
09. Hands Of Time - This Love Is For Real
10. Chocolate Sunday - Second Story Man (feat. Bruce Thompson)
11. The Eight Minutes - Oh Yes I Do
12. The Visitors - Until You Came Along (feat. Eugene Smiley)
13. Enchanting Enchanters - No One In This World (feat. Bobby Gomez)
14. Magnetic Force - Ole Sweet Music
15. The Lintones - Lost Love
16. The Vegas - I Need Your Love
17. The Ledgends - Gotta Let You Go
18. The Independents - I Just Want To Be There
19. The Cheers - I Made Up My Mind (feat. Little Ben Norfleet)
20. The Lovelites - This Love Is Real
21. The Esquires - Girls In The City
22. Windy City - Just For You

LP:
A1. Essence - Sweet Fools (feat. Marzette Griffith)
A2. Harlem Meat Company - I'm Not Gonna Be Anybody's Fool
A3. Billy & The Bloodknots - Gotta Get Away
A4. The Lost Generation - Wait A Minute
A5. The Stimulators - Warm Summer Nights
A6. Hands Of Time - This Love Is For Real
A7. Chocolate Sunday - Second Story Man (feat. Bruce Thompson)
B1. Magnum Force - Share My Love With You
B2. The Independents - I Just Want To Be There
B3. The Vegas - I Need Your Love
B4. The Ledgends - Gotta Let You Go
B5. The Cheers - I Made Up My Mind (feat. Little Ben Norfleet)
B6. The Lovelites - This Love Is Real
B7. Windy City - Just For You
VA: This Love Is For Real - The Sweet Soul Of Chicago: 1968-1981 LP (IS 6802LP)
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$14.99 UPC: 084721680215 ROCK
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LANDSIDE: Uncharted Remixes EP 12" (JT 012EP)
Landside is the collaboration between Italian producers Hunter/Game and the Icelandic band Kúra. The sound draws as much from the deep vibe and melancholy ambience of Kúra's reflective, dubby moods, as it does from the more insistent groove of Hunter/Game's dancefloor roots. With four releases under their belt and more to follow, Landside are primed to get a remix EP. From the stormy modulated chords of Robert Hood and trickling pads crafted by Etapp Kyle, to the dystopian narratives expressed by Bambounou and Edanticonf, the re-visionings provide additional star-power to what is already a fine, shimmering series.
$10.39 UPC: 880319841910 ELECTRONIC
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MAYER & JOE GODDARD, MICHAEL: For You (DJ Koze Remixes) 12" (K7 337EP)
DJ Koze comes up to task for the next re-construction of Michael Mayer and Joe Goddard's "For You", following up from the re-interpretation by Diynamic's Solomun and Pachanga Boys. The maverick of flawless productions develops two narratives for this remix package: The first is a club mix composed of layered, floor-raising chords while ruffling up the original vocals gradually and elegantly. The second is a mbira remix, filled with African-inspired percussive inklings and sprinkled with effortless melodic flourishes.
$9.79 UPC: 730003733772 ELECTRONIC
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DEMIAN: Milestars EP 12" (KOM 362EP)
Demian, aka Damien Pontonnier, presents Milestars EP, a quirky and vibrant track trio with an obvious knack for catchy melodic details in a kinetic techno corsage. "Déclica" boots with deliciously stoic cowbell-isms that leave the doors of perception wide open for some iconoclastic, yet surprisingly effective synth action. The title cut invests in texture-rich atmosphere without forgetting about the precise amount of momentum you need to tip the floor over the edge. "No Hype For The Fish" takes things in a more hypnotic direction, intertwining free-form arpeggios and tape delay with smart beatsmanship.
$8.39 UPC: 880319817915 ELECTRONIC
A1. Déclica
B1. Milestars
B2. No Hype For The Fish
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REBAR: Hansaprohlis EP (Incl. Alex Bau & Coeter Remixes) 12" (MOC 013EP)
Made Of Concrete founders Andreas Pionty and fumée grise join forces as Rebar and put forth their debut EP. Opening track "Prohlis" is a straightforward exploration of industrial elements with an impersonal, functional atmosphere. Coeter jumps in on the rework, adding more groove to the track through rhythmic distortion. "Hansaviertel" unfolds as a more traditional composition. Using live recordings from the eponymous district in Berliner fumée grise's home base, the track evokes the same minimalist and cavernous ambiance as the area itself. Known for his upright techno antics, Alex Bau puts forth an atypical dub tech remix.
$8.99 UPC: 880319853210 ELECTRONIC
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KAMI, TOMA: Dali Bear 12" (MNBN 001EP)
This is Toma Kami's first release on his own label Man Band. The imprint's name derives from the well-known "one man band" expression and aims to focus on the correlation between this statement and the process of making electronic music as one person. The result is a record with four singularly different tracks, blending cosmic and percussive sounds in a variety of styles, and featuring the bewitching voices of Bulgarian women on the title track "Dali Bear".
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A1. Dali Bear
A2. MHOF
B1. Volvo
B2. The Forest Troops
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RANGER: Lethal Force/Night Slasher 7" (MTLTRRR 001EP)
In this turf, Ranger feels at home. It doesn't take much for these young Finnish trashers to get the motor running and when it's done, there is no turning back, nor back turning. Their 7" single picks two of the finest chansons from their album Speed & Violence (2016). Ranger's approach tips its bandana sufficiently towards hard-core so that all that remains is pure fury, no nonsense. They just remove all brakes from the scraper, put on badass shades took dark to see through and push the pedal.
$6.39 EAN: 6417698161243 ROCK
01. Lethal Force
02. Night Slasher
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INSPIRESCU, PETRE: Vintul Prin Salcii CD (MUSIQ 056CD)
With his third album Vin Ploile (MUSIQ 051CD/192LP, 2015) the Bucharest, Romania based producer, musician, and DJ Petre Inspirescu captured a whole new audience and reached out with minimal left-field ambient sounds to music-loving folks that are not part of the worldwide dance music universe. Well known as one of the key figures of the Romanian electronic dance music scene since his first EP Tips on Luciano's label Cadenza (2007), Inspirescu stepped away from club sounds that made him famous due to releases on labels like Vinyl Club, Lick My Deck or Amphia. His two solo albums Intr-O Seara Organica... (2009) and Grădina Onirică (2012), both released on [a:rpia:r] the record label he initiated with his buddies Rhadoo and Raresh in 2007, do not have much in common with the sound of Vin Ploile - a mesmerizing deeply musical album that he only tuned in with some elements of piano, string and wind instruments as well as analog electronics. At the end of 2015, his nine slow-swinging arrangements were celebrated in many polls and now, just a bit more than one year after the release of Vin Ploile, Inspirescu delivers Vîntul Prin Salcii, another album enlarged with seven to twelve minute long arrangements, continuing where Vin Ploile ceased. They all listen to the name
"Miroslav" and only differ numerically in their title. You can call them ambient. You can call them minimal music in the sense of classic compositions by Steve Reich or Terry Riley. They groove - sometimes more, sometimes less. They spread the sounds of flutes or saxophones, delicate piano figures, organic jazz drumming, arpeggiated analog synth-lines, mesmerizing strings, choral singing, alienated looped vocals, and spaced-out new aged spheres. What unites them all is the way, the melodies dance upon and in each single tune. Their beautiful textures ensnare and they are continuously engaged with experimentation. Vîntul Prin Salcii is a mystical album full of evolutionary music to which each listener is able to paint their very own emotional picture - moody, dark and at the same time light-flooded, shape-shifting compositions. Cover artwork by illustrator and photographer Julian Vassallo.
$11.99 UPC: 880319761522 ELECTRONIC
01. Miroslav 1
02. Miroslav 2
03. Miroslav 3
04. Miroslav 4
05. Miroslav 5
06. Miroslav 6
07. Miroslav 7
INSPIRESCU, PETRE: Vintul Prin Salcii 2LP (MUSIQ 211LP)
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$20.99 UPC: 880319847233 ELECTRONIC
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ALTMAN, LAURIE: Sonic Migrations: Music of Laurie Altman 2CD (NEOS 11614-15CD)
Laurie Altman's musical compositions on Sonic Migrations represent, in some way, a passage: A passage through places (globally), history and events, words, sonic environments, people's lives and their mutual emotions. The pieces are the by-product of a time span of some 25 years, encompassing diverse ensembles and sonic frameworks, far-flung influences, textures, and feelings. There are some outstanding artists playing, like Clipper Erickson (piano), or the Manhattan String Quartet, to name a few. And there is a technical innovation: The Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet (SABRE) is a bass clarinet, playable in the customary way, and equipped with various sensors with which a computer can be controlled. The original qualities of the instrument are retained, and through the connection to the computer a whole new field of possibilities and areas of application is opened up. With the SABRE, a musical instrument is available for the first time with which a direct connection between acoustic music and the digital world can be realized. The musician on stage can directly control this with his/her instrument, thus spontaneously placing the electronic music into a musical context. Moreover, other media such as visuals, light or video games can be controlled. "No Hay Olvido (Sonata)" features a poem by Pablo Neruda; "Laments of the Homeless Women" features apoem by David Sten Herrstrom. Personnel: Laurie Altman - piano; Randy Bauer - piano; Kuang-Hao Huang - piano; Clipper Erickson - piano; Patrice Michaels - soprano; Matthias Mueller - clarinet, SABRE; John Bruce Yeh - clarinet; Andrew Rathbun - saxophone; Cavatina Duo (Eugenia Moliner - flute; Denis Azabagic - guitar) and Manhattan String Quartet.
$20.39 EAN: 4260063116148 CLASSICAL
1.01. Five Variations on Rachmaninoff for piano (1994) (12:46)
1.02. Through the Cracks for clarinet and piano (2015) (4:47)
1.03. No Hay Olvido (Sonata) for soprano, flute and guitar (1994) (12:21)
1.04. Filaments for two pianos (2004), re-imagined by Randy Bauer (7:04)
1.05. Brahms Takes for clarinet and string quartet (2012) 05:55
1.06. Brahms Takes for clarinet and string quartet (2012) 03:16
1.07. Brahms Takes for clarinet and string quartet (2012) 04:29

1.08. Selfless Gifts for soprano saxophone and piano (2012) (6:29)

Piano Sonata # 7 "Tanzania" (2011):
2.01. I. Drumming I (5:05)
2.02. II. Legacy (8:52)
2.03. III. Drumming II (3:29)
2.04. IV. Song Dance (10:10)
Laments of the Homeless Women for soprano, clarinet and piano (1992):
2.05. I. Saint Escalator (3:02)
2.06. II. Today I Shall Collect a Look (3:35)
2.07. III. Condemned (3:05)
2.08. IV. Inside Things (1:59)
2.09. V. A Sidewalk Life (3:25)
2.10. Sonic Drifts for Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet (2014) (9:03)
2.11. Shirakawa River Song for string quartet (2015) (7:24)
2.12. Ten Miniatures for Piano (2009) (13:16)
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ALBRECHT LA'BROOY: Emissary EP 12" (NTTD 003EP)
On Albrecht La'Brooy's Emissary EP, the Melbourne duo's live approach to programming and arrangement can be heard as the tracks ebb and flow effortlessly. In "Tempelhof", sub swells and a throbbing kick accompany delicate leads and lightly touched drums. "Hinterhof" pulses and sways with lively percussion, crystalline bells, euphoric strings and softly-spoken melodies. "U-Bahn / S-Bahn" begins with glistening top lines and panoramic chords over a growling bass and a steady groove. As the journey rolls on from the underground into open-air window-gazing territory, the piece takes an ambient, beatless turn.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038312667 ELECTRONIC
Side A
01. Tempelhof
02. Hinterhof
Side B
03. U-Bahn / S-Bahn
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MOKOOMBA: Luyando CD (OH 030CD)
Luyando means "mother's love" in Tonga, a language that is spoken by the first inhabitants of the Zambezi Valley of Southern Africa. But beyond the word, Luyando goes to the heart of Mokoomba's music. Lyrical and beautifully breezy, Luyando is a spiritual journey into the heart of Zimbabwean society, culture, and tradition. On Luyando, Mokoomba modified their rock-band oriented line-up to record a more raw, acoustic album. The songs are rooted in the local traditions and life in their hometown of Victoria Falls, a town on the Zambezi River, named after the Victoria Falls. When the band first hit the music scene their blend of traditional rhythms and contemporary Zimrock took the country by storm. Mokoomba brought a unique flavor to a scene that was dominated by sungura, reggae, and dancehall, urban and Afro jazz bands. On Luyando, Mokoomba dig even deeper into their heritage: Luyando takes the listener back into the past to a vanishing world of traditions that used to be at the heart of Tonga and Luvale society, their customs, rituals, and even day-to-day life. There are the cautionary and instructive tracks like, "Njawane", which advises young hunters of how to act when faced with a dangerous lion. The haunting "Kumukanda" is inspired by a Tonga initiation ceremony and "Mabemba" speaks about the values of the Tonga people. The lighter, and more playful "Nyaradzo" is a song of cheeky courtship and "Kulindiswe" is a personal lament on the hardships of band life. Victoria Falls, a meeting point of a multitude of traditions, is the main inspiration for the lead singer and composer, Mathias Muzaza. While Tonga dominates as a language of composition and the native language of most members of the group, the songs are sung in at least three other languages: Shona, Luvale, and Ndebele. Most members of the group are ethnically Tonga one of Zimbabwe's (and Zambia's) smallest ethnic groups. The history of the Tonga is crucial to Luyando and central to the project is Kambowa the song that speaks of a key moment of Tonga history, the traumatic displacement of the Tonga from their ancestral lands in 1955 to make way for the Kariba dam. At present, Zimbabwe is in a state of economic turbulence and political uncertainty. Luyando is, in its own small way, a place where everyone who aspires for better is welcome.
$10.39 EAN: 4015698009712 WORLD
01. Mokole (4:14)
02. Kulindiswe (4:25)
03. Kumukanda (4:15)
04. Luyando (4:10)
05. Kambowa (3:52)
06. Njawane (4:54)
07. Muzwile (4:34)
08. Vimbe (4:05)
09. Mabemba (4:31)
10. Nyaradzo (3:38)
MOKOOMBA: Luyando LP (OH 030LP)
LP version. Includes a booklet and a download code.
$12.99 EAN: 4015698009729 WORLD
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YUKSEK: Nous Horizon CD (FINE 032CD)
Nous Horizon is Yuksek's great studio album comeback, following his last album, Living On The Edge Of Time (2011). Yuksek's characteristic sound, midway between post-disco, house, and pop, shines through on its various tracks. Even more than on Living On The Edge Of Time, Yuksek shows his talent as a singer. Nous Horizon is an album of mostly duets, invitations to sing together ("Break My Heart", "Sunrise", "Sweet Addiction", "Stay"), featuring Greek singer Monika, French pop bands Her, Juveniles, Kim, and Roman Rappak (Breton). His new melodies are sunnier than before; his beats and production more subtle. Airy, but still conveying a touch of hedonism in its most club-friendly sounds, Nous Horizon is Yuksek's writing of a musical story. At the start of the 2000s, Yuksek released a series of maxis and then two albums: Away From The Sea (2009) and Living On The Edge Of Time. Those records laid the foundations of a sound that uncompromisingly combined pop, disco, and electro. Then in 2013, he set up his own label Partyfine. It is now home to artists such as Clarens, Weekend Affair, Get A Room!, Jean Tonique, Juveniles, TEPR, and Villa. Since the end of his international tour, Yuksek has moved on from live performance and has been working from his studio at the French National Drama Center in Reims. Since 2013, he has collaborated with Chassol, Keren Ann, Yaya Herman Dune, JD Samson, Boston Bun, The Magician (Peter & The Magician), and Alex Metric (The Alexanders), all while continuing to make remixes (Lana Del Rey, Phoenix, M83, Gorillaz, Empire Of The Sun). Yuksek has also devoted a lot of time to writing for cinema, television, and the stage. He composed the philharmonic orchestral music for the original soundtrack of Valérie Donzelli's movie Marguerite et Julien, which was in competition at the 2015 Cannes Festival, and music for a Ingmar Bergman play performed by Sophie Marceau on the Arte TV channel. He also wrote the instrumental arrangements for director Ludovic Lagarde's 2014 adaptation of L'Avare (The Miser) and has composed music for documentaries.
$10.99 EAN: 3770007112156 ELECTRONIC
01. Golden Hands
02. Sunrise (feat. Kim)
03. Break My Heart (feat. Monika)
04. We Love / Nous Horizon
05. Make It Easy (feat. Monika)
06. Make It Happen
07. Sweet Addiction (feat. Her)
08. Golden Age
09. Keep Looking In My Eyes
10. Live Alone (feat. Roman Rappak)
11. I Don't Care
12. Complicated (feat. Her)
13. Stay (feat. Juveniles)
YUKSEK: Nous Horizon 2x12" (FINE 032LP)
2x12" version.
$16.39 EAN: 3770007112309 ELECTRONIC
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MARVIN & GUY: Fire ! Fire ! 12" (PERMVAC 156-1EP)
"Fire ! Fire ! Dance with me." Permanent Vacation's first release in 2017 comes from the Marvin & Guy. They recorded four blissful tracks of fresh, twisted, and tingled creepy disco wave and eternal Route 66 flavor. The two cowboys want to give you the opportunity to dream and dance in the same intense way. "Despierta (Tus Sentidos)" features Mexico's hottest Zombies In Miami on the mic.
$9.79 UPC: 673795715611 ELECTRONIC
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PILOTS ON DOPE: Udopeia - The Remixes 2LP (PMG 5702485LP)
The acoustic debut album Udopeia created by the band Pilots On Dope was issued by the Verve label in June 2014. The sound has its roots in Brazil's broad-ranging musical traditions, including bossa, samba and Afro Brazil, and evokes the golden age of the '60s. Consequently, the album went on to serve as the starting point for well-known mixers from the Pilots On Dope milieu. Taking this development to a second stage, Udopeia - The Remixes is aimed at an audience accustomed to electronic beats but also with an interest in musical reflexes and retro influences. The remix album cleverly covers this musical spectrum, from exotic Latin sounds through to contemporary electronic remix culture. The Vienna electronic movement, popular in the nineties, was a counterpart to the nu jazz movement which was emerging in Germany at the same time, which was strongly influenced by offshoots of acid jazz. During the epoch-making close of the long-lasting acid jazz trend, a series of producers became established in Germany and England, drawing on elements of Latin, Brazil, easy listening, jazz and soul, and created a veritable boom which went on to influence and inspire producers in Italy and France. Their Austrian equivalent was certainly the Vienna electronic movement which triggered a literal downbeat cult, creating a distinctive genre with its striking funk riffs. Sampling, a by-product of hip hop, was certainly a key element in the resounding success of Kruder & Dorfmeister, the pioneers of Vienna electronic. Despite the reduced tempo, this trend would conquer the dancefloor, generating its own identity and a musical code - light and raunchy, underpinned with an atmospheric soundscape, and overlaid with a pulsing rhythm in the heartbeat of flickering sound densities. The remix project brings together a wide range of producers who made history with Vienna electronic, in particular past master Richard Dorfmeister and artists from his G-Stone label including Stereotyp, Makossa & Megablast, and Gü-Mix. They are joined by fellow remixers such as Shanti Roots and the Pilots' Gerald Tomez (Vienna Scientists) and Gerhard Gigler (DJ Bunani). The newcomers Shantisan, Ksawa, and Corrado Bucci from Brescia, bring with them promising credentials and refreshing contributions. Enriched with further remixes by well-known producers including Rainer Trüby (Freiburg), Farrapo (Bologna), and Trotter (São Paolo), the result is a magnificent cross-section of remixes which have found their ideal home on the ultimate Verve label. Edition of 500.
$20.99 UPC: 710473193498 ELECTRONIC
01. Tem De Ser (Richard Dorfmeister Uhhlalala Dub Version) (7:28)
02. Tem De Ser (Gü-Mix & Shanti Roots Remix) (6:48)
03. Tem De Ser (Makossa & Megablast Remake) (7:44)
04. Isto É Samba (Stereotyp Remix) (5:45)
05. Lá Vem Salgueiro (Pilots On Dope Long Distance Dub) (8:30)
06. Rei Do Quilombo (Rainer Trüby & Corrado Bucci Present Truccy Remix) (5:57)
07. Tenha Fé Pois Amanhã Um Lindo Dia Vai Nascer (Trotter Remix) (6:10)
08. Que Isso Menina (Shantisan Bossa No Mar Remix) (4:34)
09. Que Isso Menina (DJ Farrapo Remix) (4:26)
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DADDY LONGLEGS: Daddy Longlegs CD (PT 8067CD)
Prog Temple present a reissue of Daddy Longlegs' self-titled debut album, originally released in 1970. Playing a warm, good-natured mixture of country, blues and pop, this expatriate American band was an instant hit with British underground audiences. Originally released in May 1970, their classic debut album makes a welcome return to CD here, together with background notes and images.
$11.99 EAN: 4753314806719 ROCK
01. Tell The Captain
02. New Mexico Song
03. Lady In Waiting
04. Bad Blood, Mama
05. High Again
06. Waiting For The Snow To Fall
07. Farewell
08. Motorcycle
09. Behind The Waterfall
10. Bein' Here Blue
11. Whisky Moan
DEAD SEA FRUIT: Dead Sea Fruit CD (PT 8069CD)
Prog Temple present Dead Sea Fruit's self-titled album, originally released in 1967.This good-humored British quintet have been likened to the Kinks, the Mothers of Invention, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Based in France, they appeared on TV with Salvador Dali and performed in London venues including the legendary UFO, but made no commercial breakthrough and broke up in 1968, leaving behind one rare album. Originally released in April 1967, it makes its long overdue CD debut here, together with background notes and images.
$11.99 EAN: 4753314806917 ROCK
01. The 8.15 And The 5.45
02. Put Another Record On
03. Psychiatric Case
04. Mr. Barman
05. Matters
06. Seeds Of Discontent
07. I'll Come With You
08. I've Been Away Too Long
09. Mr. Coffee Pot
10. Time Waits For No One
11. I Should Have Guessed
12. Kensington High Street
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GNOOMES: Tschak! CD (LAUNCH 105CD)
Gnoomes, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, present Tschak!. It may only be eighteen months since the release of Ngan!, the band's first release for Rocket Recordings (LAUNCH 082CD/LP, 2015), yet the band have already moved on to a sonic landscape still more adventurous and ethereal on Tschak!, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach that's bewitching to witness. Taking in torrents of guitar, noise, and electronic extrapolations, both bliss-fully kosmische and aggressively abrasive, it exists outside of all or any convenient genres, a vivid and singular work by three dreamers-at-heart forced to manifest their vision into a psychic defense to the circumstances surrounding them. Working in splendid isolation, thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the alchemical process of creating Tschak! entirely on their own terms. Central to this were a collection of Russian synths that they gathered, whose eccentric arpeggios and analog textures form crucial ingredients on songs like "Severokamsk" and the title track, which allows them arrive at a sound that forms a star-crossed and timeless marriage between the experimentation of krautrock and the lineage of Warp Records.
$10.99 EAN: 5055300389268 ROCK
01. Super Libido
02. Maria
03. Cascais
04. Severokamsk
05. Tschak!
06. City Monk
07. In the Park
08. One Step
09. ADSR Eugraph
10. B-Day
GNOOMES: Tschak! LP (LAUNCH 105LP)
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$20.99 EAN: 5055300389251 ROCK
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ENGLISH, LAWRENCE: Cruel Optimism CD (RM 470CD)
"Cruel Optimism is a record that considers power (present and absent). It meditates on how power consumes, augments, and ultimately shapes two subsequent human conditions: obsession and fragility. . . . This edition owes its title and its origins to the wonderful text of the same name by American theorist Lauren Berlant. . . . In Cruel Optimism, I found a number of critical readings around the issues that have fueled so much of the music I have been making recently. Beyond her keen analysis of the relations of attachment as they pertain to conditions of possibility in the everyday, it was particularly her writing around trauma I found deeply affecting. It was a jumping off point from which a plague of unsettling impressions of suffering, intolerance, and ignorance could be unpacked and utilized as fuel over and above pointless frustration. When I made Wilderness Of Mirrors (RM 460CD/LP, 2014) clouds of unease were overhead. As I have worked through Cruel Optimism, what seemed an unimaginable future just a few years prior, began to present as actual. Over the course of creating the record, we collectively bore witness to a new wave of humanitarian and refugee crisis (captured so succinctly in the photograph of Alan Kurdi's tiny body motionless on the shore), the Black Lives Matter movement, the widespread use of sonic weapons on civilians, increased drone strikes in Waziristan, Syria and elsewhere, and record low numbers of voting around Brexit and the US election cycle, suggesting a wider sense of disillusionment and powerlessness. Acutely for me and other Australians, we've faced dire intolerance concerning race and continued inequalities related to gender and sexuality. The storm has broken and feels utterly visceral. Cruel Optimism is a meditation on these challenges and an encouragement to press forward towards more profound futures. Beyond the motivations forging the record, the process by which this edition was created was unlike many of my other records. Having worked largely alone in recent years, I wanted to shift away from that approach. . . . I count myself exceptionally fortunate to have been able to call on so many fine musicians in the making of this album. . . . I couldn't be more pleased to share Cruel Optimism with you." --Lawrence English, October 2016 Contributions in various forms from: Mats Gustafsson, Mary Rapp, Tony Buck, Chris Abrahams, Werner Dafeldecker, Norman Westberg, Brodie McAllister, Australian Voices, Vanessa Tomlinson, Heinz Riegler, and Thor Harris.
$12.79 UPC: 739027481942 ELECTRONIC
A1. Hard Rain
A2. The Quietest Shore
A3. Hammering A Screw
A4. Crow
A5. Requiem For A Reaper
A6. Pillar Of Cloud
A7. Exquisite Human Microphone
B1. Object Of Projection
B2. Negative Drone
B3. Somnambulist
B4. Moribund Territories
ENGLISH, LAWRENCE: Cruel Optimism LP (RM 470LP)
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$16.39 UPC: 739027481867 ELECTRONIC
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JANSEN, STEVE: The Extinct Suite CD (SJ 002CD)
With Steve Jansen on drums, Japan enjoyed huge success whilst simultaneously creating a back catalog of music that still inspires today. Fast forward to 2007, after many years collaborating with artists such as Richard Barbieri, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Bernd Friedmann, Steve released his debut, solo album Slope. Steve Jansen's second solo album Tender Extinction (HEADCOUNT 037LP/SJ 001CD, 2016) was an evocative blend of songs and instrumentals. The Extinct Suite is a reinterpretation of the more ambient and orchestral elements of this last album Tender Extinction. Not a remix by any means, some familiar passages are woven together with additional pieces to create a suite of instrumentals lasting over 55 minutes as one single track. Written, performed, produced and mixed by Steve Jansen. Personnel: Steve Jansen - piano, synths, sampled instruments, string arrangements, sound design; Additional contributors: Melentini Toila - trumpet; Seigen Tokuzawa - cello; Thomas Feiner - background vocals; Stelios Romaliadis - flute; Giorgos Varoutas - guitar treatments.
$10.99 UPC: 692264689338 ELECTRONIC
01. The Extinct Suite Part 1
02. The Extinct Suite Part 2
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SPECTRES: Condition CD (SCR 130CD)
The follow-up to Spectres' acclaimed 2015 debut Dying (SCR 090B-LP/090CD), Condition was recorded by Dominic Mitchison and mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road in London. It's louder and more abrasive than their debut, but also a real progression. It sounds huge and adds a genuinely innovative and confrontational edge. "There were discussions about experimenting with electronics, but the idea soon petered out when we realized we still wanted to experiment with guitars," reveals singer and guitarist Joe Hatt. As a result tracks such as "End Waltz" have a relentlessly pounding, almost techno structure, in contrast to the kinetosis-inducing dirge of "Dissolve". Elsewhere, the almost restrained (by Spectres' standards) white noise and wordplay of "A Fish Called Wanda" and the sprawling "Colour Me Out" are counterbalanced by brutal assaults such as "Neck" and "Welcoming The Flowers". "On this album we became even less interested in actually playing guitar," explains Hatt, "which meant that we got more into experimenting with the sounds we could get out of them when brutalizing them and letting the feedback do the talking."
$10.99 EAN: 5055300391797 ROCK
01. The Beginning Of An End
02. Rubber Plant
03. Dissolve
04. Neck
05. A Fish Called Wanda
06. Welcoming The Flowers
07. Colour Me Out
08. End Waltz
09. Coping Mechanism
SPECTRES: Condition LP (SCR 130LP)
LP version. Independent-store-exclusive colored vinyl; Comes in a gatefold sleeve."
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AFRO SUPER-FEELINGS LED BY SEGUN OKEJI: I Like Woman LP (SPLP 002LP)
Soul Patrol Records present a reissue of I Like Woman from Afro Super-Feelings led by Segun Okeji. Two side-long, super-rare Nigerian monsters. Afro-beat groovers from Lagos by artist and musician Sugen Okeji. The songs were arranged and written by Okeji who also provided lead vocals and solo tenor sax. Okeji was the tenor saxophonist for Fela Kuti and Koola Lobitos Band in Nigeria in the late '60s. This record is a true gem and surely one a hard-to-find piece of African music history. It is easily the rarest and best work by one of Afro-beat's major figures. Edition of 500.
$16.99 EAN: 3700077617220 WORLD
A1. I Like Woman (14:57)
B1. Afro Super-Feelings In Disco (14:41)
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SKIANTOS: Inascoltable LP (SPITTLE 073LP)
Spittle Records present a reissue of Skiantos's Inascoltable, originally released in 1977. Inascoltable is the first album from Bolognese group Skiantos, the band that added a completely different flavor to the rock underground with their delirious performances and over the top lyrics. Released through Oderso Rubini's Harpo's Bazaar label (later Italian Records) in 1977 on cassette format, the album was recorded in one night in November 1977 in a session that was almost improvised. It was later printed on LP in 1979. This reissue from the original master does full justice to the insanely creative playing of the band fronted by Freak Antoni, who were true forerunners of demented rock and virtuous artists capable of colorfully interpreting all the non-standard rock movements from the British and American underground. This record wouldn't be out of place in the Zappa discography, although the whole turned out a little bit more punk...
$14.39 EAN: 8033706210734 ROCK
A1. Permanent Flebo
A2. Lieve Affranto (Moderato Dolore)
A3. Io Ti Spacco La Faccia (Dal Vivo)
A4. Makaroni
A5. Io Sono Un Pestone
A6. Non Puoi Troncarmi Un Rock
A7. Permanent Flebo Reprise
B1. Sono Rozzo, Sono Grezzo
B2. Blues A Balues
B3. Io Vi Odio
B4. Spacco Tutto
B5. Inascoltabile (Strumentale)
B6. Io Te La Do Su B7 Tutti Fatti
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UNIVERSO: Underworld EP 12" (STEP 014EP)
Polish producer Universo's Underworld EP is a package of softly glowing lo-fi that fans of Baltra's Sophia EP (STEP 011EP, 2016) will relish. "Underworld" unfolds at a steady, hypnotic pace as moody, interlocking chords are paired with a gentle spoken vocal, working together create a poignant, eyes-down mood. Icy strings and a trippy spoken are introduced before "Kora Buta" follows with warm, swooning sample work. The distant, meandering thumb pianos and rainy textures of "Sleeper" color the track's fuzzy drums while a Legowelt-esque pad glides overhead. "Frequenza" starts with a soft, sizzling pad sent ducking under a rock-hard kick drum.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038316962 ELECTRONIC
A1. Underworld
A2. Kora Buta
B1. Sleeper
B2. Frequenza
STEPPAS RECORDS (UK):
AKETI RAY/ALPHA & OMEGA: Mirror/Reflect & Rise 12" (AS 1516EP)
Aketi Ray are an all-acoustic dub-jazz group from London playing compositions grounded in the instrumental music from post-independence Jamaica, Ethiopian, US jazz, West African percussion traditions, and UK steppas. The tracks here are influenced by UK-dub pioneers Alpha & Omega. "Mirror" is influenced by the classic Alpha & Omega track "Show Me A Purpose"; a piece which explores the difficulty of coming to know oneself. Alpha & Omega provide a deep and spiritual remix. "Reflect & Rise" moves on from a reflective mood into one that's focused and resolute with horn arrangements by Kevin Robinson. 180 gram vinyl.
$8.99 UPC: N/A WORLD
01. Mirror
02. Reflect & Rise
03. Mirror (Alpha & Omega Remix)
04. Mirror Dub (Alpha & Omega Remix)
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JOAKIM: Samurai 2LP+CD (BEC 5156734)
French producer Joakim on Samurai: "This is a very personal record. I tried to channel the emotions and spontaneity I had when I first started making music. It's not about nostalgia, it's about the freshness and directness - call it naivety - you lose when you start becoming a professional musician. I moved to New York almost five years ago. These past few years have been a weird combination of excitement and quite challenging events. I've learnt what it means to be exiled, in every sense. This album is about that, being far away from 'home' and from yourself and finding your way back. The album is built like an unknown city, you walk through it, making random turns, getting lost, some corners may bring back memories, you're getting away from something and at the same time you're on a quest. Hence the importance of listening to it in its entirety (yes, I'm a utopian)." Double LP version comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes a CD.
$18.99 EAN: 5060421567341 ELECTRONIC
A1. In The Beginning
A2. Samurai
A3. Numb
B1. Late Night New City
B2. Green Echo Mecha
B3. Cannibale Pastorale
C1. Exile
C2. Through The Prospect Park Arch
C3. Time Is Wrong
C4. Mind Bent
D1. Jocho
D2. Not Because You're Sad
D3. Hope / Patience
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DEK TRIO: KEN VANDERMARK/ELISABETH HARNIK/DIDI KERN: Burning Below Zero CD (TROST 139CD)
DEK Trio is a new improvised music trio that features Austrians Elisabeth Harnik (piano) and Didi Kern (drums), and American Ken Vandermark (reeds), who have been performing together since September of 2014, both in Europe and in the United States. In 2016 they were featured as part of Vandermark's residency at the Stone in New York City. Their music has a wide range of influences, coming from sources based in Harnik's work as an internationally acclaimed new music composer, Kern's profile on European rock scene, and Vandermark's two decades of work at both home and abroad, touring, recording, and collaborating with dozens of world renowned musicians as diverse as Getachew Mekuria and John Tilbury. The end result of these backgrounds and the open ended musical curiosity of the group is an extraordinary group aesthetic, inclusive and expressive and instantaneous.
$11.99 EAN: 9120036682061 JAZZ
01. RAJ One (29:00)
02. RAJ Two (25:00)
03. RAJ Three (4:19)
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TENSNAKE: Machines/Black As Flies 12" (TREP 015EP)
Berlin's True Romance is back on the disco train for their fifteenth release. Label boss Tensnake is at the wheel this time with two irresistible tracks. First in line is the sci-fi infused "Machines", a catchy slow analog burner with deep synthetic bass lines, etheric melodies and floating French vocals - the perfect soundtrack to blissfully cruise the foggy, neon-drenched nights of a dystopian future. "Black As Flies" slings the listener back under the blazing sun. Starting with sultry vocals and a stripped down disco-not-disco vibe, the track morphs into a unique blend of Italo-Zouk madness.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038317341 ELECTRONIC
A1. Machines
B1. Black As Flies
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FUNKE, SASCHA: IFA 12" (TURBO 186EP)
Berlin's Sascha Funke weighs in with a hard-hitting new four-tracker for Tiga's label. "IFA" sounds like the kind of peak-time party power you'd expect in the darker hours of the deepest sets - basic, visceral limb pumping with full disorientation and actual mind-losing. "Robur" rolls out of that space with minimalistic-tribalism, sounding like a mental apocalyptic march. "MZ" opens up with a chord progression that blooms into ecstatic, piano-house - think "oldschool baby', revisited with bittersweet self-awareness. "Barkas" recalls the tones and timbres from In Relationen (2016), reflecting an emotionally placid state - a sound of radiant clarity.
$9.79 EAN: 4012957818603 ELECTRONIC
A1. IFA
A2. Robur
B1. MZ
B2. Barkas
TIGA: Eye Luv U 12" (TURBO 188EP)
Tiga is back to tell you what you've always needed to hear with Eye Luv U. Co-produced by one half of Paranoid London, the single harnesses all the pure source energy of what enlightened club-goers describe as their favorite emotion. Scottish talent Jasper James darkens the tone on his remix, which would not be out of place at a classic off-the-grid warehouse rave. Butch's equally great "80's Warehouse Acid Remix" also lays claim to that warehouse, challenging what it means to be "warehouse" in an age when corporations pay people to throw parties in what used to be underground settings.
$9.79 EAN: 4012957818832 ELECTRONIC
A1. Eye Luv U (Original Mix)
B1. Eye Luv U (Butch's 80's Warehouse Acid Remix)
B2. Eye Luv U (Jasper James Remix)
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HACKNEY COLLIERY BAND: Sharpener 2LP (HCB 002LP)
After the phenomenal success of 2016's critically-acclaimed Sharpener, which hit number 3 in the iTunes jazz charts and number 14 in the Independent Album charts, Hackney Colliery Band present a double vinyl version of the album, featuring three bonus dancefloor-friendly tracks. On the back of two hugely successful albums and almost constant touring, HCB's third album Sharpener shows the band on more confident form than ever, with powerful new electronic elements and a dancefloor sensibility adding to the jazz, rock and soul for which they are known. Building on the strength of their critically-acclaimed original writing, Sharpener has a powerful set of originals at its core, alongside a trio of leftfield covers in the shape of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box", Kwabs's "Wrong Or Right", and Three Trapped Tigers' "Cramm". With the addition of three covers, this vinyl release resounds with the humor, musicianship, and charm which HCB are known for. "Heroes", a bouncy tribute to the late David Bowie, "Rolling In The Deep" was commissioned as part of the band's 45 minute set at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, and "Give It Up", as heard on the 2016 Ambrosia Deluxe custard advertisement. Album opener "Jump Then Run" echoes the sound of the legendary Moondog, while "Gather Your Wits" is a roof-raising rumble of brass and rebellious behavior. "Wrong Or Right", a soulful version of London soul star Kwabs's great tune, comes to life with juicy menace before "The Morning", an uplifting and anthemic arrangement, builds into joyous hedonism. "When You Know" gives space to the band's superb jazz chops, while album title track "Sharpener" is a big, bold, brassy, and utterly mesmerizing affair. It's perhaps the band's outstanding arrangements which sets them apart. From the intricacies of "Timelapse" to the introspection of "Reawake", from the punky rock groove of "It's Normally Bigger" (based on a true story) to the rave jazz of "Bread And Circuses", the arrangements throughout showcase writers Steve Pretty, Olly Blackman, and Luke Christie's contrasting styles and ability to switch from screaming energy to moody introspection, from cutting-edge jazz to dancefloor rave, proving that Hackney Colliery Band is not just another party brass band blowing through the usual pop covers. Double LP comes on heavyweight vinyl, one red, one blue; Comes in a gatefold sleeve.
$25.79 UPC: 666017312217 ROCK
A1. Jump Then Run
A2. Gather Your Wits
A3. Wrong Or Right
A4. The Morning Side
B1. When You Know
B2. Sharpener
B3. Timelapse
B4. Cramm

C1. Reawake
C2. It's Normally Bigger
C3. Heart Shaped Box Side
D1. Bread And Circuses
D2. Heroes
D3. Rolling In The Deep
D4. Give It Up
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MINA: Moliendo Cafe LP (VNL 1301LP)
Moliendo Cafe is an incredible compilation of singles recorded by Mina in the sixties for the Spanish and South American market. Some of them are original versions written by Spanish and Latin composers, some others were written in English and then translated. Some of them are huge successes performed by the so-called "Tigre di Cremona" ("Il Cielo In Una Stanza", "Mi Vuoi Lasciar"). Of great interest is the Spanish version of the immortal "Dindi" (written by António Carlos Jobim) and "Un Desierto (Heisser Sand)" originally recorded for the German market and then immediately translated in Italian as "Si, Lo So".
$14.39 EAN: 8033706215081 ROCK
A1. El Cielo En Casa (Il Cielo In Una Stanza)
A2. Me Abandonas (Mi Vuoi Lasciar)
A3. Locamente Te Amare (Makin' Love
A4. Moliendo Cafe
A5. Renato
A6. Me Miran Prous
A7. La Misma Playa
A8. Un Desierto (Heisser Sand)
B1. Dindi
B2. Ollalla Gigi
B3. Dejadme Llorar
B4. Chihuahua
B5. Y De Ahi?
B6. Que Que No
B7. El Globito
B8. S'en Va Anar
B9. Pensar En Ti
DALIDA: La Plus Belle Du Monde LP (VNL 1302LP)
Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti (January 17, 1933 - May 3, 1987), better known as Dalida, was an Egyptian-born Italian-French singer and actress who performed and recorded in more than ten languages, including Arabic, Italian, Greek, German, French, English, Japanese, Hebrew, Dutch, and Spanish. In 1961, she acquired French citizenship upon marriage, while maintaining her original Italian one. La Plus Belle Du Monde is a compilation that traces her earlier roots with a selection of 12 fine tracks, now regarded as pop classics. A stunning interpretation of "Ciao Ciao Bambina" (written by famous Italian songwriter and pop celebrity Domenico Modugno, author of internationally admired "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu") and "Romantica" (written by actor Renato Rascel) are among the best moments of this marvelous collection.
$14.39 EAN: 8033706215098 ROCK
A1. Histoire D'un Amour
A2. Lazzarella
A3. Bambino
A4. Romantica
A5. Parlez-Moi D'amour
A6. Le Jour Ou La Pluie Viendra
B1. J'ai Rêve
B2. Dans Le Bleu Du Ciel Bleu (Volare)
B3. La Plus Belle Du Monde
B4. Itsi Bitsi Petit Bikini
B5. Mille Baisers
B6. Ciao Ciao Bambina
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MAKIRERE, ANNA: Tiare Avatea LP (LA 015LP)
"The lone recordings of teenaged vocalist Anna Makirere of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Sung in close harmony in Māori Kuki Airan, Tiare Avatea pairs Makirere's casual yet masterful vocalizations with virtuoso accompanists. Somewhere between slack-key and flat-picked, the brilliant guitar work is seasoned tastefully with sunburned effects. Translating literally to 'Afternoon Flower,' this radiant collection of originals and traditionals was issued regionally on cassette in 1981. It remains a unique look into Cook Islands sound and style."
$11.75 UPC: N/A WORLD
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MANIKINS, THE: From Broadway To Blazes 2LP (MFG 026LP)
"From the same scene that begat the Scientists and the Victims came Perth, Australia's The Manikins. Founded by Neil Fernandes -- a former member of the legendary Cheap Nasties with future Scientists member Kim Salmon -- the Manikins bridged the rawness of their Aussie punk contemporaries with melodic power pop. From Broadway To Blazes features all the band's essential recordings from 1971 to 1981, including the three criminally rare and outrageously expensive self-released 7" singles (Models for Mankind, Premonition, and Love at Second Sight), their DIY cassette and more unreleased studio recordings as well as detailed liner notes by Fernandes. Manufactured Recordings presents one of the final, untold stories of the original Australian punk and new wave scene."
$18.75 UPC: 813195020247 ROCK
MODULATORS, THE: Tomorrow's Coming LP (MFG 045LP)
"Formed in 1980, New Jersey's the Modulators are one of the unsung greats of the American power pop scene. Initially the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Joe Riccardello with help from producer/lyricist (and Vintage Vinyl Records owner) Rob Roth, Ricardello released his first single Girl Trouble in 1980 just before bringing on friends Mark Higgins (guitar) and Mark 'Cakes' Westlake (drums) to join the band. As a fully-formed trio, the Modulators began playing out across New Jersey in the early 80's and recorded tracks for two local compilations and the band's second, enduring single She's So Cynical in 1982. Live gigs and songwriting continued, with the band often writing and recording more material than their release schedule could keep up with. Finally in 1984, the band released their first and only LP, Tomorrow's Coming on Roth's Vintage Vinyl Records. Full of timeless gems and quintessential 80's power pop anthems, the record is now regarded as a genre classic by power pop collectors. Tracks like 'Spin Me Around,' 'If You Let Her Go,' and 'Lost Without a Sound' display the Modulators' smart songwriting, catchy hooks, and effortless pop sensibility. Though the band continued to play the tri-state area until 1986 (and every now and then since), Tomorrow's Coming was the Modulator's last vinyl release. Bringing together the band's entire discography with an additional 14 unreleased songs and demo tracks and liner notes from power pop collector Steve Borchardt, Manufactured Recordings is proud to present the definitive release of this power pop classic."
$12.50 UPC: 813195021978 ROCK
SMART REMARKS: Foreign Fields: 1982-1984 LP (MFG 046LP)
"Smart Remarks began in 1980 with Todd Ellis (guitar, vocals), Chris Gordon (bass), and Ant Barbalace (drums) as an original punk/ power pop trio out of Bordentown, NJ. School friends and co-workers at the local Ocean Spray Cranberry factory, the band was influenced by early power pop bands like Paul Collins' Beat, The Records, The Knack, and especially the Staten Island, NY three-piece Dirty Looks. Smart Remarks recorded their first single Was It Something We Said? in 1982, which spawned the power pop classic 'Mary's Got Her Eye On Me.' Often the opening act for larger bands that came through town (The Replacements, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Haircut 100), the band became the favorite house band at Trenton, NJ's famous City Gardens Night Club. Smart Remarks re-entered the studio in 1984 to record the five track EP Seriously Speaking with new bassist Steve DeStefano, which would become their final recording together. Collecting Smart Remarks' entire discography and including liner notes from Randy 'Now' Ellis, the famed owner of City Gardens, Foreign Fields: 1982- 1984 is a must for fans of classic, catchy US power pop."
$12.50 UPC: 813195022005 ROCK
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