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NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 02/27/2017
first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 02/27/2017
second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label
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BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, THE: Don't Get Lost CD (AUK 040CD)
Don't Get Lost was fully recorded and produced at Anton Newcombe's new Cobra Studio in Berlin. It is the 16th full length release from The Brian Jonestown Massacre. It was recorded from March 2016 to October 2016 with band members Ricky Maymi, Dan Allaire, Collin Hegna, and Ryan Van Kriedt. Saxophonist Emil Nikolaisen, from the Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh, joins the band, and there are vocal performances from Tim Burgess (Charlatans), Tess Parks, and Shaun Rivers. A new dynamic is heard on Don't Get Lost, mixing a shoegaze and psychedelic sound with more experimental twists on some tracks you might hear from Public Image Limited's Metalbox (1979), Primal Scream , or even Ornette Coleman. 14 tracks that will twist-and-turn through the known, and the unknown, Brian Jonestown Massacre. Anton Newcombe has been a very busy man these past two years, kicking off with the critically acclaimed Brian Jonestown Massacre album Revelation in May 2014 (AUK 030CD/LP). After a successful UK and European tour, the BJM followed this up with the + - EP in November of the same year (AUK 031EP). 2015 saw the release of Musique de film imaginé in April (AUK 032CD/LP); an imaginary film soundtrack album featuring the track "Bonbon" which has, ironically, been used in Dheepan, the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival of 2015. In June, Anton and Tess Parks embarked on a well-received tour of the UK and Europe to support the release of I Declare Nothing (AUK 120CD/LP). Anton finished 2015 with a BJM mini-album release entitled Mini Album Thingy Wingy (AUK 033-10, 033CD/LP). In 2016, the band released two singles and the critically-acclaimed Third World Pyramid (AUK 036CD/LP). The band have been touring the world since November 2015, playing Australia, New Zealand, and then, in 2016, USA, Canada, Europe, Chile, and Argentina.
$10.39 EAN: 5055869542876 ROCK
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BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, THE: Don't Get Lost 2LP (AUK 040LP)
Double LP version. 180 gram, yellow-colored vinyl. Don't Get Lost was fully recorded and produced at Anton Newcombe's new Cobra Studio in Berlin. It is the 16th full length release from The Brian Jonestown Massacre. It was recorded from March 2016 to October 2016 with band members Ricky Maymi, Dan Allaire, Collin Hegna, and Ryan Van Kriedt. Saxophonist Emil Nikolaisen, from the Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh, joins the band, and there are vocal performances from Tim Burgess (Charlatans), Tess Parks, and Shaun Rivers. A new dynamic is heard on Don't Get Lost, mixing a shoegaze and psychedelic sound with more experimental twists on some tracks you might hear from Public Image Limited's Metalbox (1979), Primal Scream , or even Ornette Coleman. 14 tracks that will twist-and-turn through the known, and the unknown, Brian Jonestown Massacre. Anton Newcombe has been a very busy man these past two years, kicking off with the critically acclaimed Brian Jonestown Massacre album Revelation in May 2014 (AUK 030CD/LP). After a successful UK and European tour, the BJM followed this up with the + - EP in November of the same year (AUK 031EP). 2015 saw the release of Musique de film imaginé in April (AUK 032CD/LP); an imaginary film soundtrack album featuring the track "Bonbon" which has, ironically, been used in Dheepan, the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival of 2015. In June, Anton and Tess Parks embarked on a well-received tour of the UK and Europe to support the release of I Declare Nothing (AUK 120CD/LP). Anton finished 2015 with a BJM mini-album release entitled Mini Album Thingy Wingy (AUK 033-10, 033CD/LP). In 2016, the band released two singles and the critically-acclaimed Third World Pyramid (AUK 036CD/LP). The band have been touring the world since November 2015, playing Australia, New Zealand, and then, in 2016, USA, Canada, Europe, Chile, and Argentina.
$20.99 EAN: 5055869542883 ROCK
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BREAKBOT: By Your Side 2LP+CD (BEC 5161259)
2017 repress with CD added. Ed Banger's newest and brightest star Breakbot aka Thibaut Berland announces his debut album By Your Side. Having delighted dancefloors around the world with his infectious discoid funk of "Baby I'm Yours" and "Fantasy," and killer re-rubs for Justice and Metronomy, amongst others, "One Out of Two" is the first single to be taken from this multi-instrumentalist's debut -- crammed with soulful robo-disco and emotive ballads, By Your Side conjures up the ghosts of the Doobie Brothers, Todd Rundgren and Hall And Oates, as well as the nostalgic TV themes to Silver Spoons or Punky Brewster. Berland explains : "My elder brothers had a huge influence on me when was a kid. David, the oldest, introduced me to soul, funk and pop, making me tapes of Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Phil Collins, and many other things. I remember spending lots of time in his bedroom listening to his records." In later years the likes of Air, Alex Gopher, Mr. Oizo and of course, Daft Punk were on heavy rotation for Thibaut -- this heady mélange of all of the above helping to create the Breakbot sound. It was Berland's intention to make an album that rewards you for listening to it as a whole: "I guess you could say my album is more an album of pop songs than a Berlin techno record, with water drop sounds in it -- I wanted to make a pop journey that would have all my influences, without being a reference catalog." From the opening perfect slice of retro/future summer funk "Break of Dawn," it's clear that this has to be one of 2012's funkiest albums. "Fantasy" features the vocals of L.A.-based vocalist Ruckazoid -- an astonishing discovery whose honeyed pipes are a dead ringer for the late, lamented King Of Pop. Four tracks, including "One Out of Two" features Irfane's irresistible vocals. Björn from Pacific! sings on the glorious "By Your Side (Pt 1 & 2)."
$18.99 EAN: 5060281612595 ELECTRONIC
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VIROT, FRANCOIS: Marginal Spots CD (BORNBAD 090CD)
French musician François Virot present his second solo album, Marginal Spots, following his acclaimed 2008 debut, Yes Or No. That album's lo-fi pop-folk won Virot praise for his staggering melodies and nervous urgency, earning comparisons to artists like Animal Collective. In the wake of its reception, Virot found himself dragged out of the invisibility of Lyon's squats and rushed hastily on stage. He was expected to give his opinion, but no one realized how unprepared he was. He had crafted his songs for himself, the hard way -- for such a hyperactive artist, versed in songwriting since childhood, naiveté was not a ploy, and DIY is not a fancy gadget. As Virot recalls, "The first time they dimmed the lights at one of my concerts, I didn't understand what was going on. I came on stage, everyone cheered. I needed to change a string, so I said so, and the crowd answered by applauding once again. I changed my string, I finished my beer, 10 minutes had passed, the lights were still on me. People found the scene delightful, they were laughing hysterically. For me, it was hell. There have been many moments such as this one." Two years after his debut, in 2010, Virot appeared on the credits of two of the most beautiful records of the year. The first, Comfortable Problems by the trio the Clara Clara, put to shame every claimant to Deerhoof's throne, with Virot showcasing his rowdy yet precise drumming skills and chanting in a world somewhere between happy hardcore and subtle power pop. The second, Time And Death by the duo Reveille, was as touching, addictive, and imperfect as a collection of demos from The Evens. Now, following the 2016 release of Clara Clara's third album, Bugarach, Virot returns to his solo work with an album that is as much a realization of his obsessions (colorful drums, catchy but devious melodies, referential tangles including The Police, The Ex, Joe Dassin . . .) as a declaration of independence from indie pop laws. As Virot puts it, "Lately I haven't been able to find any record without reverb effects, or a band that doesn't use a chorus pedal or some recorded material live. It annoyed me. Music-making should not be about composing the most beautiful thing there is. You need to catch a glimpse of what's inside, hear an actual human being sing and play." Marginal Spots is François Virot at his core, oblivious to the illusion of success, directly plugged into his heartbeat.
$8.39 EAN: 3521383440063 ROCK
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ULAN BATOR: Stereolith CD (BB 255CD)
In today's increasingly barren rock and roll landscape, Ulan Bator stand as beacons of explorative songwriting. Formed in Paris in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat (vocals, guitar and keyboards) and Olivier Manchion (bass), the band's atmospheric approach to composition has consistently yielded guitar-driven, avant-rock at once hypnotic and untamed. And while their sound has developed in a variety of directions - often in relationship to changing line-ups and various collaborations, including with Faust and Swans' Michael Gira - Ulan Bator resist simple categorization: kraut-y repetition, post-rock guitar flourishes and kosmische synth work have all taken an audible lead throughout their now twenty-year career. Stereolith sees band mainstay Cambuzat continuing on in a tradition of experimental rock and roll, projected through a contemporary prism of electronics and synthesizers. Cambuzat pieced together the band's 12th album on his laptop before eventually re-recording individual parts in the studio. The result is a crisp sound that resists typical psych and experimental clichés of washed-out and contourless improvisation. The songs on Stereolith achieve a grand, looming presence despite their relatively short lengths. While Stereolith's longest and most obvious genre-nod "NeuNeu" clocks at a pleasantly meandering five-and-half minutes and features guitar work reminiscent of Michael Rother, most of the songs are under four, with dream-like atmospheres established from the beginning. An excellent example is "Blue Girl", which opens with deep sustained piano, gongs, and industrial bleeps before exploding into a playful post rock groove that plays off Popol Vuh-like synth vamps. That quality continues on album standout "Ego Trip", sung by Cambuzat in both French and English. The song's various melodies - played on harpischord, chorus bass, guitar - shift over a steady chord progression to create a glorious interweaving. Cambuzat's non-native approach to writing in English, like that of Björk or Damo Suzuki, borders on the surreal. "I lost myself in a spinach can," he murmurs on "Spinach Can", evoking a lysergic-tinged scene from an episode of Popeye. By the end of the slow, dirge-like final bursts of album closer "Dust", it becomes clear that in Cambuzat's world, the dark, the light and the strange are comfortable bedfellows. It's an atmospheric ménages-a-trois that occasionally pushes beyond the boundaries of taste and coolness into vaguely new-age-y and adult contemporary territory. As the singer said in a recent interview, "The music is best listened to in a 3D pyramid, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."
$11.99 EAN: 4015698008593 ROCK
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ULAN BATOR: Stereolith LP+CD (BB 255LP)
LP version. Includes CD. In today's increasingly barren rock and roll landscape, Ulan Bator stand as beacons of explorative songwriting. Formed in Paris in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat (vocals, guitar and keyboards) and Olivier Manchion (bass), the band's atmospheric approach to composition has consistently yielded guitar-driven, avant-rock at once hypnotic and untamed. And while their sound has developed in a variety of directions - often in relationship to changing line-ups and various collaborations, including with Faust and Swans' Michael Gira - Ulan Bator resist simple categorization: kraut-y repetition, post-rock guitar flourishes and kosmische synth work have all taken an audible lead throughout their now twenty-year career. Stereolith sees band mainstay Cambuzat continuing on in a tradition of experimental rock and roll, projected through a contemporary prism of electronics and synthesizers. Cambuzat pieced together the band's 12th album on his laptop before eventually re-recording individual parts in the studio. The result is a crisp sound that resists typical psych and experimental clichés of washed-out and contourless improvisation. The songs on Stereolith achieve a grand, looming presence despite their relatively short lengths. While Stereolith's longest and most obvious genre-nod "NeuNeu" clocks at a pleasantly meandering five-and-half minutes and features guitar work reminiscent of Michael Rother, most of the songs are under four, with dream-like atmospheres established from the beginning. An excellent example is "Blue Girl", which opens with deep sustained piano, gongs, and industrial bleeps before exploding into a playful post rock groove that plays off Popol Vuh-like synth vamps. That quality continues on album standout "Ego Trip", sung by Cambuzat in both French and English. The song's various melodies - played on harpischord, chorus bass, guitar - shift over a steady chord progression to create a glorious interweaving. Cambuzat's non-native approach to writing in English, like that of Björk or Damo Suzuki, borders on the surreal. "I lost myself in a spinach can," he murmurs on "Spinach Can", evoking a lysergic-tinged scene from an episode of Popeye. By the end of the slow, dirge-like final bursts of album closer "Dust", it becomes clear that in Cambuzat's world, the dark, the light and the strange are comfortable bedfellows. It's an atmospheric ménages-a-trois that occasionally pushes beyond the boundaries of taste and coolness into vaguely new-age-y and adult contemporary territory. As the singer said in a recent interview, "The music is best listened to in a 3D pyramid, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."
$16.39 EAN: 4015698008616 ROCK
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XAO SEFFCHEQUE: Ja - Nein - Vielleicht Kommt Sehr Gut: A Selection Of Electronic Beats 1980-82 CD (BB 256CD)
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.
$11.99 EAN: 4015698009385 ELECTRONIC
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DOME LA MUERTE E.X.P.: Lazy Sunny Day CD (CNGOD 101CD)
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.
$8.99 EAN: 8055323520577 ROCK
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TREPANERINGSRITUALEN: Deathward, To The Womb CD (CSR 222CD)
Trepaneringsritualen's long out of print debut release, Deathward, To The Womb (2012) finally sees a proper reissue. An invocation not so much of Babalon herself, but of the tormented elemental of Frater T.O.P.A.N., and his fervent attempts to usher in the Æon of Horus. In the lyrics - based on the texts of Frater T.O.P.A.N. on the Babalon Working - the perilous flame that is Babalon is called upon to ravage creation. She is asked to scorch the earth clean for the coming cosmic renovation. The Eternal Virgin would spring from Her womb. From Her love, the new divine man would be born. 70 years after the Bablon Working was deemed successfully concluded, its utter failure is painfully apparent. "All love songs are of me" She says. This is certainly true of the first five songs of Deathward, To The Womb. The final songs, "All Hail The Black Flame", seem different altogether. In this guise, Babalon brings not solely love, but cataclysm; a holocaust brought upon the domain of Man. Manifested as the Black Flame, She reaches from a time before time, formless chaos, and rips apart the very fabric of the created worlds. Such is Her nature: two opposing principles; that of the nurturing mother, and that of the callous destroyer. "She is flame of life, power of darkness - She destroys with a glance - She may take thy soul. She feeds upon the death of men." Babalon was summoned at Winter Solstice 2015 under the sign of n, with assistance from Alone In The Hollow Garden, A.I.L of Arktau Eos, Michael Idehall, KzR of Bölzer, Nÿland ii of Hadewych, and Æther. To destroy and to give life. This ritual has concluded and was successful. Appended to the six original songs is a specially commissioned 12 minutes and 57 seconds long ritual work entitled "I Remember When I Was God", and attributed to Teeraal Räum Pheynix.
$10.99 UPC: 641871744725 ROCK
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LA BREICHE: Le Mal Des Ardents CD (CSR 224CD)
La Breiche ("the witch") features two well-known musicians: Arexis and Lafforgue of Stille Volk - a band best known since 1994 as one of the pioneers of Pagan Folk in Europe - and of the Pagan Black French band Sus Scrofa. Le Mal Des Ardents ("Holy Fire") is a concept album about fears, terrors, about the balance between folklore and reason, myth and common sense, light and darkness, past and present, modernity and archaism. The album marries minimalism, purity, a fine approach and ancient instruments: traditional music (hurdy-gurdy, shawm, polyphonies, percussion, gongs); the gloom of oppressive dark ambient; the slow pace of ritual music, wavering between modernity and archaism. Voices rise towards beauty, lifting it away from some occult mud. Le Mal Des Ardents takes the listener back to a forgotten world, a primal, ancient, wild and free world, pervaded by secret dances of sorcerers, unfathomable forests, remote and lifeless places. Comes in a six-panel digipak.
$10.99 UPC: 641871744770 ROCK
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SKULLFLOWER: The Spirals of Great Harm 2CD (CSR 225CD)
The Spirals of Great Harm is the new sprawling double disc from black noise classicists Skullflower - referencing Inferno XVII, Dante and Virgil's spiraling descent into the abyss on demon Geryon. Full of harsh beauty and hymns for lost Albions, battle songs against the homogenization of modern "lyfe" - fuck the new estate! Skullflower on The Spirits of Great Harm: "Hedgerows, tapestries, dream woods, dragon lands. After Draconis (CSR 190CD, 2014), we have been released to roam through the multiverse, fashioning trinkets and ornaments from jewelled sounds, and leaving them as waymarkers on our astral travels. We seem to be circling, encountering familiar territories, yet always changed, because these circles, from a true perspective; are all part of a great averse spiral, our pattern, our map, which is the terrain itself. You will hear hints and echoes of native keening, lush prog romanticism, and the charcoal textures of noise, but all subsumed within our alchemy, the unmistakable wellspring of sound that is SF." Comes in a six-panel digipak.
$14.39 UPC: 641871744787 ROCK
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BROWN, JAMES: Mr. Dynamite LP (CRNBR 16013LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of James Brown's Mr. Dynamite, originally released as Good, Good, Twistin' With James Brown in 1962, and known alternatively through different issues as Shout And Shimmy (1963), and Excitement Mr. Dynamite (1964), and a myriad other titles. It doesn't really matter what you call it, this is classic early James Brown recording from the early '60s that is guaranteed to keep the dance party cooking. Nobody, absolutely nobody, was a bigger star or a more talented R&B artist in the '60s than James Brown and this album is stone cold proof of that. Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl with download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005341 ROCK
A1. I Don't Mind
A2. Shout And Shimmy
A3. Tell Me What You're Gonna Do
A4. Good, Good, Lovin'
A5. Have Mercy Baby
A6. Begging, Begging
B1. Love Don't Love Nobody
B2. Dancin' Little Thing
B3. Come Over Here
B4. You Don't Have To Go
B5. Just Won't Do Right (I Stay In The Chapel Every Night)
B6. It Was You
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EDWARD: Shufflehead 12" (ORKL 009EP)
Die Orakel present three spaced-out excursions by Edward.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038316757 ELECTRONIC
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OVO: Creatura CD (DIODRONE 040CD)
Creatura, the new album by OvO, comes to life as a mutant entity after a long period of gestation. It is an album whose originality is monstrous and colossal, a natural evolution of which OvO expressed on Abisso (2013). They have explored the possibility of intersections between extreme rock and electronica, digging deep, and now they come out with this protean birth which renders them once again uncategorizable, on the outside of any scene or framework. Even the artwork reflects the path marked by the sound of the album, inspired by ancient and timeless symbols and iconography, by alchemical sigils of divination cards, yet with an original and identifying style. It all came from an idea from Stefania Pedretti, translated by the hands of Coito Negato, aka Stefano Matteoli, a Tuscan illustrator and frequent collaborator with Dio Drone. For the release, OvO bet on the recently established label, which best represents the new and contemporary way of making noise and the new way of "do it yourself". OvO find themselves at the beginning of their seventeenth year of activity with very clear ideas and a will to surf a fluid contemporary state, raising new complexities and refusing to conform. The only thing which remains undismayed is their live appearances; The band are on the brink of thousands of concerts all over the world. Creatura was recorded by Lorenzo Stecconi in a barn normally used by theater companies and mixed by the testosteronic hands of Giulio Favero and polished off with mastering by Giovanni Versari. In addition to vocals and guitar, Stefania Pedretti also captured some field recordings during OvO's tour in Vietnam. Bruno Dorella took on his usual role of playing his few pieces of drums, synth and drum machine programming and samples assembled by Dorella and Garaliya (or rather Morkobot), Riccardo Gamondi (Uochi Toki), Stefano Ghittoni (Dining Rooms), a034 and Reeks (Surgical Beat Bros, No Hay Banda Trio, Germanotta Youth). In composing the pieces, OvO used some of the methodologies of electronic music. In particular, all of the base tracks of percussion and samples were first played live and then resampled, choosing loops in such a way as to reproduce the mechanical aspect typical of electronica. On top of this, Stefania added her infernal world of guitar and voice, dividing both into many layers with diverse overdubs to create this monster.
$10.39 EAN: 8033706216163 ROCK
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SCIENTIST: The Untouchable CD (MIR 100749CD)
Hopeton Overton Brown, aka Scientist, is a true legend. He took dub reggae to a completely different level. Trained and mentored by the late, great, lamented King Tubby, he blew the scene into smithereens with his knowledge, skill and complete understanding of the mixing desk. His new album, The Untouchable, is a really great collaboration with some of the best artists of the international reggae scene: Tippa Irie, Rod Taylor, Sabrina Pallini, Da Real Storm, Dubiterian, Ilhame Paris, Jacin, Kelli Love. Scientist's The Untouchable is a concept of reintroducing rhythms produced by Bunny Lee from the '70s and some rhythms produce by The Scientist from the '80s, by introducing some new school artists alongside the old school to preserve the power of dub reggae music. No matter where you are, this music has the power to cross borders, to soothe your heart and soul and make you feel alive.
$11.79 UPC: 889397104207 WORLD
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HINTON AND THE NIGHTHAWKS, EDDIE: Rose's Cantina Atlanta '79 CD (ECHO 2070CD)
Considered by many to be the world's best blue-eyed soul singer, Eddie Hinton wrote, produced, arranged, and played on one more classic records than many realize. His guitar is heard on albums by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Dusty Springfield, and countless other iconic greats, and while he's not as well known by name, his contribution to music will never be forgotten. This 1979 recording finds him guesting with the legendary Nighthawks at Rose's Cantina in Atlanta, Georgia. It's an extravaganza of pumped-up soul and R&B, with broken strings and adrenaline, down to the bone, presented here in its entirety as originally broadcast on WLIR-FM. Professionally remastered sound; includes background liners, interviews, and rare archival photos.
$11.99 EAN: 5291012207012 ROCK
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CIULLINI, DANIELE: Domestic Exile Collected Works 82-86 LP (ELP 009LP)
2017 repress, originally released in 2015. Ecstatic resuscitate Daniele Ciullini's "sonic polaroids" of odder '80s pop, drone, and drum machine workouts in the detached dimensions of Domestic Exile: Collected Works 82-86. Compiling the Florentine artist's standout '83 cassette plus a whole other side of compilation obscurities on vinyl for the first time, it presents a series of brilliant, isolated self-portraits by a mail art and tape scene insider (also photographer, zine publisher) who operated on the periphery of electro-industrial and ambient zones. His music is little known outside of Italy, so all credit is due to Alessio Natalizia for bringing his wide-ranging and prescient work to a broader audience here. As Ciullini's pal and bandmate in The Cop Killers (along with Masami Akita, no less), Vittore Baroni states on the liner notes that Domestic Exile was produced when Ciullini was in his late 20s and therefore possesses a more measured, mature approach than many of his contemporaries who were also scrabbling around similar sounds. Using the instantly identifiable Boss DR-55 and Roland TR 606 drum machines, plus a 303, Fender Stratocaster Electric, and Yamaha CD-5 fed direct to TEAC tape deck, these are beautifully concise, dynamic glimpses of a sharpened mind at work, proving equally adept at nipping shifty industrial drum patterns as well as brooding proto-shoegaze with "Soft Marble", or European synth expressions like "Flowers in the Water". A massive recommendation for fans of Chris Carter's The Spaces Between (1980), early The Human League or John Bender. Compiled by Not Waving. Edition of 500.
$14.39 UPC: 880319699832 ELECTRONIC
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DJ MEHDI: Lucky Boy (2017 Edition) 2LP+CD (BEC 5156698)
Limited 2017 release of DJ Mehdi's Lucky Boy, originally released in 2006. DJ Mehdi's classic from 2006, now in a neat 2017 anniversary edition. The tenth anniversary reissue comes as a double vinyl release. The second vinyl collects the best mixes from various 12" of 2006 and 2007. Included CD is the original album (the bonus mixes are exclusive to vinyl). Bonus LP features: Thomas Bangalter, Brodinski, Kenny Dope, and Outlines.
$18.99 EAN: 5060421566986 ELECTRONIC
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MR. OIZO: Transexual/Patrick122 (2017 Edition) 12" (BEC 5156791)
2017 tenth anniversary edition of Mr. Oizo's cult classic Transexual/Patrick122 EP, originally released in 2007.
$8.99 EAN: 5060421567914 ELECTRONIC
A1. Hello
A2. Transexual
A3. Ovoma
B1. Patrick 122
B2. Blind Concerto
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JUSTICE: Access All Arenas (2017 Edition) 2LP+CD (BEC 5156809)
Limited 2017 release of Justice's Access All Arenas, originally released in 2013. Ten years ago, "We Are Your Friends" pushed Justice to the front of the scene, a young French duo signed by Pedro Winter on the label he had just created: Ed Banger Records. The record that followed in 2007, Cross (BEC 5772110), was an album of condensed jerky electro, disco reminiscences, and heavy metal energy, with unstoppable tunes like "D.A.N.C.E.", "Stress", and "Phantom", and its videos, allowed Justice to follow the '90s French touch and its filtered disco loop. Since the release of their debut album in 2007, Justice has been tirelessly touring the world by bus, road festival to festival and concerts all over the planet. Since their first tour, the band developed a powerful stage design that they polished and magnified throughout the years and the gigs. The wall of vintage Marshall amps front of the stage, an imposing cross, impressive light shows, and the sound of Justice totally revisited for the live shows. Limited 2017 edition features new packaging including: Gatefold sleeve; double vinyl; Poster 60x30; CD.
$21.79 EAN: 5060421568096 ELECTRONIC
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SEBASTIAN: Ross Ross Ross (2017 Edition) 12" (BEC 5772016)
2017 tenth anniversary edition of the ultimate SebastiAn's cult classic, Ross Ross Ross, originally released in 2006. Out of print since 2008, Erol Alkan lit the fire when he first played "Ross Ross Ross" in his Essential mix (2005). This track became a must have. After, SebastiAn dropped dozens of remixes for: Uffie, Kelis, Daft Punk, Mylo, Editors, Kavinsky, and more. Then he concentrated on his own productions to deliver two monsters. The dramatico-cut up beat "Head/Off" and the club banger "Walkman".
$8.99 EAN: 5060107720169 ELECTRONIC
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VA: Ed Rec Vol. 2 (2017 Edition) 2LP+CD (BEC 5772082)
Limited 2017 release of Ed Banger Records' Ed Rec Vol. 2, originally released in 2007. The first available Ed Banger label compilation, featuring your basic who's who of Ed Banger: Mr. Oizo, Uffie, Justice, DJ Mehdi, Mr. Flash, Krazy Baldhead, Feadz, Busy P, SebastiAn, Klaxons, So Me, and Vicarious Bliss. Ed Rec Vol. 1 came as digital only (2006), gathering tracks from Ed Banger Records' back catalog. Ed Rec Vol. 2 is a 14 track compilation containing exclusive tracks, with a cover art design by So Me.
$18.99 EAN: 5060107720824 ELECTRONIC
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BUSY P: Rainbow Man (2017 Edition) 12" (BEC 5772083)
2017 tenth anniversary edition of Pierre Winter's, aka Busy P, classic Rainbow Man, originally released in 2007. Debut release from the dude behind Ed Banger Records (and Daft Punk). "Rainbow Man" is a 4 a.m. anthem dedicated to New York's hottest club, APT. "Chop Suey" was released on a super limited 7'' on Arcade Mode. "What's Your Name Again" is a remix done for Paris's best rock band, Fancy. This remix is pure club banger, saturation and compression at its best.
$8.99 EAN: 5060107720831 ELECTRONIC
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DJ MEHDI: Lucky Girl EP (2017 Edition) 12" (BEC 5772084)
2017 tenth anniversary edition of DJ Mehdi 's Lucky Girl EP, originally released in 2007. DJ Mehdi's with a second single from his 2006 album Lucky Boy (BEC 5156204/5156698). An exclusive track, two remixes and one club edit for the perfect package. With Fafi on the mic, and two of the hottest French producers delivered the remixes. Outlines, the Parisian duo, dropped a slice of '50s boogie. Surkin offers a trip between Baltimore and Chicago in four minutes. Thomas Bangalter was crazy about "Signatune", so he made a club friendly edit.
$8.99 EAN: 5060107720848 ELECTRONIC
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JUSTICE: D.A.N.C.E. Remixes (2017 Edition) 12" (BEC 5772130)
2017 tenth anniversary edition of Justice's D.A.N.C.E. Remixes, originally released in 2007. On Jackson's five minute remix, he assimilates at the same time "Genesis", "Waters Of Nazareth", "D.A.N.C.E.", and "New Jack" delivering his own vision of this album: "G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S." Widely acknowledged as a dancefloor hit, the MSTRKRFT "D.A.N.C.E." remix is now available on this 12". On the B side, Justice, inspired by MSTRKRFT remix, interfered with this track, arranging the song and bringing it to their favorite playground. Alan Braxe and Fred Falke end this 12" with an aerial remix that will please the first hour techno fans.
$8.99 EAN: 5060107721302 ELECTRONIC
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BREAKBOT: Baby I'm Yours (2017 Edition) 12" (BEC 5772639)
2017 tenth anniversary edition of the ultimate Breakbot classic, Baby I'm Yours, originally released in 2007. A must have for any collection. Remixes by: Siriusmo and La Funk Mob.
$8.99 EAN: 5060107726390 ELECTRONIC
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HECKER: A Script For Machine Synthesis CD (EMEGO 226CD)
The latest work from Florian Hecker, A Script For Machine Synthesis, is an experimental auditory drama and a model of abstraction. A Script For Machine Synthesis presents a complex simplicity that spirals in an unending manner as an audio image of the uncanny valley. It is the third chapter in a trilogy of text-sound pieces in which Hecker has collaborated with the philosopher Reza Negarestani. A resynthesized voice outlines procedure as procedure itself unfolds. The suggestive encounter with a pink ice cube is a conceptual point of departure for a scene in which linguistic chimeras of descriptors are materialized through synthetic trophies, mental props and auditory objects. Hecker presents a synthesis of the gap in the valley which the listener almost knows. The motifs Hecker has staged in the last decade - the text, the sound, the scent, the obelisk, the demon, the self, the other - all appear throughout in a thorough, rigid and formal exploration. Exeunt all human actors, A Script For Machine Synthesis is an experiment in putting synthetic emptiness back into synthetic thought.
$10.99 EAN: 5050580651647 ELECTRONIC
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ADAME, ESTEBAN: Descendants EP (feat. Juan Atkins & Tresillo Remixes) 12" (EPM 015EP)
EPM Music invite Esteban Adame back with Descendants EP, featuring remixes from Juan Atkins and Tresillo. Esteban's original version of "Descendants" is a beauty that draws on his LA meets Detroit background. Its deep bassline and vibrant synth work deliver meaningful and emotional techno. Tresillo show another string to their bow this tracky Chicago-style remix. Juan Atkins brings the heat with his unique remix. Pushing the 808 bass to its limits, adding an infectious break, and using elements of the original in a staccato arrangement to twist and layer.
$8.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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CALL SUPER: Fabric 92 CD (FABRIC 183CD)
Call Super, aka JR Seaton, presents a continuous mix for the 92nd installment of the Fabric's mix series. In a few years, Call Super's versatility has marked the London born DJ and producer as one of the brightest new lights on the electronic music landscape. His rise has been steady and remarkable, reinforced at every stage with music that draws on a panoply of influences. The son of a New Orleans jazz clarinetist, his curiosity for music was driven by a childhood playing Spanish guitar and the piano before being anointed as a teenager into the London club scene. For JR Seaton, this mix is highly personal; it eschews the common computer based approach and gives the listener a snapshot of a misty reality of the late hours once peak time has begun to fade. Seaton said this about the mix, "This isn't about getting beat upside the head, this is us dreaming in the dawn." Call Super was the first artist to be signed to Fabric's artist-led Houndstooth label. Packaged in bespoke slipcase containing die-embossed tin. Features: Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux, M:I:5, Jan Jelinek, Dresvn, Objekt, Two Full Minds, Photek, Don't DJ, Flanger, Carl Craig, Call Super, Marco Bernardi, Jega, Shanti Celeste, Bitstream, Bruce, Convextion, Karen Gwyer, Thomas Ankersmit & Valerio Tricoli, Walter Brown, Yves Tumor, Max Loderbauer, and Speng Bond.
$11.39 UPC: 802560018323 ELECTRONIC
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TROUBLEMAN: Time Out Of Mind CD (FARO 085CD)
2004 release. Far Out Recordings present the latest project from acclaimed UK producer Mark Pritchard, Troubleman. Mark is one of the most respected UK electronic producers of the last 15 years and Time Out Of Mind is his debut solo album and his most accomplished work to date. Mark began the Troubleman project for Far Out Recordings in 2001 following some successful remixes he did of Azymuth's tracks, as Global Communication with Tom Middleton for the track "Jazz Carnival" (1995) and then later solo remixes of "Carambola" (1999), and "Pieces Of Ipanema (2000). His first 12" as Troubleman Messenger/The Essence was released in 2000, followed in 2001 with Where We Stand/Lullaby, and then the massive underground hit that established the Troubleman name, Strike Hard (2002). 2003 saw the release of the even bigger follow-up Change Is What We Need (Progress). Features: Nina Miranda, Eska and Steve Spacek.
$9.79 EAN: 5030094096226 WORLD
01. Have A Good Time
02. Paz (feat. Nina Miranda)
03. Prelude To The Path
04. The Righteous Path
05. Lonely Girl
06. Change Is What We Need (Progress)
07. Toda Hora (feat. Nina Miranda)
08. Roll On (feat. Eska)
09. Time....Out Of Mind
10. Without You (feat. Steve Spacek)
11. Strikehard
12. Zap (feat. Nina Miranda)
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BERTRAMI AND HIS MODERN SOUND, JOSE ROBERTO: Aventura CD (FARO 139CD)
2009 release. Legendary keyboardist José Roberto Bertrami (Zé Roberto) brings quirky '60s soundtracks and infectious '80s grooves to 12 brand new recordings on Aventura. Showcasing 45 sweeping years in music, Azymuth's band leader delivers an innovative set of jazz, cinematic scores, funk and true Latin anthems. Latin Grammy nominee Zé Roberto brings together the Rio Strings Orchestra and the very best Brazilian players on these stunning live recordings. Direct from Rio de Janeiro, Bertrami's enduring passion and creativity combine to create a seminal solo collection. Aventura sees Zé Roberto record songs more personal and often with a more Western influenced sound. Bertrami's choice of musicians sets this recording apart: David Brinkworth (Harmonic 33) travelled to Rio from the UK with executive producer Joe Davis (Far Out Recordings founder) to record the live sessions. With nods to his Aventura heritage, newer trends emerging from Rio, and Bertrami's grand vision, this more than fulfilled Davis's hunger for a unique old school record drawing upon Zé Roberto's reams of unreleased and unrecorded scores. After five days spent with Brinkworth, picking the very best tracks, Bertrami bossed the studio, full of energy and enduring passion to deliver a set of the highest quality. The result is an authentic jazz record that draws in tropical vibes and American influences to create the perfect slice of his music culture. Aventura is Bertrami's seventh album under his own steam following on from his previous solo effort for Far Out Recordings, 2001's Things Are Different (FARO 053CD, 2001). Aventura smoothly moves between classic piano led jazz, to almost psychedelic electric guitar that darts around Bertrami's instantly recognizable Rhodes, organ, keyboard scores and improvisations. Features Andy Votel's exceptional madcap artwork.
$9.79 EAN: 5060006358524 WORLD
01. Ecstatic 70
02. Brilliante
03. Eighties Times
04. O Pescador
05. Maixa
06. Joanna
07. Aventura
08. No Tempo Da Bossa
09. Danca De Salao
10. Laranjeiras
11. Choro
12. Conversation With Maixa
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MALHEIROS, SABRINA: Dreaming CD (FARO 161CD)
2011 release. Dreaming, the third original studio album from Rio's nu-bossa star, Sabrina Malheiros, combines the minimal electronic soul inspired sound of her debut Equilibria (2005) with the sweeping organic Brazilian pop of New Morning (FARO 131, 2008) and traditional sounds of Brazil. Linking past and present Malheiros mixes seductive styles to create a truly original sound for the future. Dreaming is her finest work yet confirming Malheiros as one of the finest female Brazilian songwriters of her generation. Featuring leading Brazilian musicians including Alex Malheiros (Azymuth); Jesse Sadoc (Marcos Valle); Alfredo Cardim (Joyce); Robertinho Silva (Milton Nascimento) and written and co-produced with Sabrina by partner Daniel 'Venom' Maunick (Viper Squad) the record finds a beautiful place between nu-Rio, classic Brazil, and the complex melodic electronic music emerging from the post-dubstep and post-drum & bass London soundscape. As the daughter of Alex Malheiros, bass player of legendary Brazilian group Azymuth, Sabrina was born to sing bossa nova and write ground-breaking music. Her classical contemporary Brazilian blend takes a number of surprising routes. On "Fragil", Sabrina employs renowned samba percussionist Robertinho Silva to deliver her delicate take on Brazil's African routes. "Bobeira" is a breezy chill-out while its "Digital Dreaming Reprise" opener adds Maunick's deep beats and addictive synths - those warping lines continuing flawlessly in to the following tracks. Sabrina's special pattern for writing music (alone, with her father Alex and partner Daniel) brings recurring chords and sequences with a huge variety of influences and ideas. Sabrina shows just how far this writing talent stretches as she arks back to '70s Brazil with the dreamy acid-folk "Lirio De Venus (Interlude)" before bringing things right in to modern electronic-era with big dub bass, scratching together with trademark soft acoustic guitar and harmonies on "Paranoia". Altogether, Malheiros's third full-length record is a lyrical and melodic dream to take her star far higher.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211500657 WORLD
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01. Bobeira (Digital Dreamin' Intro)
02. Lirio De Venus
03. Bobeira
04. Fragil
05. Candeia
06. Opará
07. Lirio De Venus (Interlude)
08. Paranóia
09. Segredo
10. Can't Hide Love
11. Primeira
12. Tem Dendê
13. Bobeira (Digital Dreamin' Instrumental)
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A1. Fragil
A2. Opará
A3. Candeia
A4. Segredo
B1. Paranóia
B2. Primeira
B3. Tem Dendê
B4. Bobeira
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AZYMUTH: Light As A Feather CD (FARO 170CD)
2012 release. Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Azymuth's Light As A Feather, originally released in 1979. Four decades on and Azymuth have reached legendary status amongst fans worldwide and across the music industry thanks to the trio's pioneering blend of traditional Brazilian jazz and proto funk fusion from the early '70s right through to the present day. In 1979, the band's first Milestone Records release, Light As A Feather quickly became one of the best-selling LPs of the year. Featuring the worldwide disco/fusion hit single "Jazz Carnival" and going on to sell more than half a million copies internationally, the album stayed in the UK Top 20 for eight straight weeks. An incredibly well thought out album both in pace, song selection and musicality, Light As A Feather marked a maturing of the band as they began to rightfully utilize the studio as an instrument itself, embracing numerous mixing and recording techniques not yet common for the time as well as pioneering the use of the Big Muff and Dolby System to great effect. The end result is an album that endures to this day as a jazz funk masterpiece. Far Out Recordings present this seminal recording remixed and remastered from the original tapes. Featuring previously unreleased tracks and remixes from house stalwarts Theo Parrish, Ashley Beedle, Mark E and Yam Who?, this definitive edition of Azymuth's breakthrough LP is a must-have for connoisseurs and an invaluable introduction to the Azymuth sound for the uninitiated.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211501043 WORLD
01. Partido Alto
02. Avenida Das Mangueiras
03. Light As A Feather
04. Fly Over The Horizon (Voo Sobre O Horizonte)
05. Amazonia
06. Jazz Carnival
07. Young Embrace (Um Abraco Da Mocidade)
08. Dona Olimpia
09. This Exists (Existe Isto)
10. O Pescador*
11. Jazz Carnival (Full Original Mix)*
12. Avenida Das Mangueiras (SS Translation By Theo Parrish)*
13. Codsall Juniors - Endless Flight (Mark E)*
14. Jazz Carnival - Yambee Rework (Ashley Beedle & Yam Who? Remix) *
* Bonus tracks.
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VOGEL, HEIDI: Turn Up The Quiet CD (FARO 171CD)
2013 release. Heidi Vogel debuts her solo album Turn Up The Quiet, following on from her many successes with the critically acclaimed The Cinematic Orchestra. A deeply moving collection of classic '60s/'70s Brazilian songs, interpreted and presented in a unique, intimate fashion and with a timeless sound. Heidi has a voice that comes from the deepest places of the heart. Her honest interpretation of songs, and powerful stage presence make her an utterly beguiling performer and this is the blend that emerges from her debut solo album Turn Up The Quiet where she elegantly interprets songs of great composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Joe Henderson. Recorded and mixed by Demus at Fish Factory and Mancrush Studios, this album showcases the singer's undeniable connection and resounding passion for Brazilian music. Her capacity to unfurl long-lined melodies unveils her intimate yet direct presence that goes beyond genre or style. Heidi is accompanied throughout the album by the very talented guitarist Josue Ferreira as well as guests musicians including vocalist Cleveland Watkiss, pianist Austin Peralta and Ivo Neame. The album is enhanced further by remixes from The Cinematic Orchestra, IG Culture and Emanative. Initially making her professional debut touring with Cirque du Soleil, she became a frequent face in the London and LA jazz and soul scene where she became involved with The Cinematic Orchestra as their lead singer. Her signature musicality and technique which entrances the listener is captured perfectly in this full-length offering, Turn Up The Quiet.
$9.79 EAN: 5060211501203 WORLD
01. Medo De Amar
02. Copacabana
03. Modinha
04. Black Narcissus
05. Inutil Paisagem
06. Chelsea Bridge
07. Love Dance
08. Bonita
09. The Frog
10. Juazeiro
11. Dindi
12. Black Narcissus (Remix by The Cinematic Orchestra)
13. Black Narcissus (Remix by Emanative)
14. Turn Up the Quiet (Remix by IG Culture)
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AZYMUTH: Dear Limmertz/Maracana 12" (JD 037EP)
Following Azymuth's recent album Fênix (FARO 194CD/LP 2016), Far Out Recordings announce the release of a 12" reissue of two of the Brazilian mavericks' heaviest dance cuts, remastered from the original Outubro (FARO 190CD/LP) tapes. Alex Malheiros's earth-shaking slap bass in the first few seconds of "Dear Limmertz" makes up an iconic moment in jazz-funk history. The groundbreaking disco hit "Jazz Carnival" is one of their heftiest floor fillers, and is also one of the trio's most recognized tunes. "Maracana" is another super-heavy jazz-funk belter encompassing Ivan 'Mamao' Conti's signature swing, backing Jose Roberto Bertrami's effortlessly slick keyboard harmonies.
$8.39 EAN: 5060211503191 JAZZ
A1. Dear Limmertz (Full Length Version)
A2. Dear Limmertz (Prelude)
B1. Maracana
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DAGLEY, MARK: Collected Works 1978-2016 LP (FTR 297LP)
"Mark Dagley, although largely focusing on his visual art for the last many years, is a musician whose work has always intrigued us. We already issued some of his work with The Girls (FTR 220LP, 2015), Hi Sheriffs Of Blue (FTR 093LP, 2014) and Marianne Nowottny (FTR 221LP, 2015). Now, here's Collected Works, only the second album issued under his own name. We had bugged Mark for a good long while about digging up the tapes for the 'Shut It Up/Gossip Crowd' single he'd done back in '79 (immediately precursing the Hi Sheriffs), and when he transferred that material to cassette, he included some newly unearthed electronic work done at the same time he was working with The Girls. The stuff was great, collapsing waves of splendid analog murk, so we immediately requested a full album of 'solo' material. The resulting set spans almost 40 years of work and ranges from experimental blues explosions for solo guitar to drone-oriented electronics, transcriptions for a mechanical music box, and the splutzo No Wave kuck we had originally asked about. It documents four decades of strange invention, carried out almost fully beyond the view of the record buying public. It's a lucky break for you that we had the moral fiber to bring this mother to ground. It's an amazing and mysterious listen from first note to last." --Byron Coley, 2017.
$12.39 UPC: 019962207129 ROCK
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OLIVERI, NICK: N.O. Hits At All Vol. 1 CD (HPS 046CD)
Nick Steven Oliveri from Palm Desert, California, is most widely known as a bassist with Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, and The Dwarves, and has also performed with the reunited Kyuss under the names Kyuss Lives! and Vista Chino. As a bandleader, his main project is Mondo Generator, a punk/metal hybrid that he formed in 1997. Oliveri began his career in 1987 with John Garcia, Brant Bjork, Josh Homme and Chris Cockrell, with the band Katzenjammer. In early 1989, after Oliveri's departure to play in other bands, the band would change its name to Sons Of Kyuss, later shortening the name to Kyuss. He later rejoined the band, playing on Wretch (1991) and Blues For The Red Sun (1992). Oliveri would leave Kyuss again in early 1992, shortly after his father died in a car accident. He joined The Dwarves as an on-again-off-again bassist under the moniker Rex Everything. However, he is perhaps best known as a member of Queens Of The Stone Age from 1998 -2004. Oliveri is also a solo artist and frequent contributor to his friends' albums and tours, including Winnebago Deal, Mark Lanegan Band, Masters Of Reality, Turbonegro, Moistboyz, and The Knives. In the past he has been involved with The Desert Sessions Vol. 4 and Vol. 6. Oliveri is known for playing bare-chested and sometimes naked at gigs. Most memorably, he was arrested in Brazil, after performing nude on stage at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro. He is also one half of the acoustic duo The Uncontrollable, with The Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia. Nick Oliveri: "This record is Volume One of a series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Psych Sounds are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. Now for the first time, all these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on." Features songs from: Komatsu, Death Acoustic, Winnebago Deal, Svetlanas, and Ken Pustelnik's Groundhogs.
$11.79 EAN: 4059251046752 ROCK
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OLIVERI, NICK: N.O. Hits At All Vol. 1 LP (HPS 046LP)
LP version. Nick Steven Oliveri from Palm Desert, California, is most widely known as a bassist with Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, and The Dwarves, and has also performed with the reunited Kyuss under the names Kyuss Lives! and Vista Chino. As a bandleader, his main project is Mondo Generator, a punk/metal hybrid that he formed in 1997. Oliveri began his career in 1987 with John Garcia, Brant Bjork, Josh Homme and Chris Cockrell, with the band Katzenjammer. In early 1989, after Oliveri's departure to play in other bands, the band would change its name to Sons Of Kyuss, later shortening the name to Kyuss. He later rejoined the band, playing on Wretch (1991) and Blues For The Red Sun (1992). Oliveri would leave Kyuss again in early 1992, shortly after his father died in a car accident. He joined The Dwarves as an on-again-off-again bassist under the moniker Rex Everything. However, he is perhaps best known as a member of Queens Of The Stone Age from 1998 -2004. Oliveri is also a solo artist and frequent contributor to his friends' albums and tours, including Winnebago Deal, Mark Lanegan Band, Masters Of Reality, Turbonegro, Moistboyz, and The Knives. In the past he has been involved with The Desert Sessions Vol. 4 and Vol. 6. Oliveri is known for playing bare-chested and sometimes naked at gigs. Most memorably, he was arrested in Brazil, after performing nude on stage at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro. He is also one half of the acoustic duo The Uncontrollable, with The Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia. Nick Oliveri: "This record is Volume One of a series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Psych Sounds are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. Now for the first time, all these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on." Features songs from: Komatsu, Death Acoustic, Winnebago Deal, Svetlanas, and Ken Pustelnik's Groundhogs.
$16.39 EAN: 4059251046745 ROCK
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OLIVERI, NICK: N.O. Hits At All Vol. 1 (Red Vinyl) LP (HPS 046LTD-LP)
LP version. Red vinyl. Nick Steven Oliveri from Palm Desert, California, is most widely known as a bassist with Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, and The Dwarves, and has also performed with the reunited Kyuss under the names Kyuss Lives! and Vista Chino. As a bandleader, his main project is Mondo Generator, a punk/metal hybrid that he formed in 1997. Oliveri began his career in 1987 with John Garcia, Brant Bjork, Josh Homme and Chris Cockrell, with the band Katzenjammer. In early 1989, after Oliveri's departure to play in other bands, the band would change its name to Sons Of Kyuss, later shortening the name to Kyuss. He later rejoined the band, playing on Wretch (1991) and Blues For The Red Sun (1992). Oliveri would leave Kyuss again in early 1992, shortly after his father died in a car accident. He joined The Dwarves as an on-again-off-again bassist under the moniker Rex Everything. However, he is perhaps best known as a member of Queens Of The Stone Age from 1998 -2004. Oliveri is also a solo artist and frequent contributor to his friends' albums and tours, including Winnebago Deal, Mark Lanegan Band, Masters Of Reality, Turbonegro, Moistboyz, and The Knives. In the past he has been involved with The Desert Sessions Vol. 4 and Vol. 6. Oliveri is known for playing bare-chested and sometimes naked at gigs. Most memorably, he was arrested in Brazil, after performing nude on stage at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro. He is also one half of the acoustic duo The Uncontrollable, with The Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia. Nick Oliveri: "This record is Volume One of a series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Psych Sounds are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. Now for the first time, all these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on." Features songs from: Komatsu, Death Acoustic, Winnebago Deal, Svetlanas, and Ken Pustelnik's Groundhogs.
$22.39 EAN: 4059251046738 ROCK
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CLAMPS, THE: Blend, Shake, Swallow CD (HPS 047CD)
The Clamps are a three-piece speed-stoner rock n' roll band formed in northern Italy around 2012. Made up by former members of local punk, metal and alternative rock bands, The Clamps started to hit the road a few months later for plenty of shows in Italy and Europe, where they shared the stage with bands such as The Sewergrooves, Nashville Pussy, Pontiac, Valient Thorr, Wild Eyes, Valley Of The Sun, Black Tusk, and more. The Clamps squeeze stoner, speed-rock, punk and rock n'roll into a well-recognizable, no-frills, fat and fuzzy sound. Their live shows are pure energy. The debut album Deadly Kick For A Fat Fucker was released in 2013. The second album Blend, Shake, Swallow is made of eleven speed-rock n' roll super tracks. The album is fast, the production is high quality. It's the perfect soundtrack for a fast and furious car journey on the highway to hell! There's a pinch of punk n' toll too that makes the album tracks much more groovy and dirty. Their sound will destroy your face once you push the start button. RIYL: Motorhead, Hellacopters and Nashville Pussy.
$11.79 EAN: 4059251046783 ROCK
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CLAMPS, THE: Blend, Shake, Swallow LP (HPS 047LP)
LP version. The Clamps are a three-piece speed-stoner rock n' roll band formed in northern Italy around 2012. Made up by former members of local punk, metal and alternative rock bands, The Clamps started to hit the road a few months later for plenty of shows in Italy and Europe, where they shared the stage with bands such as The Sewergrooves, Nashville Pussy, Pontiac, Valient Thorr, Wild Eyes, Valley Of The Sun, Black Tusk, and more. The Clamps squeeze stoner, speed-rock, punk and rock n'roll into a well-recognizable, no-frills, fat and fuzzy sound. Their live shows are pure energy. The debut album Deadly Kick For A Fat Fucker was released in 2013. The second album Blend, Shake, Swallow is made of eleven speed-rock n' roll super tracks. The album is fast, the production is high quality. It's the perfect soundtrack for a fast and furious car journey on the highway to hell! There's a pinch of punk n' toll too that makes the album tracks much more groovy and dirty. Their sound will destroy your face once you push the start button. RIYL: Motorhead, Hellacopters and Nashville Pussy.
$16.39 EAN: 4059251046776 ROCK
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CLAMPS, THE: Blend, Shake, Swallow (Green Vinyl) LP (HPS 047LTD-LP)
LP version. Green vinyl. The Clamps are a three-piece speed-stoner rock n' roll band formed in northern Italy around 2012. Made up by former members of local punk, metal and alternative rock bands, The Clamps started to hit the road a few months later for plenty of shows in Italy and Europe, where they shared the stage with bands such as The Sewergrooves, Nashville Pussy, Pontiac, Valient Thorr, Wild Eyes, Valley Of The Sun, Black Tusk, and more. The Clamps squeeze stoner, speed-rock, punk and rock n'roll into a well-recognizable, no-frills, fat and fuzzy sound. Their live shows are pure energy. The debut album Deadly Kick For A Fat Fucker was released in 2013. The second album Blend, Shake, Swallow is made of eleven speed-rock n' roll super tracks. The album is fast, the production is high quality. It's the perfect soundtrack for a fast and furious car journey on the highway to hell! There's a pinch of punk n' toll too that makes the album tracks much more groovy and dirty. Their sound will destroy your face once you push the start button. RIYL: Motorhead, Hellacopters and Nashville Pussy.
$22.39 EAN: 4059251046769 ROCK
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DEAD WITCHES: Ouija CD (HPS 048CD)
Mark Greening (formerly of Electric Wizard, also of Ramesses and With The Dead) and vocalist Virginia Monti (Psychedelic Witchcraft) joined forces to found the heaviest occult psych super-beast to see the light in 2016, taking shape as Dead Witches. Keeping it mysterious, the band has released a couple of snippets for their upcoming works. Metal Nexus has called the album "an alluring, somewhat hypnotic style of music steeped in vintage aesthetics and mystique." The debut album, Ouija is full of doomy, slow grooves. There's something occult in the riffing, and the classic doom drumming by the great Mark Greening meeting the warm vocal melodies of Virginia Monti. The album features six songs, about 33 minutes of unreleased music. Recorded in October of 2016 at the Chuckalumba, the same studio where Electric Wizard's Dopethrone (2000) was recorded. Beware as the witches are coming to take your soul. RIYL: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Pentagram.
$11.79 EAN: 4059251046813 ROCK
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DEAD WITCHES: Ouija LP (HPS 048LP)
LP version. Mark Greening (formerly of Electric Wizard, also of Ramesses and With The Dead) and vocalist Virginia Monti (Psychedelic Witchcraft) joined forces to found the heaviest occult psych super-beast to see the light in 2016, taking shape as Dead Witches. Keeping it mysterious, the band has released a couple of snippets for their upcoming works. Metal Nexus has called the album "an alluring, somewhat hypnotic style of music steeped in vintage aesthetics and mystique." The debut album, Ouija is full of doomy, slow grooves. There's something occult in the riffing, and the classic doom drumming by the great Mark Greening meeting the warm vocal melodies of Virginia Monti. The album features six songs, about 33 minutes of unreleased music. Recorded in October of 2016 at the Chuckalumba, the same studio where Electric Wizard's Dopethrone (2000) was recorded. Beware as the witches are coming to take your soul. RIYL: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Pentagram.
$16.39 EAN: 4059251046806 ROCK
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DEAD WITCHES: Ouija (Purple Vinyl) LP (HPS 048LTD-LP)
LP version. Purple vinyl. Mark Greening (formerly of Electric Wizard, also of Ramesses and With The Dead) and vocalist Virginia Monti (Psychedelic Witchcraft) joined forces to found the heaviest occult psych super-beast to see the light in 2016, taking shape as Dead Witches. Keeping it mysterious, the band has released a couple of snippets for their upcoming works. Metal Nexus has called the album "an alluring, somewhat hypnotic style of music steeped in vintage aesthetics and mystique." The debut album, Ouija is full of doomy, slow grooves. There's something occult in the riffing, and the classic doom drumming by the great Mark Greening meeting the warm vocal melodies of Virginia Monti. The album features six songs, about 33 minutes of unreleased music. Recorded in October of 2016 at the Chuckalumba, the same studio where Electric Wizard's Dopethrone (2000) was recorded. Beware as the witches are coming to take your soul. RIYL: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Pentagram.
$22.39 EAN: 4059251046790 ROCK
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MOONDOG: The Viking of Sixth Avenue 2LP (HJR 018LP)
2017 repress, originally released in 2005. Tremendous gatefold presentation and one of HJR's most impressive documents to date. "The first overview of Moondog's amazing artistic life -- including recordings spanning from 1949 till 1995, with numerous 78s and various other vanished records revived for the first time (not to mention a couple of Weegee photographs!)."
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VA: Africa Boogaloo: The Latinization Of West Africa 2LP (HJR 041LP)
2017 repress; originally released in 2009. Honest Jon's presents a collection of music from '60s and '70s West Africa that is heavily influenced by Latin sounds from the era, representing a mutual cultural exchange that would have a permanent impact on the evolution of each region's trademark sound. Much of what makes modern Latin music so irresistible came from Africa in the first place. When the first waves of African rhythms, reconstituted in the Caribbean, returned home on radios and records, Africans -- especially in West and Central Africa -- received them with great enthusiasm. Staid dance bands that replicated European music soon began to swing as Caribbean accents settled in their rhythm sections. By the 1950s, Africa had produced its own Calypsonians, and more than one African musician changed his name to give it a Latin flavor. Some even composed songs in Spanish, while others wrote nonsense lyrics that only sounded like the real thing. No band mixed local and Latin styles more successfully than Orchestre Baobab and its leader Balla Sidibe. The mesmerizing "On Verra Ca" finds Baobab leaning in the direction of the stuttering mbalax sound that Youssou N'Dour carried to great popularity. Other Senegalese bands followed the trend, like the Rio Band, Orchestre N'Guewel, and Laba Sosseh from Gambia (like his compatriot Amara Toure) who styled himself as a salsa singer after his hero Johnny Pacheco. From Benin, Gnonnas Pedro sang in every pop style imaginable, but he seems especially at home in an Afro-Cuban embrace, as you will hear on the 1977 recording "Adigbedoto." The closing track also comes from Benin, a 1976 recording by the celebrated Orchestre Poly Rythmo -- though the singer, Pierre Tchana, hails from Cameroun. "Quiero Wapacha" features another Camerounian singer, Charles Lembe, and also from Cameroun is legendary African Jazz saxophonist, Manu Dibango, who is featured here alongside Le Grand Calle and Cuban flutist Don Gonzalo. Orchestre OK Jazz recorded any number of Afro-Cuban inspired sides: "Micorrason" is one of the band's earliest songs, recorded soon after their formation in 1956. There is no better evidence of the push-me-pull-you, back-and-forthing between two cultures than the Afro-Latin compilation we have here. All the flow from an unparalleled period of exuberance and creativity after World War II had ended and before homegrown tyranny had yet to descend on the land. It was Africa's moment, optimistic and free. You can hear it in the music. --Adapted from text by Gary Stewart, author of Rumba On The River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos.
$16.99 EAN: 4047179217316 WORLD
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RICHARD, DAWN: Redemption CD (LOC 010CD)
DΔWN's, aka Dawn Richard, last album Blackheart (2015) was FACT Magazine's #1 album of the year. It was in the Best Album of 2015 charts by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Vogue, LA Times, Spin, Elle, Noisey and The Guardian, who called it "the most ambitious and revelatory album of 2015." Her first single of 2016, Not Above That (LOC 027EP), has garnered just as much success and she followed it with a series of show-stealing shows at SXSW (at the Pitchfork, Spin, FACT and Hype Hotel showcases). She also collaborated with Kingdom on "Honest", which received Pitchfork's Best New Track. With future collaborations in the works, she looks set to continue breaking down barriers of music, performance and technology. Redemption strikes the perfect balance between future-facing electronic music (with production from Machinedrum and Noisecastle III) and the music of DΔWN's New Orleans upbringing, bound together by an untouchable approach to songwriting and flawless vocal range. The final part in a trilogy that started with Goldenheart (2013) and continued with Blackheart, it represents her most focused, complete album yet. Features contributions by Trombone Shorty and PJ Morton.
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DIN A TESTBILD: Programm 3 LP (MNQ 092LP)
Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). Din A Testbild played a significant role in defining the avant-garde music of Berlin. Their participation at the Festival Genialer Dilletanten in 1981 is legendary. Programm 3 is their third album. Mixed and auto-produced by Mark Eins with help of Ziggy Schöning, it was released on Klaus Schulze's record label Innovative Communication in 1983. Programm 3 represents a moment of distance from the "kraut" past of the band. Moving out from the legendary Schulze's studio into a home recording dimension with a basic equipment (Roland TR-808, Moog Source, EMS Synthi, tape loops), the sound of Din A Testbild was radically changing, getting closer to the experimental-electro and connecting the Neue Deutsche Welle ("German New Wave") with cosmic disco. It's well known in fact that Din A Testbild were a favorite in the playlists of the Italian DJ pioneers Daniele Baldelli and DJ Mozart, while nowadays you can find them in Matt Edwards/Radio Slave home listening mixes. Mastered by Rude 66. Edition of 500.
$14.39 UPC: 769791965423 ELECTRONIC
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DIN A TESTBILD: Programm 4 LP (MNQ 093LP)
Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). Din A Testbild played a significant role in defining the avant-garde music of Berlin. Their participation at the Festival Genialer Dilletanten in 1981 is legendary. Programm 4 is their fourth album. Mixed and auto-produced by Mark Eins near the wall in West Berlin in 1983, the album was rejected at the time by Innovative Communication, considered be too "synth/punk/techno" by the new label managers who were looking more into new age stuff. In fact, Schulze eventually sold the label in 1983, which started to release a plethora of acts loosely grouped around the NAM genre. The album was engineered by Manuel Göttsching (a long-time friend of Mark Eins) and remained under the ice for more than 30 years until Mannequin Records head Alessandro Adriani got in touch with Mark Eins and convinced him to show him the unreleased album. Recorded with basically the same setup of the previously released number 3 of the series (MNQ 092LP), Programm 4 goes even further and faster, pushing the TR-808 and the arpeggios to the limit. Imagine a sort of Clara Mondshine on speed. Looking to Europe widely in that period, similitudes can be found to Portion Control and Neon Judgement. Original reel-to-reel master tapes imported and processed by Frieder Butzmann. Mastered by Rude 66. Edition of 500.
$14.39 UPC: 769791965430 ELECTRONIC
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TURINN: 18 1/2 Minute Gaps 2LP (LOVE 104LP)
Outta the shadows and into the strobe-light, Alex Lewis, aka Turinn, debuts on Modern Love with a debut double-pack of sawn-off bruk-beats and anxious, nerve-riding grooves brewed in the ravines of North Manchester. Turinn emerges from a new generation of producers in the city that include longtime spar Willow, and upcoming producer Croww. Crooked and rugged, but tempered by an acute emotive sensitivity, 18 1/2 Minute Gaps renders a bleedin' cross-section of mongrel, hybrid style 'n pattern in a breathless, deceptively freehand fashion that comes riddled with an electric blue energy all of its own. Committing ten tracks of fractious, mutant funk and sore feels, 18 1/2 Minute Gaps serves to cap Turinn's formative phase of production like a lead lid on a nuclear rave implosion; trapping original 'ardcore 'nuum, Detroit booty and dank post-punk elements in a perpetual flux of in-the-pocket grooves which ravenously attempt to split at the seams, alternately pushing into Muslimgauze-like buffer zones of distortion or resoundingly wide ambient dimensions, and often both at once. This ambiguous dichotomy is epitomized between the rare surge of quick/slow torque in "Ovum", which almost sounds like Chris Carter sparring with Burial Hex, and then in his nod to the Italian new wave with "Elba", which seems to find the square root between Lorenzo Senni and some skudgy as heck Kassem Mosse grind, whereas the bittersweet soul of "1625" finds compatible links with his close peer, Workshop's Willow as well as Japan's Shinichi Atobe and scene enabler Move D, while "Parratactico" swaggers into quantum dancehall meters. The album title track runs at a next level Detroit momentum like DJ Stingray flipping Derrick May and Carl Craig's "Kao-tic Harmonies", before "ESO" cuts in like a super cranky El-B wearing itchy Primark underwear, and the bone-rattling hardcore jungle of "Spawn" soon enough gives way to the sweet lad couplet of "Petrichor" and "Ondine", where his elusive, distressed melodic touch really shines thru. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy; Pressed at Pallas.
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YONKERS, MICHAEL: Grimwood LP (MY 001LP)
An original sealed pressing of Michael Yonkers's Grimwood from 1974. Recorded in 1968, not terribly long after the material eventually released as Microminiature Love (2003), Grimwood sounds like it emanates from another universe entirely. Straightforward on the one hand, yet fascinatingly and psychedelically abstruse on the other, Grimwood remains an essential "outsider" acid-folk document that sits comfortably (and irreplaceably) alongside Spence, Grudzien, Tweddle, and a few select others. Released in 1974 and rescued from deep inside Yonks's storage space/weirdo museum.
$24.39 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Damsel Fair And Your Angel
A2. Grimwood
A3. Sandcastle
A4. Lonely Fog
A5. The Day Is Through
B1. 162
B2. And Give It To You
B3. Tripping Through The Rose Gardens
B4. The Answer
B5. Sunflower
B6. The Big Parade
B7. The Thing Called Love
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YONKERS, MICHAEL: Goodby Sunball LP (MY 002LP)
An original sealed pressing of Michael Yonkers's Goodby Sunball from 1974. Recorded in 1970 and 1971 after a difficult spinal surgery following a severe warehouse accident. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic on Goodby Sunball: ". . . the basic home fidelity, with vocals recorded in a bathroom for echoing ambience, adds to the strangeness, the tunes also sounding on occasion like holiday carols by and for celebrants not quite certain they'll live to see another Christmas. Though not every fan of rare psychedelia will agree with this assessment, it sounds immeasurably better than Microminiature Love (2003), as the songwriting is substantially superior; the melodies far more varied and affecting; and the vision far more likably personal." Released in 1974 and rescued from deep inside Yonks's storage space/weirdo museum.
$24.39 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. Goodby Sunball
A2. Tell Me Of Love
A3. The Day Of Jubilee
A4. Angel Of The Snow
A5. The Swamp Of Love
A6. Anne Is Me Lassie
A7. Another Day
A8. Morning Of Love
A9. Someone Like You
B1. Early Wakin Mornin
B2. Strange And Lonely Land
B3. Oh Can You Tell Me
B4. Time Honored Love
B5. Goodby Sunball
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AHO, KALEVI: Piano Works CD (NEOS 10915CD)
Finnish composer Kalevi Aho (born 1949) is a true giant among composers, both in terms of craftsmanship and of sonic and formal imagination. Although his works are not performed as much internationally as some of his colleagues', he is without doubt Finland's most brilliant symphonic and operatic composer of his time. This disc presents harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Skouras's brilliant first recording of this music for solo piano. The pieces are as many-sided as they are unpredictable, crossing borders in pianism. Violinist Anna Kalandarishvili appears on Halla for violin and piano (1992).
$10.99 EAN: 4260063109157 CLASSICAL
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BRASS, NIKOLAUS: String Trios CD/SACD (NEOS 11512CD)
"Listening to the production I had a strong feeling that these three pieces form a kind of unity after all, that they do develop something like a single thought -- over a period of over 30 years. One can never know that when one writes the individual work. Now I see something of my identity in the trios." Nikolaus Brass (born 1949, Lindau, Germany) initially studied medicine and took private composition lessons with Peter Kiesewetter, before later studying with Frank Michael Beyer and Helmut Lachenmann. Between 1978 and 1986 he regularly attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses, where he also met with Morton Feldman. His music has become standard at every important new music festival, such as the Donaueschingen Festival, musica viva in Munich, Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT Stuttgart, Klangspuren Schwaz, and Witten Days for New Chamber Music. Brass has turned more toward staged projects in the 2010s (the chamber music theater work Sommertag, based on Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse's work of the same name of, was premiered in 2014 at the Munich Biennale). Brass has received numerous awards, including the Music Prize of the State Capital Munich in 2009. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. This disc presents TrioCoriolis's performance of three of his works.
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VA: Ins Offene: Klaviermusik der Moderne/Piano Music of Modern Age CD (NEOS 11610CD)
Ever since the music of modernism radically emancipated itself from its historically nurtured "worlds of concepts and feelings" (Nietzsche), composers have been diligently striving to liberate themselves from the standards, models, and experiences of the past while embarking upon an indefinite journey, without orientation, into the open. This presentation of piano works -- not comprehensible in their respective conceptions and so widely differing in their respective aesthetics and styles -- is, at the same time, a musically varied, richly contrasted, heterogeneous, and sensual journey into the piano music of modernism. Includes Greek-German pianist and harpsichordist Andreas Skouras's performances of: Prélude no 1 "Brouillards" by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Mode de valeurs et d'intensités by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Klavierstück V by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Étude no 6 by Pascal Dusapin (born 1955), Quattro illustrazioni by Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), Litany by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Chaconne by Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931), Für Alina by Arvo Pärt (born 1935), and Fünf Miniaturen by Hans-Michael Rummler (born 1946). Skouras appears frequently as a soloist or chamber musician throughout Europe at festivals such as Early Music in London, Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, and les muséiques Basel, as well as in the United States, where he has performed at Carnegie Hall. His chamber music partners include Julia Rebekka Adler, Peter Sadlo, Wen-Sinn Yang, and Minas Borboudakis, and he has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra, the ASKO Ensemble, the Ensemble intercontemporain, and the Munich Chamber Orchestra -- with conductors such as Peter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki, Constantinos Carydis, Markus Poschner, Christoph Poppen, Dirk Kaftan, and Jac van Steen.
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FLAMMER, ERNST HELMUTH: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 5 CD/SACD (NEOS 11618CD)
E. H. Flammer presents two enormous works, asking the listener for intense and long-lasting attention -- with String Quartet No. 4 lasting about ten minutes longer than even Beethoven's famous Op. 132 -- but once it begins the listener will be unable to think of anything else. Voyage éternel de l'oiseau de feu (The journey through time of the firebird), evokes that ever-inquisitive creature, always on the way to new shores, pouncing with carefree verve on the new, which stands for an obsession with a journey into the infinite, harshly interrupted time and again by the "troublemaker" (Kurt Schwitters's "error in the system"), yet finally departing forever into the virtual, into the open. The Jade Quartett -- Hanlin Liang, violin; Hyunji You, violin; Igor Michalski, viola; Shihyu You-Holz, cello -- takes its name not only from the substance, but is also a portmanteau of "Ja" (a romanization of the Mandarin word for "Asia") and "DE," the country code of the ensemble's adopted country of Germany. This connection is also programmatic for the quartet, which is especially concerned with performing works from their Asian homeland as well as the classical European quartet repertoire.
$10.99 EAN: 4260063116186 CLASSICAL
Voyage éternel de l'oiseau de feu -- Des Feuervogels Zeitreise String Quartet No. 4 (1996/97)
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02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. VII
08. VIII
09. IX
10. X
11. XI
12. XII
13. XIII
14. XIV
15. XV
16. XVI
17. XVII
18. XVIII
Abschiede String Quartet No. 5 (2002)
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20. II
21. III
22. IV
23. V
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CLEMENTI/GILEAD MISHORY/GIUSEPPE TARTINI, MUZIO: To Aeneas CD (NEOS 21601CD)
Gilead Mishory was born in 1960 in Jerusalem and studied at the Rubin Academy. On the recommendation of Alfred Brendel he completed his studies with Gerhard Oppitz in Munich and with Hans Leygraf at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Gilead Mishory is the first pianist to have recorded the complete piano works and chamber music with piano by Leos Janáček. Enthusiastic reviewers describe him as "a magician of sound," "a technically perfect poet of the piano," and "a pianist with a sense of sound, charm and esprit." Since 2000 Gilead Mishory has been a full professor at the renowned University of Music in Freiburg, succeeding Carl Seemann, Robert D. Levin, and Michel Béroff. He is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. This disc contains his performances of Muzio Clementi's Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" (1821), his own An Aeneas / To Aeneas / À Énée, and his 2011 arrangement of Giuseppe Tartini's Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" (1731).
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POULENC/COLIN MCPHEE/JOHN ADAMS, FRANCIS: Concerti III CD (NEOS 21703CD)
Three completely different composers -- but three works with a great deal in common: gamelan, minimalism, parody. The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo keeps coming up with surprising but logical ideas, realizing these with fantastic pianistic virtuosity. In the 1960s, When American composers bid farewell to the cerebral exercises of the European avant-garde substantiated by historical-philosophical considerations, proclaiming the cult of a new simplicity, they also did this with reference to African drumming rituals, Indonesian gamelan music, pop art, and pop music. They called the result "minimalism," the most important characteristic of which, as with the gamelan, was repetitive patterns above a steady beat; these are transported into other musical aggregate states by means of gradually increasing (at first almost unnoticeable) disturbances, irregularities, and phase shifts. Together with the re-enthronement of the major and minor keys, these procedures frequently created psychedelic effects -- by no means unintentionally. American composer John Adams has provided a particularly vivid report on the stimuli that led him to compose his Grand Pianola Music (1982): he dreamt that he was driving on Interstate 5 when he was approached from behind by two black stretch limousines; when they passed him, they were transformed into the world's longest Steinway pianos and then launched salvos of B-flat major and E-flat major arpeggios at 90 miles per hour. Another important stimulus was the recollection of having walked through the halls of the San Francisco Conservatory and heard the sonic flood of 20 or more pianos "playing Chopin, the Emperor Concerto, Hanon, Rachmaninoff, the 'Maple Leaf Rag,' and much more." This disc presents the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo's performance of Adams's Grand Pianola Music with the Trio Mediæval and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Brad Lubman, along with the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin's performances of Francis Poulenc's Concerto en ré mineur (1932) and Colin McPhee's Tabuh-Tabuhan (1936).
$10.99 EAN: 4260063217036 CLASSICAL
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NETTI, GIORGIO: ciclo del ritorno DVD (NEOS 51701-02)
One could describe Italian composer Giorgio Netti's ciclo del ritorno for viola solo as a small odyssey of breathing, becoming acoustically transformed from the body, to space into the body, to material and body, to an instrument of tradition. It narrates a journey and return carrying on the tradition of the νόστοι (the poems of the Iliad, describing the return of the Greeks to their homeland after the conquest of Troy), whereby the viola assumes the role of the narrator, simultaneously serving as a narrating voice and the location of the journey; the expanded acoustical space as a slow return to the instrument, as separation and rebirth. Performed by Anna Spina, viola, with Benoît Piccand, sound director. PAL, NTSC, region-free DVD. PCM 2.0 stereo. 16:9 aspect ratio. Includes an interview with Netti by Marcus Weiss.
$20.99 EAN: 4260063517013 CLASSICAL
ciclo del ritorno for viola solo (2010-2014):
01. I -- Iassù for prepared and amplified viola solo (2010/11) (40:41)
02. II -- un nastro for distorted and spread-out applause (2012) (5:17)
03. III -- e poi for viola (2012/14) (28:38)
04. Interview (Marcus Weiss with Giorgio Netti) (20:33)
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LOCKYEAR: Wave Knowledge 12" (OTB 009EP)
Lockyear expands the inventive palette heard on his 2016 OTB debut with Wave Knowledge. The muscular rhythm of "Bodymind" is fertile ground for sweeping pads and a lively arpeggiator, combining tense lows and soaring highs for dancefloor euphoria. "Wave Knowledge" swirls distorted stabs and playful bleeps around the bassline while mystical pads search for peace of mind. At the heart of closer "Taming the Elephant" is an enigmatic vocal that incites a meditative state alongside subtly pulsating chord. Hand-stamped with a design by 88888.
$10.99 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VA: Buried Alive!! Demented Teenage Fuzz From Down Under 1965-1970 6CD BOX (PARTBOX 005CD)
The world down under produced some of the most ferocious and provocative sounds to have emerged from the 1960s. Crammed full of fuzz, distortion, feedback, phasing, and wild dementia, this uncompromising sound was the precursor to punk rock. Buried Alive!! conjures up a superb collection of rampant amphetamine fury, jammed tight with the most vile and repulsive '60s delinquency ever put together. This six-disc anthology culls together 150 long lost sounds of toxic, teenage rebellion from Australasia. Professionally re-mastered original sound; Includes a full-color, 80-page booklet with expansive liners containing group biographies, archival imagery, and previously unreleased recordings. Buried Alive!! is the first definitive collection devoted to Australasian 1960s beat, punk, and psych. Features: Masters Apprentices, Mike Furber, Chants R&B, Black Diamonds, Derek's Accent, The Elois, Russ Kruger, The Creatures, The Soul Agents, The In-Sect, Sandy Edmonds, MPD LTD, The Purple Hearts, The Bluestars, The Down And Out, The Dark Ages, The Selected Few, The Vince Maloney Sect, The Allusions, Steve And The Board, Barrington Davis, The Deakins, The Missing Links, The Hergs, Roadrunners, The Lincolns, Laurie Wade's Cavaliers, Peter Nelson And The Castaways, Tony Cole, Peter Doyle, Colin Cook, Peter And The Silhouettes, The Other Ends, The La De Das, The Principals, The Leather Souls, The Feelgoods, Tol-Puddle Martyrs, The Deep Set, The Sounds Of Silence, The Frantics, The Pilgrims Five, Bobby James And The Vibrants, The Loved Ones, The Smoke, The Action, Tony Worsley, The Atlantics, Normie Rowe And The Playboys, The 4 Strangers, The London Criers, The 5, The Pleazers, The Hergs, The Lost Souls, Throb, The Blue Beats, The Henchmen, The Challenge, Billy Adams, Wild Cherries, Tom Thumb, The Groop, Larry's Rebels, The Twilights, The Syssys, The Town Criers, The Clique, The Probe, Mort And The Mobees, The Strangers, Hugo, The Morloch, Autumn, Reverend Black And The Rockin' Vicars, The Human Instinct, The Mixtures, The Affair, Zoot, 1863 Establishment, The Puppy, Abdullah's Regime, The Last Straws, The Jet Set, The Bucket, Travis, Wellington, Hedge, The Plaster Scene, Doug Ashdown, Troubled Mind, House Of Nimrod, Inside Looking Out, Proclamation, The Salvation, Love Machine, Vyt And The World, Inkase, Top Shelf, The Rebels, Roger Skinner & The Motivation, The Playboys, The Manx, Hi-Revving Tongues, The Dizzy Limit, Lloyd's World, Imagination, Chris Malcolm, The Music Convention, The Gremlins, Oak Apple Day, The Questions, Vegetable Garden, James Taylor Move, The Brew, The Wright Of Waye, The Gallery, and Clapham Junction.
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OMARI, ABDOU EL: Nuits D'ete LP (RMLP 001LP)
Repressed, thankfully. Radio Martiko present a reissue of Abdou El Omari's Nuits D'été, originally released in Morocco in 1976. Reissue of this ultra-rare oriental psych monster from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced-out modern sounds. First part of Abdou El Omari's Nuits trilogy. Includes download code.
$18.39 UPC: 769791964754 WORLD
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OMARI, ABDOU EL: Nuits D'ete Avec Naima Samin LP (RMLP 002LP)
First issue of this previously unreleased oriental psych monster from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Nuits D'ete Avec Naima Samin is the second part of Abdou El Omari's Nuits-trilogy. This album contains heavenly compositions for the Moroccon diva Naima Samih and some moody instrumentals in a similar vein to the previous album, Nuits D'ete (RMLP 001LP, 2016). Includes download code.
$18.39 UPC: 769791965140 WORLD
A1. Rmani Rih
A2. Zifaf Filfada
A3. Khallani Ghriba
B1. Musika Munreal
B2. Twahachna Klamak
B3. Raksatoun Fillail
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ALVA NOTO: Xerrox Vol. 1 2LP (R-N 078LP)
2017 repress; originally released in 2007. Gatefold sleeve. Originals are unique, be they genetic codes or image and sound documents. Their copies are mere means of distribution. To secure these originals from misuse is increasingly at issue in the 21st century. The essence and potential of the copy, on the other hand, is mostly disregarded. In a world of constant reproduction, only the replication counts as original; the single object is a sheer copy of the prefiguration, which is abstract and becomes an icon. The uncountable number of multiplied images confirms the original, but immediately the copy withdraws and assesses its own value. By virtue of the mechanism of copying, the copy often contains mistakes and abstractions that differ from the original. These simplifications and deformations inherent in the copying process lead to a gradual loss of copies' connection to the original and result in a substantial change of meaning. Although there is still a source, the original message disperses in the white noise of reproduction. In the end, the observer can hardly discern whether the origin is part of the information transferred; whether there is still an integral material component of the original or if this can only be projected. This question remains unanswered. What finally remains is the process of copying itself. It becomes a creative tool by analytically accomplishing something new. The mutating copy provides space for development; he copy becomes original again. Xerrox is the self-contained project of Alva Noto, which, like his Transall series, is intended to be released in five parts. On Xerrox, Alva Noto works with samples from muzak, advertising, soundtracks, and entertainment programs -- sounds one hears randomly in everyday life in an ever-present and available kind of public domain. With Xerrox, Alva Noto manipulates these recognizable melodic (micro-)structures by the process of copying. He alienates them beyond recognition so the results manifest their connection to the original only suggestively. The original is copied to the original. Alva noto used several samples from these sources: Narita International Airport (Tokyo), AirFrance in-flight program, Lufthansa telephone wait-loop, Apollo Opéra Hôtel (Paris), Suizanso Hotel (Yamaguchi, Japan), 7-Eleven (Tokyo), Forma (London), Reaktor, kkmovie.com. Xerrox sample transformer designed by Carsten Nicolai and built by Christoph Brünggel. Mastered at Calyx Mastering.
$16.39 EAN: 4260115997824 ELECTRONIC
A1. 10-22-38 Astoria
A2. Haliod Xerrox Copy 4
A3. 03-10-06 Astoria
A4. Haliod Xerrox Copy 3 (Paris)
B1. 03-10-06 Astoria 2
B2. Haliod Xerrox Copy 2 (Airfrance)
B3. Haliod Xerrox Copy 6
C1. 05-10-06 Astoria
C2. Haliod Xerrox Copy 11
C3. Haliod Xerrox Copy 1
D1. 02-10-06 Astoria 1
D2. Haliod Xerrox Copy 111
D3. 09-10-19 Astoria
D4. Haliod Xerrox Copy 9
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ALVA NOTO: Xerrox Vol. 2 2LP (R-N 103LP)
2017 repress; originally released in 2009. Gatefold sleeve. Alva Noto's Xerrox Vol. 2 undertakes an intense journey and affords the luxury to take its time. While Xerrox Vol. 1 (R-N 078LP, 2007) referred to the old world, with its tradition deeply rooted in classical music, Xerrox Vol. 2 tries to access a new world. It works with samples that have been gathered and developed in the USA -- the so-called new world -- where the album was almost completely recorded. The dramatic and dynamic approach of Xerrox Vol. 1 has been replaced by a structural density on Xerrox Vol. 2. Instead of working with individual musical entities, Vol. 2 instead develops a linear aesthetic that refers to musical strategies of film music. Hence there are no implicitly singular pieces, but open musical structures -- a journey without a predetermined target. The first four tracks of Xerrox Vol. 2 actually condense into one track, using samples of Michael Nyman and Stephen O'Malley. They combine to form a sort of soundtrack before fading away in a swell of reverb feedback. "Xerrox Sora" is a rudimentary piece from Alva Noto's collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, which originates from and was performed as an encore during the 2004 Insen tour (R-N 076DVD, 2006). Continuing with "Xerrox Monophaser 2," the album creates a dense and interweaved complexity that only gradually unfolds its depth. While "Xerrox Teion" dissolves in the process of copying into another sample rate, "Xerrox Teion Acat" again tends to re-condense its quality. Xerrox Vol. 2 seems to be more playful than Xerrox Vol. 1; following the approach of a live set, it is not so much obligated to a theoretical concept. Therefore it intends to break a static framework before it gets too restricted. The 11 tracks of Xerrox Vol. 2 serve as documents of an immediately experienced time or as attempts to unfold in an endless space. In this sense, Xerrox Vol. 2 comes close to the idea of the Aleph-1 project (R-N 087LP), which tried to disappear rather than occupy an endless space. Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering.
$16.39 EAN: 4260115999033 ELECTRONIC
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OSBORNE-LANTHIER, JESSE: Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! 12" (R-N 119EP)
Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! is Jesse Osborne-Lanthier's first release on Raster-Noton, and the ninth and final release of the label's Unun series. The Berlin/Montreal based Canadian producer incorporates urgency into dance music and conceptual electronics by disassembling their grammar and acting through it. Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! was recorded by Osborne-Lanthier a mere two hours before a live set in Paris. Its specific purpose was to generate a response from the audience, to stimulate their bodies through sound. The toolbox for this task was stocked with automatic call-and-response music tropes drawn from EDM, big-room house, trance, and online production tutorials.
$10.99 EAN: 4260115991198 ELECTRONIC
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LICHTENBERGER, GRISCHA: Spielraum/Allgegenwart/Strahlung 3x12" (R-N 168-2EP)
As a central point of reference of Grischa Lichtenberger's La Demeure; Il Y a Péril en la Demeure complex (R-N 169CD, 2015), Raster-Noton presents a limited edition of three 12" vinyl EPs that are accompanied by a handmade, signed and individualized screen print. The three EPs, Spielraum, Allgegenwart and Strahlung, were set up as an experiment. Each of the records is guided by a word that could be described as a phantasmagoria, a delusion of the 20th century - like a metaphor that is concerned not only with its immediate meaning, but with an implication more emotional, more irrational, telling something about the mindset of the not so distant past. These keywords already existed before the production on the tracks began and thus played the role of an indirect orientation or playground for association. Nevertheless, the EPs are not conceptualized, but are rather a collection of habits and strategies in relation to the titles. Common to all EPs of the triptych is the question of a connection between intimacy and the public sphere. Aesthetically, the music presented on the EPs ranges from distressing and unaligned dancefloor-oriented tracks to tribal and politically charged drones to unsettling noise ballads. On Spielraum, for example, hypnotizing music box melodies are combined with claustrophobic breakbeats. Allgegenwart, on the other hand, presents mechanical rhythms and sawing pads, topped with high-pitched warning sounds. Last but not least, the final EP Strahlung features self-forgetful, gloomy and melancholy tracks backed by melodies that are reminiscent of a barrel organ turned upside down. Printed, stamped and signed by Lichtenberger himself. Print and paint application variations are intended. Edition of 500.
$27.59 EAN: 4260115996827 ELECTRONIC
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KAVINSKY: Outrun LP (REC 086LP)
2017 repress. Nicolas Winding Refn's film, Drive (2011) operates on a level of cool that's hard to articulate with just words; it takes a snippet from the movie -- take the opening credits backed by Kavinsky's "Nightcall" -- to really grasp its effortless debonair. Since the film's release, this single's Youtube video has climbed to over 30 million views, and has been on repeat across an expanse of playlists, always fueling the after-after party with the slow burn of glossed synth echoes. Kavinsky is not all about "Nightcall." He died in a car crash in 1986, while driving his beloved Testarossa. He re-appeared as a zombie in 2005, with his 12", Teddy Boy. Since then, he has shown up all around the globe, playing his music to fellow humans. Crowds gathered to witness the miracle: despite being dead, Kavinsky was still alive. In 2007, he released his second 12", "1986." This is when his French robot-mates in Daft Punk invited him to join their "Alive Tour," and A-Trak put together an American tour. After discovering the world with his red eyes, Kavinsky retreated to his base camp to release "Nightcall' in 2011. Kavinsky now presents his long-awaited debut album OutRun produced by SebastiAn, including appearances by Havoc (Mobb Deep), Tyson & SebastiAn. 1x LP 12" -- gatefold glossy coated + 12" printed inner sleeve.
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JULIE'S HAIRCUT: Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin CD (LAUNCH 104CD)
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.
$10.99 EAN: 5055300389237 ROCK
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NURSE WITH WOUND: Spiral Insana 2CD/BOOK (ROTOR 050BK)
Rotorelief inaugurates its Silver Collection with this deluxe expanded reissue of Nurse With Wound's 1986 masterpiece Spiral Insana. Two-CD version includes 30-page metallic hardcover book (15 x 20 x 2 cm) containing color and black-and-white art by Babs Santini (Steven Stapleton). One of Nurse With Wound's most deep and mysterious recordings, Spiral Insana is more ambient and user-friendly than many other NWW outings, without losing any of its surreal edge. Stapleton and guests Robert Haigh and David Jackman mix prepared piano, percussion, loops, and various bric-à-brac into an hour-long collage of mashed-up sound, jarring juxtapositions, buzz-saw distortion, and even a pipe organ. If that sounds disorienting, that's because it is. This edition marks the definitive release of the complete Spiral Insana sessions, with the contents of the original 1986 LP augmented by three recordings from the same period: "Mourning Smile" (originally released on the 1987 LP Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains and later included on the 1997 United Dairies CD reissue of Spiral Insana), "Nihil" (first released on the 1997 Spiral Insana CD reissue), and "A Missing Sense," a 25-minute tribute to Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing originally released as the NWW half of a 1986 LP split with Organum. Steven Stapleton: drums, cello, radio, guitar, bowed piano, percussion, loops, voice, tuba, organ, electronics; Robert Haigh: guitar; David Jackman: banjo, splutter, voice; Chris Wallis: acoustic guitar; David Tibet: trumpet; Diana Rogerson: voice; Andrew McKenzie: voice. Mastered by Denis Blackham. Cover art and pictures by Babs Santini. "Still stands as one of the clear highlights of Stephen Stapleton's singularly daunting and mountainous discography. . . . Many of the varied interludes are noisy, fragmented, and somewhat abrasive, but there is always a playful sense of mischief lurking in the shadows, ready to blunder into the steadily darkening fever dream at any second. . . . a brilliantly skewed and excellent album that has not faded with age one bit." --Anthony D'Amico, Brainwashed
$24.99 UPC: 769791965256 ELECTRONIC
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COODER, RY: Live At The Bottom Line '74 CD (RV 2034CD)
Ry Cooder, live at the Bottom Line in New York on May 16th, 1974. By 1974, Ry Cooder was firmly established as one of America's leading guitarists and arrangers. This superb live set was broadcast on WNYU-FM, just after the release of his classic Paradise and Lunch album (1974), and finds him tackling a typically eclectic range of material. The entire syndicated radio broadcast is presented here with background notes and images.
$11.99 EAN: 5292317203426 ROCK
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KROKOFANT: Krokofant III CD (RCD 2189CD)
On their third album in just three years, Krokofant typify a new and invigorating movement currently sweeping the Nordic region: hard-boiled improvisation and strong instrumental personalities bolted onto rock beats and driving rhythms. Equally powerful on record and on stage, Krokofant pull no punches, sounding off like some unholy three-way marriage of early '70s jazz rock (think Mahavishnu Orchestra, Terje Rypdal), the sprawling progressive odysseys of King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator, and the fierce heat of John Zorn or Peter Brötzmann's harsh free jazz ensembles. The group was properly born during the sessions at the proudly analog Engfelt & Forsgren Studio that led to their self-titled debut released on Rune Grammofon in 2014 (RCD 2154CD/RLP3154LP). This studio, with Christian Engfelt in charge of recording and mixing, has proved perfect for capturing the essence of a group like Krokofant, so it was only natural that they went back for the second album (RCD 2177CD/RLP3177LP, 2015) and now their third with Engfelt. Real musicians captured playing together in real time, you simply can´t beat that when it comes to this kind of music. Krokofant are the trio of: Axel Skalstad, Jørgen Mathisen, and Tom Hasslan.
$10.99 EAN: 7033662021895 JAZZ
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DESTO: Immortality EP 12" (SGNLF 009EP)
Immortality EP is Signal Life lynchpin Desto's first outing in over three years. The EP is founded on the stark aesthetics of footwork paired with Desto's signature pitch-dark brooding melodies. "Flames" and the title track expand furthest from the footwork realm towards a wider field of electronic music. "Pulse Cathedral" continues the percussive explosions of footwork with staggering syncopation. The fully Chicago drum programming and the apparent lack of jungle breaks (albeit a clear presence of jungle feel) combines the energy of both genres without falling victim to cheap imitations.
$10.99 EAN: 5055300378996 ELECTRONIC
01. Flames
02. Pulse Cathedral
03. Don't Lose Yourself
04. 504 Gateway Timeout
05. Do I Look Like I Give A Shit
06. Immorality
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HENRY WU & BANTON: Henry Wu & Banton 12" (SOSR 022EP)
Collaboration between Henry Wu (Rhythm Section International, 22a, Eglo) and Londener Jamal Banton on the new Sound Of Speed 12".
$12.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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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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VA: Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol. 5 + 6 CD (STAGO 085CD)
First time on CD. Volumes 5 and 6 of Stag-O-Lee's Exotic Blues & Rhythm series were released on limited edition 10" vinyl and sold out in next to no time. Enjoy 24 amazing and danceable tunes from the late '50s and early '60s - a handful of popcorn dancefloor smashes, a few grinding tittyshakers, awesome rhythm & blues - most of them with an exotic twist. Features: The Clare Sisters, Earl Hooker, Chuck Daniels, Otis Blackwell & His Band, Lance Roberts, Willie Wright, Bob Calloway And The Chicks, Sonny Day, Howlin' Wolf, Toussaint McCall, Titus Turner, The Voodoos, The Rhythm Kings, Kenny And Moe, Young Jessie, Bracey Everett, Johnny And The Hurricanes, Johnny Williams, Little Jimmy Ray, The Mark Five, Cosmo, and Steve Karmen.
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VA: Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol. 7 + 8 CD (STAGO 086CD)
First time on CD. Volumes 7 and 8 of Stag-O-Lee's Exotic Blues & Rhythm series were released on limited edition 10" vinyl and sold out in next to no time. 24 amazing and danceable tunes from the late '50s and early '60s - a handful of popcorn dancefloor smashes, a few grinding tittyshakers, awesome rhythm & blues - most of them with an exotic twist. Features: Plas Johnson & His Orchestra, Chance Halladay, Nick Anthony, Nicky De Matteo, David Seville, Ted Jarrett & Band, The Astro-Jets, Titus Turner, Ronny Savoy, Malcom Dodds, Alan Arkin, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dick D'Agostin & The Swingers, Don Carroll, Mike Shaw, Deane Hawley, Jim Burgett, The Viscounts, Bobby Scott, Trini Lopez, Jimmy Ricks, and Oscar Perry.
$10.99 EAN: 4030433008621 ROCK
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GUIDO & MAURIZIO DE ANGELIS: Roma Violenta 2LP (SUBOST 003LP)
Sub Ost present a complete reissue of Guido & Maurizio De Angelis's soundtrack the 1975 film Roma Violenta. This is the complete original soundtrack (with all the outtakes) for one of the most iconic Italian "poliziotteschi" films, the Italian answer to the Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood mania of the 1970s. Written by the brothers De Angelis, the score alternates between killer, funk grooves and more laidback instrumentals. Presented here for the first time on two LPs; Comes in a gatefold sleeve, with original artwork and film stills.
$26.99 UPC: 614253712131 SOUNDTRACK
A1. The Other Face (1:26)
A2. The Reason Of A Just War (1:45)
A3. The Reason Of A Just War (2:43)
A4. The Other Face (1:22)
A5. The Punitive Justice (2:41)
A6. Gangster Story (5:58)
B1. Casa Di Moda (4:22)
B2. The Punitive Justice (2:02)
B3. Undercover Investigation (1:25)
B4. The Reason Of A Just War (1:29)
B5. The Other Face (2:31)
B6. The Reason Of A Just War (1:29)
B7. The Reason Of A Just War (2:90)
C1. Undercover Investigation (1:32)
C2. Chicca (6:13)
C3. The Reason Of A Just War (2:37)
C4. Sliding Crime (3:43)
D1. The Punitive Justice (1:56)
D2. Undercover Investigation (1:14)
D3. Revening A Friend (1:48)
D4. The Punitive Justice (1:59)
D5. The Reason Of A Just War (2:36)
D6. The Reason Of A Just War (3:00)
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GUIDO & MAURIZIO DE ANGELIS: Roma Violenta (Color Vinyl) 2LP (SUBOST 003X-LP)
Color vinyl version. Sub Ost present a complete reissue of Guido & Maurizio De Angelis's soundtrack the 1975 film Roma Violenta. This is the complete original soundtrack (with all the outtakes) for one of the most iconic Italian "poliziotteschi" films, the Italian answer to the Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood mania of the 1970s. Written by the brothers De Angelis, the score alternates between killer, funk grooves and more laidback instrumentals. Presented here for the first time on two LPs; Comes in a gatefold sleeve, with original artwork and film stills.
$32.39 EAN: 0614253712148 SOUNDTRACK
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SIGHA: Metabolism CD (TOKEN 070CD)
English producer James Shaw aka Sigha presents his sophomore album, Metabolism, marking his third release on the Token label following his singles Our Father/A Better Way Of Living (TOKEN 056EP, 2015) and Christ Figures/New Puritan (TOKEN 063EP, 2016). Metabolism represents an arrival, as the artist offers his definitive statement on a production aesthetic that has been in development throughout the 2010s. Shaw's work as Sigha has always placed the listener at a centrifugal point that invites a clandestine hypnosis rather than an abject hysteria. Cavernous low ends fixed firmly and effectively in a mono space tether the music to the body, while exquisitely executed white noise patterns and crystalline pads warp and hiss around the stereo environment. This keen ear for distinction within the frequency spectrum acts as the central theme on the album. Metabolism encompasses a power dynamism that departs from the explicitly grayscale finish found on Shaw's more conceptual work as Sigha and as A Vision Of Love for Guy Brewer's Avian label. Though elements of Metabolism maintain a driven, corrosive quality, each searing sequence and mordant drum machine hit occupies its own space. On high-energy dancefloor moments and abstract tracks alike, Shaw's approach to distortion is one that sets out to separate components rather than to bind them. This creates a matrix of aural stimuli that remain heady and inherently propulsive, but are realized in a fashion more akin to high-fidelity sound design than processes traditionally associated with the techno genre. The album also possesses a powerful musicality beyond this acute attention to form and structure. In the past, Shaw's productions have often married high-energy drum work with subtly shifting minor keys spread around the sonic periphery. On Metabolism, emotive leads sit squarely and comfortably in the foreground, and build toward rapturous crescendos that are crisp and omnipresent throughout the mix. These careful layers generate the extraordinary tension that has become a hallmark of the artist's work. Metabolism is a techno album, but its frame of reference is generous, drawing on the finest facets of the artist's own varied discography and the wider electronic music landscape. Cohesive and modern, Shaw's second album eschews a handful of riffs on a single idea in favor of a multi-faceted, fully realized expression of what the genre can be.
$9.79 EAN: 5414165082323 ELECTRONIC
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BONACCORSO, ROSARIO: A Beautiful Story CD (VVJ 112CD)
A Beautiful Story is the title of the new album by Rosario Bonaccorso, produced by Via Veneto Jazz. Following his last album released in 2015, Viaggiando on Via Veneto Jazz (VVJ 098CD, 1991), Rosario Bonaccorso continues to enrich and expand his musical pathway, evolving his ideas as a band leader and composer. The twelve outstanding compositions on A Beautiful Story immediately enchant the listener with their beauty and depth. Once again, his music is smooth and powerful, and the listener is swept away into an overpowering, yet refined, intimate universe. On this new album, the double bassist is joined by a group of acclaimed musicians: his friend Dino Rubino on the flugelhorn, Enrico Zanisi on the piano and Alessandro Paternesi on the drums. These young "lions", widely appreciated by critics and audiences on both Italian and European jazz scenes, are sensitive and mature artists and despite their young age, they boast of a rich variety of noteworthy collaborations and experiences. There's a particular charm in the musical direction and the refined sound of this quartet, where the Italian flair for writing music is manifest, Rosario Bonaccorso representing this at its finest. With A Beautiful Story, Rosario Bonaccorso allures the listener into a sonic journey filling heart and soul, radiating the myriad of emotions in his music.
$12.39 EAN: 8013358201120 JAZZ
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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
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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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RUSSELL, ARTHUR: Instrumentals 2LP (AU 1016LP)
"Remastered double LP with 12 page booklet including liner notes by Tim Lawrence, Ernie Brooks and Arthur Russell. All material previously released on the Audika CD compilation First Thought Best Thought (2006). Before disco, and before the transcendent echoes, Arthur wanted to be a composer. His journey began in 1972, leaving home in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Heading west to Northern California, Arthur studied Indian classical composition at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music followed by western orchestral music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, before ending two years later in New York at the Manhattan School of Music. Traversing the popular and the serious, Arthur composed Instrumentals in 1974, inspired by the photography of his Buddhist teacher, Yuko Nonomura, as Arthur described, 'I was awakened, or re-awakened to the bright-sound and magical qualities of the bubblegum and easy-listening currents in American popular music.' Initially intended to be performed in one 48 hour cycle, Instrumentals was in fact only performed in excerpts a handful of times as a work in progress. The legendary performances captured live in New York at The Kitchen (1975 and 1978) and Franklin St. Arts Center (1977) feature the cream of that eras downtown new music scene including Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Julius Eastman, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Garrett List, Andy Paley, Bill Ruyle, Dave Van Tieghem, and Peter Zummo. Pitchfork lauded Instrumentals Vol. 1 as a masterpiece and one of Arthur's 'greatest achievements'. Americana touching on Copeland, Ives, and maybe even Brian Wilson. Instrumentals Vol. 2 is a moving, deeply pastoral work performed by the CETA Orchestra and conducted by Julius Eastman. Also included are two of Arthur's most elusive compositions, 'Reach One', and 'Sketch For Face Of Helen'. Recorded live in 1975 at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 'Reach One' is a minimal, hypnotic ambient soundscape written and performed for two Fender Rhodes pianos. 'Sketch For Face Of Helen' was inspired by Arthur's work with friend and composer Arnold Dreyblatt, recorded with an electronic tone generator, keyboard and ambient recordings of a rumbling tugboat from the Hudson River. For this remastered vinyl edition, a key part of Arthur's musical life has been restored. The sparkling, multidimensional results take the listener closer to Arthur's coast-to-coast journey: his iconoclastic determination to combine pop and art music; and his desire to make music that would resonate in the present and, ultimately, across time."
$21.50 UPC: 880301101619 ROCK
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DON'T DJ: Musique Acephale 2LP (BH 031LP)
2017 repress. "Musique Acephale marks Florian Meyer's third appearance on Berceuse Heroique, following two EPs: 2015's Hexentrix and this year's Gammellan. In addition to his solo work as Don't DJ, the Düsseldorf-based Meyer is also part of a trio called The Durian Brothers. The album comes with artwork by Robert Beatty, who's previously worked with the likes of Oneohtrix Point Never and Tame Impala." --Resident Advisor, 2016.
$21.00 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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EL MICHELS AFFAIR: Tearz/Verbal Intercourse 7" (BC 008-7)
"El Michels Affair releases another flawless two sider to hold us over. Side A's cover of 'Tearz' is as much an homage to the Wendy Rene sample as it is to the Wu-Tang Clan track. The song starts as a glazed over cover of 'after laughter, comes tears' with Shannon Wise of The Shacks singing Wendy Rene's timeless mantra. Halfway through, the mood dramatically shifts and the drums and organ that drive the original RZA sample, take over. A dubbed out Lee Fields taps in like only he can, and the song spirals into outer space. Side B finds EMA dipping into the deeper side of the Wu catalog with Raekwon's 'Verbal Intercourse'. Mixing the grimy, gritty production aesthetic of the original with elements of dubbed out reggae, El Michels Affair once again pushes the definition of a 'cover' and truly makes it a tune of their own."
$6.25 UPC: N/A ROCK
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SJOB MOVEMENT: Friendship Train CD (COS 019CD)
"SJOB Movement's Friendship Train was the second LP by the group and one which saw the group rise to new heights. It's a masterpiece of African music with its fluid Afro beat grooves and spaced out Moog synthesizer sounds. Here is an excerpt from the liner notes written and researched by Uchenna Ikonne: 'Prince Bola Agbana might hardly be the most immediately recognizable name in the constellation of Nigerian music stars, but for a significant portion of the last half-century he labored in the shadows, dutifully serving as one of the key movers in its development: An in-demand session musician. An early and respected exponent of funk. A catalyst in the retrofit of juju into a modern pop genre. Most of all, though, he is recognized as the founder, leader, drummer and principal vocalist of the SJOB Movement. SJOB: Sam, Johnnie, Ottah, Bola. For a moment in the mid-1970s, they were le dernier cri in modern Nigerian music, representing the next step in the evolution of Afro rhythms, and a new paradigm for the band economy. Their first album, 1976's A Move in the Right Direction, was a minor sensation and was swiftly followed by Friendship Train in 1977. Then it appeared that the movement stopped moving, and SJOB disappeared from the scene."
$11.75 UPC: 820250001929 WORLD
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GHOSTFACE KILLAH: Ironman 2LP (GET 51267LP)
2017 repress. "Sony Music and Get On Down proudly present the official reissue of the debut solo album from Wu-Tang Clans's Ghostface Killah. Ironman pieces together Al Green and Jackson 5 samples, gospel choruses, kung fu soundbites and piano vamps into something unpredictable and vital-sounding. Arguably the best of the group's solo albums to date, the record is filled with inventive production and rhymes, and ranks as another solid entry in the Wu-Tang legacy. Housed in a full-color gatefold jacket, this special double vinyl edition includes an 18" x 24" replica of the original retail poster. A classic piece of Wu-Tang artistry is reborn again for music lovers and MC's alike."
$18.00 UPC: 664425126716 HIPHOP
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DOMINATRIX: The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight LP (GET 58015LP)
2017 edition. "The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight has a long and storied history among connoisseurs of '80s New York dance music. Combining catchy, deadpan synth-pop and classic '80s electro hallmarks with the provocative edge of leather-and-lace sex culture, it remains a worldwide dancefloor staple to this day. Despite its popularity, little has been known about the song's background. The brainchild of producer Stuart Argabright (nee Arbright, a member of the groups Ike Yard and Death Comet Crew); alongside DJ and remixer Ivan Ivan; Kenneth Lockie (from Cowboys International, and early Death Comet Crew); and vocalist Claudia Summers; the song's dominating female subject was based on a person whom Arbright had dated. The song -- and a banned-by-MTV video that today could be mistaken for a Victoria's Secret commercial -- became a club smash at famed Danceteria and other urban meccas. But, despite some leather-clad live dates in 1984, the group itself was short-lived. This special Get On Down vinyl edition is sure to be coveted by fans and collectors. Beyond four original mixes of the song (12", Chants, Dominant and Beat Me) that fans know and love -- this full-length LP includes the newly unearthed song 'Play It Safe' and the rarely heard, hypnotic 'City That Never Sleeps,' in addition to the rare 1984 'Scratch Mix' of the original title song, with cuts by the legendary DJ Red Alert. The deluxe vinyl package is accompanied by a 16-page glossy booklet with text by writer Dave Tompkins and input from Argabright and Ivan Ivan. Additionally, fans will be thrilled into submission by visuals and press clips relating to the original release on Arthur Baker's Street Wise Records; the song's provocative video; as well as the dominatrix culture in New York City at the time which inspired this unlikely smash hit."
$10.75 UPC: 664425801514 ELECTRONIC
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AQUARIAN BLOOD: Last Nite In Paradise LP (GONE 134LP)
LP version. "Aquarian Blood is a crew of six (sometimes seven) Memphis degenerates from assorted generations playing hypnotic, synth-y tracks whose main ruminations are cults, the paranormal, and other obscurities -- whirlwind, weirdo punk soaked in the brain-goo pouring out of the ears of an acid freak. Led by husband and wife duo JB Horrell (Ex-Cult, Moving Finger) and Laurel Ferdon (Nots, Moving Finger), the project began as bedroom recordings that yielded two now out-of-print tapes of total trippiness on the ZAP cassette label, and one completely unhinged monster of a single on Goner. Last Nite In Paradise is their debut album."
$13.00 UPC: 600385269919 ROCK
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MALEK & FLAKO, AHMED: The Electronic Tapes CD (HAB 005CD)
"Unreleased early Algerian synth electronic by Ahmed Malek, compiled and co-produced by Flako. In the early 1980s, Ahmed Malek was already in his 50s, when he discovered synthesizers and electronic music for himself and started to experiment with sounds. The result was a mixture of ambient synth music, field recordings he made in Cuba and a wide variation of different sound experiments that he also presented as different avanguarde music festivals in Cuba and the US. None of it was ever released but we got a huge box of master tapes from his family and we're happy to present this different side of Ahmed Malek's music. It was compiled and co-produced by Flako, a fan of early electronic and synth music. This is not a remix album though, Flako's aim was to create an album out of 2 hours of material that sounds like it might have if Mr. Malek would have finished it himself before of his death. Fully approved and licensed from the artists family. The album comes with an informative booklet with liner notes, an interview with Flako regarding his approach towards the production and unseen photos. We will also release a third album by Ahmed Malek which will be more in the vein again of the music he is known for and this album will also be previously unreleased."
$11.75 UPC: 673790032980 WORLD
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MALEK & FLAKO, AHMED: The Electronic Tapes LP (HAB 005LP)
LP version. "Unreleased early Algerian synth electronic by Ahmed Malek, compiled and co-produced by Flako. In the early 1980s, Ahmed Malek was already in his 50s, when he discovered synthesizers and electronic music for himself and started to experiment with sounds. The result was a mixture of ambient synth music, field recordings he made in Cuba and a wide variation of different sound experiments that he also presented as different avanguarde music festivals in Cuba and the US. None of it was ever released but we got a huge box of master tapes from his family and we're happy to present this different side of Ahmed Malek's music. It was compiled and co-produced by Flako, a fan of early electronic and synth music. This is not a remix album though, Flako's aim was to create an album out of 2 hours of material that sounds like it might have if Mr. Malek would have finished it himself before of his death. Fully approved and licensed from the artists family. The album comes with an informative booklet with liner notes, an interview with Flako regarding his approach towards the production and unseen photos. We will also release a third album by Ahmed Malek which will be more in the vein again of the music he is known for and this album will also be previously unreleased."
$19.50 UPC: 673790032973 WORLD
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WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND, THE: Part One LP (JPR 038LP)
"Formed in Los Angeles in 1965, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were considered by many to be the West Coast's answer to the Velvet Underground. The group created California psych/rock music that was both fragile and dreamy. Part One was originally released in 1967 on Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records. Though they didn't achieve the fame or notoriety of other bands from the area, they have nonetheless achieved a cult status among collectors and people curious about a rich, albeit short-lived musical genre known as West-Coast Psychedelia. First time reissued in mono, from the original master tapes."
$17.50 UPC: 751937437512 ROCK
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WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND, THE: Vol. 2 LP (JPR 039LP)
"Released in 1967 on Reprise Records as a follow up to Part One, Vol. 2 takes the band into more ambitious territory. Reaching out to more psychedelic territory than the debut LP, Vol. 2 maintains their unique pop sound mixed with ominous fuzz guitar, jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freak-outs, to multilayered avant-garde compositions at a moment's notice. First time reissued in mono, from the original master tapes."
$17.50 UPC: 751937437611 ROCK
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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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KMD: Bl_ck B_st_rds 2LP (MF 2001LP)
Repressed. "Bl_ck B_st_rds was voted in Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists as the most notable rap album of all time that was never released commercially, and with good reason. The fact that this excellent album, slated for a 1994 release, did not seen the light of day until 2001 (its first issue - now out of print) testifies to a time when shortsighted industry backlashes against records that inflamed middle America were in vogue. Elektra Records higher-ups canned the project due to its controversial cover art, which shows a Sambo figure being lynched. This must-purchase concept album is worth the wait. From the jazzy, hypnotic samples on the title cut to 'Sweet Premium Wine,' a farcical ode to swigging 40-ounce bottles of brew (remember when drinking St. Ides and Old English was trendy?), you know you've found rap heaven. Classic headbanger 'What a Nigga Know?' (and the remix featuring partner-in-rhyme MF Grimm) is equally off the chain. 'Constipated Monkey' and weed anthem 'Suspended Animation' are testaments to a time in Rap music when experimental beats and obscure sampling ruled the roost. Bl_ck B_st_rds is where Brand Nubian meets De La Soul at the local bodega, heads wear Muslim kufis for kicks, and 'word to the mutha' actually refers to themes of pan-Africanism, repatriation, and reparations. It's a place where Sambo-ism doesn't sell. Features artwork and track listing from the original Ready Rock issue."
$17.00 UPC: 829357451217 HIPHOP
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SLUM VILLAGE: Fantastic Collection 4CD (NMG 5764CD)
"This extensive collection from the group's Dilla-helmed era is a comprehensive overview of Fantastic V.1 and V.2. The contributions of the late Detroit producer James DeWitt Yancey - better known to the world as J Dilla - to the world of hip-hop can't be overstated, and nowhere is his legacy more apparent than his work as a member of Slum Village. A founding member of the trio, (alongside rappers T3 and Baatin) Dilla provided the group's distinctly esoteric, free-wheeling sound, built around winding basslines, quirky drumbeats, subtle low-end frequencies, and classic jazz & soul samples. Against the backdrop of Dilla's rich production, T3 and Baatin's free-flowing style of rhyming would also earn wide critical praise, leading to comparisons as the successors to A Tribe Called Quest. (A label they themselves have rejected.) Dilla himself went on to earn his own legend of brilliance, inspiring a slew of classic artists like Nas and The Pharcyde, to newcomers like Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar. It would be a gratuitous task to encapsulate the full magnificence of the material Dilla produced with Slum Village, but Ne'Astra Media Group have accomplished such a feat, with the arrival of the Fantastic Collection! A comprehensive overview of the underground group's Dilla-produced tracks across four compact discs. The CD includes the entirety of the namesake albums Fantastic Volumes 1 & 2, instrumental versions, and a bonus fourth collection of remixes and obscurities, featuring collaborations with Madlib & Pete Rock, and select cuts from Best Kept Secret, the group's rare release under the name J-88. The Fantastic Box is a veritable crown jewel for any fan of J Dilla or Slum Village, as well as an outstanding entry-point into the legacy of an underground hip-hop production hero."
$14.50 UPC: 769413576419 HIPHOP
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VA: Those Shocking, Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk: 1970-1978 3LP (NA 5065LP)
2017 repress. Deluxe 3LP version: packaged in a six-panel triple gatefold jacket with a 16-page full-color booklet. "The untold story of Indonesia's various underground 70s musical scenes; extensive liner notes, photographs and ephemera; fully restored and remastered audio; officially licensed." Artists: Panbers, The Brims, Rollies, Shark Move, Golden Wing, AKA, IVO's Group, Ariesta Birawa Group, Terenchem, Benny Soebardja and Lizard, Super Kid, Koes Plus, The Gang Of Harry Roesli, Black Brothers, Rasela, Freedom Of Rhapsodia, Rhythm Kings, Duo Kribo.
$20.50 UPC: 659457506513 WORLD
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THOMSETT, ROB: Yaraandoo/Hara CD (NA 5127CD)
"Australian guitarist/visionary Rob Thomsett's collected works -- two LPs -- are combined into one package as the fourth release in the Now Again Reserve series. Originally privately pressed in tiny numbers in Canberra in the mid-'70s, Yaraandoo & Hara have become sought after examples of the best in progressive jazz/rock. Custom made, 'mini-LP', tip-on CD packaged with perfect-bound booklet packaged in O card. 'Taking in impressionistic hazy instrumental jazz ... muscular fusion moves, solo Mellotron pieces as heavenly as anything Beethoven or Handel ever concocted, extremely loose-limbed ethno-fusion soundscapes of the Don Cherry/Pharoah Sanders variety, film soundtracks ... and electronic experimentalism ... hair-raising, soul-searching beauty -- with an overall dreamy, hazy quality that perhaps could only be written by an Australian fully conversant with the 'Dreamtime' cultural feel for the myths and legends of the Outback." --Julian Cope's Head Heritage
$15.50 UPC: 659457512729 JAZZ
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THOMSETT, ROB: Yaraandoo/Hara 2LP (NA 5127LP)
LP version. "Australian guitarist/visionary Rob Thomsett's collected works -- two LPs -- are combined into one package as the fourth release in the Now Again Reserve series. Custom made, thick-cardboard, tip-on Now-Again Reserve Edition gatefold jacket. Hand numbered edition of 1000. 160 gram vinyl from Quality Record Production. OBI strip and re-sealable 'Japanese-style' plastic sleeve. Download card for WAV files of the album. Contains booklet with the story of this band, told for the first time, and many unpublished photos." "Australian guitarist/visionary Rob Thomsett's collected works -- two LPs -- are combined into one package as the fourth release in the Now Again Reserve series. Originally privately pressed in tiny numbers in Canberra in the mid-'70s, Yaraandoo & Hara have become sought after examples of the best in progressive jazz/rock.'Taking in impressionistic hazy instrumental jazz ... muscular fusion moves, solo Mellotron pieces as heavenly as anything Beethoven or Handel ever concocted, extremely loose-limbed ethno-fusion soundscapes of the Don Cherry/Pharoah Sanders variety, film soundtracks ... and electronic experimentalism ... hair-raising, soul-searching beauty -- with an overall dreamy, hazy quality that perhaps could only be written by an Australian fully conversant with the 'Dreamtime' cultural feel for the myths and legends of the Outback.' --Julian Cope's Head Heritage"
$37.50 UPC: 659457512712 JAZZ
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BONNY, MILES: Hello Jesus/High Enough 7" (PJANE 007EP)
"Plane Jane is back with another proper 2-sider. This time by way of Miles Bonny, we heard 'Hello Jesus' a few years back on an EP Miles had put out and Lepse has been playing it to dancefloors ever since. The tune gets such a heavy response we wanted to get it on a 7, so here it is. Side A is Bonny's version of a song that isn't called 'Hello Jesus', with production by Canadian duo Circle Research. The bass and drums alone catch you from the first beat, add the gritty synth lines and Miles' smooth but rough vocals and we have a hit. Sure to set the dance on fire for all the DJs that play this kind of thing."
$6.75 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MCTELL, BLIND WILLIE: The Early Years 1927-1933 LP (YAZ 1005HLP)
2017 repress. 180 gram exact repro reissue of Yazoo's 1968 compilation of rare 78 rpm recordings from Blind Willie McTell. A record that put Yazoo on the map as an essential archival label of roots music. The very best of the magnificent Willie Samuel McTell -- aka Blind Willie aka Hot Shot Willie aka Georgia Bill -- exploring spiritual, ragtime, hillbilly, and above all, the blues.
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BROONZY, BIG BILL: The Young Big Bill Broonzy LP (YAZ 1011HLP)
2017 repress. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1968. "Big Bill Broonzy was probably the most important Chicago blues artist of the thirties and early forties (that's before the period of 'Chicago blues' represented by Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf)."
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BROONZY, BIG BILL: Do That Guitar Rag 1928-1935 LP (YAZ 1035HLP)
2017 repress. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1973. "The late Big Bill Broonzy looms as one of the few country blues greats whose career seems as remarkable as his musicianship. He played every professional role available to the untutored black guitarist of his generation: that of the country blues soloist catering to dance audiences, the city bluesman beguiling record-buyers with full-dress lyric themes and a slow song delivery, and the folk entertainer trading on familiar standards ear-marked for white listening audiences... It is his early career as a country bluesman that this LP, like its companion volume The Young Bill Broonzy commemorates."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MCTELL, BLIND WILLIE: 1927-1935 LP (YAZ 1037HLP)
2017 repress. 180 gram vinyl. Reissue of this 1974 collection of recordings from the prolific 12-string blues guitarist.
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JOHNSON, BLIND WILLIE: Praise God I'm Satisfied LP (YAZ 1058HLP)
2017 repress. Repro of Yazoo's 1977 collection of Blind Willie Johnson, master slide guitar player and one of the most powerful gospel blues musician of all time. Songs recorded between 1927-1930, including "Dark Was The Night," later covered by Ry Cooder. 180 gram vinyl.
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JOHNSON, BLIND WILLIE: Sweeter As The Years Go By LP (YAZ 1078HLP)
2017 repress. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1990. "Blind Willie Johnson (1902-1947) is one of the great gospel blues legends. Initially a preacher who gave sermons in the street, Johnson first became known for his powerful voice, but it was his masterful slide guitar playing that would soon write his name in the annals of blues."
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE: Strumming Music LP (SSH 003LP)
The classic minimal music album, available again on vinyl for the first time since the '70s. Primed with a glass of cognac, Charlemagne Palestine sits at the keyboard of a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano. One foot firmly holds down the sustain pedal while both hands perform an insistent strum-like alternation on the keys. Soon Palestine and his Bösendorfer are enveloped in sound and bathed in a shimmering haze of multi-colored overtones. For 45 minutes, this rich pulsating music swells and intensifies, filling the air. When Strumming Music first appeared on the adventurous French label Shandar during the mid-1970s, it seemed a straightforward matter to place Charlemagne Palestine in the so-called minimalist company of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, whose work also featured in the Shandar catalog. Palestine too used a deliberately restricted range of materials and a repetitive technique, but as he has often pointed out in more recent times, the opulent fullness of his music would more accurately be described as maximalist. Strumming Music, recorded in Palestine's own loft in Manhattan, has no written score. In an age of recorded sound he still feels no need for traditional notation. The surging energy of this particular recording stands comparison with the improvising of jazz visionaries who impressed and inspired him while living in New York as a young man. But, as Palestine himself has made clear, primarily he brings to music-making the sensibility of an artist rather than a musician. Although the technique of the piece has roots in Palestine's daily practice, when a teenager, of playing the carillon at a church, hammering sonorous chimes from a rack of tuned bells, it also draws on his later work as a body artist, staging vigorously muscular, physically demanding and often reckless performances. In addition, Strumming Music can be heard as a sculptural tour de force, while its textures connect with the color moods, plastic rhythms, and tactile space of Mark Rothko's abstract expressionist canvases. Strumming Music remains the essential index of Palestine's singular creative vision. Fundamentally this fascinating piece is a collaboration between an artist and an instrument. Palestine had first encountered the Bösendorfer Imperial back in 1969. "The Bösendorfer at its best is a very noisy, thick molasses piano," he has remarked. Charlemagne Palestine embraced its clinging sonorousness, its clangorous resonance and out of that embrace came the voluptuous sonic fabric of Strumming Music.
$18.39 UPC: 769791965553 CLASSICAL
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LICHEN GUMBO: Boilin' LP (ZORN 038LP)
Lichen Gumbo is a lo-fi underground rock band from Finland. Boilin' was recorded during a week of seclusion in a small cabin deep in the woods with no running water and at home during an exceptional heat wave hitting Finland in 2014, hence the Boilin' title for this album of hazy tunes. The selected songs range from Throbbing Gristle hits to a more noisy garage style. Mixing heavily distorted drums and guitars, vocals varying in style going from garage, no wave to totally deranged, and synth bubbles which sound like they're recorded straight from the water surface of hot springs (or perhaps they just borrowed a Moog from Acid Mothers Temple). Lichen Gumbo are Olli Aarni and Ville Oinonen. Olli has been recording under his own name since 2011 and mostly works with electronic sounds. He has released music as Ous Mal and Nuojuva. Ville joins him for the lo-fi ride that is Lichen Gumbo. Hand-assembled sleeves; Artwork by Olli Aarni, Ville Oinonen and Mia Tarkela; Mastering by Kris Delacourt; Edition of 150.
$18.39 UPC: 769791965560 ROCK
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ENHET FOR FRI MUSIK: Inom Dig, Inom Mig LP (ZORN 049LP)
Folk unit originated in the Swedish underground Enhet för Fri Musik - featuring members of Sewer Election, Ättestupa, Neutral, Makthaverskan, and Blod - continually re-invent what music is about through free improvisation and lengthy folk meanderings. Embedded in the ever exciting Swedish underground scene, Enhet För Fri Musik continue the quest for innovation numerous legendary Swedish bands started during the '70s - such as, Pärson Sound, Trad Gras Och Stenar, and Arbete Och Fritid. Taking the ideas of communal music craft and experimentation, on Inom Dig, Inom Mig, the group comes to a unique combination of Jandek-like atonal guitar, organ, tape effects, field recordings, and saxophone, with Sofie Herner's amazing loner voice running over it. Adding another inspiring document to the world of open-minded music. Inom Dig, Inom Mig was originally release on cassette in 2015 on Forever United. Silkscreened sleeves by Marijke Loozen; Music by Dan Johansson, Gustaf Dicksson, Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner; Mastered by Kris Delacourt; Artwork by Dan Johansson; Edition of 150.
$18.39 UPC: 769791965577 ROCK
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TOMUTONTTU: Kevatjuhla LP (ALT 030LP)
Finnish multi-media artist Jan Anderzén under his Tomutonttu guise. Kevätjuhla is his second release for Alter following a split 7" with Oneohtrix Point Never in 2010 (ALT 002EP), and his first vinyl long player since 2011. Lately, Jan has been creating installation work for which the music of Kevätjuhla was initially composed. Inspired by the multitudes of mold and the microbial life, the installation Kevätjuhla was built as a listening station that sought a bond between sound, the earth, and organic matter. Sound was sent to speakers through cables, sprouting like stems from a pile of dirt with a single coleus growing on top. A graphic score of sticks, orange peel, and party debris were hung next to the installation. The score is visualized on the albums cover. Electronic and acoustic instrumentation blends together confidently and more refined than before with a minimal, razor sharp approach to production. Each track is an integral part of the record's trippy cut-and-paste narrative, leaving the listener wholly unaware when one bit ends and another begins. A confounding array of musical references, such as folk, hip-hop and Yellow Magic Orchestra could be thrown up here, but with Kevätjuhla, Anderzén has ultimately created a form of music that goes beyond genre classification and fully into the realm of "other".
$13.79 EAN: 5055869545259 ELECTRONIC
01. Hiukkasen Tahtiin
02. Siunatut Jyvät
03. Operaatio Satamassa
04. Tihentyvästä Harpusta - Tarjous
05. Kuinka Yö
06. Kuinka Voin Auttaa
07. Tähtien Takku
08. Kuteen Valoon - Intro
09. Kuteen Valoon I - Lukin Jalka
10. Kuteen Valoon II - Strobon Salaisuus
11. Kuteen Valoon III - Jatkot Taivaanrannassa
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MAP.ACHE: Perception Shift/A 12" (AVM 060EP)
Jan Barich, aka Map.ache, presents Perception Shift /A. For Perception Shift /A, Barich worked his way through the Altin Village & Mine catalog: Skeletons' "All I Want is You", Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift's "Let's Talk A Good Story", Urban Homes' "Tropical Jam", and Sven Kacirek's "Turkey Dance". Barich gently, but decisively, reworks their grooves into a collection of reverberating, feathery tracks that take cues from minimal music as well as house. He spreads Skeletons' "All I Want is You" into a polyrhythmic synth meditation, and the Sven Kacirek rework layers the original's percussive grooves into a melancholic house number.
$10.99 UPC: 880918225593 ELECTRONIC
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SCHILLING: Hella LP (APLTRONIC 001LP)
Apparel Music return with the introduction of a brand new sub label - Apparel Tronic. The intention for this new division of sound is to shift focus towards UK-rooted beats, nu-jazz, downtempo, and jungle - a collection of styles the label like to term "Bliss-Beat". This treasured and futile basis of influence gives rise to Giuseppe D'Alessandro, aka KiSK, and Ludovico Schilling's new project Schilling, inaugurating the label with Hella from Schilling himself: a collection of UK-indebted dance tracks that meld influences from jungle, breaks, and hip hop. Originally born in Milan - Schilling relies on a process he likes to describe as "contamination" of sound which entails the layering of field recordings and the sounds of his home environment with those of synths, real instruments, and samples. This approach brands a clear stamp on his productions and enables him to create a truly singular strand of dance music and it's this that glues together the nine disparate tracks of Hella. Moving from the cascading breaks of the LP's introduction "Anarcoide", to the woozy and textural "Black Lighter", the album begins to build a spectral mood as it progresses. Tracks such as "Flesh Is Weak" and "Madting" draw influence from the golden-era of Bristol's trip-hop while tracks such as "Snooker Club" and "Viejos" delve into more caliginous, IDM territory. The result is a rich and varied collection that demonstrates Apparel Music's unwavering ability to continue to keep listeners guessing. Features Mokṣa and Anam. Comes on 180 gram vinyl.
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DE MEY, YVES: Loyal Subjectivity 12" (AIVN 001EP)
Loyal Subjectivity is Yves De Mey's second EP for Archives Intérieures, the label he co-runs with Peter Van Hoesen. In the EP's three tracks, repetition unfurls to reveal elemental rhythms. Combined with its pronounced spatial awareness, Loyal Subjectivity bridges the gap between De Mey's Counting Triggers release on Sandwell District (2011) and his Drawn with Shadow Pens album on Spectrum Spools (SP 039LP, 2016).
$8.99 EAN: 5055300391216 ELECTRONIC
A1. The Wound
B1. The Stalker
B2. The Knife
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SIGURDSSON, VALGEIR: Dissonance CD (HVALUR 028CD)
History freely dilates and collapses on Valgeir Sigurðsson's Dissonance, his first solo release since 2012. Its three large-scale works are haunted by the old Western tradition, infused with the ethereal workings of electronics and sound manipulation. Recorded and produced between September 2015 and November 2016 at Greenhouse Studios, Dissonance is disarmingly human, reflecting the most extreme four years of Sigurðsson's life, full of ecstatic joy and deep sorrow. Dissonance is a personal and collective musical treatise to explore and question a world that is collapsing under its internal dissonances. Post-minimalist, post-ambient, post-something else.
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SIGURDSSON, VALGEIR: Dissonance LP (HVALUR 028LP)
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RAIME: Notion 2 Notion 12" (BLACKEST 058EP)
New 12" single from Raime. Two tracks, recorded after 2016's Tooth (BLACKEST 014CD/LP). No repress, no digital, vinyl only. Edition of 500.
$9.79 EAN: 5055869545358 ELECTRONIC
A1. Notion 2 Notion
B1. Losing Track
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PICCIONI, PIERO: Camille 2000 2LP (BF 103LP)
Blind Faith Records present Piero Piccioni's soundtrack for the 1969 film Camille 2000. Rome, Aventino, one of the most amazing neighborhoods in the South area of the capital city. In an old garage, fully stored and preserved, tons of 1/4 inch tapes represent the monumental and brilliant work of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century: the master Piero Piccioni. Caring for, listening to, and taking stock is his son Jason, Blind Faith Records have asked him to select three, out of many, chapters of the master's work, three scores to be rescued and brought to light in all their expressive and communicative power. Camille 2000 marks the first in the ongoing series. Never before published on vinyl, it was carefully transferred from the original masters and embellished with several unpublished alternative takes and fragments. The work of restoration was performed by Giuliano Radiciotti, while the material was mastered was by multi Grammy winner Brian Lucey. Jason on the music of Camille 2000: "I remember when I heard this music for the very first time in my father's studio in the early 90s. It was truly something revolutionary. It sounded so contemporary that it seems it was written in those days. Can't believe it was twenty years before then, instead!"
$26.39 EAN: 8056099000485 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Pearls
A2. Slow Flute Beat
A3. Chains Of Love
A4. Charms
A5. Brasil 2000
A6. Funky Lovers
A7. Tears In Brasil
B1. Camille 2000 (Intro)
B2. Funky Lovers
B3. Ballade
B4. Tears In Brasil
B5. Tears In Rome
B6. Magic
C1. Camille 2000 Party Shake
C2. Camille 2000 Party Beat
C3. Pearls (Alternate)
C4. Pearls (Italian Style Theme)
C5. Pearls (Up Tempo Theme)
C6. Chains Of Love (Alternate)
C7. Tears In Brasil (Alternate)
D1. Echoes
D2. Easy Lovers
D3. Chains Of Love (Alternate)
D4. Camille 2000 (Outro)
D5. Brasil 2000 (Alternate)
D6. Charms (Alternate)
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JUTE GYTE: The Sparrow 12" (XRAY 005EP)
Adam Kalmbach, the sole musician and producer behind Jute Gyte, is the most important musician in metal since Death's Chuck Schuldiner. Adam has crafted two side-long pieces. The first of these, "The Sparrow", is a kind of modernist black metal symphony that might share some signifiers with the despair-loaded blizzard hymns familiar to fans of Norwegian black metal. The second piece, "Monadanom", is from a suite of ambient microtonal guitar pieces that Adam has been incubating for us since early 2014. It is oceanic, not in the usual new agey sense most often applied to ambient music.
$11.79 EAN: 5055300393043 ROCK
A1. The Sparrow
B1. Monadanom
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CANNIBALE: No Mercy For Love CD (BORNBAD 094CD)
Still unknown in rock territory, French band Cannibale gets its name from its "kind of exotic garage" music whose humid tropical groove is slowly eating up all the stereotypes about Born Bad Records releases. If there's cannibalism to be found in No Mercy For Love, it's in reference to the Caribbean rhythms here-and-there, and to the psychedelic sound from the backwoods that make this first album a peculiar occurrence in the land of strikes and wine drinkers. There's never any silence with Cannibale and, as for the lambs, stick to the village in the middle of nowhere where the band members reside - a hamlet in Normandy with a total population of 300, including the cows. Rather than human flesh, these guys have been feeding on their own impatience. Lead guitarist Manuel and singer Nicolas met in junior high (which is the case for 99% of rock bands so far), but the members of Cannibale have a Frustration type profile - almost all of them are over forty. During the last twenty years, with unbending faith, these guys played in loads of bands that never made it to the top (Amib, De Rien, 7Questions, Kouyaté Neerman, Renza Bo, Blast) and even ended up playing as session musicians alongside Camile Bazbaz or Johnny Halliday. After winning the Inrocks Labs contest with Bow Low, their penultimate band, and releasing two albums with Because, the Norman guys finally decided to create Cannibale in 2016. In theory, considering the beginning of their career, or lack thereof, you couldn't imagine you'd end up hearing the sounds from No Mercy For Love: a surprising mixture of cumbia, African rhythms and garage music. Or, if you will, a kind of missing link between Fela Kuti, The Doors, and The Seeds. A bunch of forty year-olds whose origins are as white as their soul is black. "Releasing the album in our forties, we think it's a laugh. Of course we keep on believing, it's all we do, it's what's keeping us alive."
$8.99 EAN: 3521383442555 ROCK
01. No Mercy For Love (3:35)
02. Mama (3:57)
03. Hidden Wealth (3:56)
04. Choppy Night (3:23)
05. Caribbean Dream (3:37)
06. Diabolic Prank (3:32)
07. Rays Of Light (4:31)
08. Speck Of Dust (3:08)
09. Caterpillar (2:58)
10. Rythm Of Fire (3:26)
11. Three Minute God (5:18)
12. Hoodoo Me (4:35)
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CANNIBALE: No Mercy For Love LP (BORNBAD 094LP)
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$10.99 EAN: 3521381542561 ROCK
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DJ T-1000 AKA ALAN OLDHAM: Ratchet Traxx 12" (BPC 331EP)
The legendary Detroit icon Alan Oldham, aka DJ T-1000, makes his first guest appearance on BPitch Control with Ratchet Traxx, four highly explosive tracks. Oldham serves up his quintessential "Bangin' Funky Ass Techno": a straight-up 909 beat, undeviating basslines, and vocal samples that constantly and relentlessly burrow into your senses. Time and again the master of his trade springs a surprise with quirky breaks and sublime details. In short, Ratchet Traxx has what it takes to become a classic and perfectly sums up everything you'd expect from "Detroit Techno's Renaissance Man". Don't play this at home, kids...
$8.39 UPC: 673790033291 ELECTRONIC
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SCORPION VIOLENTE: The Stalker 12" (BRD 017EP)
A tribute to the peaks of low-budget Italian crime novels and to lubed-up synth-wave, Scorpion Violente feel up their synths with all the vigor of a manic depressive on a downward slope. Scorpion Violente emit their dirty feedback-washed discharge, adding Ich Bin and Le Syndicat Electronique to their holiday activity books. The tempo is even slower than before, with echoes more distant than In Aeternum Vale and Ike Yard dripping from their stabbing loops. Cold cyclo-rhythmic blues, sure to make Alan Vega turn in his grave.
$13.79 EAN: 5055869545440 ROCK
A1. The Wound
B1. The Stalker
B2. The Knife
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BODY FOUR: Body Four LP (BED 003LP)
Body Four is a new project from John Roberts. Streaming internal dialogue between coalescing identities, rendered as an acidulated after-image. Written and produced by John Roberts for cello, sequencer, and two voices. Full-color outer sleeve with printed inner sleeve.
$16.39 UPC: 880319842313 ROCK
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ANDRIESSEN, JURIAAN: The Awakening Dream CD (BB 247CD)
Bureau B present a reissue of Jurriaan Andriessen's The Awakening Dream, originally released in 1977. Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) was a Dutch composer. Although he was actually at home in classical music, he recorded three synthesizer albums in the late 1970s, the first of which, The Awakening Dream, is an outstanding excursion into experimental ambient and minimal music. Andriessen himself, 52 years of age at the time, called it a "trance symphony". The music - perhaps surprisingly for a contemporary classical composer - is less in the tradition of his peers such as Pierre Boulez or Karlheinz Stockhausen and more in tune with the electronic sounds of the '70s emanating from Berlin, Düsseldorf, or Forst, the likes of Cluster, early Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream, in places echoing Conrad Schnitzler. Andriessen was familiar with the work of these artists, but was probably more influenced by minimalist composers like Philip Glass or synthesizer pioneer Walter Carlos whom he admired. The entire album is played on a Minimoog Model D, a Fender Rhodes piano, a Hohner Clavinet, and a Philicorda organ. It was recorded sound on sound, before the 8-track machine entered the studio, using two Revox A77 tape recorders. Andriessen studied in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and in the USA with Serge Koussevitsky and Aaron Copland. Back in Holland he worked for radio, television and theatre. His compositions for state ceremonies such as the coronation of Queen Beatrix and the annual "Opening of Parliament" won him acclaim and he also wrote the music for the Oscar winning film The Assault (1986). Andriessen started to experiment with synthesizers on new compositions in the early 1970s. In 1973, he wrote music for Georg Büchner's play Leonce And Lena and performed it on the ARP 2500 synthesizer. Andriessen was more interested in the challenge of creating new, previously unheard sounds than he was in imitating existing instruments. He strived to invent a novel, unique musical universe. Later he worked mainly with a Minimoog Model D, experimenting and recording in the Dream Studio, the home studio he built with his sons Gijs and Nils in The Hague. As a composer, Jurriaan was always ahead of his time. He loved research and enjoyed using uncommon or newly invented instruments in his compositions, often in unconventional formations. His last work, Jeux Des Vents, appeared in 1996. He died later the same year in The Hague.
$11.99 EAN: 4015698007299 ELECTRONIC
01. She Walks In Beauty
02. Overtones
03. Beyond The Veil
04. Roundelay
05. Ode On Solitude
06. Elegy
07. The Castle Of Indolescence
08. She's Far From The Land
09. The Child Musician
10. Love's Prisoner
11. The Lake Drought
12. Forsaken Garden
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ANDRIESSEN, JURIAAN: The Awakening Dream LP (BB 247LP)
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BOY ROBOT: Final Transmission EP 12" (BLOCK 3000EP)
City Centre Offices announces its last ever release. Operating on the fringes between delicate electronica and full-on disco-fueled dancefloor extravaganza, Michael Zorn and Hans Möller, as Boy Robot, bridged gaps between genres and scenes. Afterwards, they simply moved on, shelving the project. Around 2010, Zorn contacted Thaddeus Herrmann (formerly of Herrmann & Kleine) with the idea to work on some tracks. It did not take long to finish them, but for reasons both of them do not remember, the results never got released. Until now. This is the final transmission. Both of Boy Robot and City Centre Offices.
$8.39 UPC: 880918227344 ELECTRONIC
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NICOLOSI, ROBERTO: Black Sabbath (I Tre Volti Della Paura) LP (RED 236LP)
Dagored present a reissue of Roberto Nicolosi's soundtrack for Mario Bava's super cult horror film Black Sabbath, aka I Tre Volti Della Paura, originally released in 1963. Lyrical pathos alternates with unexpected asymmetrical musical strings and some funereal organ chords mixed to more psychedelic musical moments and glorious chamber music orchestrations. Complete stereo version, including extra tracks, for the first time on vinyl. Comes on transparent vinyl; Includes plastic insert; Edition of 500.
$20.39 EAN: 8013252732362 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Black Sabbath
A2. Il Telefono
A3. Rose E Mary
A4. Frank
A5. Wurdalak
A6. Vladimiro E Sdenka
A7. Inizia La Strage
A8. Il Vecchio Gorka
A9. Nessuno Si Salverà
A10. Vampiro!
A11. La Maledizione
A12. Il Volto Della Paura
A13. Wurdalak (#2)
B1. La Goccia D'acqua (Sangue Viennese)
B2. L'infermiera E L'anello
B3. Il Cadavere Di Miss Perkins
B4. Tre Volti Della Paura (Titoli) I Tre Volti Della Paura
B5. Il Telefono (Mov 10 II)
B6. I Tre Volti Della Paura
B7. Wurdalak (M 16 VI)
B8. I Tre Volti Della Paura
B9. Wurdalak (M 20 IV)
B10. I Tre Volti Della Paura
B11. Wurdalak (M 27 IV)
B12. I Tre Volti Della Paura
B13. Wurdalak (M 28 IV)
B14. I Tre Volti Della Paura (Finale)
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MERZBOW: Wildwood II LP (DPROM 126LP)
Merzbow's follow up vinyl album to 2016's Wildwood CD (DPROM 116CD). Two brand new tracks of psychedelic mayhem recorded, and to be played, at maximum volume. The perfect partner to the CD. The LP is packaged like a classic '60s vinyl, with a gloss front and matte back, complete with outside glue flaps. Edition of 500.
$20.99 EAN: 5060446121375 ELECTRONIC
A1. Kuma No Mori /Echo
B1. Kuma No Mori/Fire
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GONZO: Radio Kampala/Skull Cave 7" (CREP 036EP)
Exclusive limited white label, hand-stamped promo single from Gonzo. Exploring the depths of East African religious beliefs from ancient animistic traditions to the more recent christian evangelic trends. On the B side, a more tongue-in-cheek take on East African dictator's advice and other field recording madness. Recorded by Gonzo in Kampala, 2016.
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01. Radio Kampala
02. Skull Cave
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DAUBY, YANNICK: Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol. 2 LP (CREP 039LP)
Yannick Dauby returns to Discrepant for Vol 2 of his ongoing study of the sounds and sights on the Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan. Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol. 2 uses interviews, field recordings, found objects, and subtle electronic manipulation to transpose Yannick's impressions of the island's natural beauty. All sounds, field recordings, and improvisations on electronic instruments, are from Penghu, Taiwan. Interviews of children extracted from the film Childhood Of An Archipelago, by Yannick Dauby and Wan-Shuen Tsai. "ló-kó́͘ -chhù" means "Coral House" in Taiwanese. RIYL: Andrew Pekler, Mike Cooper.
$17.79 EAN: 5055869501194 ELECTRONIC
A1. Untitled
B1. Untitled
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PEOPLE LIKE US: Abridged Too Far LP (CREP 041LP)
People Like Us is audiovisual collage artist Vicki Bennett, who has been making work available via CD, DVD and vinyl releases, radio broadcasts, performances, gallery exhibits, and online streaming for 25 years. Since 1992, she has developed an immediately recognizable aesthetic repurposing pre-existing footage to craft audio and video collages with an equally dark and witty take on popular culture. She sees sampling and appropriation as folk art sourced from the palette of contemporary media and technology, with the sharing and cross-referencing incumbent to a populist form. Abridged Too Far is the first of a series of vinyl by Discrepant to celebrate this being the 25th year of People Like Us publishing albums. Abridged Too Far was first released in digitally in 2004 exclusively for UbuWeb, this album includes Vicki's session for John Peel and performances for WFMU, amongst others, from 2003. Packaged with brand new artwork designed by Vicki Bennett. RIYL: Porest, Ergo Phizmiz, WFMU.
$17.79 EAN: 5055869501217 ELECTRONIC
A1. Nothing
A2. The Doody Waltz
A3. I've Got You
A4. Dolly Pardon
A5. Abridged Too Far
B1. Swinglargo
B2. Downtown Once More
B3. Bier Bier Bier Downtown
B4. DO or DIY
B5. Nobody Does
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BERNSTEIN, ELMER: To Kill A Mockingbird LP (DOC 136LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Elmer Bernstein's soundtrack for To Kill A Mockingbird. The film, directed by Robert Mulligan, was originally released in 1962. Between 1951 and 2002, Elmer Bernstein composed over 200 scores for films and TV programs. Among the great film scores he composed from 1955 to 1965 - including 1960's The Magnificent Seven, 1963's The Great Escape (DOC 105LP), and 1956's The Ten Commandments - the one Bernstein picked as his favorite was To Kill A Mockingbird (1962). This has one of the simplest and most delicate film scores ever composed. The opening main title features a delicate waltz tempo mixed with a more expansive theme which beautifully sets the mood for this drama of innocent childhood and racial prejudice. This is a masterpiece of subtle film scoring and one of the greatest from the past sixty years.
$14.99 UPC: 889397381363 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Main Title Theme From To Kill A Mockingbird
A2. The Search For Boo
A3. Roll The Tire
A4. Jem's Discovery
A5. To Kill A Mockingbird
A6. Tree Treasure
A7. Lynch Mob
A8. Footsteps In The Dark
B1. Children Attacked
B2. Summers End
B3. Follow Me - Love Theme From Mutiny On The Bounty
B4. A Second Chance - From Two For The See-Saw
B5. A Few Tender Words
B6. Indian Summer
B7. New Orleans
B8. So Pretty
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LEDRUT, JEAN: The Trial LP (DOC 137LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Jean Ledrut's soundtrack for The Trial, originally released in 1962. In 1962, Orson Welles brought what he called his greatest film, The Trial, to the big screen. Filmed in a beautiful black and white, written by Welles and with the incredible performance of Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, and Jeanne Moreau. The Trial captures very well the Kafkaesque feeling of the novel. The film is a paranoid nightmare, interrupted here and there by moments of typical Welles humor. One of the elements that contributes to the atmosphere of the film is the soundtrack of Jean Ledrut that makes use of both original atmospheric parts and adaptations from Tomaso Albinoni (Adagio in G minor). There are also some jazzy tracks (played by the great jazz pianist as well as composer Martial Solal) that fit beautifully. Edition of 500.
$14.99 UPC: 889397381370 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Adagio D'albinoni
A2. Air Sentimental
A3. Ouverture D'operette
A4. Adagio Slow
A5. Sentimental Slow
A6. Ambiance Kafka
B1. Jazz Sur L'adagio D'albinoni
B2. Jazz Hallucination
B3. Diabolic K
B4. Concerto A Cinque, Opus 5, N. 12
B5. Adagio D'albinoni, A L'orgue Baroque
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IDEALIST: Source EP 12" (ECHO 072EP)
From Zurich, Switzerland, Idealist has been producing for more than a decade, but within the last five years, he took it a step further and signed releases or tracks on labels like Pro-Tez, Lackrec, Berg Audio, and focused on building up his own label Idealistmusic with the non-written Details Series sublabel. In September 2016, he released his debut album Firewood Street (2016). He has played in various European countries, Canada, and Georgia, where he played in clubs like Tresor, Batofar, and Culture Box. His first EP on Echocord contains three heavy, powerful, dubby tracks, all for the dancefloor.
$8.99 UPC: 880319844119 ELECTRONIC
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HESS, LUKE: Facette EP 12" (ECHOCOL 038EP)
Detroit producer Luke Hess is back on Echocord Colour with a three-track bomb. All tracks are super powerful, dubby, spaced-out techno with the typical Luke Hess feeling, deep and melodic. Luke Hess is a DJ and producer from Detroit. He has celebrated EPs out on Omar S's FXHE, Carl Craig's Planete, Echocord, Echocord Colour, Finale Sessions, Kontra-Musik, and Modelisme. His label DeepLabs is the center for his own deeply personal projects.
$10.39 UPC: 880319842016 ELECTRONIC
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BORUSSIA: Kinda Love 12" (BEC 5156721)
After a very encouraging reception of his first EP Sour Stroke released in 2016 (ED 092EP), the young Parisian producer Borussia is back on Ed Banger records. Clearly set for clubs, this second maxi Kinda Love makes you feel joy and love like the dancefloors you always keep in mind or those you dream of. Expect four generous pieces and a "handmade" clip.
$9.79 EAN: 5060421567280 ELECTRONIC
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CAUSA SUI: Live In Copenhagen 3CD (EPR 037CD)
Live In Copenhagen captures Causa Sui at two very special nights: at the release parties of Euporie Tide (EPR 013CD/LP 2013) and Return To Sky (EPR 030CD/LP, 2016). Since the band seldomly performs live, this may very well be the best chance to experience what the band are capable of at their best. One show was recorded at avant-garde institution extraordinaire, Jazzhouse, while the other captures Causa Sui at legendary underground venue Dragens Hule. Both shows were recorded multitrack with an A-grade selection of mics. During these three discs Causa Sui aren't merely running through classic cuts from the catalog. Each track is explored, reinterpreted and given new life - often straying far away from its original roots with a fervent energy. One minute the band is bluesy and heavy, the next they're repetitive and blissed-out or venturing into a cacophony of Ayler-like sax bursts, free-form electronics, and feedback. Swedish saxophone player Johan Riedenlow joins both shows and Papir-guitar player Nicklas Sørensen occasionally adds his magic to the Dragens Hule set - including a towering 13-minute version of "Eternal Flow", that seems to channel the energy of mid-1970s Popol Vuh, as well as a breezy cover version of Agitation Free's "First Communication". "Ju-Ju Blues", from the Jazzhouse set, is Causa Sui at their most fuzzed-out and Hendrixian, reaching new improvisational heights, whereas "Dawn Passage" feels like an obvious fusion of Tame Impala and Allman Brothers. On the Dragens Hule sets, the band goes all the way out. "Portixeddu / Tropic Of Capricorn" turns Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis into a crazed sludge-fest, and fan-favorites "El Paraiso" and "Red Valley" appear here in their ultimate versions. To cap things off, the band delivers a 17-minute exclusive tribute to John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" featuring both Johan Riedenlow and Nicklas Sørensen.
$16.39 EAN: 5024545771626 ROCK
Jazzhouse:
1.01. Rip Tide (6:38)
1.02. The Source (4:42)
1.03. The Juice (8:53)
1.04. Mondo Buzzo (8:35)
1.05. Eugenie (8:00)
1.06. Ju-Ju Blues (10:45)
Dragens Hule Pt. 1:
2.01. Eternal Flow (13:01)
2.02. El Paraiso (12:20)
2.03. Mireille (7:39)
2.04. Portixeddu / Tropic Of Capricorn (15:22)
Dragens Hule Pt. 2:
3.01. First Communication (6:30)
3.02. Homage (9:28)
3.03. Red Valley (10:13)
3.04. A Love Supreme (16:47)
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CAUSA SUI: Live In Copenhagen 3LP BOX (EPR 037LP)
Triple LP version.
$48.60 EAN: 5024545771510 ROCK
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ARCHITECTURAL: Heaven Can Wait 12" (ELL 039EP)
Deep, dubby, dark punchy techno, from Architectural, showing off his natural groove.
$11.79 UPC: 880319853517 ELECTRONIC
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DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE!: Siete Raices LP (ENLP 084LP)
When the Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue! first broke into the scene, the world immediately surrendered to their mesmerizing blend of traditional cumbia with the modern electronic rhythms of dub, techno, and dancehall. After making this local movement gain international attention with their celebrated debut album La Alianza Profana (CR 019LP, 2012) and the follow-up Serpiente Dorada EP on Enchufada (2014), the masked duo from Lima is now ready to evolve beyond their musical influences and come into a truly unique sound with their new album Siete Raíces. Dengue Dengue Dengue! set out to expand the unique hybrid cocktail of sounds that has put them on the forefront of the global club music movement. Siete Raíces fully embraces South America's rich musical traditions while taking these cultural references towards the future, powered by thick basslines, ethereal synths, and dusty samples. Striking a captivating balance between tradition and modernity, Dengue Dengue Dengue! pick the best of both worlds to expand their unique sonic universe, where the rich mystical ambience of the Peruvian Amazon is translated into an elevating experience for the world's most forward thinking clubs and festival stages. Features: Sara Van, Branko, and Toy Selectah.
$15.79 EAN: 5600270875848 ELECTRONIC
01. Yuyu
02. Guarida (feat. Sara Van)
03. La Rama de Tamarindo
04. Murdah
05. Badman
06. R2
07. The Enemy
08. Dubcharaca
09. Amazonia (feat. Branko & Toy Selectah)
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SLIPSTREAM: Maybe The Day Will Come/Like No Other 7" (RAPT 4558EP)
Slipstream were formed in 1994 after Refoy left Spiritualized and Mattock joined shortly after. They made three albums and several singles for the Che label and then two albums and two singles for the Enraptured label. In 2012, they released the album Stereo Brain/Mono Heart (2015) on the Mind Expansion label. They are back now with a new collection of songs for their latest album called Out Of The Blue to be released later in 2017, proceeded by this single.
$8.39 EAN: 5024545761672 ROCK
01. Maybe The Day Will Come
02. Like No Other
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BYRON & GERALD: Unity LP (MTE 066LP)
Eremite present Byron And Gerald's Unity, a private press free jazz album recorded in 1969 at Howard University and the first release on Byron Morris's EPI label. It is the only hardcore free jazz record out of 1960s DC, and a viscerally powerful cultural dispatch on the sociopolitical upheavals of its time. From Byron's 2017 liner notes: "In the early spring of 1969, several months before moving to Poughkeepsie, NY, Gerald Wise and I, along with the recording engineer Len Jones, conceived of the idea to gather a group of musicians who were like-minded concerning 'The New Thing' (Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little). Most of the musicians we asked to be part of this experiment we knew from jam sessions or were already part of Unit Five. Eric Gravatt suggested we invite two of his musician friends from Philadelphia, Byard Lancaster and Keno Speller. I wrote a musical composition for the date dedicated to my father, 'JWM+53.' My friend Earl Snead wrote the other composition, 'Black Awareness.' Earl passed shortly after the session. The recording session took place at the studio of an experimental TV channel that leased space on the campus of Howard University. Gerry and I welcomed all the musicians and thanked them for being part of the session. The scene immediately took on a magical atmosphere, with everyone going about their tasks as if they had cue sheets. In the center of the room we laid out our instruments on two 4x8 tables. That way we could just pick up any instrument and play when the spirit hit us. I had two altos (one plastic) and a curved soprano. Jerry Wise had his trumpet and some hand rhythm instruments. Byard Lancaster had an alto sax, flute, trumpet, and some hand rhythm instruments. Vins Johnson had a tenor and a baritone sax. Keno Speller had a bell tree, tambourines, claves, drum sticks, felt-headed mallets, and a set of amplified conga drums. Inside the tables our two drummers, Eric Gravatt and Abu Sharrieff, sat face to face with two full drum kits and microphones all around them. Next to them were our two bassists, Fred Williams and a young man named Chris (whose last name, sadly, I cannot remember). To this day, I wish the proceedings had been filmed. The energy level was so high that Byard Lancaster did push-ups when not playing (I believe I remember Vins Johnson and Keno Speller also doing some). In spite of all of the excitement, everyone wanted to make a serious musical statement and cooperated in taking directions from Len Jones, Gerry, and me. It was orderly excitement, the collective 'We' caught-up in the moment. Ornette's Free Jazz (1961) and Trane's Ascension (1965) address much of what we were attempting in the studio that day in 1969. . . . In point of fact, most if not all of us had witnessed firsthand the physical excitement and, in some moments, pure terror of the urban riots set off in the spring of 1968 by the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Washington, DC, exploded with anger and the looting and burning of businesses throughout the city. U.S. Army troops, along with Air Force and Navy/Marine elements, were sent in to quell these massive urban disturbances. During the recording of Unity our collective emotions were still raw, to say the least. Here and now, nearly a half of a century later, I can still smell the tear gas and the burning tires. I get chills just thinking about it. But the music got us through that time... and the music gets us through now!"
$21.79 UPC: 769791965607 JAZZ
A1. JWM+53
B1. Black Awareness
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ABRAMS AND NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, JOSHUA: Simultonality LP (MTE 068LP)
Simultonality is the follow-up to Joshua Abrams's critically acclaimed 2015 album Magnetoception (MTE 063-64LP, 2015). Credited to Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society (NIS), it is the first recording in the project's nine year, four album history made by a regularly gigging manifestation, rather than a special assembly of friends. Recorded in 2014 and 2015 in single takes by the full ensemble during and after tours of the US and Canada, Simultonality once more affirms the project's unique approach to joining traditional musics, American minimalism, and jazz with the Gnawa ceremonial instrument the guimbri. Stasis, continuity, and repetition, central qualities of Abrams language, defined Magnetoception, listed by many as one of the best records of 2015. These same qualities form the heart of Abrams's music on Simultonality. But where Abrams once said Magnetoception is about "winter and death", Simultonality, in Abrams's words, is an album of "pure motion". Without sounding frenetic it is the most explosive NIS music on record, and without sounding over-determined, it is Abrams's most structured and through-composed music yet. Much of it is also fast, a mass of densely patterned elements swiftly orbiting constantly reconfiguring centers that are variously harmonic and rhythmic, clearly stated or implied. The music is at no time any more disorderly than a colony of bees pollinating a vast garden. Its many moving parts function in mutualistic relationship toward fulfilling Abrams's long stated intention for the project: to help listener's achieve a meditative center and to consciously use music as a gateway to living. Abrams credits William Parker as an inspiration for this intention. The musicians on Simultonality date back to the nascency of NIS. Along with Hamid Drake, Mikel Avery and Frank Rosaly are Abrams first-call drummers for the project. On Simultonality, Avery is in the left channel, Rosaly the right. Astute heads may recognize the rhythm in "Sideways Fall" as Jaki Leibezeit's drum break in Can's "Vitamin C". At Abrams behest, the two drummers divided the beat into separate parts. According to Hamid Drake, the rhythm was popularized, if not originated, by John "Jabo" Starks and Clyde Stubblefield of the J.B.'s. Nearly ten years into its existence, Abrams and the NIS wear their influences with creativity and ease. Long standing NIS members, Ben Boye and Emmett Kelly, were previously together with Abrams, or not, in Bonnie Prince Billy's band, and Abrams and Boye have at different times played in Kelly's band The Cairo Gang. Harmonium player Lisa Alvarado contributes the large format pattern paintings used by NIS at concerts and for its album covers. Personnel: Joshua Abrams - guimbri, bass, small harp, bells; Lisa Alvarado - harmonium, Leslie, percussion; Michael Avery - drums and percussion; Ben Boye - chromatic electric autoharp, piano, Wurlitzer; Ari Brown - tenor saxophone (on "2128½"); Emmett Kelly - electric guitar; Frank Rosaly - drums and percussion, resonator bells.
$21.79 UPC: 769791965614 JAZZ
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PEACE, LOVING: Peace, Loving LP (FTR 267LP)
"First vinyl by a band that has long been in the vanguard of the neu Boston commune-hunch. Although known only via CDRs, live shows and compilation tracks, Peace, Loving has been at work crafting their mysterious völk moves for the better part of a decade. The core of the band on this record is a quartet -- ARKM Foam, who also appears on the Bang! Bros. 12/12/12 EP (FTR 170, 2014), Kate Lee, Morgan Shaker and Pancho the Kidd. Several of these souls are central to the whole Whitehaus scene in Jamaica Plain, and an array of fellow travelers pile on at various moments of this album. You can easily discern the weekly hoot roots of their sound on the studio side of the LP, which makes me think of what youthful vipers might come up with after listening to stuff like Dan Hicks, Captain Matchbox and Homegas. These tunes have a mix of naif lyricism, slightly archaic pop moves and a soupçon of stoned improvisational logic that pops up in unexpected places. It's a blend that grows on you more and more with each spin. The live side of the album is a different beast entirely. It starts with jingly minimalism that recalls 16 Bitch Pile-Up at their least noisy, but it merges into a quiet flow of banjo and the kind of dimly sparkling percussion you expect to find sprawled around the rug of a rural cabin. The music develops a deep and abstract smokiness, of the kind associated with outfits like MVEE or Mendocino, eventually erupting into a symphony of sound as thick as the climatic sequences of Hitchcock's 1963 film, The Birds. All in all Peace, Loving is a perplexing and very warm spin. One likes to imagine it might have been something Ed Denson snuck onto Takoma back in the day, when Fahey wasn't paying attention. Would have been a classic of unknown-tongue form then, and remains one now. Dig it." --Byron Coley, 2017 Edition of 400.
$13.79 UPC: 752830262416 ROCK
A1. Sophie Snacks
A2. Back To School
A3. Fruit Salad
A4. Get On The Bus
B1. Live
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FAT WORM OF ERROR: Nzznzzzznnznznnn LP (FTR 294LP)
"If a tree fell in the woods of Western Massachusetts in the early '00s, Fat Worm Of Error were probably around to hear it. This restless band of sonic lab technicians made such an earth-encompassing racket during their busiest era - from their spawning in 2002 til about the end of that decade - that it seemed like every random, unexpected sound that occurred within a 10 mile radius of Northampton got sucked up and spit into a song by this quavering quintet. On their third full-length, Nzznzzzznnznznnn (issued in 2004 as a CD-R and now splattered on wax for the first time), all kinds of blurps, squeaks, gasps, and dunks peal through each track in a freaked-out rush, as if the world is a huge dam with filled holes that the band is desperate to unplug. Fat Worm Of Error's stabbing percolations and bubbling prods have a hyper-mechanic feel, like a busted robot stuck in overdrive, yet there's also an organic animalism to all the dripping, heaving sound. Just look at the song titles: 'Pesky Fly,' 'Flea God,' 'Six Foot Squid.' There are lots of insects, rodents, and cephalopods rummaging around in the rotting debris of Nzznzzzznnznznnn, but they've grown human heads, like Kafka's Metamorphosis man-bug squashed into music. The anarchic sheen of Nzznzzzznnznznnn makes it tempting to call it noise, or perhaps hear it as a cartoon sound effects library become self aware, like the Frankenstein monster of Raymond Scott's dreams. There's nothing wrong with either of those interpretations, but douse your ears deeper into Fat Worm Of Error's molting constructions and you can see some sturdy skeletons buttressing all the clatter. There is careful planning inside this chaos, concentrated shapes underneath the scrawl. That's what makes all of the band's work echo long after its initial novelty-shock, but on Nzznzzzznnznznnn the resonance is particularly potent. Over a decade later, its purposeful rattles can still vibrate bones." --Marc Masters, 2017 Edition of 500.
$13.79 UPC: 019962206320 ELECTRONIC
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MANDRAKE MEMORIAL, THE: 3 Part Inventions LP + 7" (FBLP 1008LP)
Having made two superb psychedelic albums and gigged with The Doors, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground and many others, in June of 1969, The Mandrake Memorial came to London. The plan was to record with famed producer Shel Talmy (The Kinks, The Who, Pentangle), but when that fell through, they persevered alone. Long thought to be lost, 3 Part Inventions anticipates the woozy, dream-like vibe of their 1970 masterpiece Puzzle, combining eerie vocals, trippy guitar and otherworldly electronics to create a unique whole. Transferred directly from the master tape, it's released here for the first time, together with a detailed band history, rare images, two previously unheard outtakes from a 1969 acetate. LP version comes on 180 gram vinyl; Comes in a gatefold sleeve with a 16-page booklet; Includes a 7 inch with a picture sleeve.
$26.39 EAN: 5056297100829 ROCK
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SPIRIT: Live At The Ash Grove, 1967 Volume 1 2LP (FBLP 1009LP)
Flashback present a never before released, live recording from Spirit, titled Live At The Ash Grove, 1967 Volume 1. Lead vocalist Jay Ferguson talks about the recording: "The Ash Grove was a legendary venue for folk and early Los Angeles rock, and really the birthplace of Spirit. We brought in a younger, less inhibited crowd, a mixture of hippies and jazz freaks. Spirit, at its inception, was more of an improvisational jazz/blues group than anything else. Our first shows had very few structured songs, lots of free-form going on. We were constantly writing, trying out, and discarding songs. Getting to play in a major LA club, building a following, trying out new ideas, and forging what the group would become. It was a magical time for us." These are the first ever recordings of the band, recorded in the summer of 1967. Produced with the full co-operation of the Randy California estate. Mastered from original tapes. Includes comprehensive liner notes with rare photos. Double LP version comes on 180 gram vinyl; Comes in a gatefold sleeve with two inserts.
$22.39 EAN: 5056297100928 ROCK
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RAMMELLZEE: My Schoolbag 12" (GPF 066EP)
The final 12" in the Rammellzee Cosmic Flush series. Remixed by a mystery artist. Artwork by Augustine Kofie.
$8.99 EAN: 5060174911514 ELECTRONIC
A1. My Schoolbag (Original Mix)
A2. Instrumental Mix
B1. My Schoolbag (Mystery Remix)
B2. Instrumental Remix
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CHARLES + KOZO INADA, CHRISTOPHE: i[] LP (GESTELL 006LP)
Ge-stell present a collaborative LP from Christophe Charles and Kozo Inada, documenting the first release of recordings between the French and Japanese sound artists and long-time collaborators. Their LP i[] - named in continuity with Kozo Inada's previous sound works - explores functions of austere minimalism and spatiotemporal irregularity. Each piece in the 53 minute program results from computer software processes, which insist on the autonomy of each individual sound particles and an absence in hierarchical structure. Since meeting at the Off-ICMC Festival in Berlin in 2000, Christophe Charles and Kozo Inada have performed several concerts together using i[] as source material, notably at Sightsonics Festival in York (UK) and Setouchi Triennale (Japan). Christophe Charles reflects, "In 2005, Cameron Shafii contacted me regarding my MaxMSP patch for Undirected 1986-1996 (1997). Some years later, Shafii suggested to release the i[] collaboration . . . the music sounds somehow atemporal, or suspended in time, like a Noh theater play which massages the audience's brain," to which Kozo Inada reminisces, "[our sounds] had the same smell."
$15.79 UPC: 769791965584 ELECTRONIC
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SCALD ROUGISH: Idioal Oifrmech LP (GESTELL 007LP)
Ge-stell present an LP by Chris Douglas's project Scald Rougish. Idioal Oifrmech marks the electroacoustic producer's sophomore release on the San Francisco label, his first being the Dorcha Aigeann EP as Dalglish (GESTELL 001EP, 2014). Chris Douglas's Scald Rougish is intensely personal and his new album Idioal Oifrmech carries with it a range of meaning and complication. His computer-based compositions render bright, brittle passages allowing for a thorough exploration of fatigue and fracture in synthesis and digital signal processing techniques. These tracks are entangled into a web of splintering percussive patterns, arrhythmic textures, and amorphous forms, titled in an asymmetrical variant of Scots Gaelic.
$15.79 UPC: 769791965591 ELECTRONIC
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CARLO & BLACK LOOPS: Intermission 12" (GRM 009EP)
An Italian-Spanish connection is always a good thing. The sort of sensual and Mediterranean emotions that Carlo and Black Loops can deliver, is a skill that has been taken far on this new EP. The dichotomy can prove difficult to square sometimes, particularly when the guys have different paths in their sound. But the mix is rich here. The Intermission EP is a packed full of soul samples, warm pads, and great solid beats wrapped up as a soulful declaration. Their massive love for music really shines through on this EP.
$9.79 EAN: 4260038316009 ELECTRONIC
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BLOPS: Blops LP (GUESS 149LP)
Guerssen Records present a reissue of Blops' self-titled debut, originally released in 1970. Los Blops formed in Santiago, Chile in 1964, as a beat/cover band. But during the following years, they developed a unique sound, mixing folk, rock, psychedelia, and Chilean folklore. This is their legendary first album, originally released in 1970 on the Dicap label. Psychedelic folk-rock of the highest order with beautiful songs, touching Spanish vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, flute, organ, percussion, xylophone, and a lost-in-time, mysterious feel. Includes the famous "Los Momentos" and more. RIYL: Kissing Spell, Congreso, Embrujo, Ithaca, Agincourt. Comes with a color insert with photos and liner notes in English and Spanish; Housed in old style heavy cardboard tip-on sleeve.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824086886 ROCK
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BLOPS: Blops (Del Volar De Las Palomas) LP (GUESS 150LP)
Guerssen Records present a reissue of Blops' second eponymous album, also known as Del Volar De Las Palomas, originally released in 1971. This is the second album from the legendary Blops from Chile, released while the band lived in a communal house known as "Manchufela". Del Volar De Las Palomas is another superb psychedelic folk-rock offering with a slightly more electrified sound on some of the tracks. Great songs, melancholic atmospheres, deep Spanish vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, flute, organ, percussion, drums, cello, violin, and backward effects. Comes with a color insert with photos and liner notes in English and Spanish - Reproduction of the rare original lyrics/illustrations booklet; Housed in old style heavy cardboard tip-on sleeve.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824086893 ROCK
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LOVER MEETS CAIRO LIBERATION FRONT, AL: Nymphaea Caerulea PIC. DISC (HNR 007PIC-LP)
San Francisco based DJ Al Lover's list of collaborations contain names like The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Goat, and White Fence, and he has remixed bands like The Night Beats and Thee Oh Sees. Residing in Amsterdam, the Cairo Liberation Front collective represents the future of European club music taking equally from house, punk, and psychedelia, filtered through generations of hedonistic groove. The six tracks on this picture disc EP, Nymphaea Caerulea, holds the essence of what psychedelic dance music is about: escapism. It puts the listener outside of time somewhere on the banks of the Nile, just before dawn. The combination of Al Lover's use of samples, drum machines, live instrumentation, and analog synthesizers, clashes beautifully with the fierce energy of the CLF's sound of cracked software, American hip-hop, Euro house, and Arabic rhythms.
$20.99 EAN: 7071245217839 ROCK
01. Level 1
02. Level 2
03. Level 3
04. Level 4
05. Level 5
06. Level 6
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PATON, JAMIE: Telefuture/Blind Summit 7" (HNR 019EP)
The tracks contain elements from your techno favorites dating three decades back, but the tempo and the production creates a slouchy feeling clearly influenced by the slow-motion house of Cage & Aviary. Paton's relationship with nature comes through on both sides of this single. The space-echo effects of "Blind Summit" place you in the natural echo chamber of a grove with trees surrounding you shifting in colors through the seasons. With "Telefuture/Blind Summit", Paton has dug down to the sediments created by alternative club music from where he picks samples to be examined in the fluorescent light in his laboratory.
$8.39 EAN: 7071245217815 ELECTRONIC
A1. Telefuture
B1. Blind Summit
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MURRAY, JAMES: Killing Ghosts CD (HOMEN 091CD)
In 2012, James Murray released what was to become a bit of a seminal work in the highly praised Floods. He has since released superb records on a number of labels such as Hibernate, Eilean, VoxxoV, as well as a recent return to the Ultimae label. On Killing Ghosts, James presents a truly perfect melding of exquisite sub-bass melodies under a surface of playful tones and fractured rhythms. The album itself has a feel of slow change and evolution as it journeys from the melodiously open electronica of "Footsteps" and slowly down the rabbit hole as it waves you out with tracks such as "Allways" and "Living Ghosts". The work embodies everything that is great about the work of this enormously talented artist, as beyond its catchy entrance points, it is possibly one of the best examples of pure sound design Home Normal have released. Such a combination of melody and careful design takes a huge amount of skill, care, and patience - a genuine highlight in Home Normal's eight years as a label.
$10.99 EAN: 5060179704326 ELECTRONIC
01. Footsteps
02. Grace
03. First Hand
04. Soldier, Returned
05. Allways
06. Second Sight
07. Living Ghosts
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LIL UGLY MANE: Mista Thug Isolation 2LP (H 018V-LP)
Hundebiss present a special fifth anniversary neon vinyl reissue of Lil Ugly Mane's 2012 classic Mister Thug Isolation. Originally released on cassette by Ormolycka. Impose on Lil Ugly Mane: "Lil Ugly Mane has fully developed into his ideal Memphis hardcore caricature and exudes pure evil without resorting to shallow shock tactics. But even in the presence of the hellish, the attention to detail - whether in his commitment to country-fried pronunciations or producer Shawn Kemp's devilishly dissonant flips - makes it evident that this project wasn't born from a love of violence or horror, but rather a love of hip hop" Features Supa Sortahuman and Denzel Curry.
$19.79 EAN: 5055869545488 HIPHOP
01. Mista Thug Isolation (12th Movement)
02. Serious Shit
03. Maniac Drug Dealer III
04. Radiation (Lung Pollution) (feat. Supa Sortahuman)
05. Slick Rick
06. Wishmaster
07. Alone And Suffering (Interlude)
08. Bitch I'm Lugubrious
09. Cup Fulla Beetlejuice
10. Breezem Out
11. Hoeish Ass Bitch
12. Mona Lisa Overdrive
13. Twistin (feat. Denzel Curry)
14. No Slack In My Mack
15. Lookin 4 Tha Suckin
16. Lean Got Me Fucked Up
17. Throw Dem Gunz
18. Last Breath (Outroduction)
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LO HYPE: Simplex Six 12" (IRC 134EP)
Tokyo hipster electronic band Lo Hype forge forward with their new EP Simplex Six, taking their unique sound to new contempo heights. Jerome Sydenham jumps on board with "Route 50" resulting in a robust techno enhancement. This four-tracker exhibits a commanding sonic attitude and an original flavor that is sure to endure the test of time. Ibadan Records is an independent record label founded in 1995 by modern electronic music visionary Jerome Sydenham.
$9.79 EAN: 4260221742394 ELECTRONIC
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VITELLI, COSMO: Cosmo Vitelli 12" (CLICHE 066EP)
I'm a Cliché boss Cosmo Vitelli is back with the label's first release of 2017. "When Suddenly : Acid" is an instantly gratifying tune with the kind of disco-not-disco and acid-without-303 vibes that I'm a Cliché is famous for. "El Si Señor (Skinny Version)" is a down-tempo track, chock-full of melodic and percussive content. Clocking at nine minutes, "The Cemetery Of Unsigned House Tracks" starts with a refined but twisted vibe, which is swallowed by a hypnotic and sensual synth arpeggio. "El Si Señor (Soundtrack Version)" is a reference to '70s film music.
$10.39 UPC: 880319854910 ELECTRONIC
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EDWARDS, JACKIE: Mister Peaceful CD (KSCD 065CD)
Jackie Edwards's voice can be heard on hundreds of ska, r&b, soul, and rocksteady records. In fact, all the incarnations that evolved from reggae. He was at the birth of Island Records and his distinctive soulful voice has rightly given him the moniker of the Original Cool Ruler. Jackie Edwards (b. Wilfred Edwards 1938, Jamaica) was a renowned singer from the early days and by 1959, he had presented future Island Records owner Chris Blackwell with two outstanding tunes. The first a sentimental ballad "Your Eyes Are Dreaming" and a Latin beat tune "Tell Me Darling". His song-writing skills were much in so much demand, and his popularity of such importance, that when Chris Blackwell went to London in 1962 to set up his record company, he took his top balladeer Jackie with him. This would pay dividends when a UK group Blackwell had signed called The Spencer Davis Group went on to release two of Jackie's compositions "Keep On Running" and "Somebody Help Me", which topped the British charts in 1966. With Mister Peaceful, Kingston Sounds have compiled some of Jackie Edwards's finest songs - all cool tunes in different reggae styles but all sung to perfection. CD version includes five bonus tracks.
$9.79 EAN: 5060135762247 WORLD
01. Who Told You So
02. I'm In The Mood
03. Peacefulman
04. Wad-Ada
05. I Am Still Waiting
06. Johnny You re A Gun Man
07. Keep On Running
08. Get Up
09. Ali-Baba
10. Mean Girl
11. Julie On My Mind
12. So Jah Say
13. Its All In The Game
14. Sad News*
15. Do I Love You*
16. Carry On Henry*
17. Before The Next Teardrop*
18. Anymore*
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EDWARDS, JACKIE: Mister Peaceful LP (KSLP 065LP)
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KING, FREDDIE: Ebbet's Field, Denver '74 2CD (KL 5061CD)
Freddie King, live at Ebbet's Field, Denver on May 27th, 1974. Colarado's Ebbets Field was a familiar blues venue that had been graced by all and whose audience would never tire of visiting greats. The arrival of Freddie King on May 27th, 1974 in Denver, promised an abundance of euphoric blues picking from a legendary Chicago figure. His early death may have cheated many out of what could have been and while it commands an incredible depth of sadness and reflection, he is remembered for a career that not only carved out a unique style of blues, but hugely inspired those around him, such as Eric Clapton. Klondike present the entire original KCUV FM broadcast of Freddie King live from Ebbets Field, Colarado on May 27th, 1974. Professionally remastered original broadcast with background liners, interviews, and rare archival photos.
$11.99 EAN: 5291012506115 ROCK
1.01. I'm Ready
1.02. Ain't No Sunshine
1.03. Ghetto Woman
1.04. Let The Good Times Roll
1.05. Pack It Up
1.06. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
2.01. Blues Instrumental
2.02. TV Mama
2.03. Goin' Down
2.04. Wee Baby Blues
2.05. Instrumental
2.06. That's Alright
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ORB, THE: Cow Remixes/Sin In Space Pt.3 12" (KOM 363EP)
Kompakt continue The Orb's Sin In Space remix EP series with a third volume focusing on the duo's last album, COW / Chill Out, World! (KOMP 134CD/KOM 354LP, 2016 ). The Field's remix of "9 Elms Over River Eno" takes the original's percussive part and unfolds it to a swirling, tropical epic. Dave DK turns in a club-friendly revamp of "4am Exhale" indulging in exquisitely lyrical glitches and straight bass drum. Jörg Burger takes a shot at the beatless "5th Dimensions" - its loose pop jam feeling and flirty shuffle rhythm recalling Burger's Triola moniker.
$9.79 UPC: 880319820915 ELECTRONIC
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MORGENSTERN, CHRISTIAN: KSQ Bundle 1 3x12" (KSQBUNDLE 001EP)
For the first time ever, the entire catalog of Christian Morgenstern was released digitally, accompanied by a limited and remastered series of eight 12" records that included remixes by artists such as Distant Echoes, Jeroen Search, Staffan Linzatti, Stanislav Tolkachev, Mistake Made, Alexander Kowalski, Psyk, d_func, Fanon Flowers, Ben Kaczor, Henning Baer, Christian Wünsch, Jonas Kopp, Efdemin, TWR72, Jeff Rushin, Moerbeck, Oscar Mulero, CTRLS, and Maral Salmassi. KSQ Bundle 1 compiles Remixes 3/8, Remixes 4/8, and Remixes 5/8 from the 12" series and features remixes by Fanon Flowers, Henning Baer, d_func., Jeroen Search, Maral Salmassi, and TWR72. After 12 years, these releases also mark the return of Konsequent. Founded in 1997 by Maral Salmassi, Konsequent was home to some of the earliest releases by Morgenstern and also represented the deep creative and personal relationship that the two shared until Christian's death in 2003.
$16.39 UPC: 880319860911 ELECTRONIC
Remixes 3/8:
A1. Be Good To Me (Fanon Flowers Remix)
B1. Visco Space Saves The World (Henning Baer Remix)
B2. Herz Aus Stahl (Original)
Remixes 4/8:
A1. Steigreider (d_func. Remix)
B1. Aces High (Jeroen Search Remix 1)
B2. Lydia To The Edge Of Panic (Original)
Remixes 5/8:
A1. Spiegelkerker (Maral Salmassi Remix)
B1. Ex Machina (TWR72 Remix)
B2. Girls Got Rhythm (Original)
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DE WITTE, CHARLOTTE: Voices Of The Ancient EP 12" (MARYBLACK 001EP)
Belgium's most exciting new talent Charlotte de Witte now delivers the first release for brand new Amsterdam based label Mary Go Wild Black. The Voices Of The Ancient EP features two original mixes by Charlotte de Witte and a remix by both Keith Carnal and Black Asteroid. "Voices Of The Ancient" is a dark techno banger submerged in sinister whispers, while the vocals in "Lost" take you on another dark hypnotic trip. Keith Carnal and Black Asteroid delivered a completely different, but both massive and highly energetic remix of the title track.
$9.79 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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MR. G: G's Juiced Up? EP 12" (NIO 008EP)
Renowned house and techno producer Mr. G joins the No Idea's Original roster with four typically powerful house cuts. Colin McBean is a producer that needs little introduction. Leading the way, "Can't Stop?" sees Mr. G merge an infectious vocal with rumbling bass, raw drums, and a murky oscillating synth before "4am NYC Downlow (TS Version)" introduces a subtle melody as a cacophony of hats join a distorted soulful vox. Crunchy percussion and a moody hook then form "Make Me Mad" before concluding the package with a twisted reimagining titled "Make Me Dub!"
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FIEDEL: Substance B 12" (OSTGUT 102EP)
Berlin-Brandenburg native Fiedel presents Substance B on Ostgut Ton. The eponymous "Substance B" is a high-energy, raving techno belter built around a bouncy bassline motif, with additional percussion and bubbling acid lines slowly swelling. "Track 432" evolved and assumed shape based on a phone-recorded sketch. Melody-wise this seven-minute lush, deep yet functional cut is reminiscent of shrill sirens, soon intertwined with cowbell jabs, sitting atop a banging kick drum and staccato-stabs. "S-Drive" closes this record with a tidied up and slower jam: its prancing, mesmerizing synth melody is accompanied by a subtle kick and syncopated snare.
$8.99 UPC: 880319844812 ELECTRONIC
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HOPPNER, NICK: Box Drop 12" (OSTGUT 103EP)
Nick Höppner puts full focus on club music with a new, consistent three-tracker, Box Drop. "Box Drop" comes in form of a deep dub techno aesthetic at an adequate 128 bpm while not neglecting warm and melodic elements: harmonic layers, effects, synth pads, rotating sound patterns - frisky, yet muscular. "Still" begins with a mellow vibe, slowly swelling and progressing into slightly romantic, yet very groove-focused, upbeat house music. "Out Of Sight" sees Höppner working with whispering female vocal samples while a sturdy bassline, synth bleeps, and modulations, shakers and other percussion add to the warm and cosmic vibe.
$8.99 UPC: 880319845314 ELECTRONIC
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GALLUZZI, ANDRE: Submerge EP 12" (OVM 276EP)
With over 25 years in the game, André Galluzzi can respectfully be awarded the veteran badge of honor. A mark of experience and longevity for an artist who has, as they say, been there and done it all. The metronomic kick drum of the "Submerge" introduces the listener to its immersive groove, whilst bubbling and elasticated FX vie for our attention, adding a sublime swing. On the flip, "Bold", by name and nature, ups the swing ante with its fierce acidic melody, shimmering hats, and rasping snare.
$9.79 UPC: 678414002769 ELECTRONIC
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CLEMENTI, ROBERTO: Avesys EP 12" (PETS 075EP)
Pets Recordings start 2017 with a techno maestro: Roberto Clementi. It begins with "Avesys": its dubby warmth, rippling rhythmic elements, and patient percussive builds, don't just mark the perfect tone and timbre of an on-point take off set, but also trigger the whole full-spectrum, deep space EP concept. "Voschod" follows with a one-way trip into space, exploring the lesser-told half of the '60s space race and the Russian's second wave spacecraft trips. "Landing A Man" spins the listener into gravity-free stasis with a historic homage to Kennedy's ambition to land a man on the moon.
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IGIETTEMO, TONY: Hot Like Fire CD (PMG 055CD)
PMG present a reissue of Tony Igiettemo's Hot Like Fire, originally released in 1980. "Leaning against a wall, his shirt unbuttoned to his navel and cradling a tumbler of something strong and sophisticated, Tony Igiettemo looks every bit the smooth talking '80s gent. When you put Hot Like Fire on the turntable and drop the needle, however, it is immediately clear that Smooth Tony is also a little bit freaky. Sirens, slap bass, squelchy synths and a titchy high hat that just won't give up, Hot Like Fire is a cosmic call from a dancefloor on the far side of the universe. Produced by John Malife - the go-to man in Nigeria when you wanted your funk freaky - it's driven by a heavy low end that compels you to move. 'Baby You Can Do It' is Boney M's 'Daddy Cool' via a sweaty Nigerian dancefloor. 'I Feel So Good' has a Kool & The Gang vibe, albeit with a freaky, warbling synth. And 'Hot Like Fire' is a strange reggae/funk fusion, fueled by the righteous herb. 'We Are One' and 'Africa Must Unite', meanwhile, are post-disco, reggae-tinged calls for African Unity. 'Rock Your Baby' is the album's most relentless dancefloor banger and sums up its ethos best. Clap your hands everybody and get down on it. Tony Igiettomo is here to make your body move." --Peter Moore
$9.79 UPC: 710473190992 WORLD
01. Baby You Can Do It
02. Hot Like Fire
03. I Feel So Good
04. Rock You Baby
05. We Are One
06. Africa Must Be Free
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IGIETTEMO, TONY: Hot Like Fire LP (PMG 055LP)
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$16.99 UPC: 710473190725 WORLD
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MONITE, STEVE: Only You CD (PMG 060CD)
PMG present a reissue of Steve Monite's Only You, originally released in 1984. "Steve Monite's album, Only You, is a prime slab of Nigerian boogie. It's sinewy, compact and sexy, a little bit of disco mixed with a big dose of funk. Loose and groovy, it's a sonic seduction from another dimension. With legendary producer Tony Okoroji at the desk, and influential musician and sound engineer, Nkono Teles, creating magic on the synth, the title track is raw and melodic, dark and sweet at the same time. Steve sings about putting out a fire, but the music, and Stella Monye's sultry backing vocals, stoke it with aural gasoline. You've never heard a song less likely to lower the temperature and let cooler heads prevail. While never quite reaching the heights of 'Only You', 'Welcome My Love', and 'Things Fall Apart' keep the groove going, the later with a distinctly Latin swing. A couple of extended 'Disco Jams' and an obligatory, romantic ballad ('I Had A Dream') round out the record. In all honesty, however, it is 'Only You' that you'll keep going back to. It's a killer track, an Afro boogie classic that would hold its own on any dancefloor in the world, whether in the '80s or today." --Peter Moore
$9.79 UPC: 710473190831 WORLD
01. Only You
02. I Had A Dream
03. Things Fall Apart (Disco Jam)
04. Welcome My Love
05. Only You (Disco Jam)
06. Things Fall Apart (Vocal)
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MONITE, STEVE: Only You LP (PMG 060LP)
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$16.99 UPC: 710473190824 WORLD
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LEBARTY, FELIX: Girls For Sale CD (PMG 061CD)
PMG present a reissue of Felix Lebarty's Girls For Sale, originally released in 1979. "Before he was Nigeria's self-proclaimed Mr Lover Boy, Felix Lebarty was an upcoming musician in the country's Edo-Delta region. His big brother, Aigbe, was a legendary highlife bandleader, but Felix paid his dues playing guitar with Thony Shorby Nwenyi and the Collection of Stars, along with fellow 'star' Mighty Flames bassist, Willy Nfor. Perversely, Girls For Sale was released after Lover Boy, the slick disco album that cemented his place in Nigerian music history. It is a collection of tracks Lebarty made early in his career, when his music was rawer and his pickup lines less sophisticated and less practiced. In 'Come True', Lebarty actually admits to a girl that he hasn't got any money. He begs a girl to love him in 'Love Me Kiss Me' and pleads with a rival to give him a break in 'Don't Take My Girl'. He even takes a dig at Aigbe, his more successful sibling, in 'Mr Big Brother'. It's hardly what you'd expect from the disco god behind Lover Boy, who went on to have 19 children with seven different women. To me, that's what makes Girls For Sale worth checking out. It's gritty, lo-fi, and melodic, like The Apostles with a subtle a nod towards the Jackson Five, sung with endearing insecurity. What's not to like about that?" --Peter Moore
$9.79 UPC: 710473190855 WORLD
01. Kiss Me Once Again
02. Come True
03. Mr. Big Brother
04. Love Me & Kiss Me
05. Don't Take My Girls
06. Girls For Sale
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LEBARTY, FELIX: Girls For Sale LP (PMG 061LP)
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ENANG, SONY: Don't Stop That Music CD (PMG 062CD)
PMG present a reissue of Sony Enang's Don't Stop That Music. "In the early 1980s, Nigerian was booming and recording studios used the oil money sloshing around to fit their studios with the latest state-of-the-art recording equipment. With the equipment came a new, slicker sound and a new breed of producers like Lemmy Jackson, Jake Sollo, Tony Okoroji, and Nkono Teles who became bigger stars than the musicians they recorded. Such was the fate of Sony Enang with Don't Stop That Music. Sony was no ordinary musician. As keyboard player and vocalist with The Founders, he'd record some of the most seminal albums to come out of Eastern Nigeria. But his album is best known for being produced by Jake Sollo, and featuring the song, 'Discolypso', that came to represent Sollo's very particular sound. Not that Sony Enang should be too concerned. Don't Stop That Music is at turns cosmopolitan, sexy, hip, romantic, glamorous and witty. It's got sophisticated dancefloor fillers ('Don't Stop That Music' and 'Where Were You?'), chirpy, good-time boogie ('Hold On' and 'You Are The One') and a bit of calypso-reggae sunshine to boot ('Life'). In short, it's the sound of a confident and prosperous Nigeria. A sound as sophisticated as anywhere else in the world, but with a unique energy all of its own." --Peter Moore
$9.79 UPC: 710473190879 WORLD
01. Discolypso
02. Hold On
03. Good Morning
04. Don't Stop That Music
05. You Are The One
06. Give It To Me
07. Life
08. Where Were You
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ENANG, SONY: Don't Stop That Music LP (PMG 062LP)
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ARIGO & HIS KONASTONE MAJESTY, ROBO: Sexy Thing CD (PMG 063CD)
PMG present a reissue of Robo Arigo & His Konastone Majesty's Sexy Thing, originally released in 1982. "Robo Arigo is an extraordinary multi-instrumentalist from Nigeria's Ogun State. A founding member of Pogo Ltd, he played bass, guitar, and organ on both their albums and plays all kinds of instruments, including cowbell, on Sexy Thing too. One listen to the record, however, (and a quick look at the back of the cover), and it's pretty clear that playing bass is where Robo's heart lay. Especially when he gets to slap it. The slapping starts early on 'Konastone Ponk', a dippy, funky track where Robo implores that if his music 'touches your soul, get up and dance.' The interplay between bass and guitar is magic - it's clear that Eno Louis is Nile Rodgers to Robo's Rick James, with a bit of Prince and Parliament thrown in for good measure. The funk feels dark and dangerous on 'Girls Reservation' and gets seriously slinky on 'Sexy Thing'. I can't over emphasis what a truly great album this is. The sound is clean and the production is stripped back and funky, a sound Robo would finesse as a producer with his Robbosoneex Music Company in Benin. Listen to the audacious cover of 'Get Up Stand Up', and tell me that you're not convinced that very Bob Marley song needs a slap bass break in the middle. You need this record in your life." --Peter Moore
$9.79 UPC: 710473190893 WORLD
01. Konastone Ponk
02. Girls Reservation
03. Get Up Stand Up
04. Them Crazy
05. I Want You
06. Sexy Thing
07. I'm Gonna Love You
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ARIGO & HIS KONASTONE MAJESTY, ROBO: Sexy Thing LP (PMG 063LP)
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$16.99 UPC: 710473190886 WORLD
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CROATIAN AMOR: Love Means Taking Action Remixes LP (PI 192LP)
Remixes of Croatian Amor's most recent album, Love Means Taking Action (ALT 028CD/PI 180LP, 2016), as a one-off limited pressing. Features: Brynje, Age Coin, Why Be, Yen Towers, CTM, Félicia Atkinson, Drew McDowall, KYO, and Health & Safety.
$14.99 EAN: 5055869545242 ELECTRONIC
01. Värmland (Brynje Remix)
02. Refugee (Age Coin Remix)
03. Love Thirteen (Island Step) (Why Be Remix)
04. Any Lyfe (Yen Towers Remix)
05. Octopus Web (CTM Remix)
06. Ma Langue La Premiere (Félicia Atkinson Remix)
07. Love (Drew McDowall Remix)
08. An Angel (KYO Remix featuring Health & Safety)
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INTERNAZIONALE: The Pale And The Colourful LP (PI 193LP)
The Pale And The Colourful is Internazionale's first album on vinyl, released by Posh Isolation. It comes after a near flood of limited tape releases both through his remarkable Janus Hoved label and through Posh Isolation. It's a logical summary of Internazionale's work up to this point and is the prime example of the sensual synthetic meditations he has come to be known for. The clear pop sensibility of his compositions are clouded with noises and ambiguous field recordings, and it is somehow hard to really figure out if the music intends to lift us up or hold us down. What is certain is that no Internazionale release up to this point reaches the level of The Pale And The Colourful.
$14.99 EAN: 5055869545129 ELECTRONIC
01. Bells Of Addiction
02. Ruby Heart
03. Initials
04. They Taught Us To Count The Days
05. Protection Glass (Love Is The Cure)
06. The Pale And The Colourful
07. Ivy Covered Windows
08. White Peacock
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BALDELLI & MARCO DIONIGI, DANIELE: Irradia 12" (QNP 003EP)
QND Philosophy present the new EP by Daniele Baldelli and Marco Dionigi, with their own project Funkadiba. Irradia is the first single anticipating the third Funkadiba album. The duo, veteran cosmic disco originator Daniele Baldelli and his long-time partner in crime Marco Dionigi, produced this amazing four-tracker full of solid funky grooves, spaced-out waves and deep electronic vibes. If you're in love with retro future sounds, you really can't miss it.
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MORGAN, DERRICK: People Decision CD (RR 306CD)
Radiation Roots present a reissue of Derrick Morgan's People Decision, originally released in 1977. One of the very first artists to begin recording in Jamaica, Derrick Morgan is a beloved ska icon and a pioneer of the "skinhead reggae" style. Blessed with a rich, deep tenor, which with he belts out his clever and often humorous lyrics, Morgan became known on the Kingston music scene through Vere Johns's regular talent contests, and enjoyed a lengthy run of hits during the 1960s for producers such as Simeon Smith, Duke Reid, and Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd (among others), cultivating a popular vinyl feud with Prince Buster after being brought into Leslie Kong's camp by the young Jimmy Cliff. Morgan moved to England during the late 1960s to capitalize on the skinhead reggae craze, but was back in Jamaica from the early 1970s, and since Bunny Lee was his brother-in-law, the two have always maintained a close working relationship. People Decision, voiced at King Tubby's studio for Lee and released by Third World in 1977, sees Morgan in politicized roots reggae mode on songs like "Let's Build A Better Jamaica", the symbolic racetrack drama "Racing At Ballistic Park", and the title track, which all boosted the socialist policies of the ruling People's National Party; "Natty Dread Forward Out Of Babylon" updates the "Tougher Than Tough" saga, and there's a slew of rude tunes, including "My Dickie", "Rough Grinder", and "Ride Manny Fanny".
$10.99 EAN: 8592735006225 WORLD
01. People Decision
02. Racing At Ballistic Park
03. Let's Build A Better Jamaica
04. Natty Dread Forward Out Of Babylon
05. Let Me Go Girl
06. My Dickie
07. Ride Manny Fanny
08. Rough Grinder
09. Wreck A Fanny
10. Ital Man
11. In The Public's Interest
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MORGAN, DERRICK: People Decision LP (RR 306LP)
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$14.99 EAN: 8592735006218 WORLD
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CLARKE, JOHNNY: Satisfaction CD (RR 308CD)
Radiation Roots present a reissue of Johnny Clarke's Satisfaction, originally released in 1979. Tenor singer Johnny Clarke had many false starts in his youthful days. Hanging around Studio One as a schoolboy with Jacob Miller, Clarke was supposed to record material written for him by Bob Andy, but somehow never made the grade. His 1973 debut recording for lesser-known producer Glen Stair was not released, and early work for Clancy Eccles failed to hit, though "Everyday Wondering" for Rupie Edwards made an underground impact in Britain and New York. Subsequent singles for Keith Hudson and Glen Brown also did not get very far, but the breakthrough finally came when Bunny Lee asked him to sing "None Shall Escape The Judgement", which was written by the singer Earl Zero; it became a massive hit that launched the "flying cymbal" craze (based on an open-and-closed high-hat cymbal pattern, adapted from the Soul Train theme), and Clarke became one of Lee's most reliable hit-makers, partly because Lee stoked a rivalry between him and Cornell Campbell, whom Lee had previously asked to voice "None Shall Escape". Clarke's Satisfaction LP was recorded at Harry J's studio for Lee, voiced at King Tubby's studio, and issued by Third World in 1979. It is a set largely comprised of cover tunes, such as the strong opening update of the Paragons' "Riding For A Fall", the title track adapting their rock steady hit "My Satisfaction" in a post-rockers style. Better still is the hard-hitting "reality" tune, "Play Fool, Get Wise", which uses a proverb to relate a means of avoiding trouble on the dog-eat-dog mean streets of Kingston.
$10.99 EAN: 8592735006263 WORLD
01. Riding For A Fall
02. Midnight Cowboy
03. It's A Disgrace
04. Satisfaction
05. I Love You Madly
06. Play Fool, Get Wise
07. This Heart Of Mine
08. I Can't Explain
09. Easy Skanking
10. Why Did You Leave
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CLARKE, JOHNNY: Satisfaction LP (RR 308LP)
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$14.99 EAN: 8592735006256 WORLD
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THOMPSON, LINVAL: Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks CD (RR 309CD)
Radiation Roots present a reissue of Linval Thompson's Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks, originally released in 1976. Distinctive tenor singer Linval Thompson honed his singing craft in his formative years, growing in the west Kingston ghetto of Three Mile, where he was associated with Dennis Brown, Johnnie Clarke, and Al Campbell. A subsequent move to New York brought him into expatriate act Hugh Hendricks and the Buccaneers, with his debut recording, "No Other Woman", being made circa early 1974 at Patrick Alley's Art Craft studio. A series of other singles followed from his New York sojourn, but the return to Jamaica in 1974 led to more noteworthy singles for Stamma Hobson, Phil Pratt, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, with "Jah Jah Redder Than Red" and "Girl You've Got To Run", both cut at the Black Ark for Pratt, being the most successful. Yet, it was all but a prelude to the breakthrough success he would finally achieve upon teaming up with Bunny Lee for "Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks" one of the most popular releases of 1975; a debut album of the same name, issued by Third World in 1976, contained some of his most outstanding material, including the devotional "Jah Jah The Conqueror" and "Long Long Dreadlocks", the romance thriller "Black Princess Lady" and the anti-rude boy opus, "Cool Down Your Temper".
$10.99 EAN: 8592735006287 WORLD
01. Don't Trouble Trouble
02. Cool Down Your Temper
03. Black Princess Lady
04. Jezebel Woman
05. Blood Gonna Run
06. Money Money
07. Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks
08. Jah Jah The Conqueror
09. Long Long Dreadlocks
10. Natty Dread Girl
11. Ride On Natty Dread
12. No Escape
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THOMPSON, LINVAL: Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks LP (RR 309LP)
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LODERBAUER & JACEK SIENKIEWICZ, MAX: End CD (RECOG 005CD)
Cosmos of sound phenomena is devoid of a distinct beginning and end, fluid and polymorphous. Stream of sound is continuous, no matter whether and which volatile events are registered, and which ones are omitted. It is a complex state which transgresses borders defined by source, signal, and mechanism of perception. Pastoral/tropical soundscapes and post-brutalist compositions by Max Loderbauer and Jacek Sienkiewicz from End seem to evoke those situations where you can actually hear objects, shapes, and time flow itself, a sort of synesthesia which erases and obliterates beginnings and ends of events, processes, and phenomena. Apocalyptic and contemplative spaces generated by this pair of seasoned sound creators explode genre bastions of ambient and IDM, leading into the spectral areas once explored by such pioneers and Popol Vuh or Ilhan Mimaroglu. Above all etheric and extra-sensitive, End marks the meeting of two incurable individualists, who use various tools of their trade to come up with a surprisingly atemporal effect, an insistent pulse of detail on an ever-morphing background. Without vivid commentary and recognizable soundbites of the present, End is simultaneously an interesting projection of hopes and anxieties of the new age. The core of tracks included on the record were produced on the occasion of Max and Jacek appearing as a live duo during 2015's Berlin Atonal festival, which resulted in well received Alpine-Tara-Himalayan EP Ridges (RECOG 035EP, 2015). Remaining compositions are natural conclusion of their friendship, conversations, meetings, trips, and recording sessions that operate according to the rule of free improvisation with a reduced instrumental setup. "West Ridge" and "East Ridge" appeared on Ridges.
$10.99 EAN: 4260038317167 ELECTRONIC
01. Est
02. Tib
03. Hak
04. Sir
05. Tuk
06. Gnd
07. Noe
08. Wet
09. Hut
10. West Ridge
11. East Ridge
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GNOD: Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine CD (LAUNCH 109CD)
"It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present," reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. "2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment's systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public's loss of faith in their system." Charged by this outlook, Gnod's new album, Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine, represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. "On the surface it could almost seem like there's no political art movement out there to oppose what's happening, but there is - we know there is," adds the band's Paddy Shine. "Maybe that movement is struggling to find its voice as a cohesive whole right now but that will change." Fueled by their militant drive and unyielding ardor, Just Say No refracts Gnod's harsh and repetitive riff-driven rancor through a psychotropic haze of dubbed-out abstraction, with Paddy's incendiary vocal delivery to the fore. Gnod - fiercely independent, never comfortable in one place artistically for any duration of time, always with their coordinates set on uncharted territory and the next challenge ahead, and delivering a monument of ire and iconoclasm.
$10.99 EAN: 5055300389329 ROCK
01. Bodies For Money
02. People
03. Paper Error
04. Real Man
05. Stick In The Wheel
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GNOD: Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine LP (LAUNCH 109LP)
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$20.99 EAN: 5055300389312 ROCK
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HILLS: Alive At Roadburn CD (LAUNCH 112CD)
Alive At Roadburn is Gothenburg based Hills' third album with Rocket Recordings. Hot off the Swedish psychedelia revival of the past few years and after their hailed 2015 album Frid (LAUNCH 079CD), Hills connect the dots to their country's rich and intoxicating past with a handful of new sepia-toned tunes. Like their predecessors unholy trinity of Pärson Sound, International Harvester, and Träd Gräs och Stenar, Hills penchant to stretch out beyond, performing what feels like openly casual exhortations into intricate Eastern tones and primal hypnotic rhythms. These four tracks sit deeply buried in oblivion, bones, skin, sweat, grooved with fearless intensity with no diminution of the interplay, spontaneity, and feeling onstage, the band are entombed in mantric repetition while the vapor trail of The Byrds' "Untitled" epic; "Eight Miles High" descend into an Elysian Field, where the dead enjoy happy tranquility, until they come to life and rise up again.
$10.99 EAN: 5055300389381 ROCK
01. National Drone
02. Frigörande Musik
03. Master Sleeps
04. Och Solen Sänkte Sig Röd
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HILLS: Alive At Roadburn 2LP (LAUNCH 112LP)
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$20.99 EAN: 5055300389374 ROCK
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J CHOIRBOY: Full Effect 12" (RG 001EP)
J Choirboy returns with bombastic breakbeats and raucous rave chords for your earholes. It's once more time to don the boiler suit and your rose-tinted Lennon frames, bask in the smell of Vicks VapoRub, and pour over the Polaroid albums of yesteryear. A colossal bass drum with a healthy slathering of reverb lays the foundation in "Full Effect"; the interlaced hardcore stab sets a melancholy tone. In "Lights Down", J Choirboy explores the somber and reflective modes of the hoover synth. Subtle plaintive chords offset the characteristic rumbling bass drum and syncopated cadences of the breakbeats.
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DAVIS QUINTET, MILES: Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet LP (RUM 2011134LP)
Rumble Records present a reissue of The Miles Davis Quintet's Workin', originally released in 1959. The Miles Davis Quintet, in 1956, were maybe the best and most accomplished young group in jazz. And the quartet of albums that they recorded in two days that year, Cookin' (released in 1957), Steamin' (1961), Relaxin' (1958), and this title, Workin' are some of the most famous and timeless jazz recordings in history. They recorded this heavily over the course of two days to satisfy contractual obligations, but you wouldn't know it by hearing the recordings. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones are a seamless and incredibly cohesive group, playing off each other perfectly, and it's somewhat shocking to know that they only existed in this particular incarnation for less than three years. One of the most essential titles in jazz history reissued here on Rumble Records.
$14.39 UPC: 889397105815 JAZZ
A1. It Never Entered My Mind
A2. Four
A3. In Your Own Sweet Way
A4. The Theme (Take #1)
B1. Trane's Blues
B2. Ahmad's Blues
B3. Half Nelson
B4. The Theme (Take #2)
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GAINSBOURG, SERGE: Du Chant A La Une! Volume 1 & 2 LP (RUM 2011135LP)
Rumble Records present a reissue of Serge Gainsbourg debut 10" Du Chant A La Une! and its immediate follow up, recorded with Alain Goraguer Et Son Orchestre, originally released in 1958 and 1959. The two 10" records belong to Gainsbourg's chansonnier period, and they're far from that style that gave us his late minimalistic pop atmospheres for which he is well known. But they are already a nice take on Gainsbourg's future smoky night club attitude that later helped consolidate his maudit character, that sleazy sexy mother that seems to be encrusted in the grooves of each of his most famous scratchy vinyl of the seventies. Rumble collect both of these rare gems with Du Chant A La Une! Volume 1 & 2.
$14.39 UPC: 889397105822 ROCK
A1. Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas
A2. La Recette De L'Amour Fou
A3. Douze Belles Dans La Peau
A4. Ce Mortel Ennui
A5. Ronsard 58
A6. La Femme Des Uns Sous Le Corps Des Autres
A7. L'Alcool
A8. Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
A9. Charleston Des Déménageurs De Piano
B1. Le Claqueur De Doigts
B2. La Nuit D'Octobre
B3. Adieu, Créature!
B4. L'Anthracite
B5. Mambo Miam Miam
B6. Indifférente
B7. Jeunes Femmes Et Vieux Messieurs
B8. L'Amour A La Papa
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WILLIAMSON, SONNY BOY: Down And Out Blues LP (RUM 2011136LP)
Rumble Records present Sonny Boy Williamson's debut album Down And Out Blues, originally released in 1959. Down And Out Blues combined many of his early singles into one complete package. Though he may not be as much of a household name as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, or John Lee Hooker, Williamson is every bit an equal to his Chicago contemporaries. Featuring backing, in fact, from Waters, Otis Spann, and Willie Dixon, this is a truly essential piece of Chicago blues reissued here on Rumble Records.
$14.39 UPC: 889397105839 ROCK
A1. Don't Start Me To Talkin'
A2. I Don't Know
A3. All My Love In Vain
A4. The Key (To Your Door)
A5. Keep It To Yourself
A6. Dissatisfied
B1. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
B2. Wake Up Baby
B3. Your Funeral And My Trial
B4. "99"
B5. Cross My Heart
B6. Let Me Explain
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KINEMATIK: Ala' CD (RPTD 017CD)
Kinematik is an instrumental rock band from Lebanon, whose music blends elements of '70s psychedelia, progressive rock, and post-rock. Kinematik's rock sound is both diligent and intuitive, ranging from raucous improvisational psychedelic rock to steady and mechanical electronic grooves, with frequent post-rock climaxes. Immediate points of comparison include Explosions In The Sky, Can, Loop, and Tortoise. Kinematik composes instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, strong melodic lines, a heavy use of distortion and effects, and some reliance on electronics and synthesizers. The band collaborated with renowned Lebanese producer Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios, who produced this debut album, Ala'. Recorded on reel-to-reel tape, a recording process that has not occurred in Lebanon for the last decade. Edition of 300.
$10.99 EAN: 5055300372796 ROCK
01. Kelmeh Oula
02. Lalochezia
03. Hhx
04. Ana Baher
05. El'et
06. Aawaynet Nazar
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KINEMATIK: Ala' LP (RPTD 017LP)
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$16.99 EAN: 5055300372789 ROCK
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LEMZLY DALE: No Long Talk 12" (S7 004EP)
The Bristol label headed up by Boofy have come through with another lava disc, this time featuring Lemzly Dale's "No Long Talk" and a remix from Bandulu heads Kahn And Neek. 100% certified grime killers.
$8.99 EAN: 5055300393067 ELECTRONIC
01. No Long Talk
02. No Long Talk (Kahn And Neek Remix)
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TV EYE: The Lost Studio Recordings 1977-1978 CD (SEVCD 001CD)
2017 is going to see many bands celebrating the 40th anniversary of their 1977 debut records. There won't be nearly so many from 1977 making their debut 40 years later in 2017. Here is one of those cases: TV Eye. Five 17-18 year olds - Andy Wickett, Dave Kusworth, Eamon Duffy, Paul Adams and Dave Twist - who channeled "Stooge-punk classicism, via brute-naivety and a great pair of leather trousers into... something else." These are the lost studio recordings and no-fi relics of Birmingham's first garage-punk band, TV Eye. 1977-1978 comprises five studio tracks and six tracks from a raw rehearsal session (preserved by Stephen Duffy). Includes a four-page photo insert and essay. CD version includes two bonus tracks.
$10.99 EAN: 5060446071328 ROCK
01. Repartee
02. Stevie's Radio Station
03. Citizen
04. Dreaming Of Your Cars
05. Let Me Win
06. Chainsmoking / Let Me Win
07. Roses
08. Repartee (Rehearsal Version)
09. When You're Gone
10. Cry Cry To You
11. Kites
12. Citizen (Rehearsal Version)*
13. Stevie's Radio Station (Rehearsal Version)*
*CD bonus track.
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TV EYE: The Lost Studio Recordings 1977-1978 LP (SEVLP 001LP)
LP version. Red vinyl; Edition of 300.
$20.99 EAN: 5060446071335 ROCK
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GEVENDE: Kirinardi LP (SH 007LP)
Shalgam Record's newest release, Kirinardi, arrives during turbulent times in Gevende's native Turkey; the chaotic fusion of post-rock, jazz, and psychedelia that defines the band's music has made them a resilient treasure to audiences everywhere for just over a decade now. The frantic chord progressions, aggressive drums, and heavy distortion of Gevende's music have transcended borders, both geographical and cultural. In addition to making its mark on Turkey's music scene, Gevende has found fans in countries all over the world. Previous albums Ev (2006) and Sen Balık Değilsin Ki (2011) have taken the band to Greece, France, the UK, and Iraq.
$22.39 EAN: 5055300393050 ROCK
01. Omelas
02. Tophane'de Güneşli Günler
03. Sessiz Gibi Bir Yer
04. Kırınardı
05. Saroyan
06. Ağlaya Ağlaya
07. Ters Okyanus
08. Domino
09. Vertigo
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KHAN OF FINLAND: Nicht Nur Sex CD (STRIKE 162CD)
Hendrik Otremba talks about Khan Of Finland's new album, Nicht Nur Sex: " 'Nicht Nur Sex' is a user profile on a literally gay forum named Gayromeo that's serving the purpose of organizing its user's needs for fleshly pleasures. The transvestite's user name is programmatic, has an explicit meaning: it's more than sex! That breakthrough in superficiality appearing also proclaims Khan Of Finland aka Can Oral - artist- and real name go hand in hand. Of course it's about sex. There's more than that, though. The title previews an album that forces bystanders to take a deeper look but it also clearly states: here a few points can be found sex isn't satisfying without. Khan's musical aesthetics are glamorous, dub-like pop packed with samples and alienated voices - a musical tradition leading back to Grace Jones and Marianne Faithfull in their Island Records era of '80/81. We're able to hear moaned phrases, phrased moaning, artificial ejaculation. Nicht Nur Sex creates a melange of an intense life-style, here the untamed before-and-after finds a musical counterpart as well as the in-between finds a starting point. Even the album cover is held in a similar fashion: The archive of Khan's snapshots mirrors our voyeurism so we finally recognize we're most intrigued by picky details found in the hidden. Between fragments and snapshots secrets unveil, obsessions materialize. And desires dance. To prove this view is of political nature the song 'H&M Freedom' depicts various forms, shapes and conditions of dependency in today's world of consumerism. Khan's a page that's got to be written on from both sides regarding it's fidgety character in music and pictures: the Berlin based artist produces, sings every so often, remixes, releases his own records under his finish moniker or as a member of a band named Wild Style Lion, has recently formed a bridge between electronic- and guitar-music with the aid of J. Mascis and Kim Gordon, has been a club owner in NYC, organized events at the infamous Berghain, plays theater, travels with Goethe - or speaking metaphorically: melodizes live! . . . Through Khan's arrangement, a diverse interdependency of emotions is created compiling the ten tracks into a listening-album where a soundtrack can be found. A soundtrack for our sexuality - and basically everything in between!" Features: Joe Volume, Mexican rapper Alemán, Julia Kent (cello player of Anthony and the Johnsons), and Icelandic musician Urður (GusGus).
$10.39 EAN: 4260217561206 ELECTRONIC
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KHAN OF FINLAND: Nicht Nur Sex LP (STRIKE 162LP)
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$12.99 EAN: 4260217561213 ELECTRONIC
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PIO, GIUSTO: Motore Immobile LP (SOAVE 001LP)
Soave present the first vinyl reissue of Giusto Pio's Motore Immobile, originally released in 1979. One of the most striking documents of Italy's minimalist movement, Giusto Pio's Motore Immobile is a masterwork with few equivalents. Produced by Franco Battiato in 1979, at the outset of a long and fruitful period of collaboration between the two composers, and issued by the legendary Cramps Records, its triumphs were met by silence, before falling from view. Emerging on vinyl for the first time since its original pressing, Motore Immobile now sits within a reappraisal of a large neglected body of efforts made by the Italian avant-garde during the second half of the 1970s and early '80s. It is singular, but not alone. It resonates within a collective world of shimmering sound, one familiar to fans of Battiato, Lino Capra Vaccina, Luciano Cilio, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Francesco Messina, and Raul Lovisoni. An exercise in elegant restraint - note and resonance held to the most implicit need. Everything between root and embellishment has been stripped away. A sublime organ drone, against interventions of deceptively simple structural complexity - executed by piano, violin, and voice. A sonic sculpture reaching heights which few have touched. A thing of beauty and an album as perfect as they come. The reemergence of Motore Immobile heralds what is unquestionably one of the most important reissues of 2017.
$20.99 EAN: 8055323520607 CLASSICAL
A1. Motore Immobile
B1. Ananta
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VOSTELL, WOLF: De-coll/age Musik LP (SOAVE 002LP)
Soave present the first vinyl reissue of Wolf Vostell's debut Dé-coll/age Musik, originally released in 1982. A seminal figure in the history of 20th century avant-garde, yet sinfully overlooked, Wolf Vostell unleashed ideas - those running wild through his debut LP Dé-coll/age Musik - which remain a slap to the face, more than half a century after they were set into play. A founding member of fluxus, an early instigator of happenings, an innovator of video art, Vostell was equally one of the most radical and irreverent practitioners in sound that the world has ever known. First released in 1982, Dé-coll/age Musik draws from material dating between the late 1950s and early '80s - the results of Vostell's application of décollage, the near perfect inversion of collage. Rather than gathered and assembled sounds, as with musique concrète, these are the result of subtractions from a former whole - the death of one, giving life to the next. Swelling from the past, Vostell's efforts pull the rug from beneath the common history of structured sound. A singular body with no loyalty, producing shocking results. A grinding confrontation - an intoxicating immersion in sound - as brutal as it is ecstatic - an exercise in joy. Dé-coll/age Musik assembles the essence of a creative spirit which is rarely known. Each work as radical and fresh today as the moment it was made. Comes in a gatefold sleeve.
$20.99 EAN: 8055323520614 EXPERIMENTAL
A1. Radio-dé-coll/age
A2. Dé-coll/age Manifesto
A3. Sun In Your Hand
A4. El Aeropuerto Como Sala De Concierto
A5. Elektronischer Dé-coll/age Happening Raum
A6. Telemetre
B1. MiM
B2. Hodispannung
B3. Fandango
B4. Heuwagen
B5. Giovanna La Pazza
B6. San Diego Freeway
B7. Garden Of Delices
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FUSIOON: Danza Del Molinero LP (SOMM 033LP)
Sommor Records present a reissue of Fusioon's Danza Del Molinero, originally released in 1972. This is the first album by these Catalan psych-progsters. Traditional Spanish songs receive a psychedelic/progressive/jazz-rock treatment with a tremendous rhythm section (drum breaks galore), fuzz-tone guitar, Hammond and analog keyboards, piano, and occasional string arrangements. RIYL: Soft Machine, Egg, Goblin, Arzachel, Le Orme, Collegium Musicum. Master tape sound. Original artwork in gatefold sleeve; Comes with an insert with rare photos and detailed liner notes in English/Spanish/Catalan.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824086923 ROCK
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FUSIOON: Farsa Del Buen Vivir LP (SOMM 034LP)
Sommor Records present a reissue of Fusioon's Farsa Del Buen Vivir, originally released in 1974. This second album by Fusioon is one of the masterpieces from the '70s Catalan/Spanish psychedelic and progressive scene. Produced by the great Josep Llobell, you'll find here plenty of Hammond, Moog, effects, a solid rhythm section, distorted lead guitar, and highly inventive arrangements. RIYL: Soft Machine, Egg, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, The Nice, Focus, Goblin. Master tape sound. Original artwork; Comes with an insert with rare photos and detailed liner notes in English/Spanish/Catalan.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824086930 ROCK
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VA: Buzzsaw Joint: Diddy Wah - Cut 2 LP (STAGO 092LP)
Stag-O-Lee present Cut 2 of the Buzzsaw Joint series, compiled by Astro138 and DJ Zorch. Buzzsaw Joint was born of a club offering Londoners the chance to revel in the sounds of good ol' trashy rock n' roll in all its vintage vinyl forms. Club top-cat, Fritz, then took the primitive buzzsaw sounds online with a series of savage Mixcloud mixes created by record fiends from all over the globe. Now, the high-octane energy of Buzzsaw Joint has manifested into the physical form with a run of compilations on Stag-O-Lee. Get your ears around the wild n' weird sounds of the extraordinary and inimitable Buzzsaw Joint! This second deep cut, coming from two city of angels record demons, unearths more strange sounds from times past. Astro138 and DJ Zorch created The Vinyl Record Association, an online haven where a global network of rare record fanatics and friends regularly share favorite spins. They can also be heard on Radiocore.org. Sixteen blistering buzzsaw selections from Astro138 and DJ Zorch, all recorded between 1956-1962. Features: Cy Wagner Orchestra, Shades Of Rhythm, Dave Osborn, Whispering Pigg, The Bikinis, The Gimicks, J.J. Jones, The Pharaohs, Los Twisters, Doug Powell, Duke & The Ambers, Charlie Daniels, The Altecs, Billy Preston, The Merrylanders, and The Dream Girls.
$12.99 EAN: 4030433009215 ROCK
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VA: Buzzsaw Joint: Diddy Wah - Cut 1 + 2 CD (STAGO 093CD)
Buzzsaw Joint was born of a club offering Londoners the chance to revel in the sounds of good ol' trashy rock n' roll in all its vintage vinyl forms. Club top-cat, Fritz, then took the primitive buzzsaw sounds online with a series of savage Mixcloud mixes created by record fiends from all over the globe. Now, the high-octane energy of Buzzsaw Joint has manifested into the physical form with a run of compilations on Stag-O-Lee. Get your ears around the wild n' weird sounds of the extraordinary and inimitable Buzzsaw Joint. Stag-O-Lee compile Cut 1 and 2 of the Buzzsaw Joint, previously vinyl-only releases (STAGO 091LP/092LP, 2017), on one CD to create an 80-minute, 32-track monster. The first 16 tracks, all recorded between 1959-1962, come courtesy of London based music fanatic, DJ, and dedicated 45rpm record hound, Diddy Wah. Two LA record demons, Astro138 and DJ Zorch, unearth 16 more strange sounds from times past, all recorded between 1956-1962. Features: Sonny And Premiers, Billy Garner, Bobby December And The Famous Renegades, The Canjoes, Joe Louis Johnson, Dennis And The Menances, The Rumblers, Eugene Blacknell And His Savonics, Sammy Fitzhugh, Gabriel And The Angels, Jimmy Beck And His Orchestra, Johnny Acey, The Egyptians, Rex Garvin And The Mighty Cravers, Bunker Hill, Ray Vernon & The Raymen, Cy Wagner Orchestra, Shades Of Rhythm, Dave Osborn, Whispering Pigg, The Bikinis, The Gimicks, J.J. Jones, The Pharaohs, Los Twisters, Doug Powell, Duke & The Ambers, Charlie Daniels, The Altecs, Billy Preston, The Merrylanders, and The Dream Girls.
$10.99 EAN: 4030433009321 ROCK
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VA: Gunsmoke Volume 2: Dark Tales Of Western Noir From A Ghost Town Jukebox 10" (STAGO 098LP)
Stag-O-Lee present the second volume in a new limited edition series, Gunsmoke. This is a collection of oddball country weepers, moody rockabilly, and popcorn noir from the 1950s and early '60s. So turn out the lights, sit back and relax to the soundtrack from a jukebox in a ghost town. For best results: listen to after dark. Packaged in a nice 10" sleeve with hole; Edition of 666. Features: Billy Fury, Steve Arlen, Jerry Irby, Johnny Pelvin, Magnificent Seven, El Clod, Warren Smith, Steve King, Danny Welch, Ric Cartey, Johnny Bond, and Sons Of The Pioneers.
$9.79 EAN: 4015698010640 ROCK
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VA: Gunsmoke Volume 1 + 2: Dark Tales Of Western Noir From A Ghost Town Jukebox CD (STAGO 101CD)
Stag-O-Lee present the first and second volume of the new limited edition series, Gunsmoke. The first two volumes were previously vinyl-only releases (STAGO 095LP, 2016/STAGO 098LP, 2017). This is a collection of oddball country weepers, moody rockabilly, and popcorn noir from the 1950s and early '60s. So turn out the lights, sit back and relax to the soundtrack from a jukebox in a ghost town. For best results: listen to after dark. Features: Ray Stevens, Bobby Wall, Dave Gardner, The Gatemen, Selwyn Cox, Jimmy Minor, Ken & Carol Craig With The Lawrence Bros. Combo, Marvin Rainwater, Hayden Thompson, Kip Tyler, Juan Montego & His Habana Sound, Billy Fury, Steve Arlen, Jerry Irby, Johnny Pelvin, Magnificent Seven, El Clod, Warren Smith, Steve King, Danny Welch, Ric Cartey, Johnny Bond, and Sons Of The Pioneers.
$10.99 EAN: 4015698010770 ROCK
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ANALOG ROLAND ORCHESTRA, THE: 303 And Chill 12" (STEP 013EP)
Hailing from Berlin Michal Matlak, aka The Analog Roland Orchestra, is famed for his Roland and heart-heavy 12"s on Ornaments, Rotary Cocktail, and Pastamusik. He presents his 303 And Chill EP: a cuddly and textural combination of ambience and acid. Moving through beatless interludes and squelching 303 grooves, the collection spans seven tracks and a variety of moods. Sharp 808 drums propel floor-friendly tracks while swooning pads complete a packet fit for the DJ and the listener alike.
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BABILS: Ji Ameeto LP (SR 430LP)
Babils are an atypical Brussels underground band, mixing rock, new wave, psych, kraut, experimental, and repetitive music. Ji Ameeto is the fourth album from Babils. From the duet formed in the late '90s by Gabriel Séverin and Michel Duyck, opening out over the years, the five current members of Babils meet monthly at the Central Laboratory to improvise freely, without any restraint. All the sessions are recorded and archived. The very first album by Babils, The Joint Between, made of a selection of improvised and reworked tracks titled, came out in 2007 on the label Stilll and was received positively by underground newspapers and many American college radios. This CD was nominated for the Qwartz, awarded by Radio France. In 2009, Stephan Barbery saw his friends on stage at Ancienne Belgique. Expressing his enthusiasm, he was invited to join the crew. The band, then made of six members, released two CDs: QTAB in 2011 and WAH! in 2013. Unfortunately, they will never play six on stage. Michel Duyck, after suffering, passed away on November 8, 2014. Ji Ameeto is the first album of Babils without Michel. Personnel: Gabriel Séverin, aka Rob(u)Rang (Jardin D'usure, Moonsanto, Silk Saw, Tremolo Dual, etc.) - many things + mix and production; Etienne Vernaeve (Isolation Ward, Tongue) - drums; Patrick Bellefroid - bass; Lukas Vangheluwe - trumpet; Stephan Barbery (Thrills, Digital Dance, Ink., Instead Of, Snowy Red, Inside Landscapes) - guitar.
$10.99 EAN: 5411867334309 ROCK
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GONZO: SE Asian Noise(s) Cassette (SUC 001CS)
Kicking off the brand new Sucata Tapes label is Gonzo with a new volume of the never-ending Noise(s) series. This time, he presents his alternate and surreal perspective of sounds and sights from the South East Asian sub-continent. Featuring recordings from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, SE Asian Noise(s) intersects randomly through AM/FM radio, field recordings, in situ compositions, and some re-interpreted recordings from Laurent Jeanneau's, aka Kink Gong, massive archive of the region. Not to be taken as a document or representation of a time and/or place but rather a personal diary full of vignettes distorted by time, memory, and subjectivity.
$8.99 EAN: 5055869545037 ELECTRONIC
01. SE Asian Pt1
02. SE Asian Pt2
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UBEK: Ubek Cassette (SUC 002CS)
Self-titled Ubek release on Sucata Tapes. Dystopian soundscapes weaving through insinuated actuality. A collection of paranoid realities, implied certainty through testimonies given freely, observed by ever watchful eyes, detected by attentive ears and committed to record. "... It was at this moment he realized that he was actually living two parallel lives, he was living in both worlds simultaneously. The memory of the other had come back to him in that moment. On leaving the bathroom he was now on an alternative track. An alternative reality which was reflective of the one he had just occupied yet different, and that everyone in it was somehow artificial, unreal. They were dead and only he was alive..." Ubek is "UB" + "-ek", with "UB" being an initialism of Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (literally "Security Office").
$8.99 EAN: 5055869545020 ELECTRONIC
01. Archimedes
02. Parellelogram
03. Radio Wolna
04. Porpoise
05. Conterfeit Worlds
06. Zulawski
07. Roaming Empire
08. Altar Natives
09. Confessional Method
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NON BAND: Non Band LP (TAL 004LP)
TAL present a reissue of Non Band's self-titled debut release, originally released in 1982 on Telegraphy Records. Yuichi Jibiky of Telegraph Records describes the release: "The Japanese punk rock movement known as Tokyo rockers began in the summer of 1978. It incubated an independent music culture as well as a host of fascinating, individualistic musicians. One of the more striking units was the male-female duo Maria 023. Non played bass for them, and it was here that she first attracted attention. However, Maria 023 was short-lived, and Non would not reappear until the following year, August 1979, on stage at the legendary concert event 'Drive to 80s'. Her unbilled performance at the event consisted of several songs for solo bass and vocals, and her combination of intensity and a distinctly female emotionality made a striking impression. In the months that followed, Non continued to play solo and she became a pivotal presence among the female rockers on the scene at the time. Finally, she shifted from solo to group performance, and formed Non Band. After several member changes, the line-up stabilized into a unique trio with Kinosuke Yamagishi on violin and clarinet and Mitsuru Tamagaki on drums. It was with this line-up that the group reached a musical peak. At the same time, the Japanese punk and new wave rock scene was moving in a new direction, as a second generation of artists appeared and mushrooming independent labels began to play an increasingly important role. I myself started a label called Telegraph Records in 1981 and worked hard on record releases and building a distribution network. Since starting the label, I had wanted to release a record by Non Band. There were many vicissitudes before it could happen, but in February 1982 Non Band's first album was released as a 10-inch LP on Telegraph Records, the label's fifth release. In the early Japanese indies scene, if a release sold 1000 copies it was counted as a significant success. The Non Band album went through several repressing and sold 2000 copies. The album was a hit and the band's critical reception and popularity suddenly took off. The shows that followed the release of the album were given a boost by the addition of two female rockers, the guitarist Kummy and keyboard player Mitsuwa. The group was reaching a real musical peak and everyone expected more great developments, but just six months after the release of the album the group would grind to a halt. Members quit the band one after another, and with no possible replacements to be found, Non herself faded away from the scene. Non Band's career in the early Japanese indies scene was thus short-lived. But their sole album was reissued twice on CD, and remained popular with listeners. However, the group's history was to have a second chapter. Non ended up returning to her hometown, snowy Hirosaki in the far northern prefecture Aomori. There she raised two children and took over the running of the family business, an arts supplies store. Her thoughts turned once again towards music, and in 1999 she took up her bass again and began to sing. She invited two fabulous musicians, Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida, to Hirosaki, and performed together with them as well as solo. This marked the beginning of a new phase for her, and she played live in Tokyo and released a solo album, ie (2002). She got back in touch with Yamagishi and Tamagaki and reformed Non Band. They added Emi Sasaki on accordion and began to play a handful of gigs each year, bringing a mature depth to their undiminished power and dazzling a new generation of fans. In 2012, the group released an album of recent live performances entitled Non Band Liven' 2009-2012. I released the album on the newly reanimated Telegraph Records. Non still lives in the north, in Hirosaki. The city is famous for its summer Neputa festival. The first track on this album, 'Duncan Dancin'' is almost a theme song for Non Band, but its rhythm is taken from the ohayashi music that is performed in this festival, as large floats and troupes of dancers wind their way through the streets. The title refers to the legendary dancer, Isadora Duncan. The image perfectly represents Non herself: Isadora Duncan dancing to the earthy rhythms bubbling up out of the north land." In order to achieve a meticulous sound quality, this reissue version is cut on 12" vinyl instead of the original 10" format. The original cover artwork has been reproduced and there are liner notes by Jibiky Yuichi with unpublished photos of Non Band. Includes download code.
$10.99 UPC: 880918226958 ROCK
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HASLAM, GUNNAR: Scale No Flam 12" (BK 023EP)
Long drawn to acid, Brooklyn-based producer Gunnar Haslam follows up a full-length alongside Tin Man as Romans (BK 020CD/LP, 2016) with Scale No Flam. Gunnar says he was playing around with trying to replicate the bass line of Heaven 17's 1982 classic "Let Me Go" when "things kinda mutated." The A side is completely Gunnar's own with a dominating acid line providing the backbone to a flangey work-out that is totally crazy and totally logical. On the B side, Mike Servito and Justin Cudmore add their perspective with a remix that draws out the hidden angular funk.
$8.39 UPC: 769791965546 ELECTRONIC
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CHERRYSTONES: Critical Mass: Splinters From The Worldwide New-Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial Underground 1978-1984 CD (TOUCH 002CD)
2015 release. Cherrystones pulls together the sympathetic sounds of the psychedelic ghetto. London's best kept secret, Cherrystones has been on the underground scene for a while. People kinda speak of his grooved-out genius in hushed whispers. You might remember when he closed down the final night of ATP after a decade long residency? Or when the heat moved from London to NYC which saw our man deliver an epic Morricone-inspired LP while spending time as DJ Harvey's sole label-mate. You might be following his endless list of production and remix work for the likes of Goat, The Horrors and Hospital Productions. Cherrystone explains his work: "...As long as it makes people move on the floor, I'm into it. I've been running a rescue home for the culturally starved and ignored - a sonic soup kitchen within a philanthropic playground. That's the vibe." On Critical Mass, Cherrystones tunes the listener in to fourteen groups, separated by locale but united by a restless urge to create on their own terms. From Rizzo's nihilistic Moogie-boogie to a pre-teen Chandra's isolated no-wave. Through Dojoji's downtown-via-Lagos inspired punk-funk and Fote's dark, industrial groove, Critical Mass presents a snapshot of an international underground enthralled with the possibility of the new. Cherrystones on the release: "This compilation was put together through records I was enjoying at that time - loose chips, fragmented discoveries, random punts and the true excitement from that hit of 'What the fuck is that?!' It is an exercise in the good and the rad - solid jams from all corners of the world. A veritable platter to switch on the uninitiated or those who hear and feel the truth - it is not an exercise in rarity to make people feel alienated. I know what I feel and I hear the messages and feel the vibrations in these very songs - as will you if you allow them to." In a world in search of an instant authentic buzz - this compilation is not a five second internet high. It is alchemy - made out of blood and sweat, and pure knowledge on how to make people move. Let Cherrystones shake your bones. Critical Mass also features: Rheingold, The Tee-Vees, Aksak Maboul, Transmitters, The Method Actors, Crazy House, Bamboo Zoo, The Lines, 39 Clocks, and The Flowerpot Men.
$10.99 EAN: 5055869511087 ROCK
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CHERRYSTONES: Critical Mass: Splinters From The Worldwide New-Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial Underground 1978-1984 2LP (TOUCH 002LP)
Double LP version.
$25.79 EAN: 5055869511070 ROCK
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HOST, THE: Esalen Lectures LP (TOUCH 003LP)
2015 release. Inspired by think tanks and floatation tanks, psychological research, 2012 mythology, 1960s social planning, stoned apes, elite transhumanism, and the counter-culture, The Host's Esalen Lectures is an imaginary trip to a NorCal psychedelic retreat. Use the sounds to enter into a program of theory and practice, to accompany inward voyages, and for sunset induction rituals. And when the colored dust settles, and the weird dreams have eased off, maybe your neural re-programming has just started? Drawing from a wide source of tranced-out musical legacies, the Esalen Lectures is pitched somewhere between Ash Ra Tempel and Steve Hillage at their most freeform, and more underground new age artists like JD Emmanuel and Ariel Kalma. The Host use sweeping synthesizer patterns and subtle field recordings to create dramatic arcs across the record, and spiraling guitar squalls meet blissed-out, motionless womb lullabies and digitally-enhanced nocturnes to tell a weird story of induction, hypnosis, and psychic disturbance.
$12.99 EAN: 5055869511728 ROCK
A1. Begin
A2. Praxis I
A3. World Citizen
A4. Submersion
A5. Peri-Natal Imprinting
A6. Praxis II
A7. Primate Change
A8. Suggestogen
A9. Sunset Induction
B1. Minerva Dreamstate
B2. Subproject 58
B3. Belief Formation
B4. Neo-Primitive
B5. DARPA Spectrum
B6. Praxis III
B7. See Sharp
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DOCUMENTA: Drone Pop #1 LP (TOUCH 004LP)
2015 release. Drone Pop #1 is the second album by cosmic drone-pop septet Documenta. Recorded over four days at Start Together Studios Belfast by Ben McAuley and the band, it also features additional production from David Holmes on "Love As A Ghost". Influenced by the English guitar minimalism emanating from 1980s Rugby, the darkness and light of Detroit's hit factory, and the German Kosmische set's concrète groove - Documenta present a true psychedelia through repetition, melody, and rhythm. A patient year-long process of experimentation and mixing - where the group added "washing machines, aircraft and the sound of Saturday night" - encouraged a fuller overall feel and a marked sonic progression. Documenta on the release: "We experimented at home quite a bit before returning to the studio so we got to stretch our imagination. We're constantly learning as a band and this seemed like the next musical step." Soul music in outer space. Comes on a colored LP.
$14.99 EAN: 5055869539227 ROCK
01. Idle Hands
02. Spanish Artist
03. Horror Vacui I
04. Selene
05. Love As A Ghost
06. Chiaroscuro
07. Horror Vacui II
08. The Day My Heart Stood Still
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MAYA: Synthezoid Heartbreak/Distant Visions 7" (TOUCH 005EP)
2016 release. A reissue of a single by Maya - two tracks of timeless, heartfelt, psychedelic outsider music from Cincinnati Ohio from 1975. "Synthezoid Heartbreak" is a "Fuck You!" to those who want you to join the real estate game and turn in your misfired envelope pedals for a suit. The pro-alien sad dirge of "Distant Visions" is a reflective-afternoon delay lurker makes you wonder what happened after the fade out to "Visions". Maybe the homemade air siren blew out the studio? Remastered with additional insert featuring lyrics and notes from Burk Skyhorse Price (Maya) and Cherrystones.
$8.99 EAN: 5055869539241 ELECTRONIC
01. Synthezoid Heartbreak
02. Distant Visions
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GROSS NET: Quantitative Easing LP (TOUCH 006LP)
2016 release. Gross Net present their debut album Quantitative Easing through Touch Sensitive Records. Initially a guitar/bass/drum-machine duo of Philip Quinn (Girls Names) and Christian Donaghey (Autumns), Gross Net was conceived as an output for ideas alternative to their other groups. After the release of their first cassette EP on Art For Blind Records and Donaghey's subsequent departure to concentrate fully on Autumns, Quinn took up the Gross Net mantle solo. Released via his own Austerity Drive Records imprint earlier this year came Outstanding Debt, a collection of re-commissioned tracks from aborted releases. Beautiful boys, ghosts, exorcisms, resurrections, sex, mental disorder, the boredom that comes with being "dole-scum"; Gross Net now singularly stalks the lineage of electronic body music. Utilizing analog synthesizers, sequencers, virtual studio technology, a slew of effects, voice, and some electric guitar, Gross Net channels everything from Throbbing Gristle's "Tesco Disco", to the fear and futurism of the European cold wave, through amyl-nitrate powered strobe-lit dancefloors and empty, decaying industrial halls. Quinn on the release: "I'm keen to leave mistakes in, or what people may perceive as mistakes. I also try to do things in as few takes as possible, not only for the sake of my own interest but to bring some human aspect back in amongst all the electronics. You're hearing performances, moments in time recorded, not something that's been pieced together from numerous attempts. . . . I want to do something different. I see so much homogeneity in music and in general these days that I want to stand apart, show that there's another way or at least hold a mirror up to what's going on. . . . I'm also keen to use themes which reflect the times we're living in, certainly the darkest days I've seen in my lifetime. Sometimes I feel like I'm just constantly wading through a cultural and political cesspit." Pairing dark and brutal rhythms with existential and world-weary themes, Gross Net is the sound of the post-Brexit dystopia of now, the antidote to the endless whitewash of indie groups in their matching Topshop outfits, and a riposte to the messianic false prophets pontificating a financial ruse as a grand truth.
$15.79 EAN: 5055869541176 ELECTRONIC
A1. Citadel Ghosts
A2. The Body
A3. Shave With A Cold Blade
A4. Beautiful Boy
A5. Data Transfer
B1. Currency Transfer
B2. Citalopram
B3. Side Effects
B4. Dead Industry
B5. Still Life
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GROUP ZERO: Structures And Light LP (TOUCH 008LP)
Debut record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully of Girls Names). Using synthesizers and drum machines, Structures And Lights glistens with subtle Euro sophistication - pairing cold-wave optimism alongside freaky and brutal tracks for the more open-minded DJs and dancefloors. Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of Structures And Light is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio. With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again. He explains: "It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music." This first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive Records led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored. The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of Pyramid Of Light by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. Cully explains: "It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe." Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: "These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria!, and the proto-techno of pre-club music." Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing; the propulsive rhythms in Structures And Light reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle. Here's a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It's made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication.
$15.79 EAN: 5055869545099 ELECTRONIC
01. The Glaze Over
02. The Fantasist
03. The Pummelling Repetition Inside
04. Pursuit
05. I Dream Unwired
06. Saturnine Adorations
07. Pyramid Of Light
08. Love And The Present
09. Vernissage
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ZEPPETELLA/EMMANUEL BEX/GERALDINE LAURENT/ROBERTO GATTO, FABIO: Chansons! CD (VVJ 113CD)
Chansons! is a musical conception similar to a diplomatic treaty or melodious embrace between cousins. Essentially, it's an innovative exchange between two neighboring worlds that have always eyed and inspired one other with reciprocal curiosity. Italy and France unite as allies on the musical front, gathering on the field four extraordinary talents: Fabio Zeppetella, Roberto Gatto, Géraldine Laurent, and Emmanuel Bex. This original quartet uniquely interprets eleven songs that best reflect the musical tradition of singer-songwriters belonging to these two countries. Starting from the highly popular jazz composer Bruno Martino, passing through the ever-present Fabrizio De André and Francesco De Gregori and arriving to Pino Daniele, another milestone; on the French scene are idols such as Jacques Brel, Leo Ferré, Yves Montand, and Joe Dassin. The quartet's interpretation is extraordinary and the songs on Chansons! enchant from beginning to end. While the harmonious complicity of Gatto, Bex, and Zeppetella is a well-known fact, the musical fluency added by the involvement of Laurent is unexpected, further enriching this innovative project. Also features compositions by: Vincenzo De Crescenzo-Antonio Vian, Henri Betti-André Hornez, and Jean-Baptiste Clément-Antoine Renard. Personnel: Fabio Zeppetella - guitar; Emmanuel Bex - organ, voice; Géraldine Laurent - alto sax; Roberto Gatto - drums.
$12.39 EAN: 8013358201137 JAZZ
01. E La Chiamano Estate (Bruno Martino)
02. Bocca Di Rosa (Fabrizio De André)
03. Buonanotte Fiorellino (Francesco De Gregori)
04. A Me Me Piace O' Blues (Pino Daniele)
05. Napule È (Pino Daniele)
06. Luna Rossa (Vincenzo De Crescenzo-Antonio Vian)
07. Avec Le Temp (Leo Ferré)
08. C'est Si Bon (Henri Betti-André Hornez)
09. L'été Indien (Joe Dassin)
10. Les Temps Des Cerises (Jean-Baptiste Clément-Antoine Renard)
11. Le Bon Dieu (Jacques Brel)
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HOSONO, SHIGERU SUZUKI & TATSURO YAMASHITA, HARUOMI: Pacific LP (V 25AH426)
Victory present a reissue of Pacific, originally released in 1978. Reuniting the best session musicians Japan had to offer to make an album that would evoke the atmospheres of the South Pacific islands, the kind of places Japanese people spend their vacations. Pacific is a treat to the ears; its theme of the southern Pacific ocean and its warm cerulean waters relax its listeners with a fusion of city pop, soft jazz, and that good old 1970s funk while remaining surprisingly fully instrumental throughout all contributions from artists Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Tatsuro Yamashita. A true cult LP and an inspiration for a lot of so called "vaporware" music. LP includes insert.
$16.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
A1. 最後の楽園
A2. コーラル・リーフ
A3 ノスタルジア・オブ・アイランド~パート1:バード・ウィ ンド/パート2:ウォーキング・オン・ザ・ビーチ
A4. スラック・キー・ルンバ
B1. パッション・フラワー
B2. ノアノア
B3. キスカ
B4. コズミック・サーフィン
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MAYALL & THE BLUESBREAKERS, JOHN: A Hard Road 2LP (VL 900174LP)
2017 repress. Vinyl Lovers present a reissue of John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers' A Hard Road, originally released in 1967. More than a compilation, this album is a complete document of the Bluesbreakers' recordings with Peter Green, of which "A Hard Road" was just the most prominent part. The 16 bonus tracks include several non-LP singles (among them the 1967 B-side "Rubber Duck", which has never before appeared on LP).
$25.79 EAN: 8013252900174 ROCK
A1. A Hard Road
A2. It's Over
A3. You Don't Love Me
A4. The Stumble
A5. Another Kinda Love
A6. Hit The Highway
A7. Leaping Christine
A8. Looking Back*
A9. Dust My Blues
B1. There's Always Work
B2. The Same Way
B3. The Super-Natural
B4. Top Of The Hill
B5. Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry)
B6. Living Alone
B7. So Many Roads*
B8. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter*
C1. Out Of Reach*
C2. Alabama Blues*
C3. Sitting In The Rain*
C4. Greeny*
C5. Missing You*
C6. Curly*
C7. Rubber Duck*
D1. Please Don't Tell*
D2. Your Funeral And My Trial*
D3. It Hurts Me Too*
D4. Double Trouble*
D5. Jenny*
D6. Picture On The Wall*
*Bonus track. Not included on original release.
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CONSTANTINE: Hades LP (BDN 003LP)
"The expression of two years' field recording on the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Lesbos -- deep inside a network of caves, and in the teeth of torrential winter storms -- with added strings, grand piano, live drumming and orchestral percussion, in its confluence of 'modern classical, metallic drone, dark ambient, and fuzz'. Guided by Steve Reich, Mika Vainio and Henri Bergson; haunted and spurred by the refugee crisis."
$16.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VA: Ho-Dad Hootenanny Too! 2LP (CRYPT 108LP)
2015 release. "Double LP of mid-60s frat-rockin' garage blowout! Gatefold sleeved with liner notes, band photos, label scans. 32 cuts in supreme fidelity!" Features: The Loving Machines, The Stratacasters, The Pastels, The Bonnevilles, The Asenders, The Breakers, The Ovations, The Pendletons, Don And The Agitators, The Royal Playboys, The Paragons, B. C. And The Cavemen, The Shanels, The Tortians, The Rondells, The Personals, The Color, Sir Kenneth And The Yorkshire Coachmen, The Royalties, The Playmates, The Hotbeats, The Checkmates, The Hi Fives, The Nightcaps, The Pharoahs, The De Rons, Jerry Ashley, The Intruders, The Lidos, The Rocks, The Sabers, and The Beethovens Four.
$25.00 UPC: 700498910811 ROCK
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VA: Home Again Blues LP (MAM 3799LP)
"The post-war era's feverish outbreak of independent blues recording captured some of the mightiest practitioners in the genre's history, and this trove of long unavailable rarities is every fan's dream come true. With prime cuts from such masters as Sunnyland Slim, Frankie Lee Sims and the soul stirring Brother Willie Eason, this classic Mamlish retrospective is a painstakingly compiled trove of electrifying mid-century blues."
$13.75 UPC: 639857379917 ROCK
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VA: Black Cat Trail LP (MAM 3800LP)
"Long before the era of digital reissues, the Mamlish blues compilation LPs served a critical role in in keeping the musical tradition alive. More than a genre primer, this meticulously curated and annotated set, featuring such key forces as Snooky Pryor, Elmore James and Robert Nighthawk, doesn't just showcase long unavailable classics, it provides an emotionally charged, deeply satisfying listening experience."
$13.75 UPC: 639857380012 ROCK
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VA: New Deal Blues LP (MAM 3801LP)
"When Mamlish first issued this superb collection of Depression-era blues in 1970's, it was a bellwether in the reintroduction of a critically important form of traditional American music. Featuring such striking classics as Kansas Joe McCoy's 'Meat Cutter Blues,' Memphis Minnie's 'Keep it to Yourself' and Peanut the Kidnapper's 'Suicide Blues' this lovingly assembled and annotated set is a compelling musical tour de force."
$13.75 UPC: 639857380111 ROCK
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VA: Windy City Blues 1935-1953 CD (NH 101CD)
"This first issue of Nighthawk Records documents primarily the transitional work of Southern born bluesmen who immigrated to Chicago before the Second World War, but whose careers endured into the postwar era. The lure of the major studios and the easy availability of club work on the growing South side made the Windy City the natural destination of talented blues musicians and the local blues scene was firmly established by the late 20s when the vanguard included Tampa Red, Big Bill, and Georgia Tom. The 30s brought Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, Washboard Sam and Memphis Minnie while the 40s produced Robert Lockwood, Johnny Shines and Muddy Waters. (full liner notes and photos located inside)"
$8.25 UPC: 639857010124 ROCK
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VA: Windy City Blues 1935-1953 LP (NH 101LP)
LP version.
$13.75 UPC: 639857010117 ROCK
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VA: Chicago Slickers 1948-1953 CD (NH 102CD)
"This issue of Nighthawk Records presents twenty-four classic recordings from Chicago's heyday as a blues center. The rapid local proliferation of small independent labels during the postwar years and the shoestring economics practiced by their owners, fostered a fierce competitiveness more than matched in the musical community. Unfortunately, the failure of such small labels as Parkway, Tempotone and Random often obscured in extreme rarity even the most inspired performances by such regional heavyweights as Little Walter, Floyd Jones, John Brim and Johnny Shines. The resurrection of these important recordings will be cause for celebration in blues circles. (full liner notes and photos located inside)"
$8.25 UPC: 639857010223 ROCK
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VA: Chicago Slickers 1948-1953 LP (NH 102LP)
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$13.75 UPC: 639857010216 ROCK
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VA: Chicago Slickers Volume 2 1948-1955 LP (NH 107LP)
"Chicago Slickers Vol. 2 presents another selection of the best and rarest Chicago blues recordings of the early postwar era. All of the selections included here were previously available on a limited edition double album on the Boogie Disease label, but in the many years since that important anthology was issued, several titles have been duplicated elsewhere, and thus the two discs have been re-edited down to one album of the most important and obscure sides."
$13.75 UPC: 639857010711 ROCK
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MAIA, TIM: 1970 LP (OA 7070LP)
"The first studio album by legendary singer and composer Tim Maia, picked by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the top 25 greatest Brazilian albums of all time, changed the game by seamlessly combining popular Brazilian music, MPB, with the brassy soul sound associated with Memphis. In addition to Maia classics 'Azul Da Cor Du Mar,' 'Coroné Antonio Bento,' and 'Primavera,' highlights include the funk-meets-baião 'Padre Cicero' and the soulful 'Cristina.' "
$13.75 UPC: 639857707017 WORLD
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MAIA, TIM: 1971 LP (OA 7071LP)
"The second studio album from legendary singer and composer Tim Maia continues the groundbreaking blend of soul and Música Popular Brasileira started with his first release a year earlier. Although 'Não Quero Dinheiro (Só Quero Amar)' was a massive hit (and covered many times over), the album is full of gems, from the tough fuzz funk of 'Não Vou Ficar' to the sweet soul perfection of 'I Don't Know What To Do With Myself.' For the first time, this reissue also includes the single-only hit 'Chocolate,' recorded at the same session. Listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 greatest Brazilian albums of all time!"
$13.75 UPC: 639857707116 WORLD
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MAIA, TIM: 1972 LP (OA 7072LP)
"This 1972 studio album from legendary singer and composer Tim Maia is the third in his incredible run of self-titled masterpieces of the '70s and is another stellar set of Brazilian soul and perfectly crafted pop. From the rave-up intro of 'Idade' to the one-two punch of the funky 'O Que Você Quer Apostar' and the forró-pop 'Canário Do Reino,' the album is full of Brazilian favorites. The three songs sung in English, including the lovely 'LIttle Girl' and the epic 'Where Is My Other Half' add yet another dimension to this classic set."
$13.75 UPC: 639857707215 WORLD
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MAIA, TIM: 1973 LP (OA 7073LP)
"The fourth studio album from legendary singer and composer Tim Maia is a masterpiece of soulful pop and contemporary Brazilian styles, exemplified by the hit 'Gostavo Tanto De Você' and the gorgeous English-language 'Over Again,' a gem of sunshine soul. The influence of Memphis is evident in the Booker T-esque instrumental 'Amores' and the swamp funk of 'Do Your Thing, Behave Yourself' and 'Balanço,' while the timeless classic 'Réu Confesso' showcases Maia's songwriting skills in a samba-soul standard."
$13.75 UPC: 639857707314 WORLD
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BEN, JORGE: Tropical CD (OA 7601CD)
"One of Brazil's greatest songwriters, Jorge Ben rarely dwelled on any particular musical style, even the ones he helped create. By the mid 1970s, Ben had already innovated several groundbreaking new twists on the classic samba sound, in the process creating many tunes that became epoch-defining hits for South America's biggest country -- not to mention the world at large. For 1977's Tropical, he made the controversial decision to rework an album's worth of his most beloved songs in the new, disco and funk influenced Afro-Samba style he was exploring at the time. As a result, classics like 'Chove Chuva,' 'Taj Mahal,' and 'Mas Que Nada' get polished updates, alongside deeper rarities like 'Georgia'and 'Jesus de Praga,' making Tropical a sensual, sultry counterpoint to other Jorge Ben collections."
$9.50 UPC: 639857760128 WORLD
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BEN, JORGE: Tropical LP (OA 7601LP)
LP version.
$13.75 UPC: 639857760111 WORLD
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BEN, JORGE: Samba Nova CD (OA 7602CD)
"Focusing on the early '70s heyday of Jorge Ben's long and prolific career, Samba Nova was originally compiled in 1976 to give North American audiences an overview of one of South America's greatest singer/songwriters. Now expanded to include two more of Ben's best-loved songs from the era ('Que Maravilha' and the original version of 'Taj Mahal,' notoriously borrowed by Rod Stewart for 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy'), this collection brims with the cream of the crop from Ben's first five studio LPs of the 1970s. With massive classics like 'Oba, Lá Vem Ela," "Caramba!... Galileu da Galiléia,' and 'Morre o Burro Fica o Homem,' this is not only the perfect introduction to one of Brazil's greatest artists but an engrossing listen for all fans of modern samba."
$9.50 UPC: 639857760227 WORLD
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DYNAMICS, THE: Lights Out LP (PBR 8510LP)
"14 solid soul shots from Motorcity vocal group, The Dynamics. This LP collects their best tracks recorded for RCA and Cotillion from 1966-69 plus their final release, a great single cut for Columbia Records in 1977. The Dynamics' strength was in the diversity of their sound -- 'Love Me' and 'I Need Your Love' are Northern Soul favorites. 'Lights Out' is a killer deep soul cut and the timeless classic. 'Ice Cream Love' was produced in Memphis by the legendary Chips Moman and Tommy Cogbill. An essential soul selection!"
$13.75 UPC: 639857851017 ROCK
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VA: Disco-Funk CD (PBR 8513CD)
"If a dividing line could be drawn between the eras of gritty funk and groovy disco, it would probably fall precisely at 1975 -- making this compilation, originally released that year, a perfect snapshot of the moment up-tempo, danceable funk was cleaning itself up for the nightclub. Tracks like Lillian Hale's -erce 'Don't Boom Boom,' Brother Soul's breakbeat classic 'Cookies' and the rare groove nugget 'Bim Sala Bim' by Hudson County all retain the tough edge of the early '70s sound but earned a reputation as crowd favorites in the burgeoning discotheques that would rule the latter half of the decade. This newly expanded edition augments the original tracklist by adding seven compatible tracks, including choice cuts from the Gap Band's early days and stepper's gems from Tasha Thomas and Sound Experience." Also features: Madeira, Con-Funk-Shun, The People, The Third Time Around, T.C.B., Marboo, and Breakwater Boogie Man Orchestra.
$9.50 UPC: 639857851321 ROCK
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DELLS, THE: Sweet As Funk Can Be CD (PBR 8514CD)
"The Dells' 1972 concept album with master producer/ arranger, Charles Stepney and songwriters Terry Callier and Larry Wade, Sweet As Funk Can Be -- released here for the first time on CD -- fires on all cylinders. Contrast the brass-filled funk of 'Windy City Soul' or the fat-back drums of 'Till I See You Again' with the deep down soul of 'Just As Long As We're in Love' and it becomes obvious that 16 great years of singing harmony creates its own sweet reward... for both the group and its listeners!"
$9.50 UPC: 639857851420 ROCK
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ROY C.: Sex And Soul CD (PBR 8515CD)
"The first in a trio of Roy 'C' albums released by Mercury in the mid 1970s. Sex And Soul is a brilliant, often underappreciated, collection of the purest of southern soul music. Hammond's great songwriting skills and timeless arrangements combine to form an album that is an absolute must-have for true fans of the genre. A deep soul classic!"
$9.50 UPC: 639857851529 ROCK
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ROY C.: Something Nice CD (PBR 8516CD)
"Never afraid to break new ground, Roy 'C' booked himself recording time at the legendary Dynamic's studio in Kingston, Jamaica and produced a mash-up of classic deep soul over island-inspired rhythms. Released here on CD for the first time, 'Something Nice' from 1975 was the second release in the now legendary 'Sex and Soul' trilogy of album released by Mercury Records. An over-looked gem in a classic artist's catalog..."
$9.50 UPC: 639857851628 ROCK
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ROY C.: More Sex & More Soul CD (PBR 8517CD)
"The final album in the trilogy released by Mercury Records in the 1970's, More Sex & More Soul finds Roy 'C' operating back in the rootsy, deep soul mode of his iconic 1973 release Sex And Soul. This is funky and gritty music that went hard against the current of the then-popular disco movement and has stood the test of time. Classic southern soul!"
$9.50 UPC: 639857851727 ROCK
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ROGERS, D.J.: Hope Songs Vol 1 CD (PBR 8518CD)
"Trailblazing vocoder-laced gospel funk meets modern soul on Hope Songs Vol 1, the self-released (and now ultra-rare) 1982 album from one of Black music's strongest and most unique voices, D.J. Rogers. This was Rogers' first full album in the gospel mode and original vinyl LPs of this release are now highly-coveted collectables. A ground-breaking inspirational soul classic!!"
$9.50 UPC: 639857851826 ROCK
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MIRETTES, THE: Whirlpool CD (PBR 8522CD)
"In the late-1960's Venetta Fields, Robbie Montgomery, and Jessie Smith, then known as The Ikettes, defected from Ike Turner's camp and re-emerged as The Mirettes. They went on to release two powerhouse albums of thick, sweaty soul/funk -- In The Midnight Hour (on Revue in 1968) and Whirlpool (on Uni, 1969). This limited edition disc presents these two classic girl-group/soul albums on CD for the firsst time."
$9.50 UPC: 639857852229 ROCK
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DRIVER, TOBY: Madonnawhore CD (FLENSER 073CD)
"On the heels of Kayo Dot's 2016 album Plastic House On Base Of Sky, New York City based avant-garde musician Toby Driver sustains his inexhaustible output with a solo album titled Madonnawhore. After exploring a retro-futurist noir sound on Kayo Dot's 2014 album Coffins On Io then delving even further into electronic music with his aforementioned last album, Driver was eager to write a different kind of song. Madonnawhore represents a foray into traditional songwriting, stripped of the progressive flourishes and unpredictability of Driver's band. These six austere tracks are sparse and atmospheric, evoking empty spaces and the beauty sometimes inherent in death. They occupy a heretofore unexplored place in Driver's oeuvre, and were recorded primarily as a solo effort but share some lyrical contributions from Jason Byron, who also writes for Kayo Dot. Although not a concept album, Madonnawhore is united by its exploration of the 'madonna-whore complex,' a psychological neurosis first identified by Sigmund Freud whereby a man feels he can only love a woman who maintains a saint-like purity, but desires to be intimate with someone he considers to be debased. This sacred/profane dichotomy has far reaching effects that are seemingly inescapable in modern society and ripe for examination."
$10.75 UPC: 647603397320 ROCK
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DRIVER, TOBY: Madonnawhore LP (FLENSER 073LP)
LP version.
$15.00 UPC: 647603397313 ROCK
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BASS CLEF: Entendrillar Transprism 12" (TRILOGY 050EP)
"A cosmic, percussive jam and bitter-sweet electroid house -- both veering sharply into dark, steely, dubwise self-harm. Allegedly the fiftieth utterance of our favorite dance music label in the world. Hats off! More worries!" --Honest Jon's
$12.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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5IVE + SAMO DJ: Drunkenstein 12" (TRILOGY 054EP)
"Samo DJ skates back to the fold with a dope three tracker produced in tandem with 5ive. On 'Drunkenstein' they call on the help of fellow Born Free producer Powder for a micro dub house number that sounds like a delicious Rhythm & Sound plate pitched up and played at 45 rpm. On the flip, 'Ethno Room' provides a more inward looking dub mixe before 'End Game' goes down a more disco-fixed tip for the ride home." --Bleep
$12.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
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VA: Trans-World Punk Rave-Up Volume 1: Raving 60s Beat and R&B from All Over LP (TW 064LP)
2008 release. "Essential!!!! This 18-cut blaster is fulla wailin' 60s Euro beat/R&B howl!" Features: Scorpions, Fab, Sons Of Fred, Rangers Sound, Motions, Softs, Peter & The Blizzards, Blue Rondos, Entertainers, Rollers, Magic Strangers, Phantoms, Pleazers, Selfkick, Dee-Jays, and Kingpins.
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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VA: Trans-World Punk Rave-Up Volume Two: Raving 60s Beat and R&B from All Over LP (TW 065LP)
2002 release. "Essential!!!! 13 blastin' R&B/punk tunes from Europe plus 2 from New Zealand and 1 French-Canadian outfit." Features: T-Boones, Blue Stars, Phantom Brothers, I Kings, I Jaguars, Les Miserables, Rivals, Frays, Brand, Tony Jackson, Bats, Fab, Teste Dure, David John & The Mood, and Los Salvajes.
$12.50 UPC: N/A ROCK
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MIRETTES, THE: Whirlpool LP (UNI 3062LP)
LP version. Reissued by the original label. "In the late-1960's Venetta Fields, Robbie Montgomery and Jessie Smith, then known as The Ikettes, defected from Ike Turner's camp and re-emerged as The Mirettes. They went on to release two powerhouse albums of thick, sweaty soul/funk, -- including the classic girl-group record Whirlpool in 1969."
$13.75 UPC: 639857306210 ROCK
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FLYING SAUCER ATTACK: Flying Saucer Attack LP (VHF 011LP)
"First-ever US vinyl of the debut album by Bristol's Flying Saucer Attack, and first vinyl edition of any kind since 1993! This edition of the album is produced in full collaboration with FSA/Dave Pearce. Aka Rural Psychedelia, Flying Saucer Attack's first album was released in 1993 after a couple of instantly sold-out singles. Released at the height of the shoegaze boom, the album is a blend of memorable fuzzed out songs and far-out instrumental doodles, sidestepping the rock bombast of many contemporaries in favor of a home-made aesthetic. FSA's blend of razor-edged static, softly sung melody, and echoing atmospherics builds a dour beauty that sustains itself over the course of the entire program. 'My Dreaming Hill,' 'Wish,' and 'The Season Is Ours' are couched in fuzz and whispery reverb, but are beautiful and accessible tunes, able to stand on their own in any context. 'Popol Vuh 1' and 'Popol Vuh 2' are straight up tributes to the now much better known German masters, steeped in the hushed atmosphere of the best Vuh records (if not exactly the sound)."
$15.00 UPC: 783881001112 ROCK
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CINDY LEE: Malenkost LP (W25 003LP)
"Cindy Lee is the brainchild of singer/guitarist Patrick Flegel. While some may know Flegel from his time spent in Canadian experimental indie band Women, Cindy Lee has spent the past four years crafting songs that push and pull in opposing directions -- from tales of tragedy laced with haywire distortion to moments of breathtaking beauty. On Malenkost, Flegel combines everything that makes Cindy Lee so essential: heart-wrenching romantic pleas, rough shards of noise and twilit ballads. Featuring the lo-fi pop single 'A Message From The Aching Sky,' Malenkost sounds like Deerhunter playing The Supremes or vice versa. Superior Viaduct's imprint W.25TH presents the first of many Cindy Lee releases. Spectral and timeless, the music of Cindy Lee is hauntingly familiar yet of another plane, a magical collision of Brill Building hooks and uncompromising No Wave. 'Cindy Lee is intensely dark and cathartic, an eerie fever dream of fleeting, utterly heartbreaking classic girl-group melodies . . . one of the best things we have heard all year.' --Gorilla Vs. Bear"
$15.00 UPC: 855985006819 ROCK
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