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FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE

NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 10/14/2019

first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 10/14/2019

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JUPITER 6: The Tracking System 12" (ACOLOUR 017EP)

With Jupiter 6's The Tracking System, A Colourful Storm launches a series of 12" singles focusing on lesser-spotted dancefloor gems. This, the first, is two classics from the golden era of bleeps'n'bass techno with nods to Sheffield but apparently originating closer to Miami. Bassline monsters properly remastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering, Berlin.

$10.39 EAN: 4251648415084 ELECTRONIC

CAMPANA & D. REGGI, R.: Sequence Unity 12" (ACOLOUR 018EP)

On Sequence Unity, A Colourful Storm compiles three tracks from the vaults of R. Campana and D. Reggi, two producers active in the early 2000s who released EPs on First Cut and, more notably, Groovepressure (home to Stopouts, A², and Robin Ball). A three-track EP revived from a period of European underground club music, this is where breaks, electro and tech-house merged into unexpected new forms. Remastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering, Berlin.

$10.39 EAN: 4251648415091 ELECTRONIC

RECEPT/TOM CHURCHILL: Quisite/Loss Leader 12" (ACOLOUR 019EP)

Quisite/Loss Leader is a double-header from A Colourful Storm, delivering Recept's sublime ode to Detroit, "Quisite" alongside a previously unheard number by Tom Churchill, head of Headspace Recordings and Emoticon (home to Q Project, Russ Gabriel, and Scape One). Our pick is "Quisite," an emotive, introspective dancefloor bomb which hasn't lost any charm since its 1998 release. Both tracks remastered in 2019 by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering, Berlin. Includes liner notes by Merrick Brown and Tom Churchill.

$10.39 EAN: 4251648415107 ELECTRONIC

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01. Quisite
B
02. Loss Leader

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SUN CITY GIRLS: Dawn of the Devi LP (ABDT 061LP)

Abduction Records reissue Dawn of the Devi, Sun City Girls' follow up album to Torch of the Mystics (ABDT 055LP). Originally released in 1991 on Majora Records, many who had discovered SCG via the preceding Torch LP were immediately alienated and blindsided by Devi and all the harshness that comes with it. Below, John Olson takes us back to 1991 when Dawn of the Devi premiered in all its glory and obscurity.

"Sun City Girls scan your dome for what they THINK you want but code it for the opposite. If you don't have me at my 'Napoleon & Josephine' then you don't get me at my 'Valentines for Matahari.' Easy to pick and choose your course thru their ridiculous and amazing path, but to fully get verbally abused by Uncle Jim you have to ingest it ALL. In order makes even less sense. Torch is like the APPLEBEES of the SCG catalog. My sister eats there, the appetizers are *good* / they have deals. Devi is after hours dish washing shift at the 'Bees: hurry with a joint out back with the one 'Kool' manager by the grease pit/catch the 11:15pm bus to go home to your loser roommates watching midget porn as they forget to clean up yet again. Everyone wants a wild free ethno-screech RNR unit as their own to mentally catalogue but when it comes to plugging in and actually DOING experiments, all of a sudden everyone wants to be locked into the 'Rock n Roll High School.' The underground should be difficult and on shaky ground -- like your first kiss. What worth is following rules when you make them yourself? That said, Devi and the previously mentioned Matahari are MY SCG. That fucking BASS sound battling with Jim Hall on Walmart 3am desert speed thru ten watts of pure terror peppered with the ????? tin can ethno rhythm confusion of the great late Charlie G with all cylinders blaring in 'four dateless months in winter mode' is my THC in spades. Devi's sprawling anti-social etho-mess aside, the back photo says it all, in loud mid-range volumes: backs turned, duct taped third eyes, audience of three of which two are talking about how to the get the f outta the gig, the WORKS. A band photo can make a record and this is probably the biggest example of it. Like The Fall's Room to Live, everyone stares at their Chuck Taylor's when Dawn of the Devi is mentioned. Fuck, I'd get a tat of that fem-beast featured on the stark cover, thug-life stomach style in a show of prime period SCG pride but I'm puss when it comes to needles & ink son. Me and soldier Jeff Dunn circa '91 would play this sandpapered masterpiece all day and stare at that photo, placing ourselves either onstage or in the audience, fantasizing how wild the experience must have been. Can't tell you how many times I've had my grill blasted by this unholy racket. The playing is incredible and antisocial AF -- timeless but yet perf for a certain era as well beyond inspiring, musically and culturally. Of course people hated it: tuneless, raw, desperate, sprawling, LONG. It's like if SOLGER went to the ghettos of Baghdad to score black tar feedback instead of sketcher punker huts in Seattle at the dawn of HXC. Everything you need for yet another lonely night glaring into an empty closet is inside this grim long player. How it will sink into the ten second modern digital era of attention is anyone's guess but it's bound to boil and microwave one kid's brain. And I'll def be hunting said kid down to shred with. Also, the fact that I can call the two remaining GIRLS friends and jaw about Sag-nasty with em makes the cake even sweeter homeboy. LONG MAY THEY ISOLATE." --John Olson, May 2018

$13.79 UPC: 613505500434 ROCK

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LES RALLIZES DENUDES + BE: There's No Heaven Like Hell 2LP (FOX 003LP)

One of the strangest and most enigmatic groups in the history of rock n' roll, Les Rallizes Denudes, also known as Hadaka no Rallizes or Hadaka no Rarizu, were a Japanese experimental rock band that is often cited as a pioneering force of the noise rock movement. The story of the band is as strange and difficult as the music they made and although much of the tale is shrouded in mystery, everything apparently begins around Kyoto's radical anti-establishment communes of the late 1960s, where androgynous frontman Takashi Mizutani formed the group in November 1967 while attending Kyoto University. Hard facts are in thin supply and the band's name employs complex punning that essentially equates to "Fucked Up and Naked" in Japanese, a slang reference to being high on drugs. Inspired by the Velvet Underground and other groups employing prominent, overamplified guitar, the band's music was typically based on repetitive rhythmic patterns bolstered by Mizutani's heavily distorted lead guitar, though the poor sound quality of early demos apparently turned Mizutani away from studio recordings, rendering much of their output in the form of live bootlegs, supplanted by the occasional leaked studio demo. Early performances were given as accompaniment to avant-garde theater groups, though the group was soon deemed too loud to be a mere accompaniment, and membership fluctuated frequently, with Mizutani being the only constant, though he retreated from public view following the 1970 Red Army hijacking of Japan Airlines flight 351, with the assistance of original Rallizes bass player, Moriaki Wakabayashi, who subsequently fled to North Korea; the band continued to sporadically record and perform under various guises until 1997. The two versions of There's No Heaven Like Hell, presented here, was recorded on April 1, 1975 at Rallizes House in Fussa, a small town to the west of Tokyo, joining Mizutani with keyboardist/guitarist Taisuke Morishita's experimental group Be, originally known as Yellow. The first version takes the form of an epic slow drone, featuring Mizutani on acid guitar, backed only by Morishita's pulsating synthesizer lines; the second version is in full marathon mode, an hour-long dirge that sees the spacey duo joined by drummer Shunichiro Shoda and a plodding bassist in the latter portion.

$16.39 EAN: 5060672883030 ROCK

A1. There's No Heaven Like Hell 1
B1. There's No Heaven Like Hell 1
C1. There's No Heaven Like Hell 2
D1. There's No Heaven Like Hell 2

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VA: Varioustronic 1 12" (APLTRONIC 010EP)

Apparel Tronic comes back after the heat of summer introducing the first compilation in its catalog as well as its tenth release overall, Varioustronic 1. This three track compilation is an ambitious project that unites three great artists with diverse approaches to music production, three different minds and visions, three declinations of the same verb brought together under the same roof. It's always a good thing to experiment, to try and push boundaries over again in everything and surely this is an organic evolution to the so-called "Bliss-Beat": the identifying concept behind that idea. The three producers chosen, Anton Kubikov, Artizhan, and Tommy Vicari Jr., need no introduction; it's simply a matter of being grateful to them for their availability to huddle up and create some great music for one cause and it's surprising how the three tracks, colliding, offer different but likeminded perspectives, like fragmenting planets creating new ones. This release is the result of two years of research, ending up choosing Anton's "Freak Out Little Bit", Artizhan's "Birthday" and Tommy's "Conceal" from among many others.

$10.39 EAN: 4251648414971 ELECTRONIC

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CASSEGRAIN: ARCS-08 12" (ARCS 008EP)

Arcing Seas is back -- Cassegrain present pulse-quickening and detailed textural techno on their latest EP. Psychedelic processing of the highest order.

$9.79 EAN: 4251648415077 ELECTRONIC

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LES RITA MITSOUKO: L'Integrale 12CD BOX (BEC 5650118)

L'Intégrale is a boxset that encompasses the carrier and sonic brio of one of the most iconic French duos, Les Rita Mitsouko, nearly 40 years after Frédéric Chichin and Catherine Ringer formed the group. A boxset including Les Rita Mitsouko's seven studio albums, the remix album Re, two live albums, Acoustiques and En Concert Avec l'Orchestre Lamoureux, one mini-album titles The Eye (More Variety), one brand-new album of rarities, and one DVD with two rare tour movies, Panne Dans La Guerre Froide (1989) and La Vie Du Rail (1989) both shot and directed by Roland Allard in Moscow and Mumbai. All releases have been remastered from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios. PAL format DVD (Region/Zone: 0).

Catherine Ringer and Frédéric Chichin met and formed an amazing band nearly 40 years ago. The subsequent music they made as Les Rita Mitsouko has remained steadfastly popular and relevant ever since. Neither fashions nor trends, nor Fred's tragic, untimely death in 2007, have blunted the sonic brio of this iconic duo. Always visually strong, mixing up humor and gravitas, madness and sweet derision, their rich, adventurous, modern discography, both joyfully experimental and commercially viable, has traversed the ages with impunity. For the uninitiated, here is a brief résumé of their discography and career: In 1979, multi-instrumentalists Catherine and Fred met on the set of the Marc'O punk opera Flashes Rouges in the edgy Montreuil suburb of Paris. They hit it off immediately and soon embarked on a number of faltering, now forgotten groups with other musicians, before consolidating their true power as a duo. 1984 saw the release of their debut album Rita Mitsouko, recorded with Krautrock producer Conny Plank. It was the fourth single release, "Marcia Baila", that first grabbed everyone's attention, selling over a million copies and becoming one of the most played songs in French broadcasting history. They were suddenly superstars in a parallel universe, as big in France as Duran Duran or Frankie Goes To Hollywood were in the UK, though across a slender stretch of water the Brits remained largely impervious to their charms. It should be noted that not all anglophones were immune to their collective genius: Sparks, Iggy Pop, and Serj Tankian of System of a Down are some of the giants of alternative rock who've collaborated with them over the years.

$82.60 EAN: 5060686501180 ROCK

12CD Box version (BEC 5650118):
Rita Mitsouko (1984):
1.01. Restez Avec Moi
1.02. Jalousie
1.03. Le Futur N°4
1.04. La Fille Venue Du Froid
1.05. Yaktagan
1.06. In My Tea
1.07. Marcia Baïla
1.08. Oum Khalsoum
1.09. Amnésie
1.10. Don't Forget The NIte
1.11. Galoping
1.12. Dans La Steppe
1.13. Minuit Dansant
1.14. Aïe (Kryptonite Miss Spleïn)

The No Comprendo (1986):
2.01. Les Histoires d'A
2.02. Andy
2.03. C'est Comme Ca
2.04. Vol De Nuit
2.05. Someone To Love
2.06. Stupid Anyway
2.07. Un Soir Un Chien
2.08. Bad Days
2.09. Tonite
2.10. Nuit d'Ivresse

Marc & Robert (1988):
3.01. Hip Kit (with The Sparks)
3.02. Smog
3.03. Mandolino City
3.04. Le Petit Train
3.05. Perfect Eyes
3.06. Tongue Dance
3.07. Singing In The Shower (with The Sparks)
3.08. Petite Fille Princesse
3.09. Harpie & Harpo
3.10. Ailleurs
3.11. Live In Las Vegas

Re (1990):
4.01. Hip Kit (Remix by William Orbit)
4.02. Nuit d'Ivresse (Remix by Fat Freddy)
4.03. Le Petit Train (Remix by Fat Freddy)
4.04. Tongue Dance (Remix by William Orbit & Mark Moore)
4.05. Andy Bassapella (Remix by Jesse Johnson)
4.06. Don't Forget The Nite (Mixed by Tony Visconti and Les Rita Mitsouko)
4.07. C'est Comme Ca (Remix by Tony Visconti and Les Rita Mitsouko)
4.08. Andy (Live) (Remix by Fat Freddy)
4.09. Marcia Baïla (Remix by Tony Visconti and Les Rita Mitsouko)
4.10. Jalousie (Remix by Dee Nasty and Fat Freddy)
4.11. Singing In The Shower (Remix by William Orbit)

Systeme D (1993):
5.01. Au Fond Du Couloir
5.02. Get Up, Get Older
5.03. Y'a D'la Haine
5.04. La Steppe
5.05. Les Amants
5.06. L'Hôtel Particulier
5.07. Femme d'Affaires
5.08. My Love Is Bad
5.09. Chanson d'A
5.10. Elevator
5.11. Godfather Of Soul
5.12. Chères Petites
5.13. La Belle Vie
5.14. Modern Baleine

Acoustiques (1996):
6.01. Nuit D'Ivresse
6.02. Andy
6.03. Stupid Anyway
6.04. Marcia Baïla
6.05. Ailleurs (avec Princesse Erika)
6.06. Les Histoires d'A.
6.07. Les Consonnes
6.08. Les Amants
6.09. Riche (avec Doc Gynéco)
6.10. Y'a D'la Haine
6.11. Chères Petites
6.12. La Taille Du Bambou
6.13. C'est Comme Ça

Cool Frenesie (2000):
7.01. Cool Frénésie
7.02. Femme De Moyen Age
7.03. Toi & Moi & Elle
7.04. La Sorcière Et L'Inquisiteur
7.05. Dis-Moi Des Mots
7.06. Allo !
7.07. Gripshitrider In Paris
7.08. C'Etait Un Homme
7.09. Les Guerriers
7.10. Fatigué D'Etre Fatigué
7.11. Pense A Ta Carrière
7.12. Un Zéro
7.13. Alors C'Est Quoi
7.14. Jam

La Femme Trombone (2002):
8.01. Entrée
8.02. Evasion
8.03. Vieux Rodéo
8.04. Triton
8.05. Trop Bonne
8.06. Tous Mes Voeux
8.07. Tu Me Manques
8.08. J'Applaudis
8.09. Melodica
8.10. Interlude
8.11. Ce Sale Ton
8.12. Sacha
8.13. 1928

En Concert Avec l'Orchestre Lamoureux (2004):
9.01. Ecoutez Bien La Chanson Bien Douce
9.02. Il Patinait Merveilleusement
9.03. Triste
9.04. Triton
9.05. La Fille Venue Du Froid
9.06. Les Guerriers
9.07. A Man Needs A Maid
9.08. Mad Rush
9.09. Le Velours Des Vierges
9.10. Où Sont-Ils Donc ?
9.11. Trop Bonne
9.12. La Sorcière Et L'Inquisiteur
9.13. Andy

Variety (2007):
10.01. L'Ami Ennemi
10.02. Communiqueur D'Amour
10.03. Rêverie
10.04. Berceuse
10.010.05. Même Si
10.06. Rendez-Vous Avec Moi-Même
10.07. She's A Cameleon
10.08. Soir De Peine
10.09. Badluck Queen
10.10. Ma Vieille Ville
10.11. Ding Dang Dong (Ringing At Your Bell)
10.12. Terminal Beauty

The Eye, More Variety (2007):
11.01. White Falcon
11.02. The Eye
11.03. Eleganto
11.04. Got An Egg
11.05. Terminal Beauté (Version Fr)
11.06. Ding Dang Dong (Rolling On The Floor) (Version UK)

Raretés:
12.01. All Tomorrow's Parties
12.02. Le juste prix
12.03. Lento (Eleganto)
12.04. Porteur de bonnes nouvelles
12.05. L'oiseau chante
12.06. Dédé Bordé
12.07. Got got un oeuf
12.08. Clown de mes malheurs
12.09. Reinforcement
12.10. Communic'hearts In Love
12.11. Berceuse (Version chinoise)

13LP Box version (BEC 5650119):
Rita Mitsouko (1984):
A1. Restez Avec Moi
A2. Jalousie
A3. Le Futur N°4
A4. La Fille Venue Du Froid
B1. Yaktagan
B2. In My Tea
B3. Marcia Baïla
B4. Oum Khalsoum
B5. Amnésie

The No Comprendo (1986):
A1. Les Histoires d'A
A2. Andy
A3. C'est Comme Ca
A4. Vol De Nuit
A5. Someone To Love
B1. Stupid Anyway
B2. Un Soir Un Chien
B3. Bad Days
B4. Tonite
B5. Nuit d'Ivresse

Marc & Robert (1988):
A1. Hip Kit (with The Sparks)
A2. Smog
A3. Mandolino City
A4. Le Petit Train
A5. Perfect Eyes
B1. Tongue Dance
B2. Singing In The Shower (with The Sparks)
B3. Petite Fille Princesse
B4. Harpie & Harpo
B5. Ailleurs

Re (1990):
A1. Hip Kit (Remix by William Orbit)
A2. Nuit d'Ivresse (Remix by Fat Freddy)
A3. Le Petit Train (Remix by Fat Freddy)
B1. Tongue Dance (Remix by William Orbit & Mark Moore)
B2. Andy Bassapella (Remix by Jesse Johnson)
B3. Don't Forget The Nite (Mixed by Tony Visconti and Les Rita Mitsouko)
C1. C'est Comme Ca (Remix by Tony Visconti and Les Rita Mitsouko)
C2. Andy (Live) (Remix by Fat Freddy)
C3. Marcia Baïla (Remix by Tony Visconti and Les Rita Mitsouko)
D1. Jalousie (Remix by Dee Nasty and Fat Freddy)
D2. Singing In The Shower (Remix by William Orbit)

Systeme D (1993):
A1. Au Fond Du Couloir
A2. Get Up, Get Older
A3. Y'a D'la Haine
B1. La Steppe
B2. Les Amants
B3. L'Hôtel Particulier
B4. Femme d'Affaire
C1. My Love Is Bad
C2. Chanson d'A.
C3. Elevator
C4. Godfather Of Soul
D1. Chères Petites
D2. La Belle Vie
D3. Modern Baleine

Acoustiques (1996):
A1. Nuit D'Ivresse
A2. Andy
A3. Stupid Anyway
B1. Marcia Baïla
B2. Ailleurs (avec Princesse Erika)
B3. Les Histoires d'A.
C1. Les Consonnes
C2. Les Amants
C3. Riche (avec Doc Gynéco)
D1. Y'a D'la Haine
D2. Chères Petites
D3. La Taille Du Bambou
D4. C'est Comme Ça

Cool Frenesie (2000):
A1. Cool Frénésie
A2. Femme De Moyen Age
A3. Toi & Moi & Elle
B1. La Sorcière Et L'Inquisiteur
B2. Dis-Moi Des Mots
B3. Allo !
B4. Gripshitrider In Paris
C1. C'Etait Un Homme
C2. Les Guerriers
C3. Fatigué D'Etre Fatigué
C4. Pense A Ta Carrière
D1. Un Zéro
D2. Alors C'Est Quoi
D3. Jam

La Femme Trombone (2002):
A1. Entrée
A2. Evasion
A3. Vieux Rodéo
A4. Triton
A5. Trop Bonne
A6. Tous Mes Voeux
B1. Tu Me Manques
B2. J'Applaudis
B3. Melodica
B4. Interlude
B5. Ce Sale Ton
B6. Sacha
B7. 1928

En Concert Avec L'orchestre Lamoureux (2004):
A1. Ecoutez Bien La Chanson Bien Douce
A2. Il Patinait Merveilleusement
A3. O Triste
A4. Triton
B1. La Fille Venue Du Froid
B2. Les Guerriers
B3. A Man Needs A Maid
C1. Mad Rush
C2. Le Velours Des Vierges
C3. Où Sont-Ils Donc ?
D1. Trop Bonne
D2. La Sorcière Et L'Inquisiteur
D3. Andy

Variety (2007):
A1. L'Ami Ennemi
A2. Communiqueur D'Amour
A3. Rêverie
A4. Berceuse
A5. Même Si
A6. Rendez-Vous Avec Moi-Même
B1. She's A Cameleon
B2. Soir De Peine
B3. Badluck Queen
B4. Ma Vieille Ville
B5. Ding Dang Dong (Ringing At Your Bell)
B6. Terminal Beauty

Rita Mitsouko EP (1982 & 1984):
A1. Don't Forget The NIte
A2. Galoping
A3. Dans La Steppe
B1. Minuit Dansant
B2. Aïe (Kryptonite Miss Spleïn)

The Eye, More Variety (2007):
A1. White Falcon
A2. The Eye
A3. Eleganto
B1. Got An Egg
B2. Terminal Beauté (Version Fr)
B3. Ding Dang Dong (Rolling On The Floor) (Version UK)

Raretés:
A1. All Tomorrow's Parties
A2. Le Juste Prix
A3. Lento (Eleganto)
B1. Porteur De Bonnes Nouvelles
B2. L'Oiseau Chante
B3. Dédé Bordé
C1. Got Got Un Oeuf
C2. Clown De Mes Malheurs
C3. Live In Las Vegas
D1. Reinforcement
D2. Communic'hearts In Love
D3. Berceuse (Version chinoise)

LES RITA MITSOUKO: Best-Of CD/DVD (BEC 5650120)

Les Rita Mitsouko have left their mark on the history of French music. Formed in 1979, the duo Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin released their first album Rita Mitsouko in 1985; the fourth single, "Marcia Baïla", became a national hit. Les Rita Mitsouko became an emblematic band, reinventing themselves on each of their seven studio albums, making a rare junction between popular music and the artistic avant-garde, collaborating in the process with the greatest photographers and creators. This Best-Of encompasses the biggest hits of one of the most iconic French duos, from "Marcia Baïla" to "Le Petit Train", "Andy", and "Les Histoires d'A". Included DVD features two rare tour movies, Panne Dans La Guerre Froide (1989) and La Vie Du Rail (1989), both shot and directed by Roland Allard in Moscow and Mumbai. Collated under the direct supervision of Catherine Ringer. All songs remastered by Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios in 2019. PAL format DVD (Region/Zone: 0).

$10.99 EAN: 5060686501203 ROCK

LES RITA MITSOUKO: Best-Of (Limited Edition) 2CD/DVD (BEC 5650121)

Limited Edition version of the Les Rita Mitsouko Best-Of collection; Includes an exclusive bonus CD with 11 rare and unreleased tracks hand-picked by Catherine Ringer. Les Rita Mitsouko. have left their mark on the history of French music. Formed in 1979, the duo Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin released their first album Rita Mitsouko in 1985; the fourth single, "Marcia Baïla", became a national hit. Les Rita Mitsouko became an emblematic band, reinventing themselves on each of their seven studio albums, making a rare junction between popular music and the artistic avant-garde, collaborating in the process with the greatest photographers and creators. This Best-Of encompasses the biggest hits of one of the most iconic French duos, from "Marcia Baïla" to "Le Petit Train", "Andy", and "Les Histoires d'A". Included DVD features two rare tour movies, Panne Dans La Guerre Froide (1989) and La Vie Du Rail (1989), both shot and directed by Roland Allard in Moscow and Mumbai. Collated under the direct supervision of Catherine Ringer. All songs remastered by Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios in 2019. PAL format DVD (Region/Zone: 0).

$13.79 EAN: 5060686501210 ROCK

LES INNOCENTS: Post-Partum 2LP+CD (BEC 5650194)

Because Music present a reissue of Les Innocents' Post-Partum, originally released in 1996. First vinyl release; includes four rare and demo bonus tracks. Post-Partum includes the hits "Colore" and "Un monde parfait". 140 gram, double-LP; printed cardboard sleeve; includes 30x30cm insert with credits and lyrics; includes CD.

$21.79 EAN: 5060686501944 ROCK

A1. Un monde parfait
A2. Long, long, long
A3. Lune de lait
A4. Dentelle
B1. Entre Amos et Amsterdam
B2. Lésions étrangères #1
B3. Des jours adverses
B4. La peau du grizzly
B5. Raide, raide, raide
C1. Colore
C2. Franges en bataille
C3. Lésions étrangères #2
C4. En bleu de ciel
D1. Un monde parfait (demo)
D2. Colore (demo)
D3. Des jours adverses (Single Mix)
D4. Raide, raide, raide (Beatmix)

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SES: Saboteur 12" (BBR 018EP)

The original freaks SES are back for another mind-melting EP called Saboteur. Completely tuned for a sweaty underground club system, the kicks in "Sounds Like" hit deeper than your typical sound-boy basslines of 2019. "Europa" is on some dystopian Kraftwerk Trans European Express tip with all the attitude you'd hope to squeeze into four-and-a-half minutes. "Hijacker" kicks off the B side with continuing paranoid themes of the SES back catalog. "Flesh Tone" simply jacks you in half and makes you throw shapes like it's 1989.

$10.99 EAN: 4062548002164 ELECTRONIC

A
01. Sounds Like
02. Europa
B
03. Hijaker
04. Flesh Tone

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TELEFON TEL AVIV: Immolate Yourself LP (BPC 188LP)

This is the third full-length album by Chicago's Telefon Tel Aviv (Joshua Eustis and Charles Cooper), and their first for BPitch Control. Immolate Yourself unites ten tracks with the aim to give the term "electro-pop" a new definition for the year 2009. Although each track has its own story to tell, together they paint a bigger picture that encapsulates the Telefon Tel Aviv sound. Arguably the album's standout track "Helen of Troy" -- a driving, moody and muddled piece, full of '80s aesthetics, vintage synths and low, romantic vocals -- was in fact the last track to be finished, and in a way, marked the climax and formed the basis of the whole work. With this release, Telefon Tel Aviv make a statement that combines popular dance music with their own darker reflections on the electronic sound universe.

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GUMMIHZ: Groove Is In The Hertz Part One 12" (CLAAP 021EP)

Groove Is In The Hertz is GummiHz's new record on Claap featuring two minimal rockers. Anthemic "Aerini" is on side A and "straight outta Berlin" groove "Out Out" graces side B. The silence is over; GummiHz is back. A dedicated frequency explorer, GummiHz follows a philosophy that making music should always be adventurous, interesting and fun. For this reason, he has dedicated the last couple of years to rebuilding his studio setup and now it is time to share the fruits of this expedition. Groove Is In The Hertz includes a selection of recordings, showcasing the perspective of GummiHz on minimal house and techno. The series is split into parts with part one featuring two minimal cuts. "Aerini", on side A, offers eleven-and-a-half minutes of minimal techno bliss. Anthemic voices combined with live recordings set a Balearic atmosphere, while sitting elegantly on top of finely-programmed rhythmics and basslines. Flip it over and "Out Out" brings out even more rhythm to the game.

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01. Aerini
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02. Out Out

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TUCHSCHERER, LUKE: Carousel CD (CRUK 048CD)

Luke Tuchscherer, the Bedfordian singer/songwriter now based in New York City, is to release Carousel -- his fourth album in five years -- through Clubhouse Records. Carousel is a solo acoustic album, recorded live in the studio at Storybook Sound, Maplewood, New Jersey by Scott Anthony. Mixed and mastered by Chris Corney. Danny Tipping, of Clubhouse Records, says: "Following the success of Luke's previous full band albums it's a bold move to release an album as sparse as Carousel but it's a gamble that's paid off. In truth, I don't think Luke could resist marking his time on the East Cost by heading to New Jersey to record a lo-fi solo set just like another celebrated singer-songwriter. Maybe this is Luke's Nebraska!" Tuchscherer says: "After a rock record like Pieces last year, releasing the most stripped back album I'll ever make seemed the obvious thing to do! Seriously though, I have a nine-album plan. And ever since hearing The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, I've wanted to make a solo acoustic record. It had to be live in order to capture that feeling." As well as Dylan, Tuchscherer says Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, and Elliot Smith informed the album. Tuchscherer continues: "First and foremost it was about finding songs that could stand up on their own . . . And on top of that, I wanted it to fit a theme lyrically too. That approach meant that a lot of the songs I chose were actually pretty old. 'You Still Have My Heart' was written two weeks before recording and 'The Night Tom Petty Died' was written just after I'd moved to New York, before my wife had joined me . . . The oldest song is 'My Darling England', which was written when I was 21. We actually recorded a full band version of it for The Whybirds' Cold Blue Sky but didn't release it. However, with all the Brexit chaos, the song has actually become more prescient as time has gone by, so it seems like holding it back was for the best." Tuchscherer's previous Clubhouse effort, Pieces, was released in 2018 to critical acclaim, while Always Be True, released in 2017, reached #15 in the UK Country Chart and #25 in the Americana Chart.

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TAYLOR & PAT THOMAS, EBO: Disco Highlife Reedit Series (Remixes by Monsieur Scott & 2 Paris Septembre) 12" (COMET 089EP)

Comet presents the second release from its Disco Highlife series, featuring remastered originals by Ghanaian legends Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas and disco re-edits by Monsieur Scott and 2 Paris Septembre. "Peace On Earth" by Ebo Taylor is a track from the album Twer Nyame (1978). Monsieur Scott, the Paris-based Afrobeat scientist comes back with a deep and soulful Afro-house remix. "We Are Coming Home" by Pat Thomas is a classic highlife anthem originally released on Stage 2 (1980). The production of 2 Paris Septembre, a duo of two Parisian brothers, is a mix of electronic music, Afrobeat, and hip-hop.

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VA: Amarcord Nino Rota CD (CVSD 051CD)

Corbett Vs. Dempsey present a reissue of Amarcord Nino Rota, a tribute album assembled by producer Hal Willner, originally released by Hannibal Records in 1981. If you think you know how to put a mix-tape together, take a lesson from Hal Willner, the absolute master. In 1981, Willner produced a landmark record of interpretations of music written by Nino Rota for the films of Federico Fellini. With ten tracks and as many different lineups, this record set the template for a series of brilliant tributes that Willner has made over the ensuing 35 years, covering the songbooks of Monk, Mingus, Weill, and Disney, with a mind-expanding range of performers from Eugene Chadbourne to Chuck D to Diamanda Galas to Peter Frampton. On Amarcord Nino Rota, Willner drew together an equally dazzling spectrum of musicians, compiling them into a perfect program that explores Rota's wonderful, sly, sexy oeuvre from contrasting and complementary perspectives. Pianist Jaki Byard sets the stage with the title track and ends things with "La Strada", and in his first appearance on record, guitarist Bill Frisell contributes a haunting solo acoustic version of "Juliet Of The Spirits". Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, who lived in Rome early in his international years, offers a take on Rota's "Roma" and vibraphonist Dave Samuels provides interludes and transitions in a couple of spots. On the other end of the size bracket, Muhal Richard Abrams arranges and conducts his band as part of "La Dolce Vita Suite", which ends with a rock group featuring Debbie Harry singing a wordless waltz. The Carla Bley Band presents a daunting, suitably hilarious version of "8 ½", with Gary Windo's ballistic tenor saxophone, a David Amram Quintet with Sharon Freeman on French horn plays "Satyricon", and in a surprise appearance, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays alongside his brother Branford, tenor saxophonist George Adams, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Wilbert Fletcher, in William Fischer's arrangement of a medley of Rota chestnuts. Long out-of-print on LP and only released on CD for a hot minute in the early nineties, Amarcord Nino Rota is a certifiable classic.

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GOODMAN, BENNY: Benny Goodman Orchestra, Trio & Quartet 2CD (D 20009CD)

Known as "The King Of Swing", Benny Goodman learned to play clarinet at age of 10. He played in jazz bands at a young age and went on from sideman to bandleader forming his first band in 1934 and toured the world from then on. He was the catalyst for the swing era, contributing to the development of the "swing" style of jazz, inserted Afro-American Charlie Christian as a member to his sextet turning the electric guitar into a popular jazz instrument, and helped integrate people of color in the USA. He explored bebop and studied classical repertoire. In 1962, his Orchestra toured the Soviet Union (former Russia), after the Cuban missile crisis. He was later honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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ARMSTRONG, LOUIS: Louis Armstrong & His All Stars & Big Band 2CD (D 20014CD)

Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential figures in jazz with a career spanning five decades (1920s to the 1960s). The career starts with playing in brass bands and on riverboats in New Orleans, learning to read music and being one of the first musician to perform extended trumpet solos, moving to Chicago to play in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, went to New York City to play with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, returning to Chicago to form his own group as Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. Back in NY, he emerged as a vocalist with his scat singing style, enriched by matchless experience as a trumpet soloist. He kept touring well into his '60s, playing in Africa, Europe, and Asia, got a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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A weather station produces music: all antennas extended, barometers and thermometers on bearing. A mobile made of sound pipes tingles a modal hard-bop pattern in the wind tunnel, in dialog with a roaring screech of owls and rhythmically pounding hailstones... What kind of threatening backdrop is this? Something is wrong here. Nature is in trouble, or are the measuring instruments going crazy? In any case, that's not the kind of screech of an owl we know. The owl is evil, it is hungry! Mountain air does help. So does the high-altitude sun. Or... a bit of vitaminology. Of course, everything is completely different. The supposed weather station is the Echokammer, a studio biotope operated by Albert Pöschl in Munich Giesing. Leo Hopfinger (LeRoy) and Tom Simonetti (Mycrotom), went there to work on new tracks for their indie disco wild style duo Rhythm Police... and one of those lucky accidents happened, which scientists always rave about when they encounter a previously unknown substance. Just as Pöschl's namesake Albert Hofmann opened the gates of perception in a self-experiment, the three laboratory assistants Hopfinger/Pöschl/Simonetti came across the element H to see it roll out of the Rhythm Police in the splitting process of an isolated condensation -- hadn't there always been an "H" missing over the ten-year existence of the band name? Well then, H is there, and with the old name, the disco party is gone.

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EMIKA: Falling In Love With Sadness Remixes 12" (EMK 002EP)

Emika releases a remix EP of her sixth studio album Falling In Love With Sadness (EMK 004CD/LP, 2018), originally released on World Mental Health Day October 2018. The remix EP explores four sound worlds in electronic music today. Experimental bass music, hypnotic and dark techno, and electro. Pinch, a pioneer of UK bass-driven music, is considered to be one of the most groundbreaking, explorative producers to emerge from the UK dubstep scene. Solid remixes from solid underground artists. Pinch creates a seductive environment for a scene from which could have been from David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), one which threatens to overload at any given time, but retains tension until the end. Rising techno star Julia Govor is an artist doing things differently, paving her own way with her own label, receiving recognition from the global dance music scene. Julia's mix transports you into the next part of the journey, beyond conflict and tension, she gives you the chance to breathe, open up, be free and to dance. Rebekah needs no introduction, pioneering her own intense sound, she is a serious artist with some seriously heavy vibes. Rebekah's remix brings us hurtling back down to Earth at a tremendous pace, with crystal clear drums that wake up the soul and synths that energize the mind, this version is more than a dark techno track, it has the spirit of a self-confident grown woman running through it. Underground Berlin talent Headless Horseman, all though shrouded in mystery, is in high-demand worldwide to perform his unique live sets at some of the biggest clubs and festivals. Headless Horseman brings Emika's original into a beautiful new song space, re-voicing the harmony and finding completely fresh chords and backing. Emika produced original album material with cult electro icon The Exaltics. The artwork hits the mark with a message important for Emika: Equality. With three female artists and three male artists all featured on the cover, this is a way in which Emika highlights her love for collaboration and sharing of the spotlight. First edition of green vinyl; edition of 500.

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MARTINEZ BROTHERS, THE: Fabric Presents The Martinez Brothers CD (FABRIC 203CD)

Spending their early years on the streets of the Bronx, The Martinez Brothers went on to tour the world with dance music royalty such as Dennis Ferrer, Erick Morillo, and Louie Vega before they'd even finished high school. This 23-track mix therefore includes respected names like Chicago innovator Paul Johnson and Detroit multi-instrumentalist Amp Fiddler. Three exclusive Martinez Brothers tracks stud the 75-minute offering. "Jam Joint" is a hypnotic, stripped-back groover whilst the lead single "Mistakes" is a more tech-oriented offering. Roots Orchestra, aka the prodigious Timmy Regisford, brings noteworthy percussive roots slant to the New York house electronic collection. The stand-out collaboration with New York house aficionado Louie Vega on the soulful "Let It Go (TMB Alternate Version)" convincingly rounds up the comp. Features Tom Flynn, Amp Fiddler, Varhat, Cabanne, Frak, Blaze, Piano Man, Funky People, Cassio Ware, Sangre Voss, The Bayara Citizens, Joe (Joaquin "Joe" Claussell), Kai Alce, Azulu Phantom, Big Strick, Glen Lewis, Mjojo & Bongani, Dennis Ferrer, Love Letters, Dan Curtin, Brinton McKay, Abe Duque, Trevor Rockcliffe, Blake Baxter, Carl Cox, Paul Johnson, Party Crashers, Sir Lord Commix, and K. Alexi Shelby.

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ORAM/VERA GRAY, DAPHNE: Listen Move & Dance LP (OME 1023LP)

Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Daphne Oram and Vera Gray's Listen Move & Dance, originally released in 1962. The British composer, musician, and audio engineer Daphne Oram was a pioneering figure in the use of electronic music. Coming to prominence through her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which she co-founded, Oram was one of the first British composers to feature electronic instruments in her work and has been rightly hailed as helping musique concrete to become accepted in Britain. Oram's composition "Still Point", involving two orchestras, two turntables and five microphones, was deemed too radical by the BBC, though she was promoted to studio manager in 1950, leading to the gradual introduction of electronic music and musique concrete techniques on BBC soundtracks. In 1957, she composed the music for the play Amphitryon 38, using a sine wave oscillator and homemade filters, and this and other subsequent works led to the establishment of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop the following year, but Oram soon tired of the conservative constraints of the BBC, leading to her resignation in 1959 to pursue her own vision at the Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition, located in Tower Folly, a former hop kiln located at Fairseat, near the village of Wrotham in rural Kent. "Oramics" was a radical sound composition technique that sought to transform images to music, enacted by drawing onto 35mm film, which would then be read by photo-electric cells; in addition to its use in Radiophonic Workshop material, "Oramics" was also employed for sound installations, theater productions, and feature films, such as The Innocents, though financial pressures forced Oram to seek a range of commercial engagements in addition to creating her own artistic works. The Listen Move & Dance series of BBC programs were devised as a radical new technique to help British schoolchildren learn how to dance; on the LP releases, Vera Gray arranged short adaptations of classical pieces by Bartok, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and others, designed for "stamping, punching, kicking and jumping" movements, as well as "running lightly", "dancing on toes" and "shaking all about", which contrasted sharply with Oram's electronic abstractions, which seemed to have been beamed in from outer space. 180 gram vinyl.

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B1. Part 2

BERIO/PIERRE BOULEZ/OLIVIER MESSIAEN/KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, LUCIANO: Serenata I/Sonatine/Canteyodjaya/Zeitmasze LP (OME 1024LP)

Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Serenata I/Sonatine/Canteyodjaya/Zeitmasze, originally released in 1958. The avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez was a titan of post-war experimental classical music. Born in the small cheesemaking town of Montrbrison in central France in 1925, Boulez studied at the Paris Conservatoire with the composer and organist Charles Messiaen and received private tuition from pianist Andrée Vaurabourg; after moving to the Marais district in 1945, he briefly studied with Schoenberg disciple, René Leibowitz, and further influence came from immersion in Balinese gamelan, Japanese classical music, and African drumming, among other sources. Earning money by playing an early electronic keyboard called the Ondes Martenot on theater productions, Boulez soon became music director of the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company, leading to tours of Belgium, Switzerland, Britain, and both North and South America. American composer John Cage became an ally, though they subsequently clashed over Cage's commitment to the role of chance in his compositions, paving the way for an intense and lasting friendship with the German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, who arrived in Paris in 1952 to study with Olivier Messiaen. In July of that year, the pair attended the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, leading to contact with Italian composer Luciano Berio and other noteworthy figures. Then, in 1954, with backing from Barrault and Renaud, Boulez began staging a series of concerts of experimental music at the Petit Marigny Theatre, titled Le Domaine musical. The pieces collected on this album are all taken from performances staged for the 1957 Domaine musical season, beginning with Berio's "Serenata I", conducted by Boulez, which debuted in Paris in March of that year; arranged for flute and fourteen instruments, Berio said that the idea behind the piece was for the solo flute to be confronted by continuously interchanging elements, rather than mere accompaniments or oppositions. Boulez's own "Sonatine", composed in 1946 for flute and piano, is a 12-tone piece that evidences Messiaen's influence, with shades of Asian classical music in places; then, Stockhausen's monumental "Zeitmasze" (or "Time Measures") a serial composition for five woodwinds, played in different combinations of tempos and speed, was partly inspired by Webern's principles of homogenous and harmonic textures. Finally, Messiaen's 1949 work "Cantéyodjayâ", delivered by pianist Yvonne Loriod, takes it shape from the classical Hindu rhythms of ancient India, as with much of the composer's oeuvre. 180 gram vinyl.

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01. Luciano Berio - Serenata I
02. Pierre Boulez - Sonatine
03. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Zeitmasze
04. Olivier Messiaen - Cantéyodjayâ

VA: Speech After The Removal Of The Larynx LP (OME 1025LP)

Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Speech After The Removal Of The Larynx, originally released by Smithsonian Folkways in 1964. The larynx or voice box is a small organ located towards the top of the neck in humans and some other animals. Constructed largely of cartilage, it houses the vocal folds that allow for the manipulation of pitch and volume, which are essential for the phonation of spoken speech. It is also involved in bringing air to the lungs when you breathe and it protects the windpipe when you swallow. However, those unfortunate to experience the potentially fatal malignant tumors of laryngeal cancer will have their larynx removed, resulting in a traumatic loss of speech; thankfully, as this rare record issued by Smithsonian Folkways in 1964 demonstrates, removal of the larynx does not necessarily spell the end of speech for such blighted individuals. Instead, through developments in artificial voice creation, patients could learn to employ modes of vocal communication again. The album was recorded by physician Harm A. Drost at the Phonetic Laboratory of the Ear, Nose, and Throat Dept. of the University Hospital, Leiden, in the Netherlands, working under the direction of Professor H. A. E. van Dishoeck. As the advances were fairly new and surprisingly varied, Drost felt a phonograph album demonstrating the techniques would be useful for those in the field. The album thus features a narrator explaining aspects of several different techniques, followed by examples of patients employing them. Buccal speech (limited to certain consonants), parabuccal speech (collecting air in a space between the upper jaw and the cheek), glosso-pharyngeal speech (a method deemed obsolete where air is forced between the tongue and the palate), esophageal voice (made by reconditioning one's esophagus via swallowing, suction, or injection), various injection techniques and devices such as the larynxophone, pipa di tichioni, and "western electric" are all explored here, along with other aspects of the larynx and its absence. Speech After The Removal Of The Larynx is definitely one of the strangest albums ever given a commercial release. 180 gram vinyl; includes insert; hand-numbered.

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01. Coloratura Soprano Singer
02. Man Without Larynx
03. Buccal Speech
04. Parabuccal Speech
05. Singing Voice
06. Glossopharngeal Speech
07. Frogsound
08. Esophageal Voice
09. Injection--Basic Sound Two Times
10. Basic Sound Of The Esophageal Voice
11. Basic Sound Of The Esophageal Voice, An Octave Lower
12. Esophageal Voice By Telephone
13. Singing Voice With Larynxphone
14. Pipa Di Tichioni
15. Western Electric

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BOISDUR, ESNARD: Mizik Bel 12" (FVR 156EP)

"... I met my friend Pascal Rioux from Favorite Recordings and told him about an amazing unreleased track I received months before, on a home-burned CD, from Esnard Boisdur. Among other beautiful songs, it contained one outstanding track, a mix of modern Gwoka and Zouk called 'Mizik Bel' . . . As Africaine 808, Dirk Leyers and I spent considerable time trying to re-create the composition of the original, respectfully slicing and re-arranging it, adding new instrumentation, and recording additional percussion and talking drum with our percussionist Eric Owusu (Pat Thomas/Ebo Taylor)." --DJ Nomad, June 2019

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DRUICK, DWIGHT: Tanger LP (FVR 158LP)

LP version. Favorite Recordings present a reissue of Dwight Druick's Tanger, originally released in 1980. Dwight Druick was born in Montreal to a professional gambler and an ex-Radio City Rockette. One of five children, he grew up in a family buoyed by music and beleaguered by the vagaries of miscalculated risk. After attaining a McGill University bachelor's degree in Art History, Dwight fully embraced both music and risk by traveling to London, where he signed a contract with Pye Records and Joe Cocker's management company. The ensuing record, Druick & Lorange (1974), was released to critical acclaim and relative success. After returning to Canada, Dwight recorded two albums with Phil Vyvial: Midnight (1979) and Minuit (!979). Recorded with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section in Alabama, the duo's work achieved airplay success in Quebec and across Canada. Dwight subsequently released his first French language solo album, Tanger, released in 1980 by the Canadian label, Bobinason. Today quite hard to find in its original version, Tanger is first of all an incredibly solid album, clearly underrated and deserving more credit. Mostly known by collectors and DJs for the stunning cover of Toto's classic hit, "Georgy Porgy", which was produced and arranged with the help of George Thurston (Boule Noire), it includes many other tasty titles, with amongst them another fine rendition of "Open Your Eyes" by The Doobie Brothers. In fact, with its brilliant mix of modern-soul, disco, and AOR styles, the whole album is already considered by many connoisseurs as a classic, and clearly a must have for anyone enjoying this musical blend. Never reissued on vinyl until now, there was not much more needed at Favorite Recordings to make it happened. Officially licensed to Dwight Druick, who was unfortunately not able to provide the original tapes, Tanger has been perfectly restored and remastered by Frank Merritt, at The Carvery, London.

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ST. JOHN, BRIDGET: Live at the Betsey Trotwood LP (FTR 474LP)

Co-release with Shagrat Records. "Fifty years after her elegantly enchanting debut LP, Ask Me No Questions, was issued by John Peel's Dandelion label, Bridget St. John releases her first live vinyl. About time! In the intervening decades, Ms. St. John issued four gorgeous LPs during the 1970s, then had a quiet spell after moving to the U.S. In the '90s a sequence of crucial archival recordings on John Tobler's Road Goes on Forever label, as well as Nigel Cross's peerless Shagrat imprint started appearing. She began playing live again as well, appearing at Phil McMullen's Boston Terrastock among other places. With the release of Live at the Betsey Trotwood, Bridget demonstrates to all and sundry that her musical powers are undiminished. Beautifully recorded at the Betsey in London, the set mixes newer originals ('Castaway', 'The Hole in Your Heart', etc.) with classics from her repertoire ('Fly High', 'Ask Me No Questions') and some lovely covers. These range from Joni Mitchell's 'The Fiddle and the Drum' segueing into a Trump-informed version of 'America the Beautiful', to a sweet take on Michael Chapman's 'Rabbit Hills' (from Fully Qualified Survivor). Listening to this set, I am actually reminded of Chapman (with whom Bridget has been touring recently). Both of them seem to be ever advancing, their voices growing richer and stronger as they accrue experience, the beauty and power of their guitar playing diminishing not one whit. We are extremely honored to present a new LP by Bridget St. John, and truly believe it will slay you as fully as it did us." --Byron Coley, 2019 Edition of 500.

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A1. Castaway
A2. Fly High
A3. Mon Gala Papillons
A4. Rabbit Hills
A5. The Fiddle and the Drum
B1. The Hole In Your Heart
B2. Lazarus
B3. Ask Me No Questions
B4. Suzanne

MAERCKS, OWEN: Kinds of Blue LP (FTR 478LP)

"Four decades after his last solo LP, Teenage Sex Therapist (FTR 153-2LP), Owen Maercks is back with a new one. Crazily, much of the same gang is on hand for Kinds of Blue. Guitarist Henry Kaiser was even the instigator of this project (as he so often is), suggesting it was time for Owen to cut the blues album they'd always talked about. Saxophonists Larry Ochs (ROVA) and John Oswald (Plunderphonics) are also back to blow gorgeous squalls. There's a new rhythm section in town -- Doug Sovern on bass and Scott Amendola on drums -- and they sound great, laying down whatever sounds are required as a base for the most-cracked blues wailing of Owen's guitar and vocals. The choice of cover tunes should be read as some sort of key. Lonesome Sundown's "Love Me Now" replaces some of its original swamp vibe with an approach one might liken to Bobby "Blue" Bland's sophisto-hunch. "Blue Monk" is a wonderfully fractured spin on a par with Chadbourne's visits to the Thelonious songbook. And Robert Pete Williams' "Wrong" hews to its original acoustic and violent intent, although it also manifests a few lateral spasms that might have given its author gout. The originals are similarly eclectic. "Wild Time" is a full-on blast of guitar-based zonkery. "Burnin'" is Hooker shuffle that will have your foot stomping involuntarily. "Beautiful to Me" is alternate universe songsterism in the vein of Sex Therapist. "Iceland Boogie" is the first known blues song to tackle the topic of Reykjavik's archaic gambling laws, using a somewhat Beefheartian framework to do so. And "Prayin' on Me" finishes the album with an extended display of different ways to sing and play about blowjobs, which should provide a template for any young band interested in the bj genre. Is there a coda? You tell me. How many kinds of blue can one man have? The varieties are endless, dear friends. And some of the best answers ever posited to that question are now available on this handy platter." --Byron Coley, 2019. Edition of 500.

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A1. Wild Time
A2. Burnin'
A3. Love Me Now
A4. Beautiful To Me
B1. Iceland Boogie
B2. Blue Monk
B3. Wrong
B4. Prayin' on Me

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LEFT OUTSIDES, THE: There Is a Place LP (FTR 496LP)

"A new reissue of this masterpiece by the Left Outsides, originally issued on cassette in 2015, then first put to vinyl in 2017, as the long-format follow-up to the classic The Shape of Things to Come LP. The current edition is demarcated by a glossy cover and metallic gold printing. Its music remains as timeless a gust of dark autumnal wind as any you'll ever hear. Some of the music here was written as part of the soundtrack to Gus Alavrez's 2009 noir-pastoral short, Stand and Deliver, but the songs evoke their own host of images. The band, consisting of Alison Cotton and Mark Nicholas (once of the beautifully Fairport-tinged, 18th Day of May) blend vocals and stringed instruments in a way that recalls more traditional UK folk artists as much as it does their more acidic contemporaries. Their songs feature gorgeously plain melodies that emerge as though they have always existed, before disappearing in a swirl of primeval mist. The surprise cover they do, "Civil War Lament" (originally by Go-Betweens side project, Jack Frost), is of a piece with these originals. And the layered guitars of the last track, "The Creeping Fog," take the record out on waves of drone and feedback stretching from dusk until near dawn, at which point, Alison intones a poem of shadows. There Is a Place is a gentle monster of a record, and will well reward your careful attention." --Byron Coley, 2019 45rpm; Edition of 300.

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MORKEN, OYVIND: Vegator EP 12" (FP 065EP)

Just in time for the festival season on Mars, Øyvind Morken returns to Full Pupp with yet another batch of unlikely bangers, Vegator EP.

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LOS PIRANAS: Historia Natural CD (GB 081CD)

A celebrated instrumental supergroup featuring three of Bogotá's most visionary musicians: Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers, Chúpame el dedo), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondatropica), and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo, Chúpame el dedo). Fusing the experimental possibilities of South American rhythms and sonics (cumbia, champeta, tropicalia, salsa, and more) with avant psych rock, dub minimalism, and spiked jazz, Los Pirañas are retro-futurism at its finest. The three members of Los Pirañas can all remember when they were in high school together in Bogotá, Colombia and just beginning to play music. Twenty-five years on and they've become internationally well-known musicians, spread across different bands, traversing multiple continents. Historia Natural, their third album, recaptures the spirit that moved them as teenagers. Although they'd played music together when young, Los Pirañas only came into being as a band in 2009. It gave them the chance to explore the complex vitality of Colombian rhythms mixed with Alvarez's unique blend of computer and guitar. Their debut release as Los Pirañas showcased the joys of "the trio format that was new to us," while the band's second release La Diversión Que Hacía Falta En Mi País (STAUB 145LP, 2017) came after a few years of touring. For their third outing they went searching for a nuanced naïveté and they found it, with Ojeda's adroit drumming and the muscular bass work of Mario Galeano of Frente Cumbiero fame, providing a solid anchor for the music. Together, the pair create a mighty tropical noise that frees up Alvarez for his guitar experiments. He's been working with computers and music for two decades, feeding his guitar through a laptop. Alvarez's guitar is a shapeshifter, constantly mutating sound and texture. It rarely sounds straight up, but there's never a doubt that someone is plucking the strings and bending the notes. Alvarez darts around and through the lines created by Ojeda and Galeano, leading or snapping at their heels. This is a band bristling with ideas, where the unspoken communication is so acute that all three of them can swerve together or turn on a dime. Their particular culture revolves very much around Colombia's capital, Bogotá, where they live and where they've always made music. A swirling, electric universe of music, created right in their own neighborhood. That's the real Historia Natural of Los Pirañas.

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BABA ZULA: Derin Derin CD (GB 082CD)

BaBa ZuLa, the legendary ensemble from Istanbul, have brilliantly established themselves over the past two decades as the missing link between Turkish psych, krautrock, and dub-wise stylings. Derin Derin is the thrilling follow-up to their acclaimed retrospective XX (GB 042CD/LP, 2017), and finds the band more experimental and expansive than ever. On Derin Derin, BaBa ZuLa's first studio album since 2014, they create their art with beautiful eloquence and stinging passion. It takes wing and soars high; the instrumental portion of the disc grew out of music BaBa ZuLa were asked to record for a documentary about falcons. It grew, little by little, drawing together the elements that have been the heart of the band's sound throughout its existence: the rich wildness of Turkish psychedelia and the blinding, pure emotion that runs through traditional Anatolian music, tempered with the constant musical questing of the band's inspiration, krautrock pioneers Can, and the electro-dub experiments BaBa ZuLa has undertaken with producer Mad Professor. It's an utterly 21st century sound, where the voices are sometimes submerged, sometimes screaming loud to breaking through the noise. "U Are the Swing" is a track that carries particularly profound echoes of Can's late drummer, Jaki Liebezeit. The drum part was played by Ertel's children on a kit Liebezeit himself had modified, and Liebezeit sat in with BaBa ZuLa on many occasions. Those rhythms form the bedrock of BaBa ZuLa's sound, just as they were the foundation of the early Turkish psychedelia of the 1960s and '70s that has been a lifelong influence on Ertel. Psychedelia seeped into his soul and helped to frame his vision for BaBa ZuLa when he formed the band in 1996. And throughout their existence, they've kept their unique mix of electric saz and electric oud to give that double fretboard attack that's so markedly not Western. The psychedelic sound of BaBa ZuLa also feeds quite organically into dub. On "Eagle Got Wolf", for instance, phrases and riffs echo and hang suspended in the air as the bass dives and swoops, while plucked notes appear, only to flicker away again. Derin Derin melds the past into the present and sends it flying into the future. Derin Derin is fearless music. It's the truth. And there is hope.

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SLIKBACK: Lasakaneku / Tomo 2LP (HK 014LP)

Ascendant star of the new global underground, Slikback wraps up his first two digital-only EPs with three killer bonus cuts on a vinyl premiere for Hakuna Kulala, his prized sublabel of Nyege Nyege Tapes. Hailing from Nairobi, Kenya via Kampala, Uganda, Slikback has rapidly attracted a wave of attention to his undulating mutations of current club styles, as found on the Lasakaneka and Tomo EPs between 2018-2019. Due to popular demand both those EPs now make their vinyl debut, packaged along with three previously unreleased zingers to weigh in the most significant showcase of Slikback's acclaimed style and pattern in club circulation right now. Distilling a range of inspirations from local East African hip hop to Congolese rhythms and Gqom's cold percussion, plus influence from US trap and footwork, and the subbass common to JA and UK soundsystem cultures; Slikback's music has arrived at a grippingly powerful sound which, while singular, is also entirely symptomatic of the thrilling styles emerging from Central Africa right now, and after many years of underrepresentation in the shadow of West and South African styles which have been popularized around the world. On his debut Lasakaneka EP, Slikback swaggers from icy, robotic dancehall in "Acid" to a gripping fusion of footwork and Gqom with a jungle bent in "Bantu Zen", and dancehall techno drill on "Ascension", along with the palpitating footwork pressure of "Venom", and a nervy new ace in the itchy step of "Shell". The follow-up of 2019's Tomo meanwhile represents a mean progression of his sound; exerting a firmer control of his scudding bass rudeness in "Sonshitsu", and the dissonant synth tone of "Gemini", while the syncopated gabber styles of "Zuhura" and "Rage" give way to almighty exclusive joints in the hard seam of trap called "Kite", and the Equiknoxx-gone-psycho styles of "Senshi". If you're new to Slikback, trust this double-LP is the perfect place to get acquainted with his lucid, hi-tech madness, before checking for the full-frontal futurism of his two new EPs in collaboration with Svbkvlt's Hyph11e, Yen Tech, and Osheyack. But if you've already heard Slikback's EPs, his Boiler Room at Nyege Nyege Festival, or witnessed his European tour dates, there's surely no need to overstate the crucial nature of this "early years" double-LP compilation. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Purple vinyl; edition of 500.

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01. Acid
02. Bantu Zen
03. Ascension
04. Just I
05. Venom
06. Shell
07. Sonshitsu
08. Gemini
09. Kyokai
10. Kite
11. Karum
12. Zuhura
13. Rage
14. Senshi

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JERKCURB: Air Con Eden CD (HD 020CD)

South East London songwriter and visual artist Jerkcurb has today announced his hotly-anticipated debut album Air Con Eden. The culmination of several years of intense creative focus, Air Con Eden reflects on Jerkcurb instigator Jacob Read's recent real-life events, losses and tragedies as well as more cryptic, fictitious perspectives, and surreal adopted personalities. The record's euphoric lead single "Timelapse Tulip" arrives alongside today's news -- accompanied by a stunning, intricate 3D animated video courtesy of a collaboration between Read, director Gilbert Bannerman, and production designer Theo Boswell. Having fully emerged in 2016 with the flourishing "Night On Earth" -- a streaming hit with 2,700,000 spins to date -- and subsequent tracks "Voodoo Saloon" and "Little Boring Thing", there's been a growing sense of an artist climbing into maturity with each succeeding release, video and gig laying the foundations for Jerkcurb's burgeoning cult status. Indeed, Read has been heavily immersed in his art and animation all the while, exhibiting at the Tate Britain and also being commissioned by them to create a promo for their installation "Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One" and drawing praise from "It's Nice That" along the way. There's a near impossible richness to Read's songwriting form on Air Con Eden, with its as-yet-unheard title track offering perhaps the clearest distillation of the record's predominant theme: time at its malleable and fraught. Inspired by Victor Gruen -- the pioneering designer of shopping malls in the United States -- Read unpacks the idea of being trapped in an eternity that feels like an endless present tense, the passing of the seasons reduced to a standstill in a pristine shopping mall; a symbol of both stasis and comfort; an Eden without the possibility of an ending.

$8.99 UPC: 666017336923 ROCK

JERKCURB: Air Con Eden 2LP (HD 020LP)

Gatefold double LP version. South East London songwriter and visual artist Jerkcurb has today announced his hotly-anticipated debut album Air Con Eden. The culmination of several years of intense creative focus, Air Con Eden reflects on Jerkcurb instigator Jacob Read's recent real-life events, losses and tragedies as well as more cryptic, fictitious perspectives, and surreal adopted personalities. The record's euphoric lead single "Timelapse Tulip" arrives alongside today's news -- accompanied by a stunning, intricate 3D animated video courtesy of a collaboration between Read, director Gilbert Bannerman, and production designer Theo Boswell. Having fully emerged in 2016 with the flourishing "Night On Earth" -- a streaming hit with 2,700,000 spins to date -- and subsequent tracks "Voodoo Saloon" and "Little Boring Thing", there's been a growing sense of an artist climbing into maturity with each succeeding release, video and gig laying the foundations for Jerkcurb's burgeoning cult status. Indeed, Read has been heavily immersed in his art and animation all the while, exhibiting at the Tate Britain and also being commissioned by them to create a promo for their installation "Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One" and drawing praise from "It's Nice That" along the way. There's a near impossible richness to Read's songwriting form on Air Con Eden, with its as-yet-unheard title track offering perhaps the clearest distillation of the record's predominant theme: time at its malleable and fraught. Inspired by Victor Gruen -- the pioneering designer of shopping malls in the United States -- Read unpacks the idea of being trapped in an eternity that feels like an endless present tense, the passing of the seasons reduced to a standstill in a pristine shopping mall; a symbol of both stasis and comfort; an Eden without the possibility of an ending.

$22.39 UPC: 666017336916 ROCK

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ALUNAH: Violet Hour LP (HPS 112LP)

LP version. On the back of last 2018's critically acclaimed Amber & Gold EP, Alunah return with Violet Hour, the new album and first for Heavy Psych Sounds. Violet Hour sees the energy of Alunah's dark, doom-tinged hard rock being cranked up with the arrival of guitarist Dean Ashton (bassist in Diamond Head) alongside the soaring vocals of Sian Greenaway and rhythmic foundation of Dan Burchmore and Jake Mason. Recorded at the historic Welsh Foel Studio and produced by Chris Fielding (Conan, Electric Wizard, Primordial) the eight tracks on display show the fruits of a productive early 2019 with a searing combination of melodies, riffs, and focused writing. From the opening combination of "Trapped & Bound" and "Dance Of Deceit", the album pulls the listener in to an ominous world brought to life by artist Felipe Froeder - Arcano XV and doesn't let go until the brooding finale "Lake Of Fire". With roots dating back to 2006 in "Sabbath City" UK and an evolution that has grown over four previous albums and numerous European tours/festival dates, the momentum now picks up the pace.

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ALUNAH: Violet Hour (Color Vinyl) LP (HPS 112LTD-LP)

LP version. Limited edition color vinyl. On the back of last 2018's critically acclaimed Amber & Gold EP, Alunah return with Violet Hour, the new album and first for Heavy Psych Sounds. Violet Hour sees the energy of Alunah's dark, doom-tinged hard rock being cranked up with the arrival of guitarist Dean Ashton (bassist in Diamond Head) alongside the soaring vocals of Sian Greenaway and rhythmic foundation of Dan Burchmore and Jake Mason. Recorded at the historic Welsh Foel Studio and produced by Chris Fielding (Conan, Electric Wizard, Primordial) the eight tracks on display show the fruits of a productive early 2019 with a searing combination of melodies, riffs, and focused writing. From the opening combination of "Trapped & Bound" and "Dance Of Deceit", the album pulls the listener in to an ominous world brought to life by artist Felipe Froeder - Arcano XV and doesn't let go until the brooding finale "Lake Of Fire". With roots dating back to 2006 in "Sabbath City" UK and an evolution that has grown over four previous albums and numerous European tours/festival dates, the momentum now picks up the pace.

$22.39 UPC: 736530999711 ROCK

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OSADEBE, CHIEF STEPHEN OSITA: Osondi Owendi LP (HMRLP 007LP)

"Osondi Owendi. What is cherished by some is despised by others. One man's meat is another man's poison. Different strokes for different folks. To each their own. Osondi Owendi. It's a conventional aphorism in the Igbo language but if you utter the word 'osondi owendi' in Nigeria today, the first thing that comes to anybody's mind is the cucumber-cool highlife music maestro Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe and his legendary album that takes its name from the adage. Released in 1984, Osondi Owendi was instantly received as Osadebe's magnum opus, the crowning event of an exalted career stretching back to the early years of highlife's emergence as Nigeria's predominant popular music. Stephen Osadebe first appeared on the music scene in 1958 as a spry, twenty-two year-old vocalist in the Empire Rhythm Skies Orchestra, directed by bandleader Steven Amechi. With his dapper suits, urbane Nat King Cole-influenced vocal stylings and jaunty, up-tempo, calypso-scented dance tunes, he personified the frisky spirit and anxious aspirations of a young, educated generation that had come of age in the wake of the Second World War . . . 1959 would be the year that he truly made his mark in the business with his debut solo single 'Lagos Life Na So So Enjoyment'. A giddy exhortation of the music, sex, fun and freedom availed by life in the big city, the song became a sensation and an anthem, and Stephen Osadebe became the leader of his own popular dance band, the Nigerian Sound Makers . . . As Nigeria emerged from a devastating civil war, so did a new generation of youth inspired by rock and funk, confrontational sounds reflective of a more violent, less idealistic era. All of the sudden, the idioms of the post-WWII dance orchestras that nurtured Osadebe's cohort seemed quaint, the stuff of nostalgia. Osadebe needed to evolve to respond to the new tumultuous, turned-up times . . . Abetted by a new crop of fire-blooded young players, Osadebe slowed his music to a mellow, meditative tempo, brought forward the lumbering, Afro Cuban-accented bass and percussion, from the rockers he borrowed searing lead lines on the electric guitar. Over this musical bedrock, doesn't so much as sing as he dreamily muses, coos, sighs aphorisms, words of wisdom and inspiration . . . Osadebe christened the style oyolima -- a tranquil, otherworldly state of total relaxation and pleasure. Osondi Owendi represents oyolima at its finest, and possibly Nigerian highlife in epitome." --Uchenna Ikonne, June 2019

$18.99 UPC: 604565339782 WORLD