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Moods And Dances 2021 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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At Cloud’s Length is a collaborative compilation of musical works from artists on Melbourne/Naarm based collective WAT artists, using the vehicle of music as the driving force of connection.While the opportunities to gather have been put on hold, this compilation is a collaborative release rising from a challenge set to the WAT artists roster to connect and create using isolation as a creative parameter from which to generate new music, resulting in surprising and powerful musical cross-pollination.

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RVDS

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Live Colored Vinyl Edition

Joan As Police Woman

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sweet Police)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Third Chimpanzee E.P.

Martin Gore

12" | 2021 | UK | Original (Mute)

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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I've Seen All I Need To See Black Vinyl Edition

The Body

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Thrill Jockey)

31,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (DevilDuck Records)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Over the course of two decades The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, have consistently challenged assumptions and defied categorization, redefining what it means to be a heavy band. On I've Seen All I Need To See, they test the boundaries of the studio to explore the extremes and microtonality of distortion to find its maximal impact. Their most incisively bleak, a towering monolith of noise, album to date Buford's booming, resolute drums paired with King's obliterated guitar and howl. Course, bristling distortion contorts every instrument, with samples of spoken word, cymbals, toms and King's already noxious tone emerging from layers of feedback. The recording studio remains indelible to The Body's creative process. Together with engineer Seth Manchester of Machines With Magnets, they capture the complexities of distorted sound in stunning detail. The clarity and the cacophony exceed anything they've created before, morphing desolate, festering soundscapes into an exhilarating sonic universe. Buford often lays the framework for songs from the drums up, mirroring hip hop production. I've Seen All I Need To See trades out 808s and The Body's self- sampling for live instruments with a focus on expanding mutations of sound from more limited sources. The results are remarkably rich textural bombardments. Throughout, The Body deliver oppressive noise with potent lucidity, replicating the overwhelming sound of their live performances in revelatory detail. I've Seen All I Need To See demonstrates not only The Body's fearless spirit and vicious edge, but their intellectual musical heft through its explorations of distorted sound and the power of distorted sounds' interplay. Composer Roger Johnson said "Noise is power, but is generally represented as negative, chaotic, dangerous, violent, when it comes... from those marginalized from power. Noise is also an expression of freedom, a 'liberation of sound.'" The Body are sound liberators capable of mining and extracting remarkable details from the most manipulated and distorted sound sources. I've Seen All I Need To See is a groundbreaking work and an ecstatic listen, whether seen as a testament to catharsis in oblivion, an opus of inexorable dread or a wholly liberating adventure.

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The Dead South

Served Live

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2021 | US | Original (Colemine)

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

I Told You So

Johnny Katharsis & Hemightbe

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio-or as it is sometimes referred to, DLO3-specialize in the lost art of "feel good music." The ingredients of this intoxicating cocktail include a big helping of the 1960s organ jazz stylings of Jimmy Smith and Baby Face Willette; a pinch of the snappy soul strut of Booker T. & The M.G.'s and The Meters; and sprinkles Motown, Stax Records, blues, and cosmic Jimi Hendrix-style guitar. It's a soul-jazz concoction that goes straight to your heart and head makes your body break out in a sweat. The band features organist Delvon Lamarr, a self-taught virtuosic musician, with perfect pitch who taught himself jazz and has effortlessly been able to play a multitude of instruments. On guitar is the dynamo Jimmy James who eases through Steve Cropper-style chanking guitar, volcanic acid-rock freak-out lead playing, and slinky Grant Green style jazz. From Reno, Nevada is drummer Dan Weiss (also of the powerhouse soul and funk collective The Sextones). Dan's smoldering pocket-groove drumming locks in the trio's explosive chemistry. Founded by Larmarr's wife and manager Amy Novo, the trio started from humble beginnings in 2015, but since then has released two Billboard charting albums and toured the world to sold out venues. The trio returns now with their second studio album, I Told You So, with even heavier grooves and more confidence. It may have been several years since their most recent studio effort, but they haven't missed a beat.

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Nostromo HHV Exclusive Cover Artwork Edition

LP | 2021 | DE | Original (Das Label Mit Dem Hund)

15,59 €* 25,99 € -40%

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Newtold)

evän

Rebirth: Biggie

19,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of evän's lo-fi take on classic Biggie parts incl. all instrumentals. Tip!

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R-Juna

Intelligent Design

The Fix (DJ Grazzhoppa & Jamil Honesty)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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R-Juna is a producer, DJ, and MC influenced by gritty East Coast 90’s hip hop. In his 10 years in the music scene he has produced several albums spanning various genres, toured the United States, and shared stages with many of his musical influences. His most recent project, "Intelligent Design", marks his return to hip hop after a brief hiatus and showcases his grimey boombap beats coupled with thought-provoking rhymes. The album also features New York underground MCs Chuck Chan and Zagnif Nori, as well as A7mc from Detroit.

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This Is War

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Karl)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Fix consist of two long time collaborators, Baltimore emcee Jamil Honesty and legendary Belgian DJ Grazzhoppa . They came together to give you their debut album "This Is War" featuring elite emcees like Ill Conscious, Josiah The Gift, Supreme Cerebral, Codenine and more! The LP contains pretty straight forward raw rhymes from Jamil Honesty paired with top notch beats from DJ Grazzhoppa who not only produced the majority of the project but also provided the album with his signature cuts. An absolute gem and without a doubt one of the illest albums of 2020!

The album will be limited to 100 copies on red opaque vinyl and 150 copies on black vinyl. Since the album was released on CD already last year but sold out quickly, I decided to do a small very limited CD repress of only 150 copies which will feature the amazing Real Shit (The Majestic Remix) as a bonus track!

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Martina Bertoni

Music For Empty Flats

19,99 €*

The 8, Vol. 6 (Prod. By Arashigenki)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A download code is included. Cello player and electronic artist martina bertoni‘s new album „music for empty flats“ delivers masterfully crafted experimental ambient / drone for fans of hildur guðnadóttir, giulio aldinucci or lawrence english. Martina Bertoni is a berlin based cellist and composer. she started playing the cello at a very young age. Classically trained, bertoni‘s career soon developed around experimental and film music where her cello has been featured in numerous records, soundtracks for awarded movies and tv series and collaborations, among others with blixa bargeld and teho teardo with whom she recorded several albums and performed at many prestigious festivals all around the globe.

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Teknical Development

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Dezi-Belle)

30,99 €*

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (High Water Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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incl. Poster and Lyric Sheet

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Brainorchestra.

Marmalade

Modern Prophet Feat. Milton Henry

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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In a world of constant releases & quickly forgotten pieces, preserving our creations sometimes works out for the better.
In late 2019, Brainorchestra created this rap work after his highly anticipated debut rap, EP From The 908. This follow-up project features the likes of legendary producers such as Ohbliv, Foisey, Derrick Braxton, Good Food & more---Brainorchestra conjured up a medley of styles & let it sit.

With High Water Music, Brainorchestra is releasing his third rap oeuvre, Marmalade, with hopes that this time lapse favorably aged his records for the World.

DJ support and airplay:
Ralph McDaniels' Video Music Box The BeatJunkies DJ MK & Shortee Blitz (Kiss FM London)

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Disciples / Buriman

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Black Redemption)

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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This one is a special dedication to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, as it was him - through his actions and words - who has continuously been inspiring a many people scattered around the world. It features Milton Henry - a distinct voice from Jamaica, well known for his works with Wackies - on a recut of the classic ‘Words Of My Mouth’-riddim by UK dub legend Disciples with an equally deep reinterpretation by Italy’s dub veteran Buriman (Moa Anbessa) on the flip side. A tune called ‘Modern Prophet’, telling the story of ‘old Marcus’ to the ones who have an open ear and heart, young and old. As a little extra the A side holds a melodica version by Dubiterian, while the B side ends with a sax cut by Sax N Dub. Both sides were transferred to 1/2inch Tape for extra analogue warmth, and mastered and cut with care by Star Delta, UK.

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R-Juna

Intelligent Design

The Soul Vegetable Orchestra

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Ajax Tow

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Stereophonk)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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When Ajax Tow travels in his Pop Western landscapes, you can be sure there’s always a perfect 70’s road trip soundtrack. Italians cowboys meeting the legendary Miriam Makeba in Rennes suburbs... For his 3rd album The Soul Vegetable Orchestra, Ajax Tow is bringing us on a ten tracks sonic adventure, where many inspirations and references collide. The succession of tracks inspires many feels and moods from sipping a good old bourbon, dance in the kitchen, or gallops though the plains of Napoli. We can found the influence of Danger Mouse paying hommage to the late Ennio Morricone (Roma, 2011), a cinematic side of Shawn Lee and Misha Panfilov, from music library à la JeanClaude Vannier to the Band Voilaa, a little glimpse of pimped Ninja tune, a reworked organic Mo’Wax vibe, all mixed up and spiced up with a Tricky style. This album is also the result of a collaboration with Dan Voisin (Modul-Club, Eighty…) at the production and drums with Rennes city scene musicians who gives a hand on this album: Romain Baousson (Coupe Colonel, Bikini Machine…) on drums, Sax Machine and Racecar (Saxtoys Records) on horns and vocals, Dj Marrrtin (Funky Bijou, Lord Paramour) on beatmaking, Medline (My Bags) on Flûte. As a special guest, the late and legendary Miriam Makeba appears on “Magic Miriam”. “Feel it” is definitely setting a west coast on the LP with a Jurassic 5 inspiration, accompanied by a spicy rhythm, MC Racecar (Sax Machine) flows and lyrics brings even more energy to the track. On “Movie” and “Silence”. Ajax Tow give us a nice taste of his favorite psychedelic blends, romantic and intimate at the same time, where we found back Fuzz guitar with 60’s Eric Clapton style (Cream era) and Pink Floyd synths Flavors. The cinematic style and first notes of “So What” reminds Air first EP and the beautiful bass of “Melody Nelson”. For the dessert, “Smallville” is a kind of wedding cake with 70’s loops sprinkling that brings us to Phillipe Sarde’s La Grande Bouffe soundtrack, but with a more contemporary feeling.

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White Boy Scream

Bakunawa

22,99 €*

Vintage League Music Family Album Volume 1

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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White Boy Scream is the experimental classical project from opera singer and composer Micaela Tobin. On her latest release, 'bakunawa', she dissects her voice through the use of electronics as a means of exploring identity and ancestral trauma. “bakunawa” is an homage to the pre-colonial mythology of her motherland, the Philippines. Part sonic ritual, part diasporic storytelling. Micaela Tobin is currently on Faculty as a Voice Instructor at the California Institute for the Arts. She most recently performed a principal role in the critically acclaimed experimental opera, Sweet Land (comp.Raven Chacon & Du Yun), which made it’s U.S. premiere in March 2020. Her previous album, 'Remains' was listed as one of the top 10 Noise/ Industrial Albums of 2018 by The Wire Magazine.

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Vintage League Music

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Vintage League Music)

16,09 €* 22,99 € -30%

7"+Book | 2021 | US | Original (Uprising Music)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This star studded soul funk album from the Vintage League Music label, featuring all new music from various VLM artists. The Vintage League Music Family Album Vol 1‘ features band new music from an all star line-up of VLM artists and collaborator. The line features artists such as Alan Evans, Matt Schofield, John Medeski, Neal Evans, Crowd Company, Alan Evans Trio, BT ALC Band, Jesse Dee, On The Spot Trio.

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Stretch & Bobbito

Que Bonita Bandera

29,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Hit + Run)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vocals: Jeimy Osorio (Netflix "Celia Cruz" series), Latin Grammy Award winner Mireya Ramos, Grammy Award nominee Danny Rivera, Ismael Cruz Cordova (Lord of the Rings), Bomba singer Chamir Bonano, and newcomer Sabrina Cintrón. Cameos: Olympic medalist Laurie Hernandez, actors Rosario Dawson (Disney+ “The Mandalorian”) , Lauren Luna Velez (Into the Spider-Verse), Oscar nomineeRosie Perez, Ramon Rodriguez (hbo "The Wire,"Transformers II),Freddy Rodriguez(CBS "Bullet"), Justina Machado (CBS"One Day At A Time"), Modesto Lacen (Netflix "Celia Cruz" series), artist José Parlá, hip hop legends Crazy Legs and Tony Touch, former And1 Mixtape star Tim “Headache”Gittens, and DJ Janzism de Puerto Rico. 100% of the net profits will be given to Afro-Boricua grassroots programs based in PR via the non-profit La Borinqueña grants program.

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Grace Oh

Moyo

32,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Grace OH is a Visual and Sensory Healing Artist working with the mediums of Sound and Light. She practices Sound Healing Therapy, Yoga, Reiki, Nutritional & Vibrational Cheffing as well as Photography & Videography. Grace has a combination of a twenty-year journey in all the modalities and mediums she practices. Inspired by travel and deep inner journeys that can happen in retreat settings, Grace began co-facilitating retreats in Bali, Yosemite & Tanzania in 2018. 'moyo' is Grace Oh's first Sound Healing Album. The album emphasizes a Sound Bath experience which is supported by the playing of Crystal Bowls, Vocal Toning, Tuning Forks, & Wind Chimes. The pieces in the album are of recordings created from the timeline of 2017 - 2019 in Venice & Topanga, CA to the Serengeti of Tanzania.

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Walter Benton Quintet

Out Of This World

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alterazioni Video / Giovanni De Donà

Photons

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Koo Editions)

28,69 €* 40,99 € -30%

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Ad 93)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Unprecedented submolecular laser class 4 electro session, recorded in Physics Dept, Freie Univeristät Berlin, in 2005. The modern photon concept was originated by the work of Albert Einstein at the beginning of XX century, when he elaborated the relativity theory, in 1905. To celebrate the centenary (2005) of that singular event, the AEM - "Casa dell'energia" of Milan - organized the presentation of a dedicated installation and a live performance by the artistic collective Alterazioni Video. To develop this photonic work, they went to the physics laboratory of the Freie Universität in Berlin. Together with Giovanni De Donà, then researcher Markus Gühr (now director at Potsdam University after his experience at Stanford) carried out his research using a class 4 laser. There are various types of lasers and class 4 is one of the most powerful. Certainly not a free sale item. The class 4 is able not only to pierce the retina, but also to break the bond that holds the oxygen molecules together, thus generating flashes of light and powerful micro-couplings with interesting rhythmic flaps. The session involved a certain risk, the atmosphere was naturally electrified, and under the supervision of Markus it was possible to trigger the laser through a drum machine in order to control these bursts and use them as rhythmic units. Improvising a unique session of electro to all effects properly sub molecular, minimal electronic sounds interacted with the rhythms of the matter stimulated by the laser while producing light phenomena. The Waterlaser track in particular was created by concentrating the laser focus on a water surface, and documents the background sound given by the splitting of the molecules of the liquid. This experimentation on the border of art and science goes beyond the reductionism given by the programmed structures of the explosions, and highlights the obscure aspect of indeterminacy revealed by uncontrollable explosions, out of the rhythmic grid and out of every possible control. This took place because of a physical principle that we could touch with our hands, which brought science closer to the aesthetics of magical realism, as we could experience with our eyes and ears: Gdd- Markus, what's going on? There are explosions that I didn't program, that create these syncopated rhythms, as if someone was improvising on the sequence... And it's not me...- MG- It's ... (sneering) a matter of “sympathy”, “vibratory sympathy”. Sometimes, some molecules follows the ones that blows, with no particular apparent reason...- This true Berliner experimental session was recorded with room microphones, and the balance was all in all positive: no one injured, a professional digital camera burned for daring to linger too long in framing the focus of the explosion of molecules. and a recording that is now presented in this record 15 years later. The B side features Chris Mitchell with Bass influenced kinematic interpretation using parts from the session. The recording of the next Milanese public session was lost in the black hole of the RAI archives.

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Biosphere

Angel's Flight

15,99 €*

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Def Jam)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Angel’s Flight is the new album from the highly acclaimed producer and composer Biosphere, due for release January 2021. It features twelve tracks that traverse the peripheries of classical and electronic composition, all based on Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14. Much of the music was initially composed for ’Uncoordinated Dog’, a dance production by the Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt in 2019 that explores the personal, the ambiguous, exposure and beauty.

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2 Chainz

So Help Me God

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Martin Hossbach)

Michaela Meise

Cemalim

10,99 €*

Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Under the impression of the racially motivated murders on 19 February 2020 in Hanau, her hometown, the visual artist and musician Michaela Meise recorded the piece "Cemalim" by the Turk Erkin Koray in German translation. The production of the song was supported by the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn and the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, both of which have included the work in their exhibition programmes this year. Erkin Koray is a representative of the psychedelic Anadolu-Rock and published "Cemalim" as an arrangement in 1973. The original composer, Rafik Başaran, came from the Cappadocian town of Ürgüp, which is also mentioned in the song. "Cemalim" means, translated into German, "My darling Cemal", and is a lament for the dead. Meise wrote the German text based on the translation by Fatih Alasalvaroglu, who also comes from Hanau.Besides the mourning of nine young people, solidarity with the relatives and friends of the murder victims is urgently needed. They have organised themselves in the "Initiative 19 February Hanau" - on their website you can find information about what support they would like to receive. Most of the concert programme of the last two years included anti-fascist songs and was a reaction to the increasing right-wing populism. Folk songs, hits and chansons of the 1960s, published in July 2018 on the album "Ich bin Griechin" (Martin Hossbach), dealt with the experience of the Second World War, told of the longing to leave home or the experiences of a seasonal worker. The songs were composed by the anti-fascist Mikis Theodorakis, the musician Barbara, who survived the Shoah with her family in the underground, and George Moustaki and Alexandra, who crossed both national borders.

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François De Roubaix

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Transversales Disques)

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Office Home)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Transversales Disques presents for the first time on LP, François de Roubaix’s full score for the French TV series Les Secrets de la Mer Rouge, an adaptation of the epic travel, through the Middle East, of the famous writer and explorer Henri de Monfreid. This album is a collection of the original (1967) themes and those recorded later in 1975 when the TV series was continued. In the 1967 soundtrack, de Roubaix uses various flutes, marine conches, and for underwater views, unexpected instruments such as a celesta or a crystal xylophone. By 1975, electronic technology had dramatically developed and this evolution is clearly apparent when one listens to the recordings of the two seasons. For the later 1975 series, de Roubaix composed a new music score, mixing old and new sounds, a great combination of EMS Vcs3 synthesizer subtly mixed with acoustic instruments. For François de Roubaix, there was never a border between fiction, life and music, and writing music for Les secrets de la Mer Rouge was an extension of his love of the open sea.

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Roforofo Jazz

Fire Eater

15,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (UNFD)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Paris based Roforofo Jazz is a 7-piece liveband fronted by Chicago born MC Days (aka RacecaR), with a certain taste for adventurous blends, mixing hip hop, afrobeat and jazz into their very own style. After more than 15 years slashing the afrobeat of Les Freres Smith with his guitar cuts, Martin Smith digged into the musical sediments and silts in a swamp of hip hop, funk groove, afro power, jazz freedom radicality, with a certain taste for adventurous blends. This wax solid 5 tracks Vinyl was recorded live in Montreuil (France) at Studios La Peche, in November 2019, just a few weeks after the band toured in Nigeria and played at the mythical New Afrika Shrine on the occasion of Felabration 2019, where they got invited to perform by the Fela Kuti family for a series of concerts in Lagos. The 5 titles include the single “Fire Eater”, a raw afro hip hop tune mixing rhythms in the tradition of polyrhythm afrofunk tunes, while also alternating in between jazzy mood and burning hip hop anthem. “Dump It” is a dark, mid tempo beat, borrowing the groove signature of ethiopian soul, and coated with hip hop sharp drops, while horns bring the jazzyness through their themes. “Helelyos” is a cover/extrapolation of Iranian singer Zia’s hit, to which Days vocals bring an heavy old school hip hop vibe. “2Kick1” is a relentless afrobeat oriented tune, though with a languorous spacy chorus that breaks with the traditional afrobeat routine. And “What We Think We Saw” ends the EP with an opening to more psychedelic visions, in which a Gil Scott-Heron spoken word style meets jazzy space echoes, flutes under massive reverbs in a global vibe that could remind old analog recordings of Mandrill, Cymande or LKJ.

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Like Moths To Flames

No Eternity In Gold

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Like No Tomorrow Neon Yellow Vinyl Edition

Wedge

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Heavy Psych Sounds)

22,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Transversales Disques)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wedge’s new release „Like No Tomorrow” makes for an unholy trinity of Wedge albums in the Heavy Psych Sounds Records back catalogue. The Berlin-based power trio once more is driving their musical Wedge in between many different genres: Garage rock turns progressive while psychedelic guitar lines are tripping over hard rocking riffs. Does this work together? Hell yes! For fans of Deep Purple, MC5, Led Zeppelin or Humble Pie this album is a sure shot. You like fuzz guitars? Hammond organ and vocals trough a swirling Leslie cabinet? More cowbell? You got it. But unlike our beloved rock records from around 1971, which we’ve heard a hundred times before „Like No Tomorrow” has one huge advantage: It’s brand new and the 8 tracks, ranging from 3:00 to 9:00 minutes, deliver a fresh, unspent and unmistakably unique taste to the rock’n’roll menu. In the tradition of bands like The Raconteurs, The Hellacopters, Graveyard or Wolfmother, Wedge are building on that vintage vibe we all know and love but evolve their very own thing and are able to connect it directly to here and now. Also lyrically the tunes are picking up on our zeitgeist, dealing with topics like digitalisation, mass migration and current social issues among others. So it’s no coincidence that the record’s title is a direct hint at our crazy times, in which it feels like the end of the world might be lurking just around the very next corner. But rather than being pessimistic about it, Wedge want to convey a positive message: „When it feels like there might be no tomorrow, just love and live Like No Tomorrow”

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Pierre Henry

Un Monde Lacéré

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of the never released before piece Un Monde Lacéré by electroacoustic music pioneer Pierre Henry. This piece is a special tribute to Jacques Villeglé and his work. It is the world opening performance of this opus, recorded in studio Son/Ré. Pierre Henry was born in 1927 In Paris. He started studying music as early as the age of seven. In 1944, guided by Olivier Messiaen, he imagined and started composing music for the future. His meeting with Pierre Schaeffer was crucial for his creation. Inventing new technical composition processes which in time have become widely used on a large scale, he has constantly given this music a far reaching power no one expected at the start. He has also invented his own sound, as easily distinguishable as the sound of the most famous jazz musician.

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Nahawa Doumbia

Kanawa

Orderly Chaos Gold Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nahawa Doumbia's new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N'gou Bagayoko. The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia's daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy concert schedule, Doussou Bagayoko sings on "Adjorobena," a song about patience, tolerance and living in peace. Doumbia weaves together a roadmap of her psyche when it comes to the good and bad life has to offer. She talks about marriage and women leaving home to join another through the metaphor of a tree in the garden; she includes gunshot samples in the song "Foliwilen" to honor the bravery of hunters, soldiers and other courageous people; she uses a bird in "Djougoh" to talk about lazy people; and, in "Ndiagneko" she advises people to ignore critics, just do you. Mali has gone through an intense period of regional strife and terrorist incidents over the last ten years and Doumbia roots the album in tragic local concerns with deep global implications. "The meaning of Kanawa is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them die while crossing the Sahara. But I ask them why do they leave their country? They said that they leave because of the family situation or problems like poverty and unemployment. I ask them to stay and work in their country. I call on the UN and African leaders so that we can coordinate our efforts to find a solution, to create jobs for them so that young people stop leaving. That's why I chose it as the title of my album so that everybody can learn from it and also so that there is a reduction in the number of people emigrating. So that some will hear the message and stay home and grow the land. Leaving is not the only solution. My message is to help the youth find jobs."

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Alignment

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Voxnox)

14,99 €*

Home Limited Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We know it. You know it. Alignment is here to stay. Delivering the next round of high quality tracks on vinyl for Vn043, his "Orderly Chaos" EP mirrors our suspicious times like nothing else but techno can.

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Rhye

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Caroline / Loma Vista)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Electro Music Coalition)

Neonicle

Hypno EP

14,99 €*

Remixes With Love (By Franksen)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Neonicle delivers 5 skillfully crafted electro cuts on St. Petersburgs Electro Music Coalition.

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Jazz Against The Machine

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Poets Club)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Royal Blood

Typhoons

11,35 €* 15,99 € -29%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Critical Music)

Workforce

Moods EP

14,99 €*

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Euromantic)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A download code is included.

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Sugar

I Worry EP

13,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sugar's second effort for Euromantic is a reach for a life that's so easily obscured by the temptations of the modern world. This is musick for the times when you contemplate deleting your Instagram account. <3

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Symphonic & Opera Metal Volume 2

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Goldencore)

17,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

Elori Saxl

The Blue Of Distance

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Limited Edition Cloudy Clear Vinyl.Combining Processed Recordings Of Wind And Water With Analog Synthesizers And Chamber Orchestra, Elori Kramer's The Blue Of Distance Is An Audio Dissertation On The Role Technology Plays In Our Relationships To Geography And Nature, Unspoolinginto An Examination Of Memory And Longing Across Seven Sections That Layer Filmic Minimalism Over Churning Electronic Soundbeds. Half Of The Suite Was Written In The Adirondack Mountains During Summer Amid Lakes, Rivers, And Moss-Ladenforest Floors, While The Other Half Was Conceived On A Frozen Lake Superior Island In Deep Winter, Creating A Subtextual Dialogue Between The Two Extreme Settings. Kramer, Who Was Born In 1990 And Grew Up Alongside The Internet, Uses Her Musicto Explore Nature In The Actual And The Virtual World, Through Direct Experience And Facsimile Alike, Focussing And Blurring The Line Between The Two. "Looking Back At My Videos Of That Summer-- Which Is Where The Processed Audio Came From-- I Triedto Remember What It Had Felt Like To Be There," She Recalls, "Thinking About Questions Of Reality Versus Imagination; Physical Versus Digital; And The Ways In Which Memory Shifts Through Our Minds And Technology." The Title The Blue Ofdistance Was Derived From Rebecca Solnit's Book A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Referring To The Phenomenon Of Faraway Mountains Appearing Blue Due To Light Particles Getting Lost Over Distance. "If We Were To Go Up To The Mountains Thatappear Blue From Far Away, We Would See That They Weren't Actually That Color." She Says. "This Beauty Is Made Possible Because Of Their Distance," Much In The Same Way That The Splendor Of A Lush Season Is Only Fully Realized In The Throes Of A Bleak One, And The Joy Of An Event Can Only Be Felt When It Has Long Since Been Consigned To Remembrance.R.I.Y.L Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Josiah Steinbrick, Emily Sprague

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (R.A.N.D. Muzik)

RM241220

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings releases their yearly 2412 compilation this year featuring music from Bufiman, Roza Terenzi, Carmel & Salomo and DJ Detox.

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Azmari

Sama'i

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Shiro Games)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Created in Brussels in 2015, Azmari is a weaving musical odyssey that expertly fuses ethiogroove, dub, psychfunk and eastern sounds. Taking inspiration from artists such as Okay Temiz, Mulatu Astatke, Cymande, Fela Kuti and The Heliocentrics.

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Camille Schoell

OST Northgard

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Sweetspot)

NTSC

Space Jelly EP

9,09 €* 12,99 € -30%

Oliver Deutschmann, La Fraicheur & Leonard De Leonard

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ntsc presenting Space Jelly EP as the first release on their new imprint Sweetspot. The A-side includes two fresh and Deep House tracks with a minimal touch - compact driving beats, subtle textures and groovy percussions. 'Lady Of Grape' on the B-side is a deeper stripped down track with a jazzy infused sample - telling a proper story from start to end.

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Gegen 002

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Gegen)

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Non Series)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mar/us and WarinD remix. On the A-side, Berlin's Oliver Deutschmann brings his signature sound of hyp-notic big room techno, while Gegen's residents La Fraicheur & Leonard de Leonard come up with a moody track carrying a weird combination of gritty and dirty synths with spacious sound design that make you wonder if you didn't get thrown off the side of the Milky Way by a boisterous clunky spacecraft on its last leg.

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Nastia Reigel

Superposition

9,89 €* 10,99 € -10%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Kanine)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Non series welcomes Nastia Reigel for her first release on the label

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Pearl Charles

Magic Mirror

Threads Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blue Vinyl Includes Mp3 Download, 12 X 24 Inch Poster:Some Say Life Only Makes Sense In Reverse, From The Vantage Point Of Your Rear View - Magic Mirror Is A Looking Glass Of Sorts. Like A Modern Day Alice In Wonderland, Pearl Charles Beckons You To Slip And Fall Into Her World. You'll Find Yourself Drifting With The Tide - The Ups, Downs, And All-Arounds Of A Life Well-Lived And Well- Loved.From Start To Finish You Float Along A Reflective River, Dancing In Your Own/The Personal/Private Studio 54 Of Your Living Room, Decked Out In Sequins Or Nothing At All. It's A Feel Good Album That Asks Us To Actually Take The Time To Feel Good. Magic Mirror Follows The Cartography Of A Girl, Growing Into A Woman, As She Moves Through Life From Singledom, To Theexpansive Space Of Self-Reflection, And The Newly Appreciatedperspective Of Coming Back Together Again And Finding Yourself, This Time With Someone New. A Love Letter To The Self, A Dance Party For Life, And At Times As Introspective As Your Best Trip, Pearl Takes Us On A Journey That, Like Life & Love, Has The Tendency To Surprise, Delight, And Leave You Breathless. All You Have To Do Is Let Yourself Enjoy It.

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Tim Story

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dais)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Century Media)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First Ever Vinyl Edition, Originally Set To Be Released In 1982 But Due To Original Label's Untimely Demise, It Was Never Issued Until Now. For Fans Of Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Roedelius, Nils Frahm, Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre. The Saga Of Composer Tim Story's 1982 Debut Is A Case Study In The Shifting Sands Of The Early Progressive Music Industry. Recorded On A Tascam 4-Track Reel-To-Reel In His Basement Bedroom In Whitehouse, Ohio Using A Ragtag Array Of Equipment - Salvaged Vibraphone, Pawn Shop Les Paul, His Mother's Spinet Piano, A Paia Synth Kit Assembled By His Girlfriend's Father, And A Yamaha Cs-30 - Story Optimistically Dubbed Six Cassettes And Sent Them Around The World. Following A Polite Rejection From Klaus Schulze, The French Avant-Garde Label Atem (This Heat, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd) Reached Out With An Offer To Release Threads Via Their New Instrumental Electronic Subdivision, Labyrinthes. After Several Letters Confirming Terms Of The Arrangement As Well As Multiple Rounds Of Test Pressings, Correspondence Suddenly Ceased. Some Months Later The Label Folded, Never Having Begun. Synchronistically, However, Schulze's Copy Ended Up In The Glovebox Of An Engineer Associate, Who Happened To Play It For A Couple Visiting Journalists With Contacts At A Newish Norwegian Imprint, Uniton Records (Popul Vuh, Harold Budd). Impressed, They Connected Story To The Label Head, But By Then He'd Already Recorded A Follow-Up, The More Neoclassical-Leaning In Another Country, Which Became His Inaugural Release. Finally, 40 Years Later, Dais Records Is Rectifying History's Error By Properly Issuing Threads On Vinyl For The First Time. It's A Beautiful, Beguiling Work, Exploratory But Emotive, Documenting, As Story Puts It, "The Path Not Taken... Like The First Chapter Of A Book That Was Set Aside To Begin Another." Despite Only Being In His Early Twenties At The Time Of Its Creation, Threads Feels Finessed And Considered, Weaving Through A Diverse Spectrum Of Moods And Minimalist Melodie...

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Asphyx

Necroceros

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Jam)

Four On Jam 04

9,89 €* 10,99 € -10%

Isles Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The fourth Various Artists release on JAM, 'Four JAM on 04' feature Frankyeffe, Shabaam, Tauchen, and Alex Fain

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Bicep

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Ninja Tune)

Soul Jazz Records presents

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bicep have become synonymous with a particularly emotive brand of electronic dance music down the years, and on the Belfast-born, London-based duo’s new LP Isles we find that sound in good nick once more. The album’s shimmering synths and buoyant beats transport you to the last dance of the night, or perhaps to the sun setting over a festival skyline, even as you enjoy them through headphones or hi-fi speakers.

Isles finds Bicep incorporating influences which range from old-school rave tunes to the tender, R&B-indebted sounds of post-dubstep. A single like ‘Apricots’ is an expert demonstration of how Bicep’s style is in dialogue with so many important eras of dance music’s history yet also remains distinctly their own. ‘Apricots’ features shuffling broken-beat drums which push the tune forward, the gently insistent groove providing a base from which the synths and vocal loops can build. It makes for hugely stirring listening, particularly when the ever-climbing synths reach their apex at the track’s climax. Other entries here may deliver some harder timbres - there are electro and trance influences lurking towards the back-end of Isles - but Bicep still find the emotional sweet-spot time and again across the course of the album.

With the Isles LP, Bicep have delivered some of their most moving electronic dance music productions to date.

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Cuba: Music And Revolution 1975-85 (Compiled By Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker)

3LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

36,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Iron Lung)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1 is a new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state. The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba - and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states. The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s - who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album has never been heard outside of Cuba. Cuba: Music and Revolution is the third book that Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have collaborated on together and follows on from their two earlier critically acclaimed books, Freedom, Rhythm and Sound (Revolutionary Jazz Music in the 1960s and 1970s) and Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s, both of which also had related album releases on Soul Jazz Records.

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Luke Sick And Wolfagram

Yegg War

Rasheed Chappell & Buckwild

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LUKE SICK and WOLFAGRAM - Yegg War CS (LUNGS-154)
One of West Bay's finest underground rappers meets beats from Toronto's most promising new producer with a little help from the homies near, far and in-between. Yegg War is a little drugged, a little thugged and criminally smooth.

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Sinners And Saints

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Get On Down)

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Air Vinyl)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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“When we decided to do an album, we didn’t want to do just a beats and rhyme album, but something more conceptual. The times we’re living in gave me the idea of tackling the idea of what’s a sinner and what’s a saint.” — Rasheed Chappell on his new album with producer Buckwild, Sinners & Saints On their ambitious collaboration, New York rap heavyweights Rasheed Chappell & Buckwild have perfectly captured the stress and tension, but also faint sense of the hope, of what it means to be a sinner or a saint. In just 11 tracks, Sinners & Saints plays like an audio documentary series filled with expertly crafted beats and rhymes. When the two sat down to work together, Rasheed says that they only knew that they “wanted to address the now, the past, and the potential future.” And upon receiving the first batch of beats from Buck—the D.I.T.C. producer with decades of acclaimed work to his name—the NY emcee used a majority of them and knew immediately what they were doing. “My goal was simple: don’t try to recreate anything they have done, just create something that no one else can do, which is to be me,” Rasheed says. Buck echoed that sentiment when he talked about the record in a documentary, in which he expressed his excitement to work with not just a talented rapper, but a skilled artist. “Being an artist is just as important as putting two words together to rhyme,” Buck explained. That high level of artistry, from everyone involved, is what makes Sinners & Saints so impactful. Not just anyone could pull off a track as stirring as “The Blue Hood,” in which Rasheed plays the role of a racist, corrupt police officer over Buck’s harrowing production. The same goes for “Rock Bottom” where he and Ransom sound off about life’s low points, and “Bredren,” a speaker-knocking middle-finger in musical form featuring Planet Asia. There’s just so much to love about what these two have created with Sinners & Saints, a project that sounds like if 2020 was a hip-hop album. And if things do truly get better as we move into 2021, there’s no better anthem than “Black Owned,” a powerful anthem for Rasheed, Buck, and everyone listening.

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The Musalini

The Return Of The Oro

17,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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T.P. Orchestre - Poly Rythmo De Cotonou

Volume 4 - Yehouessi Leopold Batteur

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paracon (The Paragon Session Outtakes 1978-1979)

Conrad Schnitzler

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2021 | US | Original (Dunham)

LaRose Jackson

How Did I Get Here

10,99 €*

Cooler Returns Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LaRose Jackson, who you may remember from "Luv Jones" - the 2014 party-cer tified smash duet with the incomparable Charles Bradley - steps into the spotlight with her funky solo debut, "How Did I Get Here ". Born and raised in Coney Island, LaRose's rich timbre and asser tive vocal deliver y caught the attention of producer Tommy "tnt" Brenneck one night when he was in attendance at Charles Bradley's legendary "Black Velvet" show at Club Essence - where Jackson was also a regular performer. The two hit it of f and began collaborating on several sides, the fruit of which we humbly of fer up here. LaRose's tough-as-nails delivery coupled with the infallible groove and sure-shot horn arrangement courtesy of the Menahan Street Band distills the track down to Soul in its purest form, without sacrificing any of the rawness one comes to expect from a TNT production. Expect much more on the horizon from LaRose and Co.. This is just the tip of the iceberg!

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Kiwi Jr.

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kiwi Jr. Is A Phenomenal "Rock" And/Or "Punk" And/Or "Indie-Rock" (Whichever You Like More) Band From Canada, Made Up Of Jeremy Gaudet (Mic, Guitar), Brohan Moore (Drums), Mike Walker (Bass), And Brian Murphy (Guitar). Cooler Returns Is Their Second Album, And Their First For Sub Pop. Despite Being A Snapshot Of The Pandemic-Infused Beginnings Of This Decade, Cooler Returns Is Truly A Whole Lot Of Fun. Riyl Indie-Pop From Down Under, Things That Are Smart/Exuberant/Catchy All At Once. Buildings Burning In Every Direction; Macabre Unknowns In Your Friendly Neighbor's Basement; Undecided Voters Sharpening Their Pencils: Under Pressure We Could Call Kiwi Jr.'S Cooler Returns "Timely." But What Year Is It, Again? On Cooler Returns, Kiwi Jr. Cycle Through The Recent Zigs & Looming Zags Of The New Decade, Squinting Anew At New Year's Parties Forgotten And Under-Investigated Small Town Diner Fires, Piecing Together Low-Stakes Conspiracy Theories On What's Coming Down The Pike In 2021. Put Together Like A Thousand-Piece Puzzle, Assembled In Flow State Through The First Dull Stretch Of Quarantine, Sanitized Singer Shuffling To Sanitized Studio By Streetcar, Masked Like It's The Kind Of Work Where Getting Recognized Means Getting Killed, Cooler Returns Materializes As A Sprawling Survey From The First Few Bites Of The Terrible Twenties, An Investigative Exposé Of Recent History Buried Under The Headlines & Ancient Kings Buried Under Parking Lots. Not So Long Since Their Debut Football Money In Archaeological Time, Unending Gray Eons Later In The Dog Years Of Quaran-Time, Spiritually Antipodean Canadians Kiwi Jr Return To Disseminate This Year's Annual Report To The Shareholders, Burying The Incriminating Numbers In The Endless Appendices Of A Longform Narrative Record, A 3,000 Word Tract For Stakeholders To Pore Over. These Stories - Memories Of Augusts Past, Unrepressed & Transcribed Fast - Go Down Easier Thanks To Meaningful Changes Enacted In 2019's Kiwicares Pledge: Delivering On A Promise To Transition F...

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Seba Kaapstad

Konke

25,59 €* 31,99 € -20%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Gangland Landlord Deluxe Edition

Mozzy

Box Set | 2021 | US | Original (Mozzy Records / Empire)

49,99 €*

Zones Of Significant Time

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited Boxset of the Mozzy 'Gangland Landlord' album
Contents:
Gangland Landlord CD
GL Styrofoam cup
Custom GLLL pendant with chain
GLLL Bandana
GLLL Poetry magnets (each has their own mozzy slang on it)

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Kareem

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Zhark)

13,99 €*

Violent Eyes Red Clear Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‘Zones Of Significant Times’ fuses traditional Break beat Structures with suffocating sonic violence & darkness. 11 Gothinc-Industrial HIP HOP Instrumentals. Kareem, Founder of Zhark Recordings Berlin, has been presenting numerous vinyl releases in th eIndustrial Noise/Techno Spectrum. but has often explored Hip Hop terrain which lead to gloomy with artists such as Dälek, Shadowhuntaz, Audio 88, Paul St. Hilaire and Jaeda Glasgow (the Bonk)… Download code included…

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Fractions

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Fleisch)

Love Is The King Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Fractions return to Fleisch for a third time with their debut LP, unleashing eight tracks of highly effective techno-infused body music inspired by the melodrama of French films such as La Haine and Irreversible. With a palette of modernized 90s rave elements they transport the listener on a cinematic ride of contrasts between the explosive and the soothing, through violence and action to love and hope. Featuring Zanias on Track A4

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Jeff Tweedy

LP | 2021 | US | Original (dBpm)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Concentric)

Colliding Wind

Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The ambient/cross-genres record label Concentric Records (Simone Merli / Soundwalk Collective & Luca Calo / Born In 1986) - launches Colliding Wind, the second compilation of its introductory release trilogy. Featuring music by Christina Vantzou, Echium, Etapp Kyle, Jana Winderen, Kareem Lotfy, Soundwalk Collective, Tragic Selector (Daisuke Tadokoro & Terre Thaemlitz), the album is composed of a wide spectrum of ambient, field recording-based and experimental works, exploring unexpected sonic spaces and evocative landscapes.

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Pop Smoke

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Republic)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | US | Original (King Pari)

King Pari

Sunshine

15,99 €*

Music To Be Murdered By Side B Deluxe Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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King Pari is an almost accidental project. Cameron Kinghorn and DJ Stepmom didn’t even set out to start a band. When Joe (DJ Stepmom) texted Cameron some jams whipped up on his tape machine, Cameron hit him back with “what is this? I want in”. Ten minutes before they first linked up, Joe built the loop for their first single, ‘Sunshine,’ which they then wrote on the spot in a flurry on collective inspiration. The rest of their forthcoming ‘mary EP’ grew from recording sessions in Joe’s Northeast Minneapolis bedroom, a guest house in New Orleans and a cabin in rural Wisconsin. Minneapolis left an obvious mark — the influence of Prince and the Minneapolis Sound, approached from a fresh psychedelic angle. It’s been called stonersoul, lo-fi R&B, dub meets 80’s electro with a heavy dose of funk. Grab it now through Earcave via PPU.. And stay tuned for their second Single "Come Inside" on PPU early 2021.

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Eminem

2CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Interscope)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Aguirre)

Timelash

A Morphology Of Wonders

Two Tales Of Lost Witness Marks

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Timelash is the freshly erupted synthesizer & SFX duet of Embassador Dulgoon (Nonlocal Research) and Corum (Psychic Sounds / Million Brazilians). Together they reveal new sound forms by playing with primeval motifs contrasted sharply against unfolding futuristic developments. The result is a simultaneous listening experience of ancient and alien settings told through their unique rhythm of language by mood-driven atmospheres, exotic tones, and electrifying sci-fi Cumbia jolt.

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Crazy Doberman

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Aguirre)

Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tim Gick's already-warped patchwork editing of the entire Crazy Doberman output thus far turns increasingly glitched out across the splattered quiltwork of a nine track LP on Aguirre. Any coherent sense of time departs early on the A-side; kicked off with the familiar sound of the Dobes' synth throb and Love-cry woodwinds on top of completely fried electric guitar squiggling, all suspended in spiritual foam; then battered to bits on the greasy flat top of the record's b-side. Ringing modular synth sirens evoke alarmingly huge Southern watersnakes swimming on top of Oconee river. Total trip zone across two sides: brownouts in the sequence of events, dubby fadeouts, and bright jump cuts in space. Teases of cartoon barrlehouse tickling on the keys of a farmhouse piano and tape melt psychedelia. The recording session in Athens, Georgia was a total "chugfest" recalls Frank Hurricane, the Appalachian juggalo folkie king, who joined the session with the Lafayette, Indiana crew. The presence of Hurricane's own "Life is Spiritual" mirth bulworks the record with a muddy, barefoot hippy hopefullness, steadying the log flume through the notcturnal psychic murk toward the holy morning dew. (J. Russ)

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Nightfall

LP | 2021 | EU (Rebellion)

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kosmonauter Colored Vinyl Edition

Pan/Scan

Kosmonauter Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Four years on from the debut album “Cinematic Lies”, the second release from Sospetto founder Christian Rzechak under the Pan/scan alias is heading your way. Inspired by old-school synthesizer soundscapes of the Berlin or Düsseldorf school, but with an atmospheric modern feel added, Kosmonauter is a pure electronic science fiction soundtrack to guide your dreams. Reminders of composers such as Jóhann Jóhannsson, Cliff Martinez or Steve Moore are quite intentional. The fusion of retro-futurism and contemporary electro-ambient innovations takes you on an exhilarating aural trip into the darkest, furthest reaches of infinite space! Who is the Kosmonauter? What is his mission? Does he defend us against danger or is he a threat himself? The six tracks on the album tell a story, but where this journey goes is up to the listener. The track titles hint at the true meaning, but who can interpret them? The Kosmonauter will invade your head; and, maybe, you will lose your mind...The Kosmonauter: Redemption or Apocalypse?

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Pan/Scan

The Parallax View Colored Vinyl Ediiton

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Lawa

13,99 €* 19,99 € -30%

The Parallax View Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Lawa is the acronym for the duo of Austrian soundtrack wizards Alain Leonard and Alex Wank. Once again they are honouring the world of film music in their idiosyncratic, very personal way. After their first Cineploit release, "Omaggio a Lucio Fulci and Fabio Frizzi“ (Exploit 02, 2012, Vinyl only) and the follow up, "Omaggio a Riz Ortolani“ (Exploit 06, 2015, Vinyl only) Lawa now takes a ride through the furthest reaches of '70s and '80s French and Italian cinema. From Michel Colombier, Michel Legrand and Jacques Revaux to Alessandro Alessandroni, Daniele Patucchi, Nico Catanese and G & M de Angelis, every base is covered. And, of course, not to forget the Master of them all: Ennio Morricone (rip).

These very special tracks have been renewed in Lawa's dark electronic style, proving without a doubt the high-level craft of the composers extraordinaire that created them. Some versions are close to the original, but others have acted as springboards for new ideas and creations. This release is probably Lawa's final reinterpretation of classic obscure film scores, as Messrs Leonard and Wank are creating more and more of their own atmospheric soundtrack music for documentaries, shorts and feature films - hopefully soon to be released via Cineploit as well. Now take a deep dive into this dark ride through European cinema, brought to you in the inimitable Lawa way!

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Lawa

13,29 €* 18,99 € -30%

Super Violence Hardcore '84-89 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Human Gas

4LP | 2021 | EU | Original (F.O.A.D.)

65,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rat-A-Tat-Tat! Purple Vinyl Edition

Dale Crover Of Melvins

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Joyful Noise)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rat-A-Tat-Tat! Is That The Sound Of The Reaper Knocking On Your Door To Collect Your Soul -- Or Dale Crover Hammering Out Another Distinctive Drum Fill?There Are Pretty Good Odds It's The Latter; Between 36 Years (And About As Many Full-Lengths And Eps) As Drummer/Bassist For The Melvins And His Contributions To Acts As Varied As Altamont, Peeping Tom, Redd Kross, Shrinebuilder, And A Little Band Called Nirvana, He's Built Quite The Body Of Work. In 2017, He Added A Proper Solo Album To His Extensive Catalog, Fickle Finger Of Fate. Now He's Followed That With Rat-A-Tat-Tat!Crover Takes The Solo Thing Seriously: He Wrote The Album While On The Road And Provided Vocals, Drums, Guitars, Vibraphone, And Miscellaneous Percussion. Just Like The Last Album, Recording Took Place Over At Toshi Kasai's Sound Of Sirens Studio In Beautiful Sun Valley, Ca. Kasai Recorded And Mixed It Again, As Well As Co-Producing It With Crover Under The Sobriquet Deaf Nephews. Celebrated Graphic Designer (And Regular Melvins Cover Artist) Mackie Osborne Created The Striking Album Art, Just As She Did For Fickle Finger.So What's Different This Time Around? Crover Assembled An Actual Band To Help Him Out. Redd Kross Bassist Steve Mcdonald Asked Crover To Open For Redd Kross, Crover Asked Mcdonald To Play Bass For Him, And The Rest Is History. It'd Be Difficult For Even The Multi-Talented Crover To Put On A Live Show By Himself Without One Of Those One-Man-Band Contraptions. In Addition To Mcdonald, Kasai (Ex-Big Business, Plan D) Helps With Keyboards, Synths, Jawharp, And Backing Vocals. Mindee Jorgensen (Dangerously Sleazy) Sits Behind The Kit Live And Contributes Additional Drumming And Some Sweet Saxophone Skills Here. His Former Altamont Bandmate Dan Southwick Plays Bass On 'Tougher,' A Track Crover Cowrote With Kasai. Some Pieces Of The Songs May Sound Familiar To The 127 Completists Who Grabbed The Limited-Run Lathe Cut Record Piso Mojado, A Collection Of Experimental Drum Weirdness. Although Insanity Certainly Abound...

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (F Communications)

Megasoft Office FCom25

29,99 €*

Sunshine Radio Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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F Communications release first vinyl pressing of Megasoft Office compilation series incl. Aqua Bassino, Elegia, Thomas Ferreiere, Frederic Galliano, Laurent Garnier, and more.

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Tommy Guerrero

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Too Good)

19,35 €* 21,99 € -12%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Brand new album by Tommy Guerrero.

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Kalahari Oyster Cult

Slipmat Model 01

Spare Ribs Black Vinyl Edition

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The Kalahari Oyster Cult "Model 01" Slipmat is made from lightweight felt and equipped with a fresh graphic that makes you feel like the most amazing turntable artist of the world. Style meets function to the highest degree.

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Sleaford Mods

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Rough Trade)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (31)

Need For Mirrors

Coco / Witch Shark

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Need for Mirrors vinyl containing the tracks Coco & Witch Shark taken from NFM's new album "Flames". "We don't really do albums on 31, so it has to be something special, something a bit different and not just a collection of DJ tracks. What really drew me to this project was the vocal tracks that NFM had produced, they really are different and have a quality to them that I don't hear very often in DNB, coupled with the other experimental tracks and straight up rollers, this to me really is an excellent example of what a DNB album should be".

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Radiant Energy Clear Vinyl Edition

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Greyscale)

Huta EP White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We have some very exciting news to share with you. Greyscale is launching a new series for its label and its named the Exposure Series! We are happy to say that many of these Exposure releases will be released on vinyl as well.

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DEAS

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Planet Rhythm)

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Bright Sounds)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The young and talented Polish producer Deas debuts on Planet Rhythm with a bang. 4 effective techno cuts to be played at any time during a proper warehouse rave.

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Blunt

Paradox Interactive EP

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Nurse)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bright Sounds welcomes Blunt. The new musical project by Paris based graffiti artist and creative Vincent Desmont where he connects the dots between his musical outings and his visual works. Over the course of four tracks he delivers a lively package of warm and driven dubtechno. It's a complete and well rounded debut on the ever reliable and fresh Bright Sounds imprint.

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Scarlit Port

Heavenly Ruins

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First 50 copies include a handwritten and numbered text from Scarlit Port, unique to each copy.

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Conny Frischauf

Die Drift

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

M. Ward

Think Of Spring

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Drunk Tank Pink German Exclusive Smoke Marble Vinyl Ediiton

Shame

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Drunk Tank Pink Opaque Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 1000 copies.

Shame follow up their wildly acclaimed debut with a James Ford-produced peek into the riddled mind of the band's frontman, Charlie Steen. There are moments on Drunk Tank Pink where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's Songs Of Praise. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and twitching anxieties laid out here. The South Londoner's blood and guts spirit, that wink and grin of devious charm, is still present, it's just that it's grown into something bigger, something deeper, more ambitious and unflinchingly honest. The genius of Drunk Tank Pink is how these lyrical themes dovetail with the music. Opener Alphabet dissects the premise of performance over a siren call of nervous, jerking guitars, its chorus thrown out like a beer bottle across a mosh pit. Songs spin off and lurch into unexpected directions throughout here, be it March Day's escalating aural panic attack or the shapeshifting darkness of Snow Day. There's a Berlin era Bowie beauty to the lovelorn Human For A Minute while closer Station Wagon weaves from a downbeat mooch into a souring, soullifting climax in which Steen elevates himself beyond the clouds and into the heavens. Or at least that's what it sounds like. From the womb to the clouds (sort of), Shame are currently very much in the pink.

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Shame

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Drunk Tank Pink Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 4000 copies.

Shame follow up their wildly acclaimed debut with a James Ford-produced peek into the riddled mind of the band's frontman, Charlie Steen. There are moments on Drunk Tank Pink where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's Songs Of Praise. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and twitching anxieties laid out here. The South Londoner's blood and guts spirit, that wink and grin of devious charm, is still present, it's just that it's grown into something bigger, something deeper, more ambitious and unflinchingly honest. The genius of Drunk Tank Pink is how these lyrical themes dovetail with the music. Opener Alphabet dissects the premise of performance over a siren call of nervous, jerking guitars, its chorus thrown out like a beer bottle across a mosh pit. Songs spin off and lurch into unexpected directions throughout here, be it March Day's escalating aural panic attack or the shapeshifting darkness of Snow Day. There's a Berlin era Bowie beauty to the lovelorn Human For A Minute while closer Station Wagon weaves from a downbeat mooch into a souring, soullifting climax in which Steen elevates himself beyond the clouds and into the heavens. Or at least that's what it sounds like. From the womb to the clouds (sort of), Shame are currently very much in the pink.

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Shame

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shame follow up their wildly acclaimed debut with a James Ford-produced peek into the riddled mind of the band's frontman, Charlie Steen. There are moments on Drunk Tank Pink where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's Songs Of Praise. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and twitching anxieties laid out here. The South Londoner's blood and guts spirit, that wink and grin of devious charm, is still present, it's just that it's grown into something bigger, something deeper, more ambitious and unflinchingly honest. The genius of Drunk Tank Pink is how these lyrical themes dovetail with the music. Opener Alphabet dissects the premise of performance over a siren call of nervous, jerking guitars, its chorus thrown out like a beer bottle across a mosh pit. Songs spin off and lurch into unexpected directions throughout here, be it March Day's escalating aural panic attack or the shapeshifting darkness of Snow Day. There's a Berlin era Bowie beauty to the lovelorn Human For A Minute while closer Station Wagon weaves from a downbeat mooch into a souring, soullifting climax in which Steen elevates himself beyond the clouds and into the heavens. Or at least that's what it sounds like. From the womb to the clouds (sort of), Shame are currently very much in the pink.

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Midnight Sister

Painting The Roses

Andre Galluzzi & Daniel Stefanik

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As Midnight Sister, multi-disciplinary LA artists Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian make motion pictures. Yes, sometimes with moving images _ but most often only with the music they create together. Balouzian's serpentine, string compositions are movie scenes that allow Giraffe, a brilliant character actor, to cloak herself in a new roles and voices. A bit of Jon Brion's score work; some old Hollywood strings; a solid dose of glam and outsider disco from 70s independent cinema. Any perceived artifice is always matched by an indelible human fingerprint, something perfectly off. Giraffe and Balouzian's respective work in fashion, visual art, video and film scoring _ along with the gang of virtuosos with which they surround themselves _ all wonderfully coalesce as Midnight Sister. And if 2017's `Saturn Over Sunset' was their collection of short films about outcast life in The San Fernando Valley, then their new album `Paining the Roses' is the inventive, meta motion picture that cements them as auteurs. `Painting the Roses' is in many ways a fairy tale -- not so much the sweet-and-happyending kind as something richer, packed with imagination and rooted in the complex human messiness beneath a story's artifice. Frontwoman Giraffe describes it as "this tightrope of being real yet synthetic, organic yet staged, light yet dark, logical yet irrational, beautiful yet dilapidated. Joyful nonsense." Here, disguises like masks and paint are not meant to hide but to liberate, to "set a part of us free", and Midnight Sister often embody this themselves, appearing highly stylized, curious, warm and inviting but a little askew. `Painting the Roses' is a story told through the looking glass, one where we examine ourselves in a funhouse mirror but find clarity in its twists. Giraffe traveled to visit family in Argentina during the making of the album and reconnected greatly with that part of her family history, art and culture. Balouzian created the core album opener "Doctor Says" during a session in the desert outside of LA. The guitar, which reminded Giraffe of South America, has a slow, sweltering surf-tango to it, like Dick Dale doing Carlos Gardel. And even though the song was inspired by Giraffe's reconnection with Argentina, the song is about the fading of some close friendships during the making of the album. "Man, you have changed," Giraffe sings, unclear if tis directed to a friend or to herself. Later on the album, "Wednesday Baby" _ named after Giraffe's rescue dog _ is patient, subtly baroque pop. It follows Giraffe through one of those gloomy days spent in tunnelvision doldrums from which only a sunbathing turtle or your canine companion can pull you out. By the time collaborator Max Whipple's saw comes beaming down from heaven in the song's 3rd part, we're hypnotized by the song's charming ennui. The song lands someplace both familiar and aloof, a little slice of timelessness taken straight from The Cake of Perfect Songcraft.

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Blue Fern EP

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Invade)

13,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dark Entries)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cocoon artists Andre Galluzzi & Daniel Stefanik shaking hands in this collaboration for Invade Records!

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Sexual Harrassment

I Need A Freak

Hyper Ritual Voiski, Farrago & Ascion Remixes

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Dark Entries is pleased to announce a deluxe reissue of Sexual Harrassment’s 1983 opus I Need A Freak. Lynn Tolliver, DJ/Program Director at Cleveland’s Wzak, adopted the pseudonym David Payton in order to keep his musical endeavors separate from his public persona. Sexual Harrassment (misspelled deliberately) was formed as a concept band, with members selected based on appearance and choreographic skill rather than musical ability. Tolliver’s explicit lyrics focused on the central themes of desire and sexual relations. Working at a studio in Akron, he recorded an album of quirky-yet-lurid electro funk, which was released on Heat Records. Tolliver remarks, “I learned as a youngster, sex sells! The things that are rated the worst – violence, horror and sex – are the things people want to see or hear about.” I Need a Freak was a surprise hit, selling over 100,000 copies. I Need A Freak is presented here for the first time on double LP, pressed at 45 rpm for maximum DJ-friendliness. While the album’s naughtier moments seem quaint by contemporary standards, the fusion of lo-fi funk and disaffected vocals still stuns today. On the eternal electro-raunch anthem “I Need a Freak”, minimalism serves to highlight the lasciviousness of the deadpan lyrics, which were inspired by Lourdes Figueroa, Tolliver’s girlfriend at the time. Tolliver’s whimsy shines on tracks like “If I Gave You a Party” and “K.I.S.S.I.N.G.”, which contrast nursery rhyme structures with decidedly R-rated lyrics. “Exercise Your Ass Off” lampoons the home exercise craze, but with a more-than-suggestive sexual bent. Also included are two bonus cuts, “We Want Prince” and “These Are The Things That I Like”, previously released as singles in 1984 and 1986, respectively. “We Want Prince” is both a homage to the Purple one and a gentle satire of obsessive fandom. I Need A Freak has been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The album comes in a gatefold sleeve featuring the original artwork. Included are lyrics, photos, and liner notes by Lynn Tolliver and drummer Dale Jackson. Tolliver’s sly provacateurship is best captured by the quote: “It’s funny – without sex, mankind is dead, yet we hide the very thing we need.”

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Messiahwaits

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Mhz)