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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Waterfall)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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10 years since the consumerist musings of Tesco, Matthew Herbert reanimates his Wishmountain project and heads deep underground to find the source material for Stonework: 1000 metres down.

Like many of Herbert’s projects, Wishmountain releases revolve around specific, material sound palettes, and for this latest album he’s drawn from a sample library created as a commission for the Stone Techno festival, which took place at the Unesco World Heritage Zollverein mine in Essen, Germany. Working with sound recordist Lorenzo Dal Ri, Herbert and Dan Pollard captured a varied and wide variety of hits, tones, textures and one-shots from the frozen-in-time remnants of the Ruhr region’s coal-mining industry and from specific materials in the nearby Ruhr Museum and Mineralien-Museum. A sample library created by Matthew and Dan of the recordings was also used for the Stone Techno series, from which tracks have been commissioned by the likes of Luke Slater, Megan Leber, Ben Sims and KiNK drawing from the same sounds heard on this album.

These stone-cast sounds lend themselves to the Wishmountain framework – skeletal, quasi-industrial techno with an angular impulse and a subtle swing. Much like the breakthrough hit, 1996’s ‘Radio’ (made using samples of a broken radio), the limitations on the source material sharpen the focus of the music. What started out as a practical hardware restriction in the early 90s became a purposeful way of working for Herbert – one which carried through the 1999 album Wishmountainisdead to 2012’s Tesco with its sampling of the British supermarket chain’s 10 most popular products.

Musically, Stonework is consistent terrain for Wishmountain – austere and forbidding in one sense, playful and irreverent in another. But from a club music perspective, which Wishmountain absolutely is, it offers DJs a variety of rhythmic formations within the tool-like minimalism of the arrangements, opening up intriguing possibilities for mixing into, out of, or somewhere in between. For every 4/4 thrust and jerk there is a fractured, snaking meditation pivoting around other time signatures.

Crystal clear in its creative intention and simultaneously successful as surface-level club music, Stonework: 1000 Metres Down is a natural continuation for one of Herbert’s most celebrated, albeit intermittent, aliases.

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Wired Ways

18,69 €* 21,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Not About To Die Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Wire

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pink Flag)

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Hex)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Wipes

Making Friends

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jackpot)

Wipers

Youth Of America

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jackpot)

Wipers

Over The Edge

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jackpot)

Wipers

Is This Real

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Local Talk)

Wipe The Needle

Screwface & Smile EP

Don't Laugh Richie Hawtin Remix Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lee Gomez aka Wipe The Needle has made music in many complimentary styles. His debut on Local Talk featured Alex Littmore's soulful vocals and took us on journey that goes beyond the house genre. This time his bruk roots are heavily featured, sprinkled with a touch of soul, jazz and boogie to create an impressive collection of songs. Fans of Bugz In The Attic and bustling West London broken beat mixed with grit, this one's is for you.

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Winx

12" | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Sorted)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Danse Macabre)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A heavyweight classic! 'Don't Laugh' is one of those records, you know you've heard it, you may not who, what or where, but you know it!
The original Winx mix is a classic, often imitated, never bettered, but the real gem here is Richie Hawtin's manic, almost borderline sinister 15+ minute reworking.
Monster doesn't do it justice, tweaked out, narcotic, minimalist jacking gear. A dope combination of severe LOW end and some bracing sine waves that cut straight through. This one will surely test any club sound-system, if the venue is built for it you will know! This is one for the real heads, pure late night business oft overlooked for the more famous A-side, but trust us - Hawtin's mix will smash any dance! Oh, and there's an insane laughing acappella for those who want to mix and blend! Reissued, remastered and re-sorted for 2017 by Above Board Records with the full involvement of Nervous Records NYC.

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Wintry

Ausweg

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (High Roller)

Winterhawk

Revival Bi-Color Vinyl

20,99 €*

10" | 2017 | EU | Original (Big Scary Monsters)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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High Roller Records, 2nd pressing, blue jay/ white bi-color vinyl, ltd 400, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert printed on uncoated paper, poster, Mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in November 2020. Cutting by SST Germany on Neumann machines for optimal quality on all levels. the ultimate audiophile reissues.

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Winter Passing

Double Exposure

19,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wintergothic)

Winter

Fire Rider

30,59 €* 33,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Endless Space (Between You & I) Aqua Blue Vinyl Edition

Winter

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Bar / None)

26,99 €*

Winston Wilbert / The Sparkers

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The power of a Winter song is hard to describe, like how thedelicate world building of a good book can be more compellingthan real life. There's a make-believe, fairy tale surrealism that sets Winter's blend of shoegaze and psychedelia apart while existing in the same universe as the ethereal dream pop of Cocteau Twins and Melody's Echo Chamber.Samira Winter grew up in Curitiba, Brazil, where her Brazilianmother filled their home with the gentle melodies of MPB (música popular brasileira), and her father introduced her to the distorted sounds of American punk. At 18, she moved to Boston where she first released music as Winter, eventually moving to LA's Echo Park.

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All I Have Is Love / Dig It Up

7" | 2017 | EU | Original (Spade / Reggae Fever)

CD | 2017 | DE | Original (Beatz In Cans)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Check out this nice Roots material by Winston Wilbert!
The Sparkers are featured on the B-side.

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Winston

Waschecht!

16,99 €*

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Winston Shan &The Hippy Boys /Winston Sinclair&The Hippy Boys

Tell Me Tell Me / Chastise Them

7" | 2017 | EU | Original (Spade / Reggae Fever)

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Trickdisc)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Check out this classic Roots material by Winston Shan & The Hippy Boys and Winston Sinclair & The Hippy Boys from around 1969!

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Wingz & Urph

Notion / Traverse

Cutting Room Floor White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Austrian rising star Wingz with smooth and catchy vibes, and a smashing, rhythmic machine-like track by the Belgian Urph. Another excellent release by Trickdisc, a label always tending towards some counterstream in the search of the timeless gold.

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Wingtips

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Artoffact)

LP | 2022 | US | Original (12XU)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Pop

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Wingtips sophomore record combines their trademark gothic sound with a dark, post-punk groove, a long-awaited repress, this time on gorgeous white vinyl.

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Winged Wheel

No Island

28,99 €*

LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Victor)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Winged Wheel is made up of four musicians whose worlds have intersected for years without them ever all being in the same room. Cory Plump (Spray Paint, Expensive Shit), Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Damiana), Fred Thomas (Tyvek, Idle Ray), and Matthew Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo, solo) have been longtime participants in various d.i.y. communities, crossing each others’ paths through shared gigs, working on releases, or taking the stage at Cory's small upstate NY bar. Each player has developed their own personal practice of improvisation and home-recording, and Winged Wheel began by chance when Cory asked Fred to send over some rawly-recorded drum loops to jam over. Cory tracked rangy guitar and bass parts over these repetitive loops and songs slowly started taking shape. Matthew's guitar layers took these foundations to a whole new level, and Whitney's submerged vocal tracks solidified everything, elevating the project from a soup of partially formed ideas into something intelligible. The entire album was written, recorded, and mixed in remote collaboration, eventually turning into a balancing act of precisely arranging sonic details and maintaining the formless excitement the music began as. This paradoxical process can be heard in the final form of the album, a continuous zone that manages to be strange and amorphous while still carving out space for four distinctive musical personalities. It’s a sound that hovers and stumbles as often as it takes declarative turns in unexpected directions, the circles getting smaller the closer you zoom in.

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Windy (Us)

Windy

40,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Love Language Colored Vinyl Edition

Windwaker

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Concord)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

Windisch Quartet

Meander

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Wind Rose

Wardens Of The West Wind

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Wind Rose

Shadows Over Lothadruin

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Laat Ze Maar Branden Red Splatter Vinyl Edition

Willy Organ

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (541 Label)

19,49 €* 25,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Shall Not Fade)

Willis Anne

Movement EP

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12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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When France-born DJ and producer, Willis Anne isn't finessing his spellbinding live sets and performing them in his home country of Germany, he's curating club nights and releases for his own brand, LAN. A true hardware junky, from his productions you can expect complex polyrhythms, leftfield sound design and textural complexity. Whilst these off-kilter elements can all be found in Movement EP, it also features some more easily recognisable rhythms borrowed from styles like juke and breaks. Imagine a musical lovechild between Azu Tiwaline and Kush Jones. What more could you want?

Movement EP drops 9th September via Shall Not Fade.

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Willie Williams

No One Can Stop Us Now

21,99 €*

Willie Walker & The Butanes

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Willie Williams" seminal "No One Can Stop Us Now" is a cover of Ashford and Simpson"s soul/disco classic "Ain"t No Stopping Us Now", and is simply one of the greatest, most soulful reggae/disco cuts ever made and is the latest in the series of Limited Edition 12"s of all-time Classic Studio One party bombs available on super loud 12". First released on Studio One in 1979, this party anthem features the sublime keyboards of Jackie Mittoo alongside the awesome studio group, The Brentford All Stars (here working under the name The Brentford Disco Set).

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I Feel It / Cry Cry Cry

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Jai Alai)

16,49 €* 21,99 € -25%

Keep Watching The Fly Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A double treat for those who love timeless Southern Soul flavoured with some of those good ol’ down home blues. Memphis born, and Minneapolis based, Willie Walker can comfortably be included in the pantheon of grittiest soul singers along with Wilson Pickett, Syl Johnson,

Lou Rawls, James Carr, Eddie Floyd, Tyrone Davis and L.V. Johnson, to name but a few, but there has always been speculation about other Willie Walkers. The recordings on Eutor and Hi in the 70’s are not by the same Willie as those on Goldwax and Checker in the 60’s. He did, however, also record as Wee Willie Walker. He was a member of The Rhythm Harmonizers, The Val-Dons, The Exciters, The Bound Band, Willie & The Bumblebees (although that Willie is actually Willie Murphy of The Val-Dons), and Canoise, spanning a long and varied career before hooking up with the Minneapolis based band The Butanes in 2004, with whom he made the next three albums. The first of these was mainly cover versions, but "Right Where I Belong" (2004) and "Memphisapolis" (2006) are notable for each providing the tracks that make up this latest Jai Alai release, a label that differs from sister label Soul4Real by featuring 21st century tracks previously CD only but now released on 7” vinyl for the first time. It also has to be noted that all the tracks on both these albums were written and produced by Curtis Obeda, who managed to track down Willie after so many years. “I Feel It” will have been missed by most as it was on the CD "Right Where I Belong" which was released in 2004 on the most unlikely of UK imprints, the Wirral based One On One Records run by Colin Dilnot. The album is a lavish display of real instruments from a band that once backed John Lee Hooker and Little Johnny Taylor and the perfect setting for Willie’s powerful vocals. Just tipping five glorious minutes, "Cry, Cry, Cry" is a perfect example of why soul music is inextricably linked to the blues, and when the gospel styled chorus joins in towards the end, you realise that this could, maybe should, have carried on for just a little bit longer. Perhaps a fuller length version exists? Sadly, Willie died peacefully in his sleep in November 2019, but to complete his story check out the two albums on Blue Dot as Wee Willie Walker & The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra. To quote the great Quinton Claunch…”Willie was one of the best to come out of Memphis in the 60’s”. Steve Hobbs (Solar Radio, Totally Wired Radio)

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Willie The Kid

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

29,59 €* 36,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Keep Watching The Fly Black Vinyl Edition

Willie The Kid

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Willie Peyote

Pornostalgia

40,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Live At Budokan Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Edition

Willie Nelson

2LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Legacy)

30,99 €*

...And Then I Wrote Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Edition. Color: unknown. Limitation: 9100 copies. This performance finds Willie and Family at a monumental point of their powers and includes a 27-song, hit-filled set across two LPs.

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Willie Nelson

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jackpot)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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And Then I Wrote 180g Edition

Willie Nelson

2LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

75,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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How Can I Say Goodbye / Do What You Want To Do

Willie Bobo

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (Sussex / Octave-Lab)

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Proud Disturber Of The Peace

William The Conqueror

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Chrysalis)

28,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Everything That's Good / Hold Me Close

William Stuckey

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Athens Of The North)

LP | 2022 | CZ | Original (Equal Vision)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Our final William Stuckey release unfortunately did not make it on time for the man himself who sadly passed last year, with support of his family we are very happy to do this 45 justice. The previously unreleased 'Everything That's Good In Life' A Very suitable unreleased track up there with his finest moments, it's got everything that would have made this a classic over the years and no doubt will make it a future classic for years to come, flipped with an alternate 7" Mix of 'Hold Me Close' this is a rock solid 45.

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William Ryan Key

Everything Except Desire

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rhino)

William Orbit

The Painter

36,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | Reissue (Rhino/Atlantic - Catalogue)

William Orbit

The Painter

50,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nation)

William Kincaid

Altered Ground

The Devil And The River, Volume One

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This 28 minute documented performance will be released on Nation as the next level sound of Jakbeat in passionate craftsmanship as Kindcaid recorded in one take using a sequencer, with improvised keyboards, electronics & metallic percussion, and guitar playing Live!

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William Fowler Collins

Tape | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Karl)

11,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Grönland)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In his most recent solo release, “The Devil And The River: Volume One”, recorded live in his rural New Mexico studio, William Fowler Collins tremolo brushes his electric guitar using a calligraphy brush, playing a single chord with no overdubs to produce two compelling side-long pieces of music. Ever present are the minimalist widescreen reflections of the high desert environment in which he lives, with the two sides giving the impressions of a sun rising and then a sun setting over the vast and sparsely populated landscape. The music in the two pieces shifts dynamically from gentle and hypnotic to immense and resonant walls of drone, searing and overdriven. At times the music can suggest a collision between Terry Riley’s “Descending Moonshine Dervishes” and the loud, distorted, emotional abstractions of My Bloody Valentine.

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William Fitzsimmons

Covers, Volume 1

24,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tough Love)

William Doyle

The Dream Derealised

18,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tough Love)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's nearing a decade since William Doyle released his Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, Total Strife Forever, as East India Youth in 2014. A year later, he had toured the world and was releasing his second album, Culture of Volume, but it would be another four years before Doyle returned with his third full album, and the first official release under his own name. The dizzyingly ambitious Your Wilderness Revisited arrived in 2019 and was followed last year by the artpop masterpiece, Great Spans of Muddy Time. In the years between leaving the old project behind and re-emerging under his own name, Doyle self-released a string of ambient-leaning albums, The Dream Derealised, Lightnesses Vol I & II and Near Future Residence, which are now to receive a first vinyl pressing via Tough Love. The Dream Derealised is a collection of nine abstract, lo-fi pieces that were recorded during the summer of 2016, when focusing on creating them helped guide Doyle through a "difficult period of anxiety, panic and a regular dissociative feeling called derealisation." At the time, doing something creative in a quick and immediate fashion felt vital to Doyle, carrying him to a new place: "I'm releasing them now as a cathartic measure, and as a message for others who may be going through difficult times themselves. What I told myself at the time, what I can tell you now: You are not in danger. You are not going insane. You are not alone."

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William Doyle

Near Future Residence

18,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tough Love)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Near Future Residence is music for an imagined place based on real ideas; the soundtrack for an ecologically sustainable housing development somewhere in a not-too-distant future Britain. The eleven instrumental pieces here come from a place of optimism, imagining a future that is based on cooperation, community and ecological urbanism. It's music intended to sit in this imagined environment rather than impose upon it, similar in principle to the function of Kanky? Ongaku (Japanese environmental music). The ideas contained on Near Future Residence laid the groundwork for - and can be seen as a companion piece to - the album Your Wilderness Revisited, released to critical acclaim in 2019. Doyle explains how the pieces "were composed in entirely generative ways using samples of instruments, synthesisers and field recordings I've collected and developed throughout 2018. In generative composition, rules are set and parameters are chosen and then put into motion, the results constantly changing and surprising.

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William Doyle

Lightnesses 1 & 2

LP | 2022 | AU | Original (ABC Music Oz)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lightnesses Vol. I & II sees Doyle create what we might understand as true ambient music - that is, music intended for the background that wasn't composed as such, but allowed to blossom out of the setting of some rules and parameters, played by sounds he created and then resampled. The deceptively simple, droning pieces are unlike anything Doyle has made before or since. "During their creation I'd often take photographs of the light coming in through the windows of the two houses I lived in during their creation. I'd post these on social media and they became quite popular parts of my output. This music was intended to accompany those visuals. The first volume's photo is a double exposure of the sun shining in on my notebook and my hand, whereas the photo for the second volume was taken in Joshua Tree Park, California as I saw our tail lights illuminate one of the trees."

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William Crighton

Empire

47,99 €*

Release: 2022 / AU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Willcocks Ledger Choir Of King's College Cambridge

Carols From King's College, Cambridge

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cornelius Chapel)

Will Stewart

Slow Life

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Pique-Nique)

Will Shore

People's Dream

Nothing Special Eco-Wax Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pique-nique Recordings is proud to present People’s Dream, the latest solo release from NYC-based vibraphonist and electronic producer Will Shore. Inspired by Francis Bebey and Don Cherry’s electronic music from the 70s and 80s, People’s Dream draws heavily from modal jazz, minimalism, and dance music. It blends tightly composed percussive phrases with freely moving melodic improvisations that feel as much at home in a DIY loft space as they do on a custom-built sound system at Nowadays. Shore says: “The vibraphone is the thing that I know best, but I’ve always found the instrument quite limited. Its pure bell-like tone can seem too pretty to evoke a wide range of feelings. I normally find ways to obscure that pure sound: I distort it, pitch it down, or layer rougher textures over it. But for People’s Dream and Lucid, instead of obscuring the sound quality, I decided to embrace it. I used the vibraphone for not only melodic parts but also as a driving rhythmic element. I let the entrances and exits of melodies appear and disappear in a dream-like way, and added electronics and percussion as texture, to create a more cinematic atmosphere.” On the B-side, UK producer and label-head Tom Blip (Blip Discs) flips Lucid into a driving, bass-oriented club track, fit for vibrant dancefloors this summer. On the back of successful collaborations with East African artists Swordman Kitala and Mubashira Mataali Group, Blip unleashes a trademark peak-time drum track designed to elude any dream-like state.

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Will Sheff

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (ATO)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nothing Special Cloudy Skies Blue Vinyl Edition

Will Sheff

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (ATO)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Active Imagination Red Vinyl Edition

Will Samson

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Human Chorus)

26,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (The Vertex)

Will Joseph Cook

Every Single Thing

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Will Hoge)

Will Hoge

Wings On My Shoes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Soundly Music)

Will Hoge

Anchors

24,99 €*

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mirage / Sometimes You Gotta Let It Go

Will Clarke

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Factory 93)

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Off Track)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In addition to having quite possibly the greatest beard in techno, Will Clarke has proven himself an unstoppable force in the genre. Will now returns to Factory 93 for his second release on the label, “Mirage.” Will prompted a firestorm of “ID?” requests when he dropped it in his live-streamed Escape Halloween set last fall, and for good reason. “Mirage” brings together ferocious, chugging low-end and an instantly-memorable melody that modulates constantly throughout the arrangement, fine-tuning the energy to create an absolute bomb of a track. “Mirage” will also mark Factory 93’s first vinyl release, with his first Factory 93 outing “Sometimes You Gotta Let It Go” gracing the B-side. Look out for it in a shop near you.

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Will Buck

So Special

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Batrachian)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Off Track is back with a scorcher of an EP from Brooklyn’s Will Buck. Four 90’s styled deep house grooves stripped back and ready for the floor!

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Wiles

Slowrush EP

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Ill Considered)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After releasing two EPs from rising talent MOY, Batrachian’s journey through mystical synths, breakbeat and electro rhythms, and ear-worm melodies continues in the capable hands of Bristol-based Jack Wiles. On Wiles’ debut EP, ’Too Real Eyez’ is a slow-burning spiral of acidic frequencies and tough breaks with a killer vocal snippet, while ‘Bientam’ is a rolling junglist piece driven by chopped drums, meandering bass and an intricate bell melody: the perfect mix of rhythmic heft and IDM intrigue. ‘Slowrush’ matches offbeat electro drums with a bittersweet synth part, and finally, Wiles remixes MOY’s ‘Echolab’ (recently released on the Emotec label) into an early Warp-style acidic masterpiece.

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Wildflower

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Century Media)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2023 Repress.
Wildflower is a trio comprising Idris Rahman (sax), Leon Brichard (bass) and Tom Skinner (drums).
The trio takes you on an intense, meditative and spiritual musical journey that embodies the spirit of freedom. Based around hypnotic grooves laid down by Brichard’s unswervingly solid bass lines, drummer Skinner plays around artfully with the beats, grooving hard in constantly shifting, unexpected turns of rhythmic play. Rahman’s contributions range from subtle conversational interplay to loudly expressed angry passion to the most delicate of whispers, conveying a depth of emotion and a deep sense of musical structure withIn an ever changing sea of musical conversation.
Using simple, arresting melodies as a starting point, the trio create freely improvised waves of emotion ranging from powerful climaxes to hauntingly beautiful breath-like passages and everything in-between, creating unique forms and structures that react to the acoustics and the atmosphere of the situation.
Taking inspiration from the spiritual jazz pioneers such as John and Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra, compositional influences range from Gnawa music to modal jazz to Bengali folk music but the scope is wider still and the important unifying factor is the spontaneous communication and interplay between the three musicians. Rather than having a tight rigid structure, the tunes are allowed to breathe and develop into new unexplored forms, allowing fresh interpretations that make each performance a unique experience.
The album is a collection of live and studio recordings that have been recorded and mixed by the band.

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Wilderun

Epigone

17,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Western)

Wilder Maker

Male Models

20,24 €* 26,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wildcookie (Freddie Cruger & Anthony Mills)

Heroine

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Homegrown)

CD | 2022 | US | Original (Krb Music)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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RED Astaire & Anthony Mills aka Wildcookie offer a special 7" release of the classic "heroine" & "something About Those Days". Both are super funky downtempo head nodding jams with floating vocal sonics. Big hole 45. Get it today!

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Wildchild

Omowale

16,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Krb Music)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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New full length album from Wildchild entitled Omowale. This album depicts the daily struggles & blessing of a black man's mentality i America. With features & production from: Madlib, Nottz, Georgia ANN Muldrow, Posdnous, Guilty Simspon, Rass Kass, Ohno & More! As 2020 shifted a lot of perspectives for the good & bad of humanity, we visualize this as Omowale unfolds from beginning to end.

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Wildchild

Omowale

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Wildacre)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Wildacre

Frederik EP

17,99 €*

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Heavy Medication)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Wildacre story continues. From the outskirts of the Netherlands we bring you Wa002. Four pounding techno bangers. The a side gives you hypnotic sounds with hooks that will burn into your brain. The b side are bass heavy trips, who will tear the walls down. 180 gram vinyl version perfect as a dj-tool.

Play it, work it, dance to...

Wildacre bandcamp contains a extra digital bonustrack

And for the future Wildacre will go deeper on WA1.5

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Wild Zeros

Diggin' It!

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wild Style Theme Rap 1 / Wild Style Theme Rap 2

Wild Style

7" | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

LP | 2022 | Original (Nettwerk)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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When it comes to the pantheon of hip-hop movies, ‘Wild Style’ is number one. While the actual plot carries about as much weight as ‘Beat Street’ or even the Fat Boys vehicle ‘Disorderlies’ – and the acting is also nothing to write home about – the soundtrack is an indelible classic.

What the film and its soundtrack caught was a moment in time and some key performances from genuine pioneers instrumental in the nascent hip-hop scene. And the influence has passed down through the ages, with rhyming couplets from the ‘Wild Style’ album still cited today, and Nas drawing on a snippet of the film for the opening track of his one true classic album, ‘Illmatic’.

What’s unusual about the soundtrack – and evidenced on the tracks showcased here, available for the time on 7” since a 1983 Japanese release – is that it didn’t draw on the tried-and-tested breakbeats that many of the artists featured on it would have cut their chops on. Charlie Chase, whose slithery scratches adorn both sides of this record, would have been used to going back to back on the records captured later on the ‘Ultimate Breaks & Beats’ compilations.

Instead, the music is produced by Chris Stein of Blondie in collaboration with Fab 5 Freddy, drawing inspiration from those earlier breakbeats, with drums provided by one Lenny Ferrari. Here, Grandmaster Caz of the legendary Cold Crush Brothers is at ease over both sides, the music evoking the sound he would have rhymed over at the block parties where he built his reputation. It’s a moment trapped in amber – you can’t listen to this 7” without imagining a graffiti strewn subway car in New York.

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Wild Rivers

Songs To Break Up To

15,74 €* 20,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Tiny Engines)

Wild Pink

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (New West)

Wild Feathers

Medium Rarities

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wild Billy Childish & The Singing Lions

The Fighting Temeraire

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Damaged Goods)

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wild Billy Childish & The Singing Lions

Song Of The Medway

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Damaged Goods)

No Mountains In Manhattan

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Billy & The Loins reunite for a tribute 7" to founding Singing Loins member Chris Broderick!Billy recorded the first two Singing Loins LPs with Chris Broderick and Arf' Alan in his bathroom at May Road, Rochester in 1991 and 1993. The lads then decided to record an LP of folk variations of Billy's own tunes, called At The Bridge. The Singing Loins then went their own way recording many LPs. Fast forward to late 2021 and the singer Chris was diagnosed with blood cancer. Before his passing in January 2022, he let Arf (and later Loin Rob), know that he wished them to carry on the group. That said Billy proposed a memorial 45 (and an LP to follow). "Song of the Medway" is about their hometowns of Rochester, Chatham, Strood and Gillingham, all on the banks of the River Medway. Chatham's ancient Dockyard was where Nelson's Victory was built. "The Broken and the Lost of the Old Long Bar" celebrates a drinking hole on Chatham High Street (which once boasted more pubs and brothels in a single mile than anywhere in the world). Especially written by Billy for this return of The Singing Loins, the songs are at once brand new and ancient.

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Wiki of Ratking

2LP+CD | 2017 | UK | Original (XL)

Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Wiki’s new album is an acidic and vivid manifestation of his city, at times surreal and too real, with contributions from Earl Sweatshirt, Kaytranada, Ghostface Killah, and more. - Pichfork rating 8.1.

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Schubert: 8 "Unvollendete"

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm

Beethoven: Sinfonie 6 "Pastorale"

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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There's Always Blood At The End Of The Road

Wiegedood

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Century Media)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Deep, Dark & Dangerous)

Widow

Spooky Stories EP

Spell It Wicked For Satan Neon Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The master of all things creepy, Widow slithers back with his sophomore DDD release. 'Spooky Stories' will take you down the dark rabbit hole into a world of scares, spirits and suspense.

Widow's sound is characterised by a brilliant use of negative space, it's often what's not there as much as what is. Haunting atmospherics, deep bass, minimal drums and cheeky samples complete the picture.

Any fan of Deep, Dark & Dangerous will know many of these tracks from livestreams and shows. We see you hiding under the bed covers.

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Wicca333 & Arteaga

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Interstellar Smoke)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Feel It)

Why Bother?

There Are Such Things

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Feel It)

Why Bother?

Lacerated Nights

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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90 In November Peaock Green Vinyl Edition

Why Bonnie

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

90 In November Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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90 in November, the first full-length LP from Texas quintet Why Bonnie, crashes into existence with a squeal of feedback and a burst of distorted guitar. It's a dynamic introduction to a more raw-edged indie sound from a band who have matured from bedroom dream pop into a sophisticated rock act, their evolving sound a reflection of the journey undertaken by songwriter Blair Howerton on this vividly rendered collection of songs. The songs for 90 in November were mostly written in Brooklyn, New York, where Howerton moved from Austin in 2019. Already in the midst of a major life change, Howerton's feeling of being between worlds was compounded when quarantine hit and she found herself, like so many others, stuck in her apartment-about as far away from the wide-open spaces of Texas as one can possibly get. It was in this environment that she began to write songs parsing out the complicated, mixed emotions associated with building a new home while attempting to make sense of the one she had left behind.

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Why Bonnie

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

26,99 €*

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why Bonnie

90 In November

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Resolution)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Who Parked The Car

Mad Weather Good Friends

35,99 €*

Show You / I Love Ya Smoke Colored Vinyl

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Press Release : https://mega.nz/folder/uXpDiSyY#zsnIZ1KTpRe6f0ZkTeKTaQ

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WHLS

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Preservation Project)

30,99 €*

Show You / I Love Ya Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Show You" on Side A is ready to explode at Soul Nights around the world. A frenetic driving beat, strong horn charts, great soaring lead vocals, and sweet harmony backing vocals make this an instant classic in the canon of Northern Soul. And better yet, it is a fresh tune! Get yours and be the focus of the trainspotters after all the quantity is gone, bought up and filed into dj's collections.

"I Love Ya" on the B-Side is a soaring 60s Sweet Soul ballad perfect for cruising on Sunday afternoon in summer. Harmony, check... vibes, check.... lyrics about loving your woman, check... all the boxes have been checked by this side. It is the quintessential compliment to the uptempo flip. The pairing is perfect. An extra special thank you to Scott Aidlen and West Los Soul for contributing the songs featured on this release. Respect!

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WHLS

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Preservation Project)

20,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Dedicate)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Whizz Vienna

The Souloist

Whiz Limited And Hiroaki Shitano

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Vienna 2009; Whizz Vienna, an Austrian musician is nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the category 'Album of the year'. Why and how that happened, he is still not sure of to this day. By now, the album in question 'Versager ohne Zukunft', which is produced in collaboration with Kamp, has turned into a classic. Even though he has released several projects since then, such as the renowned 'Wiener Staub' Beat-LP, it has become quiet around the producer. His studio existence and his musical creation more or less turned into dust. Darmstadt 2020; during a thorough tidying up of old hard drives a folder labeled 'Whizz Vienna Beatz' experiences a musical renaissance. The dopeness of the material is undeniable to this day and that kind of freshness cannot be just left in the digital wasteland ready to rot. The search for the missing Whizz Vienna was more challenging than expected due to the fact that he enjoyed his own presence to be buried in the underground. In the end, the hidden asset has been unvcovered, plans have been cultivated and now after a two year waiting time the final product is ready to be launched. 13 long-lost instrumentals, Kamp and Prinz Pi spitting on 2 of them, cuts by DJ Vektor, 1 love for Eva.

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Whiz Limited: The Finest Of Tokyo Street

Rizzoli

57,99 €*

Spark White Vinyl Edition

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The first monograph on the Japanese streetwear brand Whiz Limited, this book showcases the last 20 years of the brand’s design and collaborations with streetwear’s most iconic players.

Whiz Limited is a Japanese streetwear brand estab-lished in 2000 by Hiroaki Shitano. With a following in Japan as well as Hong Kong and mainland China, Shitano has become something of a cult figure, as one of the new generation of streetwear designers influ-enced by Hiroshi Fujiwara. Consisting originally of handmade, printed tees, the label has since expanded to include a complete range of streetwear infused with an eccentric Japanese flair. Shitano was raised in the entertainment district of Shinjuku, and this is reflected in the clothing’s distinctly downtown urban vibe and predominantly dark color palette. Chronicling the history of the brand, alongside some of Whiz’s most prolific projects to date, this book features beautiful, newly shot photographs of a long list of collaborations with streetwear icons, including Hiroshi Fujiwara/Fragment, Mastermind, Stüssy, A Bathing Ape®, Bristol, Bountyhunter, M&M, Kappa, New Era, Disney, Hello Kitty, G-Shock, Peanuts, Porter, The North Face, Marmot, First Down, and the estate of Keith Haring. This book also features an impressive archive of the brand’s iconic sneaker designs, boasting collabora-tions with heavy hitters like mita sneakers, Adidas, New Balance, Asics, Puma, Reebok, Mizuno, Converse, and Ugg, making it a must-have for sneak-erheads and lovers of streetwear style alike.

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Whitney

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

24,99 €*

Spark Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek could hear the staggering differences in the songs they were writing for their third album as Whitney, Spark _ the buoyant drum loops, the effortless falsetto hooks, the coruscant keyboard lines. They suddenly sounded like a band reimagined, their once-ramshackle folk-pop now brimming with unprecedented gusto and sheen. But could they see it, too? So in the ad hoc studio the Chicago duo built in the living room of their rented Portland bungalow, a shared 2020 escape hatch amid breakups and lockdowns, Julien and Max decided to find out. Somewhere between midnight and dawn every night, their brains refracted by the late hour and light psychedelics, they'd play their latest creations while a hardware store disco ball spun overhead and slowed-down music videos from megastars spooled silently on YouTube. Did their own pop songs _ so much more immediate and modern than their hazy origins _ fit such big-budget reels? "We'd come to the conclusion we weren't going to be filming Super 8 videos to this stuff anymore," Julien remembers with a grin. "How about something more hi-fi, cinematic?" When the footage and the tunes linked, Julien and Max knew they had done it, that they'd finally found Whitney's sound. Spark reintroduces Whitney as a contemporary syndicate of classic pop, its dozen imaginative and endearing tracks wrapping fetching melodies around paisley-print Dilla beats and luxuriant electronics. What's more, Whitney reduces three years of extreme emotional highs and lows into 38 brisk but deep minutes, each of these 12 tracks a singable lesson in what it is they (and, really, we) have all survived. The recalcitrant ennui of opener "nothing REMAINS," the devastating loss of "TERMINAL," the sun-streaked renewal of "real Love": However surprising it may sound, Spark is less a radical reinvention for Whitney than an honest accounting of how it feels when you move out of your past and into your present, when you take the next steps of your lives and careers at once and without apology. Spark maintains the warmth and ease of Whitney's early work; these songs glow with the newness of now. Listen closely, and you'll notice frequent references to smoke and fire throughout Spark, itself a double entendre for inspiring something new or burning down the old. Max and Julien were indeed in Portland for the Fall of 2020, when smoke from nearby fires choked the city at record levels. It was terrifying and tragic, but they pressed on. "We found a way to live while the world was burning/Real life was caving in," Julien sings almost merrily during "back THEN," an anthem for finding out what's on the other side of hardship. In these dire days, scientists speak increasingly of serotiny, an evolutionary miracle that causes some trees to release seeds only amid a season of fire. That is how Spark often feels _ Whitney's circumstances were so fraught on so many levels that they hung "the past_out to dry" and began again, finding a fresh version of themselves, their relationship, and their band after the blaze. Max and Julien are back in Chicago now, sharing a cozy walkup with a little studio, where they're already building songs for the next Whitney album. They're both in happy romances, too. Now that they let the past burn, everything is new for Max and Julien. Spark is not only Whitney's best album; it is an inspiring testament to perseverance and renewal, to best friends trusting each another enough to carry one another to the other side of this season of woe.

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Whitney

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Spark Transparent Yellow Vinyl Artprint Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why you'll love it...
Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek could hear the staggering differences in the songs they were writing for their third album as Whitney, SPARK—the buoyant drum loops, the effortless falsetto hooks, the coruscant keyboard lines. They suddenly sounded like a band reimagined, their once-ramshackle folk-pop now brimming with unprecedented gusto and sheen. But could they see it, too?

So in the ad hoc studio the Chicago duo built in the living room of their rented Portland bungalow, a shared 2020 escape hatch amid breakups and lockdowns, Julien and Max decided to find out. Somewhere between midnight and dawn every night, their brains refracted by the late hour and light psychedelics, they’d play their latest creations while a hardware store disco ball spun overhead and slowed-down music videos from megastars spooled silently on YouTube. Did their own pop songs—so much more immediate and modern than their hazy origins—fit such big-budget reels? “We’d come to the conclusion we weren’t going to be filming Super 8 videos to this stuff anymore,” Julien remembers with a grin. “How about something more hi-fi, cinematic?” When the footage and the tunes linked, Julien and Max knew they had done it, that they’d finally found Whitney’s sound.

SPARK reintroduces Whitney as a contemporary syndicate of classic pop, its dozen imaginative and endearing tracks wrapping fetching melodies around paisley-print Dilla beats and luxuriant electronics. What’s more, Whitney reduces three years of extreme emotional highs and lows into 38 brisk but deep minutes, each of these 12 tracks a singable lesson in what it is they (and, really, we) have all survived. The recalcitrant ennui of opener “NOTHING REMAINS,” the devastating loss of “TERMINAL,” the sun-streaked renewal of “REAL LOVE”: However surprising it may sound, SPARK is less a radical reinvention for Whitney than an honest accounting of how it feels when you move out of your past and into your present, when you take the next steps of your lives and careers at once and without apology. SPARK maintains the warmth and ease of Whitney’s early work; these songs glow with the newness of now.

Listen closely, and you’ll notice frequent references to smoke and fire throughout SPARK, itself a double entendre for inspiring something new or burning down the old. Max and Julien were indeed in Portland for the Fall of 2020, when smoke from nearby fires choked the city at record levels. It was terrifying and tragic, but they pressed on. “We found a way to live while the world was burning/Real life was caving in,” Julien sings almost merrily during “BACK THEN,” an anthem for finding out what’s on the other side of hardship.

In these dire days, scientists speak increasingly of serotiny, an evolutionary miracle that causes some trees to release seeds only amid a season of fire. That is how SPARK often feels—Whitney’s circumstances were so fraught on so many levels that they hung “the past…out to dry” and began again, finding a fresh version of themselves, their relationship, and their band after the blaze. Max and Julien are back in Chicago now, sharing a cozy walkup with a little studio, where they’re already building songs for the next Whitney album. They’re both in happy romances, too. Now that they let the past burn, everything is new for Max and Julien. SPARK is not only Whitney’s best album; it is an inspiring testament to perseverance and renewal, to best friends trusting each another enough to carry one another to the other side of this season of woe.

Limited to 1,000 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Whitney's SPARK is available on Cloudy Clear & Purple Cornetto vinyl. The record is pressed at GZ Vinyl and will arrive in a single direct-to-board, foil stamped and hand-numbered jacket.

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Whitney

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

14,99 €* 24,99 € -40%