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2LP | 1996 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kontakt Audio and Infinite Fog Productions proudly present the 25-th anniversary reissue of the one of most unique albums on avantgarde/neoclassic music – Ihor Tsymbrovsky – Come, Angel.

Recorded in 1995 in Ukraine and released in 1996 just as a small run on cassette on Polish label Koka Records, the album without any promotion little by little became legendary and madly wanted by many fans all around the world. And from the first seconds, you can hear why it is so. Pretty hard to explain what songs play Ihor, moreover that would be senseless. “Come, Angel” is one of those albums which are so unique that takes you in a vacuum of verbal forms in an attempt to describe the record. In a few words, this is definitely very intimate and deeply emotional music with an absolutely incredible voice. The first associations could forward you to Antony Hegarty from Antony And The Johnsons, Marc Almond, Arthur Russell, Baby Dee, Bjork. Experienced listener familiar with these great artist knows that all of them are inimitable and Ihor Tsymbrovsky is totally inimitable as well.

In 2016 well-known German label Offen Music published 3 tracks from the album “Come, Angel” which brought a lot of attention to Ihor’s music. This time we’re excited to announce the first full album reissue on CD, Double vinyl, and tapes. Beside the full version of the album, you’ll find an exclusive bonus song from the cult compilation “Music The World Does Not See” – Nefryt Records 2000.

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“For me, music is a certain way of cultural survival. Here I do not set myself theoretical problems or experiments. The connotations of life are important: rhythms, melodies, their connection with language, poetry, real life, virtual or imaginary space. It is very important to me how the recitation of work sounds, how consonant and vowel sounds dissolve in singing, how they combine musically. I understand sound space as a field of my interpretations, preferences, priorities, and I do not use direct imitation. If I hear a melody or a musical phrase, and it is fixed in my memory, later I extract it in my own interpretation, as already formed by this field. In art, the goal is in the work itself, not outside it. For me, the expression “To be is to create a new reality” is another winged reality.” – Ihor Tsymbrovsky

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“Tsymbrovsky – an architect, musician, a poet, an artist; one of the most underestimated musicians in Ukraine’s artistic world. Many critics pulled their hair out trying to get to the bottom of Tsymbrovsky’s music. It has been inspired by jazz, minimal, modern, ethnic, and meditation music. Tsymbrovsky is not a virtuoso, however, he creates whole worlds with his astonishing falsetto. Although Cymbrovsky’s music is simple it is made of many elements. Filled with magic and unusual sensitivity and warmth it can be therapeutic for the listener. This is that kind of music, which can be listened to many times – in a different way each time.” – Koka Records.

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“Igor Tsymbrovsky’s only album “Come Angel” (1995) still remains perhaps the most bizarre phenomenon in Ukrainian music since independence. The story of its author is a vivid example of cultural amnesia. In the pre-Internet era, Tsymbrovsky was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian underground, performed on the “Red Route”, went on tour in Germany. However, he left a minimum of evidence of his activity and became a silent legend for a few. We talked to Igor to find out where he came from and where he was going.

The album “Come Angel” is eight compositions performed with a falsetto to the accompaniment of a piano. (Tsymbrovsky’s falsetto is a legacy of the Lviv Dudaryk choir, where he sang as a child.) It would seem that it could be easier. But, despite such ascetic tools, Tsymbrovsky managed to create a phenomenon unique to Ukrainian culture. Some people compare him to Benjamin Clementine and Anthony Hegarty, but no comparison will be exhaustive. The lyrics of the songs attract special attention: two of them were written by Tsymbrovsky himself, the others demonstrate his remarkable literary knowledge. Here and Guillaume Apollinaire, and Mikhaijl Semenko, and even less obvious poets, such as Mykola Vorobyov or Jozsef Attila.

The young performer’s first performance took place in 1987 in the club of the Forestry Institute. It is quite symbolic that this room used to be a Jesuit church because such a chamber environment suits his songs about angels much better than the noise of big festivals. However, there were also many festivals in Tsymbrovsky’s career: in 1989, Chorna Rada and Chervona Ruta, in 1991, Kharkiv’s Nova Scena and Ukrainian Nights in Gdansk, Alternativa in Lviv. Ihor calls his first performances musical performances and notes that they sounded completely different. Unfortunately, we will never know exactly how.” – Amnesia

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“The magicians at Dusseldorf’s Offen Music pluck a madly beguiling pearl of late-night songcraft by Ukraine’s Ihor Tsymbrovsky to follow their vital releases by Toresch and Rex Ilusivii. Come Angel was first recorded in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1995, and issued on cassette by Poland’s Koka Records in 1996. There appears to be no prior mention of the release or artist on the internet and quite how it came into of Offen Music possession is not disclosed, and that only ratchets the record’s enigma to astonishing degrees once you’ve heard the music. In a quivering, high register, androgynous trill, Ihor Tsymbrovsky beckons heavenly beings in the remarkable A-side Come, Angel against a swirling backdrop of phasing, subtly delayed organ. It was recorded in one take (this is the 2nd version), and, if we’re not mistaken, you can hear the keys being pressed rhythmically in the background, which seems to be the song’s only tangible connection to this mortal world as Ihor vaults octaves high and close-in-the-mix with the sort of alien, dreamlike vocal that requires pinching oneself to make sure you’re awake. Spellbinding is definitely the word. On the other side he (we’re assured it is a ‘he’ in the promo text) sets two poems by Mykola Vorobyov and Mykhal Semenko, respectively, to emphatic piano keys, this time more shy of FX save for some delay, placing that willowing, avian vocal at a dreamy arms reach in Roses for the Poet, and with a sort of liturgical dark jazz feel, sorta like Lewis repenting his sins as a castrato monk, in the spare atmosphere in By the Sea. This is gold-seal business, we tell ya. Clock the clips and clear some swooning room.” – Boomkat

credits: Music By – Ihor Tsymbrovsky Lyrics By: Ihor Tsymbrovsky (tracks: C2, D1) Atilla Joszef (tracks: B1) Mychajl Semenko (tracks: B2, C1,C3, D2) Mykoła Worobjow (tracks: A1,A2) Engineer – Edward Hryhorjew Remastering – Ihor Tsymbrovsky

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Bowery Electric

Beat

46,99 €*

2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Mo Wax)

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kranky re-release Bowery Electric's second long-player, their 1996 album, Beat. Its horizontal, morphine-drip trip hop and drone-gazing really don't sound like something that could have come from the mid-nineties. But for the very Bristolian title track the tone of the album is actually far more in-keeping with either Spacemen 3-style eighties indie or modern day dream-pop. In addition to soaring effects-laden epics like 'Empty Words' and 'Fear Of Flying' there's some sensitive minimalism afoot on the self-explanatory ambience of 'Looped' and the sixteen-minute 'Postscript', all of which helps make Beat a worthy and seasonable reissue. A secret Downbeat gem from the middle of the 90s.

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DJ Shadow

Endtroducing

43,99 €*

2LP | 1995 | UK | Original (Warp)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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One of those albums everybody is refering to! Classic beats by the one and only DJ Shadow!

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Aphex Twin

...I Care Because You Do

29,99 €*

2LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Release: 1995 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: VG

Only side A/B with loads of scratches! Side C/D is missing! Cover with storage wear and bent corners!

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The Black Dog

Spanners

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Do You Like My Tight Sweater

Moloko

2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

33,99 €*

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (MG.Art)

Hoenig / Göttsching

Early Water

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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CD | 1995 | EU | Reissue (One Little Independent)

Björk

Post

14,99 €*

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Mecanica)

Front Line Assembly

Corroded Disorder

33,99 €*

Rising Deep Blue Vinyl Editoin

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This album compiles some of the earliest hits of Front Line Assembly including the classic “Body Count” for which the band prepared their first official video-clip. “Corroded Disorder” was originally released in 1995 as a hybrid of the EP’s “Corrosion” and “Disorder” from 1988, along with some extra tracks taken from the compilation “Convergence” and a couple of new bonus songs. Deluxe re-release one a limited edition of 500 copies with double vinyl record, deluxe gatefold sleeve and new vintage artwork.

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Pluto

2LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Glass Modern)

32,99 €*

3LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following the release of 'The Weight Of The Sun' LP, Modern Studies shift from light to dark over two new EPs brought together as six track 12-inch 'Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide', a record that further cements their reputation for innovative craftsmanship.

'Life Flows In Endless Song' showcases the band's increasingly expansive sound, swelling with orchestrated drama behind the rich vocal pairing of Emily Scott and Rob St John, before their otherworldly dreaminess is pin-pricked at its height by Emily's beautiful alto on 'The Failing Light'.

'The Body Is A Tide' hails from ominous darker terrains, scratching further into their own psyche; it's heady and baroque, ornate and super-detailed, an opus that climaxes with 'High Hymn Summers' and its slowly-rolling drone, created by processing all the songs from 'The Weight of the Sun' played at once.

"The EP nods at the idea of our collective bodies weathering rough times, played out with massed strings, prepared guitars, slow bass grooves, hypnotic drums, wobbling saw, xaphoon and mellotron.

We shook off our usual song structures in favour of something repetitive, slow and heavy; life flows in endless song." Modern Studies // "Utterly enchanting." Mojo magazine // "Modern Studies make mood music of the highest order, drawing on the members' collective experience in the folk, pop and improvisational realms." The Scotsman // "There's a charm within Modern Studies' DNA which makes them, without fanfare or clamour, one of today's most mesmerising outfits." Prog magazine // "Melancholic magic." Uncut magazine // Track List Side A - Life Flows in Endless Song EP A1 - Endless Song A2 - Slow, then Sudden A3 - The Failing Light Side B - The Body is a Tide EP B1 - The Body is a Tide B2 - The Naked Eye B3 - High Hymn Summers

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Seefeel

Succour (Redux)

49,99 €*

Open Yellow Circle / O Yuki Conjugate

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Just as paradigm-shifting ideas are met with some cautious scepticism when they first occur, the history of Seefeel’s second LP Succour is a little chequered. Coming in hot from the success of their 1993 debut Quique — regarded as a prophetic example of shoegaze’s eventual transformation into post-rock — a newly minted contract with Warp would prove symbolic of where the group would steer his project next. The few “rock” elements of its full-length predecessor had evaporated, and vast spaces of dub and ambient would come to inform 1995’s Succour. Skeletal rhythmic elements amalgamating into their brooding, elemental and completely singular sound.

Bookending tracks ‘Meol’ and ‘Tempean’ open up like two gaping mouths on a mottled, heavy beast of droning synthesis, laying the groundwork for the world-enveloping tones Stars of the Lid would later produce. The delicate balance of weights teeters throughout the LP, crushing up sheet metal percussion on the techno-minded ‘Fracture’ and ‘Rupt’, which both simultaneously recall Aphex Twin’s rhythmic experiments and large-scale dub textures. The latter style is heavily hinted in the third LP of mostly unreleased tracks in this expanded (Redux) edition, all delay-drenched and booming with bass.

Seefeel proselytised the limitless potential of the post-rock genre with Succour — and produced one of the 1990s’ greatest albums in the process.

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New Meridien

LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Optimo Music)

Emak Bakia Picture Disc Edition

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In 1994, UK ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate recorded their landmark Equator album. To mark the 30th anniversary of this musical milestone, many of the same personnel – Roger Horberry (co-founder of O Yuki Conjugate), Dan Mudford (ex-Sons of Silence and co-creator of the Shaun of the Dead soundtrack), Joe Lamb (ex-Sons of Silence) and Malcolm McGeorge – came together to make New Meridian, reflecting the range of influences they’ve picked up over the intervening years.

Generously described as “almost like normal music”, the eight tracks of New Meridian feature instrumentation ranging from classic analogue to actual wooden logs. The result takes you on a rain-drenched, open-top ride from Electronica Avenue to the drone caverns of Uranus, with various Fourth World ambi-dub diversions along the way. File under: duress.

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Muslimgauze

LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Kontakt Audio)

31,99 €*

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Eightness Of Adam Qadmon

A Handful Of Dust

LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Ikuisuus)

2LP | 1993 | EU | Reissue (Kontakt Audio)

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Originally released on cassette by Corpus Hermeticum (Hermes003), 1994. All sounds by Alastair Galbraith and Bruce Russell.
"New Zealand is on summer holidays all through the month of January. For some reason I had the house to myself, the wife and kids were elsewhere. Alastair Galbraith brought over some instruments and we plugged in a cassette recorder. We spent the sunny afternoon setting up combinations of instruments and seeing what happened.
We had recorded the Concord LP the year before and done two gigs at the Empire tavern that became The Philosophick Mercury. The idea of Dust was taking shape through experimental practice. Some of it worked better than other bits, but it all made sense as a collage of sound, pointing in the direction of freedom. Our collective practice was making leaps and bounds; and starting to get heard abroad. In Australia the young Jon Dale was listening:
'The Eightness Of Adam Qadmon was one of the first releases I heard from A Handful of Dust… I've always been drawn to this cassette for its utterly unique, acroamatic sensibility - it seems less interested in third-eye-rupturing … and more about a late night session, bleeding into early morning, under the influence of heady wisdom and headier substances… What we had here was very much the real deal, collective and solo eviscerations from the heart of sound itself. I love it, unconditionally.'
Jon got the time of day wrong, but not much else. Going back to this session recently, I became aware of the strange, ungainly and unrepeatable shapes our practice assumed during these first forays into total free improvisation. Re-mastered with help from Lasse Marhaug, at the request of some visionary Finns; here Adam Qadmon, the ur-Golem, comes again. Walking from the graveyard of the past, blinking in the autumn sun, and shaking twenty-five years of clay from his coat."

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Rapoon

Raising Earthly Spirits

45,99 €*

LP | 1993 | EU | Reissue (One Little Independent)

Release: 1993 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Raising Earthly Spirits was conceived as a ritualistic, shamanistic album centred around the concept of transcending this level of consciousness and existing mindfully in multidimensional space and time. It draws heavily upon the sacred ideas and practices of many indigenous peoples from this earth and how they communicate and interact with their ancestors and how they see themselves in relation to this world. It was made with respect towards these beliefs. - Robin Storey/Rapoon

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Björk

Debut

26,99 €*

The Future Sound Of London

Release: 1993 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Edition on 180g.

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Papua New Guinea

12" | 1992 | UK | Reissue (Jumpin & Pumpin)

11,99 €*

The Future Sound Of London

Release: 1992 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: VG+

Limited Edition.
Record is slightly warped but still enjoyable.

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Papua New Guinea

12" | 1992 | UK | Reissue (Jumpin & Pumpin)

19,99 €*

12" | 1992 | BE | Original (R & S)

Release: 1992 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Limited Edition.
Record with just a few paper scuffs.

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Aphex Twin

Xylem Tube E.P.

59,99 €*

Release: 1992 / BE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

The Future Sound Of London

Accelerator - 30th Anniversary Edition

LP | 1991 | UK | Reissue (Jumpin & Pumpin)

26,99 €*

Release: 1991 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1991 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Nightmares On Wax

A Word Of Science

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

Release: 1991 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Essential reissue incl. download code!

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George Michael

LP | 1990 | EU | Original (Epic)

19,99 €*

Release: 1990 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

12" | 1989 | EU | Original (MCA)

Jody Watley

Everything

3,99 €*

Release: 1989 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 1989 | US | Original (Columbia)

Andreas Vollenweider

Dancing With The Lion

12,99 €*

12" | 1988 | DE | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 1989 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Original US pressing.

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Nu Shooz

Should I Say Yes?

5,99 €*

Release: 1988 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Swastikas For Noddy Picture Disc Editoin

Current 93

LP | 1988 | US | Reissue (Cashens Gap)

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Only One Night Coloured Vinyl

The Hurricanes

12" | 1988 | EU | Reissue (ZYX Music)

16,99 €*

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1987 | JP | Reissue (Sony Music Japan)

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Neo Geo

42,99 €*

LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Mannequin)

Release: 1987 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Ryuichi Sakamoto's first world release, released in 1987 and reissued in analog format.

This solo album, Sakamoto's seventh in total, was co-produced with Bill Laswell for worldwide release and features top musicians from different genres, including Sly Dunbar and Bootsy Collins. Based on an electronic sound, but fusing organic and ethnic musical elements such as Okinawan and Balinese traditional music, the album was recorded in Tokyo and New York, and released in more than 20 countries around the world, making it a milestone in his solo career.

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Caroline K

Now Wait For Last Year

12" | 1987 | EU | Reissue (ZYX Music)

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mannequin Records is proud to present the official reissue of Caroline K's outstanding 1985 album, "Now Wait For Last Year."

This haunting, wistful work of post-industrial synthesizer music sees the late Nocturnal Emissions co-founder only solo record, which has accrued a fervent cult following over the past 40 years, and copies of the original pressing are today extremely rare and sought-after. The music on "Now Wait For Last Year" seems to exist firmly outside of it. Tags like industrial, minimal synth or proto-techno can't really do justice to the richly cinematic sound-world that Caroline K describes: from the sustained ambient tension of sidelong opener "The Happening World" to the future-primitive rhythms and stately piano flourishes "Animal Lattice", and the melancholic, deep-frozen synth sequences of "Cheart".

For fans of Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter, Nocturnal Emissions and even early Detroit techno lovers should pay special attention to it.

All selections composed, arranged and played by Caroline K Recorded and produced by Caroline K

Photograph by Jake Kirkwood Original design by Nigel Ayers

The first five tracks of Now Wait For Last Year were originally released as a vinyl LP by Earthly Delights in 1987.

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Steve Barrow

Look Around Me

16,99 €*

2LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Mecanica)

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Reissue of this italo disco rarity from 1987 with Flemming Dalum & Rey David Diaz remixes.

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Front Line Assembly

The Initial Command

33,99 €*

12" | 1986 | UK | Original (Virgin)

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“The Initial Command” is the debut landmark album by Canadian EBM-industrialists Front Line Assembly, originally released in 1987 through Belgian label KK Records. Bill leeb shows us already a unique style, setting a benchmark for all that would follow. Fiercely original, not least for ‘it’s time’, from the glittering synths and harsh metallic percussion of the unarguably cinematic “Casualties” and the abrasive white noise on “Ausgang Zum Himmel”, to the punchy breaks and dramatic strings of “No Control”. Deluxe re-release including all original tracks and both bonus tracks taken from a re-release in 1997: “Complexity” and “Core”. Limited pressing of 500 copies with double vinyl record, deluxe gatefold sleeve and new vintage artwork. D-side features a silkscreen of the classic fist logo.

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Loose Ends

Slow Down

4,99 €*

Release: 1986 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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LP | 1986 | DE | Original (Scotti Bros.)

James Brown

Gravity

6,99 €*

Release: 1986 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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LP | 1986 | US | Original (Lifestyle)

Latitude

12" | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Forest Jams)

Release: 1986 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

close to NM. With insert. beginning seam split

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Osamu Kitajima

Beyond The Circle

26,99 €*

CD | 1986 | US | Reissue (Temporal Drift)

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An official re-issue of the 1996 album, Beyond the Circle, from Dr. Osamu Kitajima presented by Forest Jams on vinyl for the first time.

As the title suggests, Japanese music explorer Osamu Kitajima takes the listener beyond the known on a musical voyage into new territory where his compositions are a synthesis of Western electronics and ambient dance rhythms, tempered by the wisdom of ancient Japanese traditions. "Beyond the Circle" is music that is as energizing as it is spiritual and melodic.

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Hiroshi Yoshimura

Soundscape 1: Surround

17,99 €*

Branislave Zivkovic / Andre Tschaskowski

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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* First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work * Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate * New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa * Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English * Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin * Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records "If Surround can be listened to as music that’s asclose to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or assomething that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle groundbetween sound and music, and transforming it into a comfortable space, it wouldbe much appreciated.— Hiroshi YoshimuraTemporal Drift proudly presents the long-awaited, first-everreissue of Surround, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s sought-after ambient classic. Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surroundwas recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes,intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newlybuilt living spaces. A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’sprevious works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally producedto be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments forpublic spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrentlywith the acclaimed and popular Green (1986); the two albums are described byHiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang. In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommendsthat Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration offootsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside acoffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outsidethe window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way."

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Emotionally (Coloursound)

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

LP | 1985 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Emotionally, crafted by Brainislave Zivkovic and Andre Tschaskowski in 1986 for Coloursound, is arguably the most beautiful library album ever produced. A start-to-finish masterpiece of powerfully melodic music for reflection and introspection. It is, indeed, deeply emotional.

Branislave Zivkovic handles the majority of Side A. Opener "Morning Light" evokes exactly that feeling, with a gorgeous and plaintive acoustic guitar solo combining with alto flute to stunning effect. Its immediate counterpoint, "Sundown", in no less arresting but brings with it an after-dark drama of almost Lynchian proportions, again drawing upon guitar and flute but with a slightly more melancholic, even sinister edge, also calling to mind Ry Cooder's score for Paris, Texas. It truly captivates when the strings arrive. Remarkable.

The reflective cello solo with swelling strings at the heart of "Pastoral Walk 1" ensure this track is aptly titled, with parts 2 and 3 adding more agitation - via keys and percussive elements - to great effect. "In The Garden 1" presents an elegiac cello solo whilst its second part elevates the romance. The four-part "Soft Thoughts" suite invites further introspection via reflective alto flute and guitar. Fans of The Durutti Column will need to seek this.

Andre Tschaskowski enters proceedings with three tracks at the end of the Side A. All of them aces in the pack. "Grief", whilst sorrowful, uplifts in its second half through beautiful keys. Equally hopeful are the two-part "Personal Mood" sketches, both dreamy exercises in optimistic ambience.

Tschaskowski controls the entirety of Side B. "Woodland Mood", with its pastoral flute and cor anglais and "Reminiscence", with its classical, emotional strings, both beguile. The piano and strings-heavy "Sentimental View" suite is one of the most beautiful, atmospheric things you will ever hear, particularly its second part. "Moonset 1" with it's wonderful Joe Pass-esque guitar is tense yet easy, the beauty elevated further with the introduction of strings and horns. The more restrained "Moonset 2" is pared back to its divine, sweeping essence and should surely have been sampled by now. To close out an album of almost impossible refinement, the brief 2-part "Emotional Tension" salvo brings both increased stress before resolving itself and the LP with a piano motif and atmosphere of serenity. Blessed relief.

As David Hollander, in Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music, states, Coloursound was "founded in 1979 by composer, music lawyer, and vibraphonist Gunter Greffenius. A Munich-based library with a reputation for releasing innovative and ambitious music, it catered largely to the market for experimental sounds, its first release was 1980’s Biomechanoid, an abstract synthesizer excursion by Joel Vandroogenbroeck, of the pioneering kosmische band Brainticket. The record — complete with imposing, anonymous title and unearthly H.R. Giger cover art — set the tone for the label’s progressive leanings. The label’s catalogue stands as a tribute to the unfettered creative license that libraries were able to provide to forward-thinking musicians who, frustrated by the whims and constraints of the commercial scene, found complete freedom in the world of production music."

As with all our library music re-issues, the audio for Emotionally comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis. Richard Robinson has brought the original Coloursound sleeve back to life in all its metallic silver glory.

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Loose Ends

So Where Are You?

5,99 €*

Release: 1985 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1985 | EU | Original (Gordy)

DeBarge

Rhythm Of The Night

3,99 €*

Release: 1985 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Mondo Beat Clear Vinyl Edition

Chris Carter

LP | 1985 | UK | Reissue (Mute)

25,99 €*

Release: 1985 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Includes downloadcode!

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Art Of Noise

Lovebeat

12" | 1985 | US (ZTT)

Release: 1985 / US

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1984 | EU | Original (Island)

Wally Badarou

Echoes

18,99 €*

2LP | 1984 | US | Original (Passport)

Release: 1984 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Synergy

Semi-Conductor

5,99 €*

Release: 1984 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nature Unveiled Picture Disc Edition

Current 93

LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Cashens Gap)

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dogs Blood Rising Picture Disc Edition

Current 93

LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Cashens Gap)

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

Bizarre Ko Ko Ko

00 Time

21,99 €*

LP | 1983 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Released on Karl Kronfeld's Synoptik Records, it was the label's only release, thus becoming a rare, sought after, private pressing. Weird, intriguing atmospheres and a plethora of synthesized sounds, sequencers, cold sounding keyboards and even mellotron parts make this a darker offering than Aphorisms Insane. Venturing into stark, spooky post-industrial territories it manages to combine the primitive cosmicism of early Tangerine Dream with the dystopic sound-scapes of Asmus Tietchens, 80's Conrad Schnitzler or the synthetic gothicisms of Peter Frohmader. An album that should appeal not only to fans of cosmic synthetic music, but also those interested in the more experimental strains of cold wave & minimal synth (Robert Rental, Dome, a.o.) The Wah Wah edition is the first ever reissue of this rare sought after collector's item. 100% analogue lacquer cut direct from the original master tape by Moritz illner @ Duophonic Gmbh and reproducing the original Dalí-esque sleeve artwork in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies only.

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Don Slepian

Sea Of Bliss

22,99 €*

Utakata No Hibi Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First ever vinyl edition of the landmark 1980 cassette by synth wizard Don Slepian. Utilizing the fabled and notoriously complex Alles digital synthesizer at the Bell Laboratories scientific research center, Sea Of Bliss features two transcendent cascading sidelong tracks, to easily qualify as one of the ultimate pinnacles of the new age genre. Cut with care using the Direct Metal Mastering process, and featuring cover artwork by visionary artist Jonathan Meader.

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Mariah

2LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Everland)

32,99 €*

LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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An amazingly colorful album with songs that are based on solid substance rather than cheap pop structures. This is music for the bold listeners and music lovers and this awesome reissue should quickly find it’s way into the record collections of 80s synth and art pop aficionadoes. Yasuaki Shimizu did what he wanted with Mariah, pushed the borders of popular music further than anybody would have thought. Listen to a track like „Shonen“ with a repetitive rhythm pattern that hypnotizes you and somehow silky melodylines by saxophone and synth piano upon which a female voice sings in a very spiritual way. Praising pop or whatever this can be called, it is sheer magic put in music. I wonder if this would have made it into the charts back then, but you never know. It is a piece of musical art that shall be listened to. Grab your copy now!!!

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Inoyamaland

Danzindan-Pojidon

Audiostatik Repress Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is too happy to announce the much anticipated official reissue of Japanese duo Inoyamaland’s quintessential ambient/environmental/electronic album Danzindan-Pojidon, produced by Haruomi Hosono and originally released in 1983 on his Yen Records label. Available outside of Japan for the first time, the new age classic comes as a limited LP with liner notes by band member Makoto Inoue. With Danzindan-Pojidon, Yasushi Yamashita and Makoto Inoue created what they describe as “a special place where the kingdom of summer vacation never ended". Playful and magical, it’s a sonic landscape defined by tinkling synths, floating minimalist melodies, pastoral excursions, and mythical overtones.

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Le Syndicat

LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Rotorelief)

17,99 €*

Cat People (Original Soundtrack)

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Le Syndicat with this reissue of Audiostatik Repress from 1983, certified to be a head-cleaner of brutalist, bruitist, rhythmicist, industrial noise. The rhythm and noise for Le Syndicat evolved through process mingling tape-loops, overblown drum machine programming, shortwave radio experiments, short-circuited consumer electronics, and eventually rudimentary sampler technolog. Audiostatik Repress is a visionnary project in 1983 of what's happened late in the 90's sounds. The rhythm and noise for Le Syndicat evolved through process mingling tape-loops, overblown drum machine programming, shortwave radio experiments, short-circuited consumer electronics, and eventually rudimentary sampler technolog. Audiostatik Repress is a visionnary project in 1983 of what's happened late in the 90's sounds.

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Giorgio Moroder

LP | 1982 | DE | Reissue (MCA)

10,99 €*

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Our Swimmer)

Release: 1982 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Soundtracks

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Deux Filles

Silence & Wisdom

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Deux Filles was not, in fact, two girls despite what the group name and its elaborate hoax of a backstory suggest. No, they were not Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule, French women who met as teenagers under tragic circumstances and became fast friends, recording two albums together before disappearing into the ether. In reality, Deux Filles was Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, a UK duo who first worked together in an early incarnation of The The.

Straddling the line between experimental and pop, Turner was an actor and teen singing star who later composed soundtracks for the iconic queer filmmaker Derek Jarman while Tucker’s career began as an engineer for the famed UK library music studio, De Wolfe, before forming experimental wave group The Gadgets. In Deux Filles, the duo found an outlet for their least commercial tendencies, combining lo-fi proto-dream-pop instrumentals with samples, tape experiments, ambient textures, and drum machines. Even in the vibrant, seemingly endless well of UK DIY, Deux Filles stand out.

Silence & Wisdom – the duo’s 1982 debut – is a series of musical vignettes, like the score of an unrealized arthouse film. Blending processed guitars, sheets of synthesizers, echoey pianos, and washed-out vocal snippets to surprisingly varied effect, the album is recommended for fans of Durutti Column and Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.

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Interior

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (1972)

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wrwtfww Records is very happy to announce the official vinyl reissue of the highly sought-after Haruomi Hosono-produced Interior self-titled debut, originally released in 1982 on legendary label Yen Records. The LP comes in a heavy 350gsm sleeve. Interior is Daisuke Hinata, Eiki Nonaka, Mitsuru Sawamura, and Tsukasa Betto. Their classic 1982 debut, produced by Yellow Magic Orchestra's Haruomi Hosono, is one of a kind - a very rare breed of feel-good ambient music blending instrumental synth-pop, soft electronic minimalism, and cozy sound design in the most heartwarming ways. It evokes the intimate pleasures of daydreaming in a hotel lobby, holding hands in a museum, or napping by the pool. It depicts the urban landscape as a caring environment, where simplicity and repetition is mind soothing and smile inducing. Interior takes you into an alternate reality, where nostalgic modernism makes the present time feel like the fondest memories. The unique sound of Interior caught the attention of William Ackerman and Anne Robinson who re-released the album in 1985 on their famed label Windham Hill Records (with a slightly different tracklisting) and then proceeded to put out their follow-up, Design, in 1987. After that, members of the group continued their careers separately, Daisuke Hinata notably recording an overlooked but absolutely amazing solo album, Tarzanland, in 1988.

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Second Layer

World Of Rubber

22,99 €*

Open Space Motion (Underscores)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, creating these intense and engaging songs as Second Layer at the same time as their higher profile band output. Following the release of Courts Or Wars, combining their early material, 1972 reissues their only full length album, »World Of Rubber«.

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Klaus Weiss

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Suicide Commando Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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They say: "Contemporary synthesizer sounds illustrating wide open space activities, environment and research." We say: Panoramic proto-techno underwater-electro library dynamite. One of the hardest pulls on the seminal Coloursound, Open Space Motion (Underscores) isn't just regarded as one of the best releases from library-funk overlord Klaus Weiss. It's one of the very best library records ever. As cult as it gets when it comes to library music, the Klaus Weiss sound was built on top of sometimes funky, sometimes frenetic, but always hard-hitting drums. AND YET! Open Space Motion departs from his drum-heavy approach by being completely...BEATLESS! That's right, the virtuoso beat smith, Mr "drumcrazy of Deutschland", a man known for snapping necks at will, crafted one of the most horizontally sumptuous, elegantly sweeping electronic masterpieces, sans-drums, a good decade before chill-out rooms became a thing. It features organic instruments married to pulsing synth bass atop brilliantly subdued yet irresistibly funky percussion. Possessing a very special vibe, that's at once futuristic yet cinematic, it overflows with atmosphere. The highlights - unsurprisingly - are many. The very first track - the unstoppable "Wide Open Space Motion" - is a sinister, string-fried electro bomb that rides an unrelenting bass loop. "Incessant Efforts" is more reflective, with pastoral yet probing flutes atop strutting synth chords and head-nod percussion that really swings. The heavenly, uber-kosmiche "Pink Sails" hovers over swirling neon-synthy-strings and yet more unobtrusive percussion. The beautiful "Transiency" is a dramatic piano-led underscore, its creeping unease created by patient strings, unhurried percussion and some wonderfully strident keys. "Driving Sequences" is perhaps the key tune here, and if the Detroit crew weren't listening to this staggering piece then, well, imagine if they *were*. The bubbling rhythms of "Southern Mentality", at first ominous, give way to a more optimistic vibe as the movement progresses. The lush, gorgeous "Bows" is deep-sea slow-motion magic whilst the bright-eyed "Outset" feels as fresh as the dawn, and no less beautiful. How these tracks haven't been gobbled up by sample-driven producers is beyond us. Equally calming is the sweeping majesty of "Constellation", again conjuring images of being at one with and fully beguiled by the wonders of nature, of space, of underwater worlds. "Changing Directions" is another fidgety, propulsive non-Detroit beatless bomb. As with all our library music re-issues, the audio for Open Space Motion comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis. Richard Robinson has brought the original Coloursound sleeve back to life in all its metallic silver glory.

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No More

7" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (El Caballo Semental)

7" | 1981 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The year is 1981. The Kiel-based PostPunk / Wave underground outfit NO More releases their second ever single „Suicide Commando“ and their world changes forever. Well, not only their world – THE world. What began as an independently published 7“ single became a cult classic, a genre defining – and defying – song, an all-time dancefloor favorite of many, a timeless signature piece that escaped its original realm of PostPunk x Wave x Indie x Alternative to also become engrained in the DNA of modern electronic dancefloor culture most prominently in the beloved late 90s permutation presented by DJ Hell which became a classic in its own right. Now the year is 2021. Four decades have passed and NO More's „Suicide Commando“ is back once again - well... the song actually never left! -, this time harking back to the very beginning, the original vibe and the original format. Remastered and re-released with the original tracklisting and paying homage to the original artwork „Suicide Commando“ will be available in 7“ format for the first time since 1981. And staying true to the underground blueprint this 40th anniversary re-release edition once again is put out on the circuit through a small independent label: the Intrauterin Recordings offspring El Caballo Semental which also released NO More's „123456789 *baze.djunkiii & Herr Brandt Dream A NuDream Remix“ as a limited to 200 copies one-sided, colored whitelabel 7“ edition in 2019. Initial pressing will be limited to 400 copies.

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B.C. Gilbert / G. Lewis

Ends With The Sea

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Bureau B)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis have always juggled darkness and light in their various collaborations (Dome, Cupol, etc.); Gilbert’s pointillist melodicism counterbalanced by Lewis’s menacing bass and sardonic lyrics. While the duo explores cinematic soundscapes on their album 3R4, here they return to more song-based territory with icy vocals, detached guitar lines and even a faint industrial vibe. Ends With the Sea provides a vital glimpse into the creative forces that even a band as daring and inventive as Wire could not contain. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of SPK, Chris Carter, and Einstürzende Neubauten.

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Roedelius

Wenn Der Südwind Weht

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

Cultural Noise

Aphorisms Insane

20,99 €*

Instant Funk Clear Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The only album by Austrian trio Cultural Noise is a an electronic marvel. Band members were Gerhard Lisy, Walter Heinisch and Karl Kronfeld, and instruments used included an ARP Sequencer, an ARP 2600, a VCS 3, an EMS Digital Sequencer, a Mellotron M400, a Micro Moog, a Roland Studiosystem 700, a Roland Analogue Sequenzer and an electric guitar. With these weapons and a strong influence from the Berlin school Cultural Noise created a rich electronic tapestry which expanded through the two pieces of this record, one per side, being compared by reviewers to works by Zanov or Anna Själv Tredge. Mentions of Tangerine Dream are also present on reviews, although Cultural Noise have a pretty unique personality on their own and besides sharing the use of Mellotron, sequencers and analog synths we have a totally personal concept here which sets them aside from all TD impersonators of the era.

The album was originally released in 1980 on CBS and later repressed in 1981 which came in a B&W version of the sleeve that some sources list as a self release private pressing done by the band themselves - this has been denied by members of Cultural Noise.

We are proud to offer a 500 copies only reissue, housed in its original full colour version artwork.

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Instant Funk

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

17,99 €*

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Sommor)

Benoit Widemann

Tsunami

21,99 €*

Voyage Aux Fonds De La Mer

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Second album, released in 1979, by French keyboard wizard Benoit Widemann (ex-Magma). “Tsunami” is an incredible mix of electronics and jazz-fusion with prog / avant-garde /minimal elements. Treated Minimoog, Oberheim synths, Rhodes, early computer sequencing plus bass, drums, guitar, sax… Featuring Jean-Pierre Fouquey (ex-Magma), Jean-Pierre Grasset (Verto) and Jean-Paul Ceccarelli among others.
"Digital computer-based sound in 1979! We were the avant-garde!" - Benoit Widemann.

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Alain Meunier

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

20,99 €*

Images Of Flute In Nature

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Issued on le Kiosque d'Orphée in 1979, Voyage aux fonds de la Mer is the only LP by Alain Meunier (not to be confused with French classical music cellist of the same name), and is one of the most elusive collector pieces of the 1970s electronic experimental French scene.

This rare sought after album starts with an instrumental guitar introduction but from the second track onwards it becomes a totally electronic experimental psychedelic trip that can be aligned with the most kosmische side of kraut rock, and of course also with other works by French experimentalists of the era like Pascal Comelade's Fluence or Richard Pinhas' production (including Heldon). Guitar comes in now and then showing also a certain Robert Fripp influence.

Instruments used according to the insert sheet that came with the LP are a Korg 800 DV synthesizer, a K.O. Welson Clavinet, effects like a Fender Echo or a Electroharmonix Small Stone phaser and a fuzz pedal, plus Meunier also used a Gibson Les Paul Custom Guitar, a 12 string acoustic Eko guitar and a 6 string Morris guitar.

First ever vinyl reissue. Limited edition to 500 copies only. Remastered sound.

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Joel Vandroogenbroeck

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Bonfire)

20,99 €*

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Soundtracks

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Brainticket was an obscure Krautrock band born out of a 60's jazz group featuring Belgian born keyboardist Joel Vandroogenbroeck, based in Switzerland. The leader went for a fortunate solo career after the former group disbanded, reaching a cult status especially in Italy with a series of sought after libraries. Released in 1978 on Cenacolo, Images Of Flute In Nature is pure magic translated in music. Conceived by Joel with a little help from vocalist Carole Muriel (an American performer already involved in Brainticket and Drum Circus), the album is literally a deep connection between kosmische music, ambient and ethno-global rhythms.

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Harold Budd

The Pavilion Of Dreams

29,99 €*

Chocolate Milk Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman. In his work, Budd brought delicate, slowing-moving melodies to the foreground – creating a new musical language based on “eternally pretty music” and smooth surfaces. In the early ’70s, Budd started an extended cycle of compositions that would comprise The Pavilion Of Dreams. For Budd, the album was a signpost for a new direction in thinking about music: “The Pavilion Of Dreams erased my past. I consider that to be the birth of myself as a serious artist. It was like my Magna Carta.” Produced by Brian Eno in 1978, The Pavilion Of Dreams stands toe-to-toe with another minimalist masterpiece also released that year, Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians. Budd’s gorgeous pieces reveal a lightness of touch that draws the listener in, while sublime voices float in and out as if in a recurring dream. Featuring saxophonist Marion Brown and multi-instrumentalists Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman, The Pavilion Of Dreams remains a master class in exquisite timbre and shimmering texture. The Pavilion Of Dreams was both the final release on Eno’s Obscure imprint and a transition point towards his seminal ambient series. This first-time reissue is recommended for fans of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jon Hassell and Mark Hollis.

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Chocolate Milk

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

31,99 €*

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Modulations

It's Rough Out Here

30,99 €*

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Epsilon In Malaysian Pale Record Store Day 2022 Green/Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Edgar Froese

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Culture Factory)

LP | 1974 | UK | Reissue (Spoon)

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited to 3500 copies.

Epsilon in Malaysian Pale... which could be described as part of the "Phaedra Rubycon Epsilon" trilogy, shows Froese's impressions after the Australian Tangerine Dream concert tour, in relation to the flora and fauna there. Froese creates here a lush sonic atmosphere, the music matches the cover artwork perfectly. The music is harmonic and melodic. A sun-drenched musical landscape that is in no way inferior to the most famous Tangerine Dream albums.

It was not without reason that both David Bowie and Björk named Epsilon in Malaysian Pale as one of their inspirations.

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Can

Soon Over Babaluma

2LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Culture Factory)

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Remastered from the original tapes, 180g vinyl!

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Tangerine Dream

Zeit

41,99 €*

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela

31 Vii 69 10:26 - 10:49 Pm / 23 Viii 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 Am The Volga Delta

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935. He began his music studies in Los Angeles and later Berkeley, California before relocating to New York City in 1960, where he became a primary influence on Minimalism, the Fluxus movement and performance art through his legendary compositions of extended time durations and the development of just intonation and rational number based tuning systems. With wife and collaborator, artist Marian Zazeela, they would formulate the composite sound environments of the Dream House, which continues to this day. Seeing reissue for the first time since its initial 1969 release, Young and Zazeela's first full-length album is often referred to as "The Black Record" due to Zazeela's stunning cover design, complete with the composer's liner notes in elegant hand-lettered script. Side one was recorded in 1969 (on the date and time indicated by the title) at the gallery of Heiner Friedrich in Munich, where Young and Zazeela premiered their Dream House sound and light installation. Featuring Young and Zazeela's voices against a sine wave drone, the recording is a section of the longer composition Map of 49's Dream the Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (begun in 1966 as a sub-section of the even larger work The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys, which was begun in 1964 with Young group The Theatre of Eternal Music). According to Young, the raga-like melodic phrases of his voice were heavily influenced by his future teacher, the Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Side two, recorded in Young and Zazeela's NYC studio in 1964, is a section of the longer composition Studies in the Bowed Disc. This composition is an extended, highly abstract noise piece for bowed gong (gifted by sculptor Robert Morris). The liner notes explain that the live performance can be heard at 33 and 1/3 RPM, but may also be played at any slower speed down to 8 and 1/3 RPM for turntables with this capacity.

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Herbert Eimert

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Fantome Phonographique)

14,99 €*

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Fantome Phonographique)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Herbert Eimert was a German music renaissance man, with his expertise ranging from theory to composition, editing, radio production, and criticism. He wrote numerous books on music theory, worked for years at the British occupational forces run Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. It was there in 1951 that he established a studio for electronic music that he ran until 1961, which hosted recordings from Stockhausen, Xenakis, and Cardew, among others. This brilliant work begins on side A with 'Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama', a brilliant piece of voice and electronics dedicated to a Japanese fishing boat radioman, who lost his life from complications related to radiation poisoning in 1954, after the ship he worked on was contaminated from fallout after the USA's nuclear testing at Bikini atoll. In addition to being a brilliant piece of electronic musique concrete, it is a damning indictment of nuclear warfare, as prescient now as it was during The Cold War. Side B is made up of six studies in electronic music, showcasing Eimert's talents which are as impressive as his more famous contemporaries. Essential early electronic music.

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Pierre Henry

Orphée Ballet

16,99 €*