HHV Records Vinyl LP 102034 Items

Release: 2004 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Coming Home Clear Vinyl Edition

Usher

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Mega / Gamma)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Emotional Response)

Useless Users

We Are All Useless Users

21,59 €* 26,99 € -20%

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Suction)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Opulent dream pop from former SARAH RECORDS alumni.The remarkable nine track debut from USELESS USERS is a lesson in style and eloquence. The band is comprised of former Sarah Records alumni, (members of Action Painting! and Secret Shine, and featuring Even As We Speak). This is sonically adventurous Pop Music, packed with melody, dreamscape swashes and élan. Bold and opulent, and brilliantly constructed, Useless Users are pushing the boundaries of preconception, poised to grasp attention and reward the listener. "Reminiscent of Pulp's Fire Records Years, in both chord choice and vocal delivery" The Quietus "..the odd twist or two along the way." Whispering and Hollering "... a real gem, a moody piece with debts owed to late Sixties psych" A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed RIYL - The Associates, Bowie, Dreampop...FFO The Associates, Bowie, Dreampop, Sarah Records

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Useless Idea

A Glitch In The Colors

31,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Fat Wreck Chords)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Glitch in the Colors” is the debut full-length vinyl release by Useless Idea, aka Italian artist and producer, Cesare Bignotti. Useless Idea debuted on Suction Records in 2021, with a limited-to-300 12-inch sampler (alongside Bignotti’s alter-ego Seven Nights Alone), which Bleep.com named as their “EP of the Week” upon release, writing “Useless Idea’s widescreen array of hazy synthesized atmospheres, intricate samples and processed recordings … conjure thoughts of a fictional past in another dimension.” With previous under-the-radar cassette album releases on WéMè Records (2018’s “Acid Hologram”) and Eves Music (2020’s “Xa Peh”), Useless Idea has been quietly recording his own brand of inventive, playful, and melodic IDM/braindance for more than 20 years. We’ve been slowly compiling Glitch in the Colors for several years now, and the result is a varied, yet cohesive, collection of instrumental electronic beat-scapes recorded over the span of 13 years, with influences ranging from the classic braindance sound of Aphex Twin and Cylob, to the hazy hip-hop electronica of Boards Of Canada, but with a depth of programming and sound design that is all his own. From the melancholy, orchestral hip hop of the title track, to the videogame symphonics of “Yster Know”, to the delicate piano-house reductionism of “Moon Dog”, the scope and variety found on Glitch in the Colors is a revelation. 2x12” vinyl LP is limited to 500 copies, with 100 copies on pink-vinyl, and adorned with the artist’s own original artwork (Bignotti is an accomplished, and highly sought-after, visual artist). Comes with a Bandcamp download card.

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Useless ID

State Is Burning

29,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Kung Fu)

Useless ID

Redemption

29,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bad Story, Happy Ending Colored Vinyl Edition

Useless ID

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sbäm)

26,34 €* 30,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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White Nights: Hand Of Tzafkiel

Use Of Ashes

LP (Tonefloat)

15,99 €*

Genre: Rock & Indie

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White Nights: Glowing Lights

Use Of Ashes

LP (Tonefloat)

11,99 €* 15,99 € -25%

Genre: Rock & Indie

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White Nights: Flake Of Eternity

Use Of Ashes

LP (Tonefloat)

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | EU | Original (La Agonia De Vivir)

Use Of Abuse

I'd Rather Close My Eyes

Release: EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Viernulvier)

Use Knife

The Shedding Of Skin

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Belgian label founded by Viernulvier Arts Centre (formerly Vooruit) to release music composed for theatre, dance and performances. Viernulvier Records‘ first release will be “The Shedding of Skin”, the debut album from the Belgian-Iraqi Use Knife, set to be released on September 30, 2022.

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Use

Coleur Brique

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Couleur Brique, third album released by Born Bad for one-man-operation Use?, opens with a coughing fit spurting on a piano, while a guitar gently dies in the back of a hangar. The connoisseur will rekindle fond memories of his underground hit "ampheta-amphe?ta- amphe?tamine", this time to warn us about the "chef d'e?, chef d'e?, chef d'e?-tat". We won't know what he had to spit about to the president, but he's got some left on his trousers.Use? literally punches songs, beating the snare drum to celebrate a lover that bites and claws. It's mostly about boy-meets-girl and tough love in these seven romances that taste like beer chasing uppers, and end up in the back of a van.Praise be, to the melodic effort, supported by layers of sharp and bitter synths, and a straightforward vocal performance. It's a ride in forsaken land, beer in hand, documenting horny guys at the fun fair, late evenings in a shabby pub, and dirty sheets. Here and there, when least expected, flashes of unpretentious drunken wisdom hit the spot.The record is fueled by the broken drummer's energy, but also a verified writing effort. Those songs will be sung, bonded in the wastelands, to fight against buzzkill.Once active in local politics, Nicolas Belvalette settled down for acting, recently starring in "Tout fout le camp" where he plays his own role. But he's at his best on his turf, small rooms and scroungy festivals, where the great romantic weirdo spits on his tits, crawling under a raving audience. You'll have to buy the record if you want to get the lyrics, because at a gig, it's hard to follow when you're busy figuring out whether it's sweat, piss or beer that's connecting you to your neighbor.A fine collection of autumn tunes to get wasted, start a bar fight with new friends, and fall asleep on the counter with no shame.

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Use

Chien D'La Casse

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (One Little Independent)

USA Nails

Feel Worse

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (One Little Independent)

USA Nails

Feel Worse

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Hex)

USA Nails

Character Stop

LP | 2021 | US | Original (12XU)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is the 5th full length for London-based USA Nails full of post-punk noise rock that's as grating as it is catchy.USA Nails release their fifth album "Character Stop" on October 23rd 2020 through Hex Records in the US. The new album from London-based USA Nails (and 2nd for Hex Records) is a post-punk, noise-rock platter that is as grating as it is catchy. The record was tracked live over 4 days at Bear Bites Horse in London with producer Wayne Adams. Though "Character Stop" still features the pummeling noise-punk that USA Nails have become renowned for, it's balanced with more sober, downbeat moments. On it they explore identity - like the online personas of aggressive twitter users, influencers and vloggers, as well as more introspective takes on mental health, giving up on dreams, the joy (and despair) of being a part-timer, and contemplating who they would be if they decided to hang up their guitars for good. Guitarist Gareth Thomas comments, "For me "Character Stop" is the best album USA Nails have ever made by miles. It's more varied than anything we've ever done before and I think it's stronger for it. I feel like it's more fully realized, and more complete as a collection of songs. Every time we get in a room together and write, the dynamic of our relationship as writers (and mates) develops a bit further, we get better at anticipating and complimenting each other. We've always tried to be efficient in our creativity, to do what feels natural and just let things flow. I'm obviously still really happy with all the music we've written up to this point, but on this record everything seemed to come together so sweetly. " Comes on clear green vinyl. USA Nails will tour Europe and the US in 2021, following a clutch of UK album launch shows in late 2020 - Covid permitting.Comes on limited edition clear green vinyl!In the last few years, USA Nails have toured with Sub-Pop lovelies Metz, completed numerous USA and European headline stints, and supported the likes of Mission Of Burma, Joh...

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USA / Mexico

Del Rio

LP | 1978 | US | Original (Marlin)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Del Rio is the third album from the Austin triumvirate of guitarist Craig Clouse (Shit and Shine), bassist Nate Cross (Marriage, Expensive Shit) and drummer King Coffey (Butthole Surfers) and the band’s first release to feature vocals from Colby Brinkman (Taverner). While their two prior albums (2017’s Laredo and 2019’s Matamoros) were somewhere on the periphery of rock music, Del Rio is a step or several beyond and a real testament to human imagination (maybe you’re impressed by Tesla Powerwall batteries but that’s because you’ve not heard “Soft Taco,” yet). Coming off a pair of records their respective labels could barely keep in stock and critical assessments that put reviewers’ own chops to the test (see below), USA/Mexico have delivered their most fully realized statement to date.

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USA-European Connection

Come Into My Heart

5,99 €*

Release: 1978 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1993 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

US3

Hand On The Torch

Release: 1993 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Putojefe)

US Steel Cello Ensemble

Noise In The Library

18,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Rose / Heckmann)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2022 repress includes an insert and a poster.

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Us Rails

Live For Another Day

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Trost)

Uruk

Ame - Live At Artacs

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Odyssey Music Network)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Isabelle Duthoit - clarinet, voiceFranz Hautzinger - quarter-tone trumpetHamid Drake - percussion, frame drum, voiceMichael Zerang - percussion, frame drumTwo duos firmly anchored in improvised music - Duthoit/Hautzinger and Drake/Zerang - explore what ritual music can mean in the present time. They moan and groan, sigh and sing in the jungle of their soul. Melodies between tradition and contemporary music in all their extremes ventures forward into a poetry full of sound noises.CREDITS:Recording:live at Artacts - Alte Gerberei, St. Johan, March 7th 2020, by Charles Wienand & Markus MassingerProduction:Konstantin Drobil, Hans Oberlechner, Franz HautzingerMix:Martin Siewert & Franz HautzingerMastering:Martin SiewertArtwork:Lasse MarhaugPhotos:Cathy Mary-Houdin

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Ursular

Preta

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ursula Strauss & Ernst Molden

Wüdnis

LP+CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Bader Molden)

23,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Faitiche)

Ursula Bogner

Sonne = Blackbox

Recordings 1969 1988 Remastered Edition

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Three years have passed since the world first learned of Ursula Bogner's work. Since then, her identity has been surrounded by rumours, her graphic work have been exhibited (ceacc, Strasbourg, France, 2011 and elsewhere) and her compositional instructions have been performed (by Mo Loschelder, Andrew Pekler, Kassian Troyer, Jan Jelinek among others). The release of Sonne = Blackbox brings together all of these aspects in one CD and book: compiled by Andrew Pekler, the album presents Bogner's early experiments with voice and tape music – a previously unknown emotional side of her music is revealed here through her singing.

The 126 page book contains, along with drawings, photos and other curiosities from Bogner’s life, an introduction by Jan Jelinek, texts by Momus, Andrew Pekler, Tim Tetzner, and Bettina Klein as well as interviews with the orgone researcher Jürgen Fischer and the ethnographer Kiwi Menrath. Sonne = Blackbox attempts to locate Ursula Bogner, the sound experimentalist within broader cultural history. A central theme is the phenomenon of fake: how did the erroneous suspicion of fakery come about in the case of Ursula Bogner and what is a post-fake? Answers in this book.

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Ursula Bogner

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Faitiche)

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Insect Queen Music)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In the late 1960s, Ursula Bogner started to record her own music on reel-to-reel tapes. With some of these titles, we only found individual tracks of pieces recorded on a four-track-recorder – in these cases, I had to recombine the separate tracks to recreate the original piece. Unfortunately, I could not involve Ursula Bogner in the mixing process as she passed away in 1994. Invoking the original’s authenticity might seem insensitive, yet there was no other way to release them in their entirety. Ultimately, only three of the tracks featured on this CD/LP are such ‘reworkings’. All other titles were taken straight from the original reels. Covering a fairly short period of her creative career, they also convey a peculiar coherence in both form and content. A coherence that reflects her accessible, rhythmic and sometimes even ‘poppy’ side. Naturally, my own preference played a part in the selection process. All my personal favourites made it on the CD/LP, and whenever I listen to this collection, I invariably succumb to the titles’ light-hearted nonchalance. This might leave many hours of undiscovered gems, but a further compilation is already in the works.
My thanks go out to the Bogner family, especially Sebastian Bogner, who was generous enough to grant me access to the reels and supply me with invaluable insights into his mother’s life. I hope that listeners will enjoy the same exhilaration I experienced on discovery of Ursula Bogner’s music.

Jan Jelinek

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Ursula 1000

Voyeur

33,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Radicalis)

Ursina

When I Let Go

11,39 €* 18,99 € -40%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Faith And Industry)

Ursa Major Moving Group

19,49 €* 25,99 € -25%

LP | Original (Wharf Cat)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ursa Major Moving Group, the solo alias of singer and composer Ursula Russell, announces her self-titled debut album, due out June 9th via Faith & Industry Records.

Known for her mesmeric drumming for Snapped Ankles, Alabaster DePlume, Drop Out Venus and Blue House, the album showcases the London-based artist’s stylistic and instrumental virtuosity - she played all instruments herself - on an intense, dynamic and intimate musical journal that shifts between delicate folk, stirring indie rock, flamboyant chamber pop and angular post-punk styles.

Its complex themes reflect a multihued blend of musical styles that recall artists as diverse as The Pixies, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Arthur Russell and Julia Holter. Having built a reputation for her brilliance of musicianship as a band member, Ursa Major Moving Group sees Ursula establishing herself as a solo artist of brilliant, open-hearted originality.

Amongst the album’s many highlights is the driving, emotive opening track, Reverse Invisible, which dives into memories of childhood alienation .The winsome Goodbye George, which finds Ursula’s delicate vocals and acoustic guitars melding with Alabaster DePlume’s Ethio-jazz saxophones, delves back into her childhood.

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Urochromes

Trope House

Release: Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Feast On Sorrow Half Black / Clear Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Urne

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Candlelight)

50,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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A Feast On Sorrow Blue And Black Swirl Colored Vinyl Edition

Urne

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Candlelight)

50,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pias/Candlelight)

Urne

A Feast On Sorrow

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Weltschmerzen)

Urn

Surprise Me

22,99 €*

Soul Destroyers Cherry Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Step into the unknown with URN's latest masterpiece, 'Surprise Me.' In this kaleidoscope of sound, genres intertwine like threads in a tapestry of boundless creativity. Led by the enigmatic Jakub Volovar, each track is a journey into the depths of emotion and imagination.

From haunting melodies to pulsating rhythms, 'Surprise Me' defies classification, inviting listeners on a sonic adventure through uncharted territory. Like a meticulously crafted collage, it weaves together elements of jazz, trap, and beyond with effortless grace.

While a sense of doom lingers in the shadows, it never overwhelms; instead, it adds depth and texture to an already mesmerizing landscape. With 'Surprise Me,' URN proves once again that true art knows no boundaries.

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Urn

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Osmose)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | Original (Tapete)

Urlaub In Polen

All

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (True Panther)

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Urika's Bedroom

Big Smile Black Mire

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ubuntu)

Uriel Herman

Different Eyes

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wonderworld Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Sanctuary)

Wonderworld

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble Limited Picture Disc Edition

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Sanctuary)

Very 'eavy Very 'umble

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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...Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble...

LP | DE | Reissue (Bronze)

Release: DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

The Magician's Birthday Picture Disc Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Look At Yourself Sessions 1970

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (CODA)

20,90 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Definitive Anthology 1970-1990 Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG/Sanctuary)

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1977 | JP | Reissue (Bronze)

The Best Of...

22,99 €*

Release: 1977 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI

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Sweet Freedom Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Sanctuary)

Salisbury

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Return To Fantasy Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Sanctuary)

Return To Fantasy

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Look At Yourself Picturedisc Edition

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Look At Yourself 50th Anniversary Edition

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Bmg / Sanctuary)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Sanctuary)

Look At Yourself

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1972 | JP | Original (Bronze)

Look At Yourself

44,99 €*

Live At The London Astoria 1989

Release: 1972 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing, no Obi.
Sleeve has light edge wear.

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Uriah Heep!

2LP | EU (DBQP)

Release: EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Laser Media)

History Of 1978-1985

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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High And Mighty Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Every Day Rocks - Xxl Box Edition

Box (Sanctuary)

323,99 €*

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Equator

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Demons And Wizards Art Of The Album Edition

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cosmic Playground: Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour San Diego 1974

LP | 2023 | EU (Dear Boss)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This live set gets Heep in their prime on February 8th, 1974 in front of a hugely appreciative audience. Here is an example of a 70s rock gig that puts you (via that nifty time machine) in the midst of the sweating, stomping, singing masses who gathered around the great bands who ruled the world stages of the era.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Silver Lining)

Chaos & Colour

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Chaos & Colour

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Sanctuary)

Abominog

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Caine:The Passion Of Octavius Catto

Uri Caine

LP | 2020 | Original (Winter & Winter)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kob)

Urgonauts

Namassa

LP | 2022 | EU (Omnivore)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Already from the first notes one can perceive an unbridled passion for ska and rocksteady and the arrangement of the pieces comes across as natural and spontaneous, the sounds come out smooth and pleasant from the speakers, the lyrics however are anything but onelove, on the contrary they are very pungent and irreverent, listen to "padrone mio" to believe.

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Urge Overkill

Oui

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Noiseversity Marbled Vinyl Edition

Urge

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Urgestein)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Resan White Vinyl Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Urferd

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sound Pollution / Black Lodge)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Lodge)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Urferd

Resan

Untergang Dark Green Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Urferd signifies the beginning of a new and additional musical chapter for its founder and sole member, Daniel Beckman (twilight Force, Ages), and brings a refreshing new perspective to the genre, challenging the boundaries of dark atmospheric folk music. The first album “resan” is a musical odyssey in both a literal and figurative sense. The album takes the listener on a journey through dark and olden Nordic forests; where strife and hardships follows in our steps, yet where the beauty and vastness of the solemn Nordic landscape persists and permeates. From the album opening’s depiction of a serene morning’s dawn to the closing track’s respite of a hearth at nightfall, Resan traverses a multitude of captivating musical landscapes and themes throughout its eight songs.

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Urfaust

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Van)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Constellatory Practise

Urfaust

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Van)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Compost)

Urbs

Geheimland

OST Rysa Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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After excursions into Hip Hop, Rap and film music Austrian producer and musician Urbs has returned to the downtempo and Triphop styles that were the cornerstones of his most successful work, discovering his very own niche along the way. Using obscure samples as well as traditional instrumentation for his impressionistic instrumental pieces he takes us to „Geheimland“, the secret land of our imagination where things are not as they seem.

Born as Paul Nawrata in Lower Austria, Urbs is a veteran electronic producer and musician living in Vienna. A music fanatic from a very young age, he started writing and photographing for various fanzines in his teenage years, interviewing numerous artists as diverse as Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave and the Wu Tang Clan.

He soon felt attracted to the blossoming HipHop scene of Vienna, contributing to the radio program of legendary impressario Werner Geier aka Demon Flowers. Best described as the Austrian version of Tony Wilson, he took him under his wing and soon released his first steps in music production on his Uptight label.

In 1998 two EPs were released as Urbs & Chaoz, spawning a first success with „Closer To God“, which was not only a radio favourite, but was also used by famed director Ulrich Seidl in his early work „Models“ and remixed by none other than legendary Washington duo Thievery Corporation.

Heavily influenced by Kenny Dope, Todd Terry and Armand Van Helden’s HipHop releases,
the musical style of Urbs & Chaoz was dubbed Dope Beat in central Europe and can be seen as one of the precursors of Triphop.

His next musical partner was Cutex with whom he released „Breaks Of Dawn“ and „Peace Talks!“, two LPs of timeless instrumental HipHop, both of which are seen as classics of the genre. „The Thing“, a veritable hit on Austrian radio, was used for various commercials and even selected as one of the „Best 100 Austrian Songs“ by FM4, the leading alternative radio station in the country. Until today that song has been streamed more than two million times.

His first solo album was released on G-Stone Recordings in 2005 and was co-produced by Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister). On „Toujours Le Meme Film“, Urbs channelled his love for film music and French Chanson. He toured Europe with a six piece band and a complex visual concept and the album became a remarkable success. Songs from „Toujours Le Meme Film“ were used for US TV shows „Grey´s Anatomy“ and „Nip:Tuck“ as well as numerous commercials; Gilles Peterson discovered the album and played „So Weit“ on his Worldwide radio shows.

Urbs began producing other musicians like Austrian MC Skero, released further EPs of instrumental HipHop and numerous remixes for the likes of Tosca, Marsmobil and Daniel Haaksmann along with countless other Austrian artists.

Together with award winning composer Karwan Marouf, he worked on film music for directors like Arash and Arman Riahi as well as Werner Boote, on commercials, documentaries and contract work for Red Bull Media.

Since the early days of social media Urbs has connected with MCs and singers from around the world and in 2017 finally released those collaborations on the (Rap-)album simply titled „Urbs“, which included contributions by MCs like Wordsworth and R.A. The Rugged Man. The song „10000 Years Behind Me“ with its spectacular video starring Austrian actress Birgit Minichmayr was another success on the alternative radio in central Europe.

While in 2020 the world was in the grip of the pandemic, Urbs, who had just become a father felt inspired by the fantasy and perception of his son. He reconnected with his roots and produced „Geheimland“ in one go, trying to find the essence of his work and musical passion and creating his very own musical language along the way.

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Urbanski

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (U Know Me)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (No Format)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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180g vinyl record. only 300 copies - all hand numbered.
pressed in two verison - 200 black and 100 transparet with one white line ("crack" as the name of the TV series).
The first 100 copies have the Urbanski signature on the back cover.

This is another, after "Ultraviolet" collaboration project of the AXN Polska, U Know Me Records and the artist - Wojtek UrbaÅ„ski. The soundtrack for the Rysa series with Wojtek's original music will premiere on the 9th April. "The music for the Rysa series is a combination of the world of electronics, modernity with traditional instruments and folk accents. On one side we have synthesizers, deep bass and wide spaces, characteristic of electronic music and close to my musical style. In opposition to these elements, however, I used traditional instruments such as hurdy-gurdy, pipes, flutes and strings" says Wojtek UrbaÅ„ski. "I wanted the duality of this music to reflect the struggles and double life of the main character of the series. She lives in a certain suspension, between the 'day' world which she knows and remembers, but also the 'night' world which happens beyond her consciousness. Through music, I tried to convey the character of both these worlds, touching very dark and heavy emotions in one of them. I have invited an expert of traditional music, Sebastian WielÄ…dek (hurdy-gurdy, pipes, flutes) and the outstanding violinists StanisÅ‚aw SÅ‚owiÅ„ski and Agnieszka Åšwigut to record these works. " adds UrbaÅ„ski

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Urban Village

Udondolo

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The latest signing to Parisian label No Format! (home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy and Mélissa Laveaux), Soweto-based 4 piece band Urban Village will release their debut album "Udondolo". Marrying the day-to-day experiences of black South Africans with ebullient elements from traditional Zulu music, Urban Village is the alias of four experimental musicians all born & raised in the township of Soweto at the tail end of apartheid; Urban Village release music under a name which specifically references the blend of cultures, music & rites which were assimilated into the now 1 million strong population of Soweto, when black South Africans from multiple provinces were brought to the area during the establishment of apartheid, under strict segregation from Johannesburg's white suburbs.Born for the most part in the last years of apartheid, whilst growing up the band plunged happily into house and dance music that turned the page of a heavy past. Guitarist Lerato came across older Zulu musicians and their style of maskandi playing. Lerato has since mixed styles from homelands and rural areas, sharpened in club jam sessions (where he went on to meet Tubatsi and form Urban Village) during which spoken word, hip-hop and jazz rub shoulders freely."Udondolo" - partially recorded at legendary Downtown Studios in the heart of Johannesburg and at Figure of 8 studios in the leafy suburbs of Randburg - is a journey through all the colours of Soweto. This is where it draws its consistency, strength & identity. That of Soweto itself - a dormitory town designed to monitor those who were sent there, it has become a laboratory of music where the hopes of an entire people resonate, even today.

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Urban Thermo Dynamics

Manifest Destiny

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Voodoo Rhythm)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 750 copies on 2LP incl. inlay card.

"Manifest Destiny" is the first and only release of the Urban Thermo Dynamics, the group formed by Mos Def along his younger brother DCQ and high-school friend Ces. The album was slated for release in 1995, but never saw an official release until 2004 through DCQ's Illson Media Music Group. Almost 20 years later this nugget finally gets the reissue treatment available in a limited run on 2LP (750 copies), CD in jewel case (300 copies), cassette (100 copies) and digitally on all major platforms.

The album contains 14 tracks in total with productions handled by the likes of Diamond D and Showbiz of D.I.T.C. fame, Salaam Remi, J Prins, The Vibe Chemist, J-Swift and YZ.

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Urban Junior

Urban Et Orbi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU (Hellnation)

Urban Fight

No Eroi!

9,59 €* 11,99 € -20%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Release: 2020 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited To 300 Copies, FirstTime On Vinyl. 1982 Punk Rock From Bologna Italy. One Time Press!

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Urban & 4

Lipanj, Srpanj, Kolovoz

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rotorelief)

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Urbain Autopsy

Inonu

39,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Svart)

Urarv

Argentum

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aamun Hauta Red Vinyl Edtion

Uranus

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

28,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited red vinyl, gatefold sleeve

Probably very few people today have ever heard of the Finnish band called Uranus. In the short time of their existence in the mid-seventies, the group recorded their sole album Aamun hauta (“The Grave of the Morning”) which remained mostly unnoticed by the music consuming public. As drummer Jari Unha says, “the time just wasn’t right for the kind of music we were playing”. The more rewarding it is now, nearly half a century later, to dig the album up from the grave of oblivion and let its happy soul groove reach our ears. With the help of historical perspective, it’s perhaps easier now to appreciate this extremely well played and rare early Finnish dive into the vibrating musical territory inhabited by legendary figures such as Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder.

In the autumn of ’75 Uranus drove to Lahti and recorded Aamun hauta in Pekka Nurmikallio’s Microvox studio. Jari Unha is amused to remember the pink Volga of the trombone player Hannu Lehtonen. “We went to record American soul music with the pride of the Soviet car industry. Almost like a detail from an Aki Kaurismäki movie!”

It is presumed that Aamun hauta was too daring a deviation from the mainstream of the time to get the attention it would have deserved. On top of that, Basf had no guts or will to promote the LP. It was an optional subscriber’s gift in Popfoto magazine, together with albums by Kummitus, Kyklooppi and Horseshoe, but due to the lack of money, the short-lived magazine failed to succeed.

As for Uranus, things folded soon after recording the album. Soul music didn’t sell in live circuits either. For some time the group continued accompanying Markku Aro on dance venue gigs. The members have since made long and versatile careers in music.

Meanwhile, the original vinyl of Aamun hauta has become a rare collector’s item. Majanen has noticed someone in Italy is selling the LP for the price of 70 euros. Svart Records is proud to re-release this delicious and invitingly groovy album. Happy listening!

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Uranus

Aamun Hauta

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Uranium

Pure Nuclear Death

33,99 €*

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Castle Face)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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American one-man nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns, transmuted into its most astonishing and terrifying form yet. A statement of unseen magnitude and scope, the second full length album Pure Nuclear Death sees the enigmatic East Coast visionary harness a realm of terror and death-torn sonic immensity rarely, if ever, seen before in this plane of reality. Clear from the title alone, Pure Nuclear Death embodies the triumph, definition and consecration of a vision and concept which in the span of a just a couple of years and releases so far has already become classic and by all standards and measures, simply unrivaled. Awe-inducing, imposing and inexorably devastating, Pure Nuclear Death comprises thirty six minutes, split up into five tracks, of omnipotent, death-heaving black industrial immensity designed to devour the listener and deliver to them a world-ending payload of absolute death. The legacy of bludgeoning, visionary post-industrial acts like Godflesh and early (Cop, Filth-era) Swans transposed into total oblivion and coerced into a monstrous, lightless abyss of tectonic and crushing blackened electronics. An antihuman concept on nuclear energy and its most godly and terrifying traits incarnated in a sound which is its perfectly executed and envisioned embodiment. An indissoluble fusion reaction between a concept extrapolated from science, ethical literature and philosophy to convey realities of daunting scientific an technological darkness, and a god-like sound assembled from a critical mass of cataclysmic power electronics, apocalyptic industrial and black metal chained together into an otherworldldly sonic weapon of absolute atomic death.

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Uranium Club

Live At Arci Taun

18,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Infants Under The Bulb Black Vinyl Edition

Uranium Club

LP | 2024 | Original (Static Shock)

22,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Static Shock)

Uranium Club

Human Exploration

16,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Uranium

An Exacting Punishment

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Bella Union)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After the glorious Wormboiler cassette tape compilation obliterated human ears in 2021, American one-man black industrial weapon Uranium finally emerges from the depths of oblivion with its debut full-length album An Exacting Punishment, a five-track, forty-minute radioactive nightmare of complete sonic ruin channelling the darkness of black metal with the scathing immensity of defining post-industrial acts like Brighter Death Now, Godflesh, Wolf Eyes, Swans, MZ. 412, Controlled Bleeding, and Genocide Organ. As the band's name aptly hints at, Uranium was conceived as an aural vessel to explore the outer limits and the most irreversible states of complete human disintegration, and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being the conduit and ultimate engine of the greatest and most horrific forms of total annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes pulsing inside a lightless void lit only by drifting embers and falling ash, while immense infernal atmospherics wrap their deathly spires around the listener, crushing them into a distorted auditory abyss. Power electronics, industrial noise and black metal have rarely before been seen chained together and weaponized into such a mortal design. An authentic weapon of mass annihilation engineered to face human life with absolute death. A death-scarred reality that emerges from the utter bleakness and ruination of Uranium's apocalyptic design, as the listener is cast at the center of a caustic nuclear nightmare where flesh boils and evaporates off bone, cells erratically split into endless deformities and the world is turned into a mangled, corroded and disfigured radioactive oblivion.

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Ural Thomas & The Pain

Dancing Dimensions

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tea Is Too Hot Colored Vinyl Edition

Upusen

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Stratford Ct.)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Golden Pond Black Vinyl Edition

Upupayama

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Cardinal Fuzz)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Fuzz Club)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Upupayāma is the musical persona of Alessio Ferrari, an Italian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who lives in a small mountain village above the city of Parma. Upupayāma’s music is rooted strongly in Eastern and Western folk traditions, an approach that Ferrari blends with his own modern sensibilities and style. In addition to playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, Ferrari himself also incorporates a number of other instruments into his sound, including sitar, erhu, flute, and a variety of percussion instruments. Artist: Upupayama Title: THE Golden Pond Labels: Cardinal Fuzz (Europe), Centripetal Force (usa), Release Date: 25th November 22 For Ferrari, Upupayāma's 2020 debut was all about the journey. The album served a series of musical vignettes that visited and weaved its way through a succession magical settings. The Golden Pond, conversely, is all about location. Inspired by his frequent visits to a small lake near his mountain home, Ferrari intentionally focused on the details of the place he inhabited, a practice he decided would translate well with his approach to writing music. This is something Ferrari feels is best exemplified with the album's opening companion pieces, "Cuckoos from the House of Golden Tin" and "Entering the Time of Wilderness." The Golden Pond also continues Ferrari's practice of using "invented language" in his lyrics. Ferrari wants his voice to be heard as if it were an additional instrument, a tool that does not convey specific messages. His goal is to allow the listener to assign personal meaning to the music. He says, "I want my incorporating invented language is a way of breaking down the barriers that are sometimes created by language, by having to define something at all costs. Ferrari adds, "I think one of my unconscious dreams is not to have to define any[1]thing, but just to be carried away by our feelings." Earlier this year Ferrari put together a group of musicians to help him deliver his live vision of Upupayāma. They made their debut in Rome in May, and they will play a couple of shows in advance of the album being released. Both dates will be in October, one in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and the other in Esslingen, Germany. Plans to tour throughout Eu[1]rope in the spring of 2023 are currently in the works via El Borracho Booking. The Golden Pond will be Upupayāma's second album with Centripetal Force and Cardinal Fuzz, the first being the well-received self-titled debut in 2021, which is being repressed to coincide with the release of The Golden Pond in November.

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Upupayama

Mount Elephant

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sister Raygun)

Uptown Bones

Time To Die

15,39 €* 27,99 € -45%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Royal Potato)

Upstate

You Only Get A Few

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's Hard To Get In The Showbiz

Upstairs

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (The Outer Edge)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Upstairs, a band from Frankfurt, Germany was active from 1977 to 1983. Though considering themselves mainly a rock group, the band incorporated elements of funk, jazz rock and disco into their music. On their rare and privately released debut album “It’s Hard To Get In The Showbiz” from 1980 they created something that could be called Germany’s definite answer to AOR, yet still with an edgy and unique krautrock flavor. The album starts with "Wontcha Try," a track where core songwriter, guitarist and lead singer Helmer Sauer is telling the story about being dismissed from his job: "They tried to tell me in a fucking gentle way, that the time had come to kick me…". Sauer serves more personal, hard-edged lyrics on the album as well. On "Happy Hooker," for example, he tells the story of a working girl in the red light milieu: "The job is as hard that you really can never imagine, she serves for the money, degradin' herself in a way - if you'd know how she's feelin' you wouldn't laugh at all". An empathetic view on the subject of prostitution rarely heard at that time. But aside from the profound lyrics and songwriting, the album has a lot to offer on the groovy side of things. With catchy bass lines, rhythm guitar, Fender Rhodes, Moog synthesizer, Clavinet and swift crisp drumming "It's Hard To Get In The Showbiz" is one of the best examples of late 70s flavored funky rock from Germany. Additional to the aforementioned "Wontcha Try" another DJ delight should be "Make Your Steps On Better Lines" which showcases a superb synth line and disco funk flavors. We also get the slick mellow latinesque AOR grooves of "Get On A Plane" as well as the now-classic "You're Just Yourself", which marks the most soulful track of the LP. As followers of our label are already well aware, "You're Just Yourself" was featured on the compilation, "Boogie On The Mainline – A Collection Of Rare Disco, Funk And Boogie From Germany 1980-1987" from 2018. The band mainly performed locally and never really had ambitions to release their music on a bigger label. Too bad that Upstairs only released this one album. Of course, the highly sought-after original pressing is almost impossible to find nowadays. Therefore, we are proud to finally make this record available again after 40 years for a reasonable, regular LP price. Only 300 copies of the carefully re-mastered repress have been produced, and included is a printed lyrics insert identical to the original. As this is already the 10th release on our label we want to thank you for your support! Stay tuned for more hidden gems unearthed by The Artless Cuckoo.

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Upside

LP | 2022 | EU (No Plan)

18,99 €*