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2LP | 2024 | US | Original (OTHAR)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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"Rock Steady" was from the first album with Jahari, recorded with Needa on vocals and the first time using machines in the mix. During that session we had another song called "One Night Stand" that didn't make it on the album, but it should have looking back now. PPU Records fixed the instrumental for "Rock Steady". We didn't even know it was on the old tapes, we put it here as a bonus track. We will have copies of the 7" inches done in May. Today we have a white label for Record Store Day available, but not that many.

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Blockhead

Quar And Peace

44,99 €*

OST Legend Of Vox Machina Season 2

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Quar and Peace is an album of beats made during Covid-19 quarantine on IG Live sessions.

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V.A.

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Lakeshore)

36,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Clovis Ochin & Camoflauge Monk

Sans Souffrance (R)Ajoutée La Nuit Cover Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rrc Music)

30,99 €*

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Nu Groove)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Step into the world of Parisian fl air and lyrical fi nesse with Clovis Ochin's latest masterpiece: "Sans Souffrance (R)ajoutée", once again entirely produced by Camo fl auge Monk. Picture this: a seamless fusion of hip-hop vibes and the exquisite taste of fi ne natural wines, served with a side of haute couture swagger. Clovis Ochin, the enigmatic rapper and vintner extraordinaire, invites you on a sensory journey unlike any other. Following the success of their 2022 debut album "Sans Souffrance Ajoutée," Clovis Ochin returns with a sophomore sensation that transcends boundaries. Produced by the renowned Camo fl auge Monk, the sonic architect behind Griselda Records' iconic sound, this album is a testament to musical innovation and artistic evolution. Known for his captivating presence on "F*ck That's Delicious" alongside Action Bronson, Clovis embodies the essence of a modern- day bon vivant. His passion for hip-hop, natural wines, food, and fashion pulsates through every track, creating a symphony of fl avors and rhythms that captivate the senses. But that's not all. "Sans Souffrance (R)ajoutée" boasts electrifying guest appearances from the likes of Billie Essco and SonnyJim, adding layers of depth and dimension to an already stellar lineup. So, whether you're a connoisseur of hip-hop or a devotee of fi ne wine, prepare to be swept away by the intoxicating blend of sound and style that is Clovis Ochin's latest offering. "Sans Souffrance (R)ajoutée" is more than just an album—it's a cultural phenomenon, a celebration of life's pleasures, and a testament to the enduring power of artistic expression. Don't miss your chance to experience the magic fi rsthand. Cheers to Clovis Ochin, where hip-hop meets the love of natural wine in perfect harmony.

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Stefan Braatz

Outlaw EP

15,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Wabi Sabi)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Berlin underground authority Stefan Braatz returns to Nu Groove with a four-track EP showcasing his timeless sound – Outlaw. An established club DJ and producer who has donned many hats in his 30-year career, Stefan Braatz is known for his expansive knowledge that defies genre convention, with his previous Nu Groove collaboration ‘Everyman Jack’ featuring Chicago legends Virgo Four combining his respect for the old school with new school techniques. Opening the EP is the eponymous track ‘Outlaw’, featuring vocals from Chicago house pioneer Harry Dennis – a contemporary of Ron Hardy, the late Frankie Knuckles and a member of Jungle Wonz alongside Marshall Jefferson. As Braatz’s relentless synth energy powers through, Dennis’s unmistakeable free flow guides the composition with ease. What follows are three solo tracks that summarise the Berlin expert’s opposition to the genre restraints; ‘Conversation’ opens a dialogue between synth strings and piano that loops in ecstasy, while ‘Dingy Thoughts’ and ‘One More Dream’ are darker club cuts that bubble with intensity in the lower registers.

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Synthopia

Görlitzer Park Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Synthopia" marks the debut vinyl release from Wabi Sabi Audio Imprint. This album traverses diverse spectrums of hypnotic and deep sounds, offering a glimpse into what listeners can expect from future Wabi Sabi releases.

Featuring a lineup of authentic artists showcasing their craft without boundaries, from the opening track by Mary Yuzovskaya to the closing piece by Tuber, "Synthopia" invites listeners on a journey through elegant and hypnotic soundscapes.

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K.I.Z.

2LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Warner)

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Loud Enough)

Francisco

House Bootleg Mix

13,29 €* 13,99 € -5%

Live At The Hollywood Bowl With Orchestra

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Loud Enough returns with the third and final installment of the 3-ep series dedicated to Roman Pigna Records, the dancefloor-oriented sister label of Nature Records. Following the releases by Marco Passarani and Mario Pierro, it's now Francesco De Bellis's turn, akaFrancisco / Mr. Cisco.

In line with the previous EPs, Le004 showcases four tracks: two timeless cuts, "Fregna The Age" and "Miss Cha Cha Cha," alongside two previously unreleased tracks from the same era, "Move" and "House." Each piece embodies Francisco's groovy, Chicago-inspired signature style, ensuring a captivating journey on the dance floor. Music produced and written by Francesco De Bellis. Originally recorded in Studio 22 (Pigna Studios) Rome, Italy 2024 – 2008. Remixed in Mondo Studio Rome 2023

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Joe Bonamassa

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Mascot Label Group)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (22)

Lachina

Capítulo Vi Parte I.

15,99 €*

808 Machine Stripe T-Shirt

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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22rec006 Capitulo VI Parte I: “Sueños y sombras”

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Roland

34,99 €*

Gonzo Goa II Party Music 86- 93

Available Sizes: L, XL, 2XL

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The Roland 808 Machine Stripe T-Shirt's features include:
• rib crew neck with interior tape
• Roland 808 Machine Stripeartwork printed on front
• regular fit
• 100% cotton single jersey

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V.A.

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sound Migration)

32,99 €*

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (333)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A continuation of the extensive research project initiated last year between Sound Metaphors, Transmigration and surviving eye-witness/historian Ray Castle. An in depth analysis of the dancefloor landscape that developed in Goa during the 80s' and early 90's well before "Trance" became the unfortunate dirty word it is today. Before "trance" was even a genre, Goa was brewing a scene with unparalleled aesthetics, with a constant influx of dedicated collectors and DJs coming and going to this tropical underground dancefloor haven, filtering through vast amounts of emerging electronic music of the times and distilling only the finest of "Special Goa Music". Here is another compilation of our chosen most impactful tracks that would have been soundtrack to a very special and pure moment of freedom in dancefloor culture before the bastardisation of what we now know as "Goa Trance". A highly sought after selection of New Beat, Proto Techno, early Progressive/Trance, Industrial, EBM and House Music. Featuring photographs of the events presented in a double LP gatefold with poster and liner notes by Ray Castle himself. Re-mastered at Manmade mastering in Berlin. A generous body of research essential to any well rounded record collection.

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The Revolutionaries

Meditation In Dub

Now Playing Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Death Is Not The End's 333 series is back with another dig into the catalogue of the NYC-based Flames label on this reissue of a highly coveted Revolutionaries LP, Meditation in Dub.
One of reggae music's most famed session bands, The Revolutionaries were an often revolving cast of some of the finest session musicians on the island during the roots and early dancehall periods of the mid/late 1970s and early 1980s. These would include Earl 'Wire' Lindo, Radcliffe 'Dougie' Bryan, Ansell Collins, Bobby Kalphat, Lloyd Parks, Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson, Bongo Herman, Stanley Bryan, Bo Peep, Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont, Errol 'Tarzan' Nelson, Skully Simms, Robbie Lyn, Mikey 'Mao' Chung amongst many others. The enduring core of the group, however, was undoubtedly in the coming together of the legendary rhythm section of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare - with the formation of The Revolutionaries marking the first time that this often unparalleled duo worked together.
The group laid down these rhythm tracks at their base at the storied Channel One recording studio, Maxfield Avenue, Kingston sometime in the mid 1970s - under the arrangement of one of reggae music's great undersung figures, Ossie Hibbert. Early in 1975 Ossie was to move to Maxfield Avenue just as Jo Jo & Ernest Hookim's studio was starting up. A well-respected session musician himself through the late 1960s and early 70s (he played keys for Bunny 'Striker' Lee and Keith Hudson and would also form part of another foundational session band, The Soul Syndicate) he was initially summoned by Jo Jo as a band member for The Revolutationaries but quickly assumed the role of producer, engineer and talent scout for the studio, responsible for selecting the artists to bring into the studio.
These tracks were recorded by Hibbert around this time for Winston Jones, the original singer and composer of Stop That Train (later made world-famous by Keith & Tex's version) with his Spanishtonians for Prince Buster's label in the early 1960s. Jones had moved from JA to NYC in the early 1970s where he established and ran the Flames label. The imprint would go on to form a core part of Brooklyn's reggae scene from the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, though Jones often employed the use of Channel One, Hibbert and The Revolutionaries back home in the recording of rhythm tracks for his productions. Thus the Meditation in Dub LP is essentially formed of stellar dub versions to many of the early Flames labels 45s, produced and released by Jones throughout the mid to late 1970s, including crucial takes on a great many popular rhythms of that period. One of any self-respecting dub LP collectors' holy grails, with originals going for up to £400, it is issued here under license from the now Texas-based Jones with the kind assistance of Rob at DKR in sourcing the audio for this new cut.

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Roberta Flack

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rhino)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fiesta Y Ruido Die Toten Hosen Live In Argentinien White & Blue Vinyl Edition

Die Toten Hosen

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (JKP)

31,49 €* 34,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Schizophrenia Transparent Curacao Vinyl Edition

Cavalera

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Nuclear Blast)

24,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In The Half Light Black Bio Vinyl Edition

Swim Surreal

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Make)

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For You / Si Lloraras Blue Vinyl Edition

Thee Sinseers

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Colemine)

11,99 €*

Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freshly following their debut LP, Colemine Records is here to introduce the newest 45 from Thee Sinseers.The A-side, "For You" is a man's devotional message that promises it's the real deal this time. The group's sweet, verbed out harmonies set the stage for Joey Quinoñes' artful croon.The B-side is the instrumental version of their album's closing track, "Sinseerly Yours." Here it's aptly renamed "Si Llorarás" (if you will cry). This tune sends the listener off into the sunset with a gentle lap steel guitar tune reminiscent of Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk."

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Black Decelerant

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Rvng Intl.)

26,99 €*

When The Poems Do What They Do

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Decelerant is the second installment of Reflections, a series showcasing contemporary collaborations orchestrated by RVNG Intl., recently inaugurated by Steve Gunn and David Moore.Black Decelerant, the duo of Khari Lucas, aka Contour, and Omari Jazz, explores jazz traditions, improvising with synthesizers, guitars, and electronics as a practice laid forth by their musical ancestors. This experience allows for sonic meditations on themes such as Black being/nonbeing, mourning/life, expansion/limitation, and the individual/the collective. The two strive to create a sonic surface which can simultaneously allow Black listeners a place to be still, and to serve as a basis for a movement beyond "the moment." The album's ten compositions configure vast, resonant landscapes with signals, weathers and spirits, suspended in memory and distilled in time. The Black Decelerant machine recalibrates archival relics and acoustic impulses into collages of amalgamated timbres, where harmony exists not without discordance. Across the expansive space of the record, cadent storms of modulated sound ascend beside serene melodic spells. Piano keys and bass lines tumble in free fall throughout the release, accompanied on tracks "two" and "eight" by the spectral trumpet improvisations of Jawwaad Taylor.The duo arrived at their name upon reading Aria Dean's Notes on Blacceleration, an article which explores Accelerationism within the context of Black being or non-being as a foundational tenet of capitalism. Coupled with the record's intended effect, "Black Decelerant" references the music being an invitation to slow down, while hinting at the shared politics between themselves and the artists and thinkers who inspire them.

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Aja Monet

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Drink Sum Wtr)

37,99 €*

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan'

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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redux packaging.aja monet's poems are a work of gravity. They are a fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon and enacted towards. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, allowing them to exist in converse. In her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy.In when the poems do what they do aja monet appears as a woman of letters and storm, her poems do not roar in pentameter - but rather in storm surge because, "Who's got time for poems when the world is on fire?!." And this work isn't one to pull apart into one liners, these are poems of things felt. There is a fullness here that can't be encapsulated in even the boundaries that language offers. aja monet is a griot, a storyteller, a chronicler, and your grandmother telling you about her first love all at once. These are baby making poems - literally the spring enacting upon the cherry trees. These are poems of urgency and want and the rallying cry to demolish the insidious systems from which our futures seem to be wrought, in other words, "If we had a sense of humor we'd be more radical. More migrant than citizen we'd breathe the air clean and ration our resources...we would melt ALL the guns." You will find yourself readying arms because of these poems, and simultaneously mourning the unstoppable loss of names already destined to be immortalized. aja monet crafts a work as she always does, that can be entered from many doors. These aren't poems for poets, but poems for everyone.She is joined in effort on this album by musicians Christian Scott (trumpet), Samora Pinderhughes (piano), Elena Pinderhughes (flute), Luques Curtis (bass), Weedie Braimah (djembe) and Marcus Gilmore (drums). Together creating music that is insistent and unrelenting. There are songs reminiscent of jazz club virtuosity and melee, others of a healing balm in gilead, and the...

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Your Community Hub Purple Vinyl Ediiton

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Castles In Space)

The Head & The Habit Opaque Cream White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan's new album, Your Community Hub, compellingly continues his sonic exploration of the New Towns movement. The issues the councillors, planners, and architects set out to solve still resound and echo throughout society.

For the latest instalment in this unique project, Gordon Chapman-Fox turns his laser eye to focus on Community and the Community Centres that populated Warrington and Runcorn in order to provide all the facilities people needed within a five minute walk from their home. These planning ideas predated the current discussions of fifteen minute cities by fifty years.

Those 50 years have seen a decline in our community centres and services: handy access to a GP or dentist, Post Offices, youth clubs, local shops, banking and much more. Successive governments have undermined and eroded those basic services. The decline in community services has also been matched with a decline in community and shared experiences with a knock-on effect on the population's health and well-being. The disastrous austerity policies imposed over the last 15 years have exacerbated this long, slow reduction in available spaces for people to meet and communicate, with seemingly no recognition of the societal impact that causes. Short-termism at the expense of the community and how we live our lives.

Margaret Thatcher's statement that "there is no such thing as society" has been taken as a mission statement by successive Conservative governments who have aimed to remove as much support and communality from the citizens as possible. It continues now, the wrong-headed idea that everyone can be left to fend for themselves.

Chapman-Fox's latest album decries the cruelty of where we find ourselves in 2024 and his quiet incandescence about the loss of optimism for what communities should be and could be. It's his most powerful work, and as always, it will deeply resonate with those who tune in to his unique vision and unparalleled productions.

All four Wrntdp albums to date have had increasing critical and commercial success. Your Community Hub will resonate with anyone with a social conscience, anyone who feels how badly the state has let us down, and anyone who loves the best synthesiser music currently produced.

As ever, beautifully packaged and designed by Gordon, the album artwork features photographs from the archive of the architect Peter Garvin, which was kindly provided by his son Richard Garvin. The photographs show Peter's work on the Castlefield Community Centre, a sleek modernist structure clad in white ceramic tiles.

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Greenleaf

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Magnetic Eye)

42,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Unfinished Business Black Vinyl Edition

Snowy White

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Snowy White)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Move With Intention HHV Exclusive Blue Vinyl Edition

Dumbo Tracks

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

23,99 €* 29,99 € -20%

I Kept These Old Blues Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited to 100 copies.

Dumbo Tracks returns with a second album Move With Intention – the anticipated follow up to 2022's eponymous debut. Philipp Janzen and collaborators deliver a varied collection of nine zoned-out grooves direct from Dumbo Studio in Cologne, with vocal contributions from Portable, Ada, Marker Starling, Rubee Fegan and nothhingspecial.

Looking back to his musical upbringing, Philipp Janzen switched up the recording process from the first record to incorporate more of a live band element. The result is a more eclectic sound which allowed more freedom to experiment, while keeping the collaborative spirit that is a vital Dumbo Tracks trademark.

The genesis of the record began in Italy, where Philipp and co-producer Julian Stetter traveled to jam out ideas on modular synths over the course of a few days. These ideas served as the basis for more instrumental tracks back at Dumbo Studio, where Philipp invited friends to develop the tracks further within a live dynamic. For the final phase of the record, Philipp enlisted the artistry of five vocalists: spoken word frontwoman Rubee Fegan, Canadian singer songwriter Marker Starling, house romantic Portable, Bonn-based haunted pop artist nothhingspecial and Hamburg's techno visionary Ada.

Rubee Fegan contributes her anecdotal observations to four songs, not least on the opening track "Daughter Of Flood" with her poetic remark "sip on the wave of her." It's a vocal style that Philipp had been looking for for ages, and finally found after hearing Rubee's band Smile. Long-time collaborator Christopher Cummings aka Marker Starling lends his lilting tenor to "Slow Despair", an uplifting drum machine and organ workout. Track three "What If" shifts the goal posts, as an acid bassline rises over a swung groove that wouldn't sound out of place in a Manchester warehouse, before we emerge into a clearing of heartbreak and expectation, courtesy of singer producer nothhingspecial.

The title track sees Philipp and crew slow the tempo down to a molasses dreamscape, a beatdown groove that's joined by Paris-residing artist Portable. Portable's emotive voice is the perfect foil for the tracks' invocation to mindfulness, aided by filtered hi-hats and widescreen sequencers. "Mica" takes the synths and drum machines out to the countryside, and finds producer and singer Ada supplying the most sensitive of vocals and flutes to a song that carries the kosmisch torch. Organs spill over rolling drums and dub reverb, underneath Rubee's cosmic voiceover on "A Naked Star", and the album concludes with "My Eyes Won't Close" a chromatic modular descent into despair, vividly described by nothhingspecial.

It all makes for a gloriously eclectic album, an anarchic pop record that follows its own rules. Move With Intention is both electronic yet alive, motorik and pastoral, filled with dancefloor grooves and a krautrock swagger. In this sense the intention is clear: to respectfully rip up the rule book and keep moving forward.

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Muireann Bradley

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (In The Red)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Muireann Bradley is a young blues, ragtime, roots and folk guitarist and singer based in Ballybofey in County Donegal Ireland. Tompkins Square actually signed her when she was 13, but because of Covid and just “growing up", the process of recording took place over three years. She will be 17 in December, 2023. "This is my first album. Most of these tunes were originally recorded by the great blues men and women who were making records from the 1920s and 1930s right up in some cases to the early 1970s. I have also found inspiration for the renditions recorded here in the playing of some of the musicians who began recording this music in the 1960s and later, and who in some cases learned at the feet of the greats. Many of these guitarists played pivotal roles in the 1960s blues revival and subsequent 'rediscovery' of many of the greats of country blues. I grew up steeped in these old blues in the hills overlooking the valley of the River Finn just outside the town of Ballybofey in County Donegal. My father would play this music constantly at home and wherever we went in the car and talk about it endlessly whether anyone was listening or not, telling stories about the lives of these musicians as if they were legend, mythology or the evening news. My father could of course play all this stuff on guitar, I remember watching him when I was very young and thinking 'I want to be able to do that'. When I was nine he agreed to teach me and bought me my first little travel guitar. I worked hard to learn how to play but as time wore on I seemed to have less and less time to practice as I became more and more invested in the combat sports I was regularly training and competing in. Then in March 2020 the first Covid lockdowns happened and all contact sports were shut down. I was lost for a while but soon found my way back to the guitar. I was now listening, playing and practicing with a new intensity and focus. In a very serious moment I wrote out a list of tunes I was going to learn. The first tune on that list was Blind Blake’s 'Police Dog Blues'. I’m not sure now how long it took to get that arrangement together but when it was ready we videoed me performing it and posted it on YouTube. It ended up getting a lot of attention, I remember my parents being quite shocked and soon after that Josh Rosenthal got in touch… and here we are! Each individual track on this album was recorded live in the studio and represents one entire take with me singing and backing myself up on guitar simultaneously. Most are either first or second takes. Nothing has been added or taken away, no overdubs or modern recording tricks of any kind have been used at all so at least in some respects this album has been recorded in the same way as those classics of the 1920s and 1930s. I hope you enjoy the record."—Muireann Bradley May 2023

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Redd Kross

39,99 €*

Memory Lane Dead / Airman Shuffle

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In 1979, two school-kids all hopped-up on punk-rock started their own group in their hometown of Hawthorne, Los Angeles (birthplace of the Beach Boys) and soon found themselves opening shows for notorious scene pioneers Black Flag. Jeff McDonald was fifteen, his brother Steven McDonald only eleven. But that didn’t stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk-rock ever belched up.

2024, then, marks Redd Kross’s forty-fifth birthday—an important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPM—and the brothers are celebrating the event with a veritable multimedia extravaganza. There’s a memoir, Now You’re One Of Us, due in November, author Dan Epstein telling the group’s story in the McDonalds’ unmistakable (and occasionally contrary) voices. A brilliant rockumentary, Born Innocent, directed by Andrew Reich, will premiere later in the year. Most exciting of all, this new album—an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with eighteen of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet. These years of joyful service to rock’n’roll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock concern, dealing in dayglo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop-cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes.

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The Convent / Buchwald

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Sireena)

12,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mochari Dirty Pink Vinyl Edition

Machukha

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Consouling Sounds)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Unassisted Vocal / Instrumental HHV European Exclusive Edition

Rasco

7" | 2024 | US | Original (All Right Fresh)

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas / Around The World

Nick Garrie

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Nine X Nine)

17,99 €*

Opt Out Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nick Garrie was an unknown backpacker until his music was discovered in the late ’60s while busking in the South of France. Recognising his talent, work on a collection of recordings followed which would culminate in his legendary debut album The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas. Set to be released in 1969 on the influential French label Disc’Az, however due to the suicide of the label’s founder, Lucien Morisse, shortly before the album’s release date, only about 100 copies of this psych pop/soft rock masterpiece came into circulation. It became a cult album in the truest sense and was finally reissued almost 40 years later. With the death of Morisse, Nick took some time away from recording only to return under an alias, writing with Oscar and Golden Globe winning composer Francis Lai. His directory of credits only grew as he worked with Paul Samwell-Smith (The Yardbirds), Alun Davies (Cat Stevens’ Band), drummer Gerry Conway and Leonard Cohen. Nick Garrie grew his audience in Europe, penning an album that would top the charts in Spain. In 2005 the album The Nightmare of J.B Stanislas was reissued, achieving critical acclaim from The Independent, BBC & Record Collector. Nick’s resurgence combined with fascination of his back story led to a new generation of music fans and musicians appreciating Garrie’s work. In this tim he was collaborated with the likes of Duglas T. Stewart (bmx Bandits) Norman Blake and Francis McDonald (Teenage Fanclub) and Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor). Now, for the first time ever, the classic title track is to be released as a 7” single. It is also the first ever vinyl release of Nick’s work on a UK label. The B side is a song close to Nick’s heart Around the World. This track was also written in the ’60s but had never been recorded before. It was recorded at Nick’s home in late 2023 with the help of fellow 9X9 recording artist Jamie Whelligan and musician/producer Nick Frater.

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Oum Shatt

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wanda Y.)

19,99 €*

Birds & Beasts Yellow & Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Six years ago, Oum Shatt released a critically acclaimed debut album that led to Song of the Year awards from Berlin Radio Eins ("Gold To Straw") and TAZ Popblog ("Power To The Women Of The Morning Shift"), as well as BBC and Arte features and appearances at Sxsw, Transmusicales in France and Electric Picnic in Ireland.

Now, the Berlin-based band, whose members are otherwise known from bands such as Kissogram, Fenster, Die Türen, Golden Showers and Peaches, consisting of singer and songwriter Jonas Poppe, founding member Chris Imler on drums, guitarist Richard Murphy, and Rémi Letournelle on bass and synthesizer – return with a second effort that even surpasses their debut. Building on the minimal-rock style of their debut album (Vogue Magazine), OUM Shatt weaves a mystic, at times psychedelic soundscape with meandering guitars, a wild percussive aesthetic, and Jonas Poppe’s evocative, mantra-like baritone. "Opt Out" also stands as a thematic concept album, delving into the individual's various forms of resistance against societal expectations. While drawing from obscure influences, the album remains unmistakably unique.

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Suss

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Nortehrn Spy)

What A Way To Die Violet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pioneering ambient country trio, Suss “perform with an effortless sense of synchronicity,” according to Stereogum. This quality is as vividly on display as ever throughout their latest full-length, Birds & Beasts. Suss’s recordings have garnered much praise for effecting a sense of long drives through desert landscapes, a context famously ripe for such synchronicities: slow motion pedal steel guitar, dobro and near-subconscious synthesizer rumbles and sweeps seem to operate via the same logic as that which dictates the interactions of a road-weary mind and a cloud of migrating birds. While Suss’s previous records have dealt in these kinds of scenes, Birds & Beasts –– though instrumentally more spare –– deepens the sense of meaning and meaning projected.

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The Pleasure Seekers

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Sundazed)

30,99 €*

J.R. Yellow Vinyl Ediiton

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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The archetype for the '60s-era girl group was etched indelibly into stone, like a commandment: three pretty girls with matching outfits and bouffant hairdos would sing, with musical backing supplied by a bunch of guys standing in the shadows. The Quatro sisters shattered that archetype forever with the Pleasure Seekers, an all-girl teenage rock & roll group who played all the instruments themselves and were fully capable of wiping the stage with any male band that crossed their path. Pressed on violet vinyl!

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Julianna Riolino

LP | 2024 | US | Original (You've Changed)

20,99 €*

New World Depression Coke Bottle Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You’ve Changed Records presents a special limited edition first-ever vinyl pressing of Julianna Riolino’s debut EP “J.R.”. Previously available only through digital channels, J.R. predates her 2022 breakthrough full-length “All Blue”, feted by the New York Times, Pitchfork, Uncut, and NPRs Mountain Stage, among many, many others, as well as Julianna’s stint in Daniel Romano’s Outfit. For the most part, J.R. omits the county, americana, and folk influences heard on All Blue though there is a shock of recognition in the always surprising power and pure tone of her voice. Rich in melody and early confidence, Julianna Riolino here draws from classic girl-group pop and contemporary indie while establishing a characteristic song-writing template of interpreting foundational texts and iconography to portray uniquely personal experiences and emotional truths. “It’s like it’s who you are before you grow more” she says of J.R. now. It’s an important step in the formation of an important and thrilling artist, and one of today’s greatest singers.

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$uicideboy$

LP | 2024 | Original (G59)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Samurai Black Vinyl Edition

Lupe Fiasco

LP | 2024 | Original (1st And 15th Productions, Inc.)

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Anjunabeats)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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On his new album, Samurai, Lupe retreats inward to give fans one of his most personal albums in his deep catalog. “I sometimes get tagged by my fans as not doing personal records,” Lupe says, “but I always tell people there's me in there if you listen closely enough. This album is one of my more personal records to date. It's not a full biography, but my personal experiences are tied up in all of my music. A lot of the records are me. Some are from the POV of a character. and some are me. The album weaves things from my life as an artist, touching on things other artists go through.” The narrative follows a battle rapper through various moments in his career, starting with how they honed their battle rap skills, following their career through different moments. Musically, the new album finds Lupe delighting in the simple pleasures of assembling assonant syllables into playful and poignant narratives. The 8-track album is smooth, yet cerebral, brimming with ideas, but always radiating Lupe’s pure love for the art of emceeing and committing himself as a servant of the rap game. The album was produced in full by longtime collaborator and friend, Soundtrakk (“Superstar,” “Kick, Push,” “HipHop Saved My Life”), their second time linking up on a full album after 2022’s DRILL MUSIC IN ZION, and is also the first time Lupe, Trakk, and longtime manager Charles “Chill” Patton were in the studio together since Patton’s release from prison in 2023. “It felt great to be back in the studio again as a family,” Lupe says. It’s the first time they’d worked together in the studio since Lupe’s seminal album, The Cool in 2005. “The word ‘samurai’ means to serve,” Lupe says on the album’s title. “My relationship to that word has always meant that you need to be at the service of other people, either in the overall community, or in this instance, the rap community at large that I’ve been a part of for years. You have some duty, some purpose to serve. The title alone is very important to me. Before rap even, martial arts was my whole life, and it still plays a huge role in my life. The album is me, but also inspired by a quote I heard from one of my favorite artists. The overall themes of the album speak to the constant fight and the battle one goes through being in the entertainment industry. Some of the things we need to defend.”

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Above & Beyond

Sirens Of The Sea

29,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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End Terrain Lavender Vinyl Edition

Locrian

LP | 2024 | Original (Profound Lore)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Opus)

Sept

Timeless Exploration

Planetary Assault Systems

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Opus is a fusion of visual brilliance and pulsating beats that transcends the boundaries of traditional experiences. This emerging project is the epitome of synergy between art and electronic music, where every stroke of the brush and every sonic pulse are meticulously orchestrated to create an immersive journey. Opus invites you to step into a world where each note resonates with the vibrant strokes of artistic expression. Join us in this extraordinary celebration of the interconnected realms of art and electronic music, where every moment turns into piece of art.

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Deep Heet Volume 5

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Mote Evolver)

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Fanzine)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Planetary Assault Systems is one of UK techno innovator Luke Slater's most enduring aliases, a project focused on forward-thinking techno with maximum cerebral impact.For his first new music as Planetary Assault Systems in several years, and the 70th release on his own Mote-Evolver label, he heads full throttle into the deep dark recesses of the club.

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Nullptr

Distant Signals

14,44 €* 16,99 € -15%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Rawax Motor City Edition)

Los Hermanos

Remember Detroit

House Masters: Marshall Jefferson

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Rawax proudly presents the 3rd release by Gerald Mitchell on his own Rawax Motor City - series. This time we have the honor to present him under his Los Hermanos alias! "Remember Detroit" is a beautiful piece of Music which makes you feel the pulse of this City. Highly recommended!

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Marshall Jefferson

2xLP | 2024 | EU | Original (Defected)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Widow)

Arkitekture

Rationalis Impetus

58,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Brat Black Ice Vinyl Edition

Charli XCX

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Sala Clear Black Smoke Vinyl Edtion

Kati Ran

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Svart)

36,99 €*

Bizarre Cut'n'paste Ride / Summer Cycle

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Svart Records are proud to release the long-awaited full length album "sála" by Kati Rán in May 2024

If the most profound treasures are often the most deeply buried, the journey to uncover them is vital process of discovery. Five years after the 15-minute single “Blodbylgje” signaled the birth of a new, more primordial, and immersive vision after the dissolution of her band L.E.A.F., Nordic dark folk artist Kati Rán has expanded on its oceanic theme for her long-awaited full-length album, “sála”. Embarking on a far-reaching musical and personal travelogue, it’s a reawakening of both the feminine narratives submerged and fragmented within Norse mythology, and the enduring, healing powers held within.

Named after the Old Norse word for ‘soul’ and ‘sea’, “sála” is an act of ‘soul retrieval’, the shamanic art of trauma recovery, be it illness, death, heartbreak or loss, and the reintegration of a splintered self. Across its 13, wide-ranging, elegantly unfolding tracks, the album is an embodiment of different feminine voices and perspectives – from the Norse nine daughters of the sea, or ‘billow maidens’, through various historical and fictional figures to the late-night voices we hear in our most liminal states – all with tales to tell, riddles to solve, challenges to be accepted and guidance to offer. It’s a multiplicity that, like the ocean itself, belongs to a vast, restless dynamic: a matrix of mysteries, unfathomable depths and ever-shifting currents, accumulating into an elemental, regenerative source of power.

Recorded in a barn in Húsafell, Iceland – home to glacier ice caves and a rare lava stone marimba rediscovered for the track “Stone Pillars” – as well as Finland, Norway and at home in Kati’s native Netherlands, “sála” is as much chronicle of Kati’s own perspective-shifting recording process as it as a pilgrimage through different viewpoints and internal states. That itinerate urge is also reflected in the use of different languages, ranging across Norwegian, Old Norse, Icelandic, and, for the first time, English, her combination of ancient texts, historical reimagining’s and unguarded personal reflection backed up by deep research into the most resonant recesses of Nordic lore.

Spun throughout every thread of “sála” is a sense of communion - with the power of stories to offer moral guidance and the thrill of the unknown; with the element of water, recreated across the album both in field recordings and the agelessly organic nature of the music itself; with the archetypes whose qualities we are called upon to embody at our most critical moments; and with the internal hidden realms forever whispering at us from the far edges of our consciousness.

Appropriately, it’s a collaborative venture too. As well as working closely together with Finnish producer Jaani Peuhu, there are contributions from across the musical spectrum, including extreme metal vocalist extraordinaire Gaahl, the Icelandic female choir Umbra Ensemble, renowned Norwegian jazz musician Karl Seglem, Björk and Brian Eno contrabassist Borgar Magnason, members of pagan folk acts Völuspá, Gealdýr, Heilung and Theodor Bastard and even Napalm Death’s Mitch Harris on vocals.

For all the many sources “sála” draws from, the result is a singular, intimately transformative rite of passage, and a retuning of the heart to the reverent continuity of the sacred. It will take you from the opening title track’s chest-pounding rhythmic pulse emerging from a traditional Norwegian bukkehorn (recorded by Karl Seglem), a galloping horse-rider and Kati’s glacial, velveteen chant, through “Kólga’s” recounting of female persecution through the ages borne on the most gossamer-light yet unbreakable of timbres and “Stone Pillar’s” gently percolating, deep wells of abandonment and incantations to recovery. “sála” closes with the track “Sátta” - Old Norse for ‘peace’ and ‘reconciliation’ – ending the album as it began with the bukkehorn, as it weaves rich drones and experience-stamped poems and prayers, Kati’s vocals the most sensitively tuned of emotional barometers. An album made in dedication, and in thrall to, its own sense of destiny, “sála” is, as all quests must ultimately be, a homecoming.

Album introduction written by Jonathan Selzer.

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Smoove

7" | 2024 | UK (Wack)

22,99 €*

2x12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Gospel One)

Release: 2024 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Smoove pays tribute to one of the greatest albums of all time ‘Bizarre Ride to The Pharcyde’

Sourcing the original samples and re-using them to create a fresh, seamless cut n paste mix, fused with Smoove’s signature production.

Flip to the B Cyde for an extended version of ‘Summer Cyde’ with the bluntest of beats!

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Rahaan

Lift Every Voice

36,09 €* 37,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Palpitations Opaque Grey Vinyl Edition

Laurel

LP | 2024 | Original (Communion)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Pop

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Leon Bridges & Pastor T.L. Barett

Like A Ship Clear Blue Vinyl Edition

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Numero Group)

12,99 €*

Ryan & The Roadhouse Band Davis

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Numero's second bundle of cover 45s isall things soulful. The Rotterdam-basedAnother Taste electrifies Maxx Traxx's1984 Chicago boogie grail "Don't TouchIt," which makes its debut on the 7"format here. Colemine Records' Say SheShe delivers a glamorous rendition of JimSpencer's yacht-disco hit "Wrap Myself UpIn Your Love." Columbia Recording artistLeon Bridges effortlessly transforms PastorT.L. Barrett's "Like A Ship," updating the50 year old gospel soul classic for the 21stcentury. All three are housed in a newlyimagined Numero custom sleeve, reflectingthe many shades of our ongoing EccentricSoul 45 imprint.

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Dancing On The Edge

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Tough Love)

35,99 €*

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan'

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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RIYL: Silver Jews, Bill Callahan, Lambchop, Cass McCoombs, Sparklehorse.Originally released via Ryan's own label, Sophomore Lounge, in the US late 2023, it picked up some incredible reviews: best of 2023 in both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, 9/10 lead review in Uncut, and a raft of other notable publications. "At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana - just a moderate bike ride north of Louisville, Kentucky - multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter Ryan Davis'' Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in a myriad of forms. As driving force for the lauded State Champion, long-running member of Tropical Trash, administrator of the esoteric and excellent Cropped Out festival, and lone proprietor of the Sophomore Lounge label, Davis lays down his first proper 'solo' release with Dancing On The Edge, a rich, 2LP tapestry of tunes that absolutely glows over seven expansive cuts. It's a pure collage of modernity and heritage.After a period of introspection spent re-immersing himself in his drawing & painting practice, as well as his newfound delvings into instrumental music, Davis' sea change was imminent. "I wasn't sure I would ever make another record of 'song' songs," he says, "but last year I started writing again and it eventually took the shape of the record at hand. I worked painstakingly hard on the material. It felt virtually impossible to complete for a bulk of the time I spent trying to enter into it, but the process pulled me out of a strange place. I was eventually able to live inside of the songs enough to understand the world within them - to ultimately help shape them into what I understood them to be." Indeed, there's a load of inspiration captured in the grooves with Ryan's unfiltered, folk-traditioned approach to poetic twists-of-tongue meeting head on with sublime instrumentation.Recorded in early 2023 with help both in-studio and remotely from peers like Joan Shelley, Catherine Irwin (Freakwater), Will Lawrence (Felice Brothers, Gun Outfit, John Early), Jenny Rose...

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A Shared Sense Of Purpose

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Castles In Space)

LP | 2024 | DE | Original (ZYX Music)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The first track on the album, A Shared Sense Of Purpose, reflects this optimism, and is the lead single from the album. This will be released in 7” and 12” vinyl versions. Both versions will be accompanied by an exclusive remix from the Godfather of New Town Synthology, Vince Clarke. To say that we’re excited about this, would be an understatement!

The 12" edition is out now, with the 7" following up in the next few weeks. The truth being that we overwhelmed the pressing plant ever so slightly. The 7" is the only place that you will find the radio edit.

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Frank Sinatra

Greatest Christmas Songs

17,99 €*

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Pop, Christmas

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Calypso's Dream)

The Force

The Rise Of Poseidon II

12,74 €* 14,99 € -15%

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Chris Isaak)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Force [Nacho Marty Meyer & telzen] makes its first appearance on 12” along with calypso's dream.

This legendary Italian disco duo from Argentine Patagonia has collected a vast amount of clues that are totally mysterious and lost on the seabed. In this second part we find: A1 “Galactic Alliance” classic Italodisco bomb of the time, originally released in 2010 on CD by “System nova records”. the A2 cut “Haroid, a fully demo track, which was finalized for the ep, very special for jumping into the water!

The other side, we find B1 “Pit Box Mens” blessed by Federico Moura, The Force finds “la forza del mare” in this mythical track with direct influences from “Virus”. A timeless track without a doubt! In B2, a re - interpretation by the label, especially for a plot twist during peak hours at night. Solid, epic, aquatic, that's how we define this second release of our new saga.

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Chris Isaak

Heart Shaped World

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (U Jazz Me)

Lumbago

39,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Loopaina)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Only 100 numbered copies of black 180g vinyl were made.

Lumbago is a duo of two renowned musicians - Paweł Stachowiak (bass) and Tymek Papior (drums). Their shared fascination with music on the border between jazz, hip-hop and electronic music led to joint recording sessions, from which Lumbago was born. The project is focused on playing live and does not intend to be pigeonholed.

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Pyramidal Decode

Isteria

Magic Hour - Disk #3 - Wave Dub

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Reference number 2 in vinyl format from the Loopaina Records label, signed by the Italian artist Pyramidal Decode.

An album with 4 cuts of hard-hitting techno, perfect for breaking up the dance floor.

All music written and produced by Pyramidal Decode.

Mastered by: Carlos Koschitzky koschitzkymastering.com

Label: Loopaina Records

Cat#: Lpr-v002

Artwork by Loopaina Records

Photo taken in Rotorua, New Zealand by Jorge del Rio.

Loopaina Records, all rights reserved.

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Satoshi Tomiie

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Abstract Architecture)

15,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Magic Hour album on Abstract Architecture continues. A dancefloor oriented third part, with 4 tracks adding to the collection of three years of craft and dedication by Satoshi.

Includes 2 remixes by Dj Honesty.

Some last copies of the first part are left to get the complete bundle at once.

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Léo Dupleix

Resonant Trees

29,99 €*

LP | 2024 | FR | Original (Camisole)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is pleased to announce Resonant Trees, the first vinyl release from French composer-performer Léo Dupleix. An active member of the international community of younger musicians working with just intonation, Dupleix has composed works for solo instrumentalists and ensembles in Europe and Japan, as well as performing extensively on harpsichord, piano and electronics. His music is distinguished by a formal clarity and elegance of surface, gently shaping pure intervals into delicate melodic patterns and shimmering harmonic planes. Resonant Trees presents two side-long pieces for harpsichord and ensemble, both setting slowly repeating patterns played on harpsichord and guitar within an environment of sustained tones. Dupleix performs on a French double manual harpsichord (tuned to a just intonation scheme of his own devising) and Prophet synthesizer, joined by Juliette Adam (bass clarinet), Johanna Bartz (traverso flute), Cyprien Busolini (viola), Fredrik Rasten (6- and 12-string guitars), and Mara Winter (traverso flute). The harpsichord begins Resonant Tree I alone, slowly sounding out a series of arpeggiated chords that emphasise the unique (and for unaccustomed listeners, sometimes unsettling) harmonic and timbral qualities of justly tuned intervals. Long tones from synthesiser, bass clarinet, viola and Baroque traverso flutes slowly creep into the spaces between the arpeggiated chords, joined after several minutes by delicate patterns of harmonics played by Rasten on acoustic guitars. On Resonant Tree II, a similar structure and ensemble (without the flutes) are used with quite different results. We again hear only the harpsichord at first, but this time playing a series of flowing melodic lines, each of which is repeated several times. Joined again by long tones from the ensemble, here the viola is particularly prominent and its interplay with the harpsichord creates fascinating acoustic effects. In both pieces, repetition gives the music a static, stable quality while, at the same time, the exact shape of the repeating patterns remains difficult to grasp. As Dupleix writes, these pieces dream of music as ‘space and a sound that one could grasp in one’s hand.’ As the near-static quality of the repetitions and long tones with little incident make these two stretches of musical time feel like spaces for the listener to inhabit, the small variations on a narrow range of related material act like a three-dimensional object whose each facet is examined in turn. At once austere and seductive, Resonant Trees takes its place beside the work of contemporaries like Catherine Lamb, while also calling up the languorous melodic world of Mamoru Fujieda, the dignified melancholy of Satoshi Ashikawa’s classic Still Way and the espaliered chamber atmospherics of the Obscure catalogue.

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Love Wonderland

The Best Twilights Of

23,99 €*

Release: 2024 / FR – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rhino)

Sister Sledge

Now Playing

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Piero Umiliani

OST Orgasmo

Burning Hell Bluesville Acoustic Sounds

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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We’re thrilled to announce a reissue of Piero Umiliani’s soundtrack to the 1969 giallo thriller “Orgasmo” (called “Paranoia” in English speaking countries), the first of three erotically charged films directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring cult siren (and Oscar nominee) Carroll Baker. Back in 2020, we unveiled the first-ever release of this iconic soundtrack, whose master tapes were thought lost for decades. Due to popular demand, this reissue, unlike the 2020 release, bears the film’s original Italian title. The LP comes in a lavish 650-gram single tip-on jacket adorned with new artwork.

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John Lee Hooker

LP | 2024 | Original (Craft)

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Ethiopians

Slave Call

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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kings sagen king Limited Golden Vinyl Edition

haiyti

LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Hayati)

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Reggae & Dancehall

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I Hear You HHV Exclusive Picture Disc Edition

Peggy Gou

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (XL)

27,89 €* 30,99 € -10%

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Microqlima)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited to 250 copies for the German market!

One of the most hotly-anticipated debut records in recent years, I Hear You will be released on 7th June 2024 via XL Recordings. The ten track album is the culmination of years of work for the Korean-born artist, who’s uniquely revered as both an underground icon and global sensation, sticking by her own unwavering vision to become one of the most in-demand electronic music artists and DJs in the world.

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L'Imperatrice

Pulsar

34,99 €*

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Lyskestrekk)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With two successful albums and a sold-out world tour under their belt, Paris-based L'Impératrice have matriculated from a good-times instrumental act created by music critic Charles de Boisseguin to a six-piece powerhouse whose sashaying mixes of funk and French Touch, disco and deep house now include the fetching vocals of singer Flore Benguigui. Their new album Pulsar, is a focused but far-reaching record, the jubilant testament of a band with plenty to say and the skills to say it themselves. Across 10 tracks, L'Impératrice move freely and authoritatively among the sounds they love, bridging hip-hop, kosmische, and modern pop with their most unabashed embraces of French Touch and international house ever. Benguigui, meanwhile, boldly sings of self-empowerment by shirking beauty standards, ageism, and drab normalcy, with a little help from an exciting set of new friends.A longtime fan who had seen the band multiple times, Maggie Rogers flew to Paris to lead the svelte and graceful "Any Way," approaching the song with an unabashed vim. They had a similar encounter with Erick the Architect, who was so enthusiastic about the sample- based and panoramic "Sweet & Sublime" that Benguigui scrapped one of her own verses to make more room for him. And Italian singer Fabiana Martone (Nu Genea) crafted the melody for "Danza Marilu" the moment she heard its disco thump. Throughout these 10 songs, L'Impératrice espouses the rare willingness to be real about life and its woes while also sounding like a perfect picture of joy. Pulsar opens like a window being slid open onto an unimagined world. During the title-track finale, where a casual confession of suffering climbs into a mighty climax rooted in redemption, the band intertwines dubstep, turntablism, and symphonic strings to offer a bracing conclusion: however we are is OK.

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D.Apal

Bra Tid

23,99 €*

Dbridge Vs Forest Drive West

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Outrageous Norge-Funk™ from Lyskestrekk !! Heavyweight, loose and live organic goodness... Limited as ever and totally essential !

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EXITVS009

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Exit)

Super Eagles Band With The Mushi Players

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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dBridge & Forest Drive West, doing what they do, together

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Sock It To Me

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Mushi 45)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Nxworries (Anderson.Paak & Knxwledge)

Why Lawd? Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Angry Blackmen

The Legend Of Abm

OST Monster Red Marbled & Ox Blood Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Chicago hip-hop outfit Angry Blackmen made up of Quentin Branch & Brian Warren (abm) have been stretching their arms and tapping into different sounds since they smashed onto the scene with their debut single “OK!” in 2017. A prime introduction starring two emcees showing they deserve to wield the microphone and do so with good cause. Then barely a month later ABM released sophomore single ‘Riot!’ a complete shift in sound that still housed the foundation set in ‘OK!’ A few years later the duo would drop their debut project ‘Talkshit!’ which saw them amass the following they have today. ‘The Legend of Abm’ immediately smacks the listener in the eardrum leaving no second wasted and jumping straight to the point. The 11-track adventure truly presents an expression of hip-hop that we haven’t seen before, infusing multiple sounds with the 50-year old genre. To go even deeper, Quentin Branch & Brian Warren are teaching a masterclass in top-notch poetic lyricism, creating both accessible and mind-bending music. “Stanley Kubrick” has both heroes shattering the beat with their braggadocio for what is just the appetizer to prepare the listener for what’s to come in the next ten tracks. ‘Sabotage’ tells the story of two Black men hustling through the trenches of capitalism and the effect that this journey has on them. While the album exudes catchy wordplay and spine-splitting production, if you lift up the hood, ABM is spinning a tale of depression, existentialism and self-reflection that isn’t always pretty. “Dead Men Tell No Lies” is another mutation in sound for the duo, where the industrial sounds clash, violently yet perfectly together with a blistering hook harkening to the end of time. Warren & Branch’s raw poetry educates the listener of the pre-apocalyptic world we’re already living in throughout this project. ‘The Legend of Abm’ is not an excursion for the weak, the production is meant to snap your spine in half, the lyrics from Quentin & Brian are pathos infused and relatable to anyone simply trying to survive.

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Kuniaki Haisima

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Microids)

52,99 €*

Moves At Midnight / Lay Down That Boogies

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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A young doctor on the verge of greatness finds his career and life shattered after choosing to treat two children rather than the town mayor. The deaths of one of the children are inexplicable. What if he had saved a monster?

Monster, the manga created by Naoki Urasawa, is an acclaimed psychological thriller that has been a huge critical and commercial success. The complex and gripping story, which follows the moral choices of a surgeon confronted with a serial killer he has saved, has attracted a wide international audience. Monster has won several awards and is regarded as one of Urasawa's major works, affirming her place as a master of suspense in the world of manga.

Kuniaki Haishima is a Japanese composer best known for creating the soundtrack to the anime Monster. In addition to his contribution to Monster, Haishima has also composed music for TV series (Terra Formars and S-CRY-ed) and films (Tokyo Tribe and Helter Skelter).

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DJ S

7" | 2024 | UK (Eastside Edits)

Release: 2024 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Silvia Bolognesi, Dudu Kouate, Griffin Rodriguez

Timing Birds

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Astral Spirits)

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Ernest Jenning)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Silvia Bolognesi - Upright Bass, Voice, Poetry, Percussion Dudú Kouate - Percussion, Voice, Ngoni, Kalimba Griffin Rodriguez - Electronics, Voice Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Griffin Rodriguez Recorded December 14-16, 2021 at Shape Shoppe Paradiso - Siena, Italy

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Animal, Surrender

31,99 €*

It's Inside You Neon Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Animal, Surrender! is Peter Kerlin (sunwatchers and Chris Forsyth & Solar Motel Band) and drummer ROB Smith (GREY/Smith, Rhyton, Pigeons, D. Charles Spear). Kerlin leads the duo through a set of bass-driven compositions and interpretations, incorporating spare electronics through a post-rock/weird-folk trance with intricate and sometimes blasted interplay between the rhythm section. The project’s title refers to the ambiguous creatureliness of the human animal: How in trying to kill the animal within we eradicated all wildness on the planet; How in our never-ending evasion of any discomfort we guaranteed the destruction of all that sustains us. It's about other things too, like falling outs among friends and how even if it's the end it's not the end.

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Candy

LP | 2024 | Original (Relapse)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Triple Tigers)

Scotty Mccreery

Rise & Fall

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Voilaaa

Faché

Raw Toolz 1 Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Favorite Recordings presents Faché, a new long awaited EP by Voilaaa, including 3 brand new tracks from the Afro-Disco maestro, and tasty exclusive versions. This is also a first taste of the upcoming 4th album, which is planned to be released in September this year. The EP opens with “Faché”, and it includes all the elements of Voilaaa’s famous style and skills: killer Afro-Disco production with heavy bass, hot percussions and playful horns and keyboards, coming with French spicy vocals by longtime partner Pat Kalla. A dub version is provided then. Next track is “Trouble Travel”, which is displayed in a “Garage Version” fully exclusive to this release and perfectly tailored to kill any dancefloor. It features upraising singer Nai-Jah collaborating for the first time with Voilaaa. On the B-side, you’ll find a surprising and blowing version of Jamiroquai’s “Too Young to Die”. The classic hit taking a new life in a Tropical perfect suit, with stunning Creole vocals by Olivya (Dowdelin). Voilaaa is back and ready to delight your summer!!

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D'Julz

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Chiwax)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Complete Uppsala Concert Volume 1

Eric Dolphy

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Honeypie)

24,99 €*

Hidden Marbled Purple And Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded Live in Sweden in September 1961 the Uppsala Concert is an important document from Dolphy's first Swedish tour as leader of an obscure but talented local quartet featuring Rony Johansson - piano; Kurt Lindgren - bass and Rune Carlsson - drums. Master Dolphy shines, as always, on all his instruments alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute, while the track list consists of a rare mix of standards suchs as Milt Jackson's "Bags Groove", Monk's "52nd Street Theme", Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?" and the famous unaccompanied alto sax version of "Laura", all this plus a 20 minutes long version of Dolphy's blues "245" where every single note played by Dolphy sounds as pure gold.

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Ufomammut

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Supernatural Cat)

37,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (0000)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hidden is the 10th album of Ufomammut and it marks a shift in the band's musical composition, aiming for a more intense and heavy sound, and it’s the third release featuring Levre as the band’s new drummer. The title reflects the concept of the presence of everything in our existence and the ability to bring to light what lies within us. With Hidden, Ufomammut delves into a sonic journey that traverses vast expanses of space and time. From the crushing heaviness to the hauntingly melodies, from the textured compositions to the otherworldly atmospheres, Hidden testify the neverending evolution of Ufomammut and their mastery of creating immersive sonic experiences: a fitting celebration of their 25 years of sonic exploration and experimentation.

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nthng

I'd Love To Fly

18,99 €*

Stimulator Tracks Volume 1

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Track order on pressing (side A) swapped

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Stimulator Jones

12" | 2024 | US | Original (Star Creature)

18,99 €*

7" | 2024 | Original (Ameritz Music)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Coming very soon, so preorder now. It's fitting that this Stones Throw alum would tap Star Creature for his next release. Coming off several incredible albums ranging from hip hop to jazz-funk and all sorts of in between fusions for arguably one of the most influential "underground" labels of last couple decades, Stimulator Jones gives us a taste of what's hopefully to be a series of 12â€s. Part Fingers INC, part TEN City, and part Armando. A bit of acid, deep, atmospheric and soulful that fits somewhere between raw DJ tools and well produced EP material, sure to sound slamming on the dancefloor.

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Greg Foat

Spider Plant Blues

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Noannaos)

Susobrino

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Bonzai Classics)

Armani & Gh

Hit Hard Baby Wtf

19,99 €*

12" | 2024 | Original (Blueprint)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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DJ Ghost and Robert Armani resurrect their hugely popular turn-of-the-millennium collaboration with the superb ‘Hit Hard Baby (WTF)

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Vinicius Honorio

Ominous Music EP

The Web You Spin: Live At Kroq Weenie Roast Irvine California 1996

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Almost a year on since his Blueprint Records debut, the London-based Brazilian, Vinicius Honorio delivers the follow-up to "Sem Rumo".

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No Doubt

LP | 2024 | EU (Mind Control)

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Frenzy)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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No Doubt performed at Irvine Meadows numerous times over the years, including a main-stage slot at KROQ's annual Weenie Roast in 1996. This performance was part of the Tragic Kingdom tour. This edition features 4 bonus tracks with 1991 demos produced by Flea.

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Beau Didier & Isaiah

Workin' EP

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU (Planet Rhythm)

Gustavo Bassani

Domme Sesh EP

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Opt Out HHV Germany Exclusive Blue Vinyl Edition

Oum Shatt

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wanda Y.)

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Hotel Karthago / Energies

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Roman Flügel

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Phantasy Sound)

Hindzy D, Sub Basics & Chad Dubz

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One of electronic music’s most prolific and beloved figures, Roman Flügel checks in to Phantasy for his debut single on Erol Alkan’s equally storied London label, presenting ‘Hotel Karthago / Energies’, two contrasting dancefloor tracks that capture distinct shades of Flügel’s boundless creativity.

Arranged with energy front and centre, ‘Hotel Karthago’ promises to be an essential addition to Flügel’s peerless back catalogue of club classics. Bolting with the requisite tempo of contemporary dance floors, and accelerated by a joyous piano line, this particular property balances the elegance of vintage house with analogue machines operating at their most energetic.

In keen contrast. ‘Energies’ expertly pours a measure of melancholy, teasing out a twinkling melody that recalls the warmth and wistful moods of his classic LPs such as Fatty Folders and Happiness Is Happening. Illuminating and then unravelling with ease, ‘Energies’ concludes in underscoring the Frankfurt-to-Berlin producer’s skill as a composer, as well as a trusted rave alchemist.

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Target / Hill Street Dub

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Infernal Sounds)

12,59 €* 13,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Heaven Smile)

2401

Untitled

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Bright Carvings)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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a01.b/w flower b01.9 degrees & rain recorded @ staalman studio contactheavensmile@gmail.com

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Ntp

Upstaged

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Bright Carvings)

Northwind

Peaceful

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hometown Heroes (Brad Baloo X DJ Yoda X Edo G)

Hometown Heroes

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Lewis)

21,84 €* 22,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Fairweather Friend Pink Vinyl Edition

The Umbrellas

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Tough Love)

24,99 €*

Prepared Rose Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Riyl: Orange Juice, Sarah Records, early Creation, Mary Chain, C86, Lush. Tlv168lpxx repress edition of 300 copies on pink vinyl. The first run sold out very quickly so a small repress has been ordered. The Umbrellas are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Follow-up LP ‘Fairweather Friend’ goes a step further – absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows, it balances this with studio finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be. It's a record overflowing with highlights. The candyfloss melodies of introductory track ‘Three Cheers!’ are matched to an impactful percussive punch; ‘Say What You Mean’ finds The Umbrellas working with total confidence, letting the song ride out to its chiming conclusion, four voices working in precision. ‘When You Find Out’ offers rotating notes of guitar punctuated by a vocal that pushes past angst to accept a world full of hope. A lean 10 track affair, it grasps towards beatific pop while fuelled by a sense of risk, and the precision that comes from long months on the road. The Umbrellas coalesced around a group of musicians who would frequent legendary San Francisco record emporium Amoeba Music. Singer and guitarist Matt Ferrera links with bassist Nick Oka, while Keith Frerichs is the powerhouse drummer. A chance encounter with Morgan Stanley singing karaoke at a Fourth of July party cemented the line-up around an avowed thirst for melody. “All of us love really earnest pop songs,” Nick points out. “I guess we got to a point in our lives where we wanted to be genuine.” Playing shows at San Francisco’s vital DIY redoubt Hit Gallery, The Umbrellas would share line-ups with local heroes such as April Magazine and Cindy. Recording their debut album across a two-day spell at Matt’s parents’ house, the results won a devoted cult following. Yet the experience of touring bonded them tightly and allowed the volume to tick up a little higher, and higher, and higher. “I think we got tired of people saying, oh you’re so much louder than I thought you’d be!” laughs Matt. “Our early recordings are sweet and earnest… and we wanted it to be louder.” Kicking off sessions in November 2022, the band used an ad hoc space Matt created in his basement, working across a four-month period. Sessions were a little more relaxed in terms of timescale than their debut, but The Umbrellas were incredibly focussed on the project. “We gave ourselves more space for this album,” says Keith. “We wanted time to sit on the songs, and really work on them.” Allowing their live dynamic to bleed out on tape, The Umbrellas are at once more physical and yet also more controlled on their new album. Take opening track ‘Three Cheers!’ – the peppy, sun-soaked rush masks a barbed lyric, courtesy of Nick Oka. “It’s a pseudo-political song about power struggles that occur in a job situation, or a friend group. It’s an observational song.” ‘Toe The Line’ has an unkempt, rollicking sense of energy, the playful relationship analogy of the lyric pushed to the speed of light by Keith’s ultra-fast punk drumming. ‘When You Find Out’ meanwhile epitomises their unified, egalitarian way of making music – with The Umbrellas, each voice counts. “It sounds different from any song we’ve ever written together,” says Morgan. “It shows how much we’ve grown. Trust helps us to build the songs. It’s definitely a team effort.” It's also a record of ambition. ‘Say What You Mean’ stretches past the four-minute mark, the viola performance informed by Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt. ‘Gone’ was the first song attempted for the new album, and the last they actually finished, endless re-writes transforming it into a manifesto of control and release. Taken as a whole ‘Fairweather Friend’ is a bold indie pop triumph, crafted with purpose and attention. Taking their time over each note, the four-piece have strengthened their songwriting, adding depth and assurance while unlocking their potential. Some bonds last a lifetime – The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart.

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Laura J Martin

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Summer Critics)

20,99 €*