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Vusi Mahlasela / Norman Zulu / Jive Connection

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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If Tel Aviv's, The Flavors is the Funk and Soul supergroup of that cities vibrant Mediterranean Coastline music scene, then the even more obscure VuVuVu, comprised of some of the same musicians, is the instrumental stoner-rock gang of psychedelic bandits skillfully and sonically meandering in Israel's nearby deserts. A laid back, and welcoming intervention of hallucinating audio imagery awaits.

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Face To Face

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strut)

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Lilies)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Strut revives a lost recording from the archives in January with a 2002 collaboration between acclaimed South African folk singer Vusi Mahlasela, singer songwriter Norman Zulu and Swedish jazz / soul collective Jive Connection. Sotho folk singer Vusi Mahlasela, dubbed "The Voice" Of South Africa, performed at Mandela"s inauguration in 1994 and has enjoyed his own long relationship with Sweden, regularly embarking on cultural exchanges and forging a strong bond with the Jive Connection band, featuring guitarist / bassist Stefan Bergman and Little Dragon drummer Erik Bodin within its line-up. Although touring regularly, the collaboration has rarely been documented beyond a lone studio album in 1994. This "lost" recording, discovered in the archives of producer Torsten Larsson, also features songwriter / vocalist Norman Zulu and showcases their natural musical chemistry together. Vusi"s songs have traditionally addressed the struggle for freedom and the need for reconciliation and, here, his lyrics are as powerful as ever, ranging from parables ("Prodigal Son") to an unflinching lament on child abuse ("Faceless People"). Jive Connection vary the soundtrack, bringing in hints of reggae, jazz and post-punk alongside traditional township arrangements.

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Vurm

Lilieskalla2

14,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Tape Capitol Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lilieskalla proudly presents its second instalment by Vurm, an artist from Gothenburg that has been doing live techno performances for the past couple of years and now sees a debut on the Lilies side label, where the live takes finally reach vinyl. The tracks are exclusively crafted with hardware, in a modular eurorack setup, resulting in pleasant impurities throughout the EP that holds four adventurous Motor City interpretations.

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Vulvarine

Witches Brew

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Scent Of Black Angel / Ripper's Secret Night Of Murder

Vulvanic

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

31,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Last Night From Glasgow)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lima, Peru-based deranged raw black metal cult Vulvanic join Sentient Ruin under the black banner of total violence and depravity to bring you a much-needed reissue of their two long sold out self-released demo tapes, 2019's Scent of Black Angel, and Ripper's Secret Night of Murder remastered from the raw mixes by Will Killingswroth at Dead Air Studios, and graphically re-envisioned by the Violent Visual Shock art studio into a horrific forty-minute LP compilation of violent, sadistic sonic abandon.

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Vulture Party

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Karisma)

Vulture Industries

Ghosts From The Past

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Liminal Fields Bone Vinyl Edition

Vulture Feather

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Felte)

Me Gusta Ser Una Zorra - I Wanna Be Your Dog Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Colin McCann didn't pick up a guitar for nearly ten years. The Northern-California-based songwriter, previously performing under Long Dog Bird, had been creating music with longtime friend and collaborator Brian Gossman for much of their adult lives with early-00s Baltimore-based band Wilderness. So what would cause such a stagnant period? And how could McCann find his way back to the joy that music had once so easily conjured? The answer was to go back to the very beginning, where the kinetic forces that urged McCann to make music in the first place could emerge once again. But first, he had to make space in his internal world; a kind of silence where he could hear the exhale of his past, and the blossoming of a new song. That blossoming would soon become the first songs for McCann's latest project Vulture Feather. The band's debut album Liminal Fields exists on an intangible plane: a crack in the concrete, a gauze between worlds. For as long as McCann can recall, he's been using music as a vehicle to try and connect with an underlying, indescribable nature that only the sonic world seems to be able to reach. "There's a feeling of ecstasy that comes when one merges with music," he says. "It's what calls us all back again and again to listen, to sing, and to play." McCann had been striving to reach this outlying environment throughout his career, often stretching in ways that eventually came to negatively impact his life, and his health. The wake up call came when McCann suffered a near-death experience, eerily predicted by a friend through a dream she had had almost a year earlier. Newly awoken to the beauty of being alive, McCann strove to slow down, to listen to the inherent nature in all living things, and to rediscover our mutual connectivity. He stopped playing and listening to music, and instead soaked himself in the cacophony of silence. Then without any epiphany or grand catalyst, something urged McCann to pick up a guitar again. Ideas flowed more naturally than ever, and he soon realized that the liminal space he had been searching for was there all along--he only had to listen. McCann tentatively reached out to Gossman to collaborate and the friends found themselves once again jamming together, in an off-grid quonset hut where they now practice. "It was like no time had passed," McCann says. "That feeling of ecstatic joy, of forgetting your own name, came flooding back." They were soon joined by another old friend, Eric Fiscus, who completed Vulture Feather on drums.

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Vulpess

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Munster)

Vulfnik Ivory Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This very personal take on the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" from 1983 is one of the most iconic and sought-after records from the early years of Spanish punk music. This short-life band led by girls made an historical appearance on Spanish TV that generated an unprecedented media, and even legal, uproar. Available again after 15 years out of print with its original artwork and including a poster of the band.On the morning of Saturday, April 16, 1983, the Spanish television show "Caja de Ritmos" aired the video 'Me gusta ser una zorra', a personal adaptation of The Stooges' classic 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', by the Basque punk band Vulpes. The media, and even legal, uproar that their television appearance generated had unprecedented consequences in the entire history of TVE (Spanish National Television), including the resignation of the program's director.Taking advantage of the notoriety achieved by the band, Dos Rombos -an independent Spanish label- would materialize the release of the single, previously modifying the name of the group by adding a final 'S' that would only increase the controversy: Vulpess.Closely watched by the police and beset by far-right violence, the gigs to present the single frequently ended in incidents. The story of this pioneering band, led by girls (Loles Vázquez on guitar, Estíbaliz Markiegui on vocals, Ruth Astigarraga -former member of N-634- on bass and Bernardo Vázquez -from M.C.D.- on drums; as well as Lupe Vázquez and Mamen Rodrigo), would soon come to an end, elevating the Vulpess to the category of myth, and their only proper release of the early 80s becoming a sought-after collector's item, and an icon of the early years of punk music sung in Spanish and an icon of a historical period in which Spain was moving towards full democracy, getting over last vestiges of the still recent dictatorship.

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Vulfmon

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Vulf)

54,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Vulfnik Black Vinyl Edition

Vulfmon

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Vulf)

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Comic's Trip)

Vtl One

Language Machine EP

13,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Vap)

Vsq No Sporta

Avatama

60,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Over/Shadow)

Vromm

Molecular

3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Delsin)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vromm returns to Over/Shadow with a second helping of cosmic electronica and this time Kid Drama jumps on the buttons of lead track Molecular to provide a rolling, stomper of a remix.

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Vril

Animist

Sonic Devotion To Darkness Picture Disc Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

In shrink wrap, slightly wavey upper right corner of sleeve.

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Vredensdal

LP | 2023 | Original (Soulseller)

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sonic Devotion To Darkness Colored Vinyl Edition Green Picture Disc Vinyl Edition

Vredensdal

LP | 2023 | Original (Soulseller)

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Second Light Tri-Color w/ Splatter Vinyl Edition

Voyage

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

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Second Light Purple & Black w/ Splatter Vinyl Edition

Voyage

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

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | UK (Platform 23)

Vox Populi!

Half Dead Ganga Music

Complete Recordings 1975-1979

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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So-called 'ethno-industrialists' and Paris-based outliers Vox Populi are next in the spotlight for Platform 23 Records as it continues on its mission to unearth archival treasures both known and unknown. Half Dead Ganga Music is widely thought to be one of the group's most cohesive records as it meanders through lo-fi drones, muggy ambient and voodoo ritualism. Founder Axel Kyrou and partner Mythra who provides the ghostly vocals cook up alluring yet oddball sounds with obscured bass, rich layers of tape processing and weirdly uplifting gloominess. A superb album that sounds as new and innovative now as it did when it was first released all those decades ago.

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Vortex

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Merry-Go-Round)

83,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lifeforce)

Vorna

Aamunkoi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Transylvanian)

Vorlust

Lick The Flesh

31,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Boss Tuneage)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beastly Metal from the Bay Area! Conjuring Blackened Hymns of Deadly Thrashing Brutality. Influenced by the first wave of Extremity. Comprised of members of Necrot, Saviours and Dipygus. Packaged with new artwork by renowned cult film artist Melki Laurent(Creepshow, Nightmare on Elm Street, Videodrone).

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Voorhees

Violent ... Attack

24,99 €*

Same Old White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Voorhees need no introduction to anyone who knows about 90s UK Hardcore Punk!

2023 marks the 30th anniversary of their debut 7" EP "violent Attack", originally released on Armed With Anger Records. For the 30th anniversary, this classic debut has been remastered, and expanded to a 14 track 12" with four bonus tracks from the same session , previously unavailable on vinyl.

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Vooo

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Radio Juicy)

Same Old Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Radio Juicy proudly presents "Same Old" the third solo album by Vooo. The album encompasses the music that Vooo has been writing and recording over the course of 2022. As it was highly anticipated by his fans, it comes as a nice surprise before the holidays. The album is an incredible collection of awe inspiring music that explores multiple genres and concepts. With such tracks as Heartstrings, Character 1 and Wax that are instant classics this album is definitely a contender to album of the year. And it's only the beginning as in 2023 "Same Old" will come out on vinyl with a whooping 3 tracks bonus featuring some amazing artists. The vinyl version will only be available in March 2023 but it's already possible to pre-order it now. So if you love the artist and project feel free to show some support!

Vooo's words about "Same Old", My intention with this record was to refine a collection of the tracks most highly anticipated and requested by fans of my video content where I show the process of recording new songs. I selected each track not only on the basis of its connection with my audience, but also with the goal of curating a record full of emotive instrumental performances, positive moods and pure ear-candy. Many of these tracks were initially written as short-form “beat-video” content, and to transform the demos into full songs, I spent countless hours re-arranging, re-recording, and carefully mixing in a larger studio using high-quality vintage instruments and analog processing methods, particularly 8-track tape. The result is what I consider to be my most elaborate and well-crafted project which has been enhanced by the brilliant talents of the several featured instrumentalists and engineers involved.

Vooo is a multi-instrumentalist & producer originally from Los Angeles, currently based in Oakland. With a degree in music theory and a background in jazz, he has used his experience to dip into a number of genres, mostly in the world of hip-hop, R&B, and neo-soul. In addition to releasing two solo albums since 2020, he has executive produced a few full-length records for other artists and created sample packs to raise thousands in mutual aid for the Oakland community. Vooo’s music has been featured on NPR’s New Music Friday, Bandcamp’s Best Soul of 2021 and several Spotify editorial playlists.

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Vooo

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Radio Juicy)

20,99 €*

Ecce Homo Split Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Voodoo Sound Club

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cinedelic)

23,79 €* 27,99 € -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ecce Homo Split Black Vinyl Edition

Voodoo Sound Club

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cinedelic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wonderful Life Colored Vinyl

Voodoo Beach

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Crazysane)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vona Vella Orange Vinyl Edition

Vona Vella

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strap Originals)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vona Vella Blue Vinyl Edition

Vona Vella

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strap Originals)

29,99 €*

All Heads Are Gonna Roll Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Black vinyl with alternative "Night Time" sleeve artwork!Leicestershire's answer to Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, Vona Vella (Izzy Davis and Dan Cunningham) release their eponymously titled debut album, thr...

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Vomitory

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sony Music/Metal Blade)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vomit Vulva

LP | 2023 | EU (F.O.A.D)

23,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Herrensauna)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Newborn black/death necrobestiality featuring members of Macabro Genocidio and Morbus Grave! This perverted horde comes straight from the depths of the infamous Bunker in Milan delivering uncompromising sadistic metal of death in the vein of Black Witchery, Archgoat, Sadomator, Proclamation and Blasphemy. The annihilating sound of a nuclear hecatomb where endless blast beat bombardments will let you collapse into a hopeless nightmare of anguish and darkness... Debut full length including their first session called "On the altar of the nun's vomit" (previously released as a very ltd. cassette) and bran new "Command annihilation" demo. Comes with 11"x11" lyric sheet.

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Volruptus

Moxie

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%

2LP | 2023 | DE | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Next up via the Herrensauna collective’s expansive record label imprint is a six-track LP of euphoric tension and mutant electro from alien boogie commander Volruptus.

Unruly drums, erratic arpeggios, glitchy bass, high speeds. What more is there to say...

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Volker Kriegel

Inside: Missing Link

20,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2023 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Volker Kriegel

Inside:Missing Link

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Volker Kriegel

Inside:Missing Link

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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OST Jules Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Volker Bertelmann

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

33,99 €*

The Outer Limits Collector Limited Edition 3d Sleeve White Vinyl With 3d Glasses

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Why you'll love it...
The original score by Academy Award winner Volker Bertelmann that is the soundtrack to Jules, starring Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List), Harriet Sansom Harris (Licorice Pizza, “Hacks”), Jane Curtin (Coneheads, I Love You, Man) and Jade Quon (Transformers: The Last Knight, The Hunger Games) is set for release by ABKCO Records. Written by Gavin Steckler (“Review”, “Playing House”), Jules made its world premiere at the Sonoma International Film Festival where it was the opening night film, and won the Stolman Audience Award for Best Feature. The film is produced by Michael B. Clark, Andy Daly, Deborah Liebling and Alex Turtletaub alongside Marc Turtletaub.

Produced and directed by Marc Turtletaub (Puzzle, The Farewell, Little Miss Sunshine), Jules, a Bleecker Street release of a Big Beach production, was filmed in Morris County, NJ and follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town. His day is upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.”

Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly inventive ride as the three neighbors find meaning and connection later in life – thanks to this unlikely stranger.

The film’s score is the work of composer/pianist Volker Bertelmann who was a 2017 Academy Award nominee for his score to Lion. Last year he received both an Academy Award and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for his score for All Quiet on the Western Front. The Budapest Art Orchestra performs Bertelmann’s music for the Jules score. Recording under the name Hauschka, Bertelmann is a prolific artist in his own right and, beyond soundtracks, has released 20 full length albums of original music to date. The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan wrote, “In the end, Jules performs a magical, if tiny, bait-and-switch: It’s less a sci-fi parable — “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” for the AARP demographic — than a fairy tale reminding us that the tribulations of getting old are more natural than sad, and best done in the company of loved ones.”

The VMP exclusive version of Jules (Original Score) is pressed on 180g Honey Crisp vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board jacket with an 8x10 insert and art by Sara Deck. It was mastered by Carl Rowatti at Trutone Mastering Labs.

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Voivod

LP | 2023 (Listenable)

40,99 €*

Release: 2023

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Century Media)

Voivod

Morgöth Tales

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dimension Hatross Edition Splatter Vinyl Edition

Voivod

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Noise)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (20/20 Vision)

Voigtmann

Life Miles

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | Original (Avantgarde Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Long-cherished underground stalwart Claus Voigtmann finally serves up his long-awaited new album Life Miles after many years of essential sounds on labels like Assemble and Intermission. He really shows his range here with a record that draws on his experiences of playing around the world in all sorts of different settings. 'Pinfire' and 'Transitory Moments' open up and take you to the heart of fabric, a club he has played so often, while 'North of the Sun' heads off into space on sleek electro rhythms while the likes of 'Abundance' bring cosmic melodic fun to a lively and inventive rhythm. Elsewhere there is the high-speed electro-funk of 'Flight Of Fancy' and the introspective downbeat trip 'Send Love To The Future' making this a varied and vital affair.

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Voidescent

Dust & Embers

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Threads Of Unknowing Violet / Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Voidceremony

LP | 2023 | US | Original (20 Buck Spin)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Threads Of Unknowing Black Vinyl Edition

Voidceremony

LP | 2023 | US | Original (20 Buck Spin)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Brain Vortex)

Vøg

Metamorphosis

11,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Tonal Oceans)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Within the depths of the lysergic mind, an oscillating experience emerged, captivating the individual from within and guiding it on a transformative journey.

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Voertuig

Techno Garage

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Beyond ecstatic to finally offer a glimpse into the world of voertuig. Working on music for several years, purely for themselves in sheds and studios tucked away in the outskirts of the hague, Tonal Oceans presents an album by the four piece act containing music embodying the true spirit of the city.

W&P by Offer van Kesteren, Gianni Tjon Tam Pau, Tijmen van Wageningen, Laurens ten Berge.

Artwork by Soft Turbo Drawing by Ilan Havinga

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Voces8

A Choral Christmas

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (ISOTOOP)

Voal

Saffron

Vnv Nation & Filmorchester Babelsberg

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dutch dance troupe ISOTOOP inaugurates its label with a quaternity of sly rhythms to mystify and elevate. Adhering to ISOTOOP’s unstated yet practised mantra of many growing as one, the culprits behind the pieces are none other than core family members Shoal (Kenny Kneefel) and Vand (Viktor van der Riet), unifying for the first time under the name of Voal.
The longtime friends and compatriots in sound meld together to form a distinct entity; aligned as one, but audibly a product of their individual approaches. Across the four cuts, the two producers share a singular vision of club music, designed to initiate movement and shake the floor, while leaving essential space for thought and imagination.
From the low-down and dirty funk of ‘Carpet Crawler’ to ‘Take My Hand’s bleary and dazed downtempo, evaporating in its final moments into transcendent closing ambience, Voal journey through a wide landscape of club electronics with a fervent pulse. Pinned between the two slower joints are ‘Lucifer’, a consecutive tumble through iterated rolling percussion and minimal basslines, and the kinetic, high-tempo fiesta of ‘Saffron’, a sure-fire favourite for the ecstatic midnight.
Thick like warm tar, and airy as steam, Voal’s debut whets the appetite for more.

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Resonance

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Anachron Sounds)

29,99 €*

Electric Sun Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Gold Vinyl Edition.
Includes original inner sleeves.

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VNV Nation

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anachron Sounds)

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anachron Sounds)

VNV Nation

Electric Sun

39,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Arts)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: VG

Limited Curacao Blue Vinyl Edition.

Sealed copy.
Cover with a dented corner.

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Vntm

Dissonance Is Bliss

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Nosy)

Vnightfan

Vnightfan Ep#1

12,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nosy records is the new born label formed by the duo VNightFan and its future members. The duo is a collaboration between the Dj and music researcher Alessandro Verza (22yo) and the producer and Live performer Riccardo Fante (21yo) Together they're trying to promote their electronic-dance floor oriented sound which is the result of the culture they've been immersed into, not just musically hence a result of a young life experience spent mostly in Verona and its province and from the culture they got in touch with during their trips abroad . The mission is to achieve a cheerful moment of music enjoyment with the listeners on the dance floor and/or wheresoever will be possible to celebrate life led by the music and the loving energy of the people who are making it.

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Vlatko Stefanovski

Greatest Hits Collection

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Keplar)

Whistleblower

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following up on reissues of the 2000 compilation »Multila« and 2001’s »Anima,« Sasu Ripatti has thoroughly revisited the classic »Whistleblower« for its first ever vinyl issue on the German Keplar label. Ripatti created entirely new mixes of previously unheard-of alternative versions of the tracks that first appeared on CD through his own Huume imprint in early 2007. He thus shines a new, different light on a record that was as much an expression of reaching a turning point in his life as it also showcased a new, more direct and perhaps more abrasive side of his Vladislav Delay project. »Whistleblower« was marked by the insertion of more noise and disruptive elements into Ripatti’s slowly moving take on intricate electronic music that heavily leaned on dub techniques. Fittingly for an album written at the threshold between one life and the other, »Whisteblower« seems at once melancholic and forward-looking in both tone and style. »Whisteblower« was the follow-up record to 2005’s »The Four Quarters« and produced in the German capital. »I had quite a hard time in Berlin towards the end and I'm sure the track titles and the music reflect some of that uneasiness,« Ripatti says 15 years later. Changes in his personal life had a profound impact on him when making the record. The fifth track, »Lumi,« was dedicated to his daughter who was born shortly after the album was finished. »I had to reconsider what my life had been,« he recalls this watershed moment in his biography. Having already previously embraced a sober lifestyle—hinted at with the last piece’s title, »Recovery IDea«—Ripatti started questioning his life choices more thoroughly. This is also expressed in »He Lived Deeply,« a track inspired by Miles Davis’s love for Duke Ellington whose title can be read as an implicit question that Ripatti nowadays paraphrases thusly: »Had I been living fully, or fully not living?« The seven tracks also marked a musical turning point in Ripatti’s work as a producer, not only because it was the last one for which he primarily used analogue and vintage equipment. They are also more straightforward on a music level, more demanding and at times more concerned with subtle rhythms than with the thick textures that were so integral to his earlier work. »Whisteblower« represented the first step in a process of focusing less on sonic abstraction and more on direct (self-)expression. While Ripatti admits that he found working on the album difficult back then, he also points out that he was surprised to hear how »gentle and peaceful« it sounded when he started revisiting the original files he used as a basis for these newly mixed versions. »It probably proves how much more comfortable I had become with sound.«

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Hide Behind The Silence EP 4

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vladislav Delay presents the 4th EP in his »Hide Behind The Silence« series (with five 10inch releases coming throughout 2023). Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label Rajaton. As Delay puts it, the series is »about live moments being captured, not much premeditation or editing. More intuitive and raw, even though the end result (to me) feels and sounds quite introspective and calm«.

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Hide Behind The Silence EP 3

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vladislav Delay presents the third EP in his "Hide Behind The Silence" series with five 10" releases coming throughout 2023. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton". -- Stillness is a myth. Consider concepts such as ”still water”, or ”still air” for that matter. Go to a restaurant, ask them for a glass of still water, hold it against the light and see where we’re at. Even though the water itself has been captured and imprisoned in the glass, it never stops breathing. It’s filled with tiny particles, dancing. Everything can be explained on a molecular level, but since we’re not scientists – and even if you happen to be – it’s the natural world of perception that moves me. Still air is very similar. A hot summer’s day with zero wind feels completely still. It’s the closest I have felt to complete stillness. Or for a more urban adaptation, imagine the same vibe inside a normal apartment. In those moments, revelations and mind- blowing experiences can be had with experiments in stillness. Try this: Just sit down for a minute on a sunny day, making sure there’s enough natural light. Do absolutely nothing. Try not to breathe for a bit. (If you need a mental anchor, you can play Cage’s 4’33” in your head but nothing else.) Watch the tiny dots of dust dancing :..’ ̈.:; ́ ́*°.,’:,. ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈:,.’ The movement is crazy, but the feeling of stillness comes from witnessing how subtle it is. In (perceived) complete stillness, every act of microscopic mobility seems to speak volumes. Yet, it feels both reassuring and oddly threatening that the stillness is never complete. What if we would need absolute stillness? Or is it just enough that we can perceive something as such? Extremes attract, so for both water and air, extraordinary movement is equally fascinating. That is also a luxury item of sorts. For us to enjoy a very ”loud” body of water or air, we need to be safe, in enough control of the situation. So when you are, it’s worthwhile to pay attention and take it all in. A rapid flowing free with extreme strength and just barely in control. Look at that water go! No still water on this one, only ”sparkling”. A windy day when birds seem surprised how hard it is to fly, but in the end they make it. Trees bend but don’t break. The wind shows you its movement but doesn’t hurt you. It feels friendly, like a big clumsy dog that doesn’t quite understand its size. It’s beautiful to be a guest of the elements, but not at the mercy of them. A new kind of dialogue forms.

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Hide Behind The Silence Ep 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vladislav Delay presents the second EP in his "Hide Behind The Silence" series with five 10" releases coming throughout 2023. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton".

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Hide Behind The Silence EP 1

2LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai X Atelier Sawano)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vladislav Delay presents the 1st part of the »Hide Behind The Silence,« a series of five 10inch releases coming throughout 2023. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on the artist's own label Rajaton. As Delay puts it, the series is »about live moments being captured, not much premeditation or editing. More intuitive and raw, even though the end result (to me) feels and sounds quite introspective and calm.«

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Vladimir Shafranov

White Nights

58,99 €*

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Venus)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the origin. "A New Era of Piano Trio" from Northern Europe. Don't talk about jazz piano without listening to Shafranov! It all started here. This is an album that jazz critic Yasukuni Terashima has featured as one of the best albums of the 1990s, and is truly a must-listen for piano fans. The transparency and bouncy swing of this album is impressive. After 24 years, Atelier Sawano's memorable first work is finally available on vinyl!

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Vladimir Shafranov Trio

Blues For Percy

47,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Supraphon)

Vladimir Misik

Spejchar 1969-1991 I-Ii

46,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vladimir Misik, Radim Hladik A Jan Hruby

S Nebem To Mam Dobry White Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Indies)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Totalno Drukciji Od Drugih

Vjestice

LP | 2023 | YU | Original (Croatia)

Release: 2023 / YU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vivid Dreams & DJ Infinity

Horizon EP

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Kniteforce - Out Of Romford)

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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De France Yellow Vinyl Edition

Vive Les Cônes

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Favela Discos)

De France Cyan Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Jean-Luc Mocard met Jean Ronde in September of 2009, while working at the Casio Palaiseau factory, near Paris. Before, they were both active musicians with a particular taste for synthesized music, touring extensively through European and Asian underground venues and clubs. Eventually, their furious passion for collecting 80’s keyboards brought them together to become the fabulous duo Vive Les Cônes.

Presently based in Porto, Portugal, by a matter of pure chance, Vive Les Cônes is a Casio explosion, the fuel of a dancing machine that never stops and cherry picks moments from dance and pop music culture along the way. Their live concerts are non-stop hit parades featuring their very own local cult classics, such as “Bonaparty” or “Brocoli-Rave”, and medleys of pop-culture classics ranging from video-game soundtracks, to dance hits, to classical music.

“De France”, their debut album, is the product of years of playing live, training and mastering the perfect Casio technique. Every track in this album is played live using only pure unmodded Casio Pt-380 and Yamaha Psr-37 keyboards, thrift store fx pedals, bringing to the recorded form the meticulously crafted tracks that set dancefloors on fire all throughout the world.

The album is an eclectic journey through electronic and dance music on cheap keyboards, from traces of House Music in “Maillon” and the instant hit “Je Ne Sais Pas”, fumes of vaporwave in “Machine à Vapeur”, and, of course, baguettes of French electro in “Brocoli-Rave”, the track that usually andeuphorically ends Vive Les Cônes’ set.

The Quietus has referred to the duo as a “weird John Shuttleworth take on house music”, but them being French, a better comparison would be something like “Daft Punk lost all their gear on tour and had to play a gig using some old keyboards”. But could they even do it? Maybe a “Pascal Comelade on molly live set for Boiler Room” could make thembetter Justice. We’re not really sure what to compare them to though, and probably there’s no need to compare them to anything, as the best thing you can do is to give them a go and check them out for yourself.

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Vive Les Cônes

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Favela Discos)

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Drakkar)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Viva

Genau Hier

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vito Lalinga Vi Mode Inc Project Presents Nikaleo

Citt Citt

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Irma)

8,99 €*

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Music Website)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Cover with seam split.
Includes original insert.

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Vitesse X

Us Ephemeral

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2023 | US | Original (Music Website)

Vitesse X

Right Now Flexi Disc

8,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Retrofutura)

Vitess

V World

OST Disco Boy Standard Black Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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V World is Vitess AKA Vytamin’s second album. It follows on from Cyber Zone, the Frenchman’s first LP that was released to widespread industry acclaim last year. Eight months have passed since, with several releases springing up in between. From Up The Stuss to Locus, to Pont Neuf, Shall Not Fade and more, his musical footprint is plain to see.

Now the latest step will be placed in March with the release of his second LP: V World.

“My first Retrofutura album, Cyber Zone, was inspired by nocturnal cities, like the progressive house side of the ‘90s. V World represents the brighter side. The LP features a strong electronic sound, with tech house touches and robotic voices that symbolise the universe of the album.” – Vytamin.

Critical Battery gets proceedings underway, with four-four drum patterns forming a groove-fuelled, club-ready backbone. The near seven-minute cut feels spacey and dream-like in one, opening into the similarly ethereal world of TSD. Wavey synth pulses converge on acid-esque soundscapes throughout, before Fake Planet arrives next.

Shimmering key patterns transport us to worlds far removed from our own, leading us deep into heads down, hands up territory, whilst thick kicks marry up alongside. Unatural comes next and manifests as a fizzing, no-nonsense club cut to begin, with dreamy melodies brought in as the track unfurls.

Playful and bouncy, it sets the stage for Kangoo, a more breakbeat-esque number that draws inspiration from the French car of the same name. Robust percussion gives the track a hardened edge, paving the way for V World to come soon after.

Starry female vocals help us drift into a surreal musical landscape, whilst Insane ratchets up the pace courtesy of low-slung, echoing bleeps right the way through. We’re then treated to the penultimate cut on Twister, an out-and-out club piece that swings neatly into the closing sounds of Final Warning, rounding off proceedings on a hazy, blissed-out note.

Vitess is the genre-hopping DJ and producer leading the charge for France’s underground renaissance. Known under several pseudonyms, including Vytamin, Grand V and Flamant Rouge, his musical output has caught the attention of some of dance music’s leading publications, one being Resident Advisor.

2022 was a particularly fruitful year for the Frenchman, with a slew of releases landing on several of the scene’s most well-known labels. Be it Shall Not Fade, Locus or Chris Stussy’s Up The Stuss, his productions prove that quality and quantity can come in equal fashion.

Now V World ushers in a new era for his own Retrofutura Records imprint, picking up where Cyber Zone left off and setting the tone for a highlight year ahead.

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Vitalic

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Citizen)

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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OST Disco Boy Limited Edition

Vitalic

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Citizen)

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Ok Cowboy Limited White Vinyl Edition

Vitalic

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pias Recordings Catalogue)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dechristianize Orange-Black Marbled Vinyl Edition

Vital Remains

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Listenable)

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Turning Inside Out Edition / Out Of Control

Visors & Moon King

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Arbutus)

19,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Napalm)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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'Turning (Inside Out)' is the new 12" dance single from Arbutus Records, a collaboration between Canadian synthpop artist Moon King and Baltimore production team Visors, with added vocals from fellow Bmore rapper DDM and, in a surprising turn of events, saxophone from the Neptunes' Chad Hugo, under his St Charles alias.The 'pandemic-era online collab' has given us some strange and unlikely gems, of which this record is certainly one - a mesmerizing mid-tempo groove with Moon King and DDM's call and response vocals floating above, culminating in a catchy chorus: 'feels like turning inside out, when I need you there, you're not around'.

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Visions Of Atlantis

Pirates Over Wacken

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Pirate's Symphony Orange-Green Marbled Vinyl Edition

Visions Of Atlantis

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Napalm)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sceptre Black Vinyl Edition

Vision Master

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cruz Del Sur)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Visible Minority / Haggath

Evil Transitions 1985-1987 Green Vinyl Edtion

LP+CD | 2023 | EU | Original (F.O.A.D.)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Visible Minority / Haggath

Evil Transitions 1985-1987 Black Vinyl Edition

LP+CD | 2023 | EU | Original (F.O.A.D.)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vishnevskaya Pears Fischer-Dieskau Lso Britten

Britten: War Requiem

3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

104,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Unique Leader)

Viscera

Carcinogenesis

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Viscardi & Il Duo Magnetico

Sale Sole / Jamba Club

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Cosmic Romance)

14,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Classic Goa Trax)

Virtuart

Pisces Moon Rising

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Allsound)

Virtual Zone

Virtual Zone Ep 3

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Horros Black Vinyl Edition

Virta

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Svart)

28,99 €*

LP | 2023 | Original (Expanded Art)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Horros, the third album by Finnish sonic voyagers Virta, is set to be released on Svart Records on October 6th

With Horros, Virta build on and take into new terrain the questing, jazz-tinged electroacoustic adventures of their last album, December 2016’s Hurmos, and its predecessor, their November 2012 debut Tales From Deep Waters. Still recognisable as who they were, the Virta of 2023 now delves further than ever before into their inner world to craft their most affecting, most atmospheric and most cinematic music to date.

Even so, Horros does not need to be accompanied by images – it envelops so much that signposts are unnecessary. The music itself is the guide through this sound world.

The creators of this environment are Antti Hevosmaa (electronics, flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals), Erik Fräki (electronics, drums, percussion, vocals) and Heikki Selamo (bass, electronics, guitar, lap steel, vocals). Together as Virta – which translates from Finnish as electricity, energy or stream – the trio were acclaimed as a “cornerstone of Finnish experimental music” by Finnish daily by newspaper Savon Sanomat in 2016. Horros will ensure this status becomes the case internationally. Beyond Finland, Virta already have dedicated listeners in Canada, France, Germany, Poland, the United States and the UK.

Reflecting on Horros, Antti says “We’ve always made music we want to listen to ourselves. We’ve asked what is the sound we want to listen to? We are digging deeper now, with new elements – more vocals. Lyrics too, which we haven’t done before.” Without sacrificing who they are, Virta now have a wider scope than ever.

“A key idea with Virta is to make the music you hear in your head and share it with people,” adds Heikki.

“Yes, to share what is in our heads,” agrees Erik. “But also, it becomes live music, that’s the point – to make music we share, to make connections.”

Practically, some things have changed. Erik and Heikki are supplementing their traditional instruments with more electronic gear than before. The band formed in Kuopio and had moved to capital city Helsinki. Nowadays, they are dispersed across Finland. Nonetheless, they remain creatively and spiritually united as Virta.

Coming together on Horros, Antti, Erik and Heikki have fashioned an album with a flow, which, although not explicitly stated, has a narrative drive. “It is as if you are arriving on a strange planet,” explains Erik. “It is quite solitary at first. The opening track ‘Aelita’ feels like entering some kind of unfamiliar atmosphere which you come through to see a landscape. Then, with ‘Tunneli’, exploring begins. It’s quite chaotic, you don’t know where you are. With ‘Sola’, the landscape starts to open up a little. When the album’s second side is reached, the mood is warmer, you understand where you are.” The album’s cover image portrays how the seemingly impenetrable atmosphere appears on reaching this world.

The Finnish-language lyrics and title reflect this voyage of discovery. Horros translates as hibernation – which has two meanings: Virta have reawakened, and the album’s journey is an awakening too. The opening track “Aelita” asks “Ei kai oo valoo ilman varjoo?” – “I guess there’s no light without a shadow?” The album ends with “Aamu”: “Hei aamu, Tummuu, Yön kaipuu” – “Hey morning, Getting dark, Longing for the night.” This place has become somewhere comfort can be found, where the coming of night presents no anxieties.

When they began composing what became Horros in early 2020, Virta already had the rough drafts of some of the building blocks. Elements of “Aelita” had been performed during a live performance film soundtrack project. “Toukokuu” grew from improvisations Erik and Heikki had undertaken in 2018. Virta had performed for weekly live streams in 2019, some themes from which also fed into Horros.

And although Virta did not discuss the music they were currently listening to – in the past, they would say “hey, have you heard this?” to each other – when they began recording at Erik’s summer cottage in the middle of 2020, there were some subliminal, long bedded-in touchstones: the original animé film of Ghost In The Shell and its soundtrack, seminal Finnish cross-genre outfits Nuspirit Helsinki and RinneRadio, the pioneering 3D video game Metroid Prime and the earlier role-playing video game Chrono Trigger. Mostly, the trio talked about immersion in music and sound.

Once they had assembled, they spent two weeks recording Erik’s drums and Heikki’s guitars live. All the while, Antti worked out where to play and sing. Then his contributions were recorded as Erik finished his drum tracks. What was captured was shaped and reshaped – Erik says “we all threw ideas in to help the music find its final form.”

“There were happy accidents which ended up on the album in post-production,” adds Heikki.

Antti stresses that “It’s organic, we wake music together as a band. We started making music in 2011 and we already knew each other before then – the music comes from all three of us, Virta is never the one person.”

Such empathy means that when Horros is played live, room is there for improvisation. “We may expand the sonic palette live, stretch out,” reveals Antti. “We might do some jamming to fit the ambience of the show.” The journey taken by the album is not over.

Horros is more than an album for Virta. It is also an expedition into fresh territory for Antti Hevosmaa, Erik Fräki and Heikki Selamo – creatively, musically and metaphorically. The spell it casts instantly captivates. Once this world is entered, it is not possible to depart.

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Virgotwins

Artspace

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Another fine wax LP from Germany’s Expanded Art Records, enter VirgoTwins, composed of Chicago-born and Southern West Coast-residing Virgo MC Gilead7 (Tomorrow Kings) and Producer Boricua Sandy. The two met amidst networking in the underground Hip-Hop scenes of San Diego and combined in the span of a few weeks to create a mystical record. VirgoTwins presents a 10-song Hip-Hop meditation that returns us to the days of Atmosphere’s Overcast! and Sonic Sum’s The Sanity Annex. Reminiscent of the early 2000s era of underground Hip-Hop with lush sounds and far-reaching ideas while forging their own fluid identity in a sea of present-day artistic sameness, the VirgoTwins have delivered the quintessential album of the shadows for all turntables in 2023. Hand-numbered and limited to 250 copies. The VirgoTwins have been covered in the Chicago SunTimes, Chicago Reader, Flood Magazine, Dusted Mag, among others.

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Virginia Turbett

Punks 1979-1983

Cafe Royal

11,19 €* 13,99 € -20%

New Romantics London 1980-81

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Recent winners of Royal Photographic Society Award for Photographic Publishing. All books 36 pages, printed in England, staple bound, 14cm x 20cm.

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Virginia Turbett

Cafe Royal

13,99 €*

The Dark Lord Transparent Vinyl Edition

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Recent winners of Royal Photographic Society Award for Photographic Publishing. All books 36 pages, printed in England, staple bound, 14cm x 20cm. Pretentious posthumous reaction to punk briefly created this foppish mini-trend, leaving in its wake pop acts like Culture Club, Visage, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. The few clubs themselves were a melting pot of electronic music and some experimentation, a taste of things to come...

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Virginia And The Flood

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Lazy Octopus)

Cosmic Cycling / Nouvelle Cinderella

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Virginia and the Flood’s ”ghost folk” is recognized by grand soundscapes that alternates inbetween the beautiful and the harsh, all topped off with her characteristic voice that has been compared to greats such as PJ Harvey and Dolly Parton. After releasing her acclaimed debut LP in 2019 that was followed by slots at Way Out West and Reeperbahn, she’s now back with her second album ’The Dark Lord’ that expands her sound without losing its characteristics.

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Virgin Vs

7"+CD | 2023 | JP | Original (Super Fuji Discs)

15,74 €* 20,99 € -25%