HHV Records 38397 Items

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Halsey

The Great Impersonator

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Anthony Moore

Home Of The Demo

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Accessory)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Anthony"s post-Slapp Happy output, for years an underrated-to-outright unknown quantity, achieves a new dimensional plane with this third archival release from his personal tape library. Home of the Demo triangulates upon the art-pop qualities found in his previously unreleased 1976 LP OUT, and "79"s new wave-adjacent Flying Doesn"t Help, finding Anthony"s early/mid-80s home recordings drifting whimsically in and out of the actual mainstream.

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Simic

An Introduction To Frost

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Avenue 66)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Simic dips his toes into icier waters for Accessory's 8th release with a collection of house tracks to send your mind and body into a flurry. The A side exemplifies Simic's tasteful and refreshing approach to minimal, while the B side wades into cooler, krautrock-inspired zones (including a dubbed out remix from Seattle mainstays APT E). Hello Frost !

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SW.

Mindset

Let's Start Our Own Thing

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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mindSET is the ninth album from enigmatic producer SW., directly following this summer’s excursion into his trademark techno, IDM and bleep soundscapes, on the myDEFINITIONS Vol II album. But with his mindSET album SW. takes a left turn, as pioneers often do, and we find ourselves on the lesser traveled side roads of electronic music history. Or in SW.’s own words: “the more abstract leftfield elements.”
It’s in these less-defined areas that SW. finds his sweet spot, building dancefloor soundtracks that defied definition. And with mindSET the sounds and the machines might have changed, the methodology remains the same.
“It draws from what was more generally seen in leftfield as a term for the slightly off-kilter house and broken beats that didn’t fit neatly into classic genres, whether that was Chicago house, French garage, drum and bass, or broken beat. It’s more about those in-between sounds that never really took off, only appearing briefly in the early to mid-90s and then quickly disappearing. There was a certain magic in that moment, which I wanted to capture. Also, the entire album was produced using classic analog equipment, with old machines that were used during that era. That’s the approach I’ve taken.”
The eight tracks on mindSET are shaped out of de-tuned techno pop synths and heavy, syncopated drums, grooving along chopped-up polymeters to create an eerie mood, as if orbiting an undiscovered planet for the first time. The harmonic movements are often bent out of shape, sometimes veering towards Gherkin Jerks or Cristian Vogel territory. But in the end, the sounds are less important than the atmosphere, and the tracks represent an attitude or an approach - to creating the music as well as experiencing it. mindSET is a nod to those dancers sharing an oddball moment, and for those of us on the same wavelength, it's a vibe we can all get inside.

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Dar Embarks

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Acid Camp)

Dub: The Sound Of Surprise

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dar Embarks, the hardware-based collaboration of Chicagoans Dan Jugle and Ken Zawacki, share four precious recordings of bouncing, highly-acidic machine funk and industrial ambiance. This is a posthumous release for Dan Jugle, who departed in 2018.

Dan was a multi-instrumentalist and a pillar of Chicago's techno scene who left an indelible mark on it with his distinctive sound. His infatuation with electronic music began in the mid-90s when he found his way to Midwest raves as soon as he was old enough to drive to them. He began working with analog gear to create his own expression of the music he heard there. Jugle, Zawacki, and Mike Broers started experimenting with a thrifted Roland TR-707, figuring out the controls through trial and error. They performed together as Ghost Arcade in the early 2000s.

Years later, Jugle and Zawacki reunited creatively, forming Dar Embarks and building the foundation for their project. Jugle gained a reputation for crafting washed-out, saturated club tracks as Juzer, a project formed with Beau Wanzer. Dar Embarks' debut EP Fleer (released on CLEAR USA) and Juzer's Horseplay (on Anthony Parasole's label The Corner) were both released in 2014, both elevated by Dan Jugle's live-action knob-twisting and button-pushing composition inspired by sci-fi and comic books. Despite his early passing, Jugle's legacy lives on through his work and his passion for Midwest techno that his friends and fans still remember and carry.

Lovingly wrapped up and presented to Acid Camp by Ken, these heaters are finally set free to move asses and minds.

Artwork by Jeremiah Chiu
Layout by Danielle Davis
Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering
Distributed by wordandsound

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Helmut Philipps

Edition Olms

39,95 €*

CD | 2024 | US | Original (Irish Wristwatch)

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DUB, The Sound of Surprise is a detailed chronicle and fascinating guide to the captivating history of Jamaican dub music, the first of its kind. This archetype of the remix style grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The book presents over 200 illustrations and some rare album covers, and describes the origins and development of a unique technique created in Jamaican recording studios which would change the world of music production forever. Author Helmut Philipps has visited the places dub happened, and met its pioneers, inventors, and key figures.

In addition to analysis, Philipps includes essays and conversations with and about King Jammy, Scientist, Style Scott, David Rodigan, Bunny Lee, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Dennis Bovell, Ernest Hoo Kim, Errol Brown, Linval Thompson, Tippy I-Grade, Victor Rice, Mad Professor and many others. The gripping narrative also takes a look at the development of dub in Europe, the UK, and the United States.

Helmut Philipps is a journalist and passionate collector of dub, who has mixed dub music himself. He has written two award-winning books about reggae that have been published in Germany.

Translator Ursula “Munchy” Münch is an internationally active reggae author who has lived in Jamaica. Reporting for Reggaeville, the online magazine, she regularly visits the scene there, and has conducted more than 500 interviews.

Helmut Philipps and Ursula “Munchy” Münch share a life-long love of Jamaica, its people, its music, and its culture. Both write for Riddim, the internationally renowned reggae magazine, and are trained sound engineers.

History – Interviews – Sound Systems – Engineers & Studios – Discography Original English Edition translated by Ursula Münch. 256 pp. with over 300 pictures in color and b/w. Hardcover with extra strong boards 25 x 25 cm.

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Sad Night Dynamite

Welcome The Night

15,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Life & Times Red Vinyl Edition

Kings Never Die

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Metalville)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Burnin Music)

Manuel Sahagun

De Viento Y Arena

15,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Awkwardly Social)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Manuel Sahagun is considered one of the most relevant artists in Argentina's house music scene. After several EPs on Freerange, Lazy Days, True Romance and Get Physical, his new offering on Burnin Music doesn't disappoint.
Five tracks mixing different sides of house: a fusion of both modern and classic influences with fresh sounds that have elements from funk, soul, deep and techno.
Early support from:
Jimpster, Fouk, Bushwacka, Ella Knight (Rinse FM), Eddie Fowlkes, Terry Francis (Fabric), Oliver $, Yu Su (Music From Memory), Iron Curtis, Luther Vine (Phonica)

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Hett

Candor

Everything Matters, Everything's Fire Fire Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In what feels almost like an annual autumn tradition now, we’re mighty excited to announce the next release on our label, “Candor“ by Hett.

Working with friends has an especially rewarding quality which is why we’re particularly happy for Hett to join the AWK label family. Having known about his excellent production skills for a while, we were quite eager to unearth this hidden gem. It took a moment to put together but everyone’s patience paid off and we can proudly present you this beautiful 5 track record.

The Wearside raised and Berlin based artist provides the perfect formula for a club ready yet emotively aware package, making it hard to believe that this is only his debut EP. A work of music that embodies the refreshing candor of a forward thinking attitude whilst also giving a respectful nod to the past.

AWK 006, “Candor“ by Hett will be out on October 24th 2024. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

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Lunar Vacation

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

12" | 2024 | Original (10192)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fire Red Vinyl.As one would expect of any historic city, the houses in Decatur,GA are old, and while many have been renovated to suit theneeds of the 21st century family, the one Lunar Vacation callshome has not. The porch is quaint and crumbly, the roof leaks,and there is a single bathroom shared by the band's fivemembers who insist that this is not, actually, a bad thing. "I usedto be so protective of the songs when I gave them over to theband," lyricist/vocalist/guitarist Gep Repasky says. "There's somuch trust involved, but this house helped us grow as bestfriends, as musicians, as a band."That newfound sense of trust is apparent on EverythingMatters, Everything's Fire, whose title, taken from theconcluding track "You Shouldn't Be," is a thesis statement.While Lunar Vacation's last album, 2021's Inside Every Fig is aDead Wasp, happily bathed in the waters of indie pop, theirlatest effort is exploratory, a product of many hours sharedexperimenting in a living room together. Inspired by prolificshapeshifters like Yo La Tengo and Björk, Everything Matters,Everything's Fire adopts an ethos that every idea has thepotential to be a good one."Our last album was super produced, manicured," guitarist/vocalist Maggie Geeslin says. "This one's organic. Weembraced mistakes; it made the work even better." In otherwords: everything matters, everything's fire.

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Joe Goddard

Harmonics Remixed

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Quiet Music For Young People -Red Vinyl-

Dana And Alden

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Winspear)

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Spirito Novanta)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Red Vinyl.Brothers Dana and Alden McWayne, along with a troupe of multi-instrumental artists, come together to create jazzy melodies with indie sounds inspired by their unconventional upbringing in Eugene, Oregon. Dana (saxophone) is an organic farm inspector while Alden (drums) is a recent grad of Berklee College of Music.Their debut full-length album, Quiet Music for Young People, is a lush album that melds vintage sounds with the aesthetic and experience of existing in Gen Z and the digital age. Quiet Music For Young People also reminisces of the brother's childhood, summer days spent working at an apple orchard and jamming at jazz clubs on rainy Oregon nights.The experimental smooth jazz-infused album closer "Dragonfly" has been gaining traction on streaming due to trends across Instagram and TikTok. The band has recently toured across the US supporting Benny Sings and will be making their headline debut at NYC's Baby's All Right this winter.

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Tobi

Noventa: Part One

Friendship Or Friends / Let Me Be Your Baby Sitter / Give Me Some Sugar, Baby

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Argentinian starboy Tobi inaugurates the new Italian imprint Spirito Novanta with his high classy House sound. The first part of this double cut features four shimmering cuts that hit deep. That's the spirit !

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Duke Turner

7" | 2024 | UK | Reissue (Soul Junction)

19,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Dippin')

Saucy Lady

Love Fest

LP | 2024 | Original (Yeeess)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We are happy to welcome Star Creature alum Saucy Lady and her Dippin’ label to Groove DIS! Saucy Lady's groove-infused 4th LP highlights her signature blend of funk, disco, & boogie that has funkdafied listeners since 2011. 7 soulful tracks feat. top drummers JAY Mumford (du-rites) & Derrick Mckenzie (jamiroquai), and a duet with Midnight Riot maestro YAM WHO?. Full pic sleeve.

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Rinôçérôse

Psychoanalysis

Coyote, You're My Star Chocobanano Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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" rinôçérôse " is still alive, conquering, surprising, bold in its sound. The French band composed of Patou Carrié and Jean-Philippe Freu has teamed up with a new producer - VincentLeibovitz - to record theirseventh album, Psychôanalysis. A formidable French Touch live machine (with additional musicians: two guitarists, a drummer/percussionist and a VJ)," rinôçérôse " has been producing albums that have been heard all over the world since the 1990s, from Europe to South America, from Japan to the USA, where the group has played at the biggest festivals and the finest venues, with over 1000 concerts under their belt. With Psychôanalysis, the band embarks on a new high-energy sonic escapade, a mosaic album that revisits all their sonic hallmarks: singular instrumental creativity (guitars and basses are the band"s trademark) and eclectic electronic programming in a grand mix of rock, house, electro, funk and other influences. The sonic palette deployed by Vincent Leibovitz, member of the beatmakers" collective La Fine Équipe andco-founder of NowadaysRecords, takes Patou Carrié and Jean-Philippe Freu into new horizons, sometimes nostalgic and always innovative. " rinôçérôse " features two singers with whom the group has already worked: Jessie Chaton (Fancy, General Elektriks) and Bnann Watts (Infadels). It also opens up to new collaborations with Izzy Lindqwister and Benjamin Diamond (Stardust).

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Dana And Alden

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Winspear)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Church Of Noise)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chocobanano Vinyl.Brothers Dana and Alden McWayne, alongwith a troupe of multi-instrumental artists,come together to create jazzy melodies withindie sounds inspired by their unconventionalupbringing in Eugene, Oregon.Following the success of their debutfull-length album and it's lead track "Dragonfly"(which tracked 300,000 TikTok creations,and over 10 million streams) thebrothers recruited Jared Solomon (Sza,Remi Wolf, Teezo Touchdown) to producetheir sophomore LP, Coyote, You're MyStar.Melding vintage sounds with the aestheticand experience of existing in Gen Z and thedigital age, the new LP has already been metwith rousing approval, with airtime on theZane Lowe show on Apple as well as playlistcovers like Spotify's State of Jazz. The bandis also set to tour North America and Europeacross festivals and headline shows.

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Oreo Jones

Nephew

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The origins of Oreo Jones forthcoming third studio album, to be released September 20th, 2024, started in 2019 while on an extended trip to Antananarivo, Madagascar supported by an Andy Warhol Foundation grant. The myriad sights and sounds of this journey greatly inform the sonic tapestry of this new album.Jones teamed up with indie producer Ben Lumsdaine (Durand Jones/Wishy/Varsity/Barrie) to build songs from the ground up sending demos back and forth from across the country. Jones also recruited composer and vocalist Hanna Benn to add heavenly harmonies sprinkled throughout the album. The result is a sound that is intentional and immediate, earthly and ethereal. Each song is a chapter in a narrative crafted with purpose.Emotionally, the album emerges from a place of much needed rest and peace. During the recording process, Jones' uncle passed away unexpectedly. Over the past few years, he has found himself processing grief and loss within his immediate family of elders. Nephew is an ode to celebrate the ancestors who shaped the artist he is today.

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12" | 2024 | EU (Booooo!)

Booooo! VA2

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Head To Toe)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Second trip from BOOoo! Records including tracks from worldwide roster, Lamalice (France), Krijka (Korea), Ludovic (Péru), Rambal Cochet (Russia).

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Ninetoes

Pov

Russudan Meipariani Ensemble

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ninetoes, the acclaimed DJ and producer behind the global hit “Finder,” is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of his debut album, ‘POV’ set to drop this October via his own label, Head To Toe. This highly anticipated album marks a significant milestone in Ninetoes' career, offering a fresh and personal take on the genres that have shaped his sound over the years.

‘POV’ is a definitive statement from Ninetoes, encapsulating his journey through the world of dance music. Fans can expect a diverse and dynamic album that traverses a spectrum of styles, including Afro House, Acid House, Techno, and Hip Hop. Each track from the collection reflects Ninetoes' deep connection to the roots of electronic music, reimagined through his unique creative lens.

“‘Having been involved in Dance Music a long time, the album touches on every genre that has shaped me since day one. So, I have recreated these styles with my POV‘.” - Ninetoes

The album features 10 tracks, including collaborations with a stellar lineup of artists such as A-Trak, Thomas Mapfumo, Davide Squillace, Mousse T., and Jazzy Jeff, among others. Each collaboration brings a unique flavor to the project, highlighting Ninetoes' versatility and passion for pushing musical boundaries.

The release of ‘POV’ will be celebrated with a worldwide tour, where Ninetoes will bring his distinct perspective on house music to dance floors across the globe. Fans can look forward to an immersive experience, blending his dynamic DJ sets with the innovative soundscapes of his debut album.

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Beyond The Boarders (180 G)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Hgbsblue)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hall Of Mirrors Coke Bottle Green Vinyl Edition

Acid Rooster

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tonzonen)

Tyshawn Sorey, Adam Rudolph, Sae Hashimoto, Russel Greenberg, Levy Lorenzo

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archaisms Ii

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Defkaz)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Pearls)

Eric + Ensemble Schaefer

Hayashi

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Sub Rosa)

Univers Zero

Crawling Wind

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First time vinyl reissue of Univers Zero's legendary Crawling Wind, originally released in 1981 on the Japanese 'Chaos International Series' label, with the original cover artwork has been beautifully redesigned by Thierry Moreau.

Toujours Plus à l'Est, as the title suggests, is heavily influenced by the traditional music of Eastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria., and paying tribute to the iconic catchphrase of Professor Calculus (Tournesol), the character from the Belgian comic series Tintin. Before The Heat, played live a few times, is an ambient composition by Andy Kirk, who is part of the EP's lineup alongside Daniel Denis, Guy Segers, Alan Ward, and Dirk Descheemaeker. Central Belgium in the Dark is a live improvisation from a period when Univers Zéro dedicated part of their concerts to complete improvisation. What makes this recording unique is that one of Andy Kirk's effects pedals picked up and emitted the sound of a mysterious radio signal, seemingly coming from "nowhere," especially noticeable at the end of the piece. The title of this improv is a nod to contemporary composer Charles Ives' work Central Park in the Dark. Central Belgium refers to the concert venue where the piece was recorded (Haine-St-Pierre).

Univers Zero represents one of the longest-living bands in Belgium. It was established in 1974. Drummer Daniel Denis had the brilliant idea to gather together a team of professionals sharing the same taste for music. The band has adopted an instrumental progressive style. Over the last couple of decades, the band has also implemented a series of influences from chamber music - most commonly, chamber music from the 20th century. Even if the line-up changes a lot over the years, the overall sound of UZ remained fairly consistent.

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The Man With The Licence 02

LP | 2024 | Original (Doghouse & Bone)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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OSS! Spy vs. Spy! MI6! All operating in the shadows of darkness and danger...listen...underneath that double-trouble of uncertainty lays the groove. The exotic and the erotic sounds. 007! The music with a license to kill and thrill.When the clock strikes five and it is cocktail time, no man is a match for the soundtrack of the Femme fatale of the underworld. Shake that thing baby-don"t stir it....and the Martini too.The spy universe has been quite an inspiration for composers and orchestras. Lounge music, Exotica and symphonic, this record will have you spinning the globe hitting every longitude and latitude from Bangkok to Rio.So drop that needle and get on board this second volume as this jet is leaving the gate right on time.

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The Man With The Licence 03

LP | 2024 | Original (Doghouse & Bone)

Olivier Romero, Mihai Popoviciu

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Triple B

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Gettraum)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A staple of Traumers DJ sets in the past months, Olivier Romeros dancefloor mega tools are finally getting a release ? incl. a remix from one of Romanias finest producers, Mihai Popoviciu.

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LP | 2024 | Original (Legere)

Joel Sarakula

Soft Focus

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2024 | Original (Inside)

Jackson Browne

For Everyman

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Burning Savage Transparent Red Vinyl Edtion

Obnoxious Youth

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Svart)

LP | 2024 | Original (Xtra Mile Ltd)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Total speed metal rager Obnoxious Youth return with a new album out in October.

The Swedish-Finnish speed and thrash metal quintet Obnoxious Youth is back with a bang after a four year break. New album Burning Savage will be out in 18th October 2024.

-“A total speed metal rager manifesting the driving force behind the onslaught that is Obnoxious Youth. A sexual flame and a satanic force of nature. An urge to discover and embrace the primitive flame that grows inside. Succumb to the Burning fucking Savage” Affe ”Phantasma” Piran, the vocalist of Obnoxious Youth, manifests.

The sperm of Satan’s cock AKA the Obnoxious Youth was born in 2002 in Uppsala/Sweden. But the fully fledged and perverted behemoth that stands before you today was an international collaboration brought to life in 2009 by John ”Zeke” Finne, Affe ”Phantasma” Piran and Frans ”Cult” Utterström. But today Edde ”Shit” Aftonfalk and Lukas ”Spine” Häger are added to the live lineup of the band.

The purpose of the band was to break boundaries and to return to the time when extreme music didn’t have any rules or regulations. When there was no ”death metal” or ”thrash metal”, when there was just ”metal” or ”punk”. Just channeling the most insane music that was humanly possible. Using methods that was founded in the 80’s, Obnoxious Youth fully encloses itself and gets swallowed by the power of extreme music and getting influences from a feeling rather than other bands. Taking the listeners back to a time when heavy music was something to fear.

In 2012 the band received a Manifest Award for the debut album The Eternal Void and has since then released two EP’s (Suck On The Cross, 2013 and Mouths Sewn Shut, 2020) and one more full length album Disturbing the Graves in 2017. They have established themselves as a fierce live band that leaves no one unaffected.

Members of Obnoxious Youth has played in or currently plays in bands such as Vorum, Undergång, Endtime, Reveal!, Morbus Chron, Century, Tøronto, Degial, Begravningsentreprenörerna, Entombed and No Future.

Svart Records releases Obnoxious Youth’s new album Burning Savage 18th of October 2024 on black, transparent red and limited yellow/red/black marble vinyl versions – and of course on glorious CD. Pre-orders are now available on Svart Records’ webstore.

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Skinny Lister

Pub Shed Bootleg Live EP

22,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Everything Fades Sea Blue Vinyl Edition

Blue Heron

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blues Funeral)

Return Of The Hellsingers Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sun-scorched riff-rock propelled from the windswept heart of the desert!Blue Heron expand on their unyielding desert sound with a new slab of propulsive, sun-scorched riff-heaviness. Everything Fades finds the band reveling in low-tuned roil and amplifier hum, churning out swerving grooves as if the atavistic, primordial spirit of the desert itself compels them.Balanced between laid back, meditative atmospherics and heavier, more aggressive lunges, these cruising jams and gritty stoner romps call to mind echoes of Kyuss, Clutch and Soundgarden, along with modern contemporaries like Valley of the Sun and High Desert Queen.Full of rhythmic intensity, sledgehammer riffing, and vocals ranging from clean and moody to howling and raw, Blue Heron cover a wide expanse of musical ground that shows how familiar influences can still be molded into inventive, exciting new forms. Null GeodesicEverything FadesSwansongWe Breathe DarknessDinosaurTrepidationClearmountainBellwetherFlight of the Heron

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Hellsongs

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tapete)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Berthold)

Kuhn Fu

Katastrofik Kink Machine

LP | 2024 | Original (Tommy Jackson)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Waffle House index has been measuring the impact of disasters in the USA since 2011: Green = full menu - restaurant has full power, food unlimited, damage at worst limited. Yellow = limited menu - no power, food availability is limited. Red = restaurant closed - serious damage or flooding. Translated to the free-spirited jazz rock of the band Kuhn Fu: the music on the new album Katastrofik Kink Machine jumps back and forth between green and red with enthusiasm and verve, leaving out the tepid middle. There is something old-fashioned about the word jazz rock: music in which soulless virtuosity has replaced spirit and immediacy. However, the guitarist and composer Christian Achim Kühn plays jazz fevered by electric guitar with his band Kuhn Fu, in which the joy of playing and the fun of profound nonsense (and then also: the virtuosity) oozes out of every pore. Not least fun in the extreme: green and red, no yellow.

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Randy Rogers Band

Hellbent

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Single Lock)

Gravel Springs

Crow's Nest Meditations

So Much For The City White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Luther Dickinson, 10-time Grammy nominated North Mississippi All Star, joins up with noted Bay Area mensch David Katznelson to chase the spirits and get weird. World Boogie is Coming!This is the debut project from Luther Dickinson and David Katznelson, who famously signed The Flaming Lips. It also features the last known audio of Jim Dickinson and is limited to 400 foil stamped numbered vinyl copies.

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The Thrills

LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Integral Distribution Services)

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Slacker 85)

Tres Mortimer

M1 City

18,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Planète 51)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kicking off ‘M1 City’ is the simplistic, but refined and booth-rattling ‘Work That Body’. A crisp M1 stab is the main character in this, amplified by thunderous and high energy drums.

Then there’s ‘Secrets’, a house jam inspired by the likes of MK that utilises TR-909 drums, a subtle rolling bassline, intimately whispered and soulfully sung vocal shots, and, of course, classic Korg M1 synth stabs. Together with dramatic contemporary builds, a highly danceable house smasher is formed.

‘No More’ is pure gasoline for the dancefloor. Très pairs another barrage of clean M1 stabs with a rousing vocal sample that leads into, with the help of a rolling snare, another highly effective house drop. Following the extremely saucy ‘Big Daddy’ skit, we’re dropped straight into ‘One Of Those Nights’, a show-stopping track complete with cutting, sharp stabs, a bulging bassy synth and a West Coast-esque synth sound.

‘Bitch I’m From Chicago’ feat. Gleebz is, as the title suggests, a dedication to the city where house music found its name. Batting off all the poser cities like LA and Miami in the sassy lyrics, it embodies the spirit of Chicago with hefty kick drums and weighty chord stabs.

At the tail end of the release, ‘Let Me Go’ and ‘Love’ (featuring vocalist 7000 (7K)), bring things to a rousing emotive close. Both tracks see Très put clean vocals over piano riffs, giving off differing moods – the former is euphoric, the latter melancholic. Synths bubble beneath, and each track funnels their own respective house grooves, resulting in two tracks fit for both the dancefloor and headphones.

Très Mortiner explains: “The M1 sound is classic. It automatically transports you back to those timeless house songs that never get old. For me, house music is all about connection. People experiencing a little moment of euphoria together when they hear a riff that they all know on the dance floor. That’s what it’s all about. With this project I wanted to tap into that 90s rave sound and spirit. I wanted it to sound like the OG Chicago rave scene.”

“M1 City is my first project to be released on vinyl. I think vinyl is very much alive. It’s essentially for music connoisseurs now. I don’t expect people to have a vinyl collection when all music is always available to everyone on their phones. Nevertheless, I love the idea of some random DJ finding this record in a shop in 10 years. Who knows what I’ll be producing then?”

Très Mortimer is a key figure in Chicago's house scene, steadily building a strong following with his no-nonsense, dancefloor-driven sound. Drawing inspiration from his Polish roots, Trés has signed with major labels like Mad Decent, Insomniac’s IN/Rotation, and Ministry of Sound, while also launching his own imprint, Optics Records. He made his mark with a clever rework of Zombies' 1968 hit ‘Time Of The Season’ (1M+ streams). Standout releases include his downtempo collaboration with plumpy, "BAMBU," and his latest single, "At Night I Think Of You," which was recently given a remix makeover by Seth Troxler and Nick Morgan.

Slacker 85, launched in 2023, is the record label behind ‘M1 City’. Founded by Seth Troxler, it aims to give a platform to "oddball, esoteric and diverse sounds," positioning itself as a counter to the polished, refined dance artists dominating the scene. Troxler, upon the label’s launch, declared that he wanted to create something for "the anti-hero, the kids who could have done it but didn’t care to try”—essentially, "the slacker." So far, it’s delivered a range of releases from artists like Jackmaster, Danny Daze, Dan McKie, and Andre Salmon, offering tracks rooted in house music's past but evolving within its present boundaries.

‘M1 City’, this ode to a piece of gear that consistently finds itself at the heart of house music history, highlights Très Mortimer’s respect for and knowledge of the scene and its key gear. Trè combines this admiration and inspiration of house music’s greats with a modern sensibility, resulting in eight tracks worthy of today’s dancefloors and today’s ravers.

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Nils

Bomboclaat

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Biometric Audio)

Pure Basic

12th May

Scale And Scope (4x Flexidisc Vinyl Record Set)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"The true narrative shall forever shroud itself in mystery to the outside world.
It is whispered that man never truly set foot on the moon, but merely touched it.
Just as the tale of this record unfolds, two souls from distant realms brushed ever so close, yet destiny denied them a lasting encounter, not even a fleeting union of Nino's and Ali's wings.
Perhaps, it was fated that the circle of a past life, woven with trust, blooming with flowers, and exchanged glances, must close in the cosmic pursuit of Venus, chasing the Crescent Moon, serenading love to its own Sun."

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Stefan Goldmann

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Edition Kymata)

17,99 €*

Inspirex Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Scale and Scope is a set of four colour flexidisc records, each containing an instantiation of an individual microtonal designer scale, developed by Stefan Goldmann. The four discs are housed in a printed cardboard portfolio.
The flexidisc medium plays like a vinyl record, but is inherently noisier and tends to exhibit more signal disruptions than conventional vinyl. Expect occasional clicks, crackle and other variations, which differ substantially from copy to copy. These make each set unique.
The digital file versions are re-recorded directly from the flexidiscs, with very few corrections and a few spectral interventions by the original artist. The full resolution digital files used for cutting the flexidiscs will be available exclusively and individually to collectors who wish to acquire one of the scales as
instantiated in the recordings.

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Why The Eye

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Exag)

Hard Drive Library, Boom Le Choc

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Why the Eye is an experimental masked quartet from Brussels that propels bodies into trance during its live performances. All instruments are DIY and played in real time, without loops or sequencers. Fans of The Residents, Société Étrange, Autechre, Boards Of Canada, The Meridian Brothers and Fulu Miziki could easily relate to their sound. Describing their music as "Prehistoric Techno", Why The Eye are set to release their new album ‘Inspirex’ on the 4th October via Exag Records.Opening with the fidgety Jnsp, the vindictive summons La Machine is a brash, abstract experience with a deep yearning to set us free from everyday political confinement while the raw Où cours-je explodes into a wild rage of disorder and mayhem. At the heart of each track are the DIY instruments band member DjP (Jean Paul Domb) has assembled over the years, some of them directly inspired by the African sanzas. With names such as ‘radiocaphone’ and ‘castabignettes’, the instruments are cleverly connected to different effects pedals and are the heartbeat of Why The Eye. Elsewhere, the album title track reveals a snappy rhythmic quality with skittish sounds while Prairies and Animal are tribal-like in delivery with a deep-lying punk ethos.

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Touché #1

12" | 2024 | NL | Original (Touché)

Release: 2024 / NL – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ever had goosebumps in your brain? If yes, you might want to see a doctor. Or you just been exposed to the chubby chops of Touché #1 - a spiralling collection of three french touched edits that know no other home than the dancefloor. Cooler than the other side of the pillow. Get your hands on these now and thank us later!

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LP | 2024 | EU | Reissue (Spittle Dependance)

Milano 84 - Ultradisco

18,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Austin Boogie Crew)

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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After the surprising debut with ‘Monochromatic’, Milano 84 - the musical project of Fabio Di Ranno and Fabio Fraschini - returns with a new album that brings the formula into even sharper focus. Synth pop, new wave, Italo disco acquire a contemporary dimension and an international flavour. ‘Ultradisco’ brings together eleven tracks, some in English, others in Italian. They are velvet dancefloor songs, emotional and romantic, elegantly distant from the obvious. Milan 84's fellow travellers include, among others: Johnson Righeira, here in the futurist reinterpretation of a Franco Battiato classic (Summer on a solitary beach); Anita Dadà – a well-known avant-garde artist - is with Fabrizio Massara (Baustelle) in the languid and intense ‘Darling’; Andy (Bluvertigo) and Alice Silvestrini (Laison) illuminate the prismatic ‘Crystal’; Anna Soares - a revolutionary performer - and Eugene - electro songwriter - colour ‘Italopop’, a manifesto made up of décollage quotations; Fred Ventura ignites the engines of the new wave to come with ‘The right words’. And he is also artistic supervisor of this unmissable album for all lovers of the 80s, the decade that never ended.

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Jonny Tobin

Steppin' Out

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Moli Del Tro)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jonny Tobin is a Grammy and JUNO-nominated artist based in Vancouver. His sound resides in an alternate dimension between 90's video games and 60's Blue Note records, where fat synth funk grooves playfully collide with abstract jazzy undertones. To date, Tobin has released 5 original albums, making numerous official Spotify editorial playlists to the tune of over 10 million streams. As a live performer, recently Tobin headlined the 2023 Vancouver Jazz Festival and opened for notable acts like Adi Oasis, CARRTOONS and Braxton Cook.After the success of his 2019 vinyl debut "Sunrise" on Austin Boogie Crew Records, Tobin began work on Steppin' Out, his new and exceptional LP full of catchy modern funk songs. On this magnetic album executive produced by Austin Boogie Crew (ABC), the label connected Tobin with vocalists from all over. Featured collaborators include XL Middleton, Shiro Schwarz, Maya Killtron, The Vapor Caves, Rojai and Daniel David (FKA Trailer Limon), many of whom made previous appearances on ABC. Driven by Tobin's stellar production and synth wizardry, this project is a testament to the familial strength of the modern funk community in both good times and bad.

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Kabaal

World Why Web

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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World Why Web is KABAAL aka Jakob Warmenbol's first solo album. It is the hallucinated and brilliant fruit of a long journey of exploring a more adventurous setup for improvised drum performance. Reinventing the work with sensor equipped drum kits, KABAAL playfully improvises songs with samples ranging from car engines, to Paul Dunmall's bagpipes, Ligeti's harpsichord piece Hungarian Rock, or a Chinese television series from the seventies. You get it : just about anything as long as it isn't drums! This innovative approach allows him to create dialogs between instinctive and awesome drumming and improvised digital poetry. As if Autechre was meeting and merging with Zach Hill and Tony Allen at the same time. It also extends and changes the functionality of the drum kit, making it a tool to create odd melodies and landscapes of atonal synths and distorted noise.

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Best Of Jethro Tull Redux Black Vinyl Edition

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Hive Mind)

Maalem Houssam Guinia

Dead Of Night

Ich Will Ich Sein (Ausgewählte Songtexte)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maalem Houssam Guinia Dead of Night

Hmrlp035 LP £12 Allah Allah Daym Molana Jangari Jahwari Bouri Bouriama Ya Jowadi Samaoui Matinba Mosawiyin (Souiri)

"Raw, deep and spiritual Gnawa music from Morocco to carry you through the night...

Recorded in a single late night session in a house in Casablanca, using a Tascam field recorder and 2 microphones, Dead of Night is the incredible new solo album from Maalem Houssam Guinia, the son of Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, and one of Morocco's most exciting young Gnawa masters.

The album was recorded live on the night of 3rd January 2022 in a relaxed session that lasted into the early hours of the next morning, and it captures Houssam at his most natural, singing and playing the Gnawa songs that have been with him since his birth, completely solo and free without percussion or backing vocals. Houssam described the album as containing the songs he knows best as these were the pieces his father would play and sing late into the night in their home when he was an infant.

What you'll hear on Dead of Night is raw, deep Gnawa music in its purest form played by a young Maalem who has been immersed in the culture his whole life and is a master of his craft. The whole performance has been beautifully and sympathetically captured by bassist and producer Karl-Erik Enkelman."

Voice & Guimbri by Maalem Houssam Guinia. Recording & Production by Karl-Erik Enkelmann. Mastering by Julian Tardo. Photography by Bader Naggay. Design by Marc Teare.

With thanks to Hamza Guinia, Khalil Mounji, Karl-Erik Enkelmann & Karl Jonas Winqvist.

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Rio Reiser

Ventil

18,00 €*

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Welcome To My Castle Sunrise Pearl Vinyl Edition

Chilli Beans.

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Screen)

Pekka Laine & The Enchanted In Slumberland Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Sunrise Pearl Vinyl.Chilli Beans. are a three-piece band from Japan, formed in 2019 by Moto (vocals), Maika (bass & vocals) and Lily (guitar & vocals). Their neo-garage style fuses indie rock withgarage infused guitars and catchy melodies. Since 2019, the band has released 4 EPs and two albums on A.S.A.B. and played several nationwide headline tours in Japan.Their second full-length album "Welcome to My Castle" was released on December 13th, 2024 and featured 13 songs, including the single "Raise" which was the ending song themefor the TV anime series "One Piece", as well as "I like you", the main song of the TV series "Toki wo Kakeruna, Koibito-tachi".

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Pekka Laine

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Svart)

Requiem Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pekka Laine and The Enchanted's second album out on Svart Records in September

"In a dream I heard music with a strange bubbling sound. People were dancing to it in a surreal, cavernous space. What is this, I asked. One of the dancers stopped and answered. It's an underwater disco. In the morning, I grabbed my guitar and tried to recall what I had heard. Those foggy fragments became Malibu Beach”.

Helsinki 4th of June 2024, Pekka Laine

For Pekka Laine, the twang of an electric guitar is not a warm blanket of nostalgia. Instead, the echoing sound usually associated with surf and retro instrumentals is a ticket to the imaginary.

On this sonic journey, Laine is joined by The Enchanted, his powerhouse live band that has taken both festival and club stages by storm. Pekka Laine and his trusty space-age guitar take the listener to a place where a futuristic and humid disco sound, perfect with obese beats and robotic vocals, reigns supreme. Trippy vocoder vocals and Moog wizardry are provided by Antti Vuorenmaa, the synth sensei associated with several leading Finnish indie bands and a trusted member of the extended Enchanted family.

Pekka Laine's second album Pekka Laine & The Enchanted in Slumberland will be released on 27th of September 2024 digitally, CD and in three different vinyl versions: on a classic black vinyl, wonderful transparent green vinyl and limited edition of 100 white/green/orange marble vinyls hand-crafted by Pekka Laine himself at the Helsingin Levypuristamo. The limited edition is available only on the Svart Records online store.

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Laudare

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Moment of Collapse)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Season Of Mist)

Gaerea

Coma Black Vinyl Edition

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What A Relief Black Vinyl Edition

Katie Gavin

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Saddest Factory)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Dean Spunt

Basic Editions

Slowly But Shirley Limited

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dean Spunt"s all-new Basic Editions is an excursion in electronic sound that instrumentally unpacks his fascination with language - in this case, the syntax of systems and processes. By turns meditative, compulsive and consumptive, Basic Editions distills a 64 voice module through a head full of ideas - somewhat like pouring a cornucopia of possible ambient moods and EZ listening impulses backwards through a funnel, inspiring a deceptively absurd rainbow of soul to spray out the other end.With this new release, Dean IDs his process as "using sounds, rather than making sounds". This approach to music-making is a train of thought that"s been rolling out from the far horizon of the past for ages now - but for Dean, whose previous works within and without No Age depended on their making of sounds, it"s a fresh work stance. Given, however, No Age"s traditional sonic manipulations (via loops and treatments), Basic Editions delivers further unexpected hard-rights and lefts in the non-aesthetic aesthetic that has defined Dean"s path over the past two decades. Steering toward wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colorfully across the stereo azimuth, Dean creates a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic.

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Soul Asylum

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Elan)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Borrowed Time Gold Vinyl Edition

Southall

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Smoklahoma)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chameleon Black Vinyl Edition

Trauma Ray

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Dais)

23,99 €*

A Love You Cannot Shake Red Vinyl Editoin

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Since first bonding over Slowdive at a Texas karaoke bar six years ago, musicians Uriel Avila and Jonathan Perez have grown trauma ray into Fort Worth's foremost flag bearer of crushing shoegaze. A five-piece rounded out by bassist Darren Baun, drummer Nicholas Bobotas, and guitarist Coleman Pruitt, the band's debut album, Chameleon, captures their evolving sound at an apex of majestic devastation. A fusion of downer hooks, gauzy melancholia, and bulldozer riffs, the album heaves and crashes across 50 minutes of stacked amplifier alchemy. Lyrically the songs trace similarly lofty and brooding terrain; Avila says "The theme is death. And a chameleon, like death, can shape-shift in and out our lives in different forms." Chameleon opens with "Ember," dreamy and distant, alternately anthemic and apocalyptic, defeated and deafening. Lead single "Bishop" perfectly encapsulates trauma ray's depth and dimension, ripping out of the gate with "the biggest, baddest, saddest wall of sound." Lyrics about being burnt at the stake and "tossed in the flame" float above a stop-start assault of precision distortion, eventually expanding into a lush, heavy, sorrowful end coda. "Spectre" is a mysterious, introspective dirge, envisioned as a "mellow, slowcore, Duster-thing," all feeling and heavy fuzz chords (with no lead guitar). Avila wrote it, "to be a hymnal" from the perspective of someone who won't let go - a ghost, an ex, a shadow self. Although the album is rich with subtleties, graceful lulls, and "breaths of air," the band's three guitar attack is its defining force, a power flexed to its peak on "Bardo." Perez's intentions were blunt: "I wanted to write a riff that was hard as fuck." The result is alternately mean and eerie, veering between noisy one string bends and surging headbang, mapping a middle ground between Unwound and early-Deftones. One of trauma ray's greatest gifts is their ability to make doomy, sledgehammer heaviness sound like an earworm, without production tricks or gimmicks: "Riff, verse, chorus, three guitar parts - that's all you need." This quality is particularly apparent on the title track, a churning slab of amplifier worship, swirling chords, and heavenly, defeated vocals about not belonging, shape-shifting, and death ("A twisted face / Void of attention / An empty space / In your reflection"). "U.S.D.D.O.S" closes the album, swaying across seven minutes of grey skied guitar and haunted voice, subtly thickening as it deepens. Feedback and shrapnel gradually begin raining down, like a satellite disintegrating in the atmosphere. Titled as an acronym after a poem by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño that loosely translates to "a dream within a dream," the melody softens, smears, and then disappears, slowly swallowed by the gravity of eternal descent. Chameleon is a masterpiece of craft, balance, melody, lyricism, and gravity, flexing a fresh vision of loud-quiet-loud architectures and the vertigo depths of blasted harmonics. From Slowdive to Nothing, to Hum and beyond, the band absorb and expand on their influences into a rare and dedicated alchemy. trauma ray's cinematic tempest is a gathering storm only just taking flight.

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Fashion Club

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Felte)

Smithereens Red & Yellow Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Red Vinyl. Listening to Fashion Club's self-produced second album ALove You Cannot Shake feels like being caught in the crossfireof a profound beam of light. You can't help but feel bothenlivened and exposed as its aberrant synth lines, artful stringsand disfigured guitars swell into larger-than-life crescendos,which evoke a divine yet probing spotlight.Pascal Stevenson, the Los Angeles-based musician behindFashion Club, likens the experience of hearing A Love YouCannot Shake to staring into the sun, and though the recordwasn't written with religion in mind, its heavenly sonics andemotional sagacity also make it feel like a prophetic encounter.The album was shaped by Stevenson's gender transition andsobriety journey and parses her fluid emotions surroundingthese events and other personal trials and tribulations. But asmuch as it's a dialogue between Stevenson's current andformer selves, it's also an invitation for listeners to join her inthe work of discarding bitterness and re-centering hope,especially when such efforts feel futile. Musically, A Love YouCannot Shake is an unshackling of expectations, asStevenson's previous stint as bassist in the L.A. post-punkoutfit Moaning and her first record as Fashion Club, 2022'sScrutiny, didn't necessarily reflect the full range of her taste,which includes ambient, pop, classical and dance music, orembody her sensitive tenderness and femininity.A Love You Cannot Shake also thrives on a fluid sonic palette.The album's magnetic immersiveness hinges on its strangedynamic shifts, jagged production and ambitious songstructures with parts that don't repeat_choices influenced byher love of left-field electro-pop and her classical musicbackground. While Stevenson handled most of theinstrumentals on Scrutiny, this LP is much more collaborative,featuring an array of contributors who lent strings, piano, pedalsteel and more. Plus, this album boasts country harmoniesfrom Perfume Genius ("Forget"), high-pitched c...

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Dan Reeder

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Oh Boy)

Mannequin Limited Clear Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Red & Yellow Splatter Vinyl.Dan Reeder is a multi-faceted artist, recently championed byboygenius. He is Oh Boy Records longest signed artist, andwas personally signed by the legendary John Prine himself.Reeder is releasing a collection of songs titled,Smithereens, aneclectic mix of songs, many recorded and played on gear hebuilt. A true DIY maestro, Dan seamlessly assumes the roles ofproducer, mixer, mastering engineer, and visual artist,imbuing every facet of his artistry with his distinct touch. Hismusical stylings often draw comparisons to the likes of BlazeFoley, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, and Ween.

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Sun And Sail Club

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Tommy Jackson)

Randy Rogers Band

Nothing Shines Like Neon

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (New Amsterdam)

Charlotte Jacobs

Atlas

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Dear Life)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Atlas plays out like a half-remembered Greek epic of avant-pop proportions, piecing together earthy woodwinds, old-school synths, and shifting rhythmic patterns that enhance Jacob"s myth-inspired spoken word and bilingual vocals, delivered in Dutch and English.

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Anne Malin

Strange Power!

16,99 €*

CD | 2024 | AU | Original (The Drop)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Strange Power!, the fifth record from Durham, NC-based songwriter and poet Anne Malin Ringwalt, emerges from the darkest waters of the self into a world remade. Releasing inconjunction with her second book of poetry, What Floods (Inside the Castle, Oct. 2024), Strange Power! overflows with Ringwalt's teeming and sensuous personal symbolry: glowing lilacs andgentle queens, dolphins wild and girls who grew up brave _ T.S. Eliot sung by Cat Power, backedby Mount Eerie. She sings: "I rose up from water."Ringwalt writes and performs with the authority of a lifetime spent harnessing the alchemy of storytelling; her belief in the power of words to heal and transform is palpable in each achingly- delivered lyric. Made amidst profound inner and outer change, Strange Power! also sees Ringwalttaking up the role of self-producer for the first time, mirroring and supporting the record's Orphic quest by gathering contributions from a coterie of friends wielding an electric range ofAmerican instruments. Violins, vibraphones, drum machines, electric guitars dappled with springreverb, wind-blown shells, and a host of other numinous sounds form an unfurling and shadowy world which was then carefully honed during the mixing process (shepherded by MichaelCormier-O'Leary and Lucas Knapp) _ settling the final record in an eerie meridian betweenspareness and verdancy.The result is a beguiling and darkly blooming realm: the sound of a personal cosmos beingremade, piece by piece. Ringwalt is at the height of her spirit as both songwriter-poet and singer, her willowy voice by turns conjuring and keening as she reckons with her deep past and thestories told since. Opening track "The Pines" sets the stage for a record of truly life-long scope: "I was a child, now Ihold her / I was asleep for many years." Some songs, like the gorgeous "North Carolina" and "TheSaint," were written as early as 2013 but, Ringwalt says, "insisted upon being remembered" as therecord took shape; in its final form, they serve as inc...

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Fat Freddys Drop

Slo Mo

Electric Bouquet (Lamplight Bouquet)

Release: 2024 / AU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Fat Freddy"s Drop hit the ground running with new studio album SLO MO, a bass-heavy blast of redemption and resolution. Described by Fitchie as "afro rhythmic soul music, an exploration of Black music from Polynesia", this heady mix creates the undefinable Freddy"s sound. Renowned worldwide for euphoric live shows, the Aotearoa band stepped inside their Bays studio in Wellington, sunup to sundown, to craft a sixth studio album. SLO MO is the strongest studio representation yet of a Freddy"s live show", says Chopper Reeds. "Usually we take the stage to the studio and this time, we"re excited about taking our studio creation on to the stage."

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Anna McClellan

LP | 2024 | Original (Father / Daughter)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (MIG)

Puhdys

Live At Rockpalast 1996

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Vendetta)

Aeera

Phantast

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Crosstown Rebels)

Bullet Tooth

If I Can’t Be Yours

15,99 €*

Traum White Vinyl Editoin

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Enigmatic producer bullet tooth makes Crosstown Rebels debut with ‘IF I CAN’T BE YOURS’. UKG meets melodic house on the four-track EP, featuring remixes from Enamour and SICARIA.

If you haven’t heard of bullet tooth yet, you soon will. Brimming with UKG, rave, and rap influences made deviously dark with heavy low-end basslines, this faceless newcomer’s captivating sound has seen him enjoy a meteoric rise since emerging on the scene in 2023. Graduating from Soundcloud bootlegs, the elusive artist made his Parklife debut this summer alongside rapper Capo Lee, with whom he produced ‘Keep It Rolling’. Featuring in sets for the likes of Sammy Virji, Main Phase, and Interplanetary Criminal, the aforementioned collab proved an instant hit, gracing BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra airwaves via Sarah Story, Jeremiah Asiamah, DJ Target and more. Add supporters such as Floating Points, Laurent Garnier and Bicep to the mix, and it’s easy to see why there’s so much hype and intrigue.

Concluding his summer with a bang, the UK artist joined Damian Lazarus for his Hï Ibiza residency alongside Black Coffee, and now the DJ/producer ventures into melodic landscapes via Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels with ‘IF I CAN’T BE YOURS’. The four-track EP also features additional remixes from LA-based talent Enamour and London’s hotly sought-after Moroccan dubstep favourite SICARIA. Leading with the powerful, ‘IF I CAN’T BE YOURS’, bullet tooth takes his sound to the club, featuring nostalgic 90s-esque vocals over dubby bass that lean towards the dancefloor. Second up is the uniquely melancholic-euphoric ‘YOU THINK YOU CAN FIX ME’, where UKG-style rhythms journey deep into melodic realms with purpose and precision. On the b-side, California’s Enamour reworks ‘IF I CAN’T BE YOURS’, directing his energy into a high-energy remix destined for festival grounds. To close out the EP, SICARIA leans into breakbeats with a climbing rendition of her own, infusing the track with lingering afro-leaning flavours.

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Traum

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tonzonen)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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White vinyl, limited to 300 copies.Irretrievably subscribed to the credo "born too late", Traum explore the technical limits of time travel with their music, creating a naive alternative to the here and now in oscillating technicolour. The trio's sound sparks reminiscences of the origins of psychedelia, acid rock and glam, carried by an escapist...

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100 Minuten In Der Echokammer

LP | 2024 | Original (Echokammer)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anomaly Splatter: Cobalt Blue With White & Spring Vinyl Edition

Ace Frehley

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Mnrk Music Group)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bright Carvings)

Filigree

43,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Meakusma)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First in our Specialist Series of 157 released copies aimed at connoisseurs of the truly Esoteric. A feast for Femvox Folk-Rock lovers, salvaged from the only surviving 1973 IBC LP Acetate. A handful of Gothic Trad Arr., a superb electric rendition of Meet on the Ledge, a couple of carefully selected sad Coffee-House covers and three self-composed numbers (of which The Snow Maiden is a stone-cold classic of spooky, witchy folk) make up a beautifully balanced album. The Stars are the two Female vocalists, both sing solo with astonishing range and purity and together are a heavenly choir. To give context, Filigree helped out on Sweet Williams Ghost and Sunday Afternoons. Beautiful, evocative original Gig Flyer Artwork is used on the Fully Laminated sleeve, two inserts. Lovers of Early Steeleye Span, Spriguns, Fairport’s stop here! Barcodes on Stickers, No Shrink-wrap.

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Viola Klein

Confidant

17,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Viola Klein’s records are supremely earthy and astrally inclined. In her DJ sets, she navigates with harmonies through a music selection that combines experimental house from the US Midwest, West African polyrhythms, and music in the tradition of Can from Cologne. Klein was invited to shape the sound of a club night alongside Kampire and Nídia. She has collaborated with Unity Fellowship Church New York, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Ndongo Samba Sylla, the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit, Julion De’Angelo, and Whodat. For her own party series, originally called Bring Your Ass and later No Adoration, No Humiliation, she invited artists such as Aaron Carl, K15, and Kyle Hall when he was just 18 years old.

Her latest solo release, Confidant, offers a fresh approach to deepness.

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Ak'Chamel

Rawskulled

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A surreal mosaic of eerie chant processionals, tape-rot trickery, and panicked oud madness. These are sonic forgeries of atavistic heritages, recorded by analog means using esoteric techniques.""They have been known by many names: The Givers of Illness; The Bandylegged Riders of the Ill-Promised Sun, etc_ Honed and expanded through their travels, Ak'chamel's singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and bizarre ritual folk is as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances.

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Bliss Out: For Days Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Numero Group guide to private issue new age. Featuring Laraaji, Iasos, Joanna Brouk, Don Slepian, Peter Davison, Master Wilburn Burchette, Jordan De La Sierra, David Casper, Robert Slap and 9 other pioneers of the Perrier underground. Adorned with Marcus Uzilevsky's Linear Landscapes, this 2xLP compilation is housed in a sturdy tip-on jacket and is accompanied by a 32-page booklet. The fourth world awaits.

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Bliss Out: For Days Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Numero Group)

35,99 €*

LP | 2024 | Original (Flight 13)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Boy Division

Ill Grey Vinyl Edition

22,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jethro Tull - Aqualung Redux Black Vinyl Edition

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jethro Tull - Aqualung Redux Oxblood Vinyl Edition

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Best Of Jethro Tull Redux Redgold Vinyl Edition

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gomma Dancefloor Gems Volume 3

2LP | 2024 | Original (Toy Tonics)

23,99 €*

Wonderscape Numinous Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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TOY TONICS continues with re-releasing the best tracks of GOMMA RECORDS. The German label that between 2001 and 2015 was one of the key imprints of the then so hyped indie dance, new wave funk and proto disco sound (along with James Murphy’s DFA, Trevor Jackson’s Output records and later Ed Banger records). The Y2K sound.. that now starts to become in demand again.

The most important releases on Gomma were by Peaches, WhoMadeWho, The Rammellzee, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand. Their Gomma-tracks were on the first two parts of this GOMMA DANCEFLOOR GEMS compilations series on Toy Tonics.

Now here comes a 3nd compilation part with music by Dimitri from Paris who also did several EPs on Gomma in the 2000s. Also legendary Belgian disco DJs The Glimmers are featured (they had one album on Gomma in 2008) and UK legend Justin Robertson aka The Deadstock 33’s and one of the first ever releases by Daniel Avery (also on Gomma back then). You find remixes by Nicky Siano (Studio 54 DJs legend) and Horse Meat Disco who back then just started their party series and already were connected to Gomma records. The is an amazing Flamenco Disco track by Spanish producer Hugo Capablanca and T.Keeler that has been hammered by everybody from Optimo to Ivan Smagghe back then and Italian music diggers The Barking Dogs together with now fashion designer Marcelo Burlon are featured with an amazingly catchy Electro Pop track. Of course also Munk who was the founder of Gomma records is on the compilation. Munk is Mathias Modica and as you might know since a few years works under the name Kapote. He was the co-founder of Gomma and later Toy Tonics records. Toy Tonics actually starts as a mini sublabel of Gomma records in 2013 but took over later. While Gomma has been closed since 2015.

Gomma not only was a record label, but was also a home for cutting edge design, wild T-shirt styles, underground exhibitions with new artists from the Berlin scene and crazy poster and fanzine design.

Gomma not only preceded many musical trends by experimenting with club music and mixing up different styles but was also very respected for the graphic design work and almost initiated several graphic design trends of the last years in their poster and sleeve designs. And many record and street wear labels of today look a bit like Gomma was looking before ...

The Gomma visuals world was exposed in a couple of exhibitions around the world and at a big exhibition at Museum Haus der Kunst München before the label was closed in 2015.

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Altone

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Primary [colours])

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Agogo)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In the intricate maze of Tokyos neon heartbeat, Yuki Takasaki, known as Altone, creates a world where time and sound dissolves into dub techno. Altones work, steeped with an old-school sonic palette, is a symphony of resonating bass lines, rustic layers and delicate synths, crafting a port rait that connects the fleeting with the timeless. Altones music t ranscends mere sound, offering an invitation to explore the shadowy corridors of consciousness and minimal dub aesthetics. Each original track unfolds like a tranquil journey through an urban nocturne, haunting and beautiful in its harmony. Brendon Moeller, a master of dub techno, reimagines Altones >Self Replication< In two distinct yet sonic territories. The first remix pulses with a futuristic rhythm, its syncopated beats dancing on the edge of awareness. The dub remix, by cont rast, plunges into a vortex where liquid acid intertwines with hypnotic bass lines, conjuring a dreamscape infused with laser guided drums and crystalline texture. Through these remixes, Moeller crafts a sonic voyage that weaves through the complex tapestry of the dub landscape and keeps reminding us that the territory is still vastly unexplored.

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Trinka

17,99 €*

The Future Sound Of London

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trinkais about the strength of the encounter that music provides between Dandara Modesto, Brazilian singer and songwriter, João Pires, Portuguese composer and guitarist and Juninho Ibituruna, Brazilian percussionist. Sewing of Atlantic music, they build a path between Bahia, Portugal and Minas Gerais. Each arranged in one place echoing the connection through the music that unites them in complementarity: João's melodies and guitar with Dandara's voice and interpretive power and the pulse rhythm ancestor of Juninho.

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Captures - Pre8 A001 Epa Blue Vinyl Edition

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Jumpin' & Pumpin')

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The first of 2 EPs 2 proceed the next Future Sound OF London album in 2025

Side A is a deeply moody dark ambient journey through mists of choirs to a place of ritualist electronic beat swamp finally being spat on a leaf suburb road somewhere in Surrey - what just happened!

Side B unlike the previous side this begins far more reflective, as the journey progress it becomes more unsettling once more - a baroque minimalist piece followed by modular synths melding with breaks and drum machine - ambient field recordings , a mesh of carefully gathered and selected samples - Fsol perfection.

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Enemmän Kuin Mitään Muuta Purple Vinyl Edtion

Aino & Hajonneet

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Svart)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original

Lenny Mac Dowell

Vinyl Experience

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Danny & The Champions Of The World

You Are Not A Stranger Here Clearvinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Loose Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Metal Merchants Black Vinyl Edition

Mindless Sinner

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (High Roller)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Metal Merchants Neon Orange Vinyl Edition

Mindless Sinner

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (High Roller)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pass The Loofah Metallic Silver Vinyl Edition

Naked Roommate

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Trouble In Mind)

Phillip Dornbuschs Projektor

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Oakland's Naked Roommate have been slinking around the Bay Area lighting up stages, shaking asses & confounding listeners since 2018, when the group - originally just the duo of real-life partners Andy Jordan & Amber Sermeno (both formerly of The World) - self-released a cassette of demos (2018's "Naked Roommate"). Members Michael "Mig" Zamora & Alejandra Alcala (Blues Lawyer) joined soon after to augment the sound & live band with their proper full-length album "Do The Duvet", co-released in September of 2020 via UK label Upset! The Rhythm & Trouble In Mind. 2024 finds the lineup expanded even further to incorporate the horn section of Geoff Saba & Jeanne Oss on tenor & alto saxophones as well as percussion & marimba as the band readies their sophomore effort, the dizzyingly ecstatic "Pass The Loofah" Recorded by members Andy Jordan & Mig Zamora from 2021-2023 as time & restrictions allowed, "Pass The Loofah" retains the wild energy of their debut, but leans into the rhythmic throbs perpetuated by forbears like Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Lizzy Mercier Descloux & ESG; the signature sound of UK's On-U Sound & NYC's 99 Records, but with a decidedly West Coast irreverence & a knack for absurdist exposition. Make no mistake, this is music designed to make your body Move & Naked Roommate won't stop until they 've made sure every ass is shook. The band freely incorporates elements of the dancier side of post-punk (think A Certain Ratio or Liquid Liquid) as well as disco, funk, & house music. However, the group's uplifting melodicism belies a deeper subtext, understanding the importance of the sense of community of dance music & the culture surrounding it and leaning into a Neo-socialist lyrical context. Shit is fucked, & we get thru it by helping one another & acknowledging & addressing the failures of disaster Capitalism & tech-bro hegemony (a state the band is all-too familiar with, living in The Bay Area) Take the first single "Bus"; a four-on-the-floor banger & salutary paeon to the ups & downs of the people's transport that throbs & pulses with a late-night sashay (and a bridge that launches the tune into the stratosphere). Elsewhere, "Fight Flight "s funky horn stabs and Sermeno's slinky vocals swoon over Numan-esque synth squiggles that are fortified & funkified toward the dance floor. "Broken Whisper " edges into new territor y for the group, adding a Caribbean flavor a'la Kid Creole or The Specials that punctuates the persistent & synthetic beats underneath. Meanwhile instrumental interludes like "Ducky & Viv", "g-y pt. 1" & "g-y pt. 2" oscillate into zones of sci-fi meets soap opera soundtracks, sounding not unlike the electronic experiments of UK industrial pioneers Chris & Cosey. Album closer "I Can't Be Found" might be the album's secret weapon; It 's swooning synth melody & processed vocals recall early Daft Punk or Mgmt by way of Derrick Carter & The Au Pairs. It 's a beautiful song; perfect for the late night (or early morning) car ride home from the club. "Pass The Loofah" is released worldwide on October 25th, 2024 via Trouble In Mind Records digitally via most DSPs & on black vinyl & limited "disco ball " silver vinyl.

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Revolt

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Berthold)