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Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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John Lennon / The Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Apple)

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Lion)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Still sealed. 2015 reissue.

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Wilson McKinley

Spirit Of Elijah

Heaven's Gonna Be A Blast!

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With beginnings firmly in the secular realm and a strong following in the Northwest, Wilson McKinley signed to Alshire Records (home of 101 Strings) and recorded one album under the label's 'acid-rock' moniker, The California Poppy Pickers. With the proceeds from those sessions, they self-released a 7" EP in 1970. But then they met street minister Carl Parks, gave up the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and effectively ended the first incarnation of the group. Parks encouraged the remaining band members to pick up their instruments again to create music for a street meeting, and thus the first 'Jesus Rock' group was born. The first Wilson McKinley LP, 1970's "Live On Stage," was a slapdash effort on all fronts and is generally dismissed by everyone involved (maybe why nobody seems to know the whereabouts of the masters for that one). Chastened by their debut, Wilson McKinley took a more focused approach to "Spirit Of Elijah": the result was a major leap forward, and a faithful representation of their massive talent; the power of the message and the playing shine through! However, what Wilson McKinley recorded onto the master tape and what made it to a buyer's phonograph in 1971 were vastly different things, with inconsistent patches of reverb in the final mix plus other anomalies that a minimally-financed, privately-pressed LP might have.

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Wilson McKinley

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Lion Productions)

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With beginnings firmly in the secular realm and a strong following in the Northwest, Wilson McKinley signed to Alshire Records (home of 101 Strings) and recorded one album under the label's 'acid-rock' moniker, The California Poppy Pickers. With the proceeds from those sessions, they self-released a 7" EP in 1970. But then they met street minister Carl Parks, gave up the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and effectively ended the first incarnation of the group. Parks encouraged the remaining band members to pick up their instruments again to create music for a street meeting, and thus the first 'Jesus Rock' group was born. Buoyed by the confidence developed during the "Spirit Of Elijah" sessions, Wilson McKinley's third LP from 1971 maintains the quality songwriting but adds even better production values. It was housed in a suitable-for-black-light jacket printed with neon inks. Sadly, after this there would be no more Wilson McKinley LPs, with their next release being the cassette-only "Country In The Sky." Good news is that they made this dayglo-adorned proof of their rapidly-developing skills and musical interests before abandoning wax—Wilson McKinley's most adventurous effort, boasting entirely original tunes and complex, heavy arrangements at times reminiscent of the Allman Brothers.

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Kevin Ayers

Joy Of A Toy

LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As the Soft Machine's first bassist and original principal songwriter, Kevin Ayers was an overlooked force behind the group's groundbreaking recordings in 1967 and 1968. Joy Of A Toy is his debut solo album, its whimsical and unique vision is a clear indication of how Soft Machine might have progressed under Ayers' tenure. On the LP he is accompanied by his Soft Machine colleagues Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Hugh Hopper.

180g vinyl.

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The Alan Parsons Project

Pyramid

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Stage Fright 50th Anniversary Edition

The Band

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

All The Days Opaque White Vinyl Edition

The Devlins

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Elan)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live At The Great American Music Hall, 1975

Billy Joel

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Record Store Day. Limited Edition. Opaque Gray Vinyl.

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.

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Tommy - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

3LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Eagle)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Charly / Byg)

Freedom

Freedom At Last

Renewed By Death Neon Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Freedom were one of many British groups that grew from that particularly fertile period that saw the likes of Alexis Korner, John Mayall, The Yardbirds and of course the Rolling Stones come to the fore. Comprising former members of the highly successful Procol Harum, the band recorded fresh original material that put them at the cutting edge of what became known as blues rock, all the while covering classics by their role models.

Freedom At Last is one of the best albums the group made in a relatively short life cycle. At times loud, hard and aggressive and at others mellow and introspective, the music showcases the compositional strengths of Bobby Harrison, Rogers Saunders and Walt Monaghan, while the reprises of anthems by the likes of Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon and Junior Wells makes it clear the band knew where it was going because it did not forget where it came from.

This newly remastered version of Freedom At Last is a very timely reminder of the vibrant work of a British band that made premium blues rock with attitude.

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High Reeper

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

LP | 2023 | US | Original (4AD)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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‘Three years after appearing on Doom Sessions Vol 5 split, High Reeper are back with their most ambitious album yet, “Renewed By Death”. A true heavy metal assault of eight tracks that take you on a journey to the darkest depths and leave you there to rot. Featuring monolithic riffs that pummel you from the opening of the album to the close, guitar solos reminiscent of George Lynch and Dave Navarro, and powerful vocals that deliver a knockout blow. This album showcases the band’s desire to keep evolving and exploring new sounds and ideas. “Renewed By Death” was produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Shane Trimble at the band’s brand new studio Sletner Sound, in Wilmington Delaware with Justin Di Pinto also engineering. The cover was done by Solomacello and photos of the band were done by Drew Wiedemann.’

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U.S. Girls

Bless This Mess

Bull Of The Woods Half Speed Master

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Red vinyl Limited edition. Still sealed with hype sticker.

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The 13th Floor Elevators

LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (International Artists)

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Voyage To Innerspace Black Vinyl Edition

Deep Space Destructors

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Space Rock Productions)

A Swing To Folk Splatter Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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DSD was founded in the beginning of the Earth year 2011 in Oulu, Finland, on band members’ mutual love for 60’s and 70’s kraut, prog and psychedelic rock. This is the 6th full length album (4th on Space Rock Productions) by the Finnish Space Rock masters from the north! It features 6 high energy space rockers, originally released digitally in April 2023 but now it appears on Vinyl. It features several special guests including Dr Space from Øresund Space Collective. The album opens with the high energy track ‘Spaced and Confused’, with the classic DSD sound and vibe. ‘Beyond the Cosmic Wall’ has a bit of a Kingston Wall vibe and quite a psychedelic mix. ‘Void Oscillations’ is a very spacey and floating number. ‘Indigo Blue’ starts side B with a more mellow vibe for the first 3 mins and then rocks into a cool spaced out jam. ‘Matkalainen’ is sung in Finnish and features some nice flute playing on this great track. The album ends with ‘Nymphaea Tetragona (Forever Floating)’ a more relaxed track, but the end has this sort of heavy bluesy stoner vibe. Cool way to end the album. Another classic space rock record.

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The Coterie

LP | 2021 | Original (Munster)

Xtc - As The Dukes Of Stratosphear

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Splattered vinyl.

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Psonic Psunspot

LP | 1987 | UK | Reissue (DGM Panegyric)

Release: 1987 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Endless Happiness)

Jan Dukes De Grey

Sorcerers

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This incredibly rare release predates their more widely-known second album, Mice and Rats in the Loft. This is superb psych-folk dated 1969. The Jan Dukes De Grey started out as a duo of two multi-instrumentalists, Michael Bairstow and Derek Noy, who stood midway between Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jethro Tull with very short all-acoustic songs with strange lyrics. Similar to early Incredible String Band or Mark Fry, with a touch of Comus weirdness. A mixture of trippy and stoned songs and instrumentals with eastern feel. A unique album. One of the most brilliant acoustic experiments of folk-psych-prog rock ever.

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Nico

Chelsea Girl

Stranger Skies Lilac Vinyl Edition

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The debut solo album (and second sb.Jdio LP) by German singer Nico, Chelsea Girt was released by Verve Records in October 1967, following Nico's collaboration with the Velvet Underground on their 1967 debut sb.Jdio album. The title is a reference to Andy Warhol's 1966 film Chelsea Girls, which Nico starred in. Born Christa Paffgen in Cologne in 1938, Nico was a singer, songwriter, actress and model. Besides working with Warhol, she had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vila (1960). In the 1980s, she toured extensively. She died in Ibiza on July 18, 1988, as the result of a cycling accident at the age of 49. Musically, Chelsea Girl can be described as a cross between chamber folk and 1960s baroque pop. Al/Music reviewer Lindsay Planer gave it four and a half out of five stars, stating tha???? "Nico's inherently bleak delivery is similar to the more modern contributions of Laurie Anderson, Ann Magnuson, and Patti Smith. An unqualified masterpiece." Produced by Tom Wilson, much of the album features instrumental work and songwriting credits from Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and John Cale. "I'll Keep It with Mine" was written by Bob Dylan, while three other songs are by Jackson Browne.

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Ellesmere

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (AMS)

The '67 Demos White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Stranger Skies” is the fourth discographic chapter of multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli’s Ellesmere project, musically and visually strongly linked to the previous “Wyrd” released in 2021: from an iconographic point of view, in fact, the collaboration with the famous illustrator Rodney Matthews, creator of a marvellous cover painting depicting two opposing worlds, one ‘cold’ – linked to the first four songs of the album – and one ‘warm’ – connected to the two long closing compositions – is here renewed. “Stranger Skies” thus once again deals with the theme of travelling and discovering new, unexplored worlds, the real trait d’union of all Ellesmere’s records.

Musically, we are fronting work that naturally follows in the footsteps of “Wyrd”, a magniloquent and energetic symphonic progressive rock, no longer largely instrumental as previously done but including a real singer that perfectly fits Roberto’s songwriting: his name is John WIlkinson, co-author with Roberto of the title-track lyrics. The main inspiration sources for this album are Genesis’ “A Trick of the Tail” and Rush’s “Moving Pictures”.

As per usual, the Ellesmere project relies on a large first-class collaborators line-up who, in addition to the main core consisting of Roberto Vitelli (bass, keyboards and main songwriter), Mattias Olsson (drums), John Wilkinson (vocals) and Giacomo Anselmi (guitar) respond to the names of Clive Nolan (keyboards), Graeme Taylor (acoustic guitar), Tomas Bodin (keyboards), John Hackett (flute), David Jackson (saxophones and wind instruments), Bob Hodges (keyboards), Stefano Vicarelli (keyboards) and Riccardo Romano (backing vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar). A must for every lover of symphonic prog and modern progressive rock!

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Blue Cheer

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Beat Rocket)

Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blue Cheer were the loudest, heaviest band of the 1960s. What they played and how they played it was labeled Heavy Metal partly from a reference by the Beat writer William F. Burroughs and partly from a lyric in Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild (Heavy Metal Thunder). It described them perfectly and they ushered in a new age of searingly loud and upfront rock which would quickly establish itself as the outer-fringe of psychedelia. These three early demo tracks predate their debut album Vincebus Eruptum, and have more grind, guts, and grit than anything they've ever recorded! Pressed on white vinyl!

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The Blasters

2CD | 2002 | EU | Original (Warner Strategic Marketing)

Release: 2002 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Graham Parker & The Goldtops

Five Old Souls (Live In Southampton With The Rumor Brass)

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (100%)

Introspection Colored Vinyl Edition w/ Contrast Color Cover

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022. Purple vinyl. Cover with beginning of seam split on top spine. Still in shrink, but opened

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Gusztav Fekete

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Mutant Embryo)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bonfire)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Limited to 100 copies!

For the first time after 36 years Mutant Embryo Records is proud to announce the official release of Gusztáv Fekete cryptic material. Recorded on reel tapes between 1979-1981 with true analogue sound, this album constitutes the Holy Grail of late 70's Hungarian underground scene as except few demo cassettes it remained buried for over 3 decades!
Occult synthwave dressed with ritual, avant-garde/psych elements, merged in an absolute mystical masterpiece!

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Back Door

The Impulse Session

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For the first time on vinyl these previously unreleased sessions by the british jazz rock band. Recorded live at the Impulse studios prior to their 1972 debut album on Blackey/Warner. With liner notes by bassist Colin Hodgkinson.

Colin Hodgkinson first met Ron Aspery whilst the two were playing in Eric Delaney's Showband. The two began to talk about forming their own band around 1969, and eventually Back Door came to fruition in 1971, with Tony Hicks joining on drums. Hodgkinson made an innovative use of the electric bass, making it a lead instrument. Their unique brand of jazz-rock was a hit at their regular venue: the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge, Yorkshire. However, record labels were not keen and the band were repeatedly told "No singer, no contract". But the band's popularity increased in the end when they were asked to play a two-week stint at Ronnie Scott's club in London, opening for Chick Corea. The record companies changed their tune, and after receiving many offers, the trio decided to sign with Warner Brothers. The band even rejected an offer from Richard Branson (who was just starting up Virgin Records at the time).

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Robert Cray

Strong Persuader

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The fifth studio album by American blues singer and guitarist Robert Cray, Strong Persuaderwas recorded at the Los Angeles studios Sage & Sound and Haywood's under producers Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker. Released by Mercury Records and Hightone Records on November 17, 1986, it marked Cray's mainstream breakthrough and by 1995 it had sold over two million copies. The album was ranked #42 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the '80s.

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3LP+Box Set | 1990 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Join Together

LP | 1978 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 1990 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

With 3x original inner sleeve.

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Matthew Cassell

Matt The Cat

29,59 €* 36,99 € -20%

Soul Jazz Records presents

Release: 1978 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The follow up to “Pieces”, “Matt the Cat” (1978) and Cassell’s last released single, “Love to Love / When I go Down” (1980) are being compiled on vinyl for the first time ever! With Cassell at the height of his powers as both a performer and songwriter, this record sees him expand on the iconic sound that defined his previous work with each song packing a soulful punch. Don’t miss this LP on limited edition vinyl available only from P-vine Records.

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Deutsche Elektronische Musik Volume 2 - Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1972-83 LP 1

2LP | 2013 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Wiseraven)

Release: 2013 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Soul Jazz Records Deutsche Elektronische Music Volume 2 is now available as two separate double LPs for the first time in over 10 years! Soul Jazz Records' 'Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2' is their second voyage into the world of Krautrock and German electronic music from the 1970s and early 1980s. Features a stunning line-up of seminal German groups, including Can, Faust, Popul Vuh, Neu!, Cluster, Amon Düül II, La Düsseldorf, as well as a host of lesser known and more obscure groups and artists such as Agitation Free, Bröselmaschine, Niagara and many more.

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Tim Hollier

Message To A Harlequin

Horse Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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An acid-folk masterpiece finally revealed ! When two worlds collide here’s where the legacy of Tim Hollier begins, his first album was released on United Artists in 1968 and this long overdue re-issue is a definitive statement of the master genius. Guest on the opening night of a Beckenham folk club run by his friend David Bowie, Hollier recorded ‘Message To A Harlequin’ with the assistance of Donovan arranger John Cameron. Hollier was also a regular on London's folk club circuit for several years alongside the likes of Paul Simon, Al Stewart and Nick Drake. Here’s your chance to finally grab his visionary songwriting.

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Horse

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Guerssen)

Dedicated To Markos III (A.K.A. Black Flower)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Psychedelic hard-rock with occult overtones by this London based band featuring drummer Ric Parnell (Atomic Rooster, Spinal Tap…) This is their sought-after sole album, originally released in 1970 and housed in a cover designed by Roger Wootton of Comus. Horse formed in 1968 when former high school friends Rod Roach and Adrian Hawkins started writing songs together. Rod had previously played lead guitar with various groups (included a brief stint with Andromeda). Horse final line-up was established in early 1969 with Adrian Hawkins on vocals, Rod Roach on guitar, Colin Standring on bass and Ric Parnell on drums. Horse started gigging around London, sharing stage with acts like Deep Purple, Joe Cocker and David Bowie, soon establishing a large following due to their exciting live shows. After receiving interest from several record companies, they finally signed with RCA Records. The Horse self-titled album was recorded at Olympic Studios, produced by Rod Roach, and released in 1970. It’s a fantastic example of post-psychedelia and early hard-rock / proto-metal, dominated by Roach’s killer fuzz-wah guitar and Hawkins powerful vocals. Including tracks like the occult themed “The Sacrifice” and more!

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Nirvana

LP+7" | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nirvana's third LP is a masterpiece of late UK sixties popsike turning into symphonic pop, but not having received proper promotion despite being equally good as, if not better than their previous releases, it also marked the end of the collaborations between Patrick Campbel-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos back in 1969.

Nirvana presented it to Island boss Chris Blackwell under the title of Black Flower. Blackwell, however, decided to turn it down for release, but gave the masters to Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos so they could find a new label to release the album. That was to happen in the USA through Metromedia Records in 1969. At that time, the label's owner went through a scandal due to the payola days, which left Nirvana's third offering without any promotion - as a result of that, very few copies were pressed. There was also a UK release on PYE and it was even released by Metromedia in Japan. However, for years it remained as "the lost" Nirvana release, with the added fact that none of the released editions launched the album under its original title of Black Flower but under the rather cryptic Dedicated To Markos II (read why in the liner notes!).

Musically, this is Nirvana at their best. The tune that should have been the title track, Black Flower, is an incredible piece of symphonic psychedelia and probably the best produced Nirvana track ever. Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos were backed for the occasion by Spooky Tooth, who played on many tracks of the album, and big orchestral arrangements mesmerize the listener in one of the duo's darkest offerings. This song aside, the rest of the album was deemed as sounding too much like a French soundtrack by Island, which may do at some points –without that being a bad thing,– but there is a lot more to it, since Nirvana have not lost that popsike edge that characterised their sound in their two previous outings.

This is also a record that was widely acclaimed in the hip hop scene. And samplers of it have been used by several artists, most notably DJ Shadow used Love Suite in his 1996 debut album Endtroducing.

The Wah Wah edition has been remastered from the original tapes by Roger Prades @ Prades Mastering and comes with a bonus 7" EP and a four page colour insert with liner notes by Malcom Dome, plus a sheet with the lyrics of the songs. First ever official vinyl reissue since 1970 in a limited edition of 500 copies only!

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Tattoo You - 40th Anniversary Limited Picture Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alternates & Rarities Record Store Day 2022 Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

America

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rhino)

LP | 2021 | PL | Original (Madlib Invazion)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 2500 copies.

A new collection of rare and unreleased tracks curated by longtime archivist Jeff Larson. Includes alternate mixes of “Ventura Highway” and “A Horse With No Name” as well as early versions of “Foolin’” and “Riverside”, the Spanish version of “Sister Golden Hair” and more!

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Embryo

Auf Auf

Campo Di Marte Clear Vinyl Ediition

Release: 2021 / PL – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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The lauded krautrocking, global groove ensemble’s first album On maverick producer Madlib’s label. The late Christian Burchard, who founded the Embryo ensemble in 1969, loved the slogan Auf Auf, German for Up, Up, or Keep On Going. Anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the German Krautock scene of the 1970s and 1980s knows that Burchard followed that intent, all around the world, tirelessly seeking out new sounds and inspirations and creating a catalog of music unlike most anything else the world has ever heard. Madlib has often said Embryo is his favorite rock band. Of course the hip-hop-producer-with-the-deepest-musical-knowledge knows Embryo is more than just a rock band – but, for the purposes of these notes, let’s keep it simple. When Marja Burchard, Christan’s daughter, who grew up with Embryo and toured with them for years, took the reins of the ensemble after Christian’s death in 2018, she started recording what would become this album, over the course of two years, finishing it in the throes of the Covid pandemic in 2020. She approached Madlib and Egon, who had, years back, visited and jammed with Christian Burchard, and Embryo musicians Uve Mullrich, Roman Bunka and Jan Weissenfeldt, in a Bavarian wine cellar, with the idea to issue Auf Auf on Madlib Invazion. The reply was a resounding, definitive “yes.” So here is Marja’s take on the Embryo ethos, continuing with her father’s intrepid style, and leading the band in her own style. Auf Auf ranges from the deep, free-form jazz of “Alphorn Prayer” to modal music from Afghanistan on “Baran” to psychedelic-tinged jazz-rock of the title track Joining Marja are those like Embryo veterans Bunka, on oud and guitar, and Karl Hector and the Malcouns/Whitefield Brothers/Poets of Rhythm producer and guitarist Jan Weissenfeldt and others, including important players on the global scene from Afghanistan and Morocco.

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Campo Di Marte

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Campo di Marte self-titled album is considered to be one of the best italian progressive records of the Seventies. This Italian prog classic is now available from AMS Records in a new limited deluxe LP reissue on 180gr. crystal vinyl.

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Derek & The Dominos

2LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea

Black Stone Cherry

LP | 2007 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Io Non So Da Dove Vengo Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Black Stone Cherry’s third album Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea offers another amount of the fully loaded southern rock from the group that was awarded the Best New Band at the Classic Rock Awards in 2007. The opening statement “White Trash Millionaire” refers to the celebrity culture and all the things that will come with being famous. The stomping riffs and country turn of their music is mixed all over the album. They’re bringing something a little bit dirty, but it never get’s too much of the good thing on this record. The melodic compositions, great vocal work and outstanding rhythms makes this another worthy release by the band. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea on black vinyl includes a 6-page booklet.

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De De Lind

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Steel Wheels Half Speed Remastered Edition

LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fragments Of Light Blue Vinyl Edition

Sensations' Fix

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180g Blue LP /// Listening today to the music produced by Sensations’ Fix, a project founded and directed by Franco Falsini in ‘70s, can’t just leave anyone indifferent. Already in the mid-‘60s, Falsini was full-time involved in musical activities: a tireless traveler and experimenter, an artist with uncommon curiosity and intuition, after having lived for some time in the United States and England, he finally established again in Italy where he gave shape to Sensations’ Fix and signed a contract with Polydor for the release of six records in five years. Often associated with the sound of Tangerine Dream and the so-called German ‘cosmic couriers’, Sensations’ Fix were much more than mere clones of something already existing.

“Sensations’ Fix” is – together with “Portable Madness” and “Fragments of Light” – one of the three titles published in 1974, a collection of short psychedelic compositions, in which glimpses of ‘cosmic’ music can already be noticed; those elements would soon become a trademark in the group’s repertoire. The twelve compositions present here were part of demos that Falsini had sold to the record company, which decided to publish them in the form of a not-for-sale LP, which had “music especially recorded for radio and television” written on the back cover: in practice, sketches of musical ideas had been ‘transformed’ into ‘library music’ and collected in an extremely rare vinyl that sells today for hundreds of euros.

Sensations’ Fix albums are generally difficult to find; almost none of them has been reprinted in over forty years, but thanks to this series of reissues on the VM label it is now possible to rediscover them all.

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Into The Great Wide Open

LP | 1991 | EU | Reissue (Geffen)

Release: 1991 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Into the Great Wide Open” is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). The album was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of Full Moon Fever.

The first single, "Learning to Fly", became his joint longest-running number one single (along with "The Waiting" from 1981's Hard Promises) on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, spending six weeks at the top spot. The second single, "Out in the Cold", also made number 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, albeit only for two weeks.

The music video for the title song starred Johnny Depp, who had moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, Matt LeBlanc, Terence Trent D'Arby and Chynna Phillips.

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2LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Geffen)

A Quick One

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Velvet Underground 45th Anniversary Edition

The Velvet Underground

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Soda Stereo

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You Are Leaving My Mind: The Mariko And Dokitto Station!! Era

Maple Fyshh

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (EM)

Red Moon Rising Red &Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Have you ever been to Miyazaki? It’s a prefecture on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, facing the Pacific. Palm trees. Humid subtropical climate. This is the home of Maple Fyshh, a musical artist whose late-80s/early-90s recordings have been collected and reissued here. Liberated by the advent of 4-track cassette home recording technology, inspired by a love of 60s pop oddball production mavens like Phil Spector and Joe Meek, as well as American hot rod and surf music, these Maple Fyssh songs glow with an outsider’s love of the transformative power of newly-available sound technology, allowing him to pull his inspirations across decades and oceans to his 1990s Miyazaki home studio. The tracks here are a d.i.y. dream-pop wonderland, compiling songs from his first LP “Mariko” and second LP “Dokitto Station!!”, both self-produced, both released in 1995. The A-side of this release features tracks from the concept album “Mariko”, a masterpiece of daydream pop introspection, recorded in 1994-95, inspired by a poem submitted to a manga magazine. The B-side features tracks from “Dokitto Station!!”, slightly earlier recordings that draw inspiration from a range of 60s pop including girl groups, surf music and acid folk. All the music here demonstrates Maple Fyshh’s deep understanding and appreciation 60s pop moves, and also his mastery of the limited technology at his disposal.

Remastered in 2024, the sound of Miyazaki has been reborn for a new audience. Available on Vinyl LP and download, with a DL card, English/Japanese lyrics and entertaining and informative English/Japanese liner notes by the artist.

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Robert Jon & The Wreck

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Journeyman)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maracaibo Record Store Day 2023 Yellow Vinyl Edition

Lu Colombo

12" | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Udp Disco Piu)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Return To The Core Black Vinyl Edition

Albinö Rhino

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Space Rock Productions)

Oriental Beat - 40th Anniversary Re(Al)Mix Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Albinö Rhino are a psychedelic doom rock trio from Helsinki, Finland. The band has released 2 albums & various EPs over the years. They recorded this amazing hand numbered 35min continuous piece after jamming it at the practice room mostly improvised for years, in between the heavier pieces that Albinö Rhino is known for and jumped to the studio when the arrangement felt right. One of the parts is written just one day before entering the beautiful Suomenlinnan Studio with the talented sound wizard Ilari Larjosto. The album was recorded live in one day with some additional overdubs recorded later at Helsinki Music Studio, where the album was also mixed. The opus was mastered at Virtalähde Mastering. Dr Space, Olli Laamanen & Mikko Heikinpoika added their magic when the core was built. The piece moves from acoustic spacey music to heavy desert rock and doom with ease and grace and has an amazing flow to create one hell of a good psychedelic ride-

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Hanoi Rocks

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

The Lost 1971 Studio Session Golden Vinyl Edition

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Oriental Beat by Hanoi Rocks gets the redux treatment, officially mixed and revived from the original sessions, and released on March 17th on deluxe vinyl, CD and digital formats. The CD and vinyl come with the song lyrics, checked and approved by Michael Monroe.

Dubbed the “re(al) mix”, this 40th anniversary edition was mixed by Petri Majuri at E-Studios in Finland in collaboration with the band. Vocalist Michael Monroe calls this release “the longest and slowest album project ever,” stating that “40 years in the making, it's not just a remix, but the Real MIX supervised and approved by Hanoi Rocks”.

Recorded in London, UK in 1981, for 200 pounds a day, Oriental Beat was made during the height of the British punk + New Wave movement, when the band was hanging out with everyone from Phil Lynott to the Damned. Hanoi Rocks’ original drummer Gyp Casino says of Oriental Beat that: “Back in the days we gave heart, soul and a bit of pain to make this record something else” but the sound of the album, originally released in 1982, did not match their efforts at the time. Bassist Sami Yaffa called it “the worst sounding album of our career” and Michael Monroe said that “the producer of the album didn’t have a clue what the band was about and his mix of the album was horribly wrong”.

Oriental Beat’s original engineer Peter Wooliscroft, was not a rock producer, and according to Hanoi Rocks’ manager Richard Bishop he “tried to mix the album to sound like Spandau Ballet”. Released before the band could remix or rerecord it, as the label had run out of money, and the master tapes had gone missing, the band has always considered the original mix of Oriental Beat to be a “disaster”. With the tapes mysteriously showing up in the Universal vault recently, the band was finally able to mix and resequence the album the way they wanted it to sound.

Oriental Beat is a defining masterpiece made when Hanoi Rocks was about to explode onto the world scene and written at the absolute peak of lead guitarist Andy McCoy’s creativity as a songwriter. Rhythm guitarist Nasty Suicide says “only now, with stripping it down to the bare essentials and tweaking it to bring out what was really laid down it became our dream come true! This is what it's all about” as this definitive edition of Oriental Beat now fully displays the ultimate arrogance and attitude which defined the band. Monroe says: “now, 40 years after its original release in 1982, we finally got the album sounding as great as it deserves, with no overdubs or samples,” and McCoy adds that: “It's better now than ever. This is what it was meant to sound like. So enjoy it...Another shot of Hanoi Rocks”.

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Tasavallan Presidentti

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tasavallan Presidentti's 1st incarnation with vocalist Frank Robson performed their last studio session at YLE Broadcasting Company in Helsinki, 1971. This session was, however, completely buried by time and forgotten, until Svart Records accidentally stumbled upon an archival copy.

This studio session recording from the autumn of 1971, found from the archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is a sensational discovery in many ways. It is a studio live session which the band recorded just before parting ways with vocalist Frank Robson, which may be the reason why the tape was left unused.

Otto Donner, one of the three founders of Love Records, the band's current label, had become the head of the Finnish Broadcasting Company's entertainment unit, which produced this studio session. Perhaps he was planning to release it on Love Records?

The release features extensive liner notes by writer Petri Kuljuntausta, who provides background details which hint to the fact that had the band not decide to find a new vocalist a few months later, this tape could indeed have been the Tasavallan Presidentti album number three.

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The Band

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (AMS)

L'Estate Di San Martino

Kim

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Birth Of Sol Black Vinyl Edition

Yawning Man

LP | 2009 | EU | Reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Ken Kesey / Ken Babbs / Grateful Dead

Release: 2009 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Heavy Psych Sounds is re-issueing the Yawning Man old demo recordings The Birth Of Sol in brand new Colored Vinyl and new cover. Dating back to 1986, these demo recordings by Yawning Man were originally only spread amongst close friends of the band. They were released on iTunes in 2009. Today you can have them on brand new Colored Vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

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The Acid Test Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Jackpot)

So Cool - The Very Best Of Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ken Kesey’s Ultra Rare 1966 studio recording of the Acid Test with The Grateful Dead . Legendary documentation of the 1965-66 Bay Area Acid Test scene from 14 hours of the actual trip (recorded in a studio). Lots of amazing mind games and word play with Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs in good form, ad libbed poetry, fractured harmonica solos, tape loops and the Grateful Dead lurking in the background. Originally released in March 1966. Limited to 1000 Transparent Highlighter Yellow Colored Vinyl lp's

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Secret Affair

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Demon)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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E Pensa Che Mi Meraviglio Ancora

Il Porto Di Venere

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (MaRaCash)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Elektra)

The Doors

Live At The Bowl '68

Kahdet Kasvot Red Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Tiny wear. Few scuffs.

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Kummitus

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Aamun Hauta Red Vinyl Edtion

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kummitus (Finnish for “Ghost”), a band from Tampere who were active in the mid- ’70s, is certainly one of the strangest entities in the history of Finnish rock music. Their original vision was to create a mystical band that builds on horror or hysteria and performs in costumes, frightening their live audience. The band had also considered remaining completely anonymous. However, the concept proved inadequate for various reasons. Keyboardist Hannu Latva-Hakuni recalls: “We quickly ditched the masks and costumes because we had to show up before the show during the load in.” Drummer Seppo Tammilehto has speculated that in the ’70s, musical skills were even more important than in later eras of rock music. “We were laughed off the stage because of these extra musical elements.”

The concept for Kummitus came from Heikki Kauppinen who had managed a booking agency called Ohjelmamiehet and sold Matthews’ gigs. “He proposed this idea to me in the very beginning”, Seppo Tammilehto recalls. Jussi Niemi from the town of Nokia became the band’s guitarist. Despite their young age, Niemi and company accompanied both Sammy Babitzin and Johnny Liebkind and played in Muska’s band for one summer. A stint in Arto Sotavalta’s Häkäpönttö was followed by military service. After that also Niemi had time to play in Matthews. “Then we moved on to plan Kummitus.”

As the band’s manager, Heikki Kauppinen designed Kummitus a light show together with Pekka Heinänen who was responsible for the costumes. Flyers saying “kummitus IS Coming” were distributed all over Finland. When the band hit the road in the summer of 1975, the light show was of course ruined by sunshine. Besides their then unreleased original material, Kummitus played cover songs mainly from British rock bands such as Rolling Stones and The Beatles.

Later on Heikki Kauppinen was contacted by Kari Kantalainen and Vesa Majanen, both coming from a journalist background, who wanted to produce Kummitus’ album. The record label Basf, who were more renowned for their cassette tapes fit for home recording, was found through Kauppinen’s contacts. The album was made in Pekka Nurmikallio’s Microvox studio in Lahti. Jussi Niemi recalls there being “two stereo recorders, so almost everything was played live. Even the choir sections were sung while we were playing. The vocals, however, were recorded separately. It was challenging, since there’s all sorts of soundscapes especially on side B.”

True to its name, Kahdet kasvot (Two Faces) clearly consists of two different sides. The straightforward and rocking side A is kicked off with ‘Paranoia’, composed by Niemi and featuring lyrics written by Tammilehto. The murky synth parts are a fine addition to the “robust rock music”, as the original pressing’s liner notes describe the song. As an uptempo rock song, Juhani Kivistö’s ‘Tuonen rock & roll’ may bring to mind early Coitus Int, whereas ‘Taivaassa taas’ and its devoted vocal performances share DNA with Kontra’s Finnrock. ‘Nauru haamuille’, written by Tammilehto, features proggy guitar patterns and a ghastly synth solo. ‘Se on ok’ was written by Niemi while the rest of the band was dining, with the purpose of making the album long enough to be sold at a full price.

The more experimental four-part entity of side B was, according to the liner notes, dedicated to “Spike Jones and an Englishman named Waters.” Pink Floyd influences are apparent in dramatic sound effects and certain details in the arrangements. ‘On the Run’ from The Dark Side of the Moon can be seen as one of the role models for the nightmarish track ‘Ilme’. The title track, written and sang by Tammilehto, is a catchy rock composition, and Kivistö’s ‘Kuudes päivä’ effectively mixes Floydian prog and blues nuances with saxophone-filled soul. The guest blower Lucjan Czaplicki played in Uranus, whose sole album Aamun hauta (1975) was also released by Basf.

The story of Kummitus continued for a while, albeit with obscure twists. “Due to certain difficulties, the band split up in the early summer of 1976,” Seppo Tammilehto recounts. “The group continued with a lineup that consisted of me, Olli Kivistö and Eero Peltonen. We backed up Mikko Alatalo under the moniker Manserock-76. This came to an end late in the summer when I reassumed the position of Alwari Tuohitorvi’s drummer. The group had become quite popular.” After the original Kummitus had split up, some other individuals played gigs under the moniker. Seppo Tammilehto has met a recently deceased musician and person of reduced mobility from Tampere, named Jukka Törmä, who used to play in the fake group. “With all due respect, he was a great guy. Törmä looked back on the gigs, where musicians were gathered before the performances, with a smile even if they didn’t work out at all. Kummitus’ manager Heikki Kauppinen had no idea who was arranging these shows. According to Törmä, the shows weren’t arranged for long and he stepped aside quite early.”

Even without the band’s unusual history, Kahdet kasvot would deserve a second coming as an original and interesting album. To cite Hannu Latva-Hakuni, “listening to the album now, almost 50 years later, I think we did a hell of a good job.”

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Uranus

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Soul Jazz Records presents

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited red vinyl, gatefold sleeve

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

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

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

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

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

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Deutsche Elektronische Musik Volume 2 - Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1972-83 LP 2

2LP | 2013 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Bonfire)

Release: 2013 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Miller Anderson

Bright City

Fiaba Transparent Vinyl Edition

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Miller Anderson is a guitarist and vocalist, born on April 12, 1945, in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Since cutting his musical teeth in bands with Ian Hunter (pre-Mott the Hoople) and Bill Bruford (pre-King Crimson and Yes), Anderson has been a member of such bands as the Keef Hartley Band, Savoy Brown, T. Rex, Mountain, the Spencer Davis Group, and in groups led by Deep Purple's Jon Lord and folk-rock balladeer Donovan. His 1971 debut Bright City was released on the legendary Deram, sub-label of Decca that released new records from 1966 onwards for the likes of Moody Blues, Caravan, Camel and several british jazz-rock legends. The album is a brilliant example of modern folk with lush strings arrangements thanks to guitarist and producer William ‘Junior’ Campbell, leader of the Scottish pop-rock group The Marmalade. A brilliant songwriting alongside a pastoral feeling, gentle melodies and a solid background with several amazing players literally bridging the gap between contemporary pop and blues. Harold Beckett (John Surman, Graham Collier) on flugelhorn and Lyn Dobson (The Keef Hartley Band, The People Band, Third Ear Band) on flute were literally stalwarts of the british jazz-rock and experimental scene, their contributions is behind greatness. Same with keyboard player Mick Weaver another Keef Hartley alumni. The album - faithfully remastered - offers a vision of urban Scotland with a bluesy feel and it has to be ranked alongside the work of such luminaries as Donovan or Nick Drake

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Procession

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Azzurra)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Two very different albums by two almost totally different bands, is all that Procession have left us. This band from Turin made their first album Frontiera in 1972 for the small Help label (an RCA subsidiary that also released Quella Vecchia Locanda’s first album), a good album that can be easily described as an hard prog LP. With a line-up of two guitars, bass and drums, and the original high-pitched voice of singer Gianfranco Gaza, the band plays a very good hard rock with some progressive influences and acoustic passages. Not particularly original, the album has its moments and it’s particularly rare.

The band reappeared in 1974 with a new line-up and a new recording deal, this time it’s Fonit that releases their second album “Fiaba”. A mature work, much more original than their first and more in a symphonic vein with large use of sax and flute with guest appearances by drummer Francesco Froggio Francica (from Raccomandata con Ricevuta di Ritorno), Delirium’s keyboard player Ettore Vigo and Circus 2000 female singer Silvana Aliotta, while drummer Roberto Balocco (ex-Capsicum Red) helped the group in concert.

Despite a good live activity Procession never gained the success they deserved and despite two good albums they broke up in 1975.

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New Trolls

Tempi Dispari

Apoteosi Clear Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It consists of two long jazz pieces characterized by the presence of odd tempos (hence the title), the album featured the writing “Live Alcione”. Actually, the recording of the concert at the Alcione turned out to be of such poor sound quality that the group decided to re-record it in the studio, albeit live.

The poor commercial and critical success of the album was one of the reasons that led to the reunion of the New Trolls.

Jazz influences are heard, much stronger than Atomic System. Moreover, the name of the group on the cover of this album is New Trolls again and the musicians are not named, but the formation is in fact the same as the Atomic system, led by De Scalzi.

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Apoteosi

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Raccomandata Ricevuta Di Ritorno

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Apoteosi were a very rare, if not the one and only, progressive voice coming from the Calabria region. Their self-titled LP, released in 1975, therefore in a period of transition for the prog-rock genre, is undoubtedly one of the most emblematic LP’s and shows how a young and geographically completely ‘out of the loop’ group has been able to create a small jewel. “Apoteosi” is a work deliciously poised between pastoral and refined moments and darker and ‘crimson’ moods, with an extremely original approach and that still deserves to be listened to carefully after exactly 40 years.

Almost every musician in the band will take off towards important careers in the music world, reflecting the talent of a group that even featured a 14-year old keyboardist Massimo Idà. There’s a curious “Coro Alessandroni” presence in the credits: “Apotheosis” was recorded in Rome, therefore we’re probably talking about the same Alessandro Alessandroni who at the time had already worked on many different soundtracks written by Ennio Morricone.

The remarkable rhythm section and the musical cohesion of the musicians are standout elements in this LP, since they were able to create a musical continuum that holds a qualitative tension along the whole work; moreover, there is a close proximity to certain models the English progressive underground, rather than the Italian one, the Canterbury scene in particular. “Apoteosi” stands still today among the hidden and precious gems delivered from a florid era of artistic ferment.

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Per Un Mondo Di Cristallo Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Il Paese Dei Balocchi Clear Vinyl Edition

Il Paese Dei Balocchi

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Independent Singles Collection Record Store Day 2022 Edition

Monochrome Set

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Lantern)

Foetus Green Vinyl Editition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Monochrome Set’s complete independent singles collection including b-sides and rare tracks. Collected from their time at Rough Trade, Dindisc and Cherry Red, a superb collection of genre defying “new wave” pop. Suave; debonair; sophisticated. Haughty, perhaps, for those who favour the pejorative. Aristocratic in more than one sense, classy in at least as many. The Monochrome Set were effortlessly inventive, literate, poised and immaculate of tuneage, possessed of an internal dialogue as a band that allowed them to surf their own narrative. They were just unlike anything else, in layman’s terms. Their sound harked back to a golden era of British pop songwriters. But there was nothing retrogressive about their endeavours. Instead they wrote songs that recreated the drama and promise of a Pearl & Dean interval theme, veering from lullaby to mambo to harmonic pop, accompanied by lush melodies and irresistibly playful lyrics that embraced morbidity at one extreme, and pitch-perfect satire at another.

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Franco Battiato

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Maxophone Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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An internationally known artist, Franco Battiato has been everything in his long career, from beat singer to avantgarde performer, producer, contemporary music composer. His beginnings lay in the mid 60's, with many singles released with no particular success, the first two under his real name of Francesco. He had left the native Sicily (he was born in Jonia, near Catania in 1945) moving to Milan around 1965.

In 1970 after his collaboration with Osage Tribe (that he quit before their only album Arrowhead) he had a record deal with Bla Bla, releasing his first solo album in 1972. Fetus, housed in a outrageous cover (reproducing a foetus) was definitely a prog album, but a very original one, with a minimalist sound mainly based on the use of a Vcs3 synth, unusual lyrics, complex arrangements. Two tracks, Energia and Una cellula were also released as single. (source: www.italianprog.com)

Produced by Pino Massara in the '70s, "Foetus" remained unreleased until 1999, when Vinyl Magic finally released it on CD (VM CD 065).

Limited clear green vinyl edition / Argent laminated cover.

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Maxophone

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

It Became Crystal Clear Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maxophone, from Milan, formed in 1973 as a six-piece with an unusual assortment of instruments, due to their past experience as music students. A band of great talents and musicianship, their only LP, released in 1975, came too late to compete with the most important Italian bands of the genre and went sadly unnoticed.

"Maxophone", released on the Produttori Associati label (along with Duello Madre one of the few ventures in rock records by this label) is a marvellous album, full of dreamy atmospheres and complex horn arrangements, with good vocal parts in a Genesis style and is nowadays considered as one of the best Italian prog records of all times. [source: www.italianprog.it]

Limited edition on crystal vinyl.

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Blue Sharks

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Redi / Btf)

La Bibbia - 50th Anniversary

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“It Became Crystal” by Blue Sharks is an exclusive release by Redi Edizioni Musicali, an historical company from Milan that, in addition to curating the digital catalogue of Edizioni Leonardi’s library music and sonorizzazioni, is also re-printing faithful vinyl reproductions of the most prestigious titles from Leonardi’s catalogue. These records were originally released in very limited editions, often as not-for-sale promotional material, and many of the original LP’s are now very rare and collectibles almost impossible to find!

The library music LP re-release series by Redi Edizioni Musicali starts off with a true colossus in the genre. The record was written by maestros Giorgio Zinzi (under the pseudonymous “Ipcress” in the record’s credits) and Carmelo Carucci, who managed to involve composer and songwriter Stelvio Cipriani to collaborate with them in 1972: under the name “Blue Sharks” the trio created a perfect mix of rock, funk and soul, together with elements borrowed from their previous soundtrack works. The Moog synthesizer contributes to making this album unique and captivating from its first to last note. An evergreen classic!

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Rovescio Della Medaglia

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jolly Roger)

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Il Rovescio della Medaglia was born in Rome in 1970 from an idea of guitarist Enzo Vita, then Stefano Urso on bass, Gino Campoli on drums and singer Pino Ballarini joined the band. Unlike many prog-rock bands of the time (pfm, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Orme, Osanna,...), they chose not have a keyboard player, aiming to offer so a straight-hard rock sound with a strong live impact. Showing great skills with their instruments, they played live at many festivals in in Italy. In 1971 they signed a deal with major RCA to record their first album entitled “La Bibbia”. Recorded live in only one day (!) it’s a “rock bomb” and immediately a triumph among critics and audiences. In 1972 they recorded their second album entitled “Io come Io”, inspired by Hegel's philosophy. Then they started to tour (also outside Italy) and play live with their “rare” huge music-equipment, infact at the time owning more than 10 thousand watts of power was thing reserved to few groups. At their shows people was hit by a sonic avalanche! In 1973, Luis Enriquez Bacalov, famous orchestra conductor and composer of many motion-soundtracks (won a Oscar with Troisi's “Il Postino”) contacted the band to propose to work together on a new album that would have melt rock to symphonic music. For Bacalov it was the third experience like this, after the previous successes with New Trolls (“Concerto Grosso”) and Osanna (“Milano Calibro 9”). The result of this cooperation was the album "Contaminazione". It’s considered a milestone of the italian progressive rock, taking inspiration from by J.S. Bach’s preludes and fugues while lyrics tell the alleged theme of a Scottish son not recognized by the great Austrian composer. It was a worldwide success, so high that RCA company also released an english language version with the title “Contamination”. To present live the new album Il Rovescio della Medaglia recruited a keyboard player, Franco Di Sabatino. Unfortunately later their truck with all the precious equipment is stolen and even if the most famous bands of the time organized a concert to help them, at the “Piper” in Rome, the band feels the blow: the singer left and after a new single, they decided to quit. Founder Enzo Vita began his career as session-man collaborating with many Italian artists and in 2011 gave new life to the band releasing a new album “Microstorie” with Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth, New Trolls,…) on vocals. In 2016 it’s time for another new album, entitled “Tribal Domestic” (with major Sony) back to a progressive and symphonic rock sound as the first album “La Bibbia”. Featuring Chris Catena on vocals with the help of the first singer Pino Ballarini and many international session-musicians. In 2017 Enzo Vita contacted bassist Andrea Castelli (Shabby Trick, Silver Horses, Mantra, Cappanera…) to form also a live-band to bring on stages once again their music. From this collaboration they release "Contaminazione 2.0" (Jolly Roger Records 2020) recorded live in San Galgano and totally focused on their album "Contaminazione" and now "La Bibbia - 50th Anniversary" (completely re-recorded) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the debut; the record gave at the time the "Italians Black Sabbath" nickname to the band: for fans of the genre it can be considered the first Italian Hard Rock album for its original heavy sound, so dark and powerful thanks also to the excellent skills of the musicians.

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The Band

Cahoots 50th Anniversary

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Blocco Mentale

Poa Yellow Vinyl Edition

Psychedelic And Underground Music Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A very obscure and one of the rarest albums from Italian rock music scene of the 70's. This album takes on ecology as its theme and sings of the evil of polluting the planet. Terrific basic progressive music housed in a creative gimmick sleeve with window to flower. Blocco Mentale were a quintet, consisting of Aldo Angeletti (who wrote the music) on vocals and bass, Michele Arena on drums and vocals, Gigi "Roso" Bianchi on guitar and vocals, Filippo Lazzari on keyboards, harmonica and vocals, and Dino Finocchi on vocals, sax and flute. Musically Blocco Mentale is characterised by a progressive style with some personal touches. The best intruments are the horns and the keyboards.

The album opens with angular staccato sax riffs and then slides into a lush melody somewhat reminiscent of PFM ( Premiata Forneria Marconi ) in their early (and best) days. There are rich vocal harmonies blended with organ and flute, and once again a Meditteranean sensibility which distinguishes much of the best Italian progressive rock. (The opening lines of that opening track, "Capita," are recapitulated in the closing lines of the sixth track, "Ritorno," but the album still has one track to go at that point, oddly enough). Swelling Mellotrons blend into vocal harmonies, and give way to a cascading piano line. The music moves around a lot in the course of the album. The fourth track, "Io E Me," is an amazing Meditteranean blues, with a wailing harmonica taking the lead.

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The Psycheground Group

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ys Clear Red Vinyl Editoin

Il Balletto Di Bronzo

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Universal Trial 3 Color Striped Gold/Transparent/Blue Edition

Solarius

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Diamonds Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded back in 2006 and hidden up until now. Swedish retro rockers Solarius masterpiece “Universal Trial” is now brought to daylight with this release. 70’s groovy hard blues rock with a psychedelic twist and featuring Jonatan Ramm of Graveyard fame (before joining that band). Hard, groovy, soft and fuzzy sound that brings you back to the early 70’s. The songs were recorded in Don Pierre Studios in Gothenburg produced by the legendary Don Alsterberg (Graveyard etc). The master tapes were forgotten but are now found and released on Heavy Psych Sounds Records. The recording is 100% analogue and recorded and mixed on tape. The songs gets its magic from a beautiful mix of groove, melodies, fuzzy hard rock and dreamful psych prog rock influences.

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Kraan

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (36Music)

L'Uovo Di Colombo Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. Limitation: 500 copies.

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L'Uovo Di Colombo

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Universal)

Ringo Starr

Zoom In

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pink Cigs Blue&Yellow Vinyl Edition

Pink Cigs

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Heavy Psych Sounds)

The Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Even if this album has already been released 9 months ago, Heavy Psych Sounds Records had the guts to make another pressing cause fell in love with the album! Pink Cigs are truly inspired by the 70’s kind of sound and they can write songs like if they were living back in the 70’s. The sound is devoted to the low-fi, raw rock n' roll of the Freak Age, mixed with a lot of cool guitar riffs, and groovy drumming.The attitude is the one you could find back in the days, they play a unique sound of Acid Rock, Fuzz Rock, Heavy Blues, Garage Psych. They are sons of the magik trinity: Stooges-Blue Cheer-MC5 but also perfect for fans of early Pentagram, Witchfinder General, Black Sabbath. 10 incredible tracks will glue the listener until the end of the last song !! Biography: Pink Cigs is a fuzzy head band from the Lughole Sheffield, UK. They play unique sound of Acid Rock, Fuzz Rock, Heavy Blues and Garage Psych. For fans of: Stooges, Blue Cheer, MC5 but also early Pentagram, Witchfinder General and Black Sabbath!!

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The Traveling Wilburys

LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Like No Tomorrow Half Red Half Yellow Vinyl Edition

Wedge

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Los Shakers / Break It All

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wedge’s new release „Like No Tomorrow” makes for an unholy trinity of Wedge albums in the Heavy Psych Sounds Records back catalogue. The Berlin-based power trio once more is driving their musical Wedge in between many different genres: Garage rock turns progressive while psychedelic guitar lines are tripping over hard rocking riffs. Does this work together? Hell yes! For fans of Deep Purple, MC5, Led Zeppelin or Humble Pie this album is a sure shot. You like fuzz guitars? Hammond organ and vocals trough a swirling Leslie cabinet? More cowbell? You got it. But unlike our beloved rock records from around 1971, which we’ve heard a hundred times before „Like No Tomorrow” has one huge advantage: It’s brand new and the 8 tracks, ranging from 3:00 to 9:00 minutes, deliver a fresh, unspent and unmistakably unique taste to the rock’n’roll menu. In the tradition of bands like The Raconteurs, The Hellacopters, Graveyard or Wolfmother, Wedge are building on that vintage vibe we all know and love but evolve their very own thing and are able to connect it directly to here and now. Also lyrically the tunes are picking up on our zeitgeist, dealing with topics like digitalisation, mass migration and current social issues among others. So it’s no coincidence that the record’s title is a direct hint at our crazy times, in which it feels like the end of the world might be lurking just around the very next corner. But rather than being pessimistic about it, Wedge want to convey a positive message: „When it feels like there might be no tomorrow, just love and live Like No Tomorrow”

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Los Shakers

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Guerssen)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Guerssen proudly presents the first long playing record by the fabulous LOS Shakers, the legendary band formed in Uruguay in the mid 1960s, in the wake of the Beatlemania phenomenon.Their songs had little to envy to those of their heroes from Liverpool. Tempo, chord progressions and rhythms boiled in a magic, infectious sound! The double LP set collects both the original Los Shakers album from 1965 (in its original mono mix) plus Break It All (originally released in 1966 for the U.S. market, featuring new stereo re-recordings of most of the songs from the first Los Shakers album and 45 only tracks). Get ready to enjoy the songs of Hugo, Osvaldo, Caio and Pelin… Los Shakers

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LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Goats Head Soup

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Some Girls Half Speed Remastered Edition

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Undercover Half Speed Remastered Edition

LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tattoo You Half Speed Remastered Edition

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emotional Rescue Half Speed Remastered Edition

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dirty Work Half Speed Remastered Edition

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Eastworld)

The Ventures

Super Live '80

Les Rallizes Denudes & Taj Mahal Travellers

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Without OBI and insert

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Oz Days Live 1973

LP | 2019 | EU (Alternative Fox)

Boxes Paradise Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Japanese experimental group Les Rallizes Denudes are the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll enigma. Sometimes referred to as Hadaka no Rallizes or even as Hadaka no Rarizu, each appellation a variant of the name “Fucked Up and Naked” which equates to being high on hard drugs, they are seen as noise-rock pioneers, yet sifting fact from fiction isn’t easy with their oddball tale. Emerging from the radical hippie communes of Kyoto during the late 1960s, the band was formed in November 1967 by university student Takashi Mizutani, taking the overamplified, distorted guitar of the Velvet Underground as a starting point. Early demo recordings apparently suffered from poor sound quality, leading the perfectionist Mizutani to retreat from the studio environment, meaning that most of the group’s output has appeared as live bootlegs, with the occasional studio demo surfacing as well. Performances were initially staged as part of avant-garde theatre, though the band’s propensity for super- loud noise soon put paid to such collaboration; the ever-changing membership saw Mizutani the only permanent force, despite his embroilment in the 1970 Red Army hijacking of a civilian Japan Airlines flight, enacted partly through bass player, Moriaki Wakabayashi, who defected to North Korea in its aftermath. Though perhaps not quite as notorious, fellow improvisational group, Taj Mahal Travellers, has a backstory of random international travels that is almost as intriguing as that of Les Rallizes; formed in 1969 by six experimental musicians and an electronic engineer, they embarked on a series of improvisational gigs across Japan, notably including an all-day marathon held at a Kanagawa beach, and made their way to Europe in 1971, where they crossed paths with Don Cherry and other likeminded practitioners. They later drove from Holland to the Pakistan border, acquiring santoors in Iran on the way to help broaden their already unpredictable repertoire. The Oz Days Live release is culled from the Oz Last Days festival held in the autumn of 1973, to benefit Tokyo’s Oz Rock Café, which had been closed following repeated drug busts. Here the Taj Mahal Travellers are suitably cosmic, their echoing jams featuring looped vocal chants, disjointed string instruments and sparse, off-kilter percussion; in contrast, the contributions from Les Rallizes are more standard examples of instrumental psychedelic rock, which veers more towards the acid rock end of the spectrum as the performance progresses.

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Sensations' Fix

LP | 2019 | EU (AMS)